
Imagine Film Festival

The Netherland’s largest festival for fantastic film will take place from Wednesday the 11th to Saturday the 21st of April 2018 in EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam. Just like previous years, the 34th edition of the festival puts its focus on original and pioneering horror, science fiction and fantasy films.
Over the course of 11 days, Imagine Film Festival offers the capital more than 50 feature films and 35 short films with the fantastical at heart. Next to the film programme, the festival will zoom in on subjects like diversity both in front and behind the camera, and a broad variety of narrative forms, among which virtual reality.
Next to its film programme, Imagine offers an extensive programme of workshops, introductions to screenings, Q&A’s, masterclasses and an interactive exposition inspired by Joseph Campbell’s ‘The Hero’s Journey’. Also, festival visitors will be welcomed at the Imagine Film Festival café on the vide in EYE for a daily talk show.
The past: Lanterna Magica
Curious about the way sci-fi, horror and fantasy were narrated in the past? Before cinema, fantastic stories were told using the so-called Lanterna Magica. This lantern projected images on the wall, using glass and a transparent image. At Imagine, this technique will be revived in a collaboration between Annet Duller and Wim Bos - collectors of magic lantern images - and Sahand Sahebdivandi from the Amsterdam storytellers collective Mezrab!
The future: Virtual Reality
Next to old storytelling techniques, Imagine also takes a leap into the future using Virtual Reality: a young technology that evokes experiment in the moving image. Let your senses be tickled by this new technology. We present a programme of the best fantastic VR experiences of the past year.
Zeitgeist: remakes and reboots
Not only will we travel through time in the realm of techniques: we also invite you to explore the zeitgeist in remakes and reboots. In his audiovisual essay, with an abundance of film clips, Peet Gelderblom elaborates on the political and social aspects of the four versions that have been produced based on Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers from 1955.
The full programme will be revealed in the upcoming months and ticket sales start March 20th.
Het volledige programma wordt in februari 2018 bekend gemaakt en de kaartverkoop start op dinsdag 20 maart. (Imagine Film Festival)
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Full programme
From A to Z
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film
Cinema Egzotik: The Night of Jeff Goldblum
Double bill, 2018 -
lecture
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film
Imagine - A Day
Cho Sun-ho, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds
Kim Yong-hwa, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Animals
Greg Zgilinski, 2017 -
special
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film
Imagine - Brawl in Cell Block 99
S. Zahler, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Compulsion
Angel González, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Dhogs (+ Santa Ana)
Andrés Goteira, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Downrange
Ryûhei Kitamura, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Embrace Me (+ Shiner)
Javier Rao, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Family
Veronica Kedar, IL 2017 -
film
Imagine - Four Hands (Die Vierhändige)
Olivier Kienle, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Ghost Stories
Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Glass Garden
Shin Su-won, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Heksen! Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse
Lukas Feigelgeld, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Heksen! The Changeover
Miranda Harcourt, Stuart McKenzie, 2017 -
film
Imagine - How to Talk to Girls at Parties
John Mitchell, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Human, Space, Time and Human
Ki-Duk Kim, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Incident in a Ghost Land
Pascal Laugier, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Junk Head
Takahide Hori, JP 2017 -
film
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film
Imagine - King Cohen
Steve Mitchell, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Les Affamés
Robin Aubert, CA 2017 -
film
Imagine - Let the Corpses Tan
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2017 -
film
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lecture
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film
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film
Imagine - Mayhem (+ Stretch)
Joe Lynch, 2017 -
special
Imagine - Minding His Gap: Rosto & Thee Wreckers Tetralogy
Rosto A.D., 2018 -
film
Imagine - Mom and Dad
Brian Taylor, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Mon Mon Mon MONSTERS
Giddens Ko, 2017 -
film
Imagine - My Friend Dahmer
Marc Meyers, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Nieuw Nederlands Peil
Various directors, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Nieuw Nederlands Peil Reprise
Various directors, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Pyewacket
- Macdonald, CA 2018 -
film
Imagine - Revenge
Coralie Fargeat, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Straight to Video: Cheerleader Camp
John Quinn, 1988 -
film
Imagine - Straight to Video: Friday the 13th part VI: Jason lives
Tom McLoughlin, 1986 -
film
Imagine - Terrifier
Damian Leone, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Big Lebowski: 20th Anniversary!
Joel Coen, 1998 -
film
Imagine - The Changeover
Miranda Harcourt, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Cured
David Freyne, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Endless
Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Lodgers
Brian O'Malley, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Man with the Magic Box
Bodo Kox, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Place
Paolo Genovese, 2017 -
film
Imagine - The Scythian
Rustam Mosafir, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Thriller - A Cruel Picture
Bo Arne Vibenius, 1974 -
film
Imagine - Tower. A Bright Day
- Szelc, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Tragedy Girls
Tyler MacIntyre, 2017 -
film
Imagine - Unsane
Steven Soderbergh, 2018 -
workshop
Imagine - Workshop Recut
Faye de Wilde, 2018 -
workshop
Imagine - Workshop Spannend verhaal schrijven
René Appel, 2018 -
film
Imagine - Workshop Worldbuilding
Romke Faber, 2018 -
film
Imagine - World of Darkness
Kevin Lee, Giles Alderson, 2017 -
film and music
Imagine Filmconcert - Frankenstein
James Whale, 1931 -
special
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special
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special
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special
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special