Rotterdam 2024

78 Days

Feb 1, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

Using the aesthetics of home video, with 78 Days Emilija Gasic crafts a poignant coming-of-age drama set amidst the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO.

Steppenwolf

Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

Kazakh writer-director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s stylish but brutal neo-western thriller ‘Steppenwolf’ takes place once upon a time in the Wild East.

Daphne was a torso ending in leaves

Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024, Verdict Shorts

In the spritely and tactile essayistic ode to a heroine of Greek myth Daphne was a torso ending in leaves, Catriona Gallagher reflects on the legacy of an ancient arboreal transformation.

The Manetti Bros. and Italian Genre Cinema

Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Rotterdam 2024

TFV correspondent Max Borg investigates the Manetti-verse and how the Italian duo scored a Focus program at this year’s IFFR.

Tenement

Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

The traumas of Cambodia’s past stretch their icy fingers into the present in Tenement, a deeply unsettling psychological horror set in a rundown Khmer-era housing block.

Animalia Paradoxa

Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

Using a blend of stop-motion animation and live-action, Niles Atallah gorgeously crafts a mesmeric, dying world of analogue detritus and vestiges of magical knowledge, in which a half-amphibian being dreams of survival.