Cate Blanchett and IFFR announce Displacement Film Fund second round recipients at Cannes Film Festival

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Speaking from a panel held at Cannes Film Festival, Cate Blanchett, actor, producer and global Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund, unveiled Mohammed Amer, Annemarie Jacir, Akuol de Mabior, Bao Nguyen and Rithy Panh as the five recipient filmmakers for the second cycle of … Read more

International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund unveils projects for HBF+Brazil Co-Development Support

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International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund has announced the 10 projects selected for the pilot edition of HBF+Brazil: Co-Development Support.  This is “a unique new collaboration” between the Hubert Bals Fund and leading organisations for the promotion of cinema in Brazil: Spcine, RioFilme, Projeto Paradiso and Embratur, the Brazilian Tourism Board, which HBF has … Read more

Lol Crawley BSC honoured with 2025 Robby Müller award

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has revealed the recipient of the 2025 Robby Müller Award, which acknowledges the artistry of an exceptional image maker, given in collaboration with the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (NSC) and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, the wife of the late Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller. Lol Crawley (The Brutalist, The Childhood of a Leader, … Read more