World Cinema Amsterdam will be held 15 to 24 Aug 2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. World Cinema Amsterdam brings indoor and open-air screenings to the Rialto cinema and nearby Marie Heinekenplein. The film festival that screens the best and most beautiful recent films from Latin America, Asia and Africa - films that will make you see, feel and experience how life is elsewhere. And if you want to know something more about the films... you can ask the directors! Many of them will be present during the festival. Some films will screen in competition and be up for awards while others will screen outside competition, simply in the name of great art. Many of the filmmakers will be present during the course of the festival to take part in a programme of Q&A sessions, master classes and debates around the film culture and the themes these films touch on. World Cinema Amsterdam is an event and I like events...
During World Cinema Amsterdam, you will have the chance to meet inspirational filmmakers from all over the world and watch their latest amazing works.
The competition programme is the festival's backbone. All nominated films compete for the World Cinema Jury Award which has a substantial amount of money attached. Nine strong films – competitors - are nominated every year within our Official Selection. A remarkable detail: World Cinema Amsterdam pays special attention to the work of young and talented filmmakers, therefore a large part of our competition titles are indeed debut films. The competition programme will be shown in Rialto and De Balie.
All the competition films are eligible to win the World Cinema Amsterdam Jury Award, and then there’s the World Cinema Amsterdam Audience Award, decided by votes cast by the audiences.
It has always been a successful part of the festival: World Cinema Open Air. And no wonder, for it is of course very nice to see a film outdoors in a warm Summer evening. Especially if it is a brand new film!