Worldwide Movie Pageant Rotterdam (IFFR) will debut 14 function works in its important competitors and host on-stage talks with Cate Blanchett and Cheryl Dunye throughout its upcoming 54th version, which runs 30 January – 9 February 2025.
The pageant introduced its competitors lineups and talks this morning throughout a presser.
IFFR’s important Tiger Competitors comes with a €40,000 money prize. The pageant additionally palms out two Particular Jury Awards value €10,000 every. The movies chosen this yr embrace Im Haus meiner Eltern by Tim Ellric, Dangerous Lady by Varsha Bharath, and Guo Ran by Li Dongmei. Scroll down for the total listing of titles. The Tiger Competitors Jury will function Yuki Aditya, Soheila Golestani, Winnie Lau, Peter Strickland, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
The headline visitors of the pageant’s talks lineup are Cate Blanchett and Man Maddin, who will talk about their collaboration on Rumours. Additionally set for discussions in Rotterdam are DoP Lol Crawley and American filmmakers Alex Ross Perry and Cheryl Dunye.
As beforehand introduced, the pageant will open with Fabula, a darkish comedy by Dutch director and screenwriter Michiel ten Horn, and shut with This Metropolis Is a Battlefield by Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya.
Tiger Competitors
● L’arbre de l’authenticité dir. Sammy Baloji (Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium)
● Dangerous Lady dir. Varsha Bharath (India)
● Blind Love dir. Julian Chou (Taiwan)
● Fiume o morte! dir. Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)
● La gran historia de la filosofía occidental dir. Aria Covamonas (Mexico)
● Guo Ran dir. Li Dongmei (China)
● Im Haus meiner Eltern dir. Tim Ellrich (Germany)
● Perla dir. Alexandra Makarová (Austria, Slovakia)
● Primeira pessoa do plural dir. Sandro Aguilar (Portugal, Italy)
● Tears in Kuala Lumpur dir. Ridhwan Saidi (Malaysia)
● Vitrival – The Most Lovely Village within the World dir. Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert (Belgium)
● Wind, Discuss to Me dir. Stefan Djordjevic (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia)
● Wondrous Is the Silence of My Grasp dir. Ivan Salatić (Montenegro)
Huge Display Competitors
● The Assistant dir. Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal (Poland, United Kingdom)
● Again to the Household dir. Sharunas Bartas (Lithuania)
● Dangerous Painter dir. Albert Oehlen (Germany, United States)
● ¡Caigan las rosas blancas! dir. Albertina Carri (Argentina, Brazil, Spain)
● Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra dir. Hanung Bramantyo (Indonesia)
● De idylle dir. Aaron Rookus (Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia)
● Macai dir. Solar-J Perumal (Malaysia)
● Orenda dir. Pirjo Honkasalo (Finland, Estonia, Sweden)
● L’oro del Reno dir. Lorenzo Pullega (Italy)
● Our Father – The Final Days of a Dictator dir. José Filipe Costa (Portugal)
● The Puppet’s Story dir. Suman Mukhopadhyay (India)
● Raptures dir. Jon Blåhed (Sweden, Finland)
● Smooth Leaves dir. Miwako Van Weyenberg (Belgium)
● Yasuko, Songs of Days Previous dir. Negishi Kichitaro (Japan)
Tiger Quick Competitors
● Child Blue Benzo dir. Sara Cwynar (United States, Germany)
● BAN♡ITS dir. Omar Chowdhury (Belgium, Bangladesh, South Korea)
● Bury Us in a Lone Desert dir. Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Phúc (Vietnam)
● Capitol Restricted dir. Lily Ekimian Ragheb, Ahmed T. Ragheb (United States)
● Frequent Pear dir. Gregor Božič (Slovenia, United Kingdom)
● La durmiente dir. Maria Inês Gonçalves (Portugal, Spain)
● Empty Rider dir. Lawrence Lek (Switzerland, United Kingdom)
● The Backyard of Electrical Delights dir. Billy Roisz (Austria)
● Hepingli Playthrough dir. Zheng Yuan (China)
● I Wan’na Be Like You dir. Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen (Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany)
● Reminiscence Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths dir. Eva Giolo (Belgium, Italy)
● Merging Our bodies dir. Adrian Paci (Italy)
● A Metamorphosis dir. Lin Htet Aung (Myanmar)
● Now, Hear Me Good dir. Dwayne LeBlanc (United States)
● Les rites de passage dir. Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell (Germany)
● The Rock Speaks dir. Amy Louise Wilson, Francois Knoetze (South Africa, Spain)
● Suspicions Concerning the Hidden Realities of Air dir. Sam Drake (United States)
● Temo Re dir. Anka Gujabidze (Georgia)
● Issues Hidden Because the Basis of the World dir. Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis (Greece, United States)
● World at Stake dir. Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein (Austria)
