Festen (1998) - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
During a party celebrating the patriarch’s 60th birthday, his son reveals a shocking secret that shatters the illusion of a seemingly perfect family. Festen won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and remains widely regarded as a masterpiece of modern cinema. Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen was the first film created under the Dogme 95 manifesto. With its raw aesthetic and emotional intensity, Festen exemplifies what makes Dogme 95 so distinctive.
Dogme 95
Step into the radical world of Dogme 95, a groundbreaking film movement that turned the rules of traditional cinema on their head. Dogme 95 is a film manifesto created in 1995 by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Its aim was to return to a pure form of filmmaking, free from artificial enhancements and technical gimmicks. They laid out ten strict rules that challenged conventional cinema and protested the commercial and technological excesses of independent film.
- 19:00
Kies tijdstip
- filmspecial
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
During a party celebrating the patriarch’s 60th birthday, his son reveals a shocking secret that shatters the illusion of a seemingly perfect family. Festen won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and remains widely regarded as a masterpiece of modern cinema. Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen was the first film created under the Dogme 95 manifesto. With its raw aesthetic and emotional intensity, Festen exemplifies what makes Dogme 95 so distinctive.
Dogme 95
Step into the radical world of Dogme 95, a groundbreaking film movement that turned the rules of traditional cinema on their head. Dogme 95 is a film manifesto created in 1995 by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Its aim was to return to a pure form of filmmaking, free from artificial enhancements and technical gimmicks. They laid out ten strict rules that challenged conventional cinema and protested the commercial and technological excesses of independent film.
