Deep Dive
During the Movies that Matter Festival, we primarily screen films that have not yet had a wide theatrical release in the Netherlands. Occasionally, however, recent film releases are so powerful, urgent, or relevant that they simply cannot be left out of the festival.
That is why, on the festival’s final day, we present the thematic programme Deep Dive: a special selection of three recent films that invite further reflection and discussion. All screenings are introduced, offering additional context and insights to enrich your viewing experience.
An Iranian man seeks revenge on the person who tortured him, but what if he has kidnapped the wrong man? In this Palme d’Or–winning film, Jafar Panahi (Taxi Tehran) weaves moral dilemmas, flashes of dark humour and unsettling revelations into an exceptionally powerful thriller.
The genocide unfolding in Gaza prompted director Kaouther Ben Hania to make her most urgent film yet, about a five-year-old Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab. The Voice of Hind Rajabreconstructs the shocking, true events surrounding her killing based on the original telephone conversations between Hind and the emergency services.
Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of the award-winning book by Giuliano da Empoli traces the rise and fall of Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), a former theatre and television director who becomes Vladimir Putin’s (Jude Law) right-hand man and helps the modern tsar reshape Russia into its distinctive 21st-century autocracy.