The 28th Imagine Film Festival will run 17 to 28 April 2012 – Filmtheater Kriterion & Tuschinski 1  Approx. 70 long and short films, Night of Terror, Fantastic European Shorts, Anime, Masterclasses, panel discussions and Q&A’s Theme programme: Superheroes  Special focus on Il Luster Producties   From Tuesday, April 17, until Saturday, April 28, movie lovers can once again indulge in the best, weirdest and most adventurous ...

2011 has been a good year for cinemas, movie theaters and art houses. In 2011, over 30 million people purchased a movie ticket. That is a number that has not been achieved since 1978. Box-office receipts increased to almost € 240 million. To cap it all, for the first time since 1986 (Flodder) the Dutch feature film Gooische Vrouwen attracted a record attendance of over 1.9 million movie-goers, making it the number one movie at the box office in 2011. Despite the success, however, the cinema in...

Imagine: 27th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 13 – 23 April 2011 – Filmtheater Kriterion Approx. 45 long and 25 short films, The Night of Terror, symposium, master class and Q&A’s.Theme programmes: Cine Latino Fantástico and Power to the People. Imagine, taking place from the 13th until the 23rd of April for its 27th edition this year, is the ultimate sanctuary for films within the fantasy, horror, science fiction and animation categories. And although these genre descriptions may seem ...

  In 2011 the Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival will be held from 13th April untill 23th of April in Kriterion an Amsterdam cinema located in the Roetersstraat 170!    There will be two special theme's which will be basis for masterclasses, Q&A's and much more. These will be this year Cine Latino Fantastico about fantastic movies from South America and power to the people a theme on cinema as an art form in which the viewers gets agency by being part of ...

  Imagine: 26th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 14 to 24 April 2010 - Filmtheater Kriterion : 50 feature films and 25 shorts, Night of Terror, Fantastic Kids Festival, master classes and Q&A's. Theme programmes: Eastern Europe and retro-magic. Films with half an eye on reality. Films that succumb to your wildest dreams. And everything that lives between these two extremes. Imagine, which takes place in Amsterdam for the 26th time this year, has al...

    Amsterdam has a rather valid reputation as a refuge for the not completely normal. Misfits from across the continent and across the seas find the city's open nature and history of tolerance a welcoming invitation. So, when an Amsterdam institution like IDFA, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, announces a program entitled "Not Normal", the mind only boggles. In fact, one of the key themes at this year's Festival is the theme of unconventionality ...

The Night of Terror, Imagine’s annual horror marathon, has a different format this year.The actual films, The Last House on the Left, Splinter, Autopsy and Tokyo Gore Police, remain as gory as ever.16 to 25 April 2009 – Pathé Tuschinskiwww.imaginefilmfestival.nl! A permanent feature of Imagine is the Night of Terror, in which four horror films try to outdo each other in the grotesque gore department for an entire night. Due to circumstances, the NoT can’t be held in its familiar format th...

25th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 15 to 26 April 2009 – Pathé Tuschinskiwww.imaginefilmfestival.nlWith MUM & DAD (UK: Steven Sheil, 2008), EDEN LAKE (UK: James Watkins, 2008), DONKEY PUNCH (UK: Olly Blackburn, 2008), THE CHILDREN (UK: Tom Shankland, 2008) en CHEMICAL WEDDING (UK: Julian Doyle, 2008), among others.IMAGINE got wind of a new wave of disturbing British genre films and selected the most spectacular titles for a separate segment in the programme: Anarchy in the UK. It shows th...

DOKU.ARTS International festival for films on art 11-14 June 2009, fourth edition Filmmuseum Amsterdam CALL FOR ENTRIES – NOW OPEN The Filmmuseum Amsterdam and the Dutch Cultural Media Fund are pleased to announce the fourth edition of DOKU.ARTS, which will take place from 11 to 14 June 2009 at the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Call for entries The call for entries for DOKU.ARTS 2009 is now open! The deadline for film submissions is 15 March 2009 (materials must be receive...

Saturday, November 29---------One of the pleasures for me in attending the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the theatrical experience of viewing "serious cinema" in a plush environment. With its move last year to the Rembrandtplein, IDFA has been able to license two of Amsterdam's premiere theaters: the art deco movie palace the Tuschinski and the modern multiplex Pathe Munt. Both theaters offer a widescreen and "big" presentation of what is often...

Just when you thought it was safe to cruise the canals in search of cinematic treats for younger viewers ,CINEKIDS- one of the largest international events showcasing productions  made for, by ,and with children-decided to celebrate its 20th Edition by uprooting the annual extravaganza from the heart of Amsterdam and relocate  most of its activities in a revamped  old gas factory,the Westergasfabriek, from 14-2I October, 2007. But the Dutch have a flair for making something new and practical ...

Just when you thought it was safe to cruise the canals in search of cinematic treats for younger viewers ,CINEKIDS- one of the largest international events showcasing productions made for, by ,and with children-decided to celebrate its 20th Edition by uprooting the annual extravaganza from the heart of Amsterdam and relocate most of its activities in a revamped old gas factory,the Westergasfabriek, from 14-2I October, 2007. But the Dutch have a flair for making something new and practical out...

Tuesday, November 28----With Amsterdam experiencing a rare warm wave in late November, and with Christmas lights and decorations going up all over the city, the beauty of this special place, especially at night, is pleasing to the eye and warming to the soul. A few impressions..... ...

Amsterdam – September 7th – 16thLocations: Filmhuis Rialto, Club Bitterzoet, Podium Mozaïek, Imagine IC free open air cinema throughout Amsterdam.Parallel programmeRotterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Nijmegen & Den Bosch.African Film is experiencing a transformation! Africa in the Picture – the annual platform in Europe for African cinema and African Diaspora cinema (North and South America, Europe, Surinam, the Caribbean) demonstrates these developments in over 80 films. The varied programm...