International Film Festival Rotterdam

Film

The Witches of the Orient Pits the Fantasy of Sports Movies Against the Reality of Hard Practice

Now playing at MoMA's Doc Fortnight, the exciting documentary chronicles the Japanese women's volleyball team's path to victory at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Film

Interrogating the Past and Examining Resistance at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Even with a tighter virtual program, IFFR is still setting the standard for this year’s arthouse film slate.

Film

Using AI to Question What Art Is

Lawrence Lek's AIDOL tells the story of an AI composer making music in a world rendered in video game graphics.

Film

Southeast Asian Cinema Takes Hollywood Sci-Fi in New Directions

Directors Lav Diaz, Mattie Do, and Minh Quý Truong have built off Hollywood's tropes in unexpected ways in their science fiction films.

Film

A No Wave Filmmaker Brings Feminism to the Fore

A program of shorts and features organized by Beth B for the International Film Festival Rotterdam examines issues of conformity among women, challenges gender stereotypes, and advocates for female agency.

Film

Rotterdam's International Film Festival Highlights Communism, Unionism, and Environmentalism

The documentaries at this year’s edition tell stories of World War II spies, activists fighting deforestation, Czech political corruption, and more.

Performance

Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia

Smith's Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.