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
107 Mothers
Lesya is serving a seven-year sentence for murder in a Ukrainian women’s prison and has just had a son – when Kolya turns three he will be sent to an orphanage.
28 Days Later
Scary take on the zombie film. A virus changes people into raging cannibals.
A Chiara
When one day her father disappears without trace 15-year-old Chiara decides investigate, and discovers something that turns her world upside down…
A Thousand Fires
Tender documentary on a couple who operate a small oil field in Myanmar and dream of sending their son to school. But he would rather play football.
About some Meaningless Events
Film screening and presentation as part of the 7th Eye International Conference on Global Audiovisual Archiving (29-31 May 2022)
Aelita
Soviet science fiction film transformed into a bewitching, timeless dream by a new, electro-acoustic score.
After Love
After her husband dies in Dover, ferry skipper Ahmed’s widow makes a startling discovery. Heralded as Best British film of 2021.
Ali & Ava
Ava, a single mother in Bradford, finds her soulmate in British-Pakistani landlord Ali and decides to commit to this new love, in spite of the difficulties they face.
Animated
Exceptional stories about forgotten films. Today: animation techniques and history, film drawings and gaming with colonial film.
Asako I & II
Asako meets a man who is the spitting image of her lost love. He brings love back into her calm life like a capricious force of nature.
Babeth van Loo: Encounters
Babeth Mondini-VanLoo and her camera always managed to be in the right place, at the right time to meet artists who embodied the Zeitgeist.
Babi Yar. Context
Sergei Loznitsa delved into the archives to commemorate one of the biggest mass executions of WWII: Babi Yar, where more than 33.000 Jewish citizens of Kyiv were murdered.
Belle
Visually stunning animation in which Suzu splits their time between contemporary Japan and the virtual world of ‘U’ where she is a world famous singer.
Bergman Island
On the Swedish island of Fårö, a filmmaking couple grapple with the omnipresent spirit of director Ingmar Bergman.
Beyond the Archive
Exceptional stories about cinema history and forgotten films. Today, among other subjects, Vrouwen van Suriname (Oema foe Sranan).
Boom in Amsterdam
Agnes de Ruijter’s surprising documentary on the trees of Amsterdam shows that a city without trees is like a tree without leaves.
Boys Don't Cry
Brandon, a young transgender, is brutally confronted by stereotypes in the American mid-west. Oscar for Hilary Swank.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn stars as the crafty manipulator Holly Golightly who charmingly elicits money from her dates.
Brief Encounters
A love triangle in the prudish, post-war Soviet Union? Kira Muratova has crafted a bitterly funny, stylistically free story.
Capote
Superb biopic about Truman Capote while writing In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffmann is spectacular in his Oscar-winning role as the eccentric author.
Captives
In 1951, the Hungarian communist secret police locked inhabitants into their own home; the latter become ensnared in lies and paranoia.
Captured
How does it feel to be an aggressor, victim or bystander in a raging mob? Captured is an immersive installation that allows you to experience this.
Cinemini: Minuscule
A Cinemini episode about insects who run around busy as bees.
Cinemini: Picknick met taart
Join Cinemini on a picnic with lots of pie.
Coppelia
Modern fairy tale adapted from the classical ballet Coppelia. A cosmetic surgeon seduces people with the idea of perfect beauty.
Crimes of the Future
The master of body horror is back! Viggo Mortensen plays a performance artist experimenting with metamorphosizing his organs… will humanity remain human?
Damnation
Melancholy film about the approaching end of Communism that has an almost abstract beauty. New 4K restoration.
De platte jungle
Still current documentary about the increasingly busy Waddenzee pays attention to environmental issues, bird and fish populations and fishermen.
De spiegel
Mirror, Tarkovski’s much lauded mix of autobiography and fiction was selected by Guido van der Werve to accompany his exhibition at Eye.
Death on the Nile
None other than Kenneth Branagh brings Hercule Poirot to life in this film version, which he also directs, of Agatha Christie’s classic.
Destello bravió
Highly original drama about a woman in the southwest of Spain who leaves her husband and roams the small town.
