Rotterdam Film Festival Articles

Raúl Ruiz The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will be paying tribute to Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, who died in August at age 70, with a screening of his first film, La Maleta (1963) and one of his last, Ballet Aquatique (2011), at 8 p.m. tomorrow, Jan. 31. Among those expected to reminisce about Ruiz are actor Melvil Poupaud, producer François Margolin, Australian journalist and "Ruiz expert" [...]

2009 Rotterdam Film Festival Awards 2009 Rotterdam Film Festival: Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009   Be Calm and Count to Seven (top photo), Ramtin Lavafipour's feature-film début, chronicles the day-to-day struggles of a family in Iran's southern islands whose chief source of income is smuggling. In Yang Ik-June's Breathless (middle photo), a nasty extortionist (Yang himself) has his life drastically altered after meeting a determined schoolgirl. [...]

The 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival runs Jan. 21-Feb. 1, 2009. At West of Pluto (A l'ouest de Pluton), Henri Bernadet & Myriam Verreault, Canada Be Calm and Count to Seven (Aram bash va ta haft beshmar), Ramtin Lavafipour, Iran Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Babi buta yang ingin terbang), Edwin, Indonesia Breathless (Ddongpari), Yang Ik-June, South Korea Dark Harbour (Futoko), Naito Takatsugu, Japan [...]

The 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which runs between Jan. 23-Feb. 3, has announced the 15 films vying for the 2008 VPRO Tiger Awards. All entries are first or second efforts. (See Rotterdam 2008 Film Line-Up.) The Tiger Awards are worth 15,000 euros (US$22,070) for each of three winning features and 3,000 euros (US$4,414) for the short film awards. The 2008 Rotterdam film festival [...]