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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Limelight

Programme IFFR 2025

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

Still: All We Can Imagine as Light, dir. Payal Kapadia

Overview of films

  • Ik zal zien

    Mercedes Stalenhoef | 96' | Netherlands | World premiere

    After losing her eyesight, a teenage girl must relearn her world at a rehabilitation facility.

  • Julie zwijgt

    Leonardo van Dijl | 100' | Belgium | Dutch Premiere

    Weighed down by a heavy secret, a teenage tennis prodigy tries to keep her footing.

  • Kajolrekha

    Giasuddin Selim | 151' | Bangladesh | European premiere

    Exiled by a magical bird, Kajolrekha reclaims her destiny in this musical fairytale.

  • The Killers

    Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Hang-jun, Lee Myung-Se | 119' | South Korea | Dutch Premiere

    South Korean omnibus film dealing with four stories involving violence, murder and killers.

  • King Ivory

    John Swab | 130' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    The US opioid crisis is the driving issue behind this uncompromising and propulsive grindhouse thriller.

  • The Last Dance

    Anselm Chan Mou Yin | 126' | Hong Kong | Dutch Premiere

    Will this former wedding planner and Taoist priest break hell’s gates together?

  • Lilim

    Mikhail Red | 108' | Philippines | World premiere

    Runaway siblings seek refuge in an isolated orphanage controlled by a sacrificial cult.

  • Maldoror

    Fabrice Du Welz | 155' | Belgium | Dutch Premiere

    An obsessed cop attempts to crack a network of child molesters in this stark thriller.

  • Maria

    Pablo Larraín | 123' | Italy | Dutch Premiere

    Angelina Jolie brings the tormented last days of soprano Maria Callas to the silver screen.

  • Memoir of a Snail

    Adam Elliot | 95' | Australia | Dutch Premiere

    Academy Award winner Adam Elliot’s stop motion feature is a heavy but beautiful meditation on grief and loss.

  • Merckx

    Christophe Hermans, Boris Tilquin | 84' | Belgium | World premiere

    A loving portrait of the champion cyclist Eddy Merckx during his peak years of triumph.

  • Miséricorde

    Alain Guiraudie | 102' | France | Dutch Premiere

    An earthy, deliciously ambiguous tale of sex, death and mushrooms, set in a picturesque French village.