Significant changes are “necessary” say some; the festival is “losing its expertise” say others.
A debate has broken out in the Dutch press and the European industry over the dramatic restructuring of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced last month.
It has now emerged the festival is dispensing with almost its entire team of senior programmers whose positions are being made redundant. Some of these programmers, talking to Screen on the condition of anonymity, are accusing the festival management, led by managing director Marjan van der Haar and festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, of treating them unfairly and delivering the news out of the blue.
A debate has broken out in the Dutch press and the European industry over the dramatic restructuring of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced last month.
It has now emerged the festival is dispensing with almost its entire team of senior programmers whose positions are being made redundant. Some of these programmers, talking to Screen on the condition of anonymity, are accusing the festival management, led by managing director Marjan van der Haar and festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, of treating them unfairly and delivering the news out of the blue.
- 5/10/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
New director of Sarajevo Film Festival and an award-winning filmmaker among selection.
Switzerland’s Visions du Réel documentary film festival has unveiled the juries that will oversee the competition strands of its 2022 edition, set to run April 7-17.
The International Feature Film Competition jury will comprise Bosnia’s Jovan Marjanović, who was recently named the new director of Sarajevo Film Festival; Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir, who won the grand prix at last year’s VdR with her debut feature, Faya Dayi; and Beatrice Fiorentino, general delegate of the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.
They will judge a selection of 16 films,...
Switzerland’s Visions du Réel documentary film festival has unveiled the juries that will oversee the competition strands of its 2022 edition, set to run April 7-17.
The International Feature Film Competition jury will comprise Bosnia’s Jovan Marjanović, who was recently named the new director of Sarajevo Film Festival; Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir, who won the grand prix at last year’s VdR with her debut feature, Faya Dayi; and Beatrice Fiorentino, general delegate of the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week.
They will judge a selection of 16 films,...
- 3/22/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
This year's expanded edition saw the triumph of Vinothraj Ps's Pebbles, winner of the prestigious Tiger Award; European victors included I Comete – A Corsican Summer and Looking for Venera. Yesterday, International Film Festival Rotterdam announced its award winners for its 50th edition. In detail, this year saw the triumph of Vinothraj Ps's Pebbles, the recipient of the prestigious Tiger Award. The jury, composed of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Orwa Nyrabia, Hala Elkoussy, Helena van der Meulen and Ilse Hughan, provided the following supporting statement: “In the midst of many admirable and ambitious works, the jury was blown away by a seemingly simple and humble film we fell in love with instantly. Creating maximum impact with a minimum of means, the filmmaker reaches his goal with the same conviction and determination as his main characters. The result is a lesson in pure cinema, captivating us with its beauty...
Winners hailed from India, France, Kosovo, Argentina and Bosnia.
Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles has scooped the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The Tiger jury, including Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Orwa Nyrabia, Hala Elkoussy, Helena van der Meulen and Ilse Hughan, said the Indian drama was “a lesson in pure cinema, captivating us with its beauty and humour, in spite of its grim subject”.
Set in a rural village in southern India, Pebbles follows an alcoholic father and his young son as they embark on an eight-mile walk under scorching sun in a bid to reunite with his wife,...
Vinothraj P.S.’s Pebbles has scooped the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
The Tiger jury, including Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Orwa Nyrabia, Hala Elkoussy, Helena van der Meulen and Ilse Hughan, said the Indian drama was “a lesson in pure cinema, captivating us with its beauty and humour, in spite of its grim subject”.
Set in a rural village in southern India, Pebbles follows an alcoholic father and his young son as they embark on an eight-mile walk under scorching sun in a bid to reunite with his wife,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The filmmaker has been researching subjects of siege and fear while locked down in home city of Berlin.
Director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, whose film This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection is Lesotho’s Oscar submission this year, is developing a new feature around the theme of siege and fear after being grounded in his adopted home city of Berlin by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mosese teased the new project in the Big Talk programme of this week’s online International Film Festival Rotterdam. The filmmaker is also participating as a member of the jury.
“It’s been a...
