Tickets on sale for IFL international showcase at Filmhuis Cavia

Indy Film Library is hosting its first international showcase on May 2^nd 2026
Filmhuis Cavia will host the screenings in Amsterdam
Selection includes US LGBT+ family drama The Last Goodbye and Palestinian documentary Adas Falasteen
Tickets on sale via the IFL website

As part of the annual Indy Film Library (IFL) festival, we will be showcasing a theatrical selection of international short films for the first time, celebrating the very best work from artists around the world.

With IFL’s showpiece taking on a two-day format for the first time, the international selection will kick off the first day’s festivities at Amsterdam’s Filmhuis Cavia, on Saturday May 2nd 2026.

Among the movies featured, cinema lovers will have a chance to witness breath-taking experimental, documentary and narrative shorts. These include Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini and Samar Taher Lulu‘s moving Middle East documentary Adas Falasteen, Kailey Wolf‘s heartfelt relationship drama The Last Goodbye, Myles Wheeler‘s bitter-sweet comedy Hi from a mayfly, and Natalie Spencer‘s fearsome experimental short HUNGER.

Dimitra Alexiou led the selection of the international competition at this year’s festival. The film composer and Cavia programmer has formerly been a member of the IFL jury in 2025, and regularly contributed reviews in the year since.

Alexiou commented, “It was a great pleasure to be the programmer of the Indy Film Library’s first international blocks. There are so many great films that deserve to be screened on the big screen, and it was a really difficult decision to exclude some of those. The films chosen for the blocks are either portraying great ways of storytelling and filmmaking, or are socially and politically powerful (or both). Film is a form of art, but it is also a protest, a shout out to the changes we need to make in the world, a revolution.

“I am very happy and honoured to be part of this festival, and can’t wait to show the films to new audiences, films that will broaden their views and horizons.”

Later that night at Cavia, there will also be two programmes of short films from across the Benelux, as the seventh annual IFL Awards looks to introduce audiences to films which they will not find anywhere else, by filmmakers who represent the future of the film industry in the Netherlands and beyond.

Tickets are on sale now via the IFL website. Admission will also be available at the door, but attendees should purchase in advance to avoid disappointment.

All films come with English subtitles for international viewers, and are rated 16+.

On May 3rd, meanwhile, the showcase will continue at Supermercator, with tickets also on sale.