Today begins the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam. IFFR is one of the largest film festivals in Europe, which is annually visited by 3.000 industry guests and it has 100.000 festival audience. Following films from AV-arkki’s distribution will be seen in different sections of the festival programme:
Tiger awards competition for Short films:
Jani Ruscica – Scene shifts, In six movements
Spectrum Shorts – Ordinary Madness:
Erkka Nissinen – Rigid Regime
Sound Bites:
Juha Mäki-Jussila – Well
DINAMO Press & Industry screening 1 – AV-arkki, Heure Exquise! & Gartenberg:
Pink Twins – Miracle
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen – In a Musty, Misty Thicket
Signals for Real:
Pilvi Takala – Among others
Video works by Pilvi Takala will appear in semi-public spaces around the festival center. In this selection of Pilvi’s works is presented for example the film Players, which attended the Tiger awards for Short Films in the festival’s previous edition.
41st International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held during 25th of January to 5th of February in The Netherlands. Distribution manager Vesa Puhakka and Distribution coordinator Mikko Mällinen of the AV-arkki staff travel to Rotterdam to represent films in AV-arkki’s distribution. Watch the official festival trailer below: