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Eye rents out films from its collection to Dutch cinemas. These range from early to contemporary films, and from classics to the latest experimental productions.

Still from The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902).

Eye rents out all genres of films to Dutch cinemas. The Eye distribution collection includes more than 2,000 titles and is still growing. New acquisitions mainly consist of digitally restored classics and experimental productions.
Examples include films by David Lynch and Jacques Tati, rediscovered early masterpieces, or films by experimental new filmmakers that feature surprising subject matter or techniques. The acquisitions made from 2012 onwards are only available in the DCP (Digital Cinema Package) format.

Korte Film Poule

The Korte Film Poule has started for distribution of the short film. Theaters can book short films unlimitedly in the form of a subscription.

Suggestions for retrospective or course

Filmgeschiedenis

- The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902) (NL, 2020)

- Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, US 2016)

- Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now (Baris Azman, NL 2019)

- Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones, FR/US 2015)

Literatuur

- Als twee druppels water (Fons Rademakers, NL 1963)

- La dentellière (Claude Goretta, 1977)

- Dovlatov (Aleksei German Jr., RU/PL/RS 2018)

- Heat and Dust (James Ivory, GB 1983)

- Howards End (James Ivory, GB 1992)

- João en het mes (George Sluizer, NL 1972)

- Maurice (James Ivory, GB 1987)

- Solaris (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1972)

- Stalker (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1979)

Coming of age

- Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, SE 1982)

- De jeugd van Ivan (Ivan's Childhood) (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1962)

- Paradies: Hoffnung (Ulrich Seidl, AT/FR/DE 2013)

- Park (Previously Unreleased) (Sofia Exarchou, GR/PL 2016)

- Postcards from the Zoo (Edwin, SE/DE/ID 2012)

- Tarde para morir joven (Domingo Sotomayor, CL/BR/AR/NL/QA 2018, 110’)

- Y’aura t’il de la neige à Noël? (Sandrine Veysset, FR 1996)

Documentaire

- Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (Andrej Andrejevitsj Tarkovski, IT/RU/SE 2019)

- Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, US 2016)

- Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now (Baris Azman, NL 2019)

- El sicario, Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi, FR/US 2010)

- Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones, FR/US 2015)

- The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, FR/IT 2015)

Previously Unreleased

- Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (Thomas Heise DE/AT 2019)

- Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, PT 2019)

- God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (Teona Strugar Mitevska, MK/BE/SL/FR/CR 2019)

- Blanco en blanco (Théo Court, ES/CL/FR/DE, 2019)

- Three Summers (Sandra Kogut, BR/FR 2019)

- Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, US 2016)

- Dovlatov (Aleksei German Jr., RU/PL/RS 2018)

- Hot Country, Cold Winter (David Safarian, AM 2016)

- Park (Sofia Exarchou, GR/PL 2016)

- Rey (Niles Atallah, CL/FR 2017)

- Tarde para morir joven (Domingo Sotomayor, CL/BR/AR/NL/QA 2018)

Filmmakers and actors

Films of James Ivory
- Shakespeare-Wallah (James Ivory, GB 1965)
- Autobiography of a Princess (James Ivory, GB 1975)
- Heat and Dust (James Ivory, GB 1983)
- Maurice (James Ivory, GB 1987)
- Howards End (James Ivory, GB 1992)

Films of David Lynch
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch, US/UK 1980)
- Lost Highway (David Lynch, US 1997)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, US 2001)

Films of Roberto Minervini
- The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, FR/IT 2015)
- Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini, US/IT/BE 2013)

Films of Andrej Tarkovski
- Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (Andrej Andrejevitsj Tarkovski, IT/RU/SE 2019)
- Andrej Roebljov (Andrei Rublev) (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1966)
- De jeugd van Ivan (Ivan's Childhood) (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1962)
- Solaris (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1972)
- De spiegel (The Mirror) (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1975)
- Het offer (The Sacrifice) (Andrej Tarkovski, SE/GB/FR 1986)
- Stalker (Andrej Tarkovski, SU 1979)

Films of Tsai Ming-liang
- Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang, TW 1992)
- Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, TW 1994)
- The River (Tsai Ming-Liang, TW 1997)

Per country/language

Netherlands
- Als twee druppels water (Fons Rademakers, NL 1963)
- Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now (Baris Azman, NL 2019)
- Fietsen naar de maan (Jef van der Heijden, NL 1963)
- João en het mes (George Sluizer, NL 1972)
- Obsessions (Pim de la Parra, NL/DE 1969) + voorfilm - Joop (Pim de la Parra, NL 1969, 10')
- Wan Pipel (Pim de la Parra, NL/SR 1976)
- Wilde mossels (Erik de Bruyn, NL 2000)

Great Britain
- Films van James Ivory
- Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, GB 2012)

Italy
- La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, IT 1960)
- Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini, IT 1963)
- La Meglio Gioventù (Marco Tullio Giordana, IT 2003)

Russia/Soviet Union
→ Films van Andrej Tarkovski
- Dovlatov (Aleksei German Jr., RU/PL/RS 2018)
- Kom en zie (Idi i smotri) (Elem Klimov, SU 1985)
- The Major (Joerik Bykov, RU 2013)
- The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, RU 2003)

French
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 - Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, BE/FR 1975)
- Les rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman, FR/BE/DU 1978)
- Un homme et un femme (Claude Lelouche, FR 1969)
- Alléluia (Fabrice Du Welz, BE/FR 2014)
- La dentellière (Claude Goretta, 1977)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, FR/JP 1959)
- Le mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, FR 1963)