51st International Film Festival Rotterdam

The Netherlands, January 26 - February 6 2022

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The jury

Diego Faraone (Uruguay), Ana Sturm (Slovenia), Andrea Crozzoli (Italy), Essam Zakarea (Egypt), Ronald Glasbergen (The Netherlands)

Awarded films

To Love Again by Gao Linyang
(China, 2022, 92 min)

Reports

The Roar of the Tiger by Andrea Crozzoli
The Plains: Introspective Road Movie by Diego Faraone
Dangerous Journey by Ronald Glasbergen
An Almost Perfect Film by Ronald Glasbergen
A Little Odyssey for Elderly People by Essam Zakarea
Broken Hearts and Hidden Histories by Ana Sturm

Our jurors followed the Tiger Competition, and awarded the film that they described as “a tender and poignant observation of two deeply wounded souls, a portrait of a generation haunted by the traumas of the past and a delightful, bittersweet slice of life from the everyday of an elderly couple in contemporary China.”