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KONTRA:BAR

Vondelbunker, Thursday, October 15 at 07:30 PM GMT+2

Kontra:Bar

~~ Ever wanted to come to the Vondelbunker while music is ever so slightly less loud?

~~ Ever wanted to play some ping pong for free on some tables from the last century?

~~ Ever wanted to shout Karaoke songs that your normie friends would judge you for (or not)?

~~ Ever wanted to learn about volunteering, and to get involved with the underground scene of Amsterdam?

Desire no more!

Return of Kontra:Bar is here! Come do all of the things listed above (and more!) every Thursday starting at 19:30 (unless we have something higher-effort planned)

And of course as always, free entrance.

Cash preferred <3 

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/kontrabar-7

Ventilator Cinema presents: Inn a State of Siege – Amsterdam Premiere + Q&A (Special Screening)

OT301, Sunday, November 8 at 06:45 PM GMT+1

Join us for the Amsterdam premiere of Inn a State of Siege, followed by a Q&A with director Qali Nur and producer Dženita Čamo. Screening for the first time in Amsterdam, this documentary brings an extraordinary story of courage, survival and family to the big screen.

Doors open: 19:00
Film start: 19:15
Title: Inn a State of Siege
Director: Qali Nur
Producer: Dženita Čamo

About the film

How do you keep a hotel running while the city around you is under siege? And how do you tell your children, thirty years later, what you lived through?

Produced by Elements Productions, Inn a State of Siege tells the remarkable true story of Mustafa, Ismet and Faruk, three ordinary men who worked at Sarajevo’s legendary Holiday Inn during the brutal siege of 1992–1995. The battered hotel remained open as a base for international journalists reporting on the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Situated on the notorious “Sniper Alley”, it stood dangerously exposed to gunfire and daily shelling.

Behind the reports broadcast around the world were hotel workers whose own stories remained largely untold. Chef Mustafa prepared meals, waiter Faruk served guests, and driver Ismet crossed the besieged city to collect supplies and transport guests and colleagues. Keeping the hotel running meant risking their lives, while also finding ways to support their families and help those around them.

For Mustafa, who joined the hotel shortly before the 1984 Winter Olympics, the war brought a devastating contrast to the atmosphere of celebration he had first experienced there. Ismet initially worked in the hotel’s garage before becoming its wartime driver, collecting food and medicine on journeys where danger was ever-present. Their memories reveal how everyday work became an extraordinary act of endurance.

Thirty years later, the film brings these men together with their sons to explore how the siege continues to shape their lives. Through personal recollections, reconstructions and conversations between generations, Inn a State of Siege examines the trauma and resilience inherited by those who grew up during and after the war. It makes space for questions never asked and experiences that were difficult to share. Read about the film’s background.

For producer Dženita Čamo, the project is deeply personal. She fled Sarajevo in 1992 at the age of eleven and built a new life in Rotterdam. Her commitment to preserving these stories helped a project originally conceived as a short documentary grow into a fuller portrait of the men, their families and the lasting effects of war. Interview with Dženita Čamo.

The film had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2026, followed by its international premiere at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Official film website.

Meet the filmmakers

Director Qali Nur is a Netherlands-based journalist, filmmaker and podcast maker whose work explores belonging, migration, conflict and human rights. Her previous projects include Between Mountains and Wars, which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the audio documentary My Family in Gaza.

Following the screening, Qali Nur and producer Dženita Čamo will join us for a Q&A about making the documentary, bringing these memories to the screen and opening conversations between generations.

Come for a remarkable story, stay for the conversation, and be part of the film’s first screening in Amsterdam. Tickets are also available to Cineville pass holders.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ventilator-cinema-presents-inn-a-state-of-siege-amsterdam-premiere-qanda-special-screening

No Escape at OT301 /// PvsP

OT301, Friday, November 13 at 10:00 PM GMT+1

NO ESCAPE returns to OT301! We invite all creators and underground souls to join this platform for connection and sound.
This is a benefit event toward renewing the street art walls at OT301, keeping our space vibrant and creative.
We’re stripping it back to the DIY roots—passion over profit, community over hype.
Be Part of It!

Arrive at 22:00 for our Open Platform hour. Meet the crew, talk collaboration, grab a free magazine, and connect. Feel free to bring your own vinyl records to sell or swap!

