All films
Below you can find all films, VR-screenings, and other shows that are playing in Eye now or soon.
All films
Now and soon in Eye
#3: Human Rights Film Festival
Lecture by Oksana Sarkisova (director of Verzio) paired with screening of The Life of an Agent (Gabor Papp, 2004)
#4: Chilean Exile Films
Lecture by José Miguel Palacios paired with screening of compilation of Chilean Exile films.
#5: Film Heritage in India
Lecture by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on Film Heritage Foundation and screening of film of Amitabh Bachchan.
#6: Dutch Film in the 70s and 80s
Lecture by Rommy Albers and former Eye trainees Carolina Battaglini and Martine Bouw and screening of Waar de ratten koning zijn (1985, Barbara den Uyl).
A Tribute to René Daalder
An afternoon dedicated to the work of René Daalder, who passed away in 2019: an idiosyncratic filmmaker and pioneer of the digital age.
Aftersun
Moving coming-of-age drama in which reminiscences of an ostensibly care-free summer bring a bitter truth to light.
Alma Viva
Filmmaker Cristèle Alves Meira’s fiction feature debut is a powerful portrait of a grandmother-granddaughter relationship in a Portuguese mountain village, with a magical-realist undertone.
Almacita di desolato
Curaçao filmmakers Norman de Palm and Felix de Rooy returned to their native soil. The story is rooted in local myths that award a major role to curses and spirits.
Ammodo Docs
The festive launch of Ammodo Docs, a new series of short documentaries featuring original thinkers. See the world through the eyes of groundbreaking artists and scientists.
Animation Pub Quiz
So you think you're an animation buff? Let's put it to the test in Kaboom's first ever Animation Pub Quiz.
Aurora's Sunrise
Hollywood actress Aurora Mardiganian survived the Armenian genocide as a young teenager. This animated documentary reconstructs her astonishing odyssey.
Ava & Gabriel – Un historia di amor
In 1948, a painter working on Curaçao selects an Afro-Caribbean teacher as his model for the Virgin Mary causing a massive ruckus. Winner of a Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival.
Award Party Amsterdam
Kaboom goes out with a bang!
Barbara Meter – Nachtlicht + Bis an den Himmel und noch viel mehr
Two short films in which Barbara Meter evokes memories: of her father, deported by the Nazis to the Eastern Front, and of her first love.
Best of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023
Experience the award-winning shorts of Kaboom 2023!
Bibi Seshanbe
Different generations of Uzbek women carry out day-to-day activities: both ritual and domestic, full of intimate moments.
Blind Chance
Kieslowski’s early masterpiece shows us three alternate outcomes for the life of a medical student that are determined by chance.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
A giant talkative frog casually reciting Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway sets out to save Tokyo from a massive worm with the help of a schizophrenic bank employee whose co-worker is trying to cope with his frustrated wife and his stray cat.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Delicate, enchanting animated film based on stories by Haruki Murakami featuring a talkative frog, a shy accountant and a melancholy man.
Boka Sarantonio
Magical tale of a small fishing community on Curaçao where the population turn against an intruder and try to take her out using ‘brua’ (malevolent magic).
Bonkers Shorts
Strap in, because the safety is off ... Welcome to the world of weird, WTF, whacky, and sfjqslfjlmqzjflksjflqj (even our keyboard is out of control).
Boy Ecury
Eye has a programme dedicated to Felix de Rooy, film and theatre maker as well as actor. In this made-for-TV film he plays Dundun Ecory, the father of an Antillean young man who joined the resistance.
Bratan
In this charming tragi-comedy, two brothers traverse Central Asia aboard a rickety goods train on route to their father, hoping for a better life.
Buladó
A magical-realistic and affectionate family history from Curaçao. The independent Kenza is determined to find her own way between her rational father and her spiritual grandfather.
Burning Days
Both film noir and anti-homophobic parable: in Burning Days public prosecutor Emre investigates an environmental scandal and a rape, deep in the Turkish provinces.
Cairo Conspiracy
Spy thriller in which a student becomes embroiled in a power struggle between Egypt’s political and religious elites.
Canadian Shorts 1
A short film salute to Canadian animation.
