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If there was a dominant theme to come out of the critical coverage of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IIFR), it was one of cinematic glut. Report-backs on the festival from two of the most in...

“Most of the filmmakers I cover don’t get paid to make their films, so why should I expect to get paid to write about them?” – Michael Sicinski To get straight to the point: if the 2014 International Film Fest...

Early on in the 2013 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, at about the third or fourth appearance of its distinctive, looming tiger logo that preceded every screening, I began to feel fairly co...

Ugly city, beautiful cinema. It strikes me that the world’s major film festivals are opposed in nature to the cities that host them. Take Berlin. The city is an epicentre of alternative subcultures, artistic...

Understanding how people can be manipulated through emotions, for example, is as useful for those who wish to avoid this as it is for those who wish to practice it. – Sun Tzu in The Art of War The tyranny of f...

  21 January – 1 February 2009 Pouring out of Rotterdam’s late-night screenings into the chilly streets, it was hard to miss the giant screen projections on the sides of the city’s tallest skyscraper...

  21 January – 1 February 2009 Like so many film festivals, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has grown exponentially since its inception. Nearly 40 years hence, a newcomer might consi...

23 January – 3 February 2008 If one had the time, if one were able to perceive life and its screens on a multiple level, if one were gifted to grasp the many entirely rounded up festivals within this one...

23 January – 3 February 2008 The V2_Institute for the Unstable Media is housed in a small warehouse building down a modest alleyway in Rotterdam’s museum district. Actually, everything about the city’s a...