Best of IFFR - EN subs
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Speelduur: 400 min
Jaar: 2025
This autumn, International Film Festival Rotterdam takes you on a cinematic journey. Best of IFFR brings together five unforgettable award winners from last year’s festival edition in one sparkling programme.
From intimate short stories to powerful feature films: La Durmiente, Bubbling Baby, The Visual Feminist Manifesto, Fiume o morte! and Raptures together showcase the diversity, boldness, and imagination that make IFFR so unique.
Step into different perspectives, unexpected worlds, and fresh cinematic voices.
Best of IFFR is your chance to relive the festival experience: five films, one programme, endless inspiration.
Bubbling is one of the most spirited expressions of Caribbean-Dutch cultural heritage. The exhilarating and extremely danceable music symbolises freedom, power and ownership of the diaspora. This documentary celebrates the legendary history of bubbling by going back to the historical and cultural roots of club music while exploring the contemporary scene, where boundaries are constantly being pushed.
Dutch spoken, English subtitles.
Length: 19 min. | Winner of the RTM Pitch Award 2024
Fiume O More!
With dramatic reconstructions and documentary excursions, Igor Bezinović paints a portrait of the Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio and the rise of fascism during his attempt to annex the city of Fiume (Rijeka) in the aftermath of the First World War.
Croatian spoken, English subtitles
112 min. | Winner of the Tiger Award & FIPRESCI Award
La Durmiente
Children’s imagination gives a forgotten historical figure a place in our collective memory. During a crisis of the dynasty in 14th-century Portugal, 10-year-old Beatriz is forced into marriage to become the new queen of the country. In the Sancti Spiritus monastery in Toro, where Beatriz’s tomb is located, this story is re-enacted and re-imagined by children of the same age. As they give free rein to their imagination, they find a new way of dealing with their country’s history.
Portuguese spoken, English subtitles
20 min. | Nominated for the European Short Film Award
Raptures
A poignant portrait of religious extremism, inspired by a Swedish movement in the 1930s. A Christian woman is trapped in her husband’s sectarian movement and tries to protect her family from his bizarre and increasingly dangerous worldview. At a time when religious extremism is on the rise worldwide, Jon Blåhed’s drama, full of restrained anger, offers an answer to the dangers of sectarian religions.
Meänkieli spoken, English subtitles
108 min. | Winner of the Big Screen Award
The Visual Feminist Manifesto
Joy, dignity, love, pain: a lyrical ode to the lives of women within a patriarchal system. Expressing your desires, pursuing your dreams, loving yourself, questioning the oppression and limitations of patriarchy. Farida Baqi takes us on a lyrical and emotional journey through the life of a young woman, from birth to adulthood, in an unspecified Arab city.
Arabic spoken, English subtitles
74 min. | Winner of the Youth Jury Award