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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

RTM

Overview of films

  • Boxing Against the Binary

    Esmée van Loon | 17' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Welcome to Rotterdam’s Queer Gym: a safe space for queer folk to move their bodies.
  • Broken

    Hyewon Jung | 7' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A broken doll gains new insights into life in this carefully crafted stop-motion animation, created with a variety of materials.
  • bubble bubble

    Vincent Boy Kars, Rutger Nijkamp | 57' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Three pairs of artists are left in the same room for a couple of hours…
  • Bubbling Baby

    Sharine Rijsenburg | 19' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A celebration of a heritage often overlooked, Bubbling dance culture is reframed and reclaimed.
  • Burnt Toast

    Helen Anna Flanagan | 25' | Netherlands | World premiere (festival)

    A contemporary ghost story that blurs the line between illusion and performance.
  • Dream State

    A journey in five short films to the land between dream and reality, where the mundane just may be science fiction – and vice versa.
  • Caltha

    Isabel Legate | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    The myth of the Caltha flower becomes a visceral short film about floods of desires.
  • RTM Talk: Unsung Heroes

    Who are the names in the credits of a film?
  • Centre for Creativity

    Nick Thomas, Marta Hryniuk | 22' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A tribute to the unseen spaces of wartime Ukraine: survival, solidarity and creativity practices intermingle.
  • CHIME – An Extended View

    Jeanine Verloop | 22' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Super slow motion shots of vibrating three-dimensional glass strings reveal a world that extends beyond time and our visual perception.
  • The Clearing

    Marco Douma, Roel Meelkop | 8' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Time and space dissolve in this enigmatic short film with a haunting ambient score.
  • Echoes of Perception

    Artistic rituals and finding new ways of looking towards the past, present and future is key when talking about creating.