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Rotterdam Heads Talk Balancing Mainstream & Niche; Budgets, Dutch Cinema Spurt & Guests Lol Crawley, Cate Blanchett & Mohammad Rasoulof
Rotterdam Heads Vanja Kaludjercic & Clare Stewart On Balancing Mainstream & Niche; Budgets and Guests Lol Crawley, Cate Blanchett & Mohammad Rasoulof
Set in the southern border province of Limberg, the feature stars Fedja van Huêt (the psychotic father in Christian Tafdrup ’s 2022 Sundance breakout Speak No Evil) as a strung-out, misfit criminal trying to shake off a streak of intergenerational bad luck. The 14 titles in the main Tiger Competition range from Iranian director Amirali Navee’s Sunshine Express, exploring the mechanics of totalitarian regimes through the prism of a role-playing game; to photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji’s film essay L’arbre de l’authenticité, exploring the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial past and how that is tied up with the fate of the Congolese rainforests and their role as consumers of carbon dioxide; and Varsha Bharath’s energetic coming-of-age tale Bad Girl going inside the mind of a rebellious Indian teenager navigating adolescence within the confines of a wealthy, conservative family. Other highlights of the Tiger Talks program include a conversation with Oscar-nominated The Brutalist cinematographer Lol Crawley, who is being honored with the festival’s Robby Müller Award, created in memory of the late Dutch cameraman and Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier, and Jim Jarmusch collaborator.
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