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IFFR will open with the world premiere of the Portuguese feature \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d by Jo\u00e3o Nicolau<\/a>, which festival director Vanja Kaludjercic<\/a> described as \u201ca generous and witty film which places the present alongside echoes of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n Inspired by a short novel by Robert Louis Stevenson<\/a>, the film follows Leon<\/a> and Elvira<\/a>, two performers trying to keep their stage careers afloat. The film marks the acting debut of Salvador Sobral<\/a>, one of Portugal\u2019s best loved musicians and the winner of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d Courtesy of IFFR<\/p>\n The festival will close with the world premiere of crime comedy \u201cBazaar (Murder in the Building)\u201d from French filmmaker R\u00e9mi Bezan\u00e7on<\/a>, and starring Laetitia Casta<\/a>, Gilles Lellouche<\/a> and Guillaume Gallienne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed the lineup of films selected across the Tiger, Big Screen and Tiger Short competitions for the festival\u2019s 55th edition, running from Jan. 29-Feb. 8. IFFR will open with the world premiere of the Portuguese feature \u201cProvidence and the Guitar\u201d by Jo\u00e3o Nicolau, which festival director Vanja Kaludjercic described as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2201149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2201148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018Providence-and-the-Guitar-to-Open-International-Film-Festival-Rotterdam.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201150,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201148\/revisions\/2201150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}