Dinner in America
Hilarious – and deeply psychological – portrait of the romance between pyromaniac punk rocker John Q Public and ADHD girl Patty in America’s suburbs.
Drive My Car
Intense, sensory adaptation of the eponymous short story by Haruki Murakami about a grieving theatre director and his taciturn female driver.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Feature film debut depicts the fate of a Chinese rural family – life unfolds like a scroll; calmly and meticulously directed.
Ennio
This documentary provides rare insight into the mind of musical genius and famous composer Ennio Morricone, who died two years ago.
Evolution
Bitterly ironic, stylised trilogy about the way the Holocaust’s effects are passed on from generation to generation.
Eye Filmmuseum is gesloten op 8 juni
Eye Filmmuseum will be closed on Wednesday 8 June due to a private event. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Eyimofe
Colourful portrait of the metropolis of Lagos, where some people wish to leave their chaotic home town and others choose to stay.
Family Nest
Docudrama about a young couple living in a confined space. Tension and conflict put their marriage under intense pressure.
Fantastic Planet + Pumzi
Keeping humans as pets? This is the premise of this post-apocalyptic animation about the Oms and the race of blue giants the Traags.
Fårö-Dokument
Ingmar Bergman interviews the local population on the Swedish island of Fårö, which he loved very much, spent a long time living and shot several of his most famous films.
Feast
Fiction and reality alternate in this stimulating film essay about the 2005 HIV case in Groningen.
Forest: I See You Everywhere
Seven hypnotising miniatures portray people in individual crises. Dark, everyday horror-drenched tales.
France
Star reporter France (Léa Seydoux) has no qualms about creating the news herself in Bruno Dumont’s vicious satire of the French media.
Frances Ha + Future Husband
The life of 27-year-old, not terribly successful choreographer Frances (Greta Gerwig), filmed in an airy nouvelle vague style. Followed by a live show from Future Husband.
Gebroken spiegels
A prostitute’s fate and that of a woman locked in a cellar prove tied. At the time, Gorris’ take on sexual exploitation was viewed as shocking.
Herr Tartüff
German film classic by master director Murnau, accompanied by Olga Pashchenko (piano) and Jed Wentz (sound effects).
Hiroshima mon amour
Post-war classic in which a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) falls in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima.
Hit the Road
The son of Iranian director Jafar Pahani makes an overwhelming debut with this tragicomic road movie.
Hitler heeft mijn roze konijn gestolen
Captivating drama about Anna who is forced to flee Berlin in 1933 and makes new friends. Adapted from the moving bestseller based on the author’s life.
Holy Motors + Raven Artson
Underground 'slow motion hyper pop star' Raven Artson meets Leos Carax’ quirky cult classic Holy Motors, which features a musical number by Kylie Minogue as a suicidal stewardess.
Hour of the Wolf
On a remote island, a painter with dementia is invited to dinner, where everything goes wrong for him.
Housewitz
Very impressive portrait of the filmmaker’s mother who never leaves the house she shares with housemate Holocaust.
Il buco
A group of potholers descend into a deep chasm in this visually stunning hybrid fiction film/documentary.
Illusions perdues
French costume drama based on Honoré de Balzac’s book about a young poet in 19th-century Paris, where all that counts is money and pretence.
In Cold Blood
Based on the book Truman Capote interviewed the murderers of a family for. Brooks adapted it into a masterful black & white film.
In Vivo
A clock is counting down, reminding us that in the here and now species are disappearing rapidly from the planet.
Incroyable mais vrai
On time travel and a prosthetic penis. Welcome back to the absurd universe of Quentin Dupieux.
Inexorable
Oppressive thriller in which the life of a successful author is changed forever when a mysterious young woman arrives at his country house.
Janis Rafa and the Fear of Leaving the Animal Forever Forgotten Under the Ground
Overwhelming images of a dark world where there is no place for humans.
Johnny Guitar
Ray's superior, subversive Western in which Joan Crawford shows that a woman’s independence comes at a brutal price.
Karel Doing: Phytography + In Vivo
Karel Doing makes fabulous images on a layer of emulsion using flowers and leaves. Including Doing's latest film In Vivo accompanied by live music.
