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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 at and around LUX Nijmegen through the festival’s familiar programming. This year’s theme, “The Things We Do For Love,” explores what humans, animals, plants, and other organisms do for love.
Strip cards
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Regular tickets are € 13,00 per film. The regular ticket sale starts early February.
Please note: the strip cards can not be used for the Big Ideas programs.
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This InScience strip card entitles you to 3 or 5 film screenings of InScience 2026. The strip card is automatically linked to your account.
– The strip card entitles you to a maximum of 1 ticket per film screening.
– The strip card is only valid for regular film screenings.
– You can buy multiple strip cards per account.
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 a screenwriter jealous. Our hearts have already been captured.
– Thomas Streekstra
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Big Ideas: Scenes with the Sekszusjes
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 the impact this has on 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 venue at Lowlands, and run a training agency. The core of their work: honestly, and sometimes with a touch 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 know themselves so well that those images never get in the way of your sexual pleasure again.
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.” His inner struggles send him reeling 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.
InScience Film Festival 2026
InScience 2026: The Things We Do For Love
InScience offers in-depth talks, discussions, experiments, and art installations. There will be a special focus on immersive, expanded, and event cinema in the brand-new “Beyond” section: films that transcend the boundaries of the silver screen. As in previous years, the festival also features a number of film classics, a program for professionals, and an extensive junior program with workshops and interactive activities.
An Amorous Program
The theme of the InScience Film Festival 2026 is The Things We Do For Love. With this amorous theme, we carefully examine how humans, animals, and plants will do anything to connect with their fellow species. Why do we yearn for the warmth of others? To what extent is it desirable for others to be like us, or perhaps different in that respect? What is the evolutionary basis for our need for connection?
History is bursting at the seams with the irrational things people do for love. Just look at classical literature. Science is no different – what is it that makes us, as humans, animals, and even plants, keep craving each other’s attention?
We’ll be exploring this from March 3rd to 8th with a rich program of films about perhaps the most classic theme of all time – love. But it’s also broader than that: it’s also about connection, the body, and the many forms of love that abound in our culture and society.