HOLOFICTION @ InScience Film Festival, Nijmegen
We are happy to announce that HOLOFICTION is screening at the InScience International Science Film Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Screening is on
Sunday, 8th March 2026 at 5.45 pm / LUX 6
Mariënburg 38-39, 6511 PS Nijmegen, Niederlande
InScience International Science Film Festival Nijmegen is one of the biggest science film festivals in Europe. The program most importantly consists of an overview of the best science films of the year. InScience offers a broad program, with talks, film debates, Q&A’s, meetings, and expositions on the cutting edge of science and art. During InScience, Nijmegen is changed into a meeting place for filmmakers, scientists and the audience for exchanging new insights.
About HOLOFICTION
by Thomas Streekstra - Head of Film Programming
"Documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann (Shoah) once stated: “Fiction is a transgression. It is my belief that the depiction of certain things is prohibited.”
In his XXL supercut, director Michal Kosakowski takes this provocation head-on. Drawing on more than 3,000 fiction films and television series, Holofiction interrogates Lanzmann’s claim through a simple, crystal-clear yet painstaking methodology. The film demonstrates how profoundly our collective memory – and our practices of remembrance – have been shaped by the entertainment industry. In doing so, it reveals the Holocaust film as one of cinema’s most prominent subgenres, deeply reliant on repetition, tropes and archetypes. At a moment when the Palestinian genocide is being live-streamed to our devices, Holofiction also invites reflection on how certain injustices are foregrounded, while others remain at the peripheries of shared awareness and historical perception.”
TALK
The film will be introduced by Jeroen Boom, Assistant Professor in Visual Culture Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. In his pre-screening presentation, he will situate Holofiction within broader critical debates, drawing on his research into the politics and ethics of seeing and not seeing in contemporary (documentary) cinema and global conflicts.
