Mothers & Daughters
Coinciding with the new 4K restoration and 50th-anniversary re-release of Carlos Saura’s Cría Cuervos, the progam Mothers & Daughters explores one of cinema’s most intimate and inexhaustible relationships.
Coinciding with the new 4K restoration and 50th-anniversary re-release of Carlos Saura’s Cría Cuervos, the progam Mothers & Daughters explores one of cinema’s most intimate and inexhaustible relationships.
Coinciding with the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the reopening of our main auditorium, after months of renovations, It’s Not The Destination, It’s The Journey explores cinema’s great quests, pilgrimages, exiles and returns. From physical voyages to spiritual transformations, these films remind us that every true journey changes the traveller along the way.
This Pride Month, we delve into the glittering, outrageous, and endlessly quotable world of Camp, Cult & Queer: a film season celebrating cinema that has shaped, shocked, seduced, and been lovingly claimed by queer audiences.
Introducing LAB 8½, our fifth (boutique) screening room. While the major renovation of our largest auditorium, LAB1, is still in full swing, we have transformed our former Kapel into a casual, laidback home for film. Inspired by Fellini’s 8½ and the allure of Italian cinema, the room combines retro-chic style with an intimate, modular setting and top-notch projection.
Spend a summer evening drifting through memory, sun-soaked holidays and the ache of growing up as Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun gets the Cinema Aperitivo treatment in our boutique screening room LAB 8½. For two select screenings, your ticket includes a small spritz and an Italian-style antipasti platter, perfectly suited to the film’s hazy mood of family holidays, fleeting moments and emotions that only come into focus years later.
Director Carlos Saura is often seen as one of the great masters of Spanish cinema, and with Cría Cuervos he made one of his most haunting and enduring films. In honor of its 50th anniversary, this quietly devastating classic returns to cinemas in a new restoration.
After sold-out screenings at Club Imagine, be among the first to enter Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. In this gloriously twisted summer-camp nightmare, hormones, horror and bad decisions collide before the bodies start piling up. The follow-up to I Saw the TV Glow confirms director Jane Schoenbrun as one of the most singular voices in contemporary cinema.
This summer, Jacques Tati returns to the big screen in six newly restored 4K classics: Jour de Fête, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Mon Oncle, PlayTime, Trafic and Parade.
Spend a sweaty summer evening in LAB 8½ with Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También, a sun-drenched road movie of desire, friendship and restless youth. Your ticket includes a small Paloma cocktail to add a touch of extra Mexican flavor to the screening.
Warm up your voice, dust off your dancing shoes and get ready to say thank you for the music as Mamma Mia! becomes the ultimate sun-soaked ABBA sing-along.
Hold on to your platform shoes and get ready to spice up your life with Spice World: The Movie, the 90’s nostalgia trip that took the world by storm and left us all craving for more zig-a-zig-ah!
We’re turning up the volume and the nostalgia for a very special Sing-Along screening of the beloved ’70s musical Grease. Grab your pink jackets, slick back that hair, and come dressed as Sandy, Danny, Rizzo or Frenchy for a night of high-octane fun. Belt out every word, dance in the aisles, and relive the magic of Rydell High in an immersive, one-of-a-kind musical movie experience. It’s gonna be electrifyin’!
For its 20th anniversary, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed returns to the big screen: a blistering Boston crime thriller of loyalty, deception and violence on both sides of the law.
Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, LAB111 thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands. Previously Unreleased is a collaboration with the EYE Filmmuseum.
Director Ousmane Sembène is often called the father of African cinema, and with Black Girl, he made one of his foundational films. In honor of its 60th anniversary, this rediscovered classic returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration.
For its 50th anniversary, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver returns in a new 4K restoration, plunging audiences back into the neon-lit paranoia and alienation of 1970s New York.
Having first joined forces to create our beloved Panorama-beer, Oedipus Brewing and LAB111 now re-reunite for Panorama Movie Nights — a series of film screenings meant to expand our horizons. This year, we shift our gaze from the rise of artificial intelligence to something equally compelling: the worlds we build, the futures we imagine, and the stories that define what it means to be human.
Humans of Film Festival blaast dit jaar vijf kaarsjes uit — en alsof dat nog niet genoeg reden is voor een feestje, viert onze thuisstad Amsterdam ook haar 750ste verjaardag. Dubbel feest dus! Van 19 t/m 21 september strijkt het festival neer bij LAB111 met een programma vol urgente, ontroerende en verbindende films.
Curators Lieuwe and Levente bring you the ultimate cult night every month with Straight to Video presents… Prepare for a wild cult film from the VHS era, filled with mind-boggling moments, rubbery rarities, and deranged dialogue.
Dan Savage’s HUMP!—the world’s best indie erotic film fest—is adult entertainment by the people, for the people. Every year, hot, creative, and kinky bite-sized shorts (no film is longer than 5 minutes!) are submitted by creators from around the world. The HUMP! Jury curates the funniest, sexiest, kinkiest of the bunch to create a joyful, inclusive, 90-minute experience.
Cine of the Times returns on August 20 after a sold-out first night. It’s the Celebrating Cinema spin-off where film critic Hugo Emmerzael and academic Dan Hassler-Forest take one film from the 21st century at a time: anything from arthouse to glorious pulp, as they examine how each movie reshaped cinema.
1936. De Spaanse fascisten grijpen de macht in het land en arresteren politici, professors en kunstenaars. De jonge dichter Federico García Lorca is een van hen. Dagen zit hij vast in een gevangenis, tot een militie hem ’s ochtends vroeg uit zijn cel komt halen. Wat willen ze? Is Lorca nog te redden?
Op dinsdagavond 11 augustus zal in LAB 8½ de eerste editie van Het Fragment plaatsvinden, een programma waarin Alexander Bartels kunstenaars, makers, en denkers aan de hand van filmfragmenten die een blijvende indruk op hen hebben achtergelaten zal ontvangen voor een goed gesprek.












In de zomer van 2016 kregen wij de sleutels van LAB111. Sindsdien zijn we met een klein team elke dag bezig om onze dromen te verwezenlijken.
LAB111 is een eigenzinnige cult cinema gevestigd in een monumentaal oud pathologisch anatomisch laboratorium in Amsterdam. Onze eigenwijze programmering bestaat uit bijzondere classics en frisse perspectieven die tot de verbeelding spreken, aanzetten tot nadenken en inspireren. Van verdiepende documentaires en moderne klassiekers tot onconventionele genrefilms.
Naast de bioscoop kun je exposities komen ontdekken, vinden er debatavonden plaats en kan je in Bar Strangelove genieten van heerlijke zuurdesem pizza’s of juist lekker barhangen. Zowel voor of na de film.
LAB111 wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door een divers en enthousiast team van filmvrijwilligers.
Kijk bij onze vacatures of er momenteel plek is voor nieuwe vrijwilligers.