Leiden Essay
Film Festival
Het eerste festival in Nederland volledig gewijd aan de essayfilm
14 – 16 september 2025
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)