Reel Time Film Series

Travel the world via the annual Reel Time Film Series hosted by the City of Holland’s International Relations Commission (IRC) and Hope College. All film showings are at the Knickerbocker Theater and free to the public.

2026 FILM SELECTIONS

Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 7pm

Dear Future Children (2021)

Running Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes
Language: English, Spanish, Cantonese, and Luganda

Dear Future Children follows three young female activists—Rayen in Chile, Pepper in Hong Kong, and Hilda in Uganda—as they fight for social justice, democracy, and climate action in their respective countries. The film, directed by Franz Böhm, explores the challenges, personal impact, and motivations behind their activism, aiming to show the humanity behind the movements and inspire future generations.

This film selection is hosted by the Holland Youth Advisory Council (HYAC).

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 7pm

No Other Land (2025)

Running Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes
Languages: English, Arabic, Hebrew

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice. Winner of the 2025 Academy Award for Documentary.

Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 7pm

Running Time: 1hour, 27 minutes
Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Amidst the chaos and destruction of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by professional soldiers against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time in their lives, their guns. Despite daily shelling, Anya finds resistance and purpose in her art, Andrey takes the dangerous journey to get his young family to safety abroad, and Slava becomes a weapons instructor for ordinary people who have become unlikely soldiers. As the war intensifies, Andrey picks up his camera to film their story, and on tiny porcelain figurines, Anya and Slava capture their idyllic past, uncertain present, and hope for the future.

Co-directed by Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo, with extraordinary footage from first-time cinematographer Stefanov, Porcelain War embodies the passion and fight that only an artist can put back into the world when it’s crumbling around them.

From the Academy Award®-winning producer of THE COVE and the Emmy® Award-winning producer of CHASING ICE, and the team behind the Grammy® Award-winning QUINCY, PORCELAIN WAR is one of the most decorated documentary features of 2024.