Imagine Fantastic Film Festival
Imagine is the largest film festival for fantastic film in the Netherlands, featuring the best in fantasy, horror, science fiction, and everything in between.
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The 2026 Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, running from October 29 to November 8, will take place at LAB111, the FilmHallen, and Hal West in Amsterdam.
At Imagine, it’s all about imagination. We believe that no matter how wild, magical, scary, or surprising your ideas are, they are valid, because Weird Is Wonderful.
Every year, we challenge our audience to use their imagination to reflect on the state and future of humanity and society. We harness the power of fantastic film to invite you to explore future worlds, develop a new perspective on reality, or investigate the unknown. In doing so, you broaden your horizons.
The main theme this year is Ghost in the Feed and explores the fears and desires that emerge with every new form of media technology. The program focuses on five stages of media technology from the past century: the rise of television, the VHS era, the early years of the internet, the world of the constant online feed, and our current, immersive times. We examine these stages through films, talks, an immersive program, an exhibition, and more.
