In a spa hotel Romy Schneider – the biggest female star in Europe of her time – gives her last interview to two journalists. Three days, driven by romantic desire, professional ambition and the urge for living....

This documentary revolves around a mystery hidden in Botticelli’s drawings of the map to Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. But what’s the real story behind these unsettling illustrations?...

In collaboration with the Dutch Dance Festival and Bureau Europa, Docfest is screening A Frenzied Control - Life and Dance by Krisztina de Châtel. In combination with the short film Flight, featuring choreography by Krisztina de Chatel. Dur...

The bizarre true history of a collection of 533 films dating from the 1910s to 1920s, which were lost in the permafrost for over fifty years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming pool deep in the Yukon Territory....

DocKids is our tailor-made program for children aged 7 to 12 years old. On Sunday, September 30th, you can visit to the 'DocKids on a Sunday Morning' movie program starting at 11 am, the directors and the protagonists from the films will be...

Welcome to the fourth edition of Docfest, the documentary film festival in Maastricht! Docfest is once again bringing stories to the public in a special way this year. With the theme 'Rise Up!' we’re showcasing different perspectives on wha...

Participants in the workshop (in pairs) will be loaned an iPad and asked a number of questions. The answers to the questions must be given in video form. Participants introduce themselves, talk about their dreams for the future and have the...

Three grandsons embark with their grannies on an anarchic journey into the past. The film is a seven- year-long investigation of three young men coming to terms with their traumatic heritage through the extraordinary lives of their grandmot...

“Happy” is an affectionate, cheerful and personal documentary on men searching for happiness in the twilight of their lives, while simultaneously dealing with the question of what love truly is when you are over 60 and afraid of growing old...

Combine a Sunday breakfast at Lumière Cinema with the Dutch premiere Happy, a moving, love-infused documentary. On Saturday, September 29th, you can meet the subject of Happy; Eric Genreith and his wife. The breakfast can be booked together...

Paddy Considine follows Tyrannosaur with his second feature, a raw, powerful drama about a boxer forced to confront a terrifying new reality....

Check in at the reception and be welcomed as a hotel guest, realized by LBG Hotels. Enjoy the film Love Hotel and... enjoy your stay!...

The twins Eden and Léandro were born severely premature. They find themselves propelled into the hostile and worrying world of the hospital. The bond between mother and children is organic, vital. And as the weeks pass in the neonatal servi...

The documentary ‘Nao ‘t Zuuje’ (To the South) shows Lex Uiting meeting five typically ‘Venlose’ characters during the big national feast who each have their own story and captures what it’s really about. From older generations keeping tradi...

This program features specially selected documentaries from or about Limburg. L1 LimburgDoc films & the film Noa 't Zuuje, followed by a visit from Ziene Hoege Hoeglöstigheid Rolam d'n Ierste (Prince Carnaval of Maastricht)....

Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen’s own world, both tortured a...

Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen’s own world, both tortured a...

Those who express themselves critically or ask questions about certain issues are easily put away as suspicious or dangerous. But why? This is the question documentary filmmaker Marijn Poels answers in his second documentary PARADOGMA. PARA...

Football can connect people and entire communities. This program shows two wonderful examples of the influence of the game on people. ...

Start your Sunday morning with Power Flow Yoga in the open air, provided by Yogaplace. Then visit Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey, an impressively beautiful film. You’ll end the morning with a meditation session in your cinema seat - wher...

A love story set against the backdrop of the class divide in India, presenting a side of Mumbai that is rarely seen in cinema and tying in with strong themes of female independence....

A portrait of the Netherlands, capturing the country’s zeitgeist in speeches at weddings, toasts at parties, obituaries at funerals, and also rallying cries at protest marches. The film shows a multicultural country that still seems to have...

Talent deserves a stage. Docfest has selected three short student documentaries with a portrait about Anita and her seventeen dogs, how a daughter sees her parents who have been sailing on an inland barge for 20 years and how you stay behin...

Kantemir Balagov’s award-winning debut feature about a Jewish family under crisis stuns with its glowering commentary on generational conflict and religious divides....

Adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan, about a high-court judge who finds personal and professional crises colliding when she is asked to rule in the case of a brilliant 18-year-old boy who is refusing the blood transfusion that would save ...

The Food Industry is a program that Docfest organizes together with Sphinx Debat and Gedeelde Weelde. The program starts during Docfest, with the Limburg première of Ceres and will be continued in January and April of 2019 (anniversary edit...

Making use of the uncanny parallels between historical fact and present-day Marseille, Christian Petzold’s TRANSIT tells the story of a nearly impossible great love amid escape, exile and a longing for a place one can call home....

In this special, you’re invited to consider the acceptance of grief and the consequences of our high-performance culture. A combo program in collaboration with The Festival of Sadness. It includes the documentary Over The Limit, and guest s...

In this special, you’re invited to consider the acceptance of grief and the consequences of our high-performance culture. A combo program in collaboration with The Festival of Sadness. It includes the documentary Over The Limit, and guest s...

’Der Ernst des Lebens’’ is about growing up, friendship, crashing into figurative walls and dreaming while maturing. A movie realised by young refugees Abou, Benhur, Ibrahim, Mamin, Mohammed, Tanzid, Youssef, Zarah and Zeyad who are now liv...