Join the 301 pulse

Tickets & Entry Details
€5 Early Bird
€5 Early Arrival (at the door ONLY, before 23:00)
€8-15 Regular (or extra. support) tickets.
All contributions support OT301’s new art walls and DIY culture.
Artists:
DJ Easy B
Bart/ zmk: Based in Rotterdam, DJ Easy B is closely linked to the Renegade ZMK Soundsystem and Move Around Sound. His sets combine breaks, UK bass, rave and techno into high-energy dancefloor fillers, always infused with a dose of subversive spirit. Following his acclaimed trilogy on the Double Cross XX label, he has just released his latest EP, Vendetta.
Insta // Bandcamp
TEC-9
TEC-9 (Dani) started DJing back in 2012. Since then, he has left his mark on major legendary Hardcore rave parties like Ghosttown and Hellbound.
With a wide variety in his selection, he takes the crowd from raw underground warehouses, squats, abandoned tunnels, and deep forests to mainstream clubs and your local disco. Whether somewhere in Holland, France, Italy, Belgium, or Slovakia, TEC-9 is in the area.
Catch him pushing the tempo at OT301 for the No Escape benefit night!
FB // Soundcloud // Insta
OBX_ZMK
(Vinyl DJ Set):From experimenting with tape feedback and broken gear to founding the notorious ZMK Soundsystem, OBX_ZMK has been a constant force in the underground since 1998. As a dedicated DJ and producer, his sets merge a lifetime of influences—moving from classic free party acid towards energy-driven techno and clouds of rhythmical noise structures.
He has released music on an extensive list of legendary independent labels, including: ZMK / OBS.CUR / OBX / Obnoxious / YaYa Records / Scine / Team Wasted / KM / Mackitek Records / Peur Bleue / Symbiote / Hit 'n Run / Zombie Kru / Slut / KAZERNE / Narcosis / Acid Infection.
For No Escape at OT301, he joins Trippy D for a heavy vinyl-only back-to-back session. Don't miss this chance to catch two underground architects delivering a proper warehouse journey in the heart of Amsterdam.
Soundcloud // Insta // Bandcamp // Discogs
DJ Trippy D (Wirwar / Acid Forest)
(Vinyl DJ Set:A DJ and producer who has stayed true to the wax since the 90s. With years in the studio and a deep catalog of underground releases on his own Singularity Records and the Acid Forest circle, Trippy D brings massive experience to the floor. Known for adventurous, multi-genre journeys, he refuses to be boxed into one style.
A vinyl purist through and through—expect a heavy, hardware-driven set as he takes you through the deep crates of acid and tekno. For this edition, he also joins forces for a special back-to-back session with OBX_ZMK.
Bandcamp // Mixcloud // Soundcloud // Insta

Support the Culture
Share this with your crew, invite your friends, and let’s fill the room.

Can’t make it but still want to support the new art walls and DIY culture? You are welcome to drop a donation via the link provided in the ticket options to help us buy materials, keep the lights on, the music loud, and the prices low.

Capacity: Max 300 visitors (Presale recommended)
No Dogs / Support the Culture
Come early, leave late. Don't miss a single beat! See you on the floor.
Power vs Power
Insta // FB

Studio 301
Insta // FB

Background photo features street art by Richart Pintura

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/no-escape-at-ot301-pvsp

EMBER #3

OT301, Friday, October 30 at 07:00 PM GMT+1

We are back with a new edition of EMBER! This time we take nest 4bid gallery for an evening of ambient sound, contemporary art and slow creation.

Come experience marble sculptures by Anouk van Wijk accompanied by a music set from Nene Moné and get closer to the art through creating yourself – with linocut materials inspired by the carved marble you can touch.

Ember #3 takes place on 30 October between 19-22, as always you’re welcome to arrive and leave at any time, get drinks at our bar and step outside for chats.

EMBER is a space to listen, create, and linger. With a music set and a creative workshop station that are thematically centered around one visual artwork, each session invites the audience to sink in to observing visual art pieces, let their minds flow with the music and play with art materials to process it all.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/ember-3

Africadelic2026: The Rising Dawn (NL Premiere) + Beach Inna Bondage (NL Preview)

OT301, Friday, November 6 at 06:15 PM GMT+1

Join us on Friday, November 6, at 18.30 in Ventilator Cinema in Amsterdam for the exclusive Dutch premiere of The Rising Dawn (2026), the first feature-length documentary surf film from Ivory Coast! In addition, we will be screening the short documentary Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica's Coastline (2026) as supporting film.
Title: The Rising Dawn
Director: Nadi Saddy and Nuits Balnéaires
Country: Ivory Coast
Year: 2026
Length: 60'
Extra: Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica's Coastline (2026, 30', dir. Emiel Martens and Elsie Vermeer)

