Playful opening night of the retrospective I'm Curious. Period. celebrating the loving and curious gaze of Agnès Varda. During her 60-year career, the groundbreaking French filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda (1928 – 2019) navigated seamlessly between fiction and documentary, tapping into a wide range of subjects. Through her endless curiosity, intimate relationship with her subjects and resilient nature, she inspired many generations of audiences and filmmakers alike.

Tonight, filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel will be in conversation with film critic Dana Linssen on how seeing two of Varda's early short films as a film academy student in the early 1960s forever changed van Brakel's view on directing. Kiriko Mechanicus also discovered the endless forms documentaries can take thanks to Varda's films. Watching Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000), Varda's love letter to the unwanted, left-behind vegetables and their collectors, using her now iconic Sony Handycam, inspired Kiriko to make films.

This evening is spoken in Dutch, some fragments are in French with English subtitles.