Discoveries from Netherlands World Cinema

'The Devil on her Mind' explores the borderline where love goes wrong and stalking begins, where the suitor becomes the hunter and the beloved the prey.

The movement of colourful dots, streaks and scratches embellished directly on a film roll synchronise with the cheerful jazz music by Johnny Dodds and the Chicago Footwarmers.

The Blaauwhoedenveem company is engaged in the storage, sorting, and treatment of goods. This corporate film shows e.g. the loading and unloading of ships. The footage was shot in Katendrecht, Netherlands.

A young musician gets offered a chance of a lifetime at a party, for which she has to sacrifice her familiar life. She can only solve this conflict by finding inner peace and self-acceptance.

Some of the biggest stars in the recent history of the Eurovision Song Contest take to the stage to perform their best known Eurovision bangers and ballads. The party is presented by Eurovision legend Edsilia Rombley, with the UK’s very own Rylan taking viewers back-stage to chat with the stars. Acts performing include 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra, Subwoolfer, Greece’s 2021 entry Stefania, and TIX.

A play of light and shadow in an artificial architectural environment with pillars and a checkered floor, featuring a female figure. The film is composed of tinted photographs and photomontages.

Rich businessman Hank chooses beauty over love. It may have been a mistake.

What started as a personal exploration soon turned out to have unsuspected political implications. When Schamlé posted photos of her toe on Instagram, there was an immediate online response from foot fetishists—is there any part of the female body that can’t be unintentionally sexualized? Consequently, Schamlé decided to set up an OnlyFans account for her toe (/u217509940), so that it would at least make some money from this sexual objectification.

A David versus Goliath documentary. One man versus the Health Care Organizations, fighting for better and affordable health care.

A short animated film with a lamp and spiders.

Silent Dutch animated advertisement for Kroon bicycles. A hand draws a cat cycling to the moon. On the way, it is bothered by falling meteorites and other inconveniences. However, as soon as it sits down on a Kroon bicycle, it is completely unaffected by stones. Without effort, it cycles to the moon.

One Note Symphony: Live In Tel Aviv sees the artist again in concert this time in collaboration with the 'Israel Philharmonic Orchestra'. On this occasion Alan said: Whenever I have the opportunity to play with a Symphony Orchestra, I always try to put into the setlist songs that we otherwise would not be able to perform live, such as the epic Silence and I from the album Eye In the Sky, for example. We also took this opportunity to play The Sorcerer's Apprentice from our latest studio album, The Secret. It is a new version of a well-known classic song written by the Frenchman Paul Dukas which originally appeared in the film Fantasia.

The window of an apartment in Rotterdam leads us to the outskirts of an industrial industrial port, a strident and devouring machine that pours out its flames. In front of this infernal and metallic spectacle, the horizon appears obstructed. The steel factories transform the material into smoke and and the boats sail against winds and tides. Above the metal and the buildings that pierce the sky: silence and the flight of and the flight of birds are only a hypothesis.

A Parked Life is an intimate portrait of Petar Bonchev, one of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European truck drivers who work in the west.

“Our family is special”, says filmmaker Lei Lei’s father Lei Jiaqi. On the audio track of this inventive, poignant essay film he starts to talk about the struggles of his family, amid China’s troubled times of the 1960s. When his own father, Lei Ting, is sent to the countryside, he stays behind with his sister and his ill mother. When Mum passes away, and the system forbids Ting to come back to live with his children, the kids are kept in an orphanage.

Four friends. Two weeks time. One road trip from north to south Vietnam. Will their friendship survive?

In his first comedy special the Flemish comedian Pieter Verelst tells a bizarre story about his childhood, which he spent with his brother (existing or not) in a boring village in Flanders. Together they tackle this dullness and use it as a source of inspiration for a strange creativity.

Short film.

Senior citizens Sientje and Guus live in Amsterdam's hospice for the elderly. They spend all of their time together, even though it is against the wishes of the management. After they have been out together, Sientje gets a reprimand. When she tells the home’s manager about her love for Guus, he feels sorry and tries to arrange a marriage.

Recording of Wim Kan's 1982 New Year's Conference, his last to be broadcast live on Dutch national television.

In this film a man, after retiring, wants to return to the Caribbean island where he once lived. However, advancing dementia ruins his idyllic plans. He moves there but never really arrives.

The very personal inner process of mourning is shown in the way stragglers clean the house of their deceased parents. That house is the most personal domain, loaded with touchable memories of an accomplished human life. A documentary about dismantling and grieving.

A cruel duo of villains, led by Nico, Timo's arch enemy, plans on stealing and torturing all the animals from the local zoo. Will Timo be able to save the animals?

"Neerlands Nieuws / Polygoon Profilti" "Het Proces Rauter Opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught. The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lining up next to rail cars. At trial, evidence presented and witnesses called (sync sound). People climbing aboard railcars with armbands, large wheeled litter goes by. Sophia de Groot at far left of the door opening on train wagon #9, gesturing to someone on the platform. People waiting to board clustered around open car.

