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festival · Rotterdam, Netherlands

IFFR

International Film Festival Rotterdam

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4 ways in for your film, listed below.

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Funding

Hubert Bals Fund - Bright Future Script Support

Fiction · Up to €10,000

Hubert Bals Fund – Bright Future Post-production Support

Fiction · Documentary

Labs and residencies

Lab / Residency · IFFR

Rotterdam Lab (for emerging producers)

Fiction · Documentary

Markets and pitching

Co-pro market · IFFR

IFFR Pro – CineMart

Fiction · Documentary · Animation

Filmmakers it helped

From our Paths research, with sources.

Payal Kapadia

India

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for All We Imagine as Light

Chaitanya Tamhane

India

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for Court

Ritesh Batra

India

IFFR CineMart, for The Lunchbox, 2012

Dominic Sangma

India

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for Rapture

Vinothraj PS

India

IFFR Tiger Award, for Pebbles, 2021

Prantik Basu

India

Netherlands Film Fund + Hubert Bals Fund co-production scheme, 2025

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thailand

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for Uncle Boonmee, 2008

Jia Zhangke

China

Pusan Promotion Plan (Busan) and Hubert Bals Fund award, for Platform, 1998

Amanda Nell Eu

Malaysia

CNC, Hubert Bals Fund and Doha Film Institute, for Tiger Stripes

Kamila Andini

Indonesia

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for The Seen and Unseen

Yeo Siew Hua

Singapore

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for A Land Imagined

Deepak Rauniyar

Nepal

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for White Sun; IFFR Boost!, for White Sun

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Thailand

Hubert Bals Fund (IFFR), for Mundane History; Prince Claus Fund Film Grant at IFFR CineMart, for By the Time It Gets Dark, 2010; Hubert Bals Fund, script and project development, for By the Time It Gets Dark

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