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NewsHubert Bals Fund selects 10 projects for 2023 Development Support scheme
Selection includes new projects from prize winning directors Martika Ramirez Escobar, Leonardo Martinelli and Le Bao.
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NewsRotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund unveils new head
Fund supports filmmakers from countries where funding and infrastructure is lacking or restrictive.
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NewsFive major European film festivals unite on industry network Launchpad
Locarno, Thessaloniki, Tallinn, IFFR and Karlovy Vary are collaborating on the initiative.
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NewsRotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund unveils titles for new post-production scheme
The projects, all feature debuts aside from one, will receive €60,000 to support either their production or their post-production.
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NewsClare Stewart, former London Film Festival director, to join Rotterdam as managing director
Stewart will work alongside festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.
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NewsHow Ukraine is trying to maintain the momentum behind a generation of outstanding filmmakers
The European industry has created support initiatives, including for funding, co-production and raising awareness.
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News“I’ve seen so many smiling faces”: Rotterdam wraps an emotional edition
International attendees point to IFFR’s sense of community, inclusivity – and wide sweep of films.
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News‘Le Spectre De Boko Haram’ scoops top prize at Rotterdam 2023
Visakesa Chandrasekaram’s ’Munnel’ and Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s ‘New Strains’ also won awards.
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NewsFour new projects chosen for Netherlands, South Africa co-development fund, Thuthuka
Each project will now receive €40,000 toward further script development.
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NewsPort of Production residency programme selects four international producers
The producers hail from Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Canada.
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NewsRotterdam’s Reality Check symposium calls for creation of a cross-festival coalition
“The festival industry as we know has come to be defined by a spirit of competition rather than collaboration,” said festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.
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NewsIranian filmmaker Masoud Kimiai banned from attending Rotterdam
The director’s film ’Killing A Traitor’ is playing in the Harbour strand.
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NewsItaly-France western ‘Heads Or Tails?’, Ukraine’s ‘Consider Vera’ big Rotterdam industry winners
Awards handed out to projects in 40th anniversary edition of CineMart.
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NewsHow the Dutch film and TV industry has fallen for intimacy coordinators
”It’s good for there to be someone between the actor and the director,” said Dutch actor Joy Delima.
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NewsRotterdam competition title ‘New Strains’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
The US comedy is directed by Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan.
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NewsJessica Woodworth on her Rotterdam world premiere ‘Luka’: “What I really love is its intrinsic humour”
The ambitious film is based on the classic Italian novel, Dino Buzatti’s ’The Desert Of The Tatars’
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NewsEmotional opening night launches first physical Rotterdam festival for three years
“We go where others do not go,” said a passionate Vanja Kaludjercic, of the mission to celebrate rising film-making countries.
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News‘We Are Next Of Kin’: first trailer for Rotterdam Limelight title (exclusive)
The drama is inspired by real events surrounding the kidnapping of a German author and multi-millionaire
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NewsMPM Premium boards Rotterdam feature ‘Almost Entirely A Slight Disaster’, unveils trailer (exclusive)
Film from Turkish director Umut Subasi world premieres next week in Bright Future competition.