Limelight
Programme IFFR 2026
Avant-premieres and cinematic highlights of this year’s festival circuit: eagerly anticipated audience favourites and international award-winners.
Overzicht van films
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Dead Man’s Wire
Gus Van Sant | 104' | USA | Dutch Premiere
Gus Van Sant’s exhilarating true-tale of a man who stood up against an unjust mortgage system. -
El Sett
Marwan Hamed | 155' | Egypt | European premiere
A graceful and lavish portrait of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum. -
L’étranger
François Ozon | 120' | France | Dutch Premiere
Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel brought dramatically alive by François Ozon as a film noir. -
The History of Sound
Oliver Hermanus | 128' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A bittersweet chronicle of the relationship between two music students in the early 20th century, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. -
The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho | 161' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
A university professor (Wagner Moura) flees persecution with the help of a resistance network during Brazil’s dictatorship. -
Tokyo Taxi
Yoji Yamada | 103' | Japan | European premiere
A road movie taking audiences through the melancholic metropolis and nostalgic nooks of Tokyo. -
Tunnels: Sun in the Dark
Bùi Thạc Chuyên | 126' | Vietnam | European premiere
A scrappy guerrilla unit resists enemy onslaught from within a byzantine tunnel network. -
Two Prosecutors
Sergei Loznitsa | 118' | France | Dutch Premiere
A stark but absorbing drama of a young prosecutor’s struggle for justice in Stalinist Russia.
