Trains
TRANSPORT: IDFA best film award winner Polish director Maciej Drygas’s entrancing Trains is a mesmerising journey through much of the 20th century by rail, accompanied by a subtly intense soundtrack.
«The role of cinema becomes more crucial each year as we find ourselves in individual echo chambers…»
MOVIES ON WAR: In our interview, festival director Øystein Egge reflected on curating this year’s compelling focus on #Gaza and the #Middle East, the role of cinema in our polarised age, and the festival’s role in fostering critical conversations through it.
Balkan Documentary Center launches call for 2025 Balkan Watchers program
The Balkan Documentary Center (BDC) has announced the 2025 call for its #Balkan Watchers# program, aimed at fostering critical storytelling
Bright Future
COLD WAR: The sensory and ideological layers of a forgotten Cold War festival, exploring fleeting solidarity, ideological discord, and the fragility of socialist dreams.
The mantra of survival in a war-torn world
UKRAINE: Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands confront war, loss, and uncertainty
Where’s Wanda?
LEGACY: The life and disappearance of Wanda Rutkiewicz, the mountaineer whose untimely end remains shrouded in myth.
Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas
ETHICS: What can a festival’s Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
Stitched histories
PALESTINE: Like the Old Testament Joseph and his coat of many colours, a patch-covered jacket becomes a symbol for a greater truth in Mathijs Poppe’s touching film of yearning for home, The Jacket.