Heatwave: Sweaty Summer Cinema
Starting this June, we’re turning up the temperature with Heatwave—a scorching summer-long film series that sweats, simmers, and seduces.
Starting this June, we’re turning up the temperature with Heatwave—a scorching summer-long film series that sweats, simmers, and seduces.
This milestone edition brings together bold films, powerful conversations, and inspiring storytellers who challenge borders, identities, and expectations. From urgent social realities to deeply personal narratives, we continue to showcase cinema that dares to push boundaries and reshape perspectives. For a decade, the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival (IQMF) Amsterdam has been a beacon of representation, resilience, and artistic expression.
With meticulous symmetry, pastel palettes, and a distinct sense of melancholy wrapped in whimsy, Wes Anderson has crafted one of the most unmistakable cinematic styles of our time. This May, his complete filmography returns to our screens, from the scrappy charm of Bottle Rocket to the intricate world-building of Asteroid City.
This Summer, Kingdoms of Rain: The Films of Akira Kurosawa celebrates one of cinema’s greatest visionaries. Spanning samurai epics, psychological thrillers, and poignant human dramas, this retrospective offers a deep dive into Kurosawa’s unparalleled exploration of humanity, nature, and the chaos of war.
After a sold-out performance at Paradiso, LAB111 invites you once again to experience a special screening of Nosferatu (1922), the iconic silent horror classic, brought to life with a mesmerizing live soundtrack by Wanderwelle. Their contemporary score clashes with the century-old silent classic, creating a tension that is both unsettling and invigorating. Expect a raw mix of eerie soundscapes, jagged melodies, and biting riffs—music as sharp and relentless as the fangs of the undead count himself.
We continue with our series of International Cinema, where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. The French box office hit L’Amour Ouf is an explosive cocktail of love, violence, and nostalgia, set against the backdrop of the 1980s and 90s.
Curator Lieuwe van Albada brings 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.
Get ready for a night of brilliantly crafted chaos as we bring two parts of Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy to the big screen this May.
In honour of the 4K restoration of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, we invite you to a literary evening exploring the reverberations of the graphic novel it is based on. Join us for poetic presentations and personal reflections on this iconic work and its ongoing impact, more than twenty years after its publication.
Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour returns to our screen this May to coincide with Liberation Day and the May 4th Remembrance. A haunting meditation on memory, love, and the scars of war, the film pairs the personal with the political in poetic, unforgettable ways.
Showgirls celebrates its 30th anniversary this month with a brand-new 4K restoration on our screen. Paul Verhoeven’s cult classic returns in all its over-the-top Vegas glory. Alongside, we’re also screening You Don’t Nomi — a sharp, funny documentary that explores the film’s wild journey from flop to phenomenon.
We continue with our series of International Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Guan Hu delivers a poetic and redemptive journey through China with Black Dog, reminding us that the best of friends often has four legs.
To mark the 4K re-release of Hiroshima Mon Amour on May 1st, we’re also bringing L’Année Dernière à Marienbad back to the big screen. Two groundbreaking collaborations between Alain Resnais and writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, each bending time, memory, and emotion in their own haunting way.
To mark its 20th anniversary, Pride & Prejudice swirls back onto the big screen in all its windswept, waist-coated glory. Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Bennet is as sharp as ever, and yes — Mr. Darcy still walks moodily through the mist.
In our collaboration with Kaboom Animation Festival, we present rarely-seen animation classics on the big screen, from recently restored cult titles to seldomly-screened festival hits. Animation belongs on the big screen and what better place to present it than at LAB111, where Kaboom has its offices? So grab a drink and come watch great animation with us!
In anticipation of the new 4K restoration of Persepolis, we present A Taste of Iranian Cinema, a selection of some of the most celebrated films from Iran. Iranian cinema has long been admired for its poetic realism, humanist storytelling, and innovative techniques that transcend censorship and political constraints. This collection reflects the depth, artistry, and enduring influence of Iranian cinema—where everyday moments carry profound weight and simple stories reveal universal truths.
This milestone edition brings together bold films, powerful conversations, and inspiring storytellers who challenge borders, identities, and expectations. From urgent social realities to deeply personal narratives, we continue to showcase cinema that dares to push boundaries and reshape perspectives. For a decade, the International Queer & Migrant Film Festival (IQMF) Amsterdam has been a beacon of representation, resilience, and artistic expression.
In this edition, we are going on a road trip. When the smouldering sun hits the pavement, it is time to hit the road. Put on your short shorts and slutty summer dresses, stick out your thumbs and join us on an adventure into the unknown. Along the way, we run into hikers, bikers, space cats and the illmannered milkman.
After a sold-out performance at Paradiso, LAB111 invites you once again to experience a special screening of Nosferatu (1922), the iconic silent horror classic, brought to life with a mesmerizing live soundtrack by Wanderwelle. Their contemporary score clashes with the century-old silent classic, creating a tension that is both unsettling and invigorating. Expect a raw mix of eerie soundscapes, jagged melodies, and biting riffs—music as sharp and relentless as the fangs of the undead count himself.
Love takes many forms – ritual and rupture, longing and play, memory and miscommunication. This preview programme traces the contours of intimacy through different cinematic lenses: from poetic fragments and surreal experiments to raw, emotional encounters. Whether love is whispered, imagined, or constructed from absence, these films expose its shifting textures – funny, fragile, strange, and deeply human.
IQMF proudly presents to you the photography exhibition REPLACE! by Vanja Dimitrova
We’re excited to invite you to the premiere of our award-winning thriller short film Behind the Door at Lab111 in Amsterdam! This event is not just a celebration of our filmmaking journey but also a chance for thriller fans, short film enthusiasts and local filmmakers to come together. Alongside our film, we’ll be screening two other impactful shorts, Outside and On Air, to create an entertaining as well as thought provoking program. After the screening, stick around for a Q&A session with the filmmakers and then unwind with casual drinks and good company. Whether you’ve supported us along the way or you’re passionate about indie filmmaking, this is an event for you!
Join us on Saturday, May 31, at LAB111 for the closing night of the Africadelic Festival 2025, when we, in collaboration with Black Soil and Caribbean Creativity, will be screening Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know. With an introduction by researcher and archivist Saffa Khalil, who won the Walter Rodney UG Dissertation Award in 2021 (and as such appears in the film!) and the short film A Sweet Pain: The Rebel Synths of Cabo Verde (2019).
It’s HUMP!’s 20th Anniversary! HUMP! has been serving up hot, heavy, and hilarious “dirty” film shorts to the masses for two whole decades, and we’re kicking off this milestone year with the first of two ALL-NEW lineups for 2025.
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.