About The Rising Dawn

In a region where ocean deities are venerated and feared, Souleymane Sidibé is pioneering a new era for surfing in Ivory Coast. One of the country’s most talented surfers, Souleymane is helping to shape an emerging surf culture while inspiring a new generation to overcome inequality and cultural barriers and discover the transformative power of the ocean. The Rising Dawn follows Souleymane on a fascinating journey along the Ivorian coast, uncovering untamed waves, ethereal landscapes and the vibrant communities at the heart of the country’s growing surf movement. As Souleymane pushes the limits of the sport in Ivory Coast, the film explores the tensions that arise as a traditionally conservative society encounters a sport with its own complex and contested history. Poetic and powerful, The Rising Dawn explores colonial legacies, cultural traditions, inequality and youth empowerment through the lens of surfing, while celebrating the people who are redefining what surf culture can mean in contemporary Africa. Above all, it is an African surf story told through the voices and experiences of the surfers who live there.

About Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica's Coastline

Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica's Coastline (2026) is a new documentary by Dutch filmmaking duo Emiel Martens and Elsie Vermeer in collaboration with JaBBEM and Keznamdi exploring the growing struggle for beach access in Jamaica. Since the 1950s, public access to the island’s beaches has steadily declined, leaving less than one percent of the coastline publicly accessible for Jamaicans. Over the decades, most of Jamaica’s beaches have been captured by private and tourist interests, and particularly since the 2000s large-scale hotel developments have limited beach access for Jamaicans. This film follows the grassroots movement resisting the privatization of Jamaican beaches by zooming in on three frontline struggles: Bob Marley Beach near Kingston, the Blue Lagoon in the parish of Portland, and Mammee Bay Beach on the island’s North Coast. The interviewees, all Jamaicans, reveal how the 1956 Beach Control Act, which is still in effect today, vests ownership of the foreshore in the Jamaican state (and actually the British Crown) and traces how this colonial-era law, combined with the island’s all-inclusive tourism model, has displaced communities, disrupted livelihoods, and degraded environments. Interwoven with archival footage, news clips, and recordings of protest rallies and court cases, the interviewees situate today’s beach access struggles within Jamaica’s troubled history of land ownership following emancipation and independence. They argue that the island’s tourism industry replicates plantation logic by monopolizing land, concentrating wealth, exporting profits, and, ultimately, marginalizing the people. Beach Inna Bondage shows that beach access, which is not only an issue in Jamaica but across the Caribbean and beyond, is an urgent matter of historical, economic, social, cultural and environmental justice, raising the question of who the so-called 'tropical paradise' of sun, sand, and sea truly serves, and at what cost...

About Africadelic

Africadelic is an Amsterdam-based non-profit organization and platform committed to the programming and promotion of African and African diasporic cultural creativity, diversity and activism in the Netherlands and beyond. The annual Africadelic Festival is an ode to the African continent and its worldwide diaspora, celebrating the cultural richness and profound influence of Afrodescendants, people of African descent, on global culture and society. Taking place from May 20–27, 2026, this year’s edition once again featured a vibrant week of events. Beyond the annual festival, Africadelic presents many events throughout the year, including this screening of The Rising Dawn. For more information, visit www.africadelic.com.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/africadelic2026-the-rising-dawn-nl-premiere-beach-inna-bondage-nl-preview

Africadelic: Memory of Princess Mumbi (Special Screening)

OT301, Saturday, November 7 at 06:45 PM GMT+1

Following the sold-out Dutch premiere in October, we are hosting a second screening of the much-talked-about 'retro-futuristic' Kenyan mockumentary film Memory of Princess Mumbi in Ventilator Cinema in Amsterdam on Saturday, November 7!

Time: 19.00 hrs (doors open: 18.45 hrs)
Title: Memory of Princess Mumbi
Director: Damien Hauser
Country: Kenya and Switzerland
Year: 2025
Length: 80'
Language: English with English subtitles
Extra: The short film Godpower (2026, 16’, dir. Geoff Browne)

About Memory of Princess Mumbi

Blending science fiction, romance and mockumentary, Damien Hauser’s inventive Afrofuturist film (although he rejects the label himself) reflects on memory, filmmaking and our relationship with technology, while asking what remains distinctly human in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Set in 2093, Memory of Princess Mumbi follows young filmmaker Kuve as he travels to the fictional African kingdom of Umata to make a documentary about the aftermath of a devastating war that led to the rejection of modern technology and the return of ancient kingdoms. There he meets Mumbi, an aspiring actress who challenges him to make his film without artificial intelligence, relying instead on his own eyes, hands and imagination. As Kuve becomes increasingly fascinated by Mumbi and the world around her, his documentary gradually transforms into something more intimate. Their collaboration develops into a bittersweet romance, complicated by tradition, social expectations and Mumbi’s own future. Shot in Kenya on a micro-budget, Memory of Princess Mumbi combines live action, green-screen techniques and AI-generated imagery to create its Afrofuturist world. The use of AI is especially significant because technology is also central to the film’s story. Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser, who took on multiple roles, including writer, director, cinematographer, editor and composer, deliberately combines new digital tools with a handmade, independent filmmaking approach, exploring the tension between technological possibilities and the fundamentally human nature of storytelling. Since premiering in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 2025 Venice Film Festival, the first Kenyan film selected for the section, Memory of Princess Mumbi has enjoyed a successful international festival run, with screenings at festivals including Toronto, BFI London, Zurich, Ghent and San Francisco. The film has also received several awards and distinctions, including the ZFF Critics Award at the Zurich Film Festival and the Golden Tulip for Best Film at the Istanbul Film Festival, establishing it as a striking example of inventive new African sci-fi cinema.

