All films
Below you can find all films, VR-screenings, and other shows that are playing in Eye now or soon.
All films
Now and soon in Eye
#2 - The Colours of Small Gauge Cinema
Lecture by Karl Wratschko on the use of colours in small-gauge cinema, focusing on cameraless filmmaking. Paired with a screening of experimental short films.
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#3 - Women's Labour in the History of Film Colour
Lecture by Jessica Niebel accompanied by a screening of colourful shorts from early cinema to which women played a vital contribution.
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#4 - Treasured Colours from 1960s and 1970s Iran
In his lecture, Kaveh Askari explores Iranian cinema from the 1960s and 1970s and its rich use of colours, with a screening of short films.
#5 - Catwalk Cinema
Lecture by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi and Annike Kross accompanied by a screening of French fashion films from the 1910s and 1920s.
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#6 - Politics of Film Colour in Brazil
Lecture by Rafael de Luna Freire on the politics of colour film in 1950s and 1960s Brazil, paired with a screening of two recently restored Brazilian shorts from the 1950s.
Marijke van Warmerdam, Handstand, 1992 (© G. J. van Rooy, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)
30 x 3' - Marijke van Warmerdam Artist Talk
Visual artist Marijke van Warmerdam invited thirty guests to reflect on 30 of her film loops, creating a 'live' catalogue.
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About Dry Grasses
Masterful film about a morally corrupt teacher in Anatolia reveals the power dynamics and the darkest reaches of the human soul.
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All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia’s latest film has already elicited comparisons to the work of major Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray and portrays the dreams of two young women who have moved to Mumbai for work.
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Alpha.
Thorough dissection of a father-son relationship featuring renowned Dutch actors Reinout and Gijs Scholten van Aschat as father and son which they are in real life.
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Amsterdam, stad in het water
During the SAIL 2025 event, Eye will create a special about a century of films set on or around Amsterdam’s waterways, followed by a screening of Amsterdamned.
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Amsterdam: seks, drugs & rock 'n roll
Dutch cinema has the reputation of containing a lot of nudity. An evening about how much sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll films from the Netherlands really contain.
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Amsterdams Stadsjournaal
Special about the Amsterdams Stadsjournaal [Amsterdam city news], a filmmakers’ collective that shot socially-committed documentaries in the capital and elsewhere between 1974 and 1984.
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An Unfinished Film
A director aims to restart an interrupted film project, but he and his crew are thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic. Fact and fiction become intertwined in Lou Ye’s latest feature.
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And Life Goes On
Ingenious interplay of reality and fiction in which Kiarostami reconstructs his search for the lead actors in his film Where Is the Friend's House?
Animation Pub Quiz
Quizzers, assemble! Put together a team of animation buffs and take your shot at winning Kaboom's feared Animation Pub Quiz.
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Anora
Rerun for Academy Awards winner Anora, Sean Baker’s comic drama on the meeting between a clownish Russian billionaire’s son and stripper Anora (Mikey Madison, Oscar Best Actress).
Anselm
Wenders’ spectacular 3D narrative that physically transports you into the life and work of the very famous, very German, very huge format artists Anselm Kiefer.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (2011) (courtesy of Dirimart)
Autonomy & Community with Dilan Yurdakul
Turkish-Dutch actor, theatre maker and author Dilan Yurdakul will discuss the work of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and the impact of migration on families and social circles.
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Avskedet
In contrast to contemporary morals, Valerie works to gain her independence from her ‘haute bourgeoise’ Finnish-Swedish family in Helsinki that doesn’t accept her lesbian orientation.
Award Party
Party poopers = not welcome! Let's close Kaboom 2025 with a banger of a party!
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Aysel, the Daughter of the Marsh
A seldom screened milestone of Turkish film history. About the harsh lot of an unmarried woman with a young child. With Cahide Sonku, ‘the Turkish Marlene Dietrich’, in the lead role.
Battle of the Illustrators
Illustrators battle it out! You'll be the judge: who is the best illustrator at Kaboom 2025?
Belgian Shorts 1: Handmade in Belgium
Stop-motion is back (but never really left)! Enjoy a tribute to recent Belgian stop-motion work by award-winning animators Patar & Aubier, Emma de Swaef & Marc Roels, and more.
