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IFFR 2025


55 articles available in total starting from 09/12/2024. Last article published on 24/06/2025.

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

Review: Storm Alerts

Review: Storm Alerts

Bergur Bernburg presents a collage-like Icelandic docufiction, a formally fascinating but occasionally overly free-flying examination of defying biomedical diagnoses  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte! scoops IFFR’s Tiger Award

Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte! scoops IFFR’s Tiger Award

The Croatian helmer’s film also snagged the FIPRESCI Prize, whilst the two Special Jury Awards went to Sammy Baloji’s The Tree of Authenticity and Tim Ellrich’s In My Parents’ House  

10/02 | IFFR 2025 | Awards

Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

Interview: Miwako Van Weyenberg • Director of Soft Leaves

"You can almost smell nostalgia, but you cannot smell film — that's why the nature elements are the closest to how you experience nostalgia in real life"

The filmmaker talked to us about her personal relationship to her script, casting decisions, and how she chose to portray nostalgia in her debut feature  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

Interview: Mateo Ybarra • Director of Summer Camp

"I love observing conversations and people’s exchanges"

The director explains why he’s fascinated by groups and by the utopias which unfold within fleeting communities whose members all learn from one another  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Bright Future

Review: The Tree of Authenticity

Review: The Tree of Authenticity

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji crafts a film essay that delves into the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial past and its ecological significance  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Tiger Competition

Review: The Assistant

Review: The Assistant

Wilhelm and Anka Sasnal deliver an artsy take on Robert Walser's 1908 novel, using anachronistic elements to keep the viewer reflecting on the protagonist's plight  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Strandzha

Review: Strandzha

Pepa Hristova's documentary debut feature attempts to conduct a terrain study, focused on a picturesque mountainous region in Bulgaria, where ancient rituals mingle with current politics  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Harbour

José Filipe Costa  • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Interview: José Filipe Costa • Director of Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

“A lot of it was about the everyday life of fascism and the small things, not the big picture”

The Portuguese director spoke to us about relationships of power and how his new film has taken on fresh relevance today in light of unsettling political environments  

07/02 | IFFR 2025 | Big Screen Competition

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