The International Film Festival Rotterdam is one of the largest film festivals in the world. Every year, it reveals emerging talents of contemporary cinema to an international audience, shows the world upcoming trends in cinema and – most importantly – creates a space for screening independent films.

The 54th International Film Festival in Rotterdam runs from 30, January to 9, February.

The Short & Mid-length section includes Natalia Dutkiewicz’s documentary short FAUSTYNA – this will be the film’s international premiere.

Synopsis: Faustyna is 22 years old and wants to find her voice. Will sex work and theatre help her in this journey?

direction: Natalia Dutkiewicz
cinematography: Szczepan Lewandowski
editing: Aleksandra Folczak
production management: Jagoda Surzycka
artistic supervision: Marta Prus, Jacek Petrycki, Maciej Drygas, Rafał Listopad, Bartosz Pietras, Wojciech Staroń

film at festival website: iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/faustyna
See the trailer vimeo.com

Our representation will also be complemented by films in the Harbour section:

* ENDLESS – international premiere of the film Endless "forges a new, radical cinematic language"* rooted in New Wave's storytelling, Warholian irony and Lynchian mystery entangled with a queer and transfeminist diaristic echoes. The film builds a visual and conceptual bridge between a classic movie narration and uncanny poetic strategies adapted from a different visual art forms and mediums: performance, installation, VR and AI engine-based imagery. In that sense "Endless" dares to reach beyond the known horizons, offering the viewer to look through the eyes of a main charachter trapped in the monumental intrigue of their own desires, longings and irresolutions. "Endless"'s approach is to redefine the spectator's role not as a passive "content consumer", introducing the possibility to engage the audience through the mystery of becoming "the other": composed of the shattered and forgotten mirror splinters.
*festival text by Xuanlin Tham

script, direction, cinematography, production: Wojciech Puś (cinematography graduate and lecturer)
editing: Marek Titow
cast: Josef Ostendorf, Pierre Emö, Szymon Czacki, Magdalena Wawrzyńczak, Pat Dudek, Edmund Krempiński, Lina Bembe, Anton Tsyhulskyi, Jorge Benavides

film at festival website: iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/endless

* THE THINGS YOU KILL

Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long- buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience. Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.

screenplay and direction: Alireza Khatami
cinematography: Bartosz Świniarski (our cinematography graduate) editing: Alireza Khatami, Selda Taşkın
production: Fulgurance, Remora
Films coproduction: Lava Films (Mariusz Włodarski, lecturer), Marta Gmosińska – both are graduates of the Faculty of Film Art Organization, Tell Tall Tale, Les Films Band With Pictures, Sineaktif. cast: Hazar Ergüçlü, Ekin Koç

film at festival website: iffr.com/en/iffr/2025/films/the-things-you-kill

Fingers crossed for our filmamkers!

1 - press materials of the festival organizers
2-3 – stills from the film FAUSTYNA
4-5 – stills from the film ENDLESS
6-7 – stills from the film THE THINGS YOU KILL