Belgian Shorts 2: Chuckles & Tragedies
Belgian humour is truly one of a kind: absurd, surreal and self-mocking. Great for filmmaking, though! (And this hilarious short film programme.)
Belgian Shorts 3: The Pictural Tradition
Enter the world of Belgian animators who can't ignore the country's rich pictorial tradition: from pioneer Raoul Servais to younger artists who continue his legacy.
Belladonna of Sadness
A Faustian fever dream from 1973 that remains one of the most disturbing, provocative, and outrageously gorgeous works of animation ever created.
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Belle de jour
Reissue of this Buñuel classic, now in a high-quality 4K restoration. Catherine Deneuve is Séverine, a happily married bourgeoise who goes to work in a high-end Paris brothel.
Best of Kaboom 2025
The best of the best! Watch the award-winning shorts of Kaboom 2025.
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Bodies in Impact | International Student Competition
The best international student dance films.
Bonkers Shorts
Forget logic and sanity! Welcome to the madhouse of Kaboom: a bonkers short film collection where the bizarre reigns supreme.
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Born in Flames
This postpunk provocation is a Molotov cocktail of feminist futurism about female rebels in America, ten years after a cultural revolution.
Boys Go to Jupiter
A lo-fi, aesthetically pleasing, and surreal semi-musical about a teenage gig worker who encounters a donut-shaped alien in suburban Florida.
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Brief History of a Family
Lin Jianjie’s intriguing debut. A brilliant student from a humble background inserts himself into a wealthy family whom he masterfully manipulates.
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Caught by the Tides
Enchanting portrayal of a love story by China’s film maestro Jia Zhang-ke who, using his own and documentary footage, paints a portrait of 21st-century, modernising China.
Cinedans LAB Student Pitch
Students are invited to pitch their film projects to an international jury.
Cinedans VR Showcase
Cinedans showcases the best international VR projects that focus on dance and movement.
Cinema Petit (3+)
You're never too young for a good time and the cinema! Infinitely charming animated short films for the littlest ones.
Cinemini: Picknick met taart
Join Cinemini on a picnic with lots of pie.
Classics on the Move
Cinedans invites you to revisit the early short films of masters of cinema and experience their films through the lens of choreography.
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Clouds of May
Tragicomic, beautiful (self-)portrait of a director who returns to the village of his birth in the countryside to make a film with his parents and cousins – culminating in a fiasco.
Commissioned Shorts
In need of animator? Never panic! These animators prove that the companies and initiatives that hired them were right. How right? Just look at these pieces of art!
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Conducting Mahler
Documentary about the work of the composer Gustav Mahler made during a major Mahler festival held at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1995.
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Cremaster 5
Screening of the last part of Matthew Barney’s opera-esque tale The Cremaster Cycle, a crossover between art and film. Introduced (on 18 March) by Sjaron Minailo (Opera Forward Festival).
Daisies
Czech nouvelle vague pioneer Vera Chytilová’s refreshing Daisies blithely breaks all the rules. This Central European classic is now screening in a new 4K-restoration.
Danger! Better Safe Than Sorry
Kaboom's film collector Roloff de Jeu makes sure you stay safe and sound with this strangely alluring mix of educational and informative films.
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Das blaue Licht
Screens to accompany Andres Veiel’s documentary on Leni Riefenstahl, whose directorial debut followed in the wake of her stardom acting in Arnold Fanck’s ‘mountain films’.
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De filmtekeningen van Ton van Saane
Eye curator Leenke Ripmeester talks about the exceptional animated films made by Ton van Saane (1910-1973) and the special techniques that underpin his work.
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De Propagandist
Much-lauded documentary about Jan Teunissen, the head of the Nazi NSB Filmdienst and SS Filmdienst in the Netherlands. What drove him to collaborate in the promotion of the Nazi regime?
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Desert Hearts
4K restoration of this dazzling, ground-breaking love story about two women with snappy dialogue and just the right dose of romance – shot entirely independently by its female director.
Eye on Sound: Die Büchse der Pandora (Georg Pabst, DE 1928)
Die Büchse der Pandora
Adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s famous play about the destructive sides of seduction featuring Louise Brooks in the lead and accompanied live by The West Side Trio.
