Hybrid edition for the 50th Rotterdam Film Festival

01 FEBRUARY 2021

The 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is taking place from February 1 through 7 in a hybrid edition. For the first time in eleven years, a French film is in Competition: I Comete - A Corsican Summer by Pascal Tagnati.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), created in 1972, is an event that has positioned itself over the years as a leader in selecting titles that explore all forms of cinema.

This year, due to constraints generated by the pandemic, it is taking place from February 1 through 7 in a hybrid version: the Dutch public will be able to attend physical screenings (as well as online) of films in Competition and premieres, but without guests, while international audiences can watch them online. A second phase is scheduled from June 2 through 6, with a special anniversary program as well as the Bright Future (one film per country this year) and Harbor sections.

For the first time in ten years (Chicks by Sophie Letourneur in 2010), a majority French film will be in the festival's most prestigious strand, the Tiger Competition: I Comete - A Corsican Summer by Pascal Tagnati, a debut feature shot in Corsica... and in Corsican!

Several other French titles will be presented in the festival's other sections, in particular Suzanna Andler by Benoit Jacquot, Mandibles by Quentin Dupieux, Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, and Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacôte, as well as the documentary The Witches of the Orient by Julien Faraut (director of In The Realm of Perfection) in the Big Screen section.