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.

In the new Pixar animation film Inside Out 2, we return to the brain of Riley, who has now become an adolescent. The control room in her head is scrapped to make room for something completely unexpected: new emotions!

Disarming, intimate documentary following Britpop band Blur during the period when the band made a surprising and emotional comeback with the album The Ballad Of Darren (2023), their first album in eight years.

Compilation of the best short films from the province of Limburg of the past year. After the screening, the audience will vote for the annual CineSud Audience Award for the best short film.

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.

Prior to Een Goed Begin, an insightful documentary about the unique Dutch birthcare, there will be a lecture by Prof. dr. Marianne Nieuwenhuijze, professor in Midwifery (language: Dutch). After the documentary there will be an aftertalk.

Film is an art form that crosses borders, is (almost) universally accessible and grabs us in a unique way - visually, aurally, emotionally and intellectually. The Exploring Cinema series celebrates film as a medium.

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.

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.

In the new Pixar animation film Inside Out 2, we return to the brain of Riley, who has now become an adolescent. The control room in her head is scrapped to make room for something completely unexpected: new emotions!

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.

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece is an austere but extremely moving film based on the account of the trial of Joan of Arc in the fifteenth century.

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.

Colombian drama full of dreamy and surreal images about five teenagers who want to escape the violence and poverty they grew up in. Winner of the Golden Shell, the top prize of the San Sebastian film festival.

Documentary on the brilliant oeuvre of the film duo Powell and Pressburger (The Red Shoes, A Matter Of Life And Death), with a wealth of clips and rare archive footage.

Delicate and compelling drama from Michel Franco (Sundown) about the unusual reunion of a social worker and a friend from her high school days. With Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard.

The third weekend of September in Maastricht revolves around Musica Sacra Maastricht. Lumière Cinema is one of the main venues of the arts festival and will screen four films related to the festival theme: Uit Vrije Wil (Of Free Will).

Danish classic by Carl Theodor Dreyer – often referred to by Lars von Trier as his great example – about fanatical religious beliefs in Jutland. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Romantic drama, reminiscent of Before Sunrise, in which wealthy New York yuppie Amy meets a local nature guide during a holiday in Wyoming who is the antithesis of her successful fiancé in everything.

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.

In the buildup to the premiere of The Substance (19 Sep), Lumière is screening Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature, a rape-revenge film told from a distinctly female perspective. Blood, sex, spectacle and feminism.

A bold and energetic directorial debut where three teenage friends in a Parisian slum confront sexual misconduct. But their rigorous action is not without consequences.

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.

Political thriller about a judoka who is pressurised into losing on purpose during the world championships. A blood-curdling battle ensues, fought both on and off the mat (tatami).

Absorbing, associative portrait of the eighteenth-century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova. Widely regarded as one of the most enigmatic cinematic meditations on art and beauty. Including introduction.

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.

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.