IFFR Preview Tour 2025

Are you looking forward to IFFR 2025, and like a preview of the upcoming festival at a cinema near you? Then come to our nationwide Preview Tour! Before the festival, we will screen a film from our 2025 program in movie theaters and cinemas across the country during the week of January 9th to 15th.

The IFFR Preview Tour has reached many cinemas in the Netherlands for years and has a wide reach beyond. This year only Dutch movie theaters and cinemas will participate.

The Preview Tour will take place in the week of January 9 to 15, 2025. The film that will be shown in cinemas is Pablo Larrain’s film “Maria” (2024).

Angelina Jolie embodies the infamous opera singer, Maria Callas. Now, at the end of her life Callas lives alone in a lavish Parisian apartment, lost in her own memories and delusions she attempts to revive her voice and return to the stage.

Continuing his investigation on the women that marked the 20th century, Pablo Larraín embarks on a journey with Angelina Jolie, bringing the tormented last days of Maria Callas to the silver screen. We meet Callas, the singer and actress whose voice and face have shaped our 21st century ideas of stardom, during her retired days, on her quest to reconquer her voice. Cared for in a golden cage by her cook and butler, majestically interpreted by Alba Rohrwacher and Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria spends her days prisoner to the twilight between past and present, hallucinations and memories.

Larraín and Jolie evoke the greatest moment of Callas’ bigger than life existence, from the hardships of WWII to the height of her fame when she became the icon that we still celebrate today. Yet, even in Maria’s most lavish and glamorous moments, the true celebration is her resilience, intelligence and her ability as an artist to rise above a world of predation and greed.

Ultimately, Jolie inhabits Callas with such an intense passion that the result is more than a portrait: it is a conversation between two timeless artists.