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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

RTM

Overview of films

  • The Antarctic Gardener

    Elisa Strinna | 24' | Italy | World premiere (festival)

    A woman creates life where it cannot be while the forces of Antarctic nature rage all around.

  • Future of Our Soil

    Four short films celebrate fertile soil as the source of life and of myths that shape past, present and future.

  • Invisible City

    A portrait of a past, present and future Rotterdam.

  • Rotterdam Dreams

  • The Dehumanising of Things

    A (sur)realistic and confrontational mirror on human behaviour.

  • Baksteen verhalen

    23' | Netherlands | None

  • The Battle of Empty Stomachs

    Diana Al-Halabi | 23' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A poetic tribute to the resistance of Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers.

  • The Battle of Empty Stomachs

    Diana Al-Halabi | 23' | Netherlands | None

    A poetic tribute to the resistance of Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers.

  • Berichten uit de Hunkerbunker

    Carel van Hees | 56' | Netherlands | World premiere

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, Carel van Hees meets a remarkable co-resident of Rotterdam’s RVS flats.

  • Blue Rock

    Lasse Jonas Rogie | 29' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Gevano and Pelle were best friends until losing touch. Years later, they reunite in prison.

  • Book and Knife

    Miku Sato | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Culinary shadow play, where three women and a restaurant follow various recipes to prepare soto/saoto.

  • Bouw Museum Boymans

    George Leonardus Theijssen | 82' | Netherlands | None

    Six-episode, silent documentary about the construction of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen between 1932 and 1935.