Film program on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Not only in poetry, imagination plays the leading role in film as well. And since a movie house is our festival venue, one and one is two. During the Poetry International Festival, every day in LantarenVenster you can see special feature films with a poetic character. The five films will be inspiringly introduced by committed film experts or festival poets and can also be visited separately from the festival. On the program are the French documentary Petite Fille, an intimate film about Sasha, a seven-year-old girl born in a boy's body, Cemetery of splendour by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and My own private Idaho, with a very young Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix in his last film role. Live action, animation and documentary alternate in the short film program Swim, dance, fly, wander. The final film is Sidik and the Panther by Reber Dosky, a hopeful quest about the immense desire for freedom and peace. 

You can visit the films with a day ticket or festival pass, or with a separate film ticket, available through the LantarenVenster website. 

Friday 9 June, 19:45 - 20:15 in room 6 

Petite Fille

Documentary about Sasha, a seven-year-old girl born in a boy's body. In the village in northern France, where she lives with her parents and two siblings, things are not always fine. Her mother goes to great lengths to protect her which makes for a beautiful, moving and intimate portrait that is nowhere sentimental and for that very reason goes deep into your heart.  

Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz 

France, Denmark 2020 

85' 

French spoken, Dutch subtitles  

Friday, June 9, 8:45 - 9:45 p.m. in Room 6

Of het tijd kost Anne Vegter te zijn (Whether it takes time to be Anne Vegter) - premiere

During the Poetry International Festival, Friday, June 9, Of het tijd kost Anne Vegter te zijn will premiere, a film by Rob Niemantsverdriet and Bas Kwakman. Over the past year, director and cameraman Rob Niemantsverdriet followed poet Anne Vegter in places that are characteristic of the life of this former Poet Laureate and City Poet of 010. In this intimate and compassionate portrait, the viewer gets to know Anne better, both as a poet and as a human being. Life is suffering, the Buddhists say, and in Vegter's case it certainly is. In conversations with former Poetry International director Bas Kwakman, Vegter talks about her work and her health and reflects on the poems she writes. She also recites from her rich oeuvre.

Directed by Rob Niemantsverdriet

Netherlands, 2023

58'

Dutch spoken

Saturday, June 10, 17:30 - 19:30 in room 6 

Cemetery of Splendour 

In a small schoolhouse set up as a temporary hospital, soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are admitted. Nurse Jenjira and medium Keng lovingly care for them and, thanks to the appearance of two goddesses, find out the reason for their comatose state. Poetic and magical-realist mystery from the oft-acclaimed Golden Palm winner Weerasethakul, who once again beautifully casually blends the supernatural with human drama. Not as elusive as, say, Tropical Malady (2004), as much refers to Thailand's dictatorial regime. 

Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul 

Thailand, 2015 

122' 

Thai spoken, English subtitled  

Saturday, June 10, 20:30 - 22:15 in Room 6 

My Own Private Idaho 

Now classic film by Gus van Sant dei in ortland, Oregon plays with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves whose characters were called "whore boys" at the time. The two friends discover life that will be sadly forever linked to Phoenix's untimely death not long after filming.   

directed by Gus Van Sant 

USA, 1991 

104' 

English spoken

Sunday, June 11, 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. in Room 6

Short film program Swim, dance, fly, wander  

Two poems - by Neil Gaiman and Gerrit Achterberg - that inspired moving images open this short film program in which one film is organically strung together with another; ten films, mostly from the Netherlands; live action, animation, documentary; lots of water; and there is swimming, sailing, dancing, flying, wandering. Your imagination will run wild. Guaranteed. 

65' 

Hate for sale, Anna Eijsbouts, EN 2017, animation, 2.39', English 

Reimerswaal, Clara van Gool, NL 2004, 8.15', no dialogue 

Along the road #5, Ruud Monster, NL 1986, 6.18', no dialogue  

Rain, Yasmijn Karhof, NL 2006, 4.46', no dialogue 

Zwerk, Bart Vegter, NL 2004, 8.14', no dialogue  

Diep, Michelle Verhoeks, NL 2017, animation 4.09', no dialogue 

Uprooted, Jemima de Jonge, NL 2021, animation, 7.23', no dialogue 

City at Night, Gerard Holthuis 2000, 9.25', no dialogue 

The Art of Flying, Jan van IJken, NL 2015, 6.51', no dialogue 

Hybrids, Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Kim Tailhades, Yohan Thireau, Romain Thirion, France 2017, 6.17', no dialogue 

Sunday, June 11, 5:00 - 6:45 p.m. in Room 6 

Sidik and the panther  

In the wild, beautiful mountains of northern Iraq, Sidik has been searching for the panther for decades. If he finds it, the war will end - it must, is his assumption. On his journey Sidik does not encounter the panther but he does encounter all sorts of people including Dosky, the film's director. How a quest tells of the immense desire for freedom.  

director: Reber Dosky  

Netherlands 2019 

83' 

Kurdish spoken, NL subtitled 

Afterwards Q&A with director Reber Dosky