Amsterdam Film Group

Important: Only RSVP if you have purchased a ticket and are certain you will attend. If you are unable to attend the event, do not RSVP. All information is in the description; please read it carefully.

IFFR Meetup 🎬 Short Film Marathon (KINO Rotterdam) + Markthal after 🍴🏛️

Ready for a proper film-lover challenge? IFFR’s Short Film Marathon is a six-hour sprint of back-to-back shorts — fiction, documentary, black & white, colour, highbrow, lowbrow… and the rest is a surprise. Never a dull moment.

🎥 Event

• What: IFFR Short Film Marathon
• When: Saturday 7 February 2026
• Screening: 11:45 – 17:57
• Where: KINO Rotterdam (KINO 1)
  Gouvernestraat 129–133, 3014 PM Rotterdam
• Walk: about 10 minutes from Rotterdam Centraal

🚆 Travel plan (from Amsterdam)

• Meet-up coffee: 09:45–10:00 at Julia’s inside Amsterdam Centraal
• Train: Depart Amsterdam Centraal 10:14 (via Schiphol)
• Arrive: Rotterdam Centraal 11:08
• We’ll walk straight to KINO together.

🍷 After the films
If you’re up for it, we’ll head to Markthal afterwards to explore food options and enjoy the architecture.

✅ Important RSVP note
Please RSVP only if you’ve already purchased a ticket and you’re sure you’ll attend.
If you can’t make it, please don’t RSVP just to save the event — it impacts planning for the group.

🎭 Cinema vibe
Let’s keep it comfy for everyone: arrive on time, phones away during the films, and we’ll chat in the breaks / after.

Hope to see you there! 🎬✨

Blue Moon

Important: Only RSVP if you have purchased a ticket and are certain you will attend. All information is in the description; please read it carefully.

Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott
Runtime: 100 minutes
Year: 2025

March 31, 1943. It’s the premiere of Oklahoma!, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Lorenz Hart, Rodgers’ former partner, watches his personal and professional life unravel as the show triumphs. Haunted by regret and alcohol, he has one last chance to reignite his collaboration with Rodgers. In Blue Moon, Richard Linklater shows how a single night can forever change the lives of some of America’s greatest songwriters, set to their iconic music.
Together, Hart and Rodgers wrote 28 musicals and over 500 songs, including timeless classics like Blue Moon and My Funny Valentine. While Rodgers goes on to form a legendary duo with Hammerstein after Oklahoma!, Hart’s life ends just months later at 48. Blue Moon is directed by Oscar-nominated Richard Linklater (Boyhood) and features a stellar cast: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott, and Bobby Cannavale. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Hope you can join us!

Pre-film:
Before Blue Moon, you can see the 1907 short film The Magic Scene by director Segundo Chómon, a five-minute colored trick film with fireworks, fountains, dancing, and a large, devilish head (of the director himself) pulling funny faces.

Language: English
Subtitles: Dutch
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7gRHip0lI

Tickets:
https://www.eyefilm.nl/whats-on/blue-moon/1573473?show=1584477

When: Tuesday, 10 February
Film starts: 21:00
Meet: Eye Café at 20:20
Meet me at the steps of the Eye cafe. When you pass the ticket counter and proceed to the cafe area, we will be located on the right, at the top of the steps, by the black benches.

The film starts at 21:00 at Cinema 3. Please do not be late.

Where: Eye Film Museum
IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam

I hope to see you there!

Important: Only RSVP if you have purchased a ticket and are certain you will attend. If you are unable to attend the event, do not RSVP. All information is in the description; please read it carefully.

Directed by: Matteo Garrone

Starring: Seydou Sarr, Khady Sy and Isaka Sawadogo

Runtime: 2 hours and 2 minutes

Year: 2023

Seydou and Moussa, two Senegalese teenagers, leave their families in Dakar to pursue a dream of Europe, embarking on a gripping, urgent journey that tests the very limits of their humanity. Director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) immerses us in the physical and emotional hardships of their odyssey, capturing both the beauty and the stark brutality of the landscapes they traverse, from the scorching Sahara desert to the horrors of Libyan detention centers. Anchored by an intimate focus on courage and camaraderie, the film elevates a harrowing tale into a profoundly human story. It stands as a tense, moving meditation on survival, aspiration, and the ultimate price of seeking a better life.

The film is in English, French, Arabic, and Italian with English subtitles.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6fLvLN2EqM

Info: https://www.lab111.nl/movie/io-capitano/

Tickets: https://tickets.lab111.nl/labcinema/nl/flow_configs/webshop/steps/start/show/1228184

When: Friday, 13/02/26 at 20.30

Meet at the Lab111 bar at 20.30. We will enter the cinema 15 minutes before the start time to get a seat. Please do not be late.

Film starts: 21.00

Theater: Lab 4

Where: LAB111
Arie Biemondstraat 111
1054 PD Amsterdam

I hope to see you there!