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This thoughtful documentary, which will be screening on Saturday at #BFIFlare, examines life with Treacher Collins syndrome. Our review: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/03/bfi-flare-broken-r-ricardo-ruales.html

Ricardo Ruales Eguiguren's documentary The Broken R (Spanish: Rotacismo ), which screens on Saturday as part of BFI Flare , was made with...

#BFIFlare begins today, and to kick off our coverage of this year's festival, we have a review of a documentary that also screened at last month's #IFFR: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/03/bfi-flare-mickey-richard-ra-whiteap.html

Following last month's outing at International Film Festival Rotterdam—where it screened as one of the titles in Cinema Regained , an IFFR s...

The prolific and daring Radu Jude's new film continues its maker's unblinking examination of modern Europe. Our review: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/02/kontinental-25-radu-jude-2025.html

The prolific and daring Romanian director Radu Jude's previous film, the coruscating documentary Eight Postcards from Utopia , was a sideway...

Julia Jackman's second feature film is among today's offerings at International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR. Our review: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/02/100-nights-of-hero-julia-jackman-2025.html

Canadian filmmaker Julia Jackman's follow-up to her hugely likeable debut feature Bonus Track is a feminist fable based on Isabel Greenberg...

François Ozon's excellent new film, which sees the prolific filmmaker tackling Albert Camus' most famous work, screens today at International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR. Our review: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/02/the-stranger-francois-ozon-2025.html

The Stranger is the prolific François Ozon's 24th feature film—an impressive figure, given that his first full-length movie, the queasy Si...

With International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR beginning on Thursday, we take a look back at one of last year's selections—Quentin Dupieux's entertaining, slippery film, which highlights the artifice of filmmaking. Our review:
https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/01/the-second-act-quentin-dupieux-2024.html

The prolific filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, whose movies include Rubber , Smoking Causes Coughing , Daaaaaalí! and Deerskin , has developed a h...

With just one week to go until the start of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR, here's a quick look at several titles in competition: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/01/iff-rotterdam-2026-four-films-in.html

Yellow Cake (Tiger Competition) follows a group of scientists trying to eradicate the deadly Aedes aegypti mosquito—the vector of dengue fe...

International Film Festival Rotterdam #IFFR, which starts in just a few weeks, has announced its full programme: https://www.hollandfocus.co.uk/2026/01/international-film-festival-rotterdam.html

IFFR 2026 will open with the world premiere of Providence and the Guitar by João Nicolau. Inspired by a short novel by Robert Louis Steve...

All the best for 2026 !

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