As a prelude to the European elections in May 2014, the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) put Europe at the heart of its 43rd edition, which took place between 22 January and 2 February 2014.
It was only natural for IFFR and ECF to join forces to explore the many voices we need to hear on The State of Europe. Most importantly, we also wanted to come together to reflect on how we can take the debate further. We talked to IFFR Director Rutger Wolfson to gather his post-festival views and we are now happy to share the publication De Groene Rotterdammer, featuring texts in Dutch and in English by Gianfranco Rosi, Peter Sloterdijk, Xiaolu Guo, Joost de Vries, Abdelkader Benali, Rutger Wolfson, Alexandra Zawia, Kees Vendrik.