Canadian Shorts 2
A short film salute to Canadian animation.
Canadian Shorts 3
A short film salute to Canadian animation.
Chilla
Captivating footage of a spiritual inner journey. Saodat Ismailova paints a poetic portrait of a young Uzbek woman taking a 40-day vow of silence whilst waiting for her lover.
Cine-Concert: Money for Your Whale
What does animation sound like? Travel into the world of Money For Your Whale with improvised live music and interactive drawing by Sjaak Rood.
Cinema Petit (3+)
Truly charming cinema for the littlest ones.
Cinemini: In een bootje van papier
Will you join us at Cinemini on a boat trip?
Cinemini: Mijn moeder is een vliegtuig
A dreamy film about a very special mother; a mother who's an airplane!
Commissioned Shorts
Help, I need an animator! These shorts may have been commissioned by companies and initiatives, but oh my, they are truly original.
Conqueer the World
A celebration and exploration of queerness in animation. In collaboration with Queer Film Festival Utrecht.
Dalva
Devastating directorial debut about a 12-year-old girl who dresses as an adult woman. Universally praised for its subtle treatment of a shocking subject.
De Acht Bergen
Bruno and Pietro are united by their love of the mountains, even though they are taking very different paths. This adaptation of a best-selling novel won the Jury Prize in Cannes.
Desiree
De Rooy’s 'black cinema' debut about a lonely woman who falls into a cult’s clutches. No budget production delves into her family traumas using flashbacks.
Dicht bij Vermeer
Raes follows the curators and others involved in putting together the huge Vermeer exhibition in the Rijksmuseum. A film about the anatomy of a genius.
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed
The first ever feature-length animated film, by Lotte Reininger, is based on the enchanting tales from The Thousand and One Nights. With live music.
Die middag
Cleverly directed, intimate play full of verbal fireworks between a young woman who has fled from Iran and the man who refuses to take her in.
Dutch Shorts 1: Be Gone, Issues
Sometimes we tend to forget what is closest to us. Right here, in the Netherlands, there is an abundance of talent. Have faith, trust us and discover the best of Dutch animation.
Dutch Shorts 2: The Great Melting Pot
Sometimes we tend to forget what is closest to us. Right here, in the Netherlands, there is an abundance of talent. Have faith, trust us and discover the best of Dutch animation.
Empire of Light
Young Afro-Caribbean man and an older, female cinema manager find each other in this lush, semi-autobiographical film by Bond director Sam Mendes.
EO
Visually stunning film about the travels of the wandering donkey Eo. Everywhere he experiences equal parts cruelty and kindness, captivity and freedom.
Estácion Catorce
The adult world seen through the eyes of the 7-year-old Luis who lives in a Mexican village scarred by drug violence. Diana Cardozo’s fourth film.
Everything Everywhere Perfect All at Once
A critical look into our society's obsession with perfection in everything and everyone.
Eye Filmmuseum is gesloten op 27 april 2023
Eye Filmmuseum will be closed on Thursday 27 April due to King's Day. We hope to welcome you again soon!
Fallen
What if the demon can’t be stopped? Occult thriller with a stellar cast – Denzel Washington, John Goodman – and an evocative score by composer Tan Dun.
Filmmakers Talk
Meet your filmmaking heroes.
Focus on Queer Anime: Classmates
Classmates is the romantic feature debut by Shouko Nakamura and is told in a series of vignettes.
Games Amsterdam
Is it "Game on!" or "Would you like to continue?" Visit our otherworldy gaming area for n00bs and l33ts alike.
Godland
A Danish priest gradually loses his grip on his mission in the vast majestic Icelandic landscape that is so cold and hostile.
Goodbye Stranger
Aaron Rookus’ feature debut stars Martijn Lakemeier (Oorlogswinter) as Paul, a ‘playlist curator’ with a streaming service whose world is suddenly shaken to its core.
Goodbye, Don Glees!
“That day, I thought our summer would go on forever.
Hero
Chinese maestro Zhang Yimou filmed the epic story of a nameless warrior who defeats three formidable martial arts masters. With a score by composer Tan Dun.
