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2323 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 27/01/2026.

Vanja Kaludjercic • Director, International Film Festival Rotterdam

Interview: Vanja Kaludjercic • Director, International Film Festival Rotterdam

“Our programme doesn’t simply mirror reality as framed by existing power structures; it proposes other, fairer and more imaginative ways of living”

The IFFR head describes the upcoming edition as a meeting point between emerging voices, returning auteurs and films that challenge dominant narratives  

27/01 | IFFR 2026

Malta joins Eurimages

Malta joins Eurimages

As of last week, the archipelago has officially become the 40th member country of the Council of Europe’s fund dedicated to supporting international co-productions  

26/01 | Industry | Market | Malta

Shooting under way on Tommaso Landucci’s I figli della scimmia

Shooting under way on Tommaso Landucci’s I figli della scimmia

The director’s second work revolves around the complex relationship between the father of a child with a disability and his brother’s teenage son, and stars Riccardo Scamarcio and Fausto Russo Alesi  

26/01 | Production | Funding | Italy

Erol Mintaş’s sophomore feature, Earth Song, to world-premiere at IFFR

Erol Mintaş’s sophomore feature, Earth Song, to world-premiere at IFFR

The film follows a Kurdish-Finnish doctor who journeys to Kurdistan with her father’s ashes after learning that her real parents were killed during Turkey’s 1980 military coup  

23/01 | Production | Funding | Finland/Germany

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for FIPADOC entry The Queen and the Smokehouse

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for FIPADOC entry The Queen and the Smokehouse

Iga Lis’s debut feature paints an intimate, sharply humorous portrait of a smokehouse matriarch facing the uncertain future of the small seaside empire she has built over four decades  

23/01 | FIPADOC 2026

Society of Audiovisual Authors: Defending screenwriters’ and directors’ rights in a fragmented audiovisual landscape

Society of Audiovisual Authors: Defending screenwriters’ and directors’ rights in a fragmented audiovisual landscape

Built on collective rights management, the Brussels-based network now navigates streaming, AI and regulatory fragmentation on behalf of Europe’s audiovisual authors  

22/01 | European Networks

Hanna Bergholm’s horror-thriller Nightborn to premiere in Berlin’s competition

Hanna Bergholm’s horror-thriller Nightborn to premiere in Berlin’s competition

Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint star as a couple whose move to an isolated childhood home triggers a descent into paranoia  

22/01 | Production | Funding | Finland/Lithuania/France/UK

Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans to vie for the Berlinale's Golden Bear

Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans to vie for the Berlinale's Golden Bear

Adapted from Owen Martell’s book Intermission, the film revisits a defining moment in jazz history, when legendary pianist Bill Evans formed what would become his most celebrated trio  

22/01 | Production | Funding | Ireland/UK

Austrian Christmas hit Aufputzt is’ climbs to second place on the country’s all-time box-office chart

Austrian Christmas hit Aufputzt is’ climbs to second place on the country’s all-time box-office chart

Claudia Jüptner-Jonstorff’s comedy attracted over 440,000 viewers in just nine weeks of release  

21/01 | Box Office | Austria

Nikolaj Arcel to direct Hans Christian Andersen biopic My Fairytale Life

Nikolaj Arcel to direct Hans Christian Andersen biopic My Fairytale Life

In the Zentropa-produced feature being sold by TrustNordisk, the helmer turns to the conflicted life and ambitions of the Danish writer  

20/01 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Germany

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