Open Air Filmfestival
23 augustus t/m 2 september
Stenen Hoofd – Amsterdam
Open Air Filmfestival
11 t/m 19 augustus 2023
Basecamp – Utrecht
Open Air Filmfestival – Amsterdam 2023
Wednesday,
August 23
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Soft
Joseph Amenta | Canada | 87′
Three queer teenagers get swept up in the summer nightlife of Toronto. When a friend of the trio disappears, their friendship is put to the test.

Thursday,
August 24
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Amanda
Carolina Cavalli | Italy, France | 93′
As a spoiled brat from a wealthy family, 24-year-old Amanda lacks only one thing: friends. When she discovers that she spent a lot of time with Rebecca as a toddler, Amanda has a new mission: to convince her that they are still best friends.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Circustent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Friday,
August 25
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Peak Season
Steven Kanter, Henry Loevner | USA | 82′
Two New York yuppies come to a picturesque spot in nature to escape their busy lives. When her fiancé is called back for work, Amy is left alone to explore the surroundings, guided by nature guide Loren.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Circustent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Saturday
August 26
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Driving Mum
Hilmar Oddsson | Estonia, Iceland | 112′
Perfect for Pluk: Icelandic cinema, with its invincible nature and driest humor. In Driving Mum, a middle-aged man, who has somewhat forgotten his social skills, drives through Iceland with his not really friendly mother in the back seat. Through beautiful landscapes, in black-and-white CinemaScope, which transform the Stenen Hoofd into a piece of Iceland by the IJ.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Circustent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Sunday,
August 27
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Afternoon program: Pluk MINI
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Pluk MINI 2023: children’s edition of Pluk de Nacht
The eighth edition of Pluk MINI, just like all previous editions, is free of charge for children and their parents, babysitters, caregivers, grandpas, and grandmas.
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In the circus tent, the children can thoroughly enjoy “Stip and Vlek are Being Silly Again,” a series about two funny rabbits proving in short stories that it’s much more fun (and crazier) together than alone.
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There’s plenty of opportunity to play this afternoon at the Stenen Hoofd: from Mega Mikado to Giant Twister. Strikes can be thrown at the cotton candy pink bowling alley, Pluk provides a craft activity to never forget, and the afternoon is closed off swinging in the one and only Pluk MINI disco, complete with a bubble machine! Of course, there is plenty of lemonade flowing and delicious snacks are available. If the weather is warm, the mini’s can also have a nice splash. Pluk MINI is free to enter, you don’t need a ticket. You support the festival by making a purchase at the bar.
—>> The afternoon is for everyone, but the program mainly targets children between the ages of 2 and 8.
—>> The Stenen Hoofd is surrounded by water. Keep an eye on your minis!
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Here
Bas Devos | Belgium | 82′
Stefan, brought to Brussels as a construction worker, is about to move back to Romania. He cooks a big pot of soup from the leftovers in his fridge to distribute to the friends he leaves behind. Then he meets Shuxiu, a Chinese-Belgian student researching moss ecosystems. Two wandering souls, united by chance: a film like a warm bath.

Monday,
August 28
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
The Happiest Man in the World
Teona Strugar Mitevska | Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100′
What if you go on a first date in Sarajevo? In a dating club with people all having their first date? And what if both you and your date have experienced the war in Bosnia? And then you gradually find out how? Then what? Then this.

Tuesday,
August 29
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Men of Deeds
Paul Negoescu | Romania | 105′
A burned-out man in his thirties, a policeman in a Romanian village, tries to build a comfortable life but keeps making one wrong choice after another. When a big case finally presents itself, he sees his chance to finally make something of himself.

Wednesday,
August 30
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
World War III
Houman Seyyedi | Iran | 117′
Shakib is a marked man: homeless, poor, a widower. He allows himself to be recruited to work on a shadowy construction site. When it turns out to be a rebuilt concentration camp for a film set, and he is given a role in the film, it seems like he’s getting a new chance, but fate has more in store…

Thursday,
August 31
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd
Amsterdam
Shorts Night!
Various directors
Pluk has long provided a platform for short films; not only is a short film shown before every feature film, but this evening is entirely for the shorts. Within a theme, the best, funniest, and most bizarre short films are brought together. We will announce the selection soon!

