Limelight
Programme IFFR 2025
Avant-premieres and cinematic highlights of this year’s festival circuit: eagerly anticipated audience favourites and international award-winners.
Overview of films
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Closing Night: This City is a Battlefield + Party
As the 54th edition of the festival draws to a close, we invite you to our Closing Night. -
Closing Night: This City is a Battlefield
As the 54th edition of the festival draws to a close, we invite you to our Closing Night. -
L’abbaglio
Roberto Andò | 131' | Italy | International premiere
A wily Colonel leads a difficult mission during the Expedition of the Thousand in 1860. -
Opening Night: Fabula
The 54th edition of IFFR begins with the crime comedy Fabula, the festival’s opening film. -
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia | 115' | France | Dutch Premiere
In this Cannes Grand Prix winner, three nurses navigate loss and longing in rapidly growing Mumbai. -
L’amour ouf
Gilles Lellouche | 166' | Belgium | Dutch Premiere
An explosive teenage love story, spanning two decades and featuring among others Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil. -
Opening Night: Fabula + Party
This year, general audiences are warmly invited to join the Opening Night Party in ‘de Doelen’, following the opening film. -
Blazing Fists
Miike Takashi | 120' | Japan | International premiere
From a juvenile reformatory, two friends desperately try to change their place in Japanese society. -
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet | 215' | USA | Dutch Premiere
Brady Corbet’s breathtakingly ambitious critique of unfettered capitalism and the power of art to transform. -
Caught by the Tides
Jia Zhangke | 111' | China | Dutch Premiere
Jia Zhangke returns with an intimate epic charting love and sacrifice in contemporary China. -
La Chambre de Mariana
Emmanuel Finkiel | 130' | France | World premiere
A unique tale of survival and revelation, set in Ukraine during the Second World War.
