From Rotterdam to Amsterdam; Black Soil Film Festival 2025 continues on December 13 across @lab111amsterdam and @ot301adam 🖤
Highlights include the poetic documentary Monikondee (Money Land) by Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, and the Black Soil Short Visionaries program; a powerful lineup of emerging filmmakers redefining Caribbean storytelling. 🎥
The festival culminates with “The PleasurePortal Live Show – Let’s Come Together”, by @raisingrebelspod and presented by Black Soil Lab; a live, interactive ritual exploring sensual awakening, memory, and liberation.✨
🔥 Keep the energy flowing into the night with afterparties hosted by @foundation.nl & @nghtowls.ams
📍 LAB111 & OT301, Amsterdam 🗓 Dec 13 — Closing Night 🔗 More info & tickets via link in bio! #blacksoilfilmfestival #blackcinema #queerart #performanceart #blackculture #filmfestival #amsterdam #diaspora #caribbeanfilm #arthouse #sensoryart #pleasureportal
🎬 Black Soil Film Festival 2025: New visions. Same soul.
This year’s festival key visual is again created by Ghanaian photographer Awuku Darko Samuel (@awuku_darko ) in collaboration with @mxm__me ✨
Black Soil Film Festival 2025 returns December 12–13 with films, music, talks, and live performances celebrating stories, sounds, and visions shaping Black culture today.
📍 December 12 – @lantarenvenster & @mavisrotterdam (Rotterdam) 📍 December 13 – @LAB111 & @OT301 (Amsterdam)
Born as Europe’s first hip-hop film festival, Black Soil continues to push culture forward, from the Caribbean to South Africa, Suriname to the Bronx.
🔗 More info via the link in bio
#diaspora #blackcinema #hiphop #blackculture #arthouse #festival #shorts #movies #film #documentary #rotterdam #amsterdam #knowlegde #talks #performance #music
The wait is over: Black Soil Film Festival 2025 kicks off in Rotterdam at @lantarenvenster on December 12! 🖤
We open with the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Faja Lobbi (Hans van der Horst, 1960), a poetic journey through Suriname, newly reimagined with a live score by @frafrasound featuring @sabrina_starke ✨
The evening continues with a talk on music as a cultural bridge hosted by journalist Leendert van der Valk, followed by screenings of A Hip Hop Minute (Pascal Garnier) and We Want the Funk (Stanley Nelson) and Legacy: The Decolonized History of South Africa.
Expect documentaries, fiction, and soundtracks that bridge continents. We’ll end the Rotterdam edition with a party at @mavisrotterdam hosted by @passdajazz 🔥
🔗 More info and tickets via the link in bio!
📍 LantarenVenster & MAVIS, Rotterdam 🗓 Dec 12 — Opening Night #blacksoilfilmfestival #blackcinema #blackculture #suriname #rotterdam #filmfestival #documentary #livemusic #fajálobbi #diaspora #frafrasound #sabrinastarke
After thirteen years as part of Rotterdam Unlimited, Dunya Festival returns in 2026 as an independent festival once again.
On Sunday July 5, the iconic festival takes over Rotterdam’s Zuiderpark with a vibrant celebration of cultural diversity, music, dance and global sounds, bringing people, cultures and communities together through art, rhythm and shared experience.
As part of the festival, Black Soil presents a continuous film program inside a specially designed cinema container, showcasing short films and audiovisual works by artists from the Netherlands and the diaspora, including work by Aramis Gonzalez and Ruben Cabenda. The program creates an accessible meeting point between film, music, performance and spoken word within the festival landscape.
A restored document of Gea Russell & Company’s 2001 live performance in Rotterdam.
Gea Russell & Company – Live at Off_Corso (EP) out now
https://ffm.to/gearussell
Following the premiere of Just Like Water at Black Soil Film Festival 2025, we’re proud to release the accompanying 5-track live EP — alongside a series of restored clips from the original performance.
From April through June, a new clip will be released on the first day of each month.
Featuring “Feel Free – Live at Off-Corso” — a dreamlike cinematic spectacle, with a hypnotic, Indian-tinged extended arrangement.
An alternative version to what was later released on their Slow Train album.
On 23 September 2001, Gea Russell & Company presented Just Like Water at Off_Corso, Rotterdam — an intimate concept performance blending music, live visuals, and bespoke string arrangements. Much of the original footage and audio was long believed lost.
