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The 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, is the 2025 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which will begin on 30 January 2025. The festival will open with Fabula , a Dutch film by Michiel ten Horn. The complete line-up of films competing in the festival was revealed on 17 December 2024. The festival will close on 9 February 2025 with This City Is a Battlefield, an Indonesian war drama film written and directed by Mouly Surya.

Jury

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Tiger Competition

• Yuki Aditya, Jakarta-based filmmaker, Festival Director of ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival.
• Soheila Golestani, Iranian actress, voice actor, director, and writer
• Winnie Lau, Hong Kong singer and actress
• Peter Strickland, British film director and screenwriter
• Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist

Tiger Short Competition

• Angela Haardt: German curator for media art. She was director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
• Frank Sweeney: Filmmaker and artist
• Yaoting Zhang: An acquisitions and production manager who has previously served as programmer for the Shanghai and Beijing festivals

Big Screen Competition

• Bero Beyer: Dutch film producer. and former Festival Director of IFFR, from 2015 to 2020.
• Sara Rajaei: Iranian-Dutch video artist and filmmaker
• Dewi Reijs: Dutch-Indonesian filmmaker, actress, writer and director, and founder of Buddy Film Foundation.
• Digna Sinke: Dutch film director, producer and screenwriter
• Jia Zhao: Chinese-Dutch producer of award-winning documentaries like I Am So Sorry (Cannes 2021), Kabul, City in the Wind (IDFA Special Jury Award) and Inner Landscape, which closed IFFR in 2019.

Official selection

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Opening and closing films

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Tiger Competition

The following films are selected to compete for the Tiger Award. The line-up was announced on 17 December 2024.

• L’arbre De l’Authenticité, Sammy Baloji, (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Bad Girl, Varsha Bharath, (India)
• Blind Love, Julian Chou (Taiwan)
• Fiume O Morte!, Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)
• La Gran Historia De La Filosofía Occidental, Aria Covamonas (Mexico)
• Guo Ran, Li Dongmei (China)
• Im Haus Meiner Eltern, Tim Ellrich (Germany)
• Perla, Alexandra Makarová (Austria-Slovakia)
• Primeira Pessoa Do Plural, Sandro Aguilar, (Portugal, Italy)
• Tears in Kuala Lumpur, Ridhwan Saidi, (Malaysia)
• Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World, Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert (Belgium)
• Wind, Talk to Me Stefan Djordjevic (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia)
• Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master, Ivan Salatić (Montenegro)

Big Screen Competition

• Back to the Family - Šarūnas Bartas (Lithuania, France, Poland, Latvia)
• Raptures - Jon Blåhed (Sweden, Finland)
• Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra - Hanung Bramantyo (Indonesia)
• ¡Caigan las rosas blancas! - Albertina Carri (Argentina, Brazil, Spain)
• Our Father - The Last Days of a Dictator - José Filipe Costa (Portugal)
• Orenda - Pirjo Honkasalo (Finland, Estonia, Sweden)
• Yasuko, Songs of Days Past - Kichitaro Negishi (Japan)
• The Puppet’s Tale - Suman Mukhopadhyay (India)
• Bad Painter - Albert Oehlen (Germany, USA)
• Macai - Sun-J Perumal (Malaysia)
• L’oro del Reno - Lorenzo Pullega (Italy)
• De idylle - Aaron Rookus (Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia)
• The Assistant - Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal (Poland, United Kingdom)
• Soft Leaves - Miwako Van Weyenberg (Belgium)

Limelight

The programme will showcase cinematic highlights of film festival favourites and international award-winners.

Bright Future

The programme highlights first-feature films from promising filmmakers.

• Girl Infinite, Lilly Hu, United States, Latvia, Singapore
• Camp d’Été, Mateo Ybarra, Switzerland, France
• Later In The Clearing, Márton Tarkövi, Hungary, Spain
• Nyamula (Invisible Flame), Oskar Weimar, Kenya
• Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, Rajee Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka, United States

Harbour

The programme showcases contemporary cinema.

• And The Rest Will Follow, Pelin Esmer,Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania
• Dead Dog, Sarah Francis, Lebanon
• Finding Ramlee, Megat Sharizal, Malaysia
• No Dejes A Los Niños Solos, Emilio Portes, Mexico
• Primitive Diversity, Alexander Kluge, Germany
• Thank You Satan, Hicham Lasri, Morocco, France
• Last Song for You, Jill Leung, Hong Kong
• The Night Is Dark and Brighter Than The Day, Christina Friedrich, Germany
• Un Gran Casino, Daniel Hoesl, Austria

Awards

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• Robby Müller Award: Lol Crawley

References

1. ^ Merican, Sara (10 December 2024). "International Film Festival Rotterdam Unveils Opening & Closing Films, Competition Juries For 2025". Deadline. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
2. Dams, Tim (17 December 2024). "Rotterdam unveils 2025 Tiger and Big Screen competition line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
3. Sasso, Livia (10 December 2024). "Rotterdam 2025 unveils opening and closing films". Screen Daily. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
4. Goodfellow, Melanie (24 October 2024). "Rotterdam Unveils First 2025 Titles Including Alexander Kluge's 'Primitive Diversity', Daniel Hoesl's 'Un Gran Casino' & Hicham Lasri's 'Thank You Satan'". Deadline. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
5. "International Film Festival Rotterdam Reveals Opening & Closing Night Films And Competition Juries For Its 54th Edition". IFFR. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
6. Katz, David (17 December 2024). "IFFR reveals its main competition line-ups". Cineuropa. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
7. "Limelight". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
8. "Bright Future". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
9. "In Harbour". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
10. Scott Roxborough (21 November 2024). "'The Brutalist' DP Lol Crawley to Be Honored With Rotterdam's Robby Müller Award". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 January 2025.

External links

• Official website

• 2025 film festivals
• Events in Rotterdam
• 2025 festivals in Europe
• 2025 in the Netherlands