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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Limelight

Overview of films

  • Opening Night: Fabula + Party

    This year, general audiences are warmly invited to join the Opening Night Party in ‘de Doelen’, following the opening film.

  • Next Film Patrons: Vox Lux

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  • Babyteeth

    Shannon Murphy | 120' | Australia | None

    Comic, heart-warming, tragic drama about love, pain and letting go in the life of a terminally ill teenager.

  • Bacurau

    Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles | 130' | Brazil | None

    A furious genre mash-up of Western, horror and sci-fi that projects Brazil’s disturbing reality several years into the future.

  • Badak

    M. Raihan Halim | 93' | Singapore | European premiere

    Hip-hop and sign language jostle for emotional space in a feel-good, music-driven family drama.

  • Balloon

    Pema Tseden | 102' | China | None

    Cheerfully melancholic story of Tibet in the 1980s, as China’s one-child policy encroaches on Buddhist traditions and condoms can become balloons.

  • Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

    Eva Husson | 98' | France | None

    In the respectable suburbs of Biarritz, adolescents fill the time with school, going to the beach, messaging and… group sex. One thing leads to anothe

  • The Barefoot Emperor

    Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | 98' | Belgium | None

    Politics becomes absurdist theatre in this sequel to festival hit King of the Belgians – understated humour and refreshing satire.

  • 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.

  • Beanpole

    Kantemir Balagov | 134' | Russia | None

    In his visually overwhelming second film, mega-talent Kantemir Balagov reveals the war traumas of two women who fought in the Red Army.

  • The Beast in the Jungle

    Clara van Gool | 85' | Luxembourg | World premiere

    Melancholy contemplation on the elapse of time mixes costume drama with dance. After a 1903 Henry James novella.

  • Beast

    Michael Pearce | 107' | United Kingdom | None

    Against the backdrop of a series of unsolved murders on the island of Jersey, a relationship blossoms between Moll and Pascal. For her respectable fam