Discoveries from Netherlands World Cinema

Lydia's mother is from Cameroon, her father from Nigeria, but she and her brother were born in the Netherlands. None of them have a Dutch residence permit, and that's a concern for Lydia. What if her parents have to go back to their home countries? Who will she have to go with? While her father prepares the food, Lydia asks him whether he's scared. Of course he is, he admits, "But I'm not going anywhere. This is my country." That's exactly the way Lydia thinks, too.

Following her mother's death, an 11-year-old indigenous Australian girl named Shay moves with her father and brother to Belgium. Shay finds that her grief is readily accepted in her new town, which still bears scars from World War I.

Over the course of five years, The Road to Fenix follows the transformation of a historic harbor warehouse in Rotterdam into an art museum about migration.

We follow the story of a Bulgarian elderly couple living in a stagnant small village called Balabansko. Taking care of the family house passed down the generations has been their life’s work. What does their future hold and why can’t they let go of the past?

"The impossible Love" is about love and modern city life during the difficult phase between 20 and 30, in which much for the future must be decided. A brother and sister living together after their parents' divorce, have their separate love affairs and discover that both have trouble establishing stable relationships. They finally find real love--with each other: an impossible love.

Television adaptation of the theater performance of the same name by the Dutch Ruut Weissman and George Groot. The Dutch cabaret artists Jenny Arean, Frits Lambrechts, Lucretia van der Vloot and Kasper van Kooten revive the vanished Jewish entertainment in Amsterdam. Recorded in the Tip Top theater café of the Academie van de Kleinkunst in Amsterdam, which is on the same spot where the Tip Top Theater used to be.

Saudade. (n.) an intense longing for someone or something that is absent. it's the mixture of feelings of loss, distance, and love. it's a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for that something you hold so dear. something that might never be had again. it's the recollection of feelings that once brought excitement, but now trigger the pain of the separation with these moments.

It's Christmas! Come and celebrate the holidays with Bing... at the cinema! Meet Nicky... Sula's super cute nephew, and open presents with Bing, Flop, and all their friends! Pico will be there to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Come make tree leaf drawings in the forest with Amma, watch Bing & Sula put on a puppet show, and enjoy a grand finale with extra special Christmas stories! So be there! Let's celebrate together—hoop-hoop-hoop-hoop-hoop.

As daughter of an Austrian baroness and a Dutch geologist, Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now 84) lived on the move. She has for instance lived in America, Austria, Holland, France and Greece. From her youth she knew she would be a painter. Over the course of the years, she has built up a large and diverse oeuvre inspired by poetry, mythology and the whimsy of nature.

Government ordered Industrial short documentary on the production of linen.

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez joins 'The Hut Syndicate', a mysterious group of hunters, during one hunting season and witnesses their longing to keep their vanishing world alive.

As a house is demolished, flashbacks are shown of the lives of the people who lived in it.

People embarking on a small boat - the bustle and confusion of it. A walk and a song. A villiage square, men with coffee, women with children, and old man by himself. A painterly use of film grain.

An elderly lady joins an old peoples' home, but while filling in the form is lost in memories of the past.

Uw Zoete 666 was, accordingly to some, the best comedy debute of the last past years. Xander has toured for 2 years with this show, and claimed is position in the Belgian comedy circuit. He's here to stay, and this show proves it!

Ear Twist is based on real and imagined conversations with the filmmakers mother, complicating the relationship. Through a reenactment of the mother-daughter roles, two performers talk themselves into an unpredictable psychological game where they constantly negotiate for power. By re-staging power dynamics, the work exposes the fragility of the roles we play.

In a recreated bedroom, Roaa, Zainab and Noe Noe, three refugee girls living in the Netherlands, draw and describe their self-invented fantasy monster, Cappi Don Liii. Reflecting on the monster and themselves, they talk about happy and less joyful memories, about growing up in an asylum seekers center – and the power of their friendship and fantasy.

