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In 2016, Nick Skelton won first place at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio. The Englishman did so on the back of a horse bred in the Netherlands. This documentary is in search of the secret of the Dutch horse breeder and discovers that success also has a flip side. The sperm of a winning horse is invaluable and therefore it leads to painful decisions in the world of sports.
For most Dutch people, the COVID-19 lockdown proclaimed by PM Rutte is no picnic. However, for Hussein, who suffers from agoraphobia, a world opens up.
Lieven is confused: confused about his relationship and about his sexuality. After a fight with his girlfriend, he goes to his best friend Senne for support.
Once inside this big fish, abandon hope, as all the devil's phantoms feast on ones soul
No-nonsense Carla is a 62-year-old woman from the Netherlands who converted to Islam. Against the expectations of many, she married Fouad, a 33-year-old Libyan freedom fighter. Although the couple live contentedly together in Amsterdam, the political turmoil in the Middle East continually bleeds into their lives. Yet, since Carla is past a child-bearing age, it is when the pair seek a second wife for Fouad that their relationship is really put to the test.
During her first day at work in a brickworks near Antwerp at the beginning of the last century, a teenage girl first faces harassment by the boys who work there and then, at the end of the day, she is forced to allow the boss to exercise his "droit de seigneur".
Kiddo is a magical truck who can transform himself into anything he wants to be in this animated film for pre-schoolers.
For more than 100 years, Dik Trom has captured the imagination with his mischief. Together with his friends Piet van Dril and Jan Vos, it is mainly constable Flipsen who has to suffer. But the strict teacher is also a grateful subject for his typically Dutch pranks. And for some reason, Dik always gets away with it. Like the time Dik and his friends drove Flipsen crazy by constantly tapping on his window. During the chase, Flipsen catches one of the rascals. But not Dik...no, the beating goes to Dik's biggest tormentor, Bruin Boon. Still, Dik Trom proves he has a heart of gold. Because when he follows Aunt Kee, who is considered a witch by the whole village, to her cottage and discovers what is troubling her, he shows why he is such a special boy. And he is!
In this show ony can see the changes Hermans went through in this phase of his life. Instead of being just the clown, he started using experiences from his own life for his shows.
In Gustav Deutsch's most recent found footage work the masses "absorb" (Walter Benjamin), the artwork. Three historical camera pans across the streets and squares of Vienna, Surabaya, and Porto provide a starting point for reflection on the relationship of everyday stories and cinematic machinery.
Bonus DVD featuring all 13 songs; the "UMOJA: The Spirit of Music" mini-documentary; "The Practice Room: Portugal"; "BLØF & Fado"; "One and Only: Indian Instruments"; "Didgeridoos & Didgeridon'ts"; "In Search of Drums"; "The Sound Artist"; "BLØF after UMOJA: Interviews"; "The Millennium Goals"; "AIDS in Russia"; and "Water".
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!
A man, who has been on a date, comes home with his girlfriend. But the next day there is no trace of her. When he wants to leave the house, it turns out that he can't get out, and after some confusion he realizes that he must be dreaming. He throws water in his face and wakes up with his parents. Here, too, he cannot leave the house and cannot reach anyone. It turns out that he is dreaming and stuck between 2 locations. Can he get out?
The Dutch musical comedians Theo Nijland, Maarten van Roozendaal, Jeroen van Merwijk and Kees Torn sing and play a selection of their songs to promote the Dutch theater song.
A personal portrait of Pierre Bokma.
A young Dutch gay couple dreams of having children. They can adopt or have a child with the help of a single mother or lesbian couple. But just as any heterosexual family, they want to have children of their own and have a ‘real’ family. Fortunately a niece offers to be the surrogate to carry their child, but not of her own ovum. The dads to be only need an egg and a clinic to achieve the fertilization. What follows is a harrowing account of the long road between hopes and disappointments.
A documentary about the sex lives of elderly couples
A lively account of the annual Three October Festivals, featuring a traditional tribute by song at the statue of Mayor Van der Werff, the distribution of herring and bread, and the festive parades. Particularly noteworthy are the firing of the so-called Japanese daytime fireworks and the ascent of a hot air balloon. During the latter, 12-year-old Evert Magnier remained hanging from a rope. He was later brought down by emergency landing in a meadow. The balloon pilot was W. van Pottum.