Dikkie Dik 2: Een Nieuwe Vriend voor Dikkie Dik
Tummy Tom is back for his second theatrical adventure! Together with Cat Mouse, he discovers something incredible: snow! But they also discover a new neighbour: a big, noisy dog.
Dutch Dance Film Archive
Third public program of the Dutch Dance Film Archive Project, with focusses on the significance of music and sound.
Dutch Shorts 1: The Elephant in the Room
Sometimes we tend to forget what is closest to us. Right here, in the Netherlands, there's an abundance of talent. Have faith, trust us, and discover the best of Dutch animation.
Dutch Shorts 2: Tracing Footprints
Sometimes we tend to forget what is closest to us. Right here, in the Netherlands, there's an abundance of talent. Have faith, trust us, and discover the best of Dutch animation.
Eye Filmmuseum is gesloten op 11 juni 2025
Eye Filmmuseum will be closed on Wednesday 11 June 2025 due to a private event. We hope to welcome you again soon!
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Favoriten
Heartwarming portrait of a primary school in the Viennese neighbourhood of Favoriten. Many of the children have German as a second language; teacher Ilkay gives everyone attention.
Cinemien in 1979 (© José Maas)
Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien
A special programme on the Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien from Amsterdam Cinemien with a screening of De stad was van ons. Radicaal-feminisme in de jaren ‘70 (Netty van Hoorn, 2019)
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Fietsen in Amsterdam
On national Fiets naar je Werk Dag [bike to work day] you can cycle to Eye after work for a special screening on cycling in the city.
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Filmmagie: Bloemetjes buitenzetten
Discover the magic of film through short animated films. This time, films that show the most beautiful flowers. Kids can also make their own flipbooks.
Flavors of Iraq
Following his father's death, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani reflects on his father's life and the history of a country that has barely known peace since its creation.
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Flow
Impressive Latvian animated film with a lead role for a black cat who has to work with other animals to escape from a flood.
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Fly Me to the Moon
The closing film of CinemAsia Film Festival 2025, attended by the directors Sasha Chuk en Jota Mun!
Games Amsterdam
Is it "Game on!" or "Would you like to continue?" Visit our otherworldy gaming area for n00bs and l33ts alike.
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Gaucho Gaucho
Beautiful, fascinating portrait of an isolated gaucho community in Argentina and its intimate relationship with its horses, livestock and land – the modern world is far away.
Ghost Cat Anzu
An infectious, freewheeling and unusual anime hangout movie about a girl who befriends a giant, ghostly cat.
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Gozaran - Time Passing
Conductor and composer Nader Mashayekhi returns to Iran to breathe new life into the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in a culture hostile to music.
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Grand Tour
Miguel Gomes’ latest feature is a dizzying docufiction tale of love and loss set in the crumbling British Empire, told in both black-and-white and colour.
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Half Moon
Scheffer’s documentary is a journey to the musical and personal roots of Syrian clarinet player Kinan Azmeh. Is music the answer to war?
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Hard Truths
Pansy, the lead role in Mike Leigh’s latest film, is a misanthrope. Leigh demonstrates, with plenty of humour, that aggressive Pansy also has a story.
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Hester Street
This rediscovered, wonderfully styled drama recreates Jewish immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the start of the 20th century.
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Het land van mijn ouders
Personal documentary in which author and artist Marion Bloem investigates her Dutch-Indonesian family’s history. Which place do Dutch-Indonesians feel linked to?
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I'm Still Here
This IFFR Audience Award winner tells the devastating true story of a family living under Brazil's military dictatorship. Three Oscar nominations.
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Iklimler
A university professor and his younger wife experience the gradual dissolution of their relationship against the background of the changing seasons.
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Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
Maria emigrates from Southern Italy to harsh Germany, where she tries to rediscover her lust for life. Told with a superb dry sense of humour.
In krakende welstand
Tensions within an Amsterdam squat in the 80's mount when the council makes an offer – at a much higher rent – to the residents.
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INVISIBLE PEOPLE
Invisible People is a multi-layered portrayal of the unique Japanese contemporary dance of butoh.
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Iron Island
Poignant, ironic parable on oppression and megalomania from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest film The Seed of the Sacred Fig screens in March.
Istanbul door het oog van de camera
Eye-curator Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi talks about Istanbul as it is represented in film – from the very first moving images shot in 1897 to 1968, on the occasion of the Nuri Bilge Ceylan expo.