Almost ten years after Zeitung, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the musician Alain Franco started off with those same building blocks to create Zeitigung. Against the backdrop of a changing world, and channeled through the bodies of eight young dancers, Franco and De Keersmaeker offer an updated version of their own earlier work. As a part of their strategy they invited the young choreographer and dancer Louis Nam Le Van Ho to confront his own writing with De Keersmaeker’s choreography; his contribution builds a bridge to a new generation of creators and choreographers, providing a different perspective on De Keersmaeker’s and Franco’s ongoing examination of the essence of dance and composition. Franco joins Rosas’s dancers on stage, performing the piece live on the piano. In a broad historical gesture, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schönberg, and Anton Webern stretches across the geometric principles and improvised sections of the choreography.

In her fourth comedy special the Dutch comedian Paulien Cornelisse talks about uncertainties and indistinctnesses in life.

Their second theatre program

Naomi has a secret. She rarely sees her mother because the latter lives in a psychiatric hospital. She wants Sam, her best friend, to finally meet her mother.

Malaysia, in the fifties. Raymond, a wealthy rubber planter is going to die and decides to leave his fortune to his daughter who lives in Europe. Marcel does not agree with this decision.

In the middle of the night, a widow is terrorized by an unknown man. Just when she is about to call the police, the man claims to know more about the suicide of her husband.

Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

Bet Strik, nicknamed The Queen of the Jordaan (a working-class quarter in Amsterdam), has been selling fish at the market place for 25 years, a fact that her colleagues cannot allow to pass without celebration.

Vedat and Niels find a large sum of money on the street and spend it to their heart's content. Other boys from the neighborhood get wind of this. Where do you hide all that money? In fact... Who can you still trust?

A documentary about slutshaming.

Tik Tak, the most famous TV program for young viewers, known from Belgian and Dutch television. This DVD contains a carefully selected compilation of the best clips that children will enjoy anytime, anywhere.

Paul & The Dragon is a short animated film about a nine-year old who is diagnosed with cancer. His doctor explains him that the cancer is like a dragon in his body that needs to be faught. As a true hero, Paultje, fights the dragon and wins. The film is for children with cancer and their parents. The movie gives support to the children and their parents in their battle with the disease. The film portrays children with cancer as a heros, whom have to battle an evil dragon that lives inside of them. In this exciting humorous metaphor, children can also learn about what kind of problems and issues can arise when a child has cancer. This visual representation of cancer may also help alleviate the fears a child may have, and help talk about what is going on inside their bodies.

While looking for old home movies in Amsterdam, filmmaker Wim van der Aar comes across a box of reel-to-reel tapes at a fleamarket. As Van der Aar starts to listen to these recordings the story of Guido van Waveren begins to unfold. The son of a once-wealthy and eccentric family who has become a recluse in Amsterdam and obsessively records his telephone conversations with his domineering mother and an old school friend. Using these tapes as a starting point Van der Aar tries to piece together Guido's life and fill in the blanks. He reconstructs his apartment on a sound stage, adds sensual images to some conservations and tries to find people who knew him. In a way, Van der Aar's film seems like a real-life version of Samuel Beckett's play 'Krapp's Last Tape' and deals with similar themes of isolation, longing and loneliness. Along with the documentary, one extra is included about the Van Waveren family.

Registration of the fifth theatre program by the Dutch comedian Richard Groenendijk.

In his hilarious show "Wortels" (Roots), Klaas van der Eerden takes the audience back to his roots. Raised in the 1970s in a small farming village above Amsterdam in a hippie family, Klaas lets loose with his funny stories, characters, and improvisations. "Wortels is brimming with original ideas and a high density of jokes," wrote the AD newspaper. De Volkskrant enjoyed the "tasty stories" and called Wortel "an entertaining and meaningful program." And we haven't even mentioned the highly comical musical highlights with which Klaas constantly surprises his audience. Conclusion: an energetic, full-blooded entertainer who gives 100% every night and gets every audience going wild!

Tracklist DVD: 1. Ik wil dat ons land juicht 2. ik tel tot drie 3. Niemand 4. Het is een nacht 5. Te lang 6. Als de liefde 7. Hé zon 8. Mooi 9. Wees maar niet bang 10. Jimmy 11. Toen ik je zag 12. Als je ooit 13. Op straat 14. Stadionmedley 15. Geef mij je angst 16. Bloemen 17. Jouw hand ( met Jack Poels ) 18. Rowwen Heze- Bestel Mar 19. Rowwen Heze- Kwestie 20. De neus omhoeg 21. Zo ver weg 22. Mag ik dansen 23. Verliefd Zijn 24. Ik wil je 25. Per spoor 26. Brabant 27. Bondgenoot 28. Ik wil dat ons land juicht 29. 'T dondert en 't bliksem. Taal: Nederlands