International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will debut 14 feature works in its main competition and host on-stage talks with Cate Blanchett and Cheryl Dunye during its upcoming 54th edition, which runs 30 January – 9 February 2025.
The festival announced its competition lineups and talks this morning during a presser.
IFFR’s main Tiger Competition comes with a €40,000 cash prize. The festival also hands out two Special Jury Awards worth €10,000 each. The films selected this year include Im Haus meiner Eltern by Tim Ellric, Bad Girl by Varsha Bharath, and Guo Ran by Li Dongmei. Scroll down for the full list of titles. The Tiger Competition Jury will feature Yuki Aditya, Soheila Golestani, Winnie Lau, Peter Strickland, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
The headline guests of the festival’s talks lineup are Cate Blanchett and Guy Maddin, who will discuss their collaboration on Rumours. Also set for discussions in Rotterdam are DoP Lol Crawley and American filmmakers Alex Ross Perry and Cheryl Dunye.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Fabula, a dark comedy by Dutch director and screenwriter Michiel ten Horn, and close with This City Is a Battlefield by Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya.
Tiger Competition
● L’arbre de l’authenticité dir. Sammy Baloji (Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium)
● Bad Girl dir. Varsha Bharath (India)
● Blind Love dir. Julian Chou (Taiwan)
● Fiume o morte! dir. Igor Bezinović (Croatia, Italy, Slovenia)
● La gran historia de la filosofía occidental dir. Aria Covamonas (Mexico)
● Guo Ran dir. Li Dongmei (China)
● Im Haus meiner Eltern dir. Tim Ellrich (Germany)
● Perla dir. Alexandra Makarová (Austria, Slovakia)
● Primeira pessoa do plural dir. Sandro Aguilar (Portugal, Italy)
● Tears in Kuala Lumpur dir. Ridhwan Saidi (Malaysia)
● Vitrival – The Most Beautiful Village in the World dir. Noëlle Bastin, Baptiste Bogaert (Belgium)
● Wind, Talk to Me dir. Stefan Djordjevic (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia)
● Wondrous Is the Silence of My Master dir. Ivan Salatić (Montenegro)
Big Screen Competition
● The Assistant dir. Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal (Poland, United Kingdom)
● Back to the Family dir. Sharunas Bartas (Lithuania)
● Bad Painter dir. Albert Oehlen (Germany, United States)
● ¡Caigan las rosas blancas! dir. Albertina Carri (Argentina, Brazil, Spain)
● Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra dir. Hanung Bramantyo (Indonesia)
● De idylle dir. Aaron Rookus (Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia)
● Macai dir. Sun-J Perumal (Malaysia)
● Orenda dir. Pirjo Honkasalo (Finland, Estonia, Sweden)
● L’oro del Reno dir. Lorenzo Pullega (Italy)
● Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator dir. José Filipe Costa (Portugal)
● The Puppet’s Tale dir. Suman Mukhopadhyay (India)
● Raptures dir. Jon Blåhed (Sweden, Finland)
● Soft Leaves dir. Miwako Van Weyenberg (Belgium)
● Yasuko, Songs of Days Past dir. Negishi Kichitaro (Japan)
Tiger Short Competition
● Baby Blue Benzo dir. Sara Cwynar (United States, Germany)
● BAN♡ITS dir. Omar Chowdhury (Belgium, Bangladesh, South Korea)
● Bury Us in a Lone Desert dir. Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Phúc (Vietnam)
● Capitol Limited dir. Lily Ekimian Ragheb, Ahmed T. Ragheb (United States)
● Common Pear dir. Gregor Božič (Slovenia, United Kingdom)
● La durmiente dir. Maria Inês Gonçalves (Portugal, Spain)
● Empty Rider dir. Lawrence Lek (Switzerland, United Kingdom)
● The Garden of Electric Delights dir. Billy Roisz (Austria)
● Hepingli Playthrough dir. Zheng Yuan (China)
● I Wan’na Be Like You dir. Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen (Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany)
● Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths dir. Eva Giolo (Belgium, Italy)
● Merging Bodies dir. Adrian Paci (Italy)
● A Metamorphosis dir. Lin Htet Aung (Myanmar)
● Now, Hear Me Good dir. Dwayne LeBlanc (United States)
● Les rites de passage dir. Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell (Germany)
● The Rock Speaks dir. Amy Louise Wilson, Francois Knoetze (South Africa, Spain)
● Suspicions About the Hidden Realities of Air dir. Sam Drake (United States)
● Temo Re dir. Anka Gujabidze (Georgia)
● Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World dir. Kevin Walker, Irene Zahariadis (Greece, United States)
● World at Stake dir. Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein (Austria)
