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Below you will find our total coverage of the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam by our two attending critics, including reports on films by Tiger competitors, Aleksei German, Takashi Miike, the best of the festival's experimental short films, and retrospectives on German director Heinz Emigholz and Danish director Nils Malmros.

By Daniel Kasman

Festival Hold 'Em

On Charlotte Pryce's A Study in Natural Magic, Shiloh Cinquemani's Blue, Esther Urlus's Konrad & Kurfurst, Tomonari Nishikawa's 45 7 Broadway, Takashi Miike's The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

Projectile Bombardment

On Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God, Heinz Emigholz's D'Annunzio's Cave (2005), Richard Touhy's Dot Matrix, Esther Urlus's Chrome, Makino Takashi and Telcosystems' Deorbit, Tine Frank's Colterrain, Jodie Back's Let Your Light Shine

Deep Breaths

On the retrospective on German documentarian Heinz Emigholz, including films Sullivan's Banks (2000), Maillart's Bridges (2001), Goff in the Desert (2003), Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (2012), Two Museums,...

Above: Nils Malmros

I find myself feeling with great and greater certainty that being a cinephile, or living a cinephiliac life, necessitates a far greater life lesson than one restricted to the movies: Your journey will never be complete. A step taken towards more knowledge, more experience, only and always leads to the awareness of further, farther steps that multiply exponentially from those ones you choose. If on the most simple level, I attend an event like the International Film Festival Rotterdam in order to discover more, to encompass and comprehend a greater amount of cinema, what such a trip does instead of “closing the books”—this film seen, that filmography completed, this trend identified, that era or genre or whathaveyou familiarized—in fact is to open up the vast world even more. What one thought of as a narrowing tunnel turns out to be a fractal-branching tree, or, even worse,...