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International Film Festival Rotterdam


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International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has become a key European film event thanks largely to its industry driven activities. The IFFR actively supports new filmmaking talent through its co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam Lab and Industry Office activities. In 2023 it recorded 283,506 visits with more than 2,500 attending film professionals. It programs more than 400 titles from over 90 countries.

 

It programs fiction and documentary features, shorts and media art and feature length films from first, second or third time directors are eligible for the Tiger Competition if it is a world premiere screening. Shorts are eligible for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition if IFFR is its world, international or European premiere.

 

The Hubert Bals Fund is for filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe and provides grants to enable completion of their films.

 

CineMart is a four day market for new feature films, each year inviting about 35 new projects to be pitched by the directors and producers to the invited co-producers, sales agents, distributors and financiers. Rotterdam Lab is for newer feature film producers and takes place at CineMart to educate them in working in the international market place. Attendance is only via participating countries.

 

Recent Attendee Comments

 

‘This is definitely a valuable market for me. I’m interested in going to IFFR… as it really was the best place to meet agents and executives who find it difficult to meet… at the bigger markets.’

 

‘An excellent festival to attend for up and coming filmmakers as the purpose of the IFFR is to identify and promote new talent.’

 

‘It was quite easy to make the most of this environment; I connected with everyone I could, not just producers from regions with which Australia has a co-production treaty – producer, financiers, sales agents, commissioning editors etc. etc.’

 

‘IFFR likes to see the continuing works of filmmakers they’ve screened before.’

 

‘IFFR has some if the best organisation, visual presence and helpful resources and staff I’ve ever come across.’

 

‘The festival organised several functions for guests to network…There was also a ‘pigeon hole’ at the guest desk for every festival guest where items or notes could be passed to other guests…The festival provided each guest with an Industry Manual… very useful.’

 

‘Overall I would recommend this festival for its great audience and industry attendance and profile.’


Awards

2024 - Won - Flathead - Special Jury Award

2024 - Won - World Came Flooding In, The - IFFR Pro Awards - 4DR Studios Awards

2007 - Won - Shmetamorphosis - New Arrivals Section April/May

2006 - Won - Look Both Ways - Critics Award - KNF Award

1997 - Won - Shine - Audience Award

1996 - Won - Angel Baby - Audience Award, Best Film

1989 - Won - Prisoner of St Petersburg, The - Critics Award

Screenings

2026 - First Light

2026 - Jimpa

2026 - Pussy Pumps Up

2026 - Ripples in the Mist

2026 - Stench of Eternal Bog, The

2026 - We Aim To Please

2026 - World Came Flooding In, The

2025 - Memoir of a Snail

2025 - Surfer, The

2024 - Flathead

2023 - Because We Have Each Other

2023 - Night Creatures

2023 - Paco

2022 - Plains, The

2021 - Lone Wolf

2021 - Friends and Strangers

2020 - Babyteeth

2020 - Day in the Life

2020 - Night Time Go

2020 - Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, The

2020 - When the Dogs Talked

2020 - Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$

2020 - Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams

2020 - Passenger

2020 - True History of the Kelly Gang

2020 - Zero

2019 - All These Creatures

2019 - 'I Used to be Normal': A Boyband Fangirl Story

2018 - Have You Seen The Listers?

