In its 52nd year, the Rotterdam Festival seen Cyrielle Raingou’s Le Spectre de Boko Haram, a documentary revealing a group of kids in The North Region of Cameroon living under the risk presented by the armed extremist group Boko Haram.


The 2023 Tiger Award, the primary reward of the celebration, was granted to Raingou’s work of art at a gala event on Friday night inRotterdam The award brings an amount of $43,000 in cash prize.

The Far North Region of Cameroon, which Raingou originates from, has actually been the target of attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram given that 2014. In this exceptionally moving function, the kids search for their identities in the risk of war. Falta, a little lady who is persistent and academic, is prepared to handle the murder of her dad due to a terrorist attack. However, her schoolmate Ibrahim and his senior bro Mohammad have problem managing their younger interest and unpleasant past that has actually taken them far from their innocence as 8 and eleven-year-old kids.


Socio-Political Films Take Over IFFR 2023

Endless Borders

At this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), socially-relevant movies from Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Middle East got the leading rewards, with political dramas and documentaries becoming the significant winners.

Abbas Amini’s Iranian drama thriller, Endless Borders, got the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Big Screen Award for the very best movie in the IFFR’s primary sidebar area. The movie informs the tale of a banished Iranian instructor who resides in a border town in between Iran andAfghanistan Endless Borders got the award the very same day that dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was launched from jail in Iran after investing 9 months behind bars.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Endless Borders‘ manufacturer Farzad Pak discussed this, stating,

“It’s a great coincidence that Jafar was released on the same day our film won”

He included:

“The film is dedicated to all the mothers who are mourning for their lost and imprisoned children.”

Munnel, a function by Visakesa Chandrasekaram about the life of the Tamil neighborhood after the war in Sri Lanka, and the pandemic funny New Strains by American filmmakers Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan both gottenSpecial Jury Awards Each of the movies got a $10,800 prize money.

The function movie launching by Ukrainian director Philip Sotnychenko, La Palisiada, which takes a look at post-Soviet life in Ukraine in the 1990s, won the Fipresci Award provided by the global movie critics association.

Additionally, The Eurimages Co- production Development Award, which features a $21,600 reward, was amongst the awards the IFFR offered to the Italy-France co-production Heads Or Tails previously this year.

Find IFFR 2023 winners list below:

Tiger Competition Award

Le Spectre De Boko Haram, by director Cyrielle Raingou

Special Jury Award

Munnel, by director Visakesa Chandrasekaram

New Strains, by directors Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan

VPRO Big Screen Award

Endless Borders, by director Abbas Amini