Kaboom Award Night + Best of Kaboom
(drum roll) And the winners are... Let's find out together during the Kaboom Award Night!
Kaboom Filmmakers Talk 3
Most of the time they talk through their work. But now, they really talk! Meet the filmmakers behind some of Kaboom's top animated shorts.
Kaboom Filmmakers Talk 4
Most of the time they talk through their work. But now, they really talk! Meet the filmmakers behind some of Kaboom's top animated shorts.
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Kasaba
This brilliant, modest drama follows a family from a small Turkish city. In all its simplicity, Kasaba captures the essence of humanity. Pure cinema.
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Kinderen in Amsterdam
Films in which children from Amsterdam play a leading role including Beppie reveal how hard, but also how wonderful it is to grow up in Amsterdam.
L'eclisse
Milanese stock-market trader Piero (Alain Delon) becomes Vittoria (Monica Vitti)’s new boyfriend, although he remains aloof. Film chosen by Nuri Billge Ceylan.
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La negra Angustias
The first film to show the Mexican Revolution from a female perspective. A black goat herder develops into a revolutionary colonel.
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Leila and the Wolves
This informative film reveals the hidden struggles of women in Palestine and Lebanon, re-writing history from a feminist perspective.
Lesbian Space Princess
A sapphic sci-fi adventure through gay space, including a lesbian princess, straight white "maliens", and a problematic spaceship.
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Maria
Pablo Larraín investigates the life and suffering of a female celebrity. Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas, much worshipped opera star and diva, who was unlucky in love.
Masterclass: Masaaki Yuasa
Dive into Masaaki Yuasa's wild, wonderful world with the man himself.
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Memoir of a Snail
Heartwarming stop-motion animation about twins Grace and Gilbert, who are separated from one another. They both struggle to find their place in the world.
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Memories of Murder
The police’s unorthodox investigative techniques to find a serial murderer failed to produce results; Bong wrong-foots you with infectious gallows humour.
Mind Game + Happy Machine
“Fear takes the shape we're willing to give it.”
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Misdaad in Mokum
Many Dutch crime films were set in Amsterdam and featured super smooth criminals. Will there crimes be romanticised or will they be caught?
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Miséricorde
Sinister thriller with absurd touches and queer undertones about a murder in the village of Saint-Martial. Jérémie’s return disrupts business-as-usual: ‘Hitchcock meets Pasolini’…
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Moeders en dochters
Special guests discuss motherhood, with a focus on mothers and daughters and a screening of Michelle Citron’s Daughter Rite from 1978.
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Mother
Bong Joon-ho illuminates a suffocating mother-son relationship within a Hitchcockian suspense format. With a terrific role for Kim Hye-ja as the Mother.
Nancy's Winter Picknick
Let’s have a picnic, Nancy Denney-Phelps style!
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Napló - Diary For My Children
This personal account of life in communist Hungary won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1984. 4K restoration.
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Nesjomme
Poignant documentary that brings to life the Nesjomme – the soul – of Jewish Amsterdam, using rich archival resources from the interbellum.
New Directions
A programma with voices who are underrepresented in the field of animation. Pack your backpack for a trip around the globe.
New Dutch: Translations of Freedom
The best new Dutch dance films.
New Dutch: Untangling the Wilderness
The best new Dutch dance films.
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl + Kick-Heart
Enter a hallucinogenic night filled with booze and outlandish characters.
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Not a Pretty Picture
Martha Coolidge makes a documentary of the rape she experienced as a 16-year-old and examines how such an event can be viewed from different perspectives.
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Three police cars drive down Anatolia’s dusty roads looking for a murder crime scene. Beautifully filmed road movie and character study combined.
Panel: Should We Screen This Old Racist Stuff?
A panel discussion on how to approach animation film history that includes old racial stereotypes.
Pelikan Blue
In early 1990s Hungary, three youngster devise a masterplan to travel abroad affordably. But freedom always comes at a price. Hungary's first feature-length animated documentary.
Perceptual Twists + Award Ceremony
The best international student dance films.
Persepolis
Almost twenty years later, this story about a young girl growing up in Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution hasn't lost any of its power and relevance.
Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease
A deranged Korean eco-horror fable about a pig that survived the foot-and-mouth epidemic, only to become as corrupt as the humans he detests.
