With slightly over two months to go before the official opening in January, it is our great pleasure to announce IFFR 2017’s first world premiere: Double Play by Ernest Dickerson. A film about Curaçao, the past and a game of dominoes, after the much lauded novel Double Play by Frank Martinus Arion. The cast and crew will walk the red carpet for the festive premiere in Rotterdam.

Featuring Ennio Morricone’s Oscar winning music from The Hateful Eight, John Williams’ latest Star Wars music from The Force Awakens (earning the legendary composer his 50th Academy Award nomination!), suites and themes from Now You See Me 2 (Brian Tyler), Zootopia (Michael Giacchino), Kubo and the Two Strings (Dario Marianelli) and many more recent cinema blockbusters, this program is the flagship in the Soundtrack Live! fleet of film music concerts. It is constantly evolving in order to present the most current, the most popular and the most exciting orchestral music from films currently or recently on the worldwide cinema repertoire. Each concert will be a unique experience!

Lucia, Before and After / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Anu Valia) won the 2017 Sundance Jury Prize: U.S. Fiction Short.  After traveling 200 miles, a young woman waits out Texas's state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed. 

From creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the eight-episode season follows Prairie Johnson (Marling), a missing blind woman who finally returns to her family after seven years with her sight restored. Though Prairie is said to “remember everything,” she refuses to talk about what happened to her during her time away from home, leaving viewers to contemplate what exactly befell her all those years ago.

All eight episodes of “The OA” will stream on globally Netflix starting Friday, Dec. 16.

Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment, which paid upward of $2.5 million for North American rights to former Focus Features head James Schamus’ directorial debut Indignation, has set the picture for release with Roadside Attractions.

“Indignation,” which is based on Philip Roth’s novel, centers on a young student (Logan Lerman) who champions his moral and political ideals in fierce debates with the dean of his college at a time when the Korean War has started to undermine the still youthful and brash confidence of U.S. citizens. Schamus, one of the U.S.’s leading independent producers, was president of the Berlinale international jury in 2014.