Kill It and Leave This Town
A man who has lost his loved ones withdraws into his memories. Unique animation with horror elements: beautiful, tender and grim.
Knockin' on Herman's Door
Rediscovered Herman Brood songs and footage of the chaotic shoot for Cha-cha in this documentary about Amsterdam’s pop scene in the 1970s.
Kop op!
In the animation series Kop op! three friends Sef, Wesley and Marjolein find a mysterious washing machine that can swap heads.
L'événement
Anne, a literature student with a lust for life in early 1960s France, unexpectedly gets pregnant – director Audrey Diwan succeeds in showing us how this feels.
La ruche
Gripping film about the loving yet destructive relationship between a borderline mother and her three daughters.
Le quattro volte
In the countryside of southern Italy, an elderly shepherd passes his final days with his goats. The four stages of life in a surprisingly comedic, surreal style.
Les Olympiades
Young Parisians struggle with relationships in this new, playful film by veteran Jacques Audiard.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Together with a handful of female warriors, Mad Max fights against the cruel dictator Immortan Joe – their odyssey through the post-nuclear desert is a spectacle seldom shown.
Malmkrog
Tensions rise exponentially during heated discussions at a dinner at a stately home in 19th-century Transylvania.
Mandabi
A Senegalese man seems to have had a financial windfall, but cashing the money order is harder than it seems. Moving, walking-pace, tragi-comedy.
Mass
Psychologically refined, claustrophobic Kammerspiel in which the parents of a high school shooter end up face to face with the parents of one of his victims.
Memoria
Tilda Swinton plays an orchid expert who hears a mysterious noise and tries to solve the mystery of its origin. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes.
Met mes
A lie unleashes a chain reaction of unexpected events in this neon-lit ’80s video fantasy.
Moloch
A girl living on the margins of a peat bog follows the trail of a mysterious, evil entity. Horror film shot in Drenthe (NL).
Mythical Cinemas: The Champo of Latin Quarter
This time in the documentary series about mythical cinemas, Le Champo in Paris.
Nana
Frivolous young woman destroys men both materially and morally. New score by Baudime Jam.
Nanook of the North
Very early documentary about Inuit life in the Canadian Arctic. With a score by Timothy Brock.
Ninjababy
Imagine being 23 and in love with life, when you suddenly prove pregnant; for six months already! You refer to the child as Ninjababy and the being likes to make itself known.
Nobody Has to Know
Bouli Lanners’ latest film is a tender, moving drama about an amnesiac on a Scottish island.
Nowhere Special
A terminally ill father goes in search of adoptive parents for his son in this poignant but unsentimental drama.
Nudo Mixteco
Three lives intersect in a Mixtec community in the mountainous Nudo Mixteca region during the feast of San Mateo.
Orlac's Hände
French master pianist accompanies German film classic by the director of Caligari.
Otto e mezzo
Fellini’s Oscar-winning fantasy involving his alter ego director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) caught in an artistic crisis.
Overlooked Xmas Movie Night
The dark days of Christmas are here again: but never fear, Koolhoven & Simons turn their spotlight on less saccharine Christmas films.
Piccolo corpo
Agata departs for a chapel in the mountains with her dead child to have it brought to life – miracles do happen in Laura Samani’s impressive feature film debut.
Sátántangó
Triumph of visual storytelling. Tarr’s magnum opus follows the inhabitants of a Hungarian village.
Shabu
Funny, moving documentary about a boy from the south of Rotterdam who totals a car while joyriding.
Silence of the Tides
Intense, cinematic portrait centring on the continuous ‘breathing’ of the Wadden Sea.
Silent Running
Almost all the greenery on Earth has been destroyed; out in space, botanist Freeman Lowell is lovingly tending the few trees and crops that were saved…
Sleep Has Her House
Exceptional landscape film by artist and filmmaker Scott Barley which centres on feeling nature’s rhythm.
Snowpiercer
A select group survive a new Ice Age in the heated train Snowpiercer: the rich in the front, the poor in the back – the stellar cast includes John Hurt and Tilda Swinton.
Souad
Nineteen-year-old Souad lives in a provincial town in Egypt, and is looking for an identity that can give her some freedom within this strict Islamic environment.
