Master of Film Amsterdam

We invite you to join the screening 'Krakatoa' + Q&A with Carlos Casas ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ Tue 7 April 2026, 19:30
➡️ More info & RSVP https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/actueel/agenda/2026/4/7/master-of-film-screening-krakatoa-q-a-with-carlos-casas/
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🔹About Krakatoa🔹⁠ ⁠

A Javanese fisherman experiences the greatest volcanic eruption of all time. Stranded on a deserted island, in search of food and water, he draws closer to the depths of the earth. A visceral and psychedelic odyssey.

It is said that when Krakatoa erupted in 1883, the sound it produced was the loudest ever heard. For weeks, sunsets around the world glowed in deep reds and oranges. Following Cemetery (2020), filmmaker Carlos Casas returns with a new opus that follows Kesuma, a young Bagan fisherman living on a bamboo floating platform. After a volcanic eruption triggers a massive tsunami, he wakes up on a remote island. In search of food and water, Kesuma begins to explore the island, drawing ever closer to the depths of the planet.

With the extraordinary sound design of Nicolas Becker (an Academy Award winner for Sound of Metal) and a powerful performance by Roni Herliansyah, Casas crafts a sensory odyssey where adventure, ecology and the sublime force of nature merge. The result is a unique, psychedelic and visceral journey. Krakatoa seeks new ways of connecting cinema with the experience of nature, bringing to the screen a resonant and loving gaze upon both the fragility and the might of our planet.
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👤 About Carlos Casas
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⁠Carlos Casas (b. 1974, Barcelona, Spain) is a filmmaker and artist whose practice encompasses film, sound and the visual arts. His films have been screened and awarded in festivals around the world, like the Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, Mexico International Film Festival, FID Marseille. His work has been exhibited and performed in international art institutions and galleries, such as Tate Modern, London, Fondation Cartier, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, CCCB Barcelona, GAM Torino, Bozar Bruxelles, among others.

We invite you to join the double screening + Q&A ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ Thu 5 Feb 2026, 19:30⁠
➡️ More info & RSVP https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/master-of-film-artistic-research/master-of-film-artistic-research-in-and-through-cinema/public-lectures/rsvp-form-lectures/
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The Master of Film and ReCNTR are happy to present a double screening of Marta Popivoda’s work, followed by a Q&A with film critic Neil Young.

🔹YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY
2013, 62 min, Serbia / France / Germany🔹⁠ ⁠

Synopsis. The film explores how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90s, 5th October revolution, etc.). Going back through the images, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people, ideology, and the state.

🔹SLET 1988
2025, 22 min, Germany / France / Serbia🔹⁠ ⁠

ynopsis. In Slet 1988, dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through socialist-modernist spaces, her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon shape the future of the country.

🚨DEADLINE ALERT!⁠
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Application Master of Film:⁠
Monday 12 January 2026⁠
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More info: https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/master-of-film-artistic-research/master-of-film-artistic-research-in-and-through-cinema/application-admission/
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The Master's Degree Programme in Film (Artistic Research) is open to all moving image makers with a bachelor's degree. This includes not only a degree in film or any of its sub-disciplines, but also in the field of visual arts, digital media or performance arts.

RECAP - of the screening of Monikondee + Q&A with filmmakers Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan 💫

Thank you to everyone who joined us!

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🔹About Monikondee🔹⁠ ⁠
For centuries, the Maroons in Suriname have kept capitalist society at bay. Descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped plantations, they survived by adhering to ancestral values. In recent years, however, economic interests have penetrated deep into the rainforest. ⁠
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Boatman Boogie navigates the Maroni River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guiana, to deliver essential cargo to remote Maroon and Indigenous communities. While these forest peoples grow their own food, they are increasingly dependent on boatmen for their daily provisions. Climate-driven flooding and droughts are destroying their crops, and gold mining is poisoning the water. When Boogie is summoned by his clan leaders to attend his nephew’s trial, the demands of his work begin to conflict with his traditional duties. During a winding journey far upstream, the currents grow increasingly unpredictable.

