Rotterdam International Film Festival

Don’t Leave the Kids Alone

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |

A mother unadvisedly leaves her two young sons home alone in Don’t Leave the Kids Alone chaotic but largely entertaining Mexican haunted house horror.

Temo Re

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025, Verdict Shorts |

This Marker-esque monochrome photomontage adapts its protagonist’s docufiction memoir into a slyly funny sketch of a struggling actor in contemporary Tbilisi.

Fiume o morte!

Posted by Carmen Gray | Feb 2, 2025 | 2026 Oscars, Festivals, Rotterdam, Rotterdam 2025 |

Igor Bezinovic engages citizens of his Croatian hometown in a rigorously researched, irreverently punk re-enactment of its brief occupation by Italian poet and self-styled dictator Gabriele D’Annunzio.