Roffa Mon Amour X Feeling Curious?
Enjoy a curated series of short films with links to Rotterdam in collaboration with Roffa Mon Amour. During Feeling Curious? festival, you can drop in anytime - from September 25 to 27 and October 2 to 4 - to watch them in the Hall of Theater Rotterdam. Check out the overview of the two film blocks that will be screened.
Thu 25 – Sat 27 Sep
Pleasant Hell by Suzanne Koopstra
Pleasant Hell follows four young men from Rotterdam who connect through music and creativity as they wander through a life that they experience as a pleasant hell.
Caltha by Isabel Legate
Caltha is a retelling of the myth of the caltha palustris flower – a vibrant five-petaled yellow bloom that grows in abundance in the Biesbosch National Park.
Ma’MaQueen by Esmee van Loon
Esmée van Loon’s film observes the life of young drag queen Ma’MaQueen/Venus Bijleveld. Vulnerable and open, Venus shares how it feels to live in a society where people still live and think in boxes.
Bubbling Baby by Sharine Rijsenburg
Bubbling Baby is an upbeat feminist ode to the bubbling scene. It documents the origins and evolution of the genre as one of the most fervent expressions of the cultural heritage of the Dutch Caribbean.
Thu 2 - Sat 4 Oct
Wander to Wonder by Nina Gantz
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a children’s TV show Wander to Wonder. After the creator dies, they find themselves alone in the studio. A sinister stop-motion film with a keen eye for detail.
DRIFTER by Joep Jansen
An astronaut becomes detached from his space station. Kept alive by a mysterious green liquid, he is taken on an infinite drift across the universe. Freed from time and space, DRIFTER is a confrontation with the void.
Where do ideas come from by Joysi Olijhoek
Joysi Olijhoek uses a split screen with seemingly unrelated archive material to probe the question, “Where do ideas come from?” As the film progresses, we witness the emergence of a new idea.
New Babylon by Gideon van der Stelt
An impossible city made up of gigantic rotating rings steers the lives of its lonely inhabitants. New Babylon follows the secluded lives of three separate characters.
Queer Mercury by Erik Peters
Queer Mercury follows three members of the Dutch ballroom scene during their preparations for the Utopia Ball at Rotterdam’s Kunsthal in September 2021.
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