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IFFR RotterdamCinemaIFFR unveils first world premieres for 2027 edition First 10 world premieres set across Bright Future and Harbour strands.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaCuriosity draws you in: the IFFR 2027 campaign is here The tiger is back for IFFR 2027 in a new series of painted and digitally transformed images, developed with Rotterdam designers 75B.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaIFFR 2027 accreditation now open IFFR Pro, press and Art Directions accreditations are now on sale for IFFR 2027, and for the first time, any student can apply for accreditation themselves, whatever they study.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaIFFR Youth Jury: Guillermo looks back on 2025 We asked Guillermo Murciano Jiménez about his experience as one of the five members of the Youth Jury at IFFR 2025.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaApply now for the Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme 2027 Applications are now open for journalists and media makers from a wide range of backgrounds to attend IFFR in 2027.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaMeet the 2026 Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme journalists Meet the journalists of the Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme 2026 and read the coverage they created at the festival.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaCould you be our next IFFR Ambassador? Get a unique look behind the scenes of one of the world's largest audience- and industry-driven film festivals as an IFFR ambassador.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaNow streaming on IFFR Unleashed: Scope on Screen From documentary to animation, these shorts take you from Dutch windmills and the heart of the Amazon to the night sky and the cosmos beyond.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaHubert Bals Fund in Brazil: A Margem do Rio wins in Rio as supported films head to Mostra Hubert Bals Fund-backed A Margem do Rio by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho was the big winner at the 28th Festival do Rio, taking five awards including best fiction feature.

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IFFR RotterdamCinemaBecome an IFFR Youth Jury member The IFFR Youth Jury Award is selected by a panel of young people for an outstanding festival film of their choice.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo