IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam

55^th Edition

when:	January 29^th - February 8^th, 2026
address:	Karel Doormanstraat 278-B 3012 GP Rotterdam The Netherlands
tel:	+31 10 8909090
email:	tiger@IFFR.com
website:	www.iffr.com
deadline:	September 17^th, 2025
entry form:	Online Submission

International Film Festival Rotterdam focuses on independent and remarkable cinema. Priding itself on being a supportive platform where both audiences and industry are invited to look ahead. IFFR actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through its IFFR Pro activities; co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund, in- market training for emerging producers at Rotterdam Lab and other innovative Industry- related activities.

participations

2025	Balentes by Giovanni Columbu: Harbour First person plural by Sandro Aguilar: Tiger Competition Fiume o morte! by Igor Bezinovic: Tiger Competition - Tiger Award, Fipresci Award The illusion by Roberto Andò: Limelight Maria by Pablo Larraín: Limelight The Return by Uberto Pasolini: Limelight Rheingold by Lorenzo Pullega: Big Screen Competition The time it takes by Francesca Comencini: Limelight U.S. Palmese by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Limelight Vermiglio by Maura Delpero: Limelight Wishing on a star by Péter Kerekes: Limelight Wondrous is the silence of my Master by Ivan Salatic: Tiger Competition
2024	Adagio by Stefano Sollima: Limelight L'arrivo di Wang by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. The Bird Preachers by Clemens Klopfenstein: Cinema Regained La chimera by Alice Rohrwacher: Limelight Diabolik by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. Diabolik — Ginko Attacks! by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. Diabolik — Who Are You? by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. In the mirror by Roberta Torre: Limelight Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio: Limelight Love and Bullets by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. Madame Luna by Daniel Espinosa: Limelight Piano 17 by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. Portrait of a Certain Orient by Marcelo Gomes: Big Screen Competition Rome - Strange tales from the block by Luna Gualano: Harbour Song 'e Napule by Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros. Song of all ends by Giovanni C. Lorusso: Harbour Trust by Daniele Luchetti: Big Screen Competition Zora the vampire by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti: Focus: Manetti Bros.
2023	Alien Food by Giorgio Cugno: Harbour Il Boemo by Petr Václav: Limelight EO by Jerzy Skolimowski: Limelight Exterior Night by Marco Bellocchio: Harbour It is night in America by Ana Vaz: Harbour Like Sheep Among Wolves by Lyda Patitucci: Harbour Luka by Jessica Woodworth: Big Screen Competition I morti rimangono con la bocca aperta by Fabrizio Ferraro: Harbour No dogs or Italians allowed by Alain Ughetto: Limelight Nostalgia by Mario Martone: Limelight Pantelleria by Masbedo: Short & Mid-length The Store by Hanna Sköld: Harbour Strangeness by Roberto Andò: Limelight
2022	Fingerpicking by Riccardo Giacconi: Short & Mid-length France by Bruno Dumont: Limelight Freaks vs. the Reich by Gabriele Mainetti: Limelight - Audience Award Inferno rosso. Joe D’Amato sulla via dell’eccesso by Manlio Gomarasca, Massimiliano Zanin: Cinema Regained Italo Disco. The sparkling sound of the 80s by Alessandro Melazzini: Art Directions The King of Laughter by Mario Martone: Harbour The Last Ride of the Wolves by Alberto De Michele: Bright Future Ora e sempre riprendiamoci la vita by Silvano Agosti: Cinema Regained Viaggio nel crepuscolo by Augusto Contento: Cinema Regained
2021	Lumina by Samuele Sestieri: Bright Future My name is Francesco Totti by Alex Infascelli: Harbour - Audience Award