2018 - Sweet Country

2018 - Inside the Machine

2018 - Rockabul

2018 - Top Knot Detective

2017 - Welcome Home Allen

2017 - Last Train

2017 - Silent Eye, The

2017 - What the Heart Wants

2016 - Daughter, The

2016 - On the Invention of the Wheel

2016 - Tanna

2015 - Charlie's Country

2015 - Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films

2015 - Search for Weng Weng, The

2015 - Sam Klemke’s Time Machine

2014 - Canopy

2014 - Dot Matrix

2014 - Ruin

2013 - Lore

2013 - Men of the Earth

2013 - Faraways

2012 - Black & White & Sex

2012 - Hail

2012 - Hunter, The

2012 - Etienne's Hand

2011 - Animal Kingdom

2011 - Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010 - Dogs in Space

2010 - Samson & Delilah

2010 - My Tehran For Sale

2010 - Lonely Girl

2009 - Jerrycan

2009 - Not Quite Hollywood

2008 - Men's Group

2008 - Unfinished Sky

2008 - Shmetamorphosis

2008 - Spike Up

2007 - Hunt Angels

2007 - Wondrous Film About Emma Brooks, A

2007 - Ten Canoes

2006 - Look Both Ways

2006 - Ecstasy of Gary Green, The

2006 - Mechanicals, The

2004 - Excursion

2004 - Ister, The

2004 - Car Park

2004 - Connected

2004 - Bush Mechanics On-Line

2004 - Ghost Paintings 1, The

2004 - Ghost Paintings 4, The

2004 - Escape from Woomera

2004 - NationStates

2003 - Nice Coloured Girls

2003 - Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy

2003 - Bedevil

2003 - Two Bob Mermaid

2003 - No Way to Forget

2003 - Round Up

2003 - Payback

2003 - My Bed Your Bed

2003 - Radiance

2003 - Bush Mechanics

2003 - Harry's War

2003 - Wind

2003 - Confessions of a Headhunter

2003 - Road

2003 - Rabbit-Proof Fence

2003 - Shifting Shelter 1

2003 - One Night the Moon

2003 - Beneath Clouds

2003 - Black Talk

2003 - Beginnings

2003 - Arsonist's Riddle, The

2003 - Tracker, The

2003 - Gulpilil: One Red Blood

2003 - Shit Skin

2003 - Blow

2003 - Turn Around

2003 - Long Journey, Young Lives

2003 - Cold Summer, A

2003 - Flat

2003 - Mirror Images

2002 - La Spagnola

2002 - Harvey

2002 - Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

2001 - Chopper

2001 - Goddess of 1967, The

2001 - Walk the Talk

2001 - Not My Type I, II

2001 - Big Picture, The

2001 - Ship

2000 - Feeling Sexy

2000 - Soft Fruit

2000 - Purgatory

2000 - Holy Smoke

2000 - Cup, The

1999 - Boys, The

1999 - Fetch

1999 - Terra Nova

1999 - Fresh Air

1999 - Flash

1999 - Sleep

1999 - Rapt

1999 - Mind's Eye

1999 - Data Panic

1999 - Magic Hat, The

1998 - Malpractice

1998 - Five Hundred Acres

1998 - At Sea

1998 - Thump

1998 - Sapphire Room

1998 - Kiss or Kill

1998 - Four Minute Festival

1997 - Shine

1997 - Fistful of Flies

1997 - Love and Other Catastrophes

1997 - Love Serenade

1997 - Floating Life

1997 - Children of the Revolution

1997 - To Have and to Hold

1997 - Plane Torque

1996 - Barefoot Student Army

1996 - Maidenhead

1996 - Angel Baby

1996 - Beat Manifesto, The

1996 - Hell, Texas and Home

1996 - Existentialist Cowboy's Last Stand, The

1996 - After Image

1995 - Total Recession

1995 - Muriel's Wedding

1995 - What's Going On, Frank?

1995 - Seething Night

1994 - Memories and Dreams

1994 - Excursion To The Bridge Of Friendship

1994 - Bad Boy Bubby

1994 - Seething Night

1993 - Romper Stomper

1992 - Dusty Hearts

1992 - Deadly

1992 - Proof

1992 - Resonance

1992 - Plus ça Change

1992 - Romper Stomper

1990 - Sweetie

1989 - Prisoner of St Petersburg, The

1988 - Friends And Enemies

1987 - Passionless Moments

1987 - Peel

1987 - Two Friends

1987 - Girl's Own Story, A

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Start:
29/01/2026
End:
8/02/2026

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