IFFR 2026 comes to an end 💖 Thank you all for making this edition the one that embraced joy, romance, and laughter whilst also bearing witness to the world around us changing in increasingly difficult ways. See you at IFFR 2027! Read our full closing statement via: iffr.com/en/blog-iffr... #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026 Closing Night ✨ Last Saturday, after ten days of films and discussions, we concluded the festival with the film "Bazaar (Murder in the Building)" by Rémi Bezançon. The night ended with the Closing Party at de Doelen, where we celebrated the end of a remarkable edition. #IFFR2026

👬👁️ "Fassaert ultimately succeeds with his candidness and emotional fearlessness, allowing us to reflect on family dramas we may have endured ourselves." - Read the review of Tom Fassaert's Between Brothers, which premiered at IFFR 2026 @iffr-festival.bsky.social cineuropa.org/488585

Trauma’s stranglehold: Adrián García Bogliano’s supernatural psychodrama TALKING TO A STRANGER (Hablando con extraños, 2026) "shows an unfolding domestic nightmare and the mourning after". Re-screens 9.30pm tonight at @iffr-festival.bsky.social. projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/t...

"a building-ful of Brazilians drowning in their own shit": Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre’s cursed toilet horror comedy BOWELS OF HELL (Privadas de suas vidas, 2026) re-screens 11.15am today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/b...

IFFR so far pt.2 📽️ We're halfway through the festival! From IFFR Pro's panels and networking sessions to Big Talks, film premieres, and education events the festival has been filled with inspiring filmmakers and film lovers. Check out the programme and get your tickets now! #IFFR2026

Sat 7 Feb | Club IFFR 🍾 The final Club IFFR night closes the festival in style,music, live acts and dancefloor energy where cinema meets nightlife. Entry €5 | Tickets at the door. #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026 speed interviews 🎤 pt.1 In these bite-size interviews, we did rapid-fire Q&As with Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Carla Simón and Nicholas Saputra #IFFR2026

Tiger Short Awards winners 🐯🏆 The Second Skin, The Apple Doesn’t Fall… and Ndjimu (Deep Cobalt) win the Tiger Short Awards. KNF Award: The Apple Doesn’t Fall… | European Short nomination: CUL-DE-SAC! #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026 on demand 💻 Watch IFFR 2026 wherever you are in the Netherlands, live during the festival or afterwards from your couch. Available 3–20 Feb | Ticket sales start Tue 3 Feb. Explore the on-demand programme via iffr.com/en/iffr-on-d... #IFFR2026

Five stars for Displacement Film Fund premieres ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The five debut shorts premiered at IFFR to glowing reviews with The Guardian calling them “a collective hit for this festival.” Catch the final screening on Fri 6 Feb (15:00), tickets via iffr.com/en/iffr/2026... #IFFR2026

Kleber Mendonça Filho returns to IFFR 🇧🇷 Following a Big Talk with Carla Simón on cinema and memory, Mendonça Filho introduced The Secret Agent, fresh off Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best International Feature and Best Casting. Fingers crossed Rotterdam brings Oscar luck ✨ #IFFR2026

RTM Day recap 📷 RTM Day took over Lantaren Venster on Friday, and it was a celebration from start to finish. RTM showed just how alive the local film scene is and there’s still a full week of films, events and parties ahead. Grab your tickets now! #IFFR2026

RTM Pitch winner 🏆 We're excited to announce that the winner of the RTM Pitch is Cyan Bae, who'll bring the project How to Lie, Femme, and Pass to life. ​The winner of RTM Pitch 2026 is supported with €25,000 from the Municipality of Rotterdam and will premiere during RTM at IFFR 2027. #IFR2026

Cate Blanchett and IFFR's Hubert Bals Fund announce second round of the Displacement Film Fund at IFFR 2026 #IFFR2026

Opening Night IFFR 2026 🥂 What a night to remember! We're still basking in the glow of tonight's opening of the 55th edition of the festival. We are truly touched by the warmth we feel during the night, and we couldn't be more excited for the upcoming festival days. #IFFR2026

