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Rotterdam Unveils First 2025 Titles Including Alexander Kluge’s ‘Primitive Diversity’, Daniel Hoesl’s ‘Un Gran Casino’ & Hicham Lasri’s ‘Thank You Satan’


Rotterdam Unveils 1st 2025 Titles Including Alexander Kluge's Primitive Diversity, Daniel Hoesl's Un Gran Casino & Hicham Lasri's Thank You Satan

They comprise 13 titles that will world premiere in the Bright Future strand, aimed at first films by emerging talents, as well as its Harbour line-up, campioning work pushing cinematic boundaries, and this year, digging into themes of self-discovery, societal norms and the human condition. Bright Future titles include Mateo Ybarra’s doc Camp d’Éte, exploring the Swiss Scout Movement, and Oskar Weimar’s Invisible Flame about a modern-day witch hunt in Kenyan fishing village. The Harbour selections include Un Gran Casino by Daniel Hoesl, a former Tiger Award Winner for micro-budget experimental feature Soldate Jeannette, Hubert Bals Fund awardee Pelin Esmer’s And The Rest Will Follow and avant-garde trailblazer Alexander Kluge with Primitive Diversity.

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