Variations on a Theme, a South African drama by directors Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar about an elderly goat herder who gets drawn into a scam offering overdue reparations for her father’s unpaid wartime service, won the coveted Tiger Award for best competition film at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), led by fest director Vanja Kaludjercic and managing director Clare Stewart.
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s Master, tracing the rise of a teacher drawn into local politics in Bangladesh and moving from idealism to authoritarian impulses, won the Big Screen Competition.
The Tiger Competition jury said about Variations: “Possessing a deep poetic language, we found this to be a thoughtful and moving portrait of a community living under the spectre of colonial legacies and familial bonds in this world and the next.”
Meanwhile, the Big Screen Competition jury lauded Master this way: “This is a universal story about a…
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