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Captivating new adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel Sense and Sensibility: a delightful, witty, and relatable story about love and the bond between two sisters.

Vicente decides to hide his sexual orientation after moving to a nursing home. A tender character study full of humor and warmth about what it’s like to be queer in later life.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) signed Tom Cruise for a comedy of catastrophic proportions. The story: the filthy rich oil baron Digger Rockwell (Cruise) gives the climate crisis the final push by drilling through the ice in Alaska.

On the edge of a fishing village lives a fisherwoman: single, grumpy, and the target of ridicule. When she has had enough of her narrow-minded neighbors, she orders the ideal husband made of reed.

Who better than director Lukas Dhont (Girl, Close) can tenderly showcase a budding love amidst the horrors of WW I.

From Israeli creators Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, comes NAZA: an in-depth investigation into the war in Gaza.

Moving feature film debut by documentary maker Lance Oppenheim about television host Chris Hanson who made history with the show To Catch a Predator.

Wile E. Coyote is suing ACME Corporation after yet another attempt to catch the Road Runner completely fails and only leaves him with a pile of defective products.

When journalist Jan Brokken interviews the world-renowned concert pianist Youri Egorov, who has fled the Soviet Union, an unexpected but close friendship develops. A beautiful snapshot of the turbulent Amsterdam of the eighties and an intimate portrait of friendship. 

A new stop-motion adventure from the creators of Coraline. Just outside the city of Portland lies the Impassable Wilderness, a hidden forest where human outsiders are not welcome. 

In 1975, a young Indian PK falls in love with the Swedish Lotta. When she returns home, he embarks on a bike journey of more than 10,000 kilometers to find her. 

Carlobianchi and Doriano are two broke fifty-year-olds who hope to hit it big one last time. Francesco Sossai’s tragicomic road movie is a melancholic, witty, and loving ode to friendship, failures, and the art of getting lost one more time.

Marie-Lou, director of a nursing home in Paris, is trying to break conventions with an innovative care method.

In Klara and the Sun, you meet Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find her perfect home. When she meets Josie, they immediately recognize something in each other.

Intense father-daughter drama by Oscar-nominated director Rodrigo Sorogoyen. When film director Esteban Martínez returns to Spain, he unexpectedly offers his estranged daughter Emilia a leading role.

Charli XCX delivers a powerful lead performance in a quirky film by director Pete Ohs about the differences between chance and destiny.

Sara Shaverdi is the first female council member of her village in rural Iran. The documentary and its unwavering protagonist made an impression at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Bitter Christmas is an intimate personal Spanish tragicomedy, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, the acclaimed filmmaker behind titles like Madres paralelas, and The Room Next Door.

Two CIA agents find themselves on Easter Island for an apparently innocent mission, but confront their past. In this quirky buddy comedy by Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), a tropical getaway spirals into an absurdist trip filled with dark humor and paranoia.

This poignant drama about loss has toured various Dutch festivals and proves to be a big audience favorite. Carried by the phenomenal Valerie Pachner, this is one of the must-sees of the year.

Up-and-coming actor Sylvester Stallone wrote a clever screenplay about a second-rate boxer making a bid for the championship title, and sold his brainchild on the condition that he could play the lead role himself. It won three Oscars, including Best Picture.

With Godzilla Minus Zero, Takashi Yamazaki returns to Japan of the 1940s and 1950s. Yamazaki combines classic kaiju spectacle with human drama, thereby aligning Godzilla Minus Zero with the tradition of the original Godzilla from 1954.

Colorful absurdist comedy by filmmaker Boots Riley about a group of shoplifters targeting a ruthless fashion guru. The Devil Wears Prada meets Widows.

First part of an epic diptych about the wonderful rise of resistance leader (and later president) Charles de Gaulle in WWII. Director Baudry (The Wolf’s Call) presents his hero as a Don Quixote-like fighter.

Three friends dive into the hedonistic nightlife of Amsterdam until the, then mysterious, AIDS makes its entrance. 32 years later, in the lockdown of 2021, they try to revive their friendship.

Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is considered one of the most influential horror films of all time and is often regarded as the benchmark of modern horror and slasher genre. 

After Résistance, the story of Charles de Gaulle continues in Liberté, the second and concluding part of the epic diptych directed by Antonin Baudry.

An epic adventure about a classic mythological tale from India. About love, honor, and the struggle between good and evil. With beautiful music by A.R. Rahman and Hans Zimmer.

