VPRO Preview ochtend/middag/avond

New at IFFR: A variation on the VPRO Preview Day. Do you want to see a number of highlights from IFFR 2025? The VPRO Preview Day is divided into morning, afternoon, and evening. Choose a time slot and watch two out of the six festival hits, selected by IFFR programmers and the editors of VPRO Cinema.

The programme is a shortened version of theVPRO Preview Day: two out of six films. Do you want to see the full selection? Please visit the VPRO Preview Day on Thursday 30 January in Pathé Schouwburgplein or the VPRO Review Day on Friday 7 February in LantarenVenster.

The VPRO Preview: morning/afternoon/evening takes place on Thursday 30 January at Pathé Schouwburgplein and consists of three time slots to choose from:

Morning:

Film 1: Pathé 4 10:00

Alpha.
Netherlands – 2024 – Jan-Willem van Ewijk – 100 min.
In this icy father-son drama by Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Gijs’ visit to his son Rein not only tests his skiing skills but also their relationship. Starring real-life father and son, Reinout and Gijs Scholten van Aschat.

Film 2: Pathé 4 12:10

Memoir of a Snail
Australia – 2024 – Adam Elliot – 95 min.
Separated as children, twins Grace and Gilbert are completely alone as they try to find their bearings in the world in Adam Elliot’s masterful stop motion animation, a heavy but beautiful meditation on grief and loss.

Afternoon:

Film 3: Pathé 4 14:40

Ghost Trail
France – 2024 – Jonathan Millet – 106 min.
A former detainee of the brutal Syrian regime tracks down the man he believes to be his torturer. In Jonathan Millet’s quietly intense thriller set in Strasbourg, justice is personal, but must be carried out with razor-sharp accuracy.

Film 4: Pathé 4 16:45

Dead Talents Society
Taiwan – 2024 – John Hsu – 110 min.
A young ghost with low self-esteem becomes the protégée of a washed-up spectress-diva who teaches her how to scare humans. John Hsu returns to IFFR with his sophomore feature, a delightful horror comedy of found family and personal growth.

Evening:

Film 5: Pathé 4 19:55

Kouté vwa
Belgium- 2024 – Maxime Jean-Baptiste – 77 min.
In modern-day French Guiana, a teenage boy spends the summer with his grandmother unearthing the complexities of identity and the circumstances that led to his uncle’s murder. An intimate portrait of a family – and community – on the mend.

Film 6: Pathé 4 21:30

Vermiglio
Italy – 2024 – Maura Delpero – 119 min.
Maura Delpero’s striking pastoral drama chronicles the passage of time in a rural Italian mountain village as the Second World War nears its end, and the fate of a young woman after she falls for a handsome deserter who has taken refuge there.

Note: all films are shown in their original language. Although most films are subtitled in English, some will only have Dutch subtitles.

Tickets for the VPRO Review Day morning/afternoon/evening 2025 are €22 (standard rate) and €16 (youth rate; under 23).