Coinciding with the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the reopening of our largest screening room, It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey explores cinema’s great quests, pilgrimages, exiles and returns. From physical voyages to spiritual transformations, these films remind us that every true journey changes the traveller along the way.
Calling all movie-marathoners, early birds, and front-runners: we’ve got something brand new for you this summer. We’re proud to present the Cineville Preview Days, running from 2 to 5 July in over 50 cinemas across the Netherlands.
This Pride Month, we delve into the glittering, outrageous, and endlessly quotable world of Camp, Cult & Queer: a film season celebrating cinema that has shaped, shocked, seduced, and been lovingly claimed by queer audiences.
Introducing LAB 8½, our fifth (boutique) screening room. While the major renovation of our largest auditorium, LAB1, is still in full swing, we have transformed our former Kapel into a casual, laidback home for film. Inspired by Fellini’s 8½ and the allure of Italian cinema, the room combines retro-chic style with an intimate, modular setting and top-notch projection.
For its 20th anniversary, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed returns to the big screen: a blistering Boston crime thriller of loyalty, deception and violence on both sides of the law.
Spend a summer evening wandering through Vienna as Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise gets the Cinema Aperitivo treatment in our boutique screening room LAB 8½. For two select screenings, your ticket includes a small spritz and an Italian-style antipasti platter, perfectly suited to the film’s dreamy mood of chance encounters, late-night conversations and fleeting romance.
Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, LAB111 thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands. Previously Unreleased is a collaboration with the EYE Filmmuseum.
Director Ousmane Sembène is often called the father of African cinema, and with Black Girl, he made one of his foundational films. In honor of its 60th anniversary, this rediscovered classic returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration.
We continue our series of International Cinema, offering the best foreign movies with English subtitles. With the same blend of warmth, humour and emotion that made How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies an international hit, the filmmakers of Gohan once again tell a story about love, loss and connection.
For its 50th anniversary, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver returns in a new 4K restoration, plunging audiences back into the neon-lit paranoia and alienation of 1970s New York.
A darkly comic tragedy, Leaving Las Vegas charts the brief romantic convergence of two desperately needy individuals who together find a fleeting moment of happiness. Back at our cinema in a new 4K restoration to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Balancing breezy romantic comedy with a serious inquiry into the history of Black and queer women in Hollywood, The Watermelon Woman slyly rewrites long-standing constructions of race and sexuality on-screen, introducing an important voice in American cinema.
In memory of Marjane Satrapi, the restored 4K version of Persepolis returns to our cinema: a vivid, deeply personal animated classic about identity, resistance and freedom. Catch it on the big screen at select screenings.
Celebrate a Roman summer in the cinema as Roman Holiday gets the Cinema Aperitivo treatment in our new boutique screening room LAB 8½. For two select screenings, your ticket includes a small spritz and an Italian-style antipasti platter, perfectly suited to the mood of your trip to sunny Rome.
Starting this June, coinciding with the release of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, LAB111 collaborates with historian and multidisciplinary artist Alexander Bartels to present We Are Not Alone, a journey into extraterrestrial encounters, cosmic intrusion and the strange mythology of contact.
Bright, bold and effortlessly cool, Godard’s playful New Wave gem Une Femme Est Une Femme returns to cinemas from June 4 for its 65th anniversary.
Cine of the Times returns on August 20 after a sold-out first night. It’s the Celebrating Cinema spin-off where film critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest take one film from the 21st century at a time: anything from arthouse to glorious pulp, as they examine how each movie reshaped cinema.
1936. De Spaanse fascisten grijpen de macht in het land en arresteren politici, professors en kunstenaars. De jonge dichter Federico García Lorca is een van hen. Dagen zit hij vast in een gevangenis, tot een militie hem ’s ochtends vroeg uit zijn cel komt halen. Wat willen ze? Is Lorca nog te redden?
AI-generated content fills the digital space, and the festival asks whether the same techniques can be turned towards artistic, non-commercial ends. Across exhibitions, panels, screenings, and live performances, international artists, collectives, and institutions bring together shared toolkits and critical reflections on authorship, automation, and visibility.
For this edition of Fight The Power: Films of Resistance, presented in collaboration with the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam, we’re screening the searing new film by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, Palestine 36. Set in British-ruled Palestine in 1936, it follows a young man caught between his village and a restless Jerusalem as the country rises up in the Great Revolt — the largest and longest Palestinian uprising against British colonial rule.
Schmutz Cinema is back, and this time it’s a special edition, you won’t soon forget. We’re serving a program that doesn’t just sit on the screen; it clings, it binds, and it begs to be touched. Welcome to Close-up on Latex, a multi-sensory deep dive into a material that practically oozes raw, unfiltered sex from every angle. Get ready to stretch your imagination and your boundaries.
Girly Pop! celebrates the glittery, messy, and meaningful world of girlhood on screen! From iconic teen comedies to coming-of-age cult faves, we spotlight films that explore friendship, self-discovery, and the cultural power of all things “girly.”
On June 26th, we are screening a series of Iranian experimental shorts by young independent filmmakers, where memory is not a return to the past but a trace still moving through the present — unfinished, carried in bodies, voices, labour, and images.
Curators Lieuwe and Levente bring you the ultimate cult night every month with Straight to Video presents… Prepare for a wild cult film from the VHS era, filled with mind-boggling moments, rubbery rarities, and deranged dialogue.
For this edition of Fight The Power: Films of Resistance, we’re screening Daniel Goldhaber’s incendiary 2022 climate thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline on June 25. Eight strangers converge on a stretch of West Texas oil infrastructure with a plan to sabotage it. Adapted from Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, the film transposes a polemic into a heist, and puts the question the mainstream climate movement has spent decades avoiding squarely on the table.
On July 16, as part of our We Are Not Alone season, historian Alexander Bartels will guide audiences through the enigmatic modern history of UFOs, from their rise to mainstream attention in the twentieth century to the present day, highlighting extraordinary cases and bringing us up to date on what is happening right now.
For this edition of Fight The Power: Films of Resistance, presented in collaboration with the Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam, we’re screening the searing new film by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, Palestine 36. Set in British-ruled Palestine in 1936, it follows a young man caught between his village and a restless Jerusalem as the country rises up in the Great Revolt — the largest and longest Palestinian uprising against British colonial rule.
For this edition of Fight The Power: Films of Resistance, we’re screening Daniel Goldhaber’s incendiary 2022 climate thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline on June 25. Eight strangers converge on a stretch of West Texas oil infrastructure with a plan to sabotage it. Adapted from Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, the film transposes a polemic into a heist, and puts the question the mainstream climate movement has spent decades avoiding squarely on the table.
In de zomer van 2016 kregen wij de sleutels van LAB111. Sindsdien zijn we met een klein team elke dag bezig om onze dromen te verwezenlijken.
LAB111 is een eigenzinnige cult cinema gevestigd in een monumentaal oud pathologisch anatomisch laboratorium in Amsterdam. Onze eigenwijze programmering bestaat uit bijzondere classics en frisse perspectieven die tot de verbeelding spreken, aanzetten tot nadenken en inspireren. Van verdiepende documentaires en moderne klassiekers tot onconventionele genrefilms.
Naast de bioscoop kun je exposities komen ontdekken, vinden er debatavonden plaats en kan je in Bar Strangelove genieten van heerlijke zuurdesem pizza’s of juist lekker barhangen. Zowel voor of na de film.
LAB111 wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door een divers en enthousiast team van filmvrijwilligers.
Kijk bij onze vacatures of er momenteel plek is voor nieuwe vrijwilligers.