The Urban Arts Tour: Work in Progress is an inspiring walk through the city center, taking in playful works of art in public spaces created by a collective of artists from Groningen who reflect on the meaning of urban life.

Rediscover the cult classic in a stunning 4K restoration. Two childhood friends are pulled into the underworld of Neo-Tokyo in a dystopian future and must fight to survive.

On the eve of World War I, young Franz Kafka tries to combine his passion for literature with his daily responsibilities. A vivid and cinematic narrative shows Kafka as we have never seen him before. 

A delightful coming-of-age story about growing up and unexpected friendships. Featuring beautiful music by Spinvis, who won the Golden Calf for Best Music.

When filmmaker Déni inherits a piece of land in Georgia, he embarks on a quest for his roots, family, and the meaning of home. Could he start a new life here? Winner of Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.

Intense French drama based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, about a defining moment in her life: her first, far from tender, sexual experience during a summer camp.

Director Schoenbrun has created a slasher and horror parody, using these genres primarily to address a personal quest for identity, desire, and the meaning of cinema. Inventive, sexy, humorous, and moving.

With The Return, his impressive feature film debut, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Minotaur) tells a poignant story about fatherhood, trust, and the transition from child to adult.

Director, screenwriter, and lead actress Shahrbanoo Sadat paints a picture of Afghanistan with No Good Men, filled with humor and romance. The film opened at the recent Berlin Film Festival.

In the bustling Tokyo, Ren works as a delivery guy for orchids. Together with his sister Emi, they are still burdened by the loss of their mother.

Amanda's mother Leslie's advanced dementia is driving Amanda and her stepfather Martin further apart. Compelling drama by director Lance Hammer (Ballast), featuring Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

The wild nightlife of a New York club promoter is turned completely upside down when his 10-year-old son—whose existence he knew nothing about—suddenly appears in his life.

With great power comes great responsibility. But what if the heroine is a chicken? The film Hen shows that you can find humor and hope everywhere.

4K restoration of the groundbreaking, iconic film about obsession and corruption, featuring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed in the lead roles.

A wildly original and hilarious biopic about sex, drugs and hip-hop, centred on Kneecap, the activist Irish trio who, with their humour and hard-hitting beats, have once again brought the house down at numerous festivals this year. They’re performing at SPOT/De Oosterpoort on Monday 16 November!

The captivating, true story of the extremely stressful 72 hours leading up to D-Day during which choices must be made that could completely change the course of history. From the producers of Oscar-winner Darkest Hour.

Children aged 2 to 6 are welcome every Sunday morning to watch the most fun animated films and play, with their parents within reach. Check here which films we are screening.

Goofy satirical science fiction film about an ordinary American who gets frozen and wakes up centuries later in a world full of stupidity. Suddenly, he is the smartest person in the world. Twenty years later, more relevant than ever.

Director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Minotaur) explores how a single word can disrupt a family and how difficult it is to distinguish truth from fear and desire.

Groundhog Day meets video game. Every time the aliens kill Rita, her day starts over again. And she was already depressed.

A young Facebook engineer enlists the help of The Wall Street Journal for a dangerous journey that ultimately reveals the best-kept secrets of the social network. Perfect follow-up to the film The Social Network. 

Raw, original, and energetic portrait of a group of young heroin addicts in Edinburgh. Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) adapted the eponymous cult novel by Irvine Welsh into one of the most influential British films of the 1990s.

Inventive and contemporary drama by director Ilker Çatak (Das Lehrerzimmer). The marriage of the celebrated actress Derya (Özgü Namal) and director and teacher Aziz (Tansu Biçer) is under strain after they lose their jobs due to the state's arbitrariness.

Christopher Nolan's new film The Odyssey is an adventurous mythical epic based on the famous work by Homer. The star-studded cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, and Zendaya.

After David wakes up at a party in the body of a mysterious woman, he begins to search for the woman who now has his body.

Beloved for its warmth and sincerity, Shall We Dance? is regarded as a modern Japanese classic and a touching ode to ordinary people who find unexpected joy. Now showing in a new 4K restoration in honor of the 30th anniversary.

The glaciers in Iceland are melting at an alarming rate. Director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love) combines in Time and Water a family history with Icelandic myths and legends, and a poetic view on memory. 

The thirteen-year-old Nada lives with her aunt Gara in a small village in Montenegro. To the dismay of the residents, their grazing sheep must make way for a NATO training area.

