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11 days filled with premieres, special film events, parties and more: that’s the Leiden International Film Festival. LIFF was founded in 2006 and has grown into one of the most important film festivals in the Netherlands. The 2025 edition will take place from 9 to 19 October, and will feature over 100 films from all...

During the Brainwash Festival, we will be screening the documentary Home Game at the Melkweg Cinema. In Home Game, Lidija Zelovic portrays her displaced family since their flight from Sarajevo in 1993. With scenes from everyday life, political discussions, football and family holidays, she exposes the duality of what “home” means to migrants. At the...

Mghila Mountain, Tunisia, November 2015. When jihadists attack two young shepherds, 13-year-old Achraf is forced to bring a gruesome message to the villagers. Traumatized and trying not to lose his mind, Achraf needs to stand strong, confronted with the helplessness of his elders, themselves abandoned by the authorities.   In the harsh landscape of Tunisian...

Imagine is the largest film festival for Fantastic film in the Netherlands, showcasing the best in fantasy, horror, sci-fi and everything in between. Imagine is all about the imagination. They believe dreaming big is best, because Weird Is Wonderful. Each year, they try to challenge our audience to use their imagination to fantasise about the...

With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring festival favourites to seventeen cinemas throughout the Netherlands. In November, we are showing the Dutch feature film Mister L. by Thomas Stokmans. About the Film An Asian tourist visits the touristic highlights that the Netherlands has to offer. After losing his passport – due to biased assumptions...

The 17th Edition of Eastern Neighbours Film Festival — five days celebrating the best of today’s cinema from across broader Eastern Europe — with focus sections, panels, Q&A’s, wine tastings, the New Talents Competition, a youth film, classics and film art and much more. An outstanding programme in a vibrant social setting — join at...

Like so many of Jafar Panahi’s films, Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident opens inside a vehicle. Its driver, Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), is heading home with his wife (Afssaneh Najmabadi) and daughter (Delmaz Najafi) when he hits a dog, killing the poor animal and destroying his engine. Seeking roadside assistance, he wanders into a...

On Wednesday 12 November, Snowpiercer (2013), a dystopian science fiction film by Bong Joon-ho (Parasite), will be screened at Filmhuis Den Haag in the context of the The Hague Climate Week. Buy your ticket Snowpiercer In a post-apocalyptic future, the Earth has frozen over after a failed climate experiment. The last survivors live on a...

On Friday 14 November the award-winning documentary Honeyland (2019) will be screened at Filmhuis Den Haag in the context of the The Hague Climate Week. The film tells the story of Hatidže, a beekeeper in a remote village in North Macedonia, who lives in harmony with nature and harvests honey according to centuries-old traditions. Buy...

With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring festival favourites to seventeen cinemas throughout the Netherlands. In December, we will be screening the French documentary If I Die, It’ll Be of Joy by Alexis Taillant. About the Film In a world that often overlooks the power of the elderly, Micheline, Francis, and Yves lead a...

With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring festival favourites to seventeen cinemas throughout the Netherlands. In January, we will be screening Simón Casal’s political science fiction thriller Artificial Justice. About the Film In the near future in Spain, the Government aims to replace judges with an Artificial Intelligence software, pledging to effectively automate and...