Director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, whose film This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection is Lesotho’s Oscar submission this year, is developing a new feature around the theme of siege and fear after being grounded in his adopted home city of Berlin by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mosese teased the new project in the Big Talk programme of this week’s online International Film Festival Rotterdam. The filmmaker is also participating as a member of the jury.
“It’s been a...
- 2/4/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Ifrr director Vanja Kaludjercic and IFFR Pro head Marit van den Elshout shared fresh details about the upcoming event.
The heads of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) have revealed how its juries will watch films in cinemas despite the pandemic and shared fresh details of its physical festival in June.
Speaking during the latest ScreenDaily Talks, IFFR festival director Vanja Kaludjercic outlined plans for how the five jurors in its flagship Tiger Competition would screen the 16 selected titles during the festival, which runs online-only from February 1-7.
“I’m a bit jealous because the juries are the only ones who...
The heads of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) have revealed how its juries will watch films in cinemas despite the pandemic and shared fresh details of its physical festival in June.
Speaking during the latest ScreenDaily Talks, IFFR festival director Vanja Kaludjercic outlined plans for how the five jurors in its flagship Tiger Competition would screen the 16 selected titles during the festival, which runs online-only from February 1-7.
“I’m a bit jealous because the juries are the only ones who...
- 1/29/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
During today’s press conference, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced vital details for its 2021 edition. IFFR 2021 will also take place from 1 to 7 February, and will be opened by film “Riders of Justice” by Anders Thomas Jensen and the Robby Müller Award recipient Kelly Reichardt. They will also be part of IFFR Talks, next to Benoît Jacquot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Dea Kulumbegashvili and Nicolás Jaar. IFFR 2021 will also be the first year for new festival director Vanja Kaludjercic — who is also debuting IFFR’s online format. The entire online programme will be available to audiences across the Netherlands, and the Press / Industry screenings, IFFR Talks programmes accessible worldwide. Premieres will have Q&As and live interaction will be available to limited ticket capacity for 72 hours.
Next year’s slate also shows plenty of promise. Of the 16 films selected for the festival’s Tiger Competition, 6 hail from different points...
Next year’s slate also shows plenty of promise. Of the 16 films selected for the festival’s Tiger Competition, 6 hail from different points...
- 12/23/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The 2021 edition of the Dutch gathering will open with Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice. During yesterday’s press conference, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced the 16 films selected for its prestigious Tiger Competition, alongside the titles taking part in the Big Screen Competition, the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition and the Limelight strand. The 50th expanded edition of the Dutch gathering, taking place from 1-7 February and 2-6 June 2021 (read the news), will open with Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice. In the Tiger competition section, the jury will grant three prizes: the Tiger Award, worth €40,000, and two special jury awards, worth €10,000 each. The Tiger Jury consists of filmmaker and visual artist Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, IDFA’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia, visual artist and filmmaker Hala Elkoussy, screenwriter and critic Helena van der Meulen and film producer Ilse Hughan. Meanwhile, the Big Screen Competition will include...
- 12/23/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The 50th anniversary event will take place in February and June.
Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Riders Of Justice starring Mads Mikkelsen will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The festival is taking place as multi-part event from February to June 2021, with the first part running as hybrid festival from February 1-7. Organisers hope it will culminate in a physical event from June 2-6, 2021.
Some 60 titles spanning the Tiger Competition, Big Screen Competition and its Ammodo Tiger Shorts and Limelight sections are screening in February.
The festival’s flagship Tiger Competition will showcase 16 titles, which will...
Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Riders Of Justice starring Mads Mikkelsen will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The festival is taking place as multi-part event from February to June 2021, with the first part running as hybrid festival from February 1-7. Organisers hope it will culminate in a physical event from June 2-6, 2021.
Some 60 titles spanning the Tiger Competition, Big Screen Competition and its Ammodo Tiger Shorts and Limelight sections are screening in February.
The festival’s flagship Tiger Competition will showcase 16 titles, which will...
