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Why Do I See You in Everything? That is the question that Syrian writer-director Rand Abou Fakher (short films Braided Love and So We Live) explores in her feature film debut, which just received its world premiere in the Bright Future program of the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The hybrid film…
The 1970s were a time of political terrorism, or “armed resistance,” as militant groups called it, in various European countries. Portugal followed, experiencing “years of lead,” as they were dubbed from 1980 until 1987. The political thriller Projecto Global, the new feature from writer-director Ivo M. Ferreira (Letters From War, Empire Hotel), world premiering on…
“Be careful with the doors you open,” writer-director Ique Langa from Mozambique tells THR about one of the key themes that he explores in his feature debut O profeta (The Prophet), which world premieres in the Tiger Competition lineup of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Friday, Jan. 30. He created the striking black-and-white…
A Kurdish-Finnish doctor uncovers a family secret that challenges everything she thought she knew in Turkish director Erol Mintaş‘ second feature, Earth Song. The film promises a timely story of family, memory, reconciliation, and personal discovery across generations and borders. Mintaş’ debut feature, Song of My Mother, a story set among Kurds living in Istanbul,…
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is adding a focused immersive projects program, organizers said on Thursday as they unveiled titles for the 2026 co-production market and works-in-progress section. IFFR unveiled a selection of 21 feature projects for the 43rd edition of CineMart, its co-production market, which will be running Feb. 1-4, as well as 10 projects for its…
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled a Marwan Hamed retrospective for its 2026 edition, “in celebration of the prolific Egyptian director’s career.” The upcoming edition of IFFR will feature the European premiere of his upcoming El Sett, a biopic of Egyptian singer and actress Umm Kulthum biopic starring Mona Zaki (Flight 404) and Mohamed…
IFFR Pro, the Rotterdam Film Festival‘s industry section, and the year’s first major film market, is in full swing. While other markets focus on major commercial titles with A-list stars, IFFR, true to its roots in the 42-year-old CineMart — the “OG of co-production markets” as new IFFR Pro director Marten Rabarts puts it — Rotterdam…
Welcome to Portugal, 1968! António de Oliveira Salazar’s political life has reached its end after decades as the head of Portugal’s military regime. That fact is known and acknowledged by everyone, except the dictator himself… That is the starting point for Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator, the new film from Portuguese…
Ready for a peculiar lesson in European history, which the Rotterdam film festival is serving up this weekend? Following World War I and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which later became Yugoslavia, laid claim to the city of Fiume, now known as Rijeka in…
‘Le Spectre de Boko Haram’ Wins Rotterdam Festival Political dramas and documentaries were the big winners at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), as socially-relevant features from Africa, Sri Lanka and the Middle East coming away with the top honors. Cyrielle Raingou’s Le Spectre De Boko Haram, a documentary that follows a group of…