What if humanity has already vanished and its final testament is a film? 🤔 From visionary director Susanne Brandstätter comes #HUNGRY, a sci-fi documentary that will have its #WorldPremiere at the @iffr-festival.bsky.social 🎬 ⚠️ And we ask you... Can we change course? #Documentary #Science

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🌍 #HUNGRY premiered at @iffr-festival.bsky.social. The journey begins! 🎬🩷 #IFFR2026 #WorldPremiere

We had such an awesome World Premiere of Mickey & Richard at @iffr-festival.bsky.social Saturday night! Many thanks to programmer Olaf Moller and our very enthusiastic audience!!❤️❤️❤️ Next @iffr-festival.bsky.social screening: 8pm, Thurs, Feb 5 See ya there!

self plug: I wrote sth about Tom Fassaert's family doc Between Brothers for #BusinessDocEurope, screening at @iffr-festival.bsky.social.

"tells a tale of parochial sin, black magic and ghostly revenge near the end of Sukarno’s Presidency": Hanung Bramantyo’s period horror THE HOLE, 309 DAYS TO THE BLOODIEST TRAGEDY (2026) just had its world première at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/03/t...

Als je de kans krijgt, ga kijken! Zojuist gezien op @iffr-festival.bsky.social

Trauma’s stranglehold: Adrián García Bogliano’s supernatural psychodrama TALKING TO A STRANGER (Hablando con extraños, 2026) "shows an unfolding domestic nightmare and the mourning after". Had its world première last night at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/t...

Review of HUNGRY a sci-fi documentary which received its World Premiere @iffr-festival.bsky.social on Monday. A call to arms in the race against time #filmsky #moviesky @www.johnbleasdale.com chatterboxfilm.com/2026/02/03/r...

A wonderful way to begin #HUNGRY’s journey! ✨ Here are a few moments from our world premiere at @iffr-festival.bsky.social 🤲🏻 Huge thanks to everyone who joined us in Rotterdam! Such a welcome for HUNGRY. 📷 Vera Cornel

I’m excited about Japanese genre cinema again IAI just premiered at @iffr-festival.bsky.social. A familial chiller, it reveals itself as a tender drama about dementia & shared psychosis I spoke with director Zenzo Sakai. Remember that name desperatelyseekingsubtitles.substack.com/p/zenzo-saka...

This is how the second screening of #Hungry went at @iffr-festival.bsky.social 💜 💬 Q&A with Susanne Brandstaetter, director. Tickets available for friday’s screening 🎟️

"a building-ful of Brazilians drowning in their own shit": Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre’s cursed toilet horror comedy BOWELS OF HELL (Privadas de suas vidas, 2026) has just had its world première at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/b...

Trauma’s stranglehold: Adrián García Bogliano’s TALKING TO A STRANGER (2026) is held together by Gigi Saul Guerrero's "fraught, frazzled performance as a woman on – and beyond – the edge of a nervous breakdown". Re-screens 1pm today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/04/t...

"a great murder mystery and supernatural chiller with an inexorable queen of black magic... also a political parable, in which Indonesia faces an unholy reckoning for even its most parochial sins." THE HOLE re-screens 5.45pm today at @iffr-festival.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2026/02/03/t...

9:15 Sirat Third watch Imax @iffr-festival.bsky.social

Dos grandes: Carla Simón y Kleber Mendonça Filho compartieron ayer en Rotterdam una de las #BigTalks del @iffr-festival.bsky.social para hablar de la memoria íntima y la histórica, presentes en sus últimas películas. ⚓ #Romería se proyecta hoy en el #IFFR2026. 📞 #ElAgenteSecreto 20.02 en cines

Animation at IFFR ✏️ From beautiful stop-motion to bold, playful experiments, IFFR 2026 celebrates animation without limits, for all ages. Discover the animated films and get tickets via iffr.com/en/iffr-2026... #IFFR2026

