Expat Cinema: Meet-up | Rialto VU Amsterdam

At Expat Cinema: Meet up we screen recent foreign language films with English subtitles. Afterwards we get together to chat and network over a drink.

📍 Location: film theatre Rialto VU.

🎥 Screening: French/Senegalese documentary Dahomey on Sunday December, 1st at 17:15h.

🎬 Dahomey: The museums of former colonial rulers are full of art treasures once looted from their colonies. To the people of those former colonies, these objects are much more than fine art objects; they are objects of great historical, cultural and/or religious importance. This realisation is beginning to dawn on the former colonisers, and slowly but surely they have begun to return these ‘looted art’. What this involves is shown by French director Mati Diop in this important documentary. It earned her the Golden Bear at the last Berlinale.

🙌 Join us and our host Karolina for drinks after the film

At Expat Cinema: Meet up we screen recent foreign language films with English subtitles. Afterwards we get together to chat and network over a drink.

📍 Location: film theatre Rialto VU.

🎥 Screening: Romanian drama The New Year That Never Came on Thursday December, 19th at 18:30h.

🎬 The New Year That Never Came: What happens in the lives of ordinary people when they face major historical events? How do they cope with the feeling of a disappearing world? These are the questions Romanian director Bogdan Mureșanu explores in his first feature film. In this film, he builds on his 2018 short film Cadoul de Craciun (The Christmas Gift). The big historical event is the 1989 overthrow of the communist regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

🙌 Join us and our host Karolina for drinks after the film