From essay films to expanded cinema, the Biennial charts wide cinematic horizons, with screenings in collaboration with partners and venues such as Eye Filmmuseum, Framer Framed, and Het Documentaire Paviljoen / IDFA Institute.

Highlights include the Dutch premiere of AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB (2024) by Vanja Smiljanić and Lukas Marxt, a documentary that traces the entangled histories of nuclear testing, industrial agriculture, and Indigenous land at the Salton Sea in Southern California, revealing how Cold War militarisation, ecological collapse, and colonial violence continue to shape the present. The programme Gendered Lives in the Aftermath of Toxicity foregrounds a series of short films exploring how nuclear violence is lived, inherited, and resisted through women’s bodies, labour, and testimony. Bringing together works by Aigerim Seitenova, Emilija Škarnulytė, Aziza Kadyri, and Maïa Tellit Hawad, it traces intergenerational fallout, ecological damage, and gendered survival across Kazakhstan, Lithuania, the Sahara, and diasporic geographies.