IFFR REVIEW DAILY

Festival Wrap

The Awards

TIGER AWARD for Best Film to: LE SPECTRE DE BOKO HARAM

by Cyrielle Raingou

TIGER AWARD: SPECIAL JURY AWARD to: MUNNEL

by Visakesa Chandrasekaram

TIGER AWARD: SPECIAL JURY AWARD to: NEW STRAINS

by Artemis Shaw

BIG SCREEN COMPETITION PRIZE to: ENDLESS BORDERS

by Abbas Amini

AMMODO TIGER SHORT COMPETITION:

PRIZE to: NATUREZA HUMANA

by Mónica Lima

PRIZE to: TITO

by Kervens Jimenez, Taylor McIntosh

PRIZE to: WHAT THE SOIL REMEMBERS

by José Cardoso

Full Awards List

VERDICT: As it finally returned from Covid-19 limbo under new artistic director Vanja Kaludjercic, the Dutch film festival reaffirmed its core mission to promote fresh, socially conscious, culturally rich cinema. Stephen Dalton, February 6, 2023

Rotterdam film festival’s grinning tiger logo was visible right across the city over the last 10 days, signaling a strong physical comeback for the long-running Dutch movie event. Emerging from two years in Covid limbo, the 52nd IFFR kicked off the 2023 European festival season with an impressive reminder of its long-standing heartland mission: promoting new film-makers with a socially engaged, culturally rich, stylistically eclectic agenda. New artistic director Vanja Kaludjercic has had to wait three years to finally host her first full in-person edition. Following two online and hybrid programs, she showed she means business with a rich, strong selection of international works. With post-Covid budgets inevitably under pressure, IFFR’s film selection was down around 20 per cent this year on previous editions, with greater focus on the two main competition sections.

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