Riders of Justice Riders of Justice, starring Mads Mikkelsen, will open the 50th edition of the International Rotterdam Film Festival.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the competition lineup for its 50th-anniversary edition, which will run in two separate events one virtual, one in-person in 2021. The virtual IFFR will be held Feb. 1-7, with a summer in-person festival planned for June 2-6.
Riders of Justice, a Danish revenge thriller from director Anders Thomas Jensen (
Adam s Apples,
The Green Butchers) starring Mads Mikkelsen will open IFFR 2021. Mikkelsen plays Markus, a recently deployed military man, who returns home after his wife is killed in train accident. But Markus slowly begins to suspect that foul play is involved and sets out to hunt down those responsible. Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has U.S. rights to film.