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The next festival will take place from 21 to 29 March 2025 in The Hague.

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Competitions

All the competition programmes

The Movies that Matter Festival has several competitions in which international juries hand out awards to the winning film or director.

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Specials

Best of #MtMF24

Watch three festival favourites plus in-depth programmes at the Best of #MtMF24 day on Saturday 30 March. We kick off the day with Green Border, a poignant drama about the horrors refugees face in the forests between Belarus and Poland. This will be followed by Samuel and the Light, a poetic and understated portrait of...

HUMAN-afternoon

On Saturday 30 March, media partner HUMAN presents a special discounted day at the Movies that Matter Festival 2024. This year, for the first time, media partner HUMAN chooses two films to be presented with extended talks. In The Mother of All Lies, Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir unravels her family past, and specifically the...

Themes

Festival Favourites

Festival Favourites

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

Focus on Türkiye

Focus on Türkiye

With turbulent elections and the devastating earthquake in Türkiye a year ago still in the back of its mind, this edition of the festival sees reason to invite three main guests of Turkish origin. A delegation of young filmmakers from the disaster zone has also been invited.

Shorts

Shorts

17 short films have been selected for the Shorts competition. The shorts are programmed in four different thematic blocks.

Take on Classics

Take on Classics

A look at human rights through the lens of cinematic classics. We screen the Turkish film Mustang and the Kurdish film YOL – The Full Version.

Take on Future

Take on Future

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

Take on Love

Take on Love is our theme programme about the right to be yourself and love whom you want.

Take on Power

Take on Power

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

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