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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

IFFR 2025 in cinemas

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From the festival to the cinema screen, find out which IFFR titles can be seen in theatres now.

Film still: Pavements

New releases

  • Pavements

    Alex Ross Perry | 128′ | USA | Dutch Premiere

    How to memorialise iconic nineties band Pavement? Only this layered meta-documentary will do.

All films in cinemas

  • L’amour ouf

    Gilles Lellouche | 166′ | Belgium | Dutch Premiere

    An explosive teenage love story, spanning two decades and featuring among others Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil.
  • All We Imagine as Light

    Payal Kapadia | 115′ | France | Dutch Premiere

    In this Cannes Grand Prix winner, three nurses navigate loss and longing in rapidly growing Mumbai.
  • Alpha.

    Jan-Willem van Ewijk | 100′ | Netherlands | Dutch Premiere

    Father and son brave the snow peaks together: the ultimate test of their skiing skills as well as their relationship.
  • The Brutalist

    Brady Corbet | 215′ | USA | Dutch Premiere

    Brady Corbet’s breathtakingly ambitious critique of unfettered capitalism and the power of art to transform.
  • Caught by the Tides

    Jia Zhangke | 111′ | China | Dutch Premiere

    Jia Zhangke returns with an intimate epic charting love and sacrifice in contemporary China.
  • A Complete Unknown

    James Mangold | 141′ | USA | Dutch Premiere

    Biopic that brings Bob Dylan’s turbulent and early years of his career to life.
  • Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

    Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de La Patellière | 178′ | France | Dutch Premiere

    Dumas’ immortal revenge tale comes alive in this vigorous, rousing adaptation, both classical and modern.
  • Drie dagen vis

    Peter Hoogendoorn | 85′ | Netherlands | Dutch Premiere

    Peter Hoogendoorn’s empathetic tragicomedy about a father-son relationship of few words.
  • Fabula

    Michiel ten Horn | 125′ | Netherlands | World premiere

    A washed-up criminal attempts to find the origins of his eternal misfortune in this crime-comedy.
  • Ghost Trail

    Jonathan Millet | 106′ | France | Dutch Premiere

    A Syrian man pursues the person he believes is the war criminal who tortured him.
  • Grand Tour

    Miguel Gomes | 129′ | Portugal | Dutch Premiere

    Set against the backdrop of a crumbling British Empire, Grand Tour weaves an epic romance.
  • Half Moon

    Frank Scheffer | 92′ | Netherlands | World premiere

    A moving portrait of clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh, a Syrian musician living in exile.
  • Hard Truths

    Mike Leigh | 97′ | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere

    Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a career best performance in this family drama from veteran Mike Leigh.
  • Hemelsleutel

    Digna Sinke | 96′ | Netherlands | World premiere

    A deeply personal film where the filmmaker’s memories merge with the experiences of her protagonist.
  • Holy Electricity

    Tato Kotetishvili | 95′ | Georgia | Dutch Premiere

    A suitcase filled with rusty iron crosses becomes a potential goldmine in this urban fable.
  • De Idylle

    Aaron Rookus | 99′ | Netherlands | World premiere

    A life-affirming drama about the members of one family seeking meaning in their lives.
  • Ik zal zien

    Mercedes Stalenhoef | 96′ | Netherlands | World premiere

    After losing her eyesight, a teenage girl must relearn her world at a rehabilitation facility.
  • I’m Still Here

    Walter Salles | 137′ | Brazil | Dutch Premiere

    The true and moving story of one Brazilian family’s struggle against a military regime.
  • Julie zwijgt

    Leonardo van Dijl | 100′ | Belgium | Dutch Premiere

    Weighed down by a heavy secret, a teenage tennis prodigy tries to keep her footing.
  • Une Langue Universelle

    Matthew Rankin | 89′ | Canada | Dutch Premiere

    Three whimsical stories intersect in this absurdist tale of postnational Winnipeg inspired by Iranian cinema.
  • Maldoror

    Fabrice Du Welz | 155′ | Belgium | Dutch Premiere

    An obsessed cop attempts to crack a network of child molesters in this stark thriller.
  • Maria

    Pablo Larraín | 123′ | Italy | Dutch Premiere

    Angelina Jolie brings the tormented last days of soprano Maria Callas to the silver screen.
  • Memoir of a Snail

    Adam Elliot | 95′ | Australia | Dutch Premiere

    Academy Award winner Adam Elliot’s stop motion feature is a heavy but beautiful meditation on grief and loss.
  • Merckx

    Christophe Hermans, Boris Tilquin | 84′ | Belgium | World premiere

    A loving portrait of the champion cyclist Eddy Merckx during his peak years of triumph.
  • Miséricorde

    Alain Guiraudie | 102′ | France | Dutch Premiere

    An earthy, deliciously ambiguous tale of sex, death and mushrooms, set in a picturesque French village.
  • On Falling

    Laura Carreira | 105′ | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere

    A migrant warehouse worker confronts alienation and precarity with quiet grace in this award-winning debut.
  • Perla

    Alexandra Makarová | 108′ | Austria | World premiere

    A moving rumination on the power that the past holds over us.
  • The Return

    Uberto Pasolini | 115′ | Italy | Dutch Premiere

    The timelessness of Homer’s The Odyssey shines through in this emotionally resonant, pared-back adaptation, featuring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    Mohammad Rasoulof | 168′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere

    Now-exiled Iranian writer-director Rasoulof interweaves political activism with family drama. Winner of Cannes Prix Spécial.
  • September 5

    Tim Fehlbaum | 94′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere

    The ethics of journalistic practice are explored via events that defined the 1972 Munich Olympics.
  • Soft Leaves

    Miwako Van Weyenberg | 94′ | Belgium | World premiere

    A tender, coming-of-age story of a young girl facing up to the realities of life.
  • The Surfer

    Lorcan Finnegan | 99′ | Australia | Dutch Premiere

    Nicolas Cage is terrorised by a violent surf cult in this wildly enjoyable film.
  • Tardes de soledad

    Albert Serra | 125′ | Spain | Dutch Premiere

    Albert Serra offers us Andrés Roca Rey, star matador of this violent performance: Tauromaquia – bullfighting.
  • This City Is a Battlefield

    Mouly Surya | 118′ | Indonesia | World premiere

    A sumptuous Jakarta-set historical thriller fusing sensual romantic drama with gripping political intrigue.
  • An Unfinished Film

    Lou Ye | 106′ | Singapore | Dutch Premiere

    An unfinished film turns into a gripping record of filmmaking under confinement.
  • Vermiglio

    Maura Delpero | 119′ | Italy | Dutch Premiere

    A meditative, immersive portrait of life in rural Italy towards the end of WWII.
  • Videotheek Marco

    Gyz La Rivière | 96′ | Netherlands | World premiere

    A monument to the soon forever-lost video rental stores of Rotterdam.
  • Wishing on a Star

    Péter Kerekes | 99′ | Italy | Dutch Premiere

    A charming, Italian-style entertainment about the astrological, worldwide search for elusive happiness and surprising fate.