The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Gripping and suspenseful family drama about the tensions in the family of an investigating judge whose teenage daughters become involved in protests against the Iranian regime. Nominated for an Oscar for best international film.
Fabula
A crime comedy, with a touch of fantasy, folklore and magical realism, about the hapless Jos, born into a family haunted by disaster and determined to find out what caused it. Opening film IFFR 2025.
Praten Met De Nachtwacht
Journalist Coen Verbraak talks to the main characters in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Who are those people in that imposing painting?
A Complete Unknown
Biopic in which James Mangold (Walk The Line) follows the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in music history: Bob Dylan. Starring an Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet as the young Dylan.
Maria
Angelina Jolie embodies the iconic opera singer, Maria Callas. Maria follows the opera diva during her last days of life, lost in her own memories and delusions.
Vermiglio
Italian drama about an isolated mountain village rocked by the arrival of a deserted Sicilian soldier in the last year of World War II. Winner of the Silver Lion (Grand Prize of the Jury) in Venice.
Ghost Trail
Intense spy thriller about a man hunting down a Syrian war criminal at the behest of a secret organisation in Strasbourg.
En Fanfare
French feel-good film by Emmanuel Courcol (Un Triomphe) about two musically talented brothers who don’t know of each other’s existence. That changes when one of them seeks a bone marrow donor. Was a huge hit in French cinemas.
The Other Way Around
A non-romantic comedy in which a couple who have been together for fifteen years decide to part ways and celebrate this separation with a grand party in their hometown Madrid. Just like a wedding, but the other way around.
The Last Showgirl
Drama by Gia Coppola – granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola – about a dancer in her 50s who comes to a turning point in her life when her show in Las Vegas is suddenly ended. With a surprising lead role by Pamela Anderson.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
French costume drama based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas about a man who, after having been wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, takes revenge. The film attracted more than nine million moviegoers in France.
Maldoror
Fabrice du Welz (Calvaire) considers a pitch-black page in modern Belgian history with this sinister crime thriller about the investigation into the disappearance of two girls in 1995. Loosely based on the Dutroux case.
Fabula
A crime comedy, with a touch of fantasy, folklore and magical realism, about the hapless Jos, born into a family haunted by disaster and determined to find out what caused it. Opening film IFFR 2025.
I'm Still Here
A moving drama by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central do Brasil) about Eunice Paiva's fight for justice following the disappearance of her husband, engineer and politician Rubens Paiva, during the Brazilian dictatorship. Winner o...