WriDir: Ivan Salatic | Croatia/France/Italy/Montenegro | Drama 93' One could say at the moment the landmass that comprises what is called "The Balkans” is having a moment at various International film...

This year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival opens with Fabula a darkly amusing fantasy drama, as the title suggests. Jos was born into a family haunted by disaster and is determined to...

Celebrating its 54th Anniversary, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) takes place from 30th January until 9th of February 2025 with thirteen premieres competing for the top prize in THE...

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...

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...