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"Nowadays, animation can react very quickly." - Kaboom 2025 brings rebellious women and provocation

From 21 to 30 March, the Kaboom Animation Festival takes place in Utrecht, Amsterdam and online. Provocation is the main theme this year, with films about rebellious women and work in free-spirited animation styles. There are competitions for long and short films, Japanese animator Masaaki Yuasa is artist in focus, and there is a special focus on Belgian animation.

3 years since large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine: Two special film screenings in Amsterdam

February 24, 2025 marks the third anniversary of Russia's large-scale attack on Ukraine. Not only the country was attacked, from the beginning it was clear that Russia was also and precisely attacking Ukraine's culture. Recent geopolitical developments bring great uncertainty to Ukraine, with potentially dramatic consequences. With two special film screenings, DutchCulture, the European Cultural Foundation and the International... 

Slogging through the mud: on lust, the body and imaging

The female body has been the subject of scrutiny and imaging for centuries. From art to Hollywood, from myths to modern feminist statements-how is the female body seen, and how does that influence our ideas about sexuality and self-determination? This essay explores how lust, imagination and social expectations come together in films, books and the real world. How much freedom does a woman really have over her own body-and her own story?

These are the winners of screenwriting award the Silver Curly Tail

De Zilveren Krulstaarten zijn zaterdagmiddag 21 september tijdens de Dag van het Scenario op het Nederlands Film Festival uitgereikt aan de schrijvers van de beste film- en televisiescenario’s van 2023. Ooit begonnen als geuzenprijs vanwege het ontbreken van een Gouden Kalf voor scenario, zijn de Zilveren Krulstaarten inmiddels uitgegroeid tot dé Nederlandse vakprijzen voor scenaristen. De winnaars worden jaarlijks gekozen door leden… 

After a successful first edition, Marmoucha is back at Eye

After a successful first edition of Eye meets Marmoucha, Marmoucha Orchestra is back at Eye for a special event: the live accompaniment of the silent film Kif Tebbi on 8 June. Kif Tebbi When the Turks loot the countryside in Libya for supplies for their troops, Mné, an Arab girl from a nomad tribe with whom Ismaïl is in love, flees through... 

Miranda July (photo: Elizabeth Weinberg)Miranda July (photo: Elizabeth Weinberg)

Filmmaker and writer Miranda July to Utrecht for ILFU

American writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July (1974) is coming to Utrecht on Saturday 15 June 2024. For the ILFU literature festival, she will give a one-off Book Talk in TivoliVredenburg about her long-awaited new novel All Fours. Miranda July gained worldwide fame with the 2005 feature film Me and you and everyone we know, for which she wrote the screenplay, directed and starred in... 

WINNERS CINEDANS FEST '24

Tijdens een feestelijke ceremonie zijn op de slotavond van Cinedans FEST ’24 (zondagavond 24 maart) in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam de volgende internationale prijzen uitgereikt voor beste dansfilms 2024: Cinedans JURY AWARDS Beste Korte Dansfilm tot 25’ € 5.000 Until Regisseur & Choreograaf |Tanin Torabi |Iran| 2023|13′ Uit het juryrapport: Until portretteert dans als een vorm van verzet en verlegt de… 

Georgina Verbaan plays lead role in 24-hour theatrical marathon The Second Woman. One woman, one role, one hundred men.   

From 28 to 29 June, Georgina Verbaan will play the lead role for twenty-four hours at the Holland Festival in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon's play The Second Woman, a unique hallucinatory cinematic theatre experience. During this theatre marathon, live at ITA and simultaneously on screen at Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski, she plays with a hundred different, to her unknown, antagonists every... 

Cinedans FEST '24: programme announced

Cinedans bestaat 20 jaar! De jubileumeditie Cinedans FEST ’24 vindt plaats van 20 tot en met 24 maart in Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam én online van 20 tot en 31 maart op Cinedans WEB.Vijf dagen lang staat Eye in het teken van de internationale dansfilm met bijzondere highlights en premières, een special filmprogramma met een postkoloniale thematiek Breaking the Chainsen… 

Cinedans FEST '24

Cinedans bestaat 20 jaar! De jubileumeditie Cinedans FEST ’24 vindt plaats van 20 tot en met 24 maart in Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam én online van 20 tot en 31 maart op Cinedans WEB.Vijf dagen lang staat Eye in het teken van de internationale dansfilm met bijzondere highlights en premières, waaronder de komst van special guest Celia Rowlson-Hall die een… 

Cinematic year 2023: the year of Barbenheimer and Sweet Dreams

de Nederlandse bioscopen en filmtheaters verkochten in 2023 in totaal bijna 32 miljoen bioscoopkaartjes. Lang niet slecht. Barbie trok de meeste bezoekers, De Tatta’s was de grootste Nederlandse trekker. De Nederlandse filmpers had eind december al Aftersun van Charlotte Wells als beste film gekozen, terwijl Sweet Dreams van Ena Sendijarević, ook een overtuigende Gouden Kalf winnaar, als beste Nederlandse titel uit de bus kwam. Intussen bezorgde in Amerika de staking van scenarioschrijvers en acteurs de filmindustrie aldaar een zwaar jaar.

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With Closed Eyes, Alida Dors unleashes a revolution

I used the word 'revolutionary' when a camera crew from Theatre Rotterdam asked me what I thought of Closed Eyes. I don't know if my otherwise extraordinarily enthusiastic response will make it to the final edit, but a day later, that feeling is not gone. What Alida Dors, artistic director of Theatre Rotterdam, has shown is a revolution in the world of... 

Farewell to Burny Bos, pacesetter of Dutch youth film

It may sound somewhat dramatic, but fans of Dutch youth film may feel that this is the end of an era. I just read the mail with the sad press release that writer, radio producer and film and television producer Burny Bos (1944) died on 1 December. It was not entirely unexpected. Last year (and not before... 

De tafel in Turbulence Jamais Vu. Foto door Leo Bankersen

IDFA 2023 - DocLab and the shadow worlds

Wordt iets beter als het schuurt? Kunst als slijpsteen van de geest? Het aloude begrip dialectiek, de botsing van tegenstellingen waaruit iets nieuws ontstaat? Deze 17e editie van IDFA’s DocLab, het programma vol digitale kunst, interactief werk en virtuele werelden, heeft als thema ‘Phenomenal Friction’. Technologie is veelal gericht op efficiëntie en gemak, maar DocLab nodigt ons uit om te… 

Theaterplatz Weimar with Günther Ücker's Steinmal, where the AfD holds fascist rallies on Mondays.

Journal Kunstfest Weimar #3: When remembering becomes a problem.

Water is very good at covering things up. Sixty kilometres south of Weimar is a huge reservoir, about which the locals know little more than that the hydroelectric plant supplies power to houses and the steelworks, a few kilometres away. At least one village has also disappeared, and artist cum experimental radio maker Sandra Rücker found out that her... 

Yves Degryse by Koen Broos

Yves Degryse (Berlin) on the return of the legendary show 'Zvizdal' at #Theaterfestival Boulevard: "This really took me by my jacket"

Yves Degryse is one of the people behind the extraordinary Flemish company Berlin. Between 2011 and 2015, Berlin worked on the performance Zvizdal, largely shot in the 'forbidden zone' around the exploded Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. I saw the performance in 2016 in Den Bosch, during Festival Boulevard, and was 'blown away'. This year, it returns to Boulevard 

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