BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:29876@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:🎬 Humans of Film Festival: Simsim (2025) DTSTAMP:20261101T213216Z DTSTART:20261126T181500Z 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\nSimsim\n\nSondos Al-Smerat | 2025 | Jordan |  82’ | Arabic\, EN subtitles\n\nSimsim\, a woman in her late twenties\, dreams of starting a new chapter in her\nlife\, free from her unhappy marriage and ready to build a better future for\nherself and her daughter. She has even found a new man who might offer them a\nfresh start. There's just one problem: her estranged husband\, Qasem\, refuses to\ngrant her a divorce unless she fi nds him a new wife.\n\nDetermined to break free\, Simsim sets out on the r ather absurd task of finding\nher husband a bride. But what begins as a de sperate attempt to escape her\nmarriage gradually turns into something far more personal. As her search takes\none unexpected turn after another\, S imsim begins to question whether the freedom\nshe longs for can really be found in another relationship\, or whether she must\nfirst find it within herself.\n  URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/humans-of-film-festival-simsim-2025 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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Simsim


Sondos Al-Smerat | 2 025 | Jordan |  82’ | Arabic, EN subtitles

Simsim, a woman in her late twenties, dreams of starting a new chapter in her life, free from her unhappy marriage and ready to build a better future for hers elf and her daughter. She has even found a new man who might offer them a fresh start. There's just one problem: her estranged husband, Qasem, refus es to grant her a divorce unless she finds him a new wife.

Determin ed to break free, Simsim sets out on the rather absurd task of finding her husband a bride. But what begins as a desperate attempt to escape her mar riage gradually turns into something far more personal. As her search take s one unexpected turn after another, Simsim begins to question whether the freedom she longs for can really be found in another relationship, or whe ther she must first find it within herself.
 

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