- 12/22/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Anders Thomas Jensen’s action comedy “Riders of Justice,” starring Mads Mikkelsen, will open the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam. The festival will be staged in two parts this year: the first, in a hybrid format, running Feb. 1-7, and the second, hopefully a physical event, June 2-6. The awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 7.
In “Riders of Justice,” Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military man who returns home to look after his daughter Mathilde following his wife’s death in a train accident. At first it looks like she was the victim of a tragic piece of bad luck, but then mathematics geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a fellow passenger on the train, shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart (Lars Brygmann) and Emmenthaler (Nicolas Bro), and floats the theory of a possible murder conspiracy. The film plays in the Limelight section.
Jensen is Denmark’s top screenwriter,...
In “Riders of Justice,” Mikkelsen plays Markus, a military man who returns home to look after his daughter Mathilde following his wife’s death in a train accident. At first it looks like she was the victim of a tragic piece of bad luck, but then mathematics geek Otto (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a fellow passenger on the train, shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart (Lars Brygmann) and Emmenthaler (Nicolas Bro), and floats the theory of a possible murder conspiracy. The film plays in the Limelight section.
Jensen is Denmark’s top screenwriter,...
- 12/22/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7 -17) lineup includes Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plane thriller 7500, which gets its world premiere at the Swiss showcase. Scroll down for major category lineups.
The 72nd edition of the festival marks the first for incoming artistic director Lili Hinstein who has taken over from Carlo Chatrian. As ever, there is a strong contingent of European and Asian arthouse movies and the Piazza Grande section includes a handful of titles with more mainstream appeal, such as Tarantino’s Cannes pic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which rolls out globally in August.
Alongside Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the open air Piazza Grande screenings will include the world premieres of German-produced hijack thriller-drama 7500, Carice Van Houten starrer Instinct, UK comedy actor Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer, French director Stéphane Demoustier...
The 72nd edition of the festival marks the first for incoming artistic director Lili Hinstein who has taken over from Carlo Chatrian. As ever, there is a strong contingent of European and Asian arthouse movies and the Piazza Grande section includes a handful of titles with more mainstream appeal, such as Tarantino’s Cannes pic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which rolls out globally in August.
Alongside Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the open air Piazza Grande screenings will include the world premieres of German-produced hijack thriller-drama 7500, Carice Van Houten starrer Instinct, UK comedy actor Simon Bird’s directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer, French director Stéphane Demoustier...
- 7/17/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Guadalajara, Mexico — The 15th Guadalajara Festival co-production Meeting for feature film projects are taking place this week in the Jalisco capital, running March 8-14.
The 2019 Meeting sees the biggest presence in terms of gender diversity in the competition’s history. Among directors and producers participating this year, more than 45% are women.
“That wasn’t an intentional decision in filling out the slate,” according to Encuentro representative Samantha Burciaga. However, it is a noteworthy feature of this year’s edition.”
Burciaga also described another trend among the selected projects: “It’s amazing how the filmmakers convey the pain of their people, and the concerns of their communities. The recurring themes of this selection show us nomadic families, the search for the truth in a journey and the breaking of the taboos and comfort zones.”
To qualify for participation, fiction and documentary projects in development from Ibero-American territories must have a minimum...
The 2019 Meeting sees the biggest presence in terms of gender diversity in the competition’s history. Among directors and producers participating this year, more than 45% are women.
“That wasn’t an intentional decision in filling out the slate,” according to Encuentro representative Samantha Burciaga. However, it is a noteworthy feature of this year’s edition.”
Burciaga also described another trend among the selected projects: “It’s amazing how the filmmakers convey the pain of their people, and the concerns of their communities. The recurring themes of this selection show us nomadic families, the search for the truth in a journey and the breaking of the taboos and comfort zones.”
To qualify for participation, fiction and documentary projects in development from Ibero-American territories must have a minimum...
- 3/10/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Films and projects travel from Sundance to Rotterdam and Rotterdam’s love affair with Latin America becomes apparent.
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
Making their way from Sundance to Rotterdam, “Lemon” was Opening Night in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sloan Prize Winner “Marjorie Prime” played in Voices while director Michael Almereyda was on the Jury of the Hivos Tiger Competition. His documentary, “Escapes” also played in the Regained section of the festival.
“Marjorie Prime”: Director Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm
“Chile’s “Family Life” by Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez, Singapore’s “Pop Aye”, “Lady Macbeth” and “Sami Blood” all screened here after premiering in Sundance as well.
Pop Aye director Kirsten Tan won the Big Screen Competition and in addition to the cash prize may also count on a guaranteed release in Dutch cinemas and on TV.
“The Wound” by John Trengove has even longer legs, reaching from Sundance World...
- 2/8/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The teams behind A Woman, A Part and La Ultima Tierra discussed the pros and cons of the director-producer relationship in Rotterdam.
Led by Picture Palace Pictures’ creative producer Madeleine Molyneux, and featuring the creative teams behind two of the eight Hivos Tiger Award Competition contenders at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), the panel put the spotlight on what is needed for a strong director and producer team.
Advantages - La Ultima Tierra
La Ultima Tierra producer Ilse Hughan started by explaining the origins of her relationship with director Pablo Lamar, whom she met in Argentina in 2009.
“I’m from the Netherlands but I have been based in Argentina since 2000. When I met Pablo, we got along really well, and then ‘got married’ in 2010.”
The producer compares her working relationship with Lamar to that moment when your phone rings and you look to see who it is: “It’s that feeling when you’re excited to pick...
Led by Picture Palace Pictures’ creative producer Madeleine Molyneux, and featuring the creative teams behind two of the eight Hivos Tiger Award Competition contenders at International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), the panel put the spotlight on what is needed for a strong director and producer team.
Advantages - La Ultima Tierra
La Ultima Tierra producer Ilse Hughan started by explaining the origins of her relationship with director Pablo Lamar, whom she met in Argentina in 2009.
“I’m from the Netherlands but I have been based in Argentina since 2000. When I met Pablo, we got along really well, and then ‘got married’ in 2010.”
The producer compares her working relationship with Lamar to that moment when your phone rings and you look to see who it is: “It’s that feeling when you’re excited to pick...
- 1/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
1. Eden | Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Underneath the bass drops and the electronic harmony of the garage music scene of 1990s Paris is melancholy and loneliness. The parties are bursting with verve and energy, but when the music stops, so does that joy. Hansen-Løve’s examination of a young DJ over the course of twenty years is warm and tender, an incredible look at the pros and cons of following your passion, allowing art to be your escape, and the joy of music.
Read Kyle’s full review here.
2. Goodbye to Language 3D | Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
While the audience is trapped by the kamera, the iconoclastic Godard is doing all he can to… not get us out exactly, but perhaps to stage a prison break. The goal in his game changing 3D film is to change the paradigm of what film is and can be, to make those prison bars into something entirely new.
Underneath the bass drops and the electronic harmony of the garage music scene of 1990s Paris is melancholy and loneliness. The parties are bursting with verve and energy, but when the music stops, so does that joy. Hansen-Løve’s examination of a young DJ over the course of twenty years is warm and tender, an incredible look at the pros and cons of following your passion, allowing art to be your escape, and the joy of music.
Read Kyle’s full review here.
2. Goodbye to Language 3D | Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
While the audience is trapped by the kamera, the iconoclastic Godard is doing all he can to… not get us out exactly, but perhaps to stage a prison break. The goal in his game changing 3D film is to change the paradigm of what film is and can be, to make those prison bars into something entirely new.
- 10/16/2014
- by Kyle Turner
- SoundOnSight
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Writers: Lisandro Alonso, Fabian Casas
Producers: Ilse Hughan, Andy Kleinman, Viggo Mortensen, Helle Ulsteen
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby
We’re used to our favorite auteur Argentinean filmmakers making us wait and this will have been the longest he has been between feature film projects. An expert in the vérité form, the untitled fifth feature following La libertad, Los muertos, Fantasma and Liverpool, Lisandro Alonso teamed with the linguistically versatile Viggo Mortensen for what should be one more distinctly art-house item.
