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Rotterdam film festival

January 2024

  • Christopher Abbott and Mackenzie Davis in Swimming Home.

    Swimming Home review – post-trauma at the poolside

    A self-conscious adaptation of Deborah Levy’s novel makes glib reference to the Bosnian war while it focuses on unsexy erotic tension at a luxury villa
  • Flathead.

    Flathead review – a beautiful meditation on life in rural Queensland

    Jaydon Martin’s absorbing, poetic docufiction follows two men reflecting on work, death and religion
  • Ed Oxenbould (Angus) in Head South.

    Head South review – post-punk coming-of-age tale strikes a personal note

    A teenager in 70s New Zealand dreams of starting a band in Jonathan Ogilvie’s nostalgic comedy, which opens Rotterdam’s international film festival

February 2020

  • Air Conditioner

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: hidden gems from Rotterdam film festival

    From a beguiling portrait of the Himalayan foothills to a loose-limbed journey through Angola’s capital, Rotterdam’s programme of industry outsiders is a cinephile’s tombola

February 2018

  • Blurring the distinction between sleep and wakefulness … the Sleepcinemahotel in Rotterdam.

    Ghosts in the machine: a night at the 'hotel' where films become dreams

    At a pop-up guesthouse, Sleepcinemahotel, Palme d’Or winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has installed beds – and a hypnotic 120-hour ‘film’ to nod off to

January 2014

  • Tipping the scales … Susan Sarandon in Ping Pong Summer

    Ping Pong Summer: Rotterdam film festival – review

  • Gare du Nord

    First look review
    Gare du Nord – first look review

  • To Kill a Man

    First look review
    To Kill a Man – first look review

  • War Story Catherine Keener

    First look review
    War Story – first look review

February 2013

  • Bernardo Bertolucci

    Bernardo Bertolucci: 'I thought I couldn't make any more movies'

    The Italian director opens up to Geoffrey Macnab about Berlusconi, what really happened on the set of Last Tango in Paris and how he feared he would never work in cinema again

January 2011

  • Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam

    Ten arty things to do in Rotterdam

    On the eve of Rotterdam's 40th film festival, film critic Agnès Poirier offers a guide to one of Europe's most eclectic and design-conscious cities

February 2010

  • alamar

    Film blog
    Rotterdam film festival - a blueprint of the future

    Ben Walters: Movies shot on digital still cameras, mobile phones used as projectors – Rotterdam's forward-looking festival offered intriguing glimpses of the future of film-making

February 2007

  • Starless, starless nights

    Movies were the stars at the Rotterdam international film festival, including the Balkans' first Dogma film, a bravura piece of what-iffery from Denmark and other offerings to please the hardcore film geek.

January 2006

  • Švankmajer's lunatic fringe

    Surviving Jan Švankmajer’s latest surrealist nightmare, Matthew Tempest reports from the front line - military as well as cinematic - of the 2006 Rotterdam international film festival.

January 2005

  • Fears prompt withdrawal of Van Gogh film

    The murdered director's film has been pulled from the Rotterdam international film festival amid fears the screening could trigger further acts of violence

February 2004

  • A safe haven for film

    Like its commercial docks, Rotterdam's film festival draws its contributors from all over the world. Matthew Tempest watches the reels come in

February 2003

  • '289 directors and no stars'

    Our man in Rotterdam brings you a round-up of Europe's least glitzy film festival

February 2002

  • A festival unclogged by starlets

    Matthew Tempest and Alex King visit the Rotterdam film festival, a real movie-goer's movie gathering

February 2001

  • OK, kids - shoot!

    Murderous schoolchildren, babies for sale and a log that eats people - it’s all part of the fun at Rotterdam film festival, says Jonathan Romney

February 2000

  • Dutch treat

    Among European film festivals, Rotterdam is special for all the distractions that it spares you. There's no PR frenzy, precious little Hollywood content and no stars. That's not to say there aren't names, but Rotterdam is so laid-back and democratic that they barely turn heads.

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