Christmas holidays in Eye

still Niko voorbij het noorderlicht (Kari Juusonen & Jørgen Lerdam, FI/DE/IE/DK 2024)

Come to Eye Filmmuseum during the Christmas holidays! Watch, make and play during Cinemini and Filmmagie specials, take part in a workshop and make your own kaleidoscope, watch the most beautiful children's films, create your own stop-motion animation or discover the power of your eyes with Mission Super Eyes, the discovery route for families.

Free walk-in activity: Drawing with light

Follow the light to the studio and take part in the free walk-in activity on 29 December or 2 January between 13:30 and 16:00. Build your own flashlight and use it to create light drawings on the big screen.

Create your own kaleidoscope (© Corinne de Korver)

Workshop: Maak je eigen caleidoscoop

Discover shapes and colours and make a cool light show with your own kaleidoscope.

Workshop: Film maken van verborgen werelden

After brief visit to the Underground exhibition, the children use their pocket microscopes to find footage for their own film collage.

A father and child enjoy a Taartrovers screening in the cinema (© Almicheal Fraay)

Cinemini: watch & play (2+)

During the holidays there is Cinemini for toddlers and preschoolers every morning in the enchanting Cinemini cinema. Enjoy beautiful films and then play in a light landscape.

During Filmmagie, kids aged between 6 and 10 sit at a long table and use coloured pencils to work on their drawings for their flip book

Film magic: Watching and making

Discover the most beautiful short films together and then get started with film strips or flip books.

Discovery route for families

For children from 4 to 12 years old and their parents or supervisors, Mission Super Eyes is a discovery route criss-crossing the museum building.

still from Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, FR/LV/BE 2024)

still Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, FR/LV/BE 2024)

Create your own Flow animation

Create your own stop-motion animation at the Animation Tables in the Arena with the character from the film Flow, which will screen throughout the Christmas holidays.

poster Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, FR/LV/BE 2024)

Children's screenings

Four kids move in front of the Green Screen installation

Exhibition: What is Film?

Find out more about the history of film, make your very own crazy mini-film or chill in a film pod. It's all possible in the interactive exhibition What is Film?.

Audio benches

Take a seat on the audio benches in Eye Filmmuseum and listen to Hiba's cheerful story about voice acting in the film Knor. To be found at the top of the stairs.

still from Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, US 1958)

Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, US 1958) (Courtesy of Milestone Films and the Shirley Clarke Estate)

Underground – American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s

Eye highlights the American avant-garde cinema in the 1960s. The exhibition, along with an extensive film programme, features screenings of both iconic and lesser-known works.

In a futurist image veering on magical realism, a couple kiss as they hover perilously high above a city skyline

still Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US 2024)

Feat or Failure

Rondom Coppola's Megalopolis zijn meer grootse films te zien die later hun tijd ver vooruit bleken, maar in hun eigen tijd niet goed begrepen werden.

still from It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, US 1947)

It's a Wonderful Life

The ultimate Christmas film. James Stewart plays the suicidal George Bailey; guardian angel Clarence helps the former change his mind.

Celluloid

In Eye Filmmuseum kun je film op celluloid ervaren – er worden regelmatig analoge films op 35- en 70mm filmstrips vertoond.

still The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, ES/US 2024)

The Room Next Door

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton sparkle in Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language production. An incisive look at friendship, mortality and mother-daughter relationships.