For me, IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam) is a festival I just want to live in. This year it’s taking place from Thursday January 30 until Sunday February 9/ Here are some of the films and programs I’m excited about. In random order. Except for my top 3… which consists of number 1s:
– RTM Talk: Imagine the City Otherwise, Fri. Jan 31, 15.00h-16.00h, LantarenVenster

– The film I almost hopped on a train to London for: Hard Truths

– Big Talk: Cheryl Dunye & Albertina Carri, Tue. Feb 4, 20.00h-21.30h, De Doelen.

Like Hard Truths, the films below have multiple screening dates. The programs are all happening on one day.
– Currency
– Program: Tiger Talk: Futurisms , Sun. Feb 2, 17.00h-18.00h, De Doelen.
– Program: Tiger Talk: Through Cinema We Shall Rise , Sun. Feb 2, 18.30h-19.30h, De Doelen
– Katja Raganelli meets Agnès Varda
– The Tobacconist
– Bubbling Baby
– Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
– Freedom for Ghana
– Program: Archive Fever
– Hobi
– Ndar, Saga Waalo
– Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator

Wishing you great times in Rotterdam’s cinema’s.
If you’re reading this and:
– you like to discusssss Blackity Black social thrillers and horror films
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– you are in or can come to Amsterdam Bijlmer on the evening of Thursday March 6… save the date. Which… is Thursday March 6. I’m putting together the first BPTUnpacks of the new year. More info next week.