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Alternative Guide to Rotterdam

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Wed 30 May

EL SICARIO, ROOM 164 - Gianfranco Rosi

Limited means, maximum effect! If they find him, he’s dead!

Sun 20 May

Prototyping Futures / Occupying the Present

Strategies of resistance, intervention, and critical production in response to the crises of the present.

Mon 14 May

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit @ CineNoord

Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest.

Fri 11 May

Guerilla Film Screening

A weird and wonderful selection of films from the vast world of Avant-garde and experimental cinema. From Pioneers to the contemporary, some you may know and others you probably won’t. Our aim is to spread the word and joy of film to the streets of Rotterdam, and have a good time while we are at it.

Fri 11 May

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

The third edition of Pop-Up Cinema Kriterion Rotterdam will take place on the 11th of May. After the succes of the first two editions, Kriterion Rotterdam presents ‘Love Is In The Air’.

Fri 11 May

ALL DIVIDED SELVES

Dutch premiere of the feature length debut from award winning artist and film maker, Luke Fowler on R.D. Laing

Thu 10 May

Nairobi notes and other tall tales.

‘Nairobi notes’ marks the beginning of MOVIE ORGY a monthly carte blanche screening series at WORM featuring additions, corrections and inspirations from International Film Festival Rotterdam programmers.

Wed 02 May

Ben Rivers’ CINEMASCOPE TRILOGY

The cinema of Ben Rivers is one of the most bracing, refreshing new developments to occur in the experimental film world in recent years.

Fri 27 April

De Unie Vertoont: Vanishing Point

Kowalski has to bring a Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 48 hours while being chased by the police and only supported by a blind soul-DJ. Far-out road movie with Barry Newman, Cleavon Little and Dean Jagger. ‘Tighten Your Seat Belt. You Never Had A Trip Like This Before.’ 1971, Richard C. Sarafian.

Sun 22 April

One Day On Earth Filmproject

One Day on Earth is the first film made in every country of the world on the same day. We see both the challenges and hopes of humanity from a diverse group of volunteer filmmakers assembled by an participatory media experiment. The world is greatly interconnected, enormous, perilous, and wonderful.

Mon 23 April

A Single Man @ Kloosterbioscoop

A story that centers on an English professor who, one year after the sudden death of his partner, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.

Mon 16 April

Star Trek (2009) @ Kloosterbioscoop

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Mon 09 April

Beginners (2010) @ Kloosterbioscoop

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Tue 10 April

Rotterdams Open Doek

Next tuesday, the 10th of April, the third edition of Rotterdams Open Doek will take place in LantarenVenster. A platform where film makers and film lovers can meet, where new films can be shared with the audience and a lesson can be learned from an expert, the ultimate place for talent development. The special guest in this edition is Ate de Jong, director of the new filmproduction “Het Bombardement”.

Fri 06 April

Welt am Draht - Rainer Werner Fassbinder [de 1973, 35mm]

Fassbinder’s gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive, labyrinthine take on future paranoia!

Sat 14 April

Red Light Revolution

First Chinese comedy about a sex shop. It has been shown many times at International Filmfestivals and on April 14th it will be shown for the first time in the Netherlands as part of the CinemAsia Filmfestival. Before: short movie Generation Y by Igrien Yin Liu. After: Smell and Tell workshop by China op de Kaap.

Tue 03 April

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Mon 02 April

The anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu

Who are May and Fusako Shigenobu? Fusako — was leader of the Japanese Red Army, involved in terrorist operations and in hiding in Beirut for almost 30 years. May, her Lebanon-born daughter, only discovered Japan at 27 after the arrest of her mother. And Masao Adachi? A screenwriter and radical activist filmmaker, committed to armed struggle and the Palestinian cause, who was also underground in Lebanon for several decades before being sent back to his country.

Fri 30 March

De Unie Vertoont: Two-Lane Blacktop

Two men drive through the US in a ‘55 Chevy looking for others to race against. This road movie is a poetic sketch of a desillusioned world with a bleak outlook. With singer song writer James Taylor, Beach Boy Denns Wilson, Warren Oates and of course Harry Dean Stanton. 1971, by Monte Hellman.

Mon 26 March

Rango @ Kloosterbioscoop

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.