Leiden Essay
Film Festival

The first festival in the Netherlands dedicated entirely to the essay film

14 – 16 September 2025

Cinema Kijkhuis & Museum De Lakenhal

Preemptive Listening

directed by Aura Satz (Spain, 2024)

Sans Soleil

directed by Chris Marker (France, 1983 Argos film, all rights reserved)

Free to Choose

directed by Bahar Noorizadeh (UK, 2023)

An Asian Ghost Story

directed by Bo Wang (Hong Kong, 2023)

Home Invasion

directed by Graeme Arnfield (US, 2024)

Henry Fonda for President

directed by Alexander Horwath (US, 2024)

Perpetual Radiance

directed by Michela Meliddo (Italy, 2024)

The Southern Thruway

directed by Susanna Tomassini (Italy, 2023 )

The Natural History of Destruction

directed by Sergei Loznitsa (Poland, 2022)

To the Earthen Red

directed by Nika Pećarina (Netherlands, 2022)

Twenty-Four Cinematic Points of View of a Factory Gate in China

directed by Ho Rui An (China, 2023)

My Want of You Partakes of Me

directed by Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner (UK, 2024)

Letters from Panduranga

directed by Nguyễn Trinh Thi (Vietnam, 2015)

In Praise of Slowness

directed by Hicham Gardaf (UK/Italy, 2024)

A Letter from Yene

directed by Manthia Diawara (Senegal, 2022)