Shell Shock: The power of storytelling

A preview of Eye’s Shell Shock programme, with snap lectures by film specialist Patricia Pisters and...

Animation films rarely deal with reality, let alone with resolving traumatic events that are all too...

The all-time classic Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in the lead role as the deranged,...

Anti-war film with a compelling climax in which the fallen on the battlefield of WWI rise up to accuse...

 They’ve all been psychologically damaged, the Dutch veterans of UN peace missions who tell their...

Theatre and filmmaker Lola Arias brought together six veterans of  the Falklands War (1982). Three...

What do the affluent Mrs. Dalloway (Vanessa Redgrave) and a traumatized British officer have in common...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary on the paramilitary commandos who killed nearly a million Indonesian...

A French actress in Hiroshima (Emmanuelle Riva) falls in love with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada)...

Artist and social activist Amar Kanwar investigates in his deeply unsettling yet poignant work the...

What does it mean to inflict death from a distance of well over 10,000 kilometres? Filmmaker David...

Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) sees ghosts, or rather: demons. Do they really exist or are...

Veteran soldier Kenzo Okuzaki is prepared to literally knock confessions out of witnesses to find out...

Animation films rarely deal with reality, let alone with resolving traumatic events that are all too...

A couple is reunited with their son who returns home after his posting to Afghanistan. They continue...

Fresh from Vietnam, John Rambo is again forced to throw punches. This time the adversary is not the...

A murder is committed against the backdrop of McCarthy’s anti-Communist witch-hunt and the Korean war...

The all-time classic Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in the lead role as the deranged,...

 They’ve all been psychologically damaged, the Dutch veterans of UN peace missions who tell their...

What do the affluent Mrs. Dalloway (Vanessa Redgrave) and a traumatized British officer have in common...

Ted Striker is a traumatized former Air Force pilot stuck on a flight in what is regarded by many as...

The Stopover is a powerful drama about two young military women who are given a few days of...

Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) sees ghosts, or rather: demons. Do they really exist or are...

Marcella Lista, curator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, talks with Israeli artist Omer Fast about...

Double Oscar winner Barbara Kopple followed five refugee children from Syria and Iraq who join a two-...

Fresh from Vietnam, John Rambo is again forced to throw punches. This time the adversary is not the...

A murder is committed against the backdrop of McCarthy’s anti-Communist witch-hunt and the Korean war...

A compelling account of a group of American WWII war veterans undergoing psychiatric treatment for a...

The Stopover is a powerful drama about two young military women who are given a few days of...

Pathway Home, a therapeutic veteran centre in California, provides support for service members who...

Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) sees ghosts, or rather: demons. Do they really exist or are...

Curator Xander Karskens, director of De Ateliers, reflects on Meiro Koizumi’s work. How is the...

The Wolf House is an unsettling, overwhelming stop-motion film about the mental delirium of a...

This portrait of a shattered family won the L’Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) documentary film award in the...

The young ex-Royal Horse Artillery serviceman Danny returns from WWI disillusioned; the daughter of a...

A compelling account of a group of American WWII war veterans undergoing psychiatric treatment for a...

The Wolf House is an unsettling, overwhelming stop-motion film about the mental delirium of a...

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday, Spartacus) debuted at the age of 65 with a film...

Eye programmer Anna Abrahams talks with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin about their sources...

Mike Nichols’ film adaptation of Joseph Heller’s celebrated war novel Catch-22 exposes the...

This portrait of a shattered family won the L’Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) documentary film award in the...

Animation films rarely deal with reality, let alone with resolving traumatic events that are all too...

Staten Island, New York, mid-1980s. Frankie, a Vietnam war veteran, is trying to survive in impossible...

A French actress in Hiroshima (Emmanuelle Riva) falls in love with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada)...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary on the paramilitary commandos who killed nearly a million Indonesian...

A touching Dutch television film about ten-year old Suzan who has to spend the summer holidays with...

Tracy Metz, who hosts the Stadsleven talk show at Pakhuis de Zwijger, presents Cinema Stadsleven at...

The Syrian photographer Issa Touma makes the audience part of his return to Aleppo, the city he was...

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday, Spartacus) debuted at the age of 65 with a film...

The Wolf House is an unsettling, overwhelming stop-motion film about the mental delirium of a...

Theatre and filmmaker Lola Arias brought together six veterans of  the Falklands War (1982). Three...

Staten Island, New York, mid-1980s. Frankie, a Vietnam war veteran, is trying to survive in impossible...

Father and son, Senior and Junior, try coming to terms with their war trauma by flatly denying reality...

Hildegard Knef debuted as an actress in the first film to have been made in Germany after WWII. She...

A French actress in Hiroshima (Emmanuelle Riva) falls in love with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada)...

On the night of the national commemoration of Remembrance Day, Mirthe Frese gives a performance on the...

Ted Striker is a traumatized former Air Force pilot stuck on a flight in what is regarded by many as...

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday, Spartacus) debuted at the age of 65 with a film...

Fresh from Vietnam, John Rambo is again forced to throw punches. This time the adversary is not the...

Double Oscar winner Barbara Kopple followed five refugee children from Syria and Iraq who join a two-...

Hildegard Knef debuted as an actress in the first film to have been made in Germany after WWII. She...

Patricia Pisters will take us on an audio-visual ‘tour of duty’ across contemporary war cinema,...

Filmmaker Coco Schrijber’s first full length documentary reveals an uncomfortable truth. Some soldiers...

Mike Nichols’ film adaptation of Joseph Heller’s celebrated war novel Catch-22 exposes the...

What does it mean to inflict death from a distance of well over 10,000 kilometres? Filmmaker David...

Animation films rarely deal with reality, let alone with resolving traumatic events that are all too...

A French actress in Hiroshima (Emmanuelle Riva) falls in love with a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada)...

A young  British male suffering from amnesia is determined to reconstruct his past down to the...

In this VR work, a young Iraqi talks about a tragedy that befell him. Meiro Koizumi examines the...

In this VR work, a young Iraqi talks about a tragedy that befell him. Meiro Koizumi examines the...

In this VR work, a young Iraqi talks about a tragedy that befell him. Meiro Koizumi examines the...

In this VR work, a young Iraqi talks about a tragedy that befell him. Meiro Koizumi examines the...

Pathway Home, a therapeutic veteran centre in California, provides support for service members who...

Freek Vielen and jazz improv band The Ambush Party return to So it Goes, a monologue on the...

Ted Striker is a traumatized former Air Force pilot stuck on a flight in what is regarded by many as...

Veteran soldier Kenzo Okuzaki is prepared to literally knock confessions out of witnesses to find out...

Hildegard Knef debuted as an actress in the first film to have been made in Germany after WWII. She...