Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Marcin Dudziak – Calling #IFFR
A father and son journey into the"eternal" wilderness in Marcin Dudziak's debut feature "Calling".
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
A father and son journey into the"eternal" wilderness in Marcin Dudziak's debut feature "Calling".
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
With the 2015 IFFR comes a new edition of its co-production market, CineMart.
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Rutger Wolfson introduces this year's IFFR, his last as festival director.
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Jon Jost, Director, Producer, DP, Editor, Coming to Terms. Festival Section: Spectrum. Legendary indie American filmmaker Jon Jost talks about the death of cinema and his new film, COMING TO TERMS, which stars another iconic indie filmmaker James Benning and was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Meditation on death and its psychological impact on a broken family - a subject that has kept Jost (1943) very busy …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Abolfazl Saffary, Director and Co-Screenwriter, From Tehran to Heaven. Festival Section: Signals: How To Survive... Filmmaker Abofazl Saffary talks to FRED about his film FROM TEHRAN TO HEAVEN (Az Tehran ta beshesht), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. A woman finds a note from her husband on the fridge: I have gone to a place called Heaven. But her fevered search leads her to hell, in …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Ikeda Akira, Director, Screenwriter and Producer, Anatomy of a Paper Clip. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Japanese filmmaker IKEDA AKIRA chats to FRED about his feature ANATOMY OF A PAPER CLIP (Yamamori clip koujo no atari), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Kogure is a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory. A man without characteristics. A stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Alessandro Rossetto, Director and Co-Screenwriter, Piccola Patria. Festival Section: Spectrum. Filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto talks to FRED about his film PICCOLA PATRIA (Small Homeland), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Superb fiction debut from an experienced documentary maker shows a small community in northern Italy, where city and countryside merge, like a patchwork quilt unravelling under pressure from the crisis, migration and decadence. In the stultifying summer heat, two …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Iva Radivojevic, Director, Evaporating Borders. Festival Section: EU-29. Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic talks to FRED about her thought-provoking documentary EVAPORATING BORDERS, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Originally from Yugoslavia, Iva Radivojevic investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in Cyprus, one of the easiest ports of entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves the themes of …
Rotterdam Film Festival Interview
Lee Chatametikool, Director, Screenwriter, Co-Editor, Concrete Clouds. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Lee Chatametikool talks about his new film CONCRETE CLOUDS (Pavang rak), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Father jumps off roof. Economy caves in. Childhood sweetheart remains out of reach. Nice girl next door slides into prostitution. Elder brother knows better. Younger brother has no idea. Only a very special filmmaker could turn that …