Discoveries from Netherlands World Cinema

Dutch promotional film showing shots of cables being laid in a busy street. The film also shows the convenience that electricity brings to household chores, such as ironing and vacuuming. Many devices are filmed in close-up. In this film, Otto van Neijenhoff employs more of an avant-garde style than he typically does in his other films. Atmospheric images of trams and trains, with much use of dissolves, as well as evening and night shots in the illuminated city.

An experimental exploration of a day at the Mediacollege Amsterdam, blending documentary and fiction.

Hiyap and Evenezer were born on a rickety boat on the waves of the Mediterranean sea and grow up in Europe. Filmed in the course of seven years, Tweeling is a surprising and unsettling coming-of-age series about two dynamic boys with the same DNA and their determined Eritrean mother. How do they find their way in the world? And what do we see in the mirror they hold up to us?

Gay couples can love, live together, get married and apply for a mortgage but if they also share a desire to have children, 'help' will have to come from outside. Especially if they want to be the biological parents of their future offspring. Director, filmmaker and father of two daughters, Pim Mookhoek talks gay couples about parenting, and their children about life with two mothers. He also follows Len and Jermaine in their search for a suitable donor, so that their kids never have to wonder who the biological father is. They have a match with Bas and Eddy, but what now?

A short film portrait about old Crazy Mina: Nani Kamphuis, in which we portray the search and the desire for her ideal freedom.

A satirical documentation of the last day of light on an "alien" planet whose civilization has known for 1000 years that its star would die out.

Starting with her obsessive love of ports, filmmaker Diana Al-Halabi narrates her experience on a tugboat in the port of Beirut in 2017. The film departs from the port of Rotterdam and deals with loss, distance, death, and the undead. In 2020, the blast at the port of Beirut created a torsion in time. Diana narrates this experience from different perspectives. Port workers narrate their direct exposure to trauma and loss, while the filmmaker narrates her relationship to them, and how the disaster cannot be contained through a screen.

The effects of trauma can be felt in even the most mundane circumstances.

A tough fella who is looking for some tools in his own shed. Soon he realizes that he is not alone...

A lighthearted animation about a not-so-everyday postal worker on her fantastical journey to deliver a not-so-everyday letter.

While staying in Switzerland, a Dutch director is overcome with a numismatic passion at the sight of the one-franc coin. This coin, which has hardly changed in appearance in decades, bears national symbols that remain obscure to him and the Swiss people he encounters. The director weaves all these life stories and symbols into a hilarious investigation.

Colourful, unpolished portrait of the Rotterdam theatre-maker Paul Röttger, whose work has been all about inclusivity for 30 years. The thread running through the film is rehearsals by Theater Babel Rotterdam, the theatre company of which he is director, that performs some 150 productions a year. Röttger previously headed the Rotterdams Centrum voor Theater and Theater Maatwerk (Rotterdam Centre for Theater and Custom-made Theatre). The documentary shows his ongoing search for equal artistic collaboration between people from a wide variety of genders, cultural backgrounds, physical and mental conditions, and professionalism.

The film chronