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Tatiana is a smart and demure young woman who moves with her mother and brother to their aunt's house. In her new neighborhood Tatiana meets Santiago, a quirky young man of Latin origin who can't take her diva attitude. When they discover secrets about each other, a beautiful love grows. This love, however, brings new challenges. Abo So features memorable songs by Padu del Caribe, Aruba's most celebrated musician.
In a historical vegetable garden on a Dutch estate, the 85 year-old pruning master and the gardener tend to the espaliers. As they prune, the men chat about food, the weather, the world and they share their knowledge of horticulture. Fifteen years they have spent working on the pear arbour. Will it finally close over this year?
Two fishermen try to save a Salvation Army lady from drowning.
Short report about the production of tea in (possibly) Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
A truthful portrait of one of the Netherlands' most important public intellectuals of the postwar era: Renate Rubinstein.
Twenty years ago, director Christiane Burkhard’s parents died in a plane crash. Now she has made a documentary, in collaboration with her sister, about remembering and coming to terms with the facts. First, she looks for accounts in the former homes and from family and friends of the couple. She also has a large number of old Super-8 recordings. Her mother was an enthusiastic amateur filmmaker, who captured all the major family events on film. Together with her sister, Burkhard watches the footage of the smiling faces of her parents. Making this documentary becomes a self-conceived ritual that should help her bid farewell to an unreal and unaccepted past. The subdued tone suits the difficulties all those involved have talking about the event, even after twenty years.
Eighteen-year-old Sofie is looking for a room in Amsterdam. So she has to interview for them. Time and again she has to convince the residents of student houses that she is the most suitable candidate for the vacant room. The competition is fierce, the residents are ruthless. Who is accepted by the group, who is rejected? How far will the candidates go? And what does that process of judging and being judged do to Sofie?
A high school student is addicted to a computer game in which he protects a sexy female mega singer against all kinds of attacks. When reality starts to interfere with scoring love in the game, a choice must be made.
The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown woman could be Gretchen from Faust, hopelessly in love or Ariadne who gave Theseus the thread to find his way out of labyrinth or perhaps she is one of the fates, weaving destiny… Enlarged from Super-8 to 35mm, the film is very grainy, in itself an homage to the medium of film which is also emphasized by the depiction of all kinds of turning machines, both in image and sound.
"Palaver" tells us the day of three Congolese students (Albert, Victor and Marcel) who visit Bruges for a tour of the city, and end up on the beaches of Ostend. During their trip, they cross a beautiful blond on the arm of an equally superb African.
Registration of the Oudejaarsconference of the year 1995 by the Dutch comedian Youp van 't Hek.
A woman ends up in a psychiatric ward after a burnout and discovers that 'normal' is far more fragile and universal than she ever imagined.
In this show the Dutch comedian Fuad Hassen talks about prejudices, in all shapes and sizes.
A feud between Arend and his two brothers derails when his wife Sylvia announces she is pregnant but refuses to say from whom.
A group of ambitious young people attempt to start a housing cooperative which is to be sustainable, social, and affordable.
Architectural renders are highly realistic images, commonly used for advertising, communication and marketing purposes. They are performative visuals, depicting places that have yet to exist. Happy human archetypes are pasted in the ‘perfect’ house, which is placed in an idealised environment. At the core of this peculiar world-building practise, the narrative of hyper-perfection fashions a sleek paradise, propels capitalist norms and shapes our collective imagination of desirable lifestyles, cities and potential futures. Where the facade bends plays with these 'neither real nor imaginary’ places. With collaged fragments of renders, the video reassembles a new space, a stage for a journey through the backsides, absurdities and ruptures of such smooth surfaces.
23-year-old Nadia travels with her family to Morocco for her cousin's wedding. Nadia has been keeping a secret for a while—she wants to marry her boyfriend, Nofel. But how can she tell her parents? And how will her distant mother react?
How the advance of a column of tanks is stopped by the ultimate war machine in the hands of an unrelenting general. A statement from the heart against the rapidly changing world political stage.
The Yazidi girls were often just teenagers when they were abducted from their villages in the mountains of Kurdistan by fighters of the Islamic State. They were forced to convert to Islam and were sold as sex slaves to terrorists. Now that the survivors have returned to their homeland, the question arises as to whether they will be able to start anew. Theatre-maker Hussein is trying to help them find a new life.
The first mountains that the Amsterdam-based Colombian artist and filmmaker Ana Bravo Pérez saw in the Netherlands were black. In this experimental work, she follows the stench of the coal in the port of Amsterdam back to its origin: an open wound in northern Colombia. The mine is located in the territory of the Wayuu and has a huge impact on the indigenous people.
Registration the fifth theatre program by the Dutch comedian Lenette van Dongen. The program is 'an ode to the human courage to take life as it presents itself'.
Short funny animation about a heart transplant.
Super 8mm color stop motion animated film about the chaos and lifestyle of Amsterdammers, set to the music of Hilary Jeffery.
Partly staged long documentary about the Zaan region of North Holland. As far back as the 17th century, the local council developed the area with an eye towards labour and people, and the mills were the machines that enabled productivity and prosperity. Since that time, the Zaan has developed into an important industrial centre. In this nearly two-hour film, we see most of the region’s cities and towns, as well as its key industries.
In a portrait of his New York relatives, one of them a Holocaust survivor and the other her daughter, filmmaker Marco Niemeijer gradually unfolds the harrowing, smothering effects of the war trauma across generations.
A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning encounter mysterious deer-men who change their existence.
After her best friend Vicky suddenly ends their friendship, Sarah (27) becomes desperate to understand why. As she searches for answers, fragments of their life together reveal not only their closeness but also the growing suffocation that ultimately turns them into strangers.
Short film in which an innocent girl takes care of a seriously injured gangster.
Report about the voyage from Amsterdam to Belawan (in Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies) aboard the ship "Jan Pieterszoon Coen". Portrayed here are both life on board for the passengers, and well as the ship as a business. At several points, the camera goes ashore, for example in Port Said and Colombo.
In the mist in which existence lies, memories crystalize from past moments lived. Might be altered, might become in part fiction, but no less real. A moment that goes beyond the perceptible reality. As if the encoding of light and sound by the mind has warped into a fluid form of existence. A static state of constant movement. A ride into the fading waves of remembrance, where falcons of the inner eye murmur above a sea of silver-like memories.
Dressed in couture from various Dutch fashion brands, the characters wander through a polder, angle for fish in a small brook, and contemplate the typical Dutch light.
The trials and tribulations of a fat woman and her husband.
Registration of the first theatre program by the Dutch comedian Merijn Scholten.
The documentary INFARCT tells the poignant and heartfelt story of two friends whose lives are suddenly turned upside down. A story about unconditional friendship, vulnerability, disarray, acceptance, determination, and working toward a new future. Because a stroke never happens to just one person, and its consequences are carried together. A story of two friends who reincarnate within their lifetime. With INFARCT, Viggo and Peter pay tribute to what remains after the blow, and give a face to what so often stays invisible: the impact on relationships, the struggle, and the hopeful perspective. They invite reflection and conversation about what connects us when everything changes.
This performance is (most of) what was used for the legendary Swans Are Dead live album. This specific version is from a tape of the VPRO broadcast of the concert.
In Bahia (Brazil), the filmmaker reflects on different modes of getting lost: in the wilderness, in madness, in the ecstasies of love making. Losing yourself, he finds, is a script for misfits, heretics, perverts. People in need of a world that is larger than the one they know. People like himself.
11-year-old Lotte's life has been turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis. Now Lotte is looking forward to a very special week. She's going to a summer camp for children just like her. There she hopes to be 'Just Lotte' again.
A forgotten struggle, a lost future. In the 1960s, an independent Papua seemed within reach. But international interests, geopolitical power struggles, and economic motives dictated otherwise. Using uniquely restored 35mm archival footage, The Promise brings this history to life, revealing how an entire people was systematically betrayed and oppressed.
A young man walks through the open fields of his mind, chasing the echoes of a love lost too soon. Surrounded by fleeting memories and whispers carried by the wind, he confronts his grief and finds peace in letting go.
Jamie and her friends are relaxing in a little holiday house. Jamie quickly starts to see weird things in and around the house and when a strange man shows up at the door, the situation seems to get weirder.
The Black Mambas Anti-Poaching Unit are the world's first all-female wildlife ranger unit. These women pursue their ideals in a male-dominated environment, striving for a better future for both nature and women in South Africa. The film invites us into Tsakane’s world through the letter she writes to her future self. We get to know the woman behind the uniform.
Over the course of a house meeting, four very different people attempt to navigate the delicacies of inhabiting a shared space
Growing up without a father can have a negative impact on children. Three young adult men talk openly about the impact their father’s absence had on them, and about the way they took their life into their hands. Inspiring and hopeful.
How do you learn to be a man without a father figure to guide you? Mich, Jay and Ruwhel are three devoted dads from Rotterdam. Growing up without their fathers, the three men had to figure things out on their own from a very early age. Now raising their own children they do everything they can to break the generational spiral. Do they manage to be there unconditionally for their offspring and fulfill their roles as protectors of the family? An intimate portrait of masculinity, vulnerability and fatherhood.
A shortened recording of the theater program of the same name by Kabaret Ivo de Wijs (Ivo de Wijs, Pieter Nieuwint and Marnix Kappers).
Through a thick layer of snow in the forests of Russia, historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. With no help from official channels, he traces the dead and rescues their memory from the eternal doom of oblivion. Dmitriev’s riveting story is a tale of one man’s fight against the erasure of history by the state