The 14-year-old Qihuo has a secret, she tells her friends: she recently got her period. This means that she will receive a ceremonial skirt from her family, symbolizing the end of her childhood. 

Through archival footage, animations, and painfully candid conversations, Louis HotHotHot explores how modern Chinese history and misogyny continue to shape the lives of these women.

Hundreds of residents of a neighborhood in Glasgow rise up when two of their neighbors are picked up by immigration police. Infectious film featuring video footage, partly made by protesters. 

In this intriguing psychological thriller, you meet Donnie, a troubled teenager who struggles with his mental health and suddenly encounters a mysterious, gigantic rabbit.

Over the course of four vibrant seasons, director Luke Lorentzen immerses you in life in and around the harbor of the small town of Brooklin.

The bad news, incurable cancer, they have already received. Now Rob, Rein, Tilly, Ben, and Marian are trying to face their situation in the oncologist's office.

Geopolitical experts often describe the Russian-Ukrainian War as an abstract game of chess. It is easy to forget that real soldiers on the front lines are enduring horrific experiences.

Armed with a press jacket, phone, and camera, journalist and new father Osama captures the everyday devastation of Gaza. Citizen Osama is an empathetic and tumultuous portrait of the urge to remain human when everything around you is falling apart.

In the clear, alpine water of a river in southern Switzerland, three young Afghan refugees seek relief from the heat.

In five poignant portraits of family members and loved ones, Iranian filmmaker and actress Pegah Ahangarani intertwines her life story with that of Iran.

In the early twentieth century, a Javanese girl is lured to a Dutch colonial rubber plantation on the neighboring island of Sumatra with false promises of a better life.

“It is getting very quiet in Belarus, it is drowning under the ice.” Under the regime of dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus has been marked by daily repression for thirty years.

Who doesn't know better, thinks it's a holiday camp for young people. But this is not a vacation, it is a training camp of the People’s Defence Force in Myanmar.

Cousins Belinda and Guillermina live next to each other in the vast Argentine plains. Their neighbor Alessandra Sanguinetti is a filmmaker who has followed their childhood games, dreams, and budding desires for twenty-five years. 

William Greaves (1926-2014) was born during the Harlem Renaissance, the revival of African American art, culture, and politics. In 1972, he began a documentary about the still-living representatives.

For ten years, the film Gabin follows him as he grows up in the rural northern France between the cattle farm of his loving mother and the butcher shop of his stubborn father. 

When 16-year-old Chris goes missing, father Daniel becomes entrenched in a meticulous search along the Vistula River. Chris was last seen on a bridge in Warsaw. Did he jump or run away?

Energetic portrait of Michael Greenberg, who disrupts events with the activist group Climate Defiance in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential elections. No matter how grim the politics appear, these idealists remain stubbornly hopeful. 

In diary-like form, jumping back and forth in space and time, the bi-cultural director Viv Li searches for a home between traditional Beijing and queer Berlin, between east and west, between family and friends. A lively self-portrait full of humor and tears. 

After films about water (Aquarela) and concrete (Architecton), filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky turns his attention to trees. He observes Mancuso, who conducted groundbreaking research into the sensory experience of trees.

In any war, daily life continues, despite everything. But is it really "normal"?

Three cameras document this documentary-in-a-documentary-in-a-documentary. There is no plot or script, and the film is harder to grasp than the title is to pronounce.

Is this paradise? The 3.5 million tourists who visit the Italian Cinque Terre every year think so. The 4000 residents themselves are not so sure anymore; every summer they are overwhelmed by tourists. 

Israeli filmmaker Anet Even lost her home and friends in the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, on the kibbutz Nir Oz. She now returns, also to document what is happening on the other side of the fence.

Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world. The Parisian Loran Bonnardot has been visiting the island for thirty years and wants to settle there permanently. 

Following the conclusion of his comedic documentary series How To with John Wilson, Wilson needed to find a new platform for his humorous observations on everyday life.

In karaoke bars, the men share great stories about jobs that went awry, but they also show their vulnerable side.

Filmmakers Rachel Lauren Mueller and Laura Poitras, Oscar winner for Citizenfour, filmed and gathered footage of witnesses and victims during the raids by the U.S. Immigration Enforcement ICE.

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced each other in 1971 in a fight in which Ali hoped to regain the world title. William Greaves transformed it into an unforgettable documentary of the times.

