BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29874@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:🎬 Humans of Film Festival: I Built a Rocket Imagining your Arrival (2026) DTSTAMP:20261101T213227Z DTSTART:20261125T184000Z DESCRIPTION:Humans of Film Festival [https://humansoffilmfestival.com/] (Ho FF) is back from\n20 to 29 November 2026 for an expanded sixth edition: ni ne days of arthouse\nfilm\, screened across the city. This year’s programm e is built around EMPATHY\nand brings together feature films and shorts fr om around the world. Screenings\nare paired with talks\, workshops and com munity events that explore the theme\nfrom every angle.\n\nHoFF celebrates world cinema and human interest films that center diverse\, often\nunderr epresented voices and lived experiences. Rooted in a strong social and\ncu ltural mission\, the festival creates space for connection and storytellin g\nacross themes such as identity\, inequality\, migration\, and represent ation.\n \n\nI Built a Rocket Imagining your Arrival\n\nJanaína Marques | 2026 | Brazil | 92’ | EN subtitles\n\nLying inside an MRI scanner\, Rosa\, a woman in her fifties\, is asked to recall a\nsingle happy memory. Inste ad\, her mind drifts back to a traumatic moment from\nher childhood: the a rrest of her fiercely independent\, queer mother\, Dalva\, who\nwas impris oned after killing a neighbour’s husband while trying to protect his\nwife from domestic violence.\n\nWith few happy memories to draw on\, Rosa sets off on a surreal road trip through\nher subconscious\, accompanied by the mother she never truly got to know. Against\nthe shimmering desert hills and lively bars of northern Brazil\, the two women\nimagine the moments of happiness they never shared. As they piece together a\npast that never ex isted\, Rosa discovers that even invented memories might help\nheal old wo unds.\n\n\nPRESALE [https://filmhuis-cavia.sumupstore.com/products]\n  URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/humans-of-film-festival-i-built-a-rocke t-imagining-your-arrival-2026 GEO:52.381974;4.8703107 LOCATION:Filmhuis Cavia - Van Hallstraat 52-1\, 1051 HH Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:festival,film,in english X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Humans of Film Festival (HoFF)  is back from 20 to 29 November 2026 for an expanded sixth edition: nine da ys of arthouse film, screened across the city. This year’s programme is bu ilt around EMPATHY and brings together feature films and shorts from aroun d the world. Screenings are paired with talks, workshops and community eve nts that explore the theme from every angle.

HoFF celebrates world cinema and human interest films that center diverse, often underrepresente d voices and lived experiences. Rooted in a strong social and cultural mis sion, the festival creates space for connection and storytelling across th emes such as identity, inequality, migration, and representation.
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I Built a Rocket Imagining your Arrival

Janaína Marques | 2026 | Brazil | 92’ | EN subtitles

Lying inside an MRI scanner, Rosa, a woman in her fifties, is aske d to recall a single happy memory. Instead, her mind drifts back to a trau matic moment from her childhood: the arrest of her fiercely independent, q ueer mother, Dalva, who was imprisoned after killing a neighbour’s husband while trying to protect his wife from domestic violence.

With few happy memories to draw on, Rosa sets off on a surreal road trip through he r subconscious, accompanied by the mother she never truly got to know. Aga inst the shimmering desert hills and lively bars of northern Brazil, the t wo women imagine the moments of happiness they never shared. As they piece together a past that never existed, Rosa discovers that even invented mem ories might help heal old wounds.


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