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Rotterdam Festival Chiefs on Cate Blanchett, Nurturing Connection With Dutch Audiences and Focus on Indonesia
IFFR heads of festival talk about festivals as businesses in changing political landscape and nurturing connection with Dutch audiences.
The duo is heading into the festival’s 54th edition, taking place between Jan. 30 – Feb. 9, having just secured funding for the next four iterations and thinking of ways to deepen their connection to local audiences and their wide net of international filmmakers. The country features 17 works in the 2025 edition including the festival closer, Mouly Surya’s “This City Is a Battlefield,” an Indonesian-Dutch co-production supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund. Speaking about the challenges festivals face at times of political unrest, Stewart says that “the notion of the ethical framework for the business side of the organization” is at the top of her mind.
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