Dir/scr: Toshihiko Tanaka. Japan, drama 189' Rei is a kanji character that can represent a variety of meanings. The genderless name is therefore a really good title for this complex but...

Dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov | | Kazakhstan/Russia,102' A hyper violent civil war rages across an apocalyptic landscape where gender conventions prevail in classic Western style: the men are the killers. One traumatised...

Wri/Dir: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich | US Doc 74' The French West Indies' island of Martinique really comes alive in this evocative portrait of Suzanne Césaire (1915-66) with its sultry soundtrack from...

Dir: Ulaa Salim | Sci-Fi 99' Director Ulaa Salim returns to The Rotterdam Film Festival after his first feature Sons Of Denmark premiered there in 2019 to wide acclaim. His latest...

Dir: Rodrigo Areias | Cast: Albano Jeronimo, Edward Ashley, Victoria Guerra, Edgar Morais, Carmen Chaplin | Portugal, Drama 122' Charles Augustus Howell, the main character in this suggestive slow-burn drama from...

Dir: Anne Fontaine | France, Biopic drama, 122' Anne Fontaine’s ravishing musical biopic of Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) opens with various modern musical versions of the legendary French composer’s 1928 masterpiece...

Dir: Julia De Simone | Cast: Lucília Raimundo, Samira Carvalho, Maria D"Aires, Mãe Celina de Xangô Brazil, Drama 94’ This beguiling third feature from Brazilian filmmaker Julia De Simone is set...

Dir: Jonathan Ogilvie | Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Marton Csokas Roxie Mohebbi | New Zealand, Drama 98' 2024 The Rotterdam Film Festival is traditionally a place where discoveries are made from unexpected...

Dir: Kier-La Janisse | US, Doc 193’ Everything you wanted to know about horror films: this immersive three hour documentary is an expansive study of the macabre genre of "folk horror"...