After an extensive restoration process, the material returns as a poetic and evocative document — preserving a singular moment in time.
#GeaRussell #JustLikeWater #LiveAtOffCorso #OffCorso #Rotterdam #BlackSoilFilmFestival #LiveEP #LivePerformance #ArchiveRelease #MusicArchive #RestoredFootage #FilmAndMusic #PerformanceArt #ConcertFilm #VisualArt #MusicDocumentary #IndependentMusic #CulturalArchive #RotterdamMusic #NewRelease
December memories📸
Tijdens het @blacksoilff stelden we met @newproducersacademy Short Visionaries samen. Een selectie short films van opkomende filmmakers.
Van bold perspectives tot experimentele vormen. Met dit programma vierde storytelling in al haar vormen, met de focus op de Caribbean.
Black Soil, Filmhuis Den Haag and PAARD join forces for a new series of film screenings combined with talks and concerts.
The first event of 2026 features a screening of Finding Fela at Filmhuis Den Haag, followed by a talk with Femi Kuti and moderator @arjunchadha1 Chadha about the film and the legacy of Fela Kuti
Finding Fela tells the story of the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti — his life, music, and political impact. As the creator of Afrobeat, Fela used music as a powerful tool to challenge Nigeria’s military dictatorship and inspire movements for freedom around the world.
After the screenig, Femi Kuti will perform live at PAARD Den Haag.
A restored document of Gea Russell & Company’s 2001 live performance in Rotterdam.
Gea Russell & Company – Live at Off_Corso (EP) out now
https://ffm.to/gearussell
Following the premiere screening of Just Like Water at Black Soil Film Festival 2025, we’re proud to share the release of the accompanying 5-track live EP, alongside a series of restored clips from the original performance.
From April to June, a new clip will be released on the first day of each month.
On 23 September 2001, Gea Russell & Company presented Just Like Water at Off_Corso in Rotterdam — an intimate concept performance bringing together music, live visuals, and bespoke string arrangements. Captured live at the time, much of the original footage and audio was long believed to be lost or beyond repair.
After an extensive restoration process, the material now returns as a poetic and evocative document — preserving a singular moment in time for future audiences.
#GeaRussell #JustLikeWater #LiveAtOffCorso #OffCorso #Rotterdam #BlackSoilFilmFestival #LiveEP #LivePerformance #ArchiveRelease #MusicArchive #RestoredFootage #FilmAndMusic #PerformanceArt #ConcertFilm #VisualArt MusicDocumentary IndependentMusic CulturalArchive RotterdamMusic NewRelease
Saterday March 28: For the first time, Watch Out Now – HipHop Film Festival lands in Zaandam.
All day at De Fabriek:
🎬 HipHop Evolution
🎬 HipHop Minute (screening)
🎤 Cypher Talk
🎬 FEIS Forever + Q&A
afterparty at De Kade w/ Duvel live on stage and DJ Bishop on the decks. Come through!
From volunteer to team to filmmaker, @indigo.envie is this year's Black Soil LAB recipient and will be working on a short film, 'Primarily Colourless'. If you happen to be in Brooklyn this Saturday, please support his fundraiser (8.30 PM - 1AM) at Studio 514, 1193 Atlantic Avenue!
#blacksoillab #indigoenvie #primarilycolourless #film #shortfilm #fundraiser #support #lgbtqa #trans #fulltranscrew
Saturday April 4, Black Soil, Filmhuis Den Haag and PAARD join forces for a new series of film screenings combined with talks and concerts. The first event of 2026 features a pre-screening talk with Femi Kuti and moderator @arjunchadha1 about the film and the legacy of Fela Kuti, followed by a screening of Finding Fela at Filmhuis Den Haag.
Finding Fela tells the story of the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti — his life, music, and political impact. As the creator of Afrobeat, Fela used music as a powerful tool to challenge Nigeria’s military dictatorship and inspire movements for freedom around the world.
After the screening, Femi Kuti will perform live at PAARD Den Haag.
Tickets for the film + talk and the concert are sold separately. Link in bio.
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From volunteer to festival builders.
1st & 2nd gen B-girls.
Moroccan roots.
Female leadership.
Culture shapers.
We celebrate you. We salute you. 🤎🔥
