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.
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.
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.
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.
Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year, and we’re celebrating with select matinee screenings of two of her brightest classics: Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Come for the diamonds, disguises and dazzling comic timing, stay for a screen icon who still lights up the room.
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.
Boogie Nights is finally available for us to screen again, newly restored in dazzling 4K. Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying portrait of fame, family and excess in the San Fernando Valley has never looked or sounded better.
Bend and snap your way back to Harvard: Legally Blonde turns 25, and Elle Woods is still proving that pink, brains and impeccable timing never go out of style.
Obsession rarely announces itself. It lingers, deepens, and quietly takes hold. This Spring, our thematic season Can’t Get You Out Of My Head: Films Of Obsession, explores cinema’s enduring fascination with fixation in all its forms, from voyeurism and stalking to creative mania, erotic compulsion, and love pushed far beyond reason.
To celebrate new 4K restorations, we bring three of his most beloved films back to the big screen — Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Summer Wars — presented in stunning new detail.
This summer edition Imagine Fantastic Film Festival’s off-season weekender offers 6 brand-new previews and one-offs (some fresh from Cannes!), taking die-hard genre fans and curious newcomers from one corner of the Fantastic spectrum to the other. Martial arts, supernatural horror, sexy slasher and deadpan sci-fi – we’ve got you covered!
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.
Cine of the Times is our new Celebrating Cinema event series, launching on Wednesday, 17 June. Every month, film critic Hugo Emmerzael and media studies scholar Dan Hassler-Forest pick a film from the century so far — arthouse one month, pulp the next, covering titles that somehow became canon and the ones we’re still arguing about. Paired with a Celebrating Cinema podcast episode about the film, Hugo and Dan continue the conversation live in the cinema with curated clips, an extended introduction, and a discussion afterwards that opens up to the room.
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.
Cine of the Times is our new Celebrating Cinema event series, launching on Wednesday, 17 June. Every month, film critic Hugo Emmerzael and media studies scholar Dan Hassler-Forest pick a film from the century so far — arthouse one month, pulp the next, covering titles that somehow became canon and the ones we’re still arguing about. Paired with a Celebrating Cinema podcast episode about the film, Hugo and Dan continue the conversation live in the cinema with curated clips, an extended introduction, and a discussion afterwards that opens up to the room.
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.
