Rotterdam 2024

Festival Reviews

CineVerdict: Con Chile en el corazón… y en la mirada

by Lucy Virgen | Jan 25, 2024 | Cine Verdict, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

Al mostrar filmes de directores exiliados, el Focus Chile en el corazón de IFFR 2024 nos ayuda a entender mejor el país y el día en que cambió de golpe.

Head South

by Carmen Gray | Jan 25, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Rotterdam 2024

An absurdist, Gothic twist takes Jonathan Ogilvie’s coming-of-age comedy and New Zealand post-punk subculture origin story into delightfully uncharted territory.

So Unreal

by Stephen Dalton | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

Amanda Kramer’s debut documentary ‘So Unreal’ revisits classic sci-fi movies and vintage cyberpunk thrillers looking for cautionary clues about our current age of digital dystopia.

Pierre Monnard is Back in French

by Max Borg | Jan 25, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024

The Swiss director is bringing his new film ‘Bisons’ to Rotterdam.

Vanja Kaludjercic and Clare Stewart on Rotterdam’s Present and Future

by Max Borg | Jan 24, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Rotterdam 2024

The mainstream and the niche coexist at IFFR this year under artistic director Kaludjercic and managing director Stewart.

78 Days

by Ben Nicholson | 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

by Stephen Dalton | 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

by Ben Nicholson | 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

by Max Borg | 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

by Ben Nicholson | 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

by Carmen Gray | 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.