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1234 articles available in total starting from 11/09/2002. Last article published on 23/06/2025.

Tim Leyendekker • Director of Feast

Interview: Tim Leyendekker • Director of Feast

"The film is not a fictionalised documentary, not so much an account of what really happened. It's a set of proposals"

The Dutch filmmaker takes on the Groningen HIV case, which saw three men deliberately injecting others with HIV-infected blood during sex parties  

10/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Tiger Competition

Review: Dead & Beautiful

Review: Dead & Beautiful

In his rather unusual Rotterdam entry, David Verbeek delivers Crazy Rich Asians with fangs  

10/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

David Verbeek • Director of Dead & Beautiful

Interview: David Verbeek • Director of Dead & Beautiful

“It's not a vampire film, it's not a teenage coming-of-age film, it's not an arthouse film. I don't know what it is!”

We talked to the Dutch filmmaker, who has attempted to reach a broader audience with his new film  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

Kaweh Modiri • Director of Mitra

Interview: Kaweh Modiri • Director of Mitra

“For safety reasons, we couldn’t cast Iranian actors working or living in Iran, so we cast internationally”

We talked to the Dutch director about his second feature film, premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

Review: Mitra

Review: Mitra

Kaweh Modiri helms a tense, involving piece about a traumatic loss and the perverse role of revenge  

09/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

The digital 38th CineMart reveals its winners

The digital 38th CineMart reveals its winners

Greece’s Cora by Evi Kalogiropoulou has taken home the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award from the 38th CineMart awards ceremony, which was held online  

08/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | IFFR Pro/Awards

International Film Festival Rotterdam announces its award winners

International Film Festival Rotterdam announces its award winners

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  

08/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Awards

Ninja Thyberg • Director of Pleasure

Interview: Ninja Thyberg • Director of Pleasure

“Porn can be a good thing; it's just important to do it in an ethical way”

We talked to the Swedish director about business and... pleasure  

05/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Pleasure

Review: Pleasure

Sweden’s Ninja Thyberg signs her name to a sucker punch of a debut feature which is carried by Sofia Kappel’s portrayal of a young woman’s rise within the Los Angeles porn industry  

02/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IFFR title Mitra

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IFFR title Mitra

The new film by Dutch-Iranian director Kaweh Modiri is world-premiering in the Limelight section of the 50th IFFR  

01/02/2021 | IFFR 2021 | Limelight

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