Gist: A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Release Date: He has been in the Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard sections at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps he’ll attain the “highest” section of them all with a Main Comp showing…
More Top 200 Most Anticipated Films...
Writers: Lisandro Alonso, Fabian Casas
Producers: Ilse Hughan, Andy Kleinman, Viggo Mortensen, Helle Ulsteen
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby
We’re used to our favorite auteur Argentinean filmmakers making us wait and this will have been the longest he has been between feature film projects. An expert in the vérité form, the untitled fifth feature following La libertad, Los muertos, Fantasma and Liverpool, Lisandro Alonso teamed with the linguistically versatile Viggo Mortensen for what should be one more distinctly art-house item.
Gist: A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Release Date: He has been in the Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard sections at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps he’ll attain the “highest” section of them all with a Main Comp showing…
More Top 200 Most Anticipated Films...
- 3/3/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
11. Zama – Dir. Lucretia Martel
Why This Makes Top 10: At number eleven we have Argentinean filmmaker Lucretia Martel’s latest film, her first since 2008’s The Headless Woman (a film that critics were slow to warm to, but ended up being on many a best end of year list in 2008/2009). Previous titles include her stunning debut, 2001’s La Cienega, along with 2004’s The Holy Girl. Her latest is a period piece based on the novel by Antonio de Benedetto and will be produced by Lita Stantic, El Deseo (the Almodovar Bros’ company), as well as a still to be named French producer. Martel is one of the most prolific names to come out the New Argentinean Wave and this looks to be a massively mounted period piece we’re eager to get a look at.
The Gist: Written in 1956, Zama is an existential novel about Don Diego de Zama, a...
Why This Makes Top 10: At number eleven we have Argentinean filmmaker Lucretia Martel’s latest film, her first since 2008’s The Headless Woman (a film that critics were slow to warm to, but ended up being on many a best end of year list in 2008/2009). Previous titles include her stunning debut, 2001’s La Cienega, along with 2004’s The Holy Girl. Her latest is a period piece based on the novel by Antonio de Benedetto and will be produced by Lita Stantic, El Deseo (the Almodovar Bros’ company), as well as a still to be named French producer. Martel is one of the most prolific names to come out the New Argentinean Wave and this looks to be a massively mounted period piece we’re eager to get a look at.
The Gist: Written in 1956, Zama is an existential novel about Don Diego de Zama, a...
- 1/8/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
This already sounds like a good combination. And it looks that something good is cooking in Lisandro Alonso‘s kitchen since Viggo Mortensen is all set up to star in (still) untitled drama. And that’s not all, he will produce the whole thing as well! Make sure you check out the rest of this report for more info!
Alonso will direct the whole thing from a script which he co-wrote together with Fabian Casas, and the movie will center on a character named Gunner Blixen and his daughter who journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
As you already guess, Mortensen is on board to star as Blixen, while there’s still no word on who will play his daughter. We should also add that Alonso’s drama is set in Denmark and Argentina.
Andy Kleinman’s Massive Inc.
Alonso will direct the whole thing from a script which he co-wrote together with Fabian Casas, and the movie will center on a character named Gunner Blixen and his daughter who journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
As you already guess, Mortensen is on board to star as Blixen, while there’s still no word on who will play his daughter. We should also add that Alonso’s drama is set in Denmark and Argentina.
Andy Kleinman’s Massive Inc.
- 11/14/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Viggo Mortensen has signed to star in and produce Lisandro Alonso's untitled new drama for Massive Inc., Perceval Films and 4L.
Alonso ("La Libertad," "Liverpool") and Fabian Casas penned the story that follows a Danish man and his daughter who journey to a desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Andy Kleinman, Jaime Romandia and Ilse Hughan are also producing. Shooting kicks off early next year in Denmark and Argentina.
Source: Variety...
Alonso ("La Libertad," "Liverpool") and Fabian Casas penned the story that follows a Danish man and his daughter who journey to a desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Andy Kleinman, Jaime Romandia and Ilse Hughan are also producing. Shooting kicks off early next year in Denmark and Argentina.
Source: Variety...
- 11/14/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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