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What are you looking for? What do you want to find? A home, a cat in a shipping container, yourself, or the other sock? You’ll find it all in this film programme!
Krekel & Mierabella
Animation film with a new take on Jean de la Fontaine’s famous fable The Cricket And The Ant, about a creative and musical cricket, and a disciplined, hard-working ant.
Poison
A powerful adaptation of Gif, one of the Netherlands' most successful plays, about a couple reuniting years after their divorce for the reburial of their son.
De Wilde Noordzee
Eye-catching nature documentary by Mark Verkerk (De Nieuwe Wildernis) in which experienced diver and cinematographer Peter van Rodijnen takes us to the underwater world of the North Sea. So close, but at the same time so unknown.
Firebrand
Costume drama about palace intrigue in the Tudor era. When King Henry VIII returns ill and paranoid from a war, Katherine Parr, his sixth wife, must fight to survive. With Alicia Vikander and Jude Law.
Een Schitterend Gebrek (A Beautiful Imperfection)
Michiel van Erp tells the compelling story of Lucia, the first and greatest love of womaniser Giacomo Casanova. Based on Arthur Japin’s bestseller.
A New Kind of Wilderness
Award-winning documentary about a family living a free and self-sufficient life in the idyllic forests of Norway. A tragic event forces them onto a new path towards modern society.
The Third Man (4K Restoration)
Classic film noir about an American writer who arrives in World War II-ravaged Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime, but the latter turns out to have died in a suspicious accident.
Witte Flits
Dutch drama about a parent couple who have to witness their 42-year-old son enter a euthanasia process because of unbearable psychological suffering. Are they able to let him go? Opening film Dutch Film Festival.
The Substance
The sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was this hyper-stylised body horror film starring Demi Moore as a fitness instructor who goes to extremes in her pursuit of eternal youth, with grotesque consequences.
Sterben
Wry-comic German family drama about a dysfunctional family starring Lars Eidinger as a conductor working on a piece of music about death. Awarded the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival.
Een Schitterend Gebrek (A Beautiful Imperfection)
Michiel van Erp tells the compelling story of Lucia, the first and greatest love of womaniser Giacomo Casanova. Based on Arthur Japin’s bestseller.
De Wilde Robot - Kinderboekenweek
Animation film about an intelligent robot that gets stranded on a desert island after a shipwreck. Slowly but surely, the robot builds a bond with the animals on the island.
Führer und Verführer
German drama about the work of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. His incendiary propaganda machine played a crucial role in radicalising Hitler’s supporters and misleading the German people.
Firebrand
Costume drama about palace intrigue in the Tudor era. When King Henry VIII returns ill and paranoid from a war, Katherine Parr, his sixth wife, must fight to survive. With Alicia Vikander and Jude Law.
Langue Etrangère
Tragicomic film about a shy French schoolgirl who goes on an exchange to Germany. To impress her German pen pal, she invents a different life for herself, but soon becomes entangled in a web of lies.
Poison
A powerful adaptation of Gif, one of the Netherlands' most successful plays, about a couple reuniting years after their divorce for the reburial of their son.
The Substance
The sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was this hyper-stylised body horror film starring Demi Moore as a fitness instructor who goes to extremes in her pursuit of eternal youth, with grotesque consequences.
Un p'tit truc en plus
Touching French comedy in which a father and son who have robbed a jewellery shop end up in a holiday camp for young adults with intellectual disabilities. Was a huge hit in French cinemas.
Santosh
Clever debut about an Indian woman who inherits her husband’s job as a police officer after his death. Through a murder case, she stumbles upon the unshakable hierarchy of modern India.
Emmanuelle
French filmmaker Audrey Diwan – winner of the Golden Lion with the abortion drama Happening – explores sexual pleasure in the post-Me Too era with this new adaptation of Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel.
A New Kind of Wilderness
Award-winning documentary about a family living a free and self-sufficient life in the idyllic forests of Norway. A tragic event forces them onto a new path towards modern society.
De Jacht op Meral Ö.
Powerful drama about a woman who is forced into radical choices when the Tax Administration wrongly reclaims a huge amount of childcare benefits. Based on actual events in the Dutch childcare benefits scandal.
Paul McCartney and Wings - One Hand Clapping - English subtitled
A rarely screened rockumentary made by Paul McCartney and his then-band Wings at London’s Abbey Road studios in August 1974. We see the band live in the studio.
The Substance
The sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was this hyper-stylised body horror film starring Demi Moore as a fitness instructor who goes to extremes in her pursuit of eternal youth, with grotesque consequences.
Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) treats us to three macabre stories about all the things people will do to secure love and attention. Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, winner of the Best Actor prize in Cannes.
Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom was slammed by critics in 1960. The film marked the end of Michael Powell’s career, but is today seen as a classic film about cruelty and voyeurism in film.
The Gullspång Miracle + short film Wander to Wonder
Coen Brothers meets Twin Peaks in this incredible documentary full of eccentric characters about two sisters who buy a flat in a Swedish hamlet. The saleswoman looks exactly like their sister, who committed suicide in 1988.
Coraline (15th Anniversary)
Award-winning stop-motion animation classic about a girl who finds a secret door in her new home and walks into a dangerous alternative version of her life. With a bonus behind-the-scenes look at LAIKA Studios.