When the cheerful, crazy, fun, and sweet Milou is confronted with multiple traumatic experiences in her early teens, she develops severe flashbacks and serious psychological problems. Everything is tried, but no one can silence the monster in her head. Milou is seventeen when she dies in her mother's arms. Weary, completely exhausted, she is finally allowed to go. Milou is the first minor in the Netherlands to die by euthanasia due to hopeless psychological suffering.

An art curator who makes amateur drawings during dead time. He calls them Autocartoons, like Auto Portraits, or even Automatic Writings.

The American president Jimmy Carter and the Chinese statesman Teng-Hsiao Ping sing together Alle Menschen werden Brüder. In the background is a poster by Mao Zedong, on which the Great Helmsman advertises Coca-Cola, Levi’s and Ford.

Registration of the theatreprogram by the Dutch singer and cabaret artist Jenny Arean. In this program from 2000 she looks back on her 40-year career. She sings songs by lyricist such as Jan Boerstoel, Jurrian van Dongen, George Groot, Robert Long, Ischa Meijer, Annie M.G. Schmidt, Willem Wilmink and Ivo de Wijs.

Brazilian boy Gabriel Matos is still very young when he learns that the 2014 World Cup will be held in his home country. He had no way of knowing that his life would be turned upside down by then. To transport hundreds of thousands supporters to the football stadium, a new rail line is being developed to run straight through his neighborhood. Houses are being demolished, entire families are forced to move and even the children’s local football pitch will soon disappear. For Gabriel this is a nightmare. He is angry at the inequality in his city and posts self-made footage of bulldozers tearing down his neighborhood on a blog. By becoming a journalist he tries to stand up for his rights.

When stuttering Stef (17) decides to tell his grandmother about his studies at her birthday party, his family stop him from speaking, as they always do. But this time Stef refuses to remain silent.

Short film.

Akiko is standing in an endless, black and empty space. As if she wakes up and finding herself in a different sense of being, she reconstructs herself and her surroundings. Different elements from her surroundings come into view; the road, the grass and the streetlights. Akiko watches and experiences everything in a very intense way, as if she has never seen the world before. She has no idea of existence. When all the elements are there, the world is not as pure as Akiko has always felt.

A sustainable world. That is the dream and mission of Jan Terlouw. In this documentary, the writer, politician, and scientist calls for action. 'It is actually so simple. In one hour, the sun radiates an amount of energy to the Earth that would be enough for humanity for a year. In a technical sense, harnessing solar energy is child's play,' says Jan Terlouw. The common thread of the documentary is *Natuurlijk*, the 2018 Book Week essay he wrote. The documentary offers an exclusive glimpse into Terlouw's life and features other sustainable pioneers, including neuropsychologist Margriet Sitskoorn, star chef Joris Bijdendijk, Joos Ockels (Wubbo's widow), and Plastic Soup Surfer Merijn Tinga.

Documentary about the so-called "lion staircase" in Vlissingen, which must make way, along with adjacent houses, shops, a hotel, and a small lake, for dike reinforcement.

Various onlookers, including pets, experience the eclipse. We also see a view through a telescope of the eclipse itself.

Four people partake in a project aimed to mitigate the shortage of staff for elderly care.

Hélène, a struggling young actress, is trying to learn the text of the 'Lady From the Sea' by heart. At the same time she is emptying her grandmother’s apartment. The apartment, situated near the beach, becomes a place to escape in thoughts and dreams.

Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with the slow, mechanical movement of a silhouetted form to produce a biting melancholy, as if Becks is mourning the film’s removal from the world it glimpses.

July 13, 1985 North Sea Jazz Festival, Tuinpaviljoen, Congresgebouw, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Two men wait in a deserted landscape for something or someone important. The weather is capricious, their conversations absurd. They meet a master and a slave. Will they be able to provide more clarity about their endless waiting?

'It Jonkje', a young cowboy in the Frisian pastures, notices that everything in his world is skewed and imagines that there must be something that's able to set everything right again. He starts his metaphysical quest for that uncertain thing which will provide him with peace.