{"id":681317,"date":"2025-07-24T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rotterdam-unveils-2025-hubert-bals-fund-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:10:18","slug":"rotterdam-unveils-2025-hubert-bals-fund-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rotterdam-unveils-2025-hubert-bals-fund-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam Unveils 2025 Hubert Bals Fund Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the projects that will receive this year\u2019s grants from its Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), which supports films from less-developed regions. The fund picked 15 feature projects from more than 900 submissions, selecting work from filmmakers from across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s selection includes the first HBF-backed project from Tanzania, the satire Last Cow<\/em> from director Amil Shivij, whose feature debut Tug of War<\/em> screened in Toronto in 2021 and was Tanzania\u2019s official Oscar submission. It was picked for this year\u2019s Locarno film festival and will screen in the Open Doors sidebar.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther African projects this year include Mwadia<\/em>, a magic-realist drama on Mozambique\u2019s colonial past and present trauma; the feature debut of documentary filmmaker Inadelso Cossa (The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder<\/em>); Tears<\/em>, the debut feature from Rwandan director Moise Ganza; and Coumba<\/em>, the new film from Senegalese director Mamadou Dia, whose HBF-backed debut, Nafi\u2019s Father,<\/em> won the Golden Leopard at the 2019 Locarno film festival and was Senegal\u2019s official entry for the Oscars.<\/p>\n

\n\tIFFR alumni talent can be found throughout this year\u2019s selection, with new features from Syrian director Farida Baqi (The Rapture), <\/em>Indonesia\u2019s Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Orphaned Atlas<\/em>), Kazakhstan filmmaker Renata Dzhalo (Nobody to See Us<\/em>), Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu (Lotus Feet<\/em>) and Brazil\u2019s Stephanie Ricci (Boca da noite<\/em>) among the 2025 HBF recipients.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe selected directors will receive a \u20ac10,000 ($11,760) grant each to help develop their projects into finished features.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to its regular fund, the HBF launched two new development schemes this year. Together with two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, the HBF in January announced the Displacement Film Fund, offering grants of \u20ac100,000 ($104,000) each to five filmmakers, displaced by war or conflict, to make original shorts.<\/p>\n

\n\tA jury, made up of Blanchett, Wicked<\/em> star Cynthia Erivo, documentarians Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Flee<\/em>) and Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama<\/em>), director Agnieszka Holland (Green Border<\/em>), Rotterdam festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, activist and refugee Aisha Khurram and Amin Nawabi [alias], the LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who was Rasmussen\u2019s inspiration for his Oscar-nominated documentary Flee<\/em>, announced the first fund grantees in Cannes this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in Cannes, the HBF announced a cooperation with the three leading Brazilian film promotion bodies \u2014 Spcine, RioFilme, Projeto Paradiso \u2014 launching HBF+Brazil: Co-development Support, a three-year initiative to provide early development funding for up to nine fiction films, with \u20ac10,000 ($11,760) grants each. The submission deadline for HBF+Brazil projects, on IFFR.com, is Sept. 15.<\/p>\n

\n\tFull list of 2025 Herbert Bals Fund development support projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAmateur<\/em>, Carlos D\u00edaz Lechuga, Cuba, Spain
<\/em>The App<\/a>alling Human Voice of the Animals<\/em>, Neritan Zinxhiria, Greece, Albania
<\/em>Boca da noite<\/em>, Stephanie Ricci, Brazil
<\/em>Coumba<\/em>, Mamadou Dia, Senegal
<\/em>Girl With a Camera<\/em>, Xiaoxuan Jiang, Hong Kong, China
<\/em>The Immigrants<\/em>, Suman Mukhopadhyay, India
<\/em>Last Cow<\/em>, Amil Shivji, Tanzania, Canada
<\/em>Lotus Feet<\/em>, Amanda Nell Eu, Malaysia
<\/em>Moto<\/em>, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia
<\/em>Mwadia<\/em>, Inadelso Cossa, Mozambique
<\/em>Nobody to See Us<\/em>, Renata Dzhalo, Kazakhstan, France, Moldova
<\/em>Orphaned Atlas<\/em>, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, Indonesia
<\/em>The Rapture<\/em>, Farida Baqi, Syria, Lebanon, Germany, Netherlands
<\/em>Tears<\/em>, Moise Ganza, Rwanda
<\/em>Where Shadows Wait<\/em>, Arya Rothe, India, Italy<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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