Programme

The International Film Festival Rotterdam offers a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema and visual arts. Devoted to offering a platform to and actively supporting independent filmmaking from around the globe, The International Film Festival Rotterdam is the essential hub for discovering film talent and for catching the early buzz on many world and international premieres.

During twelve festival days, hundreds of filmmakers and other artists present their work to a large and devoted audience (355,000 admissions in 2008) in 24 screening venues located within central Rotterdam. Up to 3,000 press and film industry representatives visit the festival to report on its buzz or to take part in CineMart, the largest co-production market for film projects.

The 38th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam takes place from Wednesday January 21 through Sunday February 1, 2009.

Within the festival, CineMart takes place from January 25 - 29, 2009.

The festival programme will be online here Thursday January 15, 2009. Online and Ox Office ticket sales start Saturday January 17, 2009.

Please use the menu to find more information regarding IFFR 2009 sections, films, awards, juries, press and industy screenings and how to obtain tickets.


Subtitling Note
All films are screened in original language version. The large majority with English subtitles but some films in public screenings are Dutch subtitled. A list of non-English spoken and Dutch subtitled public screenings is available here.

Note that films in press & industry screenings (accessible only to accreditated festival guests) are in original language version and, if not English spoken, English subtitled.