The Netherlands Film Festival annually presents the latest Dutch feature films, documentaries, short films and telefilms. Many productions are festively premiered during the festival. In competition, a selection of these films compete for the Grand Prize of the Dutch Film, the Golden Calf. The various film genres each receive special attention on a specific day.

Retrospectives and special programmes offer a chance to review films from previous years. Furthermore the festival features films made by talented young filmmakers from Dutch audio-visual institutes and short and long films from Flanders.