Film freaks, cinephiles, BUT-lovers; you can stalk our BUT-taste in digital form. BUT Film Festival is officially on Letterboxd!
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Fancy a bit of a rest? Come and chill out at the BUTFF tent at Breda Barst! On Friday Sep 4 and Saturday Sep 5.
Want to give your legs a rest between all the partying, dancing and mosh pits? We’ve sorted the ultimate chill-out spot for you!
Come and relax at our spot and enjoy a specially selected ‘Best of’ BUTFF short films. Bizarre, beautiful, funny and raw cinema to help you unwind completely before heading off to the next stage.
WINNER OF THE BUT FILM FESTIVAL FEATURE AWARD
The Thing in the Fog (La Cosa en La Niebla) by Chedey Reyes | 2025 | Spain
From the jury:
“A horror comedy that tells the story of an alien invasion and a trip into another dimension from a single location: the cockpit of an airplane. It’s a unique setting which manages to suggest a world beyond the limits of its frame, and it’s a fun ride, made with care, which makes us excited to see what Chedey Reyes might come up with next.”
PROGRAM ONLINE: TIME SCHEDULE + TICKETS AVAILABLE! CLICK HERE
BUT Awards
Every year, we hand out several Awards to celebrate the BUTtest feature film, the BUTtest short film, and the most BUTtiful performances. We also give out a special award to a personality whose accomplishments stand out in our genres.
BUTtest Feature Award
Awarded by the jury.
Nominated films:
At BUTFF 2026, special focus programs on:
Can Evrenol
A visionary pioneer of modern Turkish genre cinema, this filmmaker translates pure nightmare logic and cosmic dread into beautifully grim spectacles. Masterfully blending visceral body horror, surreal mythology, and thick, hallucinatory atmospheres, his unapologetically bold and poetic work crafts unforgettable, blood-drenched descents into psychological hell.
Free open-air cinema in Breda
Join us this summer for films under the stars! The films will be announced one week in advance. Since this is an open-air cinema, screenings will begin after sunset, around 9:30 PM.
We’re proud to announce that our Dani, feature film programmer at the BUT Film Festival, has been selected as a member of the Feature Film Jury at the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2026.
As part of the Feature Film Jury, Dani will help evaluate this year’s bold and boundary-pushing feature selections, bringing her sharp curatorial eye and deep love for transgressive cinema to one of Europe’s leading platforms for horror and genre films by women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers.
For Grensgeluiden, local reporter Senne visited this year's BUTFF with his recorder. Listen to it here (in Dutch):
A couple of days after BUT Film Festival 2025 was held, new festival director Ryan Oomen made an appearance on De Budget Slagers Podcast. The conversation was held in Dutch/Flemish.
#38 BUTrospective met festivaldirecteur Ryan
"Ryan, festivaldirecteur van het BUT Film Festival in Breda kwam langs in Genk en het resultaat was een drie en een half uur durende conversatie over alles wat de 2025 editie van BUT weer een onvergetelijke ervaring heeft gemaakt."
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