The third Hagespraak in Lunteren. In this video, much attention is paid to the flag ceremony and the parade of the department banners.
To get out of a slump, I started filming my household chores, but this ended up as a short film about those months, focusing mainly on the people around me.
Is the babymonitor just being hacked or is there something else going on? Lea, the babysitter, may soon find out.
A look at the history of VVV-Venlo's stadium.
In De Indische Tafel, men in their nineties, who meet weekly for an Indonesian lunch, reflect on their Indonesian childhood, a childhood they never spoke about, but which profoundly shaped them. Using never-before-seen footage from Japanese propaganda films, they revisit their youth in the Japanese camps during World War II. Born in the colonial Dutch East Indies before the war, they reflect on how their lives changed during the Japanese occupation, their existence in the camps, their liberation by the atomic bomb, the struggle of young Indonesian freedom fighters, and how the old colonial power returned in the form of new capitalist companies that were more profitable than ever.
The trials and tribulations of a fat woman and her husband.
Registration of the first theatre program by the Dutch comedian Merijn Scholten.
A young boy goes with his mother to pick up grandma from the station. But why is grandma visiting? No soundtrack was made for this film. Ton van Saane’s son, Fokke van Saane, added a soundtrack in 2022. Drawings on a glass sheet.
Short film about the mare of Ed van der Elsken who is covered by a stallion from the neighborhood. The horse is getting thicker and brings a foal into the world. The foal soon runs through the meadow. A few recordings have been made with a 'fish eye' lens, so that the image is distorted (source: Eye Catalogue).
Rapunzel is a beautiful, curious princess with magnificent long, magical hair that can only be cut with a special golden pair of scissors. As she travels across the kingdom with her mother, the queen, in search of the hairdresser who possesses the golden scissors, she meets Tobias, a young assistant to a barber. Tobias falls in love with Rapunzel at first sight. But when it turns out that the miller’s son has also set his sights on Rapunzel, she becomes entangled in a hilarious battle for her heart. The miller’s son decides to kidnap the princess and lock her away. In her solitude, Rapunzel dreams of a brave man who will rescue her. Will Tobias succeed in finding her? And might her long hair still come in handy after all?
A performance blending 16mm film, sound loops, music and spoken word. In collaboration with Mariëtte Groot, Janeiro creates a rich soundscape that moves fluidly from karaoke recordings and breathing exercises to synths and acoustic instruments. The visuals depict everyday social life, interwoven with sudden, inexplicable mysteries, drawing on gothic themes, with transformation and death as central elements. These are portrayed in a raw, visceral way, heightening the piece’s unsettling yet playful atmosphere.
At the opening of a new shelter for Ukrainian refugees in the Dutch city of Weesp, documentary makers Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster join the procession of household goods, suitcases, staff members and new tenants. The camera looks on affectionately as children run around whooping with delight, rooms are furnished and the reality of a new way of life takes shape. The central meeting point is a large kitchen with a gleaming stovetop and numbered sections in the fridge for each room.
Kim is a young girl (teenager) who lives with her mother. Her passion is dancing, and she hopes for a career in it. Her father has passed away, and her mother struggles to cope, seeking solace in alcohol and boyfriends. Kim herself becomes pregnant after an adventure with an internet date. Something that turns her life upside down. What should she do? Those around her think she should have an abortion. She has doubts. Should she get an abortion and pursue her dream? Or have the child? The choice she makes results in an inner transformation. From an accommodating and somewhat dreamy girl with dance aspirations, she becomes a decisive woman. Even a mother who knows what she wants. She grows from a teenager into an adult woman.
'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.
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.
Over the course of a house meeting, four very different people attempt to navigate the delicacies of inhabiting a shared space
A poetic blend of fiction and found footage from the 1960s and 1970s. Two girls grow up along a European border. Slowly, they are driven apart and experience what it means to be separated by borders.
It is 1915 Mexico, two sisters, remain hidden in their father’s hacienda
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
Television Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch actor, singer and raconteur Joost Prinsen and the pianist Dick van der Stoep.
While cleaning Dave finds something that's impossible to dispose of... Life will never be the same.
A found footage film is a collage of documentary and training films from the first half of the 20th century. What connects them is the idea of progress and technological development and exploitation of the natural and human resources. The film is congenially complemented by the mechanical rhythms by a French composer Pierre Bastien.