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Circustent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Friday,
September 1
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM. Our bar offers an assortment of drinks, including Oedipus, and you can grab a bite at the food trucks. You can also enjoy art installations, a bowling alley, and various games. Beach chairs are available upon opening. On some evenings, we offer live music before the film starts.
Matinee
7:00 PM
Circustent Stenen Hoofd
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | 115′ | Steven Spielberg | Engels Spoken in English, Dutch subtitles.
E.T. will be making an appearance at Stenen Hoofd on this last Friday evening of the school holidays. But fret not, this iconic science fiction movie from 1982 guarantees a happy ending. Or does it?
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Martinez
Lorena Padilla | Mexico, France | 93′
A disgruntled accountant is sent into retirement, despite his attachment to his monotonous existence. Then, his neighbor also passes away. The more he discovers about her life, the more he begins to see his own in a new light.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Circustent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Saturday,
September 2
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with bar and food trucks at Stenen Hoofd open daily at 6:00 PM
Matinee
7:00 PM
Circustent Stenen Hoofd
School of Rock
Richard Linklater | USA | 2003 | 108′ | Spoken in English, Dutch subtitles.
Troublemaker and guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) will stir up the Stenen Hoofd on this final Pluk night of 2023. He is an entertainer of great magnitude. You won’t want to miss it!
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Stenen Hoofd Amsterdam
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Propriedade
Daniel Bandeira | Brasil | 100′
A thrillingly intense thriller where the staff of a wealthy family fight back when facing potential dismissal.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Circustent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Open Air Filmfestival – Utrecht 2023
Friday, August 11
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
The Authentic Self
Fred Bendz, Olof Bendz, Simon Folger | Sweden | 8′
Propriedade
Daniel Bandeira | Brazilië | 100′
A wildly exciting thriller in which the staff of a wealthy family fights back when facing the threat of dismissal.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Tent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Saturday,
August 12
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
11
Vuk Jevremović | Croatia | 5′
Peak Season
Steven Kanter, Henry Loevner | United States | 82′
Two New York yuppies come to a picturesque spot in nature to escape their busy lives. When her fiancé is called back for work, Amy is left alone to explore the surroundings, guided by nature guide Loren.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Tent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Sunday,
August 13
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Sages-femmes
Léa Fehner | France | 109′
After years of training, two French students are finally able to start working as midwives, “the most beautiful job in the world”. The stress of their new daily reality, filmed without embellishment, puts pressure on their friendship.

Monday,
August 14
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Short
We will announce this title soon.
A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On
Gentian Koçi | Albania | 99′
Twin brothers Agim and Gëzim are both deaf and mute, but that doesn’t prevent them from leading a happy life. Then one of them is told he has a genetic disease that will also make him blind. And the brothers are genetically identical…

Tuesday,
August 15
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Short
We will announce this title soon.
The Happiest Man in the World
Teona Strugar Mitevska | Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100′
What if you go on a first date in Sarajevo? In a dating club with people all having their first dates? And what if you and your date both experienced the war in Bosnia? And if you slowly start finding out how? What then? This is what happens.

Wednesday,
August 16
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Amanda
Carolina Cavalli | Italy, France | 93′
As a spoiled brat from a wealthy family, 24-year-old Amanda lacks only one thing: friends. When she discovers that she spent a lot of time with Rebecca as a toddler, Amanda has a new mission: to convince her that they are still best friends.

Thursday,
August 17
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp
Utrecht
Shorts Night!
We will announce this title soon.
Pluk has been providing a platform for short films for many years; not only is a short film shown before each feature film, but this evening is entirely dedicated to shorts. The best, most enjoyable, and strangest short clips are brought together within a theme. We will announce the selection soon!

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Tent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Friday,
August 18
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Martinez
Lorena Padilla | Mexico, France | 93′
Martínez is like an ideal, balanced summer evening cocktail. Equal parts melancholy, loneliness, humanity, and warmth, a hefty dash of discomfort, and a drop of dry humor, poured into beautifully composed, tranquil images, topped off with nostalgic seventies synth music.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Tent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs
Saturday,
August 19
Side Program
From 6:00 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Art installations, bowling alley, and other amusements
There is plenty to experience on the festival grounds!
The festival grounds with a well-stocked bar and popcorn at Nijverheidsweg 16 open daily at 6:00 PM.
Film Program Open Air
From 9:30 PM
Basecamp Utrecht
Short
We will announce this title soon.
Soft
Joseph Amenta | Canada | 87′
Three queer teenagers get swept up in the summer nightlife of Toronto. When a friend of the trio disappears, their friendship is put to the test.

The Silent Nightclub
After the screening
Tent
Silent Disco in the tent
Various DJs