- Movies by talented six Netherlands-based and three international directors to be screened at Amsterdam’s Supermercator (Mercatorplein 3H, 1057 BX) from 17:30 on October 25th 2025
- Partnering with Cinemercator, the event will include Felipe Baréa Prado’s mental health horror ‘Alles is OK’; Lisette Vlassake’s identity-crisis short ‘Onderaards’; and Mart van den Heuvel’s compulsive nightmare ‘I Must Go On’
- Tickets on sale via the Supermercator website from October 1st 2025
Since October 2020, Indy Film Library (IFL) has hosted an annual selection of horror shorts on its website. But this year, for the first time, the showcase will take place with a physical screening.
On October 25th 2025, IFL’s latest Halloween Horror Showcase invites audiences to come to Amsterdam‘s Supermercator, to discover a world of independent art on their own doorstep. With screenings of films across the cinematic spectrum, and Q&As with the artists behind them, the event offers viewers an introduction to a series of diverse and innovative films, showing them in a whole new light.
Tickets will go on sale on October 1st 2025 via this link to the Supermercator website.
Founded as a community space in Amsterdam’s Mercatorplein, in the day, Supermercator provides a store for gifts; but also, a café for coffee and cake; a space to find common ground with strangers, and to debate with your friends. In the evenings, meanwhile, Supermercator serves as a diverse hub for artists: a locale for practice, performance, poetry, workshops, talks, exhibitions and films.
As an intimate, inclusive and fiercely independent institution, IFL couldn’t have found a better venue to finally host an in-person horror showcase.
Hosted in partnership with Cinemercator – a group of film-lovers who show independent movies at the community hub – the sixth Halloween Horror Showcase will feature an anthology of nine nightmares, to help audiences get into the spirit of the season.
Chief Editor Jack Benjamin said of the news, “IFL grew out of the need of independent filmmakers to receive impartial feedback on their work. Over the last six years we have provided a hybrid service to artists who submit their work: we assess every single film received to help artists improve and gain entry to other festivals in the future. But we also host an annual screening selection, to introduce you to the very best films we receive.
“I love doing that; but I also love horror most of all. It is the arena where you find filmmakers are at their most inventive, practically and thematically; delivering biting satire and blood-soaked set-pieces on a micro-budget. So, it has always been my ambition to be able to extend our platform, to bring you the creepiest, most creative shorts IFL receives, in a cinematic event. As a result, we have six movies to show you from our 2025 call for entries – but there is also a trio of chillers from the IFL vault, which I am proud to finally bring to the big screen, and a mostly live audience!”
Beginning at 5:30pm on Saturday the 25th of October, IFL’s programme of films is as follows:
17:30 Doors open
18:25 Introductions
18:30 Shorts Programme 1
Crèche & Burn; Alles is OK; I Must Go On; Les Yeux Plus Gros que le Ventre; HUNGER
19:30 Intermission
20:00 Shorts Programme 2
Onderaards; Laaggedij; Abaddon; Doe eens mens
21:00 Panel discussion with the filmmakers
21:30 Drinks
