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