Following the Dnieper River downstream through Russia and Belarus, Down the River observes the lives of young people growing up along its banks.

Inspired by personal experiences, the Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomes blends fiction and documentary. Gloria tells her deceased father that his granddaughter Nour is getting married.

In the last 34 days before she begins an eleven-year prison sentence, Elizabeth Holmes, the fraud-convicted founder of the infamous medical tech company Theranos, opens her doors to filmmakers Nathan Fielder.

On the plains of Morocco, young boys are initiated into Tbourida, an ancient equestrian art form in which teams, following established patterns and rituals, gallop forward as a unified front and fire gunpowder into the air.

Can't choose? Let the audience decide for you!

In Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Minotaur) exposes the hidden tensions behind the seemingly peaceful existence of a well-off couple.

It is time to reevaluate The Matrix sequels. In this edition of Film x Philosophy, we explore how masterfully The Matrix Reloaded is constructed.

November 25 marks exactly 50 years since The Band made history with a legendary farewell concert. Martin Scorsese turned this into an iconic music film, featuring Dylan, Clapton, and many other rock legends.

Be the first to see brand-new previews during the Forum's Sneak Preview. What could it be?

In the intense crime drama Paper Tiger, we follow two brothers in Queens, New York in 1986, who risk everything to realize their American dream.

4K restoration from 2025 of the classic Killer of Sheep by director Charles Burnett. A cinéma vérité-style narrative about Stan, a worker in a slaughterhouse, resident of the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles.

The Freeride Film Festival is back in the Forum with six new films! Let yourself be swept away on an unforgettable journey through the mountains and experience the ultimate winter sports atmosphere.

In Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Minotaur) confronts us with a world where personal freedom and justice are crushed by power, corruption, and religious hypocrisy. 

In this edition of Film x Philosophy we dive into the meaning of The Matrix: Revolutions, and the philosophy that underpins it.

A deeply religious and conservative Romanian-Norwegian family moves to a small community in a remote fjord in Norway.

Every month, parents, grandparents and caregivers can take their baby to see a brand new film from our program.

In Loveless, Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Minotaur) paints a disconcerting portrait of a family slowly falling apart. Nominated for an Academy Award.

Fleabag is the hilarious, award-winning, original play for one actress that formed the basis for the successful BBC series, written and performed on stage by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The audience gets an exuberant glimpse of a certain type of woman leading her own life.

Comedic musical drama, directed by Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network). What happens when an unremarkable housewife (Julianne Moore) ventures into community theater?

Is it a romantic drama? A demonic bloodbath? A romcom? A supernatural adventure story? These are the nineties: it's all of that!

Surrounded by the cuddly muppets of Jim Henson's Creature Shop is Michael Caine in the miserly sourpuss Scrooge who comes to his senses on Christmas Eve after a visit from three ghosts. Based on Charles Dickens' classic.

Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is the ultimate Christmas movie, as it is shamelessly sentimental, warmly human, and features a happy ending. Starring James Stewart, the most popular Hollywood star at the time.

Of course, it's not Christmas until you've seen Home Alone! 

Director Alexander Payne (Sideways, Downsizing) once again shows his specialty: a look at human relationships, their imperfections, but also the special, tingling moments.

Step into Middle-earth with The Fellowship of the Ring, the first instalment of Peter Jackson's epic film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece.

Following the dramatic events in The Fellowship of the Ring, the journey of the Fellowship continues in an epic second chapter.

The epic finale to Peter Jackson's masterful trilogy, winner of no fewer than 11 Oscars, a unique crowning achievement for the entire trilogy.

A young literary agent travels to Switzerland to persuade world-famous The Talented Mr Ripley author Patricia Highsmith to write another book in the Ripley thriller series.

The new film by director Danny Boyle immersively charts the lightning-fast rise of Rupert Murdoch's notorious newspaper The Sun, as he and editor-in-chief Larry Lamb lay the blueprint for British tabloid culture. Starring Guy Pearce and Jack O’Connell.

A loving, touching and sexy road romance about two men who unexpectedly grow closer to each other.

Perhaps the most fundamental question philosophy can ask is "what does it mean to be human?". Blade Runner not only asks this question beautifully, it also lets you experience it.

The sequel to the 1982 classic Blade Runner. With this edition of Film x Philosophy, we once again pose the question: what does it mean to be human?