Taiwanese title No puedo vivir sin ti from director Leon Dai and Dogging: a Love Story by Brit Simon Ellis are also part of the line-up, while the debut of Indonesian director Edwin, A Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly, had earlier been announced as one of the 2009 Competition titles.

Premieres in other sections include a new musical film composed of archive material by Austrian director Gustav Deutsch; Border from Armenian director Harutyan Khachatryan, and the US documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi by Ian Olds.

From host country the Netherlands, there are new films by maverick filmmaker Cyrus Frisch, newcomers Diederik van Rooijen and Noud Heerkens and the duo Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs.

The three top prizes of the festival, the VPRO Tiger Awards, will be handed out by a jury that includes South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas, Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu, and Korean filmmaker and director of the Film Academy in Seoul, Park Ki-Yong. The IFFR will showcase the latest films of Mundruczó and Ustaoglu in the festival’s sidebars.