All programmes
Themes, series, and festivals
Now and soon in Eye
Cinedans 2024
20 to 24 March, Cinedans celebrates 20 years of daring, beautiful and fascinating dance films with a showcase of new and exciting stories told through the prism of the moving body.
Cinemini
Every Sunday morning, children aged 2 to 6 are treated to a film, followed by experiments with light and shadow in small play tents.
Claire Denis – Trouble-Making Magic
Claire Denis probes the consequences of colonialism and the feeling of being an outsider, devoting particular attention to family tensions, sensuality, desire and the body.
Eye Classics
Eye now brings film history even closer with Eye Classics. On the big screen, screened in 35mm whenever possible.
Eye International Conference 2024
26 through 29 May 2024, the 9th Eye International Conference will take place in Eye Filmmuseum.
Eye Meets Marmoucha
Eye and Marmoucha (a collective for music and culture from North Africa and the Middle East) join forces. Featuring exceptional silent films with live musical accompaniment.
Eye on Art
Ongoing series with programming on the intersection between film and other arts.
Eye on Sound
Eye focuses on the dynamic relationship between sound and vision in different thematic programmes. Together they are Eye on Sound.
Filmmagie
Filmmagie is watching and making. Discover the magic of cinema with short animations from Eye’s extensive collection. The children will draw their own flipbooks.
Kaboom Animation Festival 2024
Kaboom Animation Festival 2024 says: Welcome Home. From 11 through 14 April, the festival explores the theme of home in animation.
Koolhoven & Simons
Martin Koolhoven and Ronald Simons present a monthly ode to genre cinema. A tribute to rarely screened trailers and forgotten classics, where possible in 35mm.
Nu:Reality
Put on your VR headset and step into a world where you can see the world like never before. Submerge yourself in 360° VR films and interactive installations.
Paravel & Castaing-Taylor – Cosmic Realism
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are continuously looking to create a fresh new film language that goes beyond traditional human-centred perspectives in anthropology.
Previously Unreleased
Selected for (inter)national festivals, but never shown in Dutch cinemas on wide release. Every summer, Eye puts an end to this injustice with Previously Unreleased.
Restored & Unseen
Restored classics and rediscovered films, with introductions by experts.
This is Film! 2024
Under the theme of ‘Presenting of Audiovisual Collections: Experiments and Explorations’, scholars and professionals present and discuss archival practices and initiatives.
Virtual Reality in Eye
Virtual Reality in Eye presents VR experiences by artists and filmmakers that offer alternative and challenging views of our world, touch our emotions, and make us stop and think.