Poetry in Motion
Step into a realm where animation dances to its own rhythm and filmmakers are poets with pixels. A programme of experimental, offbeat, peculiar, unorthodox - or brilliant shorts.
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POTTENKIJKERS@Eye - Born in Flames
POTTENKIJKERS Filmcollectief regularly shows lesbian films. Tonight: Born in Flames by Lizzy Borden, and a discussion with Maaike Meijer.
Provocative Shorts 1: Punk It Louder
Animation, like punk, is best when it refuses to behave. This programme offers a hypnotic middle finger to normative systems and aesthetics.
Provocative Shorts 2: O Body, Why Art Thou?
A reminder that we may not always love the way our bodies behave or how they have taken shape, but what the hell ... we all poop, don't we?
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Red de jungle
In this heart-warming, exciting animation from the makers of My Life as a Courgette a girl and an orangutan try to protect Borneo’s jungles.
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Riefenstahl
Groundbreaking filmmaker and propagandist for Hitler’s Third Reich – Leni Riefenstahl did everything in her power to rewrite her tainted past; this documentary exposes the lies.
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Roland Klick Night
Roland Klick’s seventies films Deadlock and Supermarkt achieved cult status. High time to rediscover his psychedelic Western and gritty urban odyssey.
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Scarecrow
Underappreciated early New Hollywood masterpiece about two drifting hitchhikers featuring the recently deceased Gene Hackman (in one of his favourite roles) as well as Al Pacino.
Schmutz Cinema: Your Yuck is My Yumm
A Schmutz Cinema special with social scientist Linda Duits.
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Seasons of Dance
Seasons of Love depicts four phases of love, set to the music of Max Richter.
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Secrets & Lies
Heartwarming, moving story of a young Afro-Caribbean woman finding her white biological mother has been re-released after a wonderful 4K restoration.
Shahid
Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor wants to remove “Shahid” from her surname.
Short Docs 1: Do You Hear the People Sing
Real stories, real subjects, real emotions. Reality is the birthplace of these short animated documentaries.
Short Docs 2: Freedom Is Everything
Real stories, real subjects, real emotions. Reality is the birthplace of these short animated documentaries.
Short Docs: Tributes & Transformations
A captivating selection of international short doc dance films.
Shorts 1: Where There's a Will...
Starter, main course and dessert all in one: Kaboom's -ational Short Film Competition.
Shorts 2: Dateable or Relatable?!
Starter, main course and dessert all in one: Kaboom's -ational Short Film Competition.
Shorts 3: Life, Uninterrupted
Starter, main course and dessert all in one: Kaboom's -ational Short Film Competition.
Shorts 4: Who Needs Yoga Anyway?
Starter, main course and dessert all in one: Kaboom's -ational Short Film Competition.
Shorts 5: Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Overdue
Starter, main course and dessert all in one: Kaboom's -ational Short Film Competition.
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Some Interviews on Personal Matters
One of the first feminist films from the Soviet Union. Journalist Sofiko interviews all manner of women, yet her own happiness and family life start to suffer.
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Sudesha + My Survival as an Aboriginal
Two documentaries about women’s struggles: an Australian activist (My Survival as an Aboriginal) and protesting logging in the foothills of the Himalaya in Sudesha.
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Summer Palace
A courageous, candid film: Lou Ye (An Unfinished Film) portrays an obsessive romantic relationship between two students at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
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Suzhou River
Intriguing neo-noir tale by Lou Ye (An Unfinished Film) set on the banks of the Suhzou river in Shanghai. Someone’s lover throws themselves in the river, only to return as a dancer.
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Sweetie
In this eccentric, tender, bittersweet debut, Campion explores the explosive relationship between modest, superstitious Kay and her headstrong, wild sister Sweetie.
The Body Doesn't Lie - Thomas Bos (155)
Thomas Bos, core member of the dance group 155, curates a special program with short films that influenced his artistic practice.
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The Brutalist
Impressive portrait of the fictional architect László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish holocaust survivor in post-war America. Star turn for Adrien Brody in this homage to modernism.
The Colors Within
A Silent Voice director Naoko Yamada returns with a touching and musical portrait of three searching teenagers.
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu produced a widely acclaimed indictment against the Rumanian health care system. Film selected byNuri Bilge Ceylan.