Kiva Liu's graduation project 'Four Comrades, One Echo' is nominated for the AHK Eindwerkprijs (Graduation Award). 🎉

For the 14th edition of the AHK Eindwerkprijs, the jury studied 57 submitted graduation projects. The jury selected ten projects for the shortlist. Two prizes of €2,000 will be awarded in the bachelor and master categories.

The jury will announce the winners on Thursday, January 29, 2026, during the festive award ceremony at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

The Master of Film programme at the Netherlands Film Academy celebrates remarkable success at the 38th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Three alumni have received prestigious honours, underscoring the calibre of emerging talent nurtured by the school:

🔹Kiva Liu (class of 2025) won the IDFA Forum Award for Best Producers Connection Project with her project: Four Comrades, One Echo
🔹Dawood Hilmandi (class of 2016) received the IDFA Award for Best First Feature for his film Paikar (Netherlands/Afghanistan). In addition, his film was granted a Special Mention in the Best Dutch Film category and also earned the FIPRESCI Award
🔹Albert Kuhn (class of 2019) was awarded a Special Mention in the Short Documentary competition for his film Dreams for a Better Past (Netherlands/Spain). His film was edited by Diana Toucedo (teacher Master of Film)

The awards cover a wide spectrum of documentary filmmaking—from project development and co-production (Liu) to impactful first features (Hilmandi) and innovative short documentaries (Kuhn).

We invite you to join the screening 'Monikondee' + Q&A ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ Thu 27 Nov 2025, 19:30⁠
➡️ More info & RSVP https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/actueel/agenda/2025/11/27/master-of-film-screening-monikondee-q-a-1/⁠
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🔹About Monikondee🔹⁠ ⁠
For centuries, the Maroons in Suriname have kept capitalist society at bay. Descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped plantations, they survived by adhering to ancestral values. In recent years, however, economic interests have penetrated deep into the rainforest.

Boatman Boogie navigates the Maroni River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guiana, to deliver essential cargo to remote Maroon and Indigenous communities. While these forest peoples grow their own food, they are increasingly dependent on boatmen for their daily provisions. Climate-driven flooding and droughts are destroying their crops, and gold mining is poisoning the water. When Boogie is summoned by his clan leaders to attend his nephew’s trial, the demands of his work begin to conflict with his traditional duties. During a winding journey far upstream, the currents grow increasingly unpredictable.

🔹Q&A🔹
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan.

We invite you to join our PUBLIC LECTURE ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ Tue 4 Nov 2025, 19:45⁠
➡️ More info & RSVP https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/actueel/agenda/2025/11/4/master-of-film-public-lecture-by-tumi-mogorosi/
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🔹By Tumi Mogorosi⁠🔹⁠ ⁠
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⁠The Human under Crisis: Notes on a Possible Moment of Invention⁠
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In this current moment of ecological catastrophe, we are confronted with profound theoretical, ideological, and political questions. The Anthropocene is proposed as a human project propelled by capital, which has led some thinkers to suggest we are instead living in the Capitalocene. The critique of human centrality offers a way to open other possibilities for ethical relations with all life forces, challenging the crisis within human autonomy and its hierarchical status. Decentering human sovereignty allows us to rethink the symbolic position of the human itself.⁠
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What becomes of the human when it loses its autonomous status? Does the end of a human-centered world open the possibility to undo the violence of humanism’s imperial and colonial roots? Can we realize post-humanist equality between species, or must we invent new categories of being through revolutionary processes, categories not yet imagined?⁠
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👤 ABOUT Tumi Mogorosi⁠
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⁠Tumi Mogorosi is a South African drummer, composer, and theorist whose work bridges sonic practice, black aesthetics, and philosophical inquiry. Currently on a European tour, he is performing in Rotterdam, Utrecht, Gent, and Cologne. His acclaimed debut Project ELO (Jazzman Records, 2014) and subsequent works expand collective improvisation, choral form, and spiritual expression in jazz. His book DeAesthetic: Writing with and from the Black Sonic (2021) explores sound, silence, and embodiment, unsettling colonial modernity’s political and aesthetic assumptions. Through his music and writing, Mogorosi proposes sound as a mode of thought and listening as ethical attention, essential to exploring the human under crisis and imagining new worlds.

