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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is one of the larger film festivals in Europe (arguably in the Big Five, alongside Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Locarno). It is held every year around the end of January in various film theaters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The festival uses a tiger as its mascot. Image File history File links Iffrlogo. ...
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For other places named Rotterdam, see Rotterdam (disambiguation) Rotterdam ( (help· info)), located in the province of South Holland, is the second largest municipality in the Netherlands (after Amsterdam). ...
Binomial name Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Tigers (Panthera tigris) are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four big cats in the Panthera genus. ...
The first festival -- then called 'Film International' -- was organized in June 1972 under the inspired leadership of Hubert Bals. From the beginning, the festival has profiled itself as a promotor of alternative, innovative and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. Despite financial difficulties in the mid-1980s, the festival has grown steadily, reaching 345,000 visitors in 2001. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...
Far East is an inexact term often used for East Asia and Southeast Asia combined, sometimes including also the easternmost territories of Russia, i. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
After the festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named after him (Hubert Bals fund), used for supporting filmmakers from developing countries. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The non-competitive character of the festival changed in 1995, when the VPRO Tiger Awards were introduced -- three yearly prizes for young filmmakers making their first or second film. The next year, Simon Field, formerly Cinema Director at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, became director of the festival. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The VPRO (originally an acronym for Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep, or free-thinking protestant radio broadcasting company, but since long the acronym has been kept but its meaning dropped) was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization, linked to the protestant pillar. ...
The ICA The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is a modern art centre on The Mall in London. ...
The IFFR Exploding Cinema festival sidebar has been one of the most prominent showcases of emerging digital film and video. Programming has included experimental animation, web-based entertainment forms, and music video. Digital film refers to cinema production and performance systems which work by using a digital representation of the brightness and colour of each pixel of the image. ...
Look up Video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures, typically using celluloid film, electronic signals, or digital media. ...
A music video (also promo) is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...
The film screenings are without trailers or other commercials.
External links
- International Film Festival Rotterdam
- Talking Pictures website Report by Jaap Mees of 2006 event.
- GreenCine report on Rotterdam 2005
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