Het theater van het geheugen
Kees Hin’s exceptional project about German refugees who fled to the Netherlands in the 1930s. Viewable once more thanks to Eye’s digital restoration.
In Pursuit of Pleasure
An interactive programme about connecting with your sensuality, feeling yourself, and about not giving a f*ck.
Inu-Oh
"This is a story that took place here some 600 years ago.
Inu-oh
Master animator Masaaki Yuasa intentionally crashes anachronistic Noh theatre and rock culture together in this tale of two outcasts and artists in 14th-century Japan.
Invisible Sea: The Aral Sea in Cinema
Throughout history, the Aral Sea has been a backdrop to films. The starting point for this programme is the documentary Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea.
James Bond Night
‘Casino Royale’, the first James Bond novel was published 70 years ago. Tonight, in celebration of that fact, Eye will screen Goldfinger (4K), one of the best early Bond films.
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Spike Lee’s graduate school thesis film is set in the graffiti-covered Brooklyn. Zack Homer takes over a local barbershop after his boss’s violent death.
Jour de fête
Full of visual jokes, this classic about a fussy postman is at the same time a nostalgic look at French village life.
Joyland
The first Pakistani film for a wide audience with an explicit LGBTQ theme is a nuanced tragicomedy about struggling with traditional values and standards.
Just 6.5
An explosive and trenchant Iranian film that takes us straight to the heart of a massive police investigation into drug mogul Nasser.
KABK – Moebius TV
Students of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague want to confront today’s emphasis on authenticity, the question of ‘Who Speaks’ plus the sensitive topic of appropriation
Kaboom Classics: Dollywood
Dollywood, the legendary Dutch stop-motion studio
Kaboom x Omroep Zwart: Dads' Talk
We all want to be the greatest parent who ever lived, don't we. A panel discussion + shorts about the struggles of being a father.
Klondike
A piece of the wreckage from the plane MH17 lies on land belonging to Ukrainian Irka and Tolik’s farm. A terrifying, slightly absurdist story showing the war from the inside.
Knor
A pig becomes a pet in this stop-motion animated film that isn’t just for kids – and isn’t all sweetness.
Koning Worst
Great prequel to Knor. When butcher Tuitjes enters a competition with his Italian competitor Smakkerelli, the previously peaceful village of Moppel is turned upside down.
Kung Fu Leeuw
14-year-old Jimmy is one of the best kung fu students at his school. When he is not chosen to dance in the lion’s head, he decides to regain his rightful place.
La maman et la putain
La maman et la putain has been called ‘the last great nouvelle vague film’; this portrayal of the sexual revolution of the seventies caused a scandal on its release.
LEI – Seeing sound
Artists and filmmakers will guide you on an aural adventure through foley art, sound recordings, sound design, and sign language.
Leila's Brothers
Family drama in which enterprising Leila, the 40-year-old sister of four unemployed brothers, comes up with a plan to earn money in poverty-stricken, corrupt Iran.
Love Dog
John will confront not only his own repressed trauma, but that of a society grieving dying American myths. Best First Feature – Special Mention in Locarno.
Love Life
A family struggles to deal with the loss of a child in this modest but compelling drama about grief.
Man Follows Birds
Mystical film about a boy subjected to a merciless upbringing in timeless Uzbekistan. Stylistic highlight replete with extatically coloured landscapes.
Mascotte
What happens when you believe capitalism solves everything and happiness is for the beautiful? You end up with Jerry. And Jerry is angry. A surreal warning.
Masterclass: We Lost Our Human
Get an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming Netflix interactive special, 'We Lost Our Human'.
Mes petites amoureuses
Unavailable for many years and now digitally restored: Mes petites amoureuses is an idiosyncratic coming-of-age story about adolescent Daniel and provincial life in the South of France.
Metronom
Alexandru Belc’s feature film debut follows 17-year-old Ana and her friends in the totalitarian Ceauşescu regime during the 1970s; the repression is intensely palpable.
MIVC – Knowingly, Unknowingly
The process of artistic creation proved a tool of liberation for students of The Master Institute of Visual Cultures (MIVC).
My Love Affair with Marriage
"Marriage is your destiny.
Nayola
"No one really comes back from the war.
