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    • New Talents Open Call 2025
      As the only competitive program at ENFF, the New Talents Competition invites filmmakers or artists with their first, second or third short film, to compete for an Audience Award. Submit your film till 21 August 2025.
    • On Tour: Chajdas’s Imago at Cavia, Amsterdam
      ENFF lands in Cavia, Amsterdam for the first time! On Friday 28 February, we screen the post-punk psychological drama Imago by Polish director Olga Chajdas.
    • On Tour | My Late Summer | LHC, Utrecht | 07.12.24.
      Last night, we took On Tour to Utrecht for a special screening at Louis Hartlooper Complex and mingled. We showed our festival’s closing film, My Late Summer by Danis Tanovic, one more time! Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening filled with great film and fantastic company.
    • ENFF Closing Day | Filmhuis Den Haag | 01.12.24.
      Photos by Mladen Pikulic

Following last year’s success, a key programme segment continues to spotlight films that depict the past in unique and varied ways. These are films that remind us who we were, films that emphasize the possibilities of personal freedom within oppressive systems, and films that ask whether we have learned the lessons history has brought us. Through fiction, documentaries, hybrid formats, and experimental works, the wide topic of memory is approached in diverse, colourful ways.

VHS memories, rich archival footage combined with fictional storylines, blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, or an amazing documentary composed entirely of photographs and diary entries — all these films offer unique approaches to how memory shapes identity. Whether through collective memories of fictional recreations of the past, this year’s selection explores how we understand history and the role memory plays in shaping our perceptions. By blending fact and imagination, these films offer fresh perspectives on memory’s complexity, prompting us to reflect on how personal and societal narratives are formed. Through this theme, films remind us how history lives in our memories and continues influencing our present and future. This program comprises feature films, hybrids and documentaries from five countries. Here are the selected films:

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