Interview: Susanne Brandstaetter on her curious sci fi documentary Hungry (IFFR 2026)
In a near food-apocalyptic reality on Earth, humans have gone extinct. Traces of the built environment evince their former existence...
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Los Domingos (Sundays) Review (IFFR 2026)
Religious exploration has long been a subject filmmakers tackle head-on. Sometimes drawn to aggression, sometimes armed with a mysterious whim,...
Cyclone Review (IFFR 2026)
A cyclone is a mass of air rotating under conditions of low atmospheric pressure. Although many of us will never...
First Days Review (IFFR 2026)
Dying, they say, is like crossing towards bliss, through a land of brilliant light and powerful sound. Those who have...
White Lies Review (IFFR 2026)
Alba Zari, photographer and documentarist, has built her artistic practice around an insistence on inquiry. A survivor of the Children...
Tell Me What You Feel Review (IFFR 2026)
If it needs saying, the Warsaw art scene is fiery. From formal institutions to less visible initiatives, artists build cultures...
Chronovisor Review (IFFR 2026)
Imagine if the Vatican had in its possession a device able to detect residual electromagnetic radiation and reconstruct images and...
Butterfly Review (IFFR 2026)
Two seemingly diametrically different half-sisters reunite in the distant Gran Canaria, following their mother’s peculiar death on the island. Together,...
Perla Review (2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Slovak-Austrian director Alexandra Makarova’s sophomore film sets its characters between the booming vibrancy of Vienna and the gloom of Slovakia...
Wind, Talk To Me Review (2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025)
‘Wind, Talk to Me’ is a title that doesn’t exactly do justice to the picture it represents—a soft, reflective docu-fiction...
Acts of Love Review (2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Thinking of incest as a non-violent and non-violating act, and contemplating somatic love at large, I am instinctively drawn to...
Review – Green Border (2023)
Agnieszka Holland, the celebrated director from Poland, returns with a powerful and pressing film. Holland is a leading figure in...
INTERVIEW: Sophia Bösch (Milk Teeth)
Films exploring dystopian scenarios are becoming increasingly popular preferences for young directors, aligned with a general inclination towards narratives of...
INTERVIEW: MARTIN SKOVBJERG ON HIS UNNERVING ‘COPENHAGEN DOES NOT EXIST’- IFFR 2023
If you have ever wondered what utter isolation feels like, this film will keep you well-seated. Slowly, it will reveal...