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This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has named the winners from its industry-focused programs Pro Days and Cinemart, which were held online this year.

A live-streamed event from Rotterdam saw various awards handed out, including the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which went to Cora by Evi Kalogiropoulou, produced by Neda Film (Greece). The jury described the film as “a supernatural drama featuring two unexpected female characters struggling for freedom and identity in a unique and colourful industrial setting”.

The ArteKino International Award, worth €6,000 to be put towards a project’s development, went to A Dutiful Wife by Haolu Wang, produced by Factory Gate Films (China). The Filmmore Post-production Award, worth €7,500 to be put towards VFX and post-production, went to Kabul Jan by Shahrbanoo Sadat, produced by Adomeit Film Ug (Germany), Adomeit Film ApS (Denmark), Wolf Pictures (Afghanistan).

The Wouter Barendrecht Award, worth €5,000 and eligible for projects where the...

The Rotterdam Film Festival’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart came to a close on Friday with awards for projects from Greece, China and Afghanistan, including the latest work from Kabul-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat. Juries handed out a total of five IFFR Pro awards to promising film projects participating in this year’s co-production market.

Evi Kalogiropoulou’s “Cora,” produced by Athens-based Neda Films, won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Development Award, presented by CineMart and the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund to a project that is or will be a European co-production.

While emphasizing “the quality and diversity of projects developed by experienced directors and new talents,” the jury said it ultimately “chose to support a supernatural drama featuring two unexpected female characters struggling for freedom and identity in a unique and colorful industrial setting.”

Haolu Wang’s “A Dutiful Wife,” produced by Beijing-based Factory Gate Films, nabbed the €6,000 ArteKino International Award,...

Five projects win cash prizes at the closing of IFFR Pro Days and CineMart.

Greek supernatural drama Cora has won the Eurimages Co-production Award, worth €20,000, at the closing ceremony of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart co-production market.

The film will mark the feature directorial debut of Evi Kalogiropoulou, whose Motorway 65 was nominated for best short film at Cannes 2020, and follows two young women who fall in love and struggle to escape the confines of a dystopian patriarchal society.

Awarding the prize, open to CineMart projects that will be a European co-production, the jury said it...

Selection includes upcoming features from Berlinale award-winner Carla Simon and San Sebastian award-winner Johannes Nyholm.

CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed the 17 feature projects to be showcased at the upcoming edition, which will take place entirely online.

The market will run February 1-5, during the 50th IFFR, and will invite filmmakers to pitch their projects virtually to a host of international film professionals in tailored one-to-one meetings, as well as online presentations that are open to all CineMart guests.

Eleven of the filmmakers are returning to IFFR after previously screening films at earlier editions,...