Links of interest
Art centres:
W139
De Appel Arts Center
Mediamatic
Stedelijk Museum and Stedelijk Museum project space (SMBA)
Trouw + De Verdieping
Institutes:
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (“Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid”)
Netherlands Media Art Institute
De Balie
Felix Meritis ( European centre for art, culture and science)
De Rode Hoed
The John Adams Institute
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Stadsschouwburg (Expanding Theatre)
You should also check out student-run cinema’s Kriterion and Studio K.
Other spaces with film and art programmes:
OT301
De Nieuwe Anita
Joe’s Garage
De Slang
Delicatessen Zeeburg
Worm (Rotterdam)
The lecture series hosted by the UvA is called Spui 125.
Another site of interest is the Media Masters, run by students of new media master of the UvA.
The university has an arts centre called CREA and they host films and debates, you might like the regular “Dutch film for beginners” cycle.
There are too many film festivals taking place too list, you can find them (in Dutch) on filmkrant.nl and cineville.nl. Among the most important are International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November and International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January.