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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....

Acclaimed filmmaker Lidija Zelovic has been portraying her displaced family in the Netherlands since 1993, when they fled war-torn Sarajevo, in her own unique style and with self-deprecating humour. Zelovic’s film essay exposes the duality that all migrants live with: what is ‘home’? She draws attention to social and political developments in the Netherlands that...

Using leaked, never-before-seen interrogation footage, The Bibi Files provides an unflinching look into Benjamin Netanyahu’s inner circle and a private world of alleged bribery and fraud. His corruption is more than a scandal—it is a gateway for the far-right to consolidate power. As Netanyahu embraces their extremism to shield himself from legal consequences, the cost is measured...