Marta Balaga Forced online once again – this time due to the Omicron wave – International Film Festival Rotterdam is still going to surprise the audience, assures festival director Vanja Kaludjercic, ready to celebrate its 51st edition.
The event will open with Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please” on Jan. 26.“That’s the idea. To surprise, but not just for the sake of surprising,” she says. “When I first started coming here, IFFR could always blow my mind like that; show me what cinema can be.
Something that can feel like an unexpected choice for IFFR is, in fact, inspired by its freedom.”Remembering the past is crucial for Kaludjercic, as she already pointed out when announcing this year’s streamlined lineup. “This is what these last three editions were very much about,” she notes, also mentioning “25 Encounters”: a new initiative comprising a selection of films, which will be available to the audience from Feb.
6, as well as conversations featured in a printed publication. “We brought in quite a few luminaries but also some people who are perhaps not the most obvious choice,” she adds, mentioning a chat between a die-hard IFFR enthusiast and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, awarded at the fest in 2003 for “Blissfully Yours.”“Two of the kindest people came together and had the sweetest conversation.
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