2020	Angela's Diaries. Two Filmmakers: Chapter One by Yervant Gianikian: Deep Focus Checkpoint Berlin by Fabrizio Ferraro: Bright Future Creature, where are you going? by Gaia Formenti, Marco Piccarreda: Perspectives The Dog Snatch by Fulvio Risuleo: Voices Fortress by Ludovica Andò, Emiliano Aiello: Perspectives Non c'è nessuna Dark Side - Atto uno 2007-2019 by Erik Negro: Bright Future Rose Stone Star by Marcello Sannino: Voices Two Forgotten Boxes - A trip to Vietnam by Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli: Perspectives
2019	Angela's Diaries. Two Filmmakers: Chapter Two by Yervant Gianikian: Deep Focus Bangla by Phaim Bhuiyan: Big Screen Competition Coureur by Kenneth Mercken: Voices Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher: Voices In my Room by Ulrich Köhler: Perspectives J by Gaetano Liberti: Perspectives Tutto l'oro che c'è by Andrea Caccia: Deep Focus What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? by Roberto Minervini: Voices
2018	'77 No Commercial Use by Luis Fulvio: A History of Shadows Beyond the one by Anna Marziano: Bright Future Mid-length Hannah by Andrea Pallaoro: Limelight Iphigenia in Aulis by Tonino De Bernardi: Signatures Look Up by Fulvio Risuleo: Bright Future Competition Lorello and Brunello by Jacopo Quadri: Voices Monelle by Diego Marcon: Bright Future Short Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli: IFFR Live The Resolute by Giovanni Donfrancesco: A History of Shadows Les Unwanted de Europa by Fabrizio Ferraro: A History of Shadows What Time Is Love? by Anna Franceschini: Voices Short
2017	L'amatore by Maria Mauti: Regained Theatrical Atlante 1783 by Maria Giovanna Cicciari: Obstructed Landscape Happy times will come soon by Alessandro Comodin: Bright Future The Sailor by Giovanni Giaretta: Bright Future The War of the Yokels by Davide Barletti, Lorenzo Conte: Bright Future Where Is Rocky II? by Pierre Bismuth: Bright Future Whipping Zombie by Yuri Ancarani: Signs of Life Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli: Voices
2016	Anna by Giuseppe Gaudino: Signatures Arianna by Carlo Lavagna: ID: gender.net The Bear Tales by Samuele Sestieri, Olmo Amato: Bright Future Don't be Bad by Claudio Caligari: Regained The Fourth day of School by Martina Melilli: Voices An Inaccurate Distance by Giovanni Giaretta: Voices: Short Lost and Beautiful by Pietro Marcello: Bright Future Miss Cinema - Archivio Mossina by Paolo Simoni: Videowall Mother by Vlado Skafar: Bright Future The Other Side by Roberto Minervini: Voices Porn to be free by Carmine Amoroso: ID: Community Cameras Il solengo by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis: Bright Future Suburra by Stefano Sollima: Episodic/Epidemic A Thing Among Things by Giovanni Giaretta: Bright Future: Short
2015	Belluscone, una storia siciliana by Franco Maresco: Signals: Really? Really. The Creation of Meaning by Simone Rapisarda Casanova: Bright Future Lola by Giulio Questi: Signals: Really? Really. Quantum by Flatform: As Long As It Takes: Short ReCuiem by Valentina Carnelutti: As Long As It Takes: Short San Siro by Yuri Ancarani: As Long As It Takes: Short La scuola d'estate by Jacopo Quadri: Spectrum Speak in Tongues by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi: As Long As It Takes: Short The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher: Limelight
2014	The Animals Blessing by Cosimo Terlizzi: Spectrum Shorts Blood in Bahia's Hot by Aurelio Grimaldi: Spectrum Castello Cavalcanti by Wes Anderson: Spectrum Shorts Dear Mr. President by Marco Santarelli: Spectrum EU 013, The Last Frontier by Alessio Genovese: EU-29 I Am a Part of the Problem by canecapovolto: Spectrum Shorts Istintobrass by Massimiliano Zanin: Signals: Regained Lack - Hell by Stefano Odoardi: Spectrum On the 5th April I’ll Kill Myself by Sergio Canneto: Spectrum Shorts Profezia - L'Africa di Pasolini by Gianni Borgna, Enrico Menduni: EU-29 Raffael's Way by Alessandro Falco: Spectrum Shorts Redemption by Miguel Gomes: Signals: Grand Tour Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: Signals: Grand Tour Small Homeland by Alessandro Rossetto: Spectrum Stop the Pounding Heart by Roberto Minervini: Spectrum Trento Symphonia by Flatform: Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
