CineMart
CineMart is IFFR Pro's co-production market, where a carefully curated lineup of projects in development are presented to international industry representatives. Bold independent feature film projects are launched onto the market, along with select immersive media projects. Together they receive vital mentorship and networking opportunities, finding the right connections to bring their projects to reality.
Submit your project for CineMart 2025
The next CineMart edition will take place during the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam (30 January to 9 February 2025). Submit your project below.
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Editorial line
CineMart is known for its highly curated editorial line of distinct and innovative projects in story and form. We present projects by independent directors and producers and mostly arthouse work, ensuring there is a wide variety by presenting smaller, more vulnerable work alongside films by established teams with higher budgets. The CineMart selection reflects the overall editorial line of the programme of International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The full selection should form a balance of distinct voices where each project can uniquely shine, featuring different subjects and cinematic styles, with debut features to established filmmakers, from fiction to hybrid and experimental works, in a balance of gender and representation (of everyone in the project involved). In 2024, the lineup included stop-motion animation, a biopic, thrillers, car chases and immersive media.
CineMart 2024
The previous edition of CineMart took place at IFFR 2024. Find out everything about it via the link below.
IFFR Pro Immersive
CineMart also presents a lineup of immersive media projects. In 2024, four immersive titles were presented in the selection. A number of these were curated together with Impulse at VRDays Europe and the Immersive Tech Week.
Read more about IFFR Pro Immersive
Connecting projects and industry
Selected projects work together with experienced experts – who have the role as mentors throughout – to assess what the project precisely needs, so we can provide tailored support to get the most out of the market experience. Guests and projects alike can indicate with who they want to meet, and whether you join us as a project team or guest, you will be provided with a tailored schedule. Our aim is to have a strong focus on finding the right creative and financial partners and fostering lasting connections.
Join us
CineMart is a by-invitation-only market. We carefully review the guestlist each year in order to ensure that the attending industry representatives can contribute and possibly commit to the projects in the selection. CineMart delegates are co-producers, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and potential financiers. CineMart badge holders can request meetings with all presented projects.
Darkroom
Darkroom is IFFR Pro's programme of work-in-progress screenings of former CineMart and HBF-supported projects, hosted as part of CineMart. Six works were presented for the second edition during IFFR 2024, including two immersive media works.
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Lara González Lobo
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“Without fun, without joy, there's no serious work”
The director and producer of Los delincuentes on their pursuit of freedom.
"I want to encourage viewers to discover this world, to not let it disappear."
The selected projects had the shared desire to forge new creative paths and to recover lost narratives.
Five Cannes titles supported by IFFR
Films backed by the Hubert Bals Fund and presented at CineMart and Darkroom feature at Cannes.
IFFR-backed titles at the Berlinale 2024
Hubert Bals Fund celebrates its impact on the careers of filmmakers as several films win prizes in Berlin.