With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our festival favourites to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In November, it is Atiye Zare Arandi’s documentary Grand Me. About the film Melina lives with her loving grandparents in the Iranian city of Isfahan. Her parents have divorced and neither her mum nor her dad are...

Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of newly independent Congo in 1960, only to be executed the following year. He had become the personification the growing Pan-African movement, which threatened Western hegemony on the African continent. Against this background, jazz music became a political tool. Patrice Lumumba had alarmed Belgium and the United States...

The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (ENFF) has been connecting Dutch and international audiences to the vibrant cinema of Eastern and Southeastern Europe since 2008. Held annually at Filmhuis Den Haag, ENFF showcases recent, powerful films—often Dutch premieres—including features, documentaries, shorts, and animations. Beyond the screenings, the festival hosts masterclasses, debates, and lively gatherings with directors,...