We invite you to join the screening 'East of Noon' + Q&A with Hala Elkoussy ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ Thu 30 Oct 2025, 19:30⁠
➡️ More info & RSVP https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/actueel/agenda/2025/10/30/master-of-film-public-lecture-by-hala-elkoussy/
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🔹By Hala Elkoussy🔹⁠ ⁠

⁠East of Noon is a feature film by Egyptian artist and filmmaker Hala Elkoussy: a magical-realist portrait of the inner workings of autocracy and its vulnerability to a youthful vision of a better world. Shot on 16mm and 35mm stock, and with elaborate set designs, the film tells the story of a young musician, Abdo, who encounters two sides of the same coin of oppression in a local despot, who rules the desert enclave through a mixture of entertainment and fear, and his grandmother, who soothes the inhabitants with tales of a mythical sea. The film premiered internationally at the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2024 and nationally at IFFR 2025.
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👤 ABOUT Hala Elkoussy

⁠Hala Elkoussy (Egypt, 1974) is a visual artist who works across a variety of media: photography, video, installation, sculpture. She has produced a number of short films that were screened in exhibitions and film festivals around the world among which the Istanbul Biennial, Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou. Her artwork features in the collections of Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Jameel Collection among others.

📣Online Information Session for New Students!📣⁠
👉️11 & 18 November 2025, Netherlands Film Academy⁠
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During our Information Session Nduka Mntambo (head of the master programme) will present the Master of Film and explain in detail what participating in the programme entails. Application and admission procedures will be addressed during this presentation.⁠ Afterwards you can ask questions to the team and some or our current students. ⁠
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➡️Sign up https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/master-of-film-artistic-research/master-of-film-artistic-research-in-and-through-cinema/information-sessions/

JOIN US screening + Q&A ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ Wed 8 Oct 2025, 19:00⁠
➡️ More info & RSVP https://www.filmacademie.ahk.nl/actueel/agenda/2025/10/8/one-night-only-thania-petersen-at-the-netherlands-film-academy/
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🔹By Thania Petersen🔹⁠ ⁠
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South African visual artist Thania Petersen (Cape Town, 1980) is this autumn’s artist-in-residence at Afrovibes Festival and the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam (28 September – 24 October). Known for her powerful textile installations, multimedia performances, and video works, Petersen reveals hidden histories and highlights an African perspective on cultural heritage.

As part of Afrovibes Festival 2025, Petersen presents a special screening of her video works at the Netherlands Film Academy on 8 October, in collaboration with the Master of Film programme. The evening reflects the festival theme “Legacy”, exploring the heritage of colonial imperialism, Cape Malay traditions, and Sufi myths, asking what we must remember to shape our future.
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👤 ABOUT Thania Petersen
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Thania Petersen’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Ames Yavuz (Sydney, 2024), the Architecture Biennale (Venice, 2023), and Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town, 2022 & 2021). Her work is included in major collections such as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (Washington, D.C.), Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town), and the National Museum of World Cultures (Rotterdam). Through textile design, video works, performances, and installations, Petersen explores the legacies of colonial imperialism, Cape Malay heritage, and Sufi traditions—restoring hidden histories, reclaiming lost heritage, and imagining futures shaped by cultural memory.

📸 Recap day 4: graduation ceremony 2025 🎉⁠
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Congratulations to our graduates! ❤️‍🔥⁠
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ℹ️ The Artistic Research Week is a part of the Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival. ⁠

📷️ Photo's by Sojeong Lee