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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Limelight

Programme IFFR 2023

Avant-premieres and cinematic highlights of this year’s festival circuit: eagerly anticipated audience favourites and international award-winners.

Still: Medusa Deluxe

Overview of films

  • Un petit frère

    Léonor Serraille | 116' | France | Dutch Premiere

    Nuanced, intimate saga of an Ivorian family’s integration into France, narrated over thirty years.

  • Saint Omer

    Alice Diop | 123' | France | Dutch Premiere

    An investigation into language, law and identity through the figure of an infanticidal mother.

  • Showing Up

    Kelly Reichardt | 108' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    A charming, witty, subtle film about the difficulty of establishing and maintaining an art career.

  • Sri Asih

    Upi | 134' | Indonesia | International premiere

    Clash of good versus evil as Indonesia’s first female superhero squares up to save humanity.

  • La stranezza

    Roberto Andò | 103' | Italy | Dutch Premiere

    Fictionalised account of novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello’s creation of Six Characters in Search of an Author.

  • Superposition

    Karoline Lyngbye | 105' | Denmark | World premiere

    An icily detached metaphysical thriller that dissects one of our culture’s most revered notions: uniqueness.

  • Surprise Film

    120' | Dutch Premiere

    With the Surprise Film, we’ll keep you in the dark until the curtains open.

  • War Pony

    Riley Keough, Gina Gammell | 115' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    Cannes Caméra d’Or winning naturalistic perspective into the lives of Lakota teenagers struggling to survive.

  • The Whale

    Darren Aronofsky | 117' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    Brendan Fraser gives an exceptional performance as a man living with obesity in a remote house in Idaho.

  • Where the Wind Blows

    Philip Yung | 144' | China | European premiere

    An epic treatment of how Hong Kong’s rule of law was built, starring Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok.

  • Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen

    Hans-Christian Schmid | 118' | Germany | International premiere

    In March 1996, millionaire academic Jan Philipp Reemtsma was kidnapped. What did his family do while waiting for his return?