Time to vote!
Vote for your favourite films of 2025 below and get a chance to win a festive private screening with your film friends in Cinema the Pulse in Amsterdam. Voting closes on December 21st.
2025 in film
From coming home to coming at home: 2025 was a well-built year of film. Close the door behind you and vote for your favourite films until December 21st.
The year in film
There’s no place like home, but wasn’t it great to spend an entire year visiting others? A flash of our Cineville card unlocked every portal. We stayed in sticky-hot Mexican bars and blue-tinged Mumbai apartments, slipped between the sheets in New York penthouses, and got lost in the memories of a messy Australian snail shell.
We saw grand designs come to life, buildings under construction and homes that were violently demolished (and rebuilt, and violently demolished again). The most unexpected places — a love hotel, a juke joint, a hazy dance floor — suddenly felt like our own. Sometimes, home was simply where your people were. But not everyone looking for a place to stay, managed to find one.
As some searched for a roof over their head, others were searching for themselves. Yearning for a new identity, a new body, a new person to beckon inside. Home is where the heart is, after all. And if the walls came closing in, there was always the outdoors. Up North, into the woods, or back to the place that was once your shelter. And afterwards? We’d be back in our comfortable seats, in front of the big screen. Lights on, ready to head home.
Win your own private screening!
Because Cineville believes in watching films together, we're giving away two exclusive private screenings at Cinema The Pulse, Amsterdam's newest Cineville cinema. Invite up to 19 of your films friends and revisit one (or two? up to you!) of your 2025 favourite(s) on the big screen. Drinks and snacks on us, of course.
More 2025 throwbacks
We’re spending the entire month of December feeling homesick for everything we’ve seen. Keep an eye on our social media, our magazine and our Shop for a limited edition posterprint, interviews with local filmmaking talent, our festive 2025 playlist, our annual review podcast and more.