Welcome to the homepage of the Movies that Matter Festival.

Our Deep Dive selection highlights the eve of war and the geopolitical power struggles that come with it, with two classics and two new films.

Festival Favourites features audience favourites that have proven their quality at international festivals.

During the festival, thematic blocks of shorts are screened daily in zaal 6 of Filmhuis Den Haag. Discover this year’s shorts blocks here!

In Take on Freedom, you will see films about the indomitable desire for freedom – and the work it takes to achieve it.

The transition into a sustainable future is a slow one. What is needed to speed it up? And what dilemmas does this entail? That is what the films in Take on Future are all about.

Take on Love is a multi-faceted themed programme about the power, vulnerability and complexity of relationships, the right to be yourself and love who you want.

In Take on Power we show films about uneven power relations. And about people taking on forces and structures that seem bigger than themselves.