About Godpower

Set in the coastal surfing community of Tarkwa Bay, just off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria, Godpower (2026) tells the story of a local surf instructor struggling to provide for his family while navigating the harsh realities of everyday survival. When a tourist books a surfing lesson, Godpower sees an opportunity to earn enough money to buy his young son a birthday present. But as financial pressures and family responsibilities mount, he finds himself facing difficult choices that test his values and ultimately reveal that the most meaningful gifts in life cannot be bought. Inspired by the real-life experiences of Nigerian surfer Godpower Pekipuma, who also plays the lead role, the film offers an intimate portrait of fatherhood, resilience, dignity and the pursuit of a better life. Filmed on location in Tarkwa Bay, with members of the community appearing on screen, Godpower combines a portrayal of Nigeria's emerging surf culture with a story about love, sacrifice and survival. Directed by Geoff Browne, the film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the 2026 Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles.

About Africadelic

Africadelic is an Amsterdam-based non-profit organization and platform committed to the programming and promotion of African and African diasporic cultural creativity, diversity and activism in the Netherlands and beyond. The annual Africadelic Festival is an ode to the African continent and its worldwide diaspora, celebrating the cultural richness and profound influence of Afrodescendants, people of African descent, on global culture and society. Taking place from May 20-27, 2026, this year’s edition once again featured a vibrant week of events. Beyond the annual festival, Africadelic presents many events throughout the year, including this special screening of Memory of Princess Mumbi. For more information, visit www.africadelic.com.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/africadelic-memory-of-princess-mumbi-special-screening

"Spaces of Exception" + Post-Film Discussion

OT301, Wednesday, November 11 at 06:00 PM GMT+1

Spaces of Exception is a documentary film that profiles the terrains of the Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp, “spaces of exception” that have become essential in the struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy. Shot between 2014 to 2017, Spaces of Exception observes and juxtaposes the communities and struggles of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. It visits reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well camps in Lebanon and the West Bank, “places defined by their historical and spiritual resistance” in order to “understand the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.” While the histories are distinct, dispossession and loss unite these communities in solidarity, and the alternating stories highlight both their unique tragedies and their revolutionary commonalities. Mostly eschewing archival footage, Spaces of Exception showcases the present, in which each day lived is itself an act of resistance.

Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee. The project has resulted in more than a dozen short films, a book, radio program, writings and numerous lectures and workshops. The Native and the Refugee project has been presented in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon,
Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, within the refugee camps and reservations were the film was shot, and at venues including cinemas, museums, and universities. https://thenativeandtherefugee.com/

Schedule:
18:00 - Doors Open
18:30 - Film Screening: "Spaces of Exception"
20:00 - Post-Film Discussion with Malek Rasamny (filmmaker) & Jeremiah Wolf (Mohawk Elder)
21:00 - Drinks & Discussion
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:
Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine, an experimental space in New York City. He previously directed the documentary feature Scenes from a Revolt Sustained (2015), and co-edited the books In the Name of the People (2018) and The Reservoir (2022).

Malek Rasamny is a documentary filmmaker, researcher and writer. He is currently working on a doctoral research project at Paris Nanterre University concerning the social phenomenon of reincarnation within the Druze community of Lebanon.

In addition to this project, Matt & Malek both edited a book documenting the oral history of the Mohawk Warrior Society.

Following the film, we are excited to welcome Malek for a post-film discussion, alongside Jeremiah Wolf, a Mohawk Elder, artist, musician, ancestral knowledge keeper, and youth mentor.

Wednesday, November 11th
Ventilator Cinema, OT301
Open: 18:00-22:00
Tickets: Regular = €7.50; Student/Low-Income = €5

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/spaces-of-exception-post-film-discussion

Atomic Cafe Cinema

Vondelbunker, Thursday, October 22 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Underground Cinema 

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/atomic-cafe-cinema