New Directions
A programme giving a voice to artists from places where new and incredibly exciting things are happening in the animation industry.
No Bears
Director Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to a six-year prison term in 2022, plays himself in a film about film as well as Iran’s complex reality.
No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Ughetto has created an inventive stop-motion animation about the lives of his forebears, immigrants from the once poverty-stricken Piemonte, a mountainous region in the north-west of Italy.
Nummer Achttien
After a serious road traffic accident, video artist Guido van der Werve examined himself with astoundingly intimate results.
Onder het maaiveld
From the makers of De Nieuwe Wildernis: a documentary about the fascinating world below our feet and the role of micro-organisms in ecologically responsible agriculture.
Onder het maaiveld junior
Go on an adventure and discover the wonders of the subsoil. It’s more than just earth. It’s full of life!
Opening Kaboom Animation Festival Amsterdam: Nayola
Highlighting the importance of untold stories, Kaboom 2023 opens with José Miguel Ribeiro's Nayola, an intergeneration story of three women from the same family whose lives have been torn apart by Angola's deathly civil war.
Openingsavond Felix de Rooy
Opening evening of the programme celebrating polymath Felix de Rooy: film and theatre director, actor and artist, with a screening of De Rooy’s second fiction feature Almacita di desolato.
Panel: Representation of Queerness in Animation
A panel talk on the representation of queerness in animation. In collaboration with Queer Film Festival Utrecht.
Perfect Blue
Since its release in 1997, Satoshi Kon's tense debut feature Perfect Blue has grown into one of the most influential anime films of all time, even tempting filmmakers like Darren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan to just copy bits and pieces of it.
Perfect Perversion - Animated Ads on 35mm Film
How perfect can the most perverse of films be? A wild programme of the films you love to hate: commercials!
Piet Zwart Institute – (A) Questionnaire
Is the nation the incarnation of the penis? What can you do? Does it make sense?
Pink Flamingos
The cult film of the early 1970s, a monument to bad taste and a figurehead for queer cinema: Pink Flamingos – with a lead role for Divine – is not for the faint-hearted.
Poetry in Motion
These shorts go way off the beaten track. They bring you something you never knew you wanted. Poetry is everywhere, you just have to look.
Reminiscenses of Béla Tarr's film.factory
Three former students from Béla Tarr’s film.factory in Sarajevo talk about their exceptional experiences at this legendary film school. Double bill with Love Dog.
Rietveld Academie – Refuge
Human and non-human animals seek refuge because of war, terror, hunger, exploitation, climate change, or through everyday oppression and exclusion.
Sandberg Instituut – Ability to Forget
Distrust what you see and retel in order not to forget. Four films from the Sandberg Institute.
Short Docs 1: Don't Hide
Real stories, real subjects, real emotions. Reality is the birthplace of these short animated documentaries.
Short Docs 2: Living Allowed
Real stories, real subjects, real emotions. Reality is the birthplace of these short animated documentaries.
Short Sweets (6+)
A selection of both sweet shorts and short sweets for kids of ages 6 and up.
Shorts 1: What We Tell Ourselves
The World Cup is over. Messi finally won. But this is the real deal: Kaboom's International Short Film Competition.
Shorts 2: Through Our and Other Eyes
The World Cup is over. Messi finally won. But this is the real deal: Kaboom's International Short Film Competition.
Shorts 3: Moody Salvation
The World Cup is over. Messi finally won. But this is the real deal: Kaboom's International Short Film Competition.
Shorts 4: Flee(ting)
The World Cup is over. Messi finally won. But this is the real deal: Kaboom's International Short Film Competition.
Shorts 5: (In)glorious
The World Cup is over. Messi finally won. But this is the real deal: Kaboom's International Short Film Competition.
Silver Haze
A nurse scarred by a fire struggles to come to terms with the past. New film, selected for the Berlinale, by Sacha Polak.
Stand Up Comedy & Live Animation
Stand-up comedy + animation = the perfect marriage
Start Me Up: Debuts of Masters
These world-class filmmakers all had to start somewhere. A programme of debut films by acclaimed animators.
