Critics Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Beatrice Loayza, Forrest Cardamenis, and Jordan Cronk discuss highlights from the 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam, including:

- Charlotte Zhang’s Tycoon

- Kevin Walker & Jack Auen’s Chronovisor

- Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk’s Nightmare's Advice

- James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s The Misconceived

- Tetsuya Marayama’s ANTFILM, untitled (three moons), and Pedra e Montanha

- Stefan Koutzev’s Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet

- Xacio Baño’s After the Cities