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Blanchett Names €100K Displacement Film Winners, Rotterdam Premiere

5/18/2026

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Cate Blanchett announced the five Displacement Film Fund winners at Cannes, each receiving €100,000 to make a short film.
The films—Return to Sender, Deconstruction, Traces of a Broken Line, How to Ride a Bike and Time… Speak—will premiere at the Film Festival Rotterdam from Jan 28 to Feb 28, 2027.
Partners the Hubert Bals Fund and UNHCR will arrange screenings at the Tokyo International Film Festival, New York’s Film Forum and Academy Award eligibility.

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Cate Blanchett announced the five Displacement Film Fund winners at Cannes, each receiving €100,000 to make a short film.
The films—Return to Sender, Deconstruction, Traces of a Broken Line, How to Ride a Bike and Time… Speak—will premiere at the Film Festival Rotterdam from Jan 28 to Feb 28, 2027.
Partners the Hubert Bals Fund and UNHCR will arrange screenings at the Tokyo International Film Festival, New York’s Film Forum and Academy Award eligibility.