The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will introduce three new program sections during its 34th edition (January 26 - February 6, 2005). The new sections will replace the fest's Main Program Features and its Hubert Bals Fund Harvest. Together, the new sections will include approximately one hundred fiction features and documentaries.

IFFR director Sandra den Hamer explains: "The three sections represent the IFFR's main strands of interest: young and innovative filmmaking, the commitment to global developments and the 'cinema d'auteur'.

"Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang groups films by promising talents and offers an overview of recent developments within independent filmmaking; Cinema of the World: Time & Tide brings together films that reflect the festival's social and political awareness or show the human condition in the film's regions of origin; and The Maestro's: Kings & Aces section reunites the works of the more established auteurs whose oeuvre has the ongoing interest of the Rotterdam festival."

In other IFFR news: French cineaste Benoit Jacquot has been selected to receive a Rotterdam tribute program of part of his film and television oeuvre along with the screening of his recent feature film A Tout de Suite (2004).

The thematic program S.E.A. Eyes, curated by programmer Gertjan Zuilhof, will put a "spotlight on the South East Asian region where independent film production is emerging strongly through a new generation of filmmakers," says den Hamer. "The section will include new films by Lav Diaz (Philippines), U Wei bin Hadji Saari (Thailand) and James Lee (Malaysia), who has already generated festival attention worldwide. But S.E.A. Eyes will go further, introducing more young filmmakers [as it reflects] on a region currently undergoing fast changes in several parts of its societies."

Finally, Paradise Girls by Dutch filmmaker Fow Pyng Hu has been selected for Rotterdam's VPRO Tiger Awards Competition.

# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 10/15/2004 05:14:00 PM

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# posted by  Shirazi @ 4/18/2005 11:16 PM  

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