Leiden Essay
Film Festival

Blijf ons volgen voor updates over de data en het programma van het aankomende festival. We hopen je in september 2026 te zien.

Dank je wel voor je bezoek aan onze website. De eerste editie van het Leiden Essay Film Festival in september 2025 was een daverend succes. Er kwamen meer dan 1200 bezoekers en we kregen talloze enthousiaste reacties. Sindsdien worden we geregeld geattendeerd op nieuwe essayfilms en vragen bezoekers ons wanneer de volgende editie van het festival gepland staat. Daarover kunnen we je snel meer laten weten.

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 and 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)