Oude Luxor Theater

We’ve had the bigger part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the hustle and bustle is still going! This is THE festival for something special, bizarre, odd, inspiring or… whatever. It’s all in there. Unreal and wonderful at the same time. Where random strangers can turn into friends or at least good conversation buddies, just in passing. This micro-​cosmos will have you buzzing with joy and excitement. Not many restrictions and a lot of freedom and adventure!
What have I seen so far? Uhhhm… a lot of movies (duh!) a whole lot of nice people, cool directors and four cute boys. Two visitors, one actor and one employee. And here I was thinking there wouldn’t be any this year!
Apart from movies in different kinds of catagories, there are debates, talk shows, live music by local artist or students from Codarts, lectures and exhibitions. One of those exhibitions is Destination: Europe. It’s supposedly a museum in 2037 that looks back on the ‘experiment’ called Europe. It’s a maze that shows you the history (real and made up) of Europe. Subjects are migration and borders, food and trade, finance and social questions. In 2017 Scotland is supposed to have joined the EU. Funny right?
In the Q and A’s actors and directors interact freely with the audiance. Most of the time you can bump into them at parties at the Doelen or the Schouwburg. Parties there are quite something. For the diehard party goers who love late, late night parties there is Hotel Centraal. Everyone ends up there at some point. As a volunteer you got it even better. Volunteer parties are great and you can watch movies for free!!!
My favorite movies this year:
— On the Edge
— Mary is happy, Mary is happy
— The Sacrement
— Southcliffe
— Swim little fish swim
— happily ever after