Historical
A list of films
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Amrum
Fatih Akin | 93′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere
The end of Nazi Germany seen through the eyes of a young boy on a North Sea island. -
Between Arms
Rob Nevis | 75′ | Sri Lanka | World premiere
A tale of impossible love in times of war finished years after it was shot. -
Dead Man’s Wire
Gus Van Sant | 104′ | USA | Dutch Premiere
Gus Van Sant’s exhilarating true-tale of a man who stood up against an unjust mortgage system. -
The History of Sound
Oliver Hermanus | 128′ | USA | Dutch Premiere
A bittersweet chronicle of the relationship between two music students in the early 20th century, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. -
Holofiction
Michal Kosakowski | 102′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere
An intellectually engaging and emotionally devastating essay film on our shared visual history. -
Isan Odyssey
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 80′ | Thailand | International premiere
A journey in song and dance through the suppressed chapters of Thailand’s political history. -
The Kidnapping of a President
Samuli Valkama | 82′ | Finland | World premiere
The kidnapping of Finland’s first president as a comedy full of merrily dark laughter. -
The Killing of Meghnad
Ashish Avikunthak | 93′ | India | World premiere
Gods, demons and men prepare for battle in a minimalist reimagination of a mythological epic. -
Kira & El Gin
Marwan Hamed | 175′ | Egypt | No premiere
Action-packed anti-colonial epic about an underground resistance unit in Cairo in the 1920s. -
Lotus
Signe Birkova | 117′ | Latvia | Dutch Premiere
A fantasy about Latvia’s first female director. Filmmaking as visual witchcraft – 24 spells per second. -
Moonglow
Isabel Sandoval | 108′ | Philippines | World premiere
Dahlia, a police officer, is tasked with investigating the heist she secretly committed. -
Motherwitch
Minos Papas | 104′ | Cyprus | World premiere
A grieving mother attempts to reanimate her dead children in this visceral folk-horror. -
Palestine 36
Annemarie Jacir | 119′ | Palestine | Dutch Premiere
1930s Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule is brought to the screen through historical detail and visual splendour. -
Parasakthi
Sudha Kongara | 163′ | India | Dutch Premiere
His involvement with a student movement puts Chezhiyan into a life and death struggle with a ruthless intelligence agent. -
Phra Ruang: Rise of the Empire
Chartchai Ketnust | 118′ | Thailand | International premiere
A theatre troupe stages a modern interpretation of a canonical epic about Thailand’s first dynasty. -
El Sett
Marwan Hamed | 155′ | Egypt | European premiere
A graceful and lavish portrait of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum. -
Silent Friend
Ildikó Enyedi | 147′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere
Three stories, three moments in time and one gingko tree. Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Léa Seydoux. -
Sound of Falling
Mascha Schilinski | 155′ | Germany | Dutch Premiere
A dreamlike, shattering vision of four generations of German women suffering since World War I. -
Special Unit – The First Murder
Christoffer Boe | 127′ | Denmark | Dutch Premiere
A visually seductive and suspenseful Danish crime drama, based on a cult TV series. -
A Survivor’s Tale
Micha Wald | 102′ | Belgium | Dutch Premiere
A noblewoman is left for dead on a barren island, in this breathtaking historical drama. -
The Testament of Ann Lee
Mona Fastvold | 130′ | United Kingdom | Dutch Premiere
Co-written with Brady Corbet (The Brutalist, IFFR 2025), Mona Fastvold’s utopian biopic recounts the founding of the radical Shakers movement. -
Time Will Not Tell
Htoo Lwin Myo | 72′ | Myanmar | World premiere
A lecture-performance essay examining some of the earliest pre-cinematic objects portraying Myanmar’s colonial past: magic lantern slides. -
Tracing to Expo ’70
Liao Hsiang-Hsiung | 97′ | Taiwan | No premiere
A musical, a travelogue, a mystery: three kinds of movies in one dazzling film. -
Tunnels: Sun in the Dark
Bùi Thạc Chuyên | 126′ | Vietnam | European premiere
A scrappy guerrilla unit resists enemy onslaught from within a byzantine tunnel network. -
Tussen broers (Between Brothers)
Tom Fassaert | 106′ | Netherlands | World premiere
A moving and tragicomic family portrait by Tom Fassaert about the special bond between his father and his uncle. -
Two Prosecutors
Sergei Loznitsa | 118′ | France | Dutch Premiere
A stark but absorbing drama of a young prosecutor’s struggle for justice in Stalinist Russia. -
Unerasable!
Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos | 97′ | Belgium | World premiere
An exiled filmmaker confronts repression, dislocation and bureaucracy, forging a serenely poetic resistance against all odds. -
The Waves Saga
Badrul Munir | 64′ | Indonesia | World premiere
Folklore and scientific research combine to illuminate environmental catastrophe in this thoughtful documentary on geomythology. -
WOLFGANG
Filmsaaz | 98′ | Iran | World premiere
A genre-defying opera about an exiled Iranian artist in Paris, told through Mozart’s life.
