These are the first announcements for InScience Film Festival 2026

It’s finally here – we can finally share the first program components of the InScience Film Festival 2026 with you. Even better news: you can already order tickets. Not sure what you want to see? We also have strip tickets available.

InScience Film Festival 2026 will focus on perhaps the oldest theme in the world: love. From March 3rd to 8th, 2026, you can explore, see, and experience love in and around LUX Nijmegen through the festival’s familiar program components. This year’s theme, “The Things We Do For Love,” shows what humans, animals, plants, and other organisms do for love.

OPENING NIGHT: THE DATING GAME
Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 PM, location to be determined

In The Dating Game, we follow three ideal sons-in-law (Zhou, Li, and Wu), who pin their hopes on an intensive dating camp in the megacity of Chongqing. Under the guidance of the shady, self-proclaimed love guru Hao, and armed with their smartphones, these cheerful and honest boys are groomed to rise above the competition. But at what price?

The Dating Game is a tragicomic documentary about social pressure, loneliness, and the complexities of mating in the digital age. The film is full of disarming, sometimes painfully honest dialogue that would make many screenwriters jealous. Our hearts have already been won. – Thomas Streekstra

BIG IDEAS: SCENES WITH THE SEX SISTERS
Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 PM in LUX 7

In this Big Ideas program, we’ll bring television scenes and film clips about sexuality and intimacy to life together with the Sex Sisters. Using relatable examples, they’ll show how sex and intimacy have been depicted over the years and what this means for us.

What is the impact of media and art on our sex lives? What developments have been visible in recent years? How can we, as a society, deal with this? And what role does science play in this? These questions will be discussed in a panel discussion with the Sex Sisters and scientists.

The Sex Sisters, Krista and Marcelle Arriëns, became instantly famous in 2018 with their YouTube series. They now produce television and theater, have their own lane at Lowlands, and run a training agency. The core of their work: honestly, and sometimes with a blush of shame, showing what sex really looks like for them – so that others can emulate them. Because sex is so much more than the limited images presented to us. They want everyone to get to know themselves so well that those images will never again stand in the way of their sexual pleasure.

JUNIOR FILM: YOUNG HEARTS
Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 3:15 PM in LUX 5

In Young Hearts (Anthony Schatteman, 2024), fourteen-year-old Elias develops feelings for his new neighbor, Alexander. He quickly realizes he’s falling in love for the first time, but he doesn’t want to be “different.” This struggle with himself takes him from one emotion to the next.

This Belgian-Dutch film was selected in the Generation Kplus section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere and was nominated for the Crystal Bear for Best Film.