Comedy
A list of films
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100 Nights of Hero
Julia Jackman | 92′ | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
A lady and her maid in a fantastical world find liberation from patriarchy through storytelling. -
3 Days in September
Tudor Giurgiu | 78′ | Romania | World premiere
A volatile blend of romance and despair, charting a seaside wedding’s sudden collapse. -
Art Is Dark and Full of Horrors
Artemio Narro | 120′ | Mexico | World premiere
An outrageous satire of the Mexican art world that pits insecure artists against predatory curators. -
Bazaar (Murder in the Building)
Rémi Bezançon | 106′ | France | World premiere
A crime writer becomes caught in a real-life mystery in this crowd-pleasing comedy thriller. -
Bowels of Hell
Gustavo Vinagre, Gurcius Gewdner | 111′ | Brazil | World premiere
An irreverent horror-comedy about gender, birth and grief – where toilets play a major role. -
Cauchemar conseil
Renaud Després-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk | 148′ | Canada | International premiere
An insomniac student is liberated by spontaneous female friendship in this playful alternative buddy movie. -
Complaint No. 713317
Yasser Shafiey | 80′ | Egypt | International premiere
An absurd battle over a broken fridge becomes a tender reckoning with love and ageing. -
Conrad & Crab – Idiotic Gems
Claude Schmitz | 96′ | Belgium | World premiere
Two unglamorous detectives stir up whimsically comic trouble in a small French town. -
Fackham Hall
Jim O’Hanlon | 107′ | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
Downton Abbey goes haywire in this irresistibly silly, joke-packed spoof of English country house dramas. -
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Sean Dunn | 103′ | United Kingdom | World premiere
A darkly comic study of the fictions we cling to when everything around us shifts. -
Father Mother Sister Brother
Jim Jarmusch | 110′ | USA | Dutch Premiere
Jim Jarmusch’s intimate elegy on familial relations unfolds across three star-studded vignettes, earning him the Golden Lion at Venice. -
Let Them Be Seen
Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi | 75′ | South Africa | World premiere
On the outskirts of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, a village and its eccentric inhabitants take centre stage. -
Life Is Life
Riccardo Milani | 118′ | Italy | Dutch Premiere
A Sardinian shepherd takes on a hardheaded Milanese businessman in this charming David and Goliath story. -
Maddie’s Secret
John Early | 98′ | USA | European premiere
Leave all cynicism aside for this blend of sincere melodrama and outrageous humour from pre-eminent alt-comedy star John Early. -
Il Maestro
Andrea Di Stefano | 125′ | Italy | Dutch Premiere
Against the backdrop of sunsoaked 1980s Italy, a teenage tennis prodigy strikes an unlikely friendship. -
Marius
Alexander Korda | 127′ | France | No premiere
A Marseille-set love story that became an instant classic of regionally rooted realist French cinema. -
My Daughter Is a Zombie
Pil Gam-Sung | 114′ | South Korea | Dutch Premiere
A father tries re-educating his teenage zombie daughter, while protecting her from a hostile world. -
No Hit Wonder
Florian Dietrich | 118′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere
An emotionally rich comedy about a failed rock star in hospital, tasked with setting up an all-patients choir. -
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook | 139′ | South Korea | Dutch Premiere
To regain his dream life, Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) gets deadly creative in Park Chan-wook’s absurd, macabre comedy. -
Now I Met Her
Luxi Xiao | 121′ | China | World premiere
A teenager discovers his late mother’s diary and begins piecing together the life she once led. -
The Originals
Marwan Hamed | 125′ | Egypt | Dutch Premiere
A family man gets recruited by a shady organisation claiming to be the guardians of the land in this ingenious satire. -
Providence and the Guitar
João Nicolau | 125′ | Portugal | World premiere
Leon and Elvira are two performers trying to keep their stage careers afloat in this romantic and witty fable. -
Treat Her Like a Lady
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito | 110′ | Netherlands | World premiere
Can eviction be revamped as a family holiday? A colourful tale of one woman’s resilience. -
A Useful Ghost
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | 130′ | Thailand | Dutch Premiere
A possessed vacuum cleaner becomes a national hero in an explosively political comic fantasy. -
Victor comme tout le monde
Pascal Bonitzer | 89′ | France | International premiere
An actor devoted to Victor Hugo finds his artistic values and lifestyle challenged by women.
