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REPORT: IFFR 2025

Cineuropa is covering the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam live with reviews, interviews and news...

REPORT: IFFR 2025

53 articles available in total starting from 09/12/2024. Last article published on 04/03/2025.

Rodrigo Díaz, Pascual Mena • Producers of Erratics

Interview: Rodrigo Díaz, Pascual Mena • Producers of Erratics

“We could imagine that when we watch a film, we are the ghosts who possess a body, the body of the one who witnesses, the body of the camera”

The producers awarded with the Eurimages New Lab Outreach Award at this year’s IFFR talked to Cineuropa about the future of the fiction feature directed by Thomas Woodroffe  

04/03 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro

Review: Balentes

Review: Balentes

The animated film by Giovanni Columbu tells the story of two teenagers in search of freedom in 1940s Sardinia  

13/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Robin Coops • Director of One Charming Night

Interview: Robin Coops • Director of One Charming Night

“Filmmaking is thinking through images; it doesn’t matter if you use a big camera, an iPhone or a virtual camera to create your work”

The winner of the Eurimages New Lab: Innovation Award tells us more about his exploration of consent, privacy and intimacy in the digital sphere  

12/02 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro

REPORT: Darkroom @ IFFR 2025

REPORT: Darkroom @ IFFR 2025

We take a closer look at five of the 12 projects presented at the Rotterdam-based market, which unspooled from 2-5 February  

12/02 | IFFR 2025 | IFFR Pro

Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

Interview: Lois Patiño • Director of Ariel

“My desire was to work in this double experience of reality and fiction, and explore the way they mix”

The Galician director reflects on his fourth feature, a meta-cinematic exploration of Shakespeare’s theatre threading together many of his previous preoccupations  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

Interview: Wilhelm Sasnal • Director of The Assistant

“Robert Walser wrote about the uncertainty of tomorrow, about dependence on the employer – it’s very modern”

One of Poland’s most successful artists has put a modern spin on a 1908 novel in a new film that he co-directed with Anka Sasnal  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: The Rhine Gold

Review: The Rhine Gold

Lorenzo Pullega's debut feature is a dream-like ode to rural Italy, boasting great visuals but lacking cohesion  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

Interview: Pirjo Honkasalo • Director of Orenda

"My films have stories, but they are born when making the film – they are never the purpose of making the film"

The storied director talks about her approach to managing the sacred, solitude and silence in her newest feature, a pensive character-driven tale about two women connected in unexpected ways  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

Interview: Albert Oehlen • Director of Bad Painter

“I can make fun of myself”

The German painter talks us through his film, in which he takes a jab at the art world – and himself  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Acts of Love

Review: Acts of Love

Jeppe Rønde returns to Rotterdam with a tense interpersonal drama about a woman in a New Age religious community confronted by the secrets held by her outsider brother  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

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