Agenda
On Tour: Manas
With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our favourite films to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In March, it is the Brazilian drama Manas by Marianna Brennand – a brand new film from our 2025 festival selection! About the film With vulnerability and incredible courage, a Brazilian girl confronts the system that oppresses...
Movies that Matter Festival 2025
The next Movies that Matter Festival will take place from 21 to 29 March 2025 in The Hague and various satellite cities. What can you expect at our festival? A selection of around 90 human rights films: from short films to feature-length, from fiction to documentaries. In-depth programmes on human rights with activists, filmmakers, and...
Kaboom Animation Festival
From Friday 21st to Sunday 30th of March Kaboom Animation Festival takes place in Utrecht, Amsterdam and online. Kaboom Animation Festival is heaven on earth for everything and everyone that holds a heart for the animation world. From razor-sharp and über-inventive experimental arthouse to colourful stories for young and old; Kaboom serves up animation delights...
On Tour: The Promise
With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our favourite films to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In April, we will screen The Promise, the opening film of the Movies that Matter Festival 2025. A forgotten struggle, a lost future. In the 1960s, it seemed that West Papua was on the path to independence....
On Tour: Flophouse America
With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our favourite films to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In May, we are screening Monica Strømdahl’s documentary Flophouse America. Due to the severe housing crisis in the U.S., many families are forced to live in rundown, low-cost hotels known as Flophouse hotels. Director, Monica Strømdahl, has...