This year, a large number of French productions and co-productions will be showcased once again at Rotterdam, a festival that explores experimental and avant-garde filmmaking, both in terms of form and content.
The Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), founded in 1972, has stamped itself over the years as a leading platform for discovering new talent in filmmaking, reaching out to all cinematic forms.
Now a fixture on the European cultural calendar, the festival offers numerous programs, including two competitive sections, Bright Future and Voices. This year's Voices program will feature a world premiere of the event film This is Our Land by Lucas Belvaux (screened in the presence of the director).
The Criss-Cross program will present a retrospective of crime thrillers, including twelve French productions.
Around forty directors of the French productions and co-productions selected will be attending the festival, including Katell Quillévéré (Heal the Living), Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama), Daouda Coulibaly (Wùlu), Arnaud Des Pallières (Orphan), Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper), and Albert Serra (The Death of Louis XIV). The actors Nathan Willcocks (A Taste of Ink), Stéphane Debac (Le Serpent aux mille coupures), Garance Marillier (Raw), Émilie Dequenne (This is Our Land), and Lucie Lucas (Porto) will also be present.
Feature films selected:
Hivos Tiger Award Competition
Bright Future
- Burning Birds by Sanjeewa Pushpakumara
- By the Time It Gets Dark by Anocha Suwichakornpong
- _heis (chroniques) by Anaïs Volpé
- Mimosas by Oliver Laxe
- Where is Rocky II? by Pierre Bismuth
- Wùlu by Daouda Coulibaly
Voices
- The Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli
- This is Our Land by Lucas Belvaux
- The Ornithologist by João Pedro Rodrigues
- The Road to Mandalay by Midi Z
- The Wedding Ring by Rahmatou Keïta
Regained
Limelight
- Tramontane by Vatché Boulghourjian
- Dogs by Bogdan Mirica
- Raw by Julia Ducournau
- Harmonium by Koji Fukada
- The Untamed by Amat Escalante
- Orphan by Arnaud Des Pallières
- Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas
- Porto by Gabe Klinger
- Staying Vertical by Alain Guiraudie
- Heal the Living by Katell Quillévéré
- Sieranevada by Cristi Puiu
- Wolf and Sheep by Shahrbanoo Sadat
Criss-Cross
- 36 by Olivier Marchal
- Spy Bound by Frédéric Schoendoerffer
- The Crew by Julien Leclercq
- De guerre lasse by Olivier Panchot
- Rebellion by Mathieu Kassovitz
- Fast Convoy by Frédéric Schoendoerffer
- The Great Game by Nicolas Pariser
- Le Serpent aux mille coupures by Éric Valette
- Mea Culpa by Fred Cavayé
- R.I.F. (Recherche dans l'intérêt des familles) by Franck Mancuso
- Secrets of State by Philippe Haïm
- State Affairs by Éric Valette
A Band Apart
Picture Palestine 2017
- Minaa Elzakira/Port of Memory by Kamal Aljafari
- Flower Seller by Ihab Jadallah
- Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory by Mohanad Yaqubi
IFFR LIVE
Scopitone
Signature
- Sleeping Beauty by Adolfo Arrieta
- The Death of Louis XIV by Albert Serra
- Un rêve solaire by Patrick Bokanowski
Black Rebels
Short films selected:
Bright Future Shorts
- Blue Sky from Pain by Stephanos Mangriotis
- Cilaos by Camilo Restrepo
- Ciudad Maya by Andrés Padilla Domene
- Foyer by Ismaïl Bahri
- There is Land! by Ana Vaz
Bright Future Mid-Length
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Voices Short Films
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