2013	Da Vinci by Yuri Ancarani: Tiger Award Competition for Short Films Electric Chair by Monica Strambini: Spectrum The Future by Alicia Scherson: Spectrum - KNF Award It's all about light and death (to Joseph Plateau) by Anna Franceschini: Regained the King by Giovanni Columbu: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition Low Tide by Roberto Minervini: Regained Me and You by Bernardo Bertolucci: Spectrum Pretty Butterflies by Salvatore Mereu: Spectrum - Big Screen Award Reality by Matteo Garrone: Spectrum Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions per Minute by Paolo Campana: Sound Stages
2012	About killing the pig by Simone Massi: Short Films Joule by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi: Short Films The Last Man on Earth by Gianni Pacinotti aka Gipi: Bright Future The Legend of Kaspar Hauser by Davide Manuli: Spectrum My big-assed Mother by Tekla Taidelli: Short Films Piattaforma Luna by Yuri Ancarani: Short Films A Place to Come by Flatform: Short Films Il Silenzio di Pelesjan by Pietro Marcello: Regained Summer of Giacomo by Alessandro Comodin: Bright Future
2011	Beijing Double Happiness by Sergio Ponzio, Cristina Nisticò: Spectrum Shorts Butterfly - Waiting by Tonino De Bernardi: Spectrum The Garden of Hope by Antonello Faretta: Spectrum Shorts I am Jesus by Valerie Gudenus, Heloisa Sartorato: Bright Future Love is in the Air by Werther Germondari, Maria Laura Spagnoli: Shorts La nostra vita by Daniele Luchetti: Spectrum
2010	57.600 Seconds of Invisible Night and Light by Flatform: Spectrum-Shorts The Door by Piero Messina: Spectrum short The Empirical Effect by Rosa Barba: Tiger Awards Competitie Short Films I know therès a man by Gianclaudio Cappai: RE: Reloaded Like a Man on the earth by Andrea Segre, Dagmawi Yimer: Signals - Where Is Africa Vedozero by Andrea Caccia: RE: Reloaded
2009	29 febbraio by Stefano Pari: Spectrum: Shorts Birdwatchers by Marco Bechis: Spectrum Il divo by Paolo Sorrentino: Spectrum Gomorrah by Matteo Garrone: Spectrum Gostanza da Libbiano by Paolo Benvenuti: Signals: Paolo Benvenuti The Headless Woman by Lucrecia Martel: Spectrum Machan by Uberto Pasolini: Spectrum Mid-August Lunch by Gianni di Gregorio: Spectrum Pane/Piazza delle Camelie by Tonino De Bernardi: Spectrum Puccini and the Girl by Paolo Benvenuti: Signals: Paolo Benvenuti Secret file by Paolo Benvenuti: Signals: Paolo Benvenuti Sunday 6th April, 11:42 am by Flatform: Spectrum: Shorts The Undercover Man by Rossella Biscotti: Spectrum: Shorts
2008	Along the Ridge by Kim Rossi Stuart: Robeco Filmdag Biùtiful cauntri by Esmeralda Calabria, Andrea D'Ambrosio, Peppe Ruggiero: International Premieres: Time & Tide Estomago by Marcos Jorge: Sturm und Drang Medea Miracle by Tonino De Bernardi: Kings & Aces My Brother is an Only Child by Daniele Luchetti: Time & Tide One Hundred Nails by Ermanno Olmi: Kings & Aces L'ora di punta by Vincenzo Marra: European Premieres: Time & Tide The Romance of Astrea and Celadon by Eric Rohmer: Kings & Aces
