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IFFRNetherlandsNow streaming on IFFR Unleashed: Scope on Screen From documentary to animation, these shorts take you from Dutch windmills and the heart of the Amazon to the night sky and the cosmos beyond.

October 16

IFFRNetherlandsHubert Bals Fund in Brazil: A Margem do Rio wins in Rio as supported films head to Mostra Hubert Bals Fund-backed A Margem do Rio by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho was the big winner at the 28th Festival do Rio, taking five awards including best fiction feature.

October 14

IFFRNetherlandsBecome an IFFR Youth Jury member The IFFR Youth Jury Award is selected by a panel of young people for an outstanding festival film of their choice.

October 12

IFFRNetherlandsIFFR films submitted to the Oscars Variations on a Theme won the Tiger Award at IFFR 2026, was backed through HBF+Europe: Post-production Support and is now South Africa’s submission to the Oscars.

October 9

IFFRNetherlandsRotterdam Lab open call 2027 We’re launching an open call for participation at the next edition of Rotterdam Lab at IFFR 2027. A maximum of five spots will be made available to selected producers.

October 7

IFFRNetherlandsIFFR-supported films at the 70th BFI London Film Festival The first five Displacement Film Fund (DFF) shorts, which had their world premieres at IFFR last edition, feature in this year's LFF for Free programme.

October 1

IFFRNetherlandsHubert Bals Fund announces HBF+Europe: Post-production Support selection 2026 This selection features projects by filmmakers from Argentina, India and Brazil, distinct in form, ambition and scale: a creative documentary set in a dystopian future, a love story in India's Kinnar…

October 1

IFFRNetherlandsMeet our RTM Curators for 2027 Leana Boven, Ciska Meister and Rocky Roos. will guest curate the RTM programme at IFFR 2027.

September 24

IFFRNetherlandsIFFR films at the Netherlands Film Festival 2026 This year's Netherlands Film Festival, running Friday 25 September to Friday 2 October 2026 in Utrecht, is packed with IFFR 2026 films.

September 24

IFFRNetherlandsManaging Director Clare Stewart to step down after IFFR 2027 IFFR Managing Director Clare Stewart – who jointly leads the organisation with Festival Director Vanja Kaludjercic – is stepping down from

September 17

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo