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| Opening film | Fabula by Michiel ten Horn |
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| Closing film | This City Is a Battlefield by Mouly Surya |
| Location | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Founded | 1972 |
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| Festival date | Opening: 30 January 2025 (2025-01-30) Closing: 9 February 2025 (2025-02-09) |
| Website | IFFR |
| International Film Festival Rotterdam | |
| 2026 2024 | |
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
- 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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| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | |
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| Opening film | ||||
| Fabula | Michiel ten Horn | Netherlands, Belgium, Germany | ||
| Closing film | ||||
| This City Is a Battlefield | Mouly Surya | Indonesia | ||
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.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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| This City Is a Battlefield | Mouly Surya | Indonesia | |
| The Killers | 더 킬러스 | Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Hang-jun, Lee Myung-Se | South Korea |
| The Surfer | Lorcan Finnegan | Australia, Ireland | |
Awards
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- Robby Müller Award: Lol Crawley
References
- ^ Merican, Sara (10 December 2024). "International Film Festival Rotterdam Unveils Opening & Closing Films, Competition Juries For 2025". Deadline. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- Dams, Tim (17 December 2024). "Rotterdam unveils 2025 Tiger and Big Screen competition line-ups". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- Sasso, Livia (10 December 2024). "Rotterdam 2025 unveils opening and closing films". Screen Daily. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- 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.
- "International Film Festival Rotterdam Reveals Opening & Closing Night Films And Competition Juries For Its 54th Edition". IFFR. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- Katz, David (17 December 2024). "IFFR reveals its main competition line-ups". Cineuropa. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- "Limelight". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
- 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.
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