2007	Along the Ridge by Kim Rossi Stuart: Sturm und Drang Born and Bred by Pablo Trapero: Cinema of the World: Time & Tide Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso: Sturm und Drang Fair Trade by Nora Hoppe: In Competition Fragments of Cinema and Philosophy by Stefano Francia di Celle, Ciro Giorgini, Enrico Ghezzi: Cinema Regained The Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese: Cinema of the World: Time & Tide Ieri by Luca Scivoletto: Short: As Long As It Takes Private Fears in Public Places by Alain Resnais: Kings & Aces Sao Paulo_Citytellers by Francesco Jodice: Short: As Long As It Takes Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer: Cinema of the World: Time & Tide Trance by Teresa Villaverde: Cinema of the World: Time & Tide White Ballad by Stefano Odoardi: Sturm und Drang
2006	Caravaggio, the last act by Mario Martone: Vita Brevis Disturbing religion by Massimiliano "Maci" Verdesca: Short: As Long As It Takes Five coffees by Werther Germondari, Maria Laura Spagnoli: Short: As Long As It Takes Gabrielle by Patrice Chéreau: Kings & Aces Hidden by Michael Haneke: Kings & Aces Mary by Abel Ferrara: Kings & Aces Past present, lay angels fall by Tonino De Bernardi: Kings & Aces The silence of the Skylark by David Ballerini: Vita Brevis Site specific_Las Vegas 05 by Olivo Barbieri: Short: As Long As It Takes Site specific_Roma 04 by Olivo Barbieri: Short: As Long As It Takes The sun by Aleksandr Sokurov: Vita Brevis Sunday Afternoon by Gaia Adducchio: Short: As Long As It Takes Viva Zapatero! by Sabina Guzzanti: Time & Tide Zakaria by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio: Short: As Long As It Takes
2005	2046 by Wong Kar-Wai: Maestros: Kings & Aces Aral - Fishing in an invisible sea by Carlos Casas, Saodat Ismailova: Short Film: Four Times Italy Changing destiny by Daniele Gaglianone: VPRO Tiger Awards The Consequences of Love by Paolo Sorrentino: Cinema of the Future Fare bene Mikles by Christian Angeli: Special Mention The Holy Girl by Lucrecia Martel: Cinema of the Future The house keys by Gianni Amelio: Maestros: Kings & Aces How we got the Italian movie business into trouble by Daniele Ciprí, Franco Maresco: Cinema Regained The journey by Edoardo Winspeare: Short Film: Four Times Italy Land wind by Vincenzo Marra: Cinema of the World Marlene De Sousa by Tonino De Bernardi: Maestros: Kings & Aces Oh! Uomo by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi: Cinema Regained Private by Saverio Costanzo: Cinema of the World Site specific_Roma 04 by Olivo Barbieri: Short Films Waves by Francesco Fei: In Competition
2004	The best of youth by Marco Tullio Giordana: Main Program - Audience Award Caterina in the big city by Paolo Virzì: Panorama Il dono by Michelangelo Frammartino: Panorama L'isola by Costanza Quatriglio: Panorama Mistress and maid by Tonino De Bernardi: Panorama The return of Cagliostro by Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco: Panorama Take me away by Tonino Zangardi: Panorama Three steps dancing by Salvatore Mereu: In Competition
2003	The angel on the right shoulder by Djamshed Usmonov: Hubert Bals Fonds Harvest Angela by Roberta Torre: Main Programme The best day of my life by Cristina Comencini: Main Programme Concrete leaves by Fabio Sonzogni The embalmer by Matteo Garrone: Main Programme Grazia's Island by Emanuele Crialese: Main Programme Lei by Tonino De Bernardi: True Stories Un mondo d'amore by Aurelio Grimaldi: Main Programme Rosa Funzeca by Aurelio Grimaldi: Main Programme The Three Marias by Aluizio Abranches: Hubert Bals Fonds Harvest
2002	Hotel by Mike Figgis: Out of Competition L. City by Sandro Del Rosario: Main Programme Short My voyage in Italy by Martin Scorsese: Out of Competition No Man's Land by Danis Tanovic: Canal + Audience Award The profession of arms by Ermanno Olmi: Out of Competition Sailing home by Vincenzo Marra: Out of Competition Saint Maradona by Marco Ponti: Out of Competition Secret ballot by Babak Payami: Hubert Bals Fund - NETPAC Award: Special Mention Strike a light by Giovanna Sonnino: Out of Competition Workingthestreets by Tonino De Bernardi: Out of Competition
2001	Live Blood by Edoardo Winspeare: Panorama

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