International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed the lineup of films selected across the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions for the festival’s 55th edition, running from Jan. 29-Feb. 8.
IFFR will open with the world premiere of the Portuguese feature “Providence and the Guitar” by João Nicolau, which festival director Vanja Kaludjercic described as “a generous and witty film which places the present alongside echoes of the past.”
Inspired by a short novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the film follows Leon and Elvira, two performers trying to keep their stage careers afloat. The film marks the acting debut of Salvador Sobral, one of Portugal’s best loved musicians and the winner of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.
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The festival will close with the world premiere of crime comedy “Bazaar (Murder in the Building)” from French filmmaker Rémi Bezançon, and starring Laetitia Casta, Gilles Lellouche and Guillaume Gallienne. Kaludjercic said the film had “style, intelligence and a sense of fun.”
The film follows an enthusiastic Hitchcock scholar who becomes convinced that the neighbor across the courtyard has murdered his wife. With her husband, a successful thriller novelist, she launches an investigation that is by turns risky, absurd and revealing.
Kaludjercic said: “The 2026 edition of IFFR unites new voices and returning artists whose works explore belonging, reinvention, humor, fear, beauty and the persistent human effort to understand our place in a changing world.”
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