Breda 2026: Prepare For Pests, Poop And Performances

In the Netherlands, the film festival season is upon us. Every few weeks there will be another big film festival, and kicking off the pack this coming weekend is Breda's B-Film, Underground and Trash Film Festival, known as BUT for short.
Running from the 26th till the 30th of August, expect Breda to be the center of questionable (but nonetheless great) taste.

This year, the festival's main theme is "Simply the Pest", and a number of great films new and old will be shown about unwanted waves of icky animals. Expect classics like Ticks, Slither, Cronenberg's The Fly, Night of the Creeps, Slugs and Bruno Mattei's completely bonkers Rats: Night of Terror.

Thursday will be "Toilet Thursday" with lavatory-centric genre titles like Flush and Scared Shitless. Tying both themes nicely together with a brown ribbon will be Noboru Iguchi's Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead. Other festival sections focus on Belgian splatter films, there is a queer cinema section, and as always there will be lots and lots of music and performance artists. Oh, and the festival brews its own beer! Always a delight...

Turkish director Can Evrenol is a special guest this year, with most of his films in the program, like the fantastic Baskin, his action thriller Sayara and recent remake of The Coffee Table, called The Turkish Coffee Table.

So if you're not afraid to get your eyes dirty, go to Breda, catch the festival bug, drink the beer, and let's all have a merry time!

Check out the Full Programme here.