Super Smash Bros. Melee Tournament: Finale
Who wins the first Kaboom Smash Award? Witness this pivotal moment in e-sports history!
Super Smash Bros. Melee: Game Tournament
Smash that sh*t! Try your luck and who knows... you might become the first Super Smash Bros. Melee Champion of Kaboom!
Surprise Screenings
Attend an extra screening of a film that was a resounding success during the festival.
Tár
Cate Blanchett is peerless as Lydia Tár, a brilliant conductor whose reckless behaviour threatens to undermine her career.
Tattoo Parlor
Get your crazy punk tattoo from Italian artist Veronica Martiradonna and make your body even more perfect!
Tchaikovsky's Wife
Intense portrait of Pjotr Tchaikovsky’s marriage to Antonina Miljoekova, who was obsessively in love with him even though he was homosexual, that details the demise of a women in 19th-century Russia.
The Blue Caftan
Love can take on different forms, as is shown by this warm film about a married couple with a secret. With phenomenal acting and stunning camerawork.
The Eagle
Adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino. Composition and Music Production students from HKU Music and Technology composed the music that will be played live by the Keuris Ensemble.
The Fabelmans
75-year-old Steven Spielberg incorporated memories of his mildly troubled youth into this bittersweet visually captivating epic.
The Holy Mountain (4K)
Financed by The Beatles’ management, Jodorowsky's third feature film reveals itself to be the cinematographic equivalent of an LSD trip.
The Kyrgyz Miracle
The ‘Kyrgyz Miracle' was the name for the beautiful short films made between the 1960s and 1980s in Kyrgyzstan. Saodat Ismailova hand-picked a selection.
The Last Waltz
Digital 4-K restoration of Martin Scorsese's recording of a performance by The Band that premiered at Cannes Classics in 2023.
The Natural History of Destruction
Impressive archive-based documentary by Sergei Loznitsa (Donbas, Maidan) on the bombing of German cities by the Allies: the beautiful images mask utter devastation.
The Needle
Iconic Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi plays a mysterious drifter locked in conflict with drug dealers. The soundtrack is legendary.
The Quiet Girl
Coming-of-age story about the neglected 9-year-old girl Cáit, who flourishes when she in foster care. Nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Magical documentary drama observes the lives of nomadic Mongolian herdsmen in the awe-inspiring Gobi Desert with a focus on the symbiosis between man and animal.
The Whale
Great comeback by actor Brendan Fraser as writing coach Charlie, who out of self-loathing crams himself full of fast food.
Time as a Ball in a Curved Space
Saodat Ismailova is by no means the only interesting artist from Central Asia working in video. A selection of short films by artists from the region.
Trois couleurs: Bleu
In the devastating first part of Kieślowski’s trilogy, Juliette Binoche excels at her craft as Julie, a woman liberating herself from her past.
Underworld
The first gangster film in Hollywood history set the bar for the genre. With live music by Thijs Havens.
Unicorn Wars
Honour, pain and cuddles! An utterly grim, grotesque and graphic journey into the heart of darkness, Alberto Vázquez's Unicorn Wars is an anti-fascist fable depicting a holy war between cuddly candy-coloured bears and mighty unicorns.
UvA – Come to Life: Movement on Screen
Three films from the Eye collection and two videos in order to explore different approaches to conveying movement and stasis on screen.
Vera
Middle-aged actress Vera, the daughter of a famous Italian film star, struggles to find new roles; an accident changes her life.
VRAcademy – Let Nature Heal
Mother Nature's beautiful cycle of giving back and sustaining itself. Jacco Kooistra will show an early version of his VR project Let Nature Heal.
War Pony
Intimate, realistic portrait of life on Pine Ridge Reservation. Theft, drug dealing – Matho and his friends just keep on getting into trouble.
Window Horses
Window Horses, a poignant feature from Canadian filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming, tells the story of Rosie Ming, a naïve young woman of mixed descent who travels abroad for the first time, to a poetry festival in Iran.
Women Talking
Intense chamber play about a group of raped women from a Mennonite community who refuse to resign themselves to their fate.
Workshop: 'Clay' Well Done
A clay-play workshop with a big heart. Sculpt your own 'thank you' award!