Founded in 1972, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, has cemented its position over the years as a major "headhunter" for filmmakers who explore the forms and boundaries of cinema.

A key event on the movie industry calendar, this festival offers a wide range of different sections, including two competitive programs—Bright Future, which focuses on emerging filmmakers, and Voices, which this year will include the participation of the directors Ladj Ly, Mati Diop, Albert Serra, Justine Triet , Bertrand Bonello, Alice Winocour, Sophie Letourneur, and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmèche, among others, who will be in Rotterdam to present films that have already attracted acclaim at the major international film festivals.

All the French films at Rotterdam 2020

Bright Future

• Mes voix by Sonia Franco
• La Fortaleza by Jorge Thielen Armand ​ (minority-French coproduction)—film competing for the Hivos Tiger Awards
• The Unknown Saint by Alaa Eddine Aljem (minority coproduction)
• Merry Christmas, Yiwu by Mladen Kovacevic (minority coproduction)
• Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim (minority coproduction)
• The Fever by Maya Da-Rin (minority coproduction)
• The Tree House by Minh Quý Trương (minority coproduction)
• The Trouble with Nature by Illum Jacobi (minority coproduction)
• We Are From There by Wissam Tanios (minority coproduction)

Feature Films - Voices

• Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story by Mati Diop
• Two of Us by Filippo Meneghetti
• Les Misérables by Ladj Ly
• 奥様は妊娠中 by Sophie Letourneur
• Marona's Fantastic Tale by Anca Damian
• Zombi Child by Bertrand Bonello
• Proxima by Alice Winocour
• Sibyl by Justine Triet
• South Terminal by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmèche
• Savage State by David Perrault

• Adam by Maryam Touzani (minority coproduction)
• Adoration by Fabrice du Welz (minority coproduction)
• All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (minority coproduction)
• Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles (minority coproduction)
• White on White by Théo Court (minority coproduction)
• ワーキング・ガールズ by Frédéric Fonteyne, Anne Paulicevich (minority coproduction)
• A Girl Missing by Koji Fukada (minority coproduction)
• The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat (minority coproduction)
• Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa (minority coproduction)
• The Wild Goose Lake by Diao Yi Nan (minority coproduction)
• The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu (minority coproduction)
• Mosquito by Joao Nuno Pinto (minority coproduction)
• You Will Die at 20 by Amjad Abu Alala (minority coproduction)
• A Son by Mehdi M. Barsaoui (minority coproduction)
• Valley of Souls by Nicolás Rincón Gille (minority coproduction)
• Fire Will Come by Oliver Laxe (minority coproduction)

Deep Focus 

• Our Lucky Hours by Martine Deyres  
• Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
• Isadora's Children by Damien Manivel  
• Un film dramatique by Éric Baudelaire  
• Liberté by Albert Serra  

Perspectives

• The Prince's Voyage by Jean-François Laguionie & Xavier Picard
• For the Ones We Loved by Pascal Thomas
• Adults in the Room by Costa-Gavras
• Cemetery by Carlos Casas (minority coproduction)
• About Endlessness by Roy Andersson (minority coproduction)
• Common Birds by Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson (minority coproduction)

Voices Short

• Tabaski by Laurence Attali