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PLUK de NACHT - undiscovered cinema

Pluk de Nacht Film Festival

For over 20 years, you can enjoy the open-air film festival at the Stenen Hoofd in Amsterdam. This festival guarantees balmy summer evenings with the best films on the big screen, beach chairs, warm blankets, a campfire, and cocktails! In 2025, you can once again curl up in a beach chair for the best films. Please note: The start and end times listed are approximate and may vary on the day itself.

CanDance

El Teteo - Dance

El Teteo : The Originals

El Teteo: The Originals returns – a three-day event with the XL edition celebrating their third anniversary. With a unique combination of dance, music, culture, and gastronomy, this edition offers a complete experience for anyone who connects with the Caribbean and South American energy. Location: CanDance, Isolatorweg 28, Amsterdam.

Rembrandtpark

TAPT festival Amsterdam-West

The best drinks festival in the Netherlands is settling in the Rembrandtpark again; TAPT Festival – Amsterdam West. TAPT Festival is now much more than just beer, it guarantees one big party where you can laugh, dance and enjoy. And… as the icing on the cake, TAPT is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the festival this year. An extra reason to go all out! Gather your drinking buddies and make sure you're there!

Diverse locaties/various locations

Amsterdamse Sport- en Beweegweek 2025: voor iedereen

Amsterdam Sports Week

During the Amsterdam Sports Week, residents can try out a variety of free sports and physical activities in their own neighbourhood. Everyone is welcome to join in, have fun, get active, and connect with others. From light activity to intense workouts, in every neighbourhood. Give yourself a boost and discover what suits you best.

LAB111

Humans of Film Festival

A social and cultural-societal film festival returns to the LAB111 for a 5th edition in 2022. A unique film festival where (inter)national catchy 'human interest' documentaries and feature films are shown, with a broad fringe program consisting of various discussions, with panel members of social-societal organizations. The Humans of Film Festival is a niche in the Dutch film landscape.

Humans of Film Festival: Amsterdam 750

Humans of Film Festival celebrates its fifth edition with a groundbreaking and diverse film programme of socially engaged cinema that rarely reach the big screen. At film house LAB111, urgent stories, multiple generations, and communities come together for a weekend full of fresh insights and connection around the theme 'Intergenerational | Then, Now and Later'.

Erasmusgracht

Zomer 2025 Waterkaravaan Gratis Tuinfestivals

Immerse yourself in the wonderful water world and meet your neighbours under water. Waterkaravaan is a travelling exhibition of floating gardens for the inhabitants of water. With workshops, stories, animations, music, dance, colouring pictures, water safaris by canoe and a tasting. Discover how beautiful life in our canals and channels is, and can be.

Camera Japan Festival

CAMERA JAPAN Festival has grown into the largest Japanese film festival in the Benelux and attracts thousands of visitors every year.  The festival is characterized by a very diverse program: in addition to feature films, documentaries and anime, attention is also paid to the many aspects of Japanese culture, including visual arts, music, dance and food. The festival will return to LAB111 in October 2025.

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Mystic Garden Festival ADE 2025

Mystic Garden x Dockyard Festival ADE 2025

Enter a magical world at Havenpark, Wethouder van Essenweg, Amsterdam. Mystic Garden Festival ADE is once again joining forces with Dockyard for a two-in-one adventure of light versus darkness. Dance to top DJs, discover fairytale-like decor, and experience ADE like never before.

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De Filmhallen

Imagine Film Festival

The Imagine festival menu is once again richly filled with the best of fantastic film. From sexy vampires to nasty old people and lost chancellors, from feverish visions of the future to goose-throat dramas and everything in between. Imagine takes place from October 30 to November 9 in the FilmHallen Amsterdam, LAB111 and Hal West.

WestWeelde

7 Vibes Journey in Amsterdam

The world’s first multi-level party experience and evening clubbing community is back in Amsterdam on the 8th of November for another story of wonder.

Westerpark

Funky Xmas Market

It’s already well on its way to becoming an institution in Amsterdam, and in December, the Sunday Market, an art, fashion and design market at Westergasfabriek where designers, artists and other creatives sell their wares directly to the public, gets festive with the Funky Xmas Market.

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Fly Me To The Moon - by Sacha Chuk

Girls Will Be Girls - by Shuchi Talati

Happyend - by Neo Sora

Tale of The Land - by Loeloe Hendra

The Glassworker - by Usman Riaz

Salli - by Lien Chien Hung

CinemAsia Film Festival

CinemAsia Film Festival will return in 2026 with a new edition in Amsterdam. With a rich programme that celebrates the diversity and strength of Asian cinema, from the cinemas Studio/K, Rialto De Pijp, Rialto VU and Eye Filmmuseum.  With films from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, etc. CinemAsia is one of the largest Asian film festivals in Europe and is a creative platform for Asian representation and makership. From blockbusters and inspiring documentaries to independent productions.  Please note: Listed dates and times for 2026 are subject to change.

Het Ketelhuis

Bekijk hoe het Ketelhuis een bezoek voor mensen met een beperking of handicap toegankelijk maakt.

Ketelhuis Cinema

Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days)

Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days) will return in 2026 for its 29th edition at Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. As the largest, longest-running and most successful LGBTQ+ film festival in the Netherlands, Roze Filmdagen once again offers a broad and inclusive range of films, documentaries, and short films, supplemented with in-depth talk shows with an LGBTQ+ context. Roze Filmdagen is an eleven-day film festival in Amsterdam.  Please note: Start and end times as mentioned are an indication and subject to change.

Tulp Festival

The 12th edition of the annual Tulip Festival takes place in April 2026. They will be in public spaces along streets, on bridges and squares, in flower beds and parks, shopping centres and (neighbourhood) gardens. In April, Tulip Festival will make the city bloom and this photogenic harbinger of spring can be beautifully immortalised.

NDSM-Loods

NDSM Productions

Amsterdam Coffee Festival

The Amsterdam Coffee Festival will return for a new edition in the spring of 2026. Then come back for the barista champions, and the best European coffee bars. Please note: dates, times and location for 2026 are subject to change.

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