International Film Festival Rotterdam's blog

Each year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates a number of outstanding films with a variety of awards. Many of these prizes are awarded by (international) juries, and several of them are conferred upon the winners by the IFFR audiences. 

Feature films awards

• Tiger Awards (three prizes of € 15,000 each awarded by an international jury)
• Dioraphte Award (one prize of € 10,000 awarded to a film from the Hubert Bals Fund Harvest)
• UPC Audience Award (one prize € 10,000 conferred by the IFFR's public upon their favorite film)
• MovieSquad Award (one prize of € 2,000 awarded by a jury of young adults, to promote the winning film in Dutch arthouse cinemas)
• FIPRESCI Award (awarded by a jury of international film critics)
• KNF Award (awarded by the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists; provides free Dutch subtitling to promote theatrical distribution of the winning film in the Netherlands)
• NETPAC Award (awarded to the best Asian feature film by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema)

Short films awards

• Tiger Awards for Short Film (three prizes of € 3,000 each awarded by an international jury)
• NTR New Arrivals Award (one prize of € 1,000 awarded by an international jury)  

CineMart awards

• Prins Claus Fund Film Grant (one prize of € 15,000 awarded to the best CineMart project from a developing country)
• Arte France Cinéma Awards (one prize of € 10,000 awarded to a CineMart project)