FILM OF THE WEEK
INTERVIEW | Rotterdam selects Mortier's 'Ex Drummer', Marais' 'Die Unerzogenen' and 1st Macedonian DOGME film |
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| Written by the editor | |
| Thursday, 21 December 2006 | |
 The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced its first eight competition titles for its 2007 edition. Specialised in young talents, the IFFR presents first or second works of international filmmakers in its Tiger Competion, with three eventually going home with a Tiger Award. Three titles are from European filmmakers: Flemish director Koen Mortier's adaptation of Herman Brusselmans' novel Ex Drummer, about three handicapped people who form a band but still need a drummer; Die Unerzogenen from German director Pia Marais, about a teenage daughter and her addicted parents; and Aneta Lesnikovska's Does It Hurt?, which is the first DOGME film from Macedonia (FYROM) and is also about making the first DOGME film from Macedonia. Further announced titles include the La Marea from Belgium-based Argentinean filmmaker Diego Martinez Vignatti; Fourteen from Japan's Hirosue Hiromasa; Bog of the Beasts from Brazilian director Claudio Assis; Dutch-Malaysian co-production Love Conquers All from Tan Chui Mui and Xiaolu Guo's Jin tian de yu zen me yang? (How Is Your Fish Today?) from China. The first two members of the Tiger Awards Jury have also been announced: Chinese director Lou Ye (whose Summer Palace will also be shown and whose debut Suzhou River won a Tiger Award in 2000) and Toronto Festival Director Piers Handling. More titles and the complete jury will be announced in January. The festival itself runs from January 24 through February 4.
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