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The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
A bourgeois gathering sits down to a sumptuous dinner. But they never actually get to eat anything. Beautiful 4K restoration of this classic of absurdism from Luis Buñuel.
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The Host
Hilarious monster and spectacle film, a box-office smash in South Korea & the US. One of the children in a dysfunctional family is swallowed by a river monster.
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The Invasion
Running at over two hours, Sergei Loznitsa’s depiction of the effects of war on the people of Ukraine tells of sorrow, desperation, resilience and rugged determination to carry on.
The Mirror
This dreamy classic forges childhood memories, news footage and poetry by Tarkovsky’s father into a true cinematic poem. Film selected by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
As a student Che – then still Ernesto – Guevara travelled across South America on an old Norton motorcycle. Screening accompanying Walter Salles’ latest film, I’m Still Here.
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The Other Way Around
It’s an original idea to celebrate the demise of a 15-year marriage with a huge party. Ingenious and airy ode to a divorcing couple from Madrid by Jonás Trueba.
The Piano
Bold power play and sexual awakening in 19th-century New Zealand. A woman takes control of her own life in this magnificent tale of love. Winner Golden Palm.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
An Iranian judge suffers from paranoia as political protest erupts around the country in this social drama that becomes a tense cat-and-mouse thriller.
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The Wild Pear Tree
A budding Turkish author – a pompous loner obsessed with artistic success – has to return to his dysfunctional family in this finely-wrought tale.
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Three Monkeys
A politician shifts responsibility for a car accident onto his driver. Winner of Best Director in Cannes, with high praise for the intense acting and camerawork.
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Through the Olive Trees
On the relationship between fact and fiction and the confusing role the director plays in this. Abbas Kiarostami’s exposé of the ‘Koker trilogy’ was chosen by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
In 1940s Tokyo, a spirited young girl named Totto-chan attends an unconventional school. But beyond its walls, the war comes ever closer.
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Transit Levantkade
Stylised documentary portrait of the Levantkade in Amsterdam and the 'urban nomads' who found refuge on this piece of no-mans-land in the late 1980s.
Triumph of the Wild Cine-Concert: Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn's work alternating with live music by CelloWercken. One film with live musical accompaniment.
still Distant (Uzak) (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2002)
Uzak
Disillusioned photographer Mahmut is made to accommodate his cousin at his apartment in Istanbul, in this drily comedic portrait in which tensions rise.
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Vermiglio
Italian film’s documents a large family’s history in a mountain village during the final year of World War II. Won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Vive l'amour
Sublime portrait of three Taiwanese lost souls: two men and a woman seek love and attention in a metropolis. Film selected by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
still Voyage to Cythera (Frank Scheffer, NL 1999)
Voyage to Cythera
Documentary about Luciano Berio's piece Sinfonia – the third movement consists of a number of musical references to various composers including Gustav Mahler.
ResearchLabs 2025: VR Academy
VR Academy: The Onion Effect
Just like the peeling of an onion, the third year students of the VR Academy create work to provoke an emotional reaction, revealing more with every layer.
still Waar de ratten koning zijn (Barbara den Uyl, NL 1985)
Waar de ratten koning zijn
Den Uyl filmed for well over a year how the inhabitants of the Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood fought the system with the death of squatter Hans Kok as the tragic low point.
still Wanda (Barbara Loden, US 1970)
Wanda
This empathetic, heart-rending portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins has developed into a highly influential work.
still Was soll'n wir denn machen ohne den Tod (Elfi Mikesch, AT 1979)
Was soll'n wir denn machen ohne den Tod
Mikesch spent a few months living at the old age pensioners’ home 'Frauental' and converted the drama, dreams, seriousness and playfulness into an unusually intense and tender impression of being old.
still Where is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, IR 1987)
Where is the Friend's House?
Kiarostami’s heart-warming tale of a boy returning an exercise book forms the basis for this wonderful film made with non-professional actors and set in a desolate landscape.
still Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, TR 2014)
Winter Sleep
Winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes, about the day-to-day life of a conceited former actor turned hotel owner, explores human weaknesses and moral issues.
Woningnood in Amsterdam
The housing shortage and squatting are recurring themes on Amsterdam’s political agenda. The huge deficit of homes has been leading to revolt since the 1970s.