Soylent Green
New York, 2022: it’s unbearably hot, water and food are scarce and the population subsists on strange, government-provided rusks …
Space Is the Place + Illnoledge
Illnoledge performs after this homage to 1950s and 1960s science fiction films; a psychedelic musical film featuring musician Sun Ra.
Spaceship Earth
Eight young adventurers allowed themselves to be locked inside Biosphere 2 which featured specimens of the principal elements of nature on earth. Documentary about a daring eco-experiment.
Spaceship Earth + Silent Running
Double bill in which 'biospherians' are locked into a glass dome and a botanist aboard a spaceship keeps the last plants alive.
Sputum
In Dan Geesin’s SF film Sputum, a deadly cloud of fungi threaten a future civilisation. Only the ruling class, the Antiques have access to an antidote…
The Capote Tapes
Reconstruction of the scandal caused by writer Truman Capote in his decadent cultural world.
The Death of a Horse
Film screening and presentation as part of the 7th Eye International Conference on Global Audiovisual Archiving (29-31 May 2022)
The Duke
Dame Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent star in this heart-warming, very British comedy about a 60-year-old taxi driver who steals a work of art for a good cause.
The Island
Robinson Crusoe and Friday meet again in this absurd/surreal, epic animated musical by Anca Damian about refugees on an island.
The Last of the Mohicans
Western in which the French and British duke it out in North America during the Seven Years’ War, helped by allied Native Americans. Featuring new music by Composition students from the HKU, performed live by the Keuris Ensemble.
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
He was the most beautiful boy ever, Luchino Visconti thought. Now there’s a documentary about Björn Andrésen, 15-year-old ‘Tadzio’ in Death in Venice.
The Outsider
A young nurse fails in his attempts to make human contact. Tarr records life as it is lived.
The Saint of the Impossible
32-year-old Raffaella from Peru arrives in New York with her teenage sons Paul and Tito hoping to achieve the American Dream – this proves no easy task.
The Souvenir
Tilda Swinton and her daughter Honor in a mother-daughter film: "A contemporary answer to Antonioni and Visconti", according to The Guardian.
The Souvenir: Part II
Tilda Swinton and her daughter are reunited on screen in the sequel to The Souvenir, in which film student Julie lost her heart to a charismatic older man.
The Touch
Bergman’s seldom screened film about a passionate affair between a housewife and an archaeologist proves to be a major rediscovery.
The Worst Person in the World
Comedic drama about the tumultuous love life of 30-something Julie, won the prize for Best Actress in Cannes.
There Is No Evil
How do you live under a repressive regime asks Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof? Awarded a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Through a Glass Darkly
Bergman’s Oscar winner records the near-disintegration of a family on holiday, while a woman is tormented by a mental affliction.
Turn your Body to the Sun
Author Sana Valiulina studies the past of her taciturn, inscrutable father who spent tens years in one of Stalin’s camps.
UMA OUTRA HISTORIA – Four Films on Labor Rights for Women in Brazil
Film screening and presentation as part of the 7th Eye International Conference on Global Audiovisual Archiving (29-31 May 2022)
Van wie is de toekomst?
Three inspiring guests talk about dreams and nightmares, about gardening and the future, the city and the countryside.
Vortex
Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento play long-time spouses, one of whom slides into Alzheimer dementia – a chastened Gaspar Noé depicts their daily interactions.
Vrouwen van Suriname – Oema foe Sranan
Portrait of the lives of four women who talk about Dutch (neo)colonialism in Surinam and the racism and disenfranchisement in the Netherlands. New restoration.
War Note
Surreal journey to the front line of the war in Ukraine. Plus three short films by Babylon ’13 with introductions by Mariia Ponomarova.
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Romantic lyricism, irony and magic realism surround two lovers tormented by a mysterious curse.
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Intimate trilogy from the maker of Drive My Car. On love, intent and misunderstandings.
When We Were Kings
This Oscar-winning documentary on the fight between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman screens as part of the Africadelic Festival.
Work in Progress
Exceptional stories about cinema history and forgotten films. Today featuring, among others, Short Scores and Ida Lohman.
Workshop Phytography
DIY film workshop using flowers, leaves and 16mm film.