IFFR x UNIQLO: UTme collection 🐯👕 A limited UTme t-shirt collection celebrating independent cinema and storytelling, supporting displaced filmmakers through the Displacement Film Fund. Available at the UNIQLO Rotterdam store during IFFR 2026. #IFFR2026

HBF+Brazil announces 10 selected projects 🇧🇷✨ IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund launches a new co-development initiative supporting ten Brazilian fiction projects, each receiving €10,000 in development support. Full selection via iffr.com/en/hubert-ba... #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026 Talks 🎙️ Get to the heart of cinema with this year’s Talks programme, from Big Talks with leading filmmakers and artists to Tiger Talks exploring queerness, decolonisation, women’s cinema and alternative film histories. Tickets via iffr.com/en/iffr-2026... #IFFR2026

Marwan Hamed at IFFR 2026 🇪🇬 IFFR presents the first European retrospective of Egyptian genre master Marwan Hamed, spanning 20 years of thrillers, crime epics and historical dramas, from The Yacoubian Building to El Sett. Tickets via iffr.com/nl/film?edit... #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026 films at the Oscars 🏆 Two IFFR titles are Oscar-nominated! The Secret Agent earns multiple nods (including Best Picture & Best Actor for Wagner Moura), and Sirāt is nominated for Best International Feature & Best Sound. See them at IFFR, tickets via iffr.com/nl/film?edit... #IFFR2026

Mentiras descontroladas. Trailer para el thriller 𝘚𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘰, debut en solitario de 𝗔𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗭𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗮𝗹𝗶 que pasará por @iffr-festival.bsky.social www.cinemaldito.com/mentiras-des...

"One striking aspect of this year's line-up is the broader territorial spread. Last year, we saw a strong presence from former Yugoslav countries; this year, films from several African nations stand out." - Vanja Kaludjercic, Director of @iffr-festival.bsky.social #interview 🐯💬 cineuropa.org/487870

Creer en el arte. Trailer para 𝘈 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥ê𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢, lo nuevo de 𝗝𝗼ã𝗼 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘂, película de apertura en @iffr-festival.bsky.social www.cinemaldito.com/creer-en-el-...

Dagje #Rotterdam naar @iffr-festival.bsky.social stond in het teken van #Zuid-Korea. We zagen de superheldencomedy Hi-Five en de beklemmende 5-sterren docu "The Seoul Guardians" over de echte helden die ruim een jaar geleden de democratie redden in 🇰🇷. #Korea #Seoul #film

IFFR x Erasmus: A Complete Unknown 🎶 Two weeks ahead of IFFR 2026, join us together with Erasmus University on 21 January for a special screening of one of our 2025 highlights, A Complete Unknown by James Mangold. Free for students and staffs Register via www.eur.nl/en/events/if... #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026: Comedy label 🎭 Sharp wit, absurd situations, and laughter with a bite, the Comedy label brings together films that find humour in chaos, contradiction, and the very strange business of being human. Discover the titles via iffr.com/en/iffr-2026... #IFFR2026

Fiume o morte! wins Best European Documentary Award 🏆 Congratulations to Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović & the team behind Fiume o morte! which won the Best European Documentary Award at the European Film Awards on Saturday. Full interview with Igor Bezinović via iffr.com/en/blog-fium... #IFFR2026

IFFR 2026: Romantic films 💖 Love unfolds through subtle moments and transformative passions in the Romance label, spanning borders, time, and imagination. Discover the titles via iffr.com/en/iffr-2026... #IFFR2026

Fri 30 Jan | Club IFFR 🪩 The official after-hours of IFFR returns, where cinema, music and nightlife collide. Expect film-linked screenings, live performances and DJ sets, plus Rotterdam collectives taking over the night. 💶 Entry €5. Full lineup via iffr.com/en/iffr/2026... #IFFR2026

Win an unforgettable IFFR 2026 experience 🚗🛏️ Enter our giveaway with Lynk & Co & de Volkskrant for a full festival package: Closing Night + Party, Volkskrantdag tickets, an overnight stay in Rotterdam and chauffeured rides between venues. Enter by 21 Jan via iffr.com/nl/iffr-2026... #IFFR2026