#leidseplein — Public Fediverse posts

Tomo Katsurada x Jonny Nash

Paradiso, Sunday, December 13 at 11:00 AM GMT+1

Start your day with guitar music, sitting in a circle around Tomo Katsurada. During this morning programme, the Japanese musician gets up close and personal: feel free to bring your own cushion, find a spot on the floor and let the morning get off to a gentle start.

Katsurada now lives in Amsterdam and is best known as the founder and frontman of the psychedelic band Kikagaku Moyo. His music moves freely between folk, psychedelia and ambient, and has a meditative quality without ever coming to a complete standstill. Together with Jonny Nash, Katsurada is crafting a sound that is playful and spacious, with a strong focus on texture, repetition and subtle shifts in tone. At times soft and tranquil, at others slightly alienating, but always in motion.

On his recent album ‘At The Emerald Pool’, made with Jonny Nash, this approach is given free rein. The two musicians allow melodies and sounds to slowly intertwine, creating an open, almost weightless sound in which a lot is happening without it ever feeling cluttered. It’s exactly the sort of music to start the day quietly with, especially when the artist and the audience are literally sitting in the same circle.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/tomo-katsurada-x-jonny-nash

Nina Winder-Lind

Paradiso, Thursday, October 15 at 08:30 PM GMT+2

This programme is free to attend with the Indiestadpas. This is available via the Indiestad website. You can register via the link at the bottom of this page.

Please note:  The concert of Nina Winder-Lind has changed venues from Toekomstmuziek to Paradiso. The times have not changed. Purchased tickets remain valid for the new location, you don’t have to do anything. All ticket buyers received an email with more details.

Brighton-based Swedish artist Nina Winder-Lind is known as a member of the untamed, eclectic band The New Eves. Inspired by her own poetry, she is now striking out on her own as a solo artist. Her music is characterised by warm folk-pop blended with captivating vocals, as heard in the track ‘Girls’, in which she shares a empowering vision of femininity. Her debut album ‘Wild Love’ is a powerful blend of guitar riffs, compelling melodies and a voice that immediately captures your attention. In her latest single ‘Headfirst’, she strikes a perfect balance between folk-pop warmth and an infectious rhythm. The track highlights the vibrato in her voice and her sense of melody, and celebrates the intimacy and exuberance that resonate throughout her work

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/nina-winder-lind

Wajda’s Legacy: documentaries from The Wajda School

De Balie, Friday, October 30 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

Wajda School is one of Europe’s leading institutions for the development of emerging filmmakers. Founded in Warsaw in 2002 by Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Marczewski, it offers project-based training that combines artistic mentorship with hands-on film production.

Rather than teaching the basics of filmmaking, the School supports directors, screenwriters, producers, and documentary filmmakers in developing their own projects under the guidance of acclaimed industry professionals. Through its close collaboration with Wajda Studio, many projects developed at the School have gone on to premiere and receive awards at major international film festivals, establishing Wajda School as a vital incubator for contemporary Polish cinema.

About Amsterdam Polish Film Festival
The 5th edition of the Amsterdam Polish Film Festival is entirely dedicated to Andrzej Wajda, the renowned Polish director who received an Academy Award in 2000 for his lifetime achievement.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/wajdas-legacy-documentaries-from-the-wajda-school

Maghreb Film Festival: The Ants

De Balie, Sunday, November 1 at 04:30 PM GMT+1

At the border between Morocco and Spain, near Melilla, the lives of three people become intertwined. Félicité, a young migrant from Cameroon, returns to Tangier after the tragic death of her friend, determined to earn enough money to give her a Christian burial. Hamid, a recruiter who makes a living exploiting migrant workers, sees his own carefully constructed world begin to fall apart. Meanwhile, Kenza, a wealthy young mother, hires Félicité as a nanny against her husband’s wishes, setting off tensions within her marriage.

Through these three interconnected stories, Fennane portrays a Morocco shaped by migration, economic inequality and social divisions. Rather than reducing migration to a story of borders and displacement, The Ants follows the people caught within these systems: their ambitions, compromises, prejudices and attempts to find a way forward.

With a restrained, socially grounded approach, Fennane brings together three very different perspectives on contemporary Morocco. The result is a film about migration and inequality, but also about dignity, human connection and the possibility of starting over.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/maghreb-film-festival-the-ants

Maghreb Film Festival: Take My Breath

De Balie, Sunday, November 1 at 02:00 PM GMT+1

Twenty-three-year-old Shams works as a seamstress and lives a quiet life, carefully keeping her intersex identity hidden from those around her. When her secret is exposed, the fragile balance of her life collapses. Caught between desire, love and the rigid expectations of her surroundings, Shams is forced to leave her home and seek refuge in Tunis.

With Take My Breath, Nada Mezni Hafaiedh explores the difficult tension between personal identity and the social norms imposed on the body. Shams’ journey becomes a story about the right to define yourself, even when the world around you refuses to accept anything that falls outside its familiar boundaries.

The film premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival and went on to win awards at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival and the International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva. It was also selected as Tunisia’s entry for the 2025 Academy Awards.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/maghreb-film-festival-take-my-breath

Maghreb Film Festival: Poupiya

De Balie, Saturday, October 31 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

Djamel is a young man searching for love in a working-class neighbourhood. His life takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with Si Rachid, a retired colonel carrying a hunting rifle. What begins as a seemingly ordinary encounter gradually opens the door to a much larger history.

The Algerian War, the war in Indochina and the violence of the so-called Black Decade all haunt the film, but Bouaziz never puts these historical events centre stage. Instead, they surface through conversations, situations and silences. The past seeps into everyday life, passed from one generation to the next as a trauma that refuses to disappear.

With humour and an understated touch, Poupiya explores how the wounds of history continue to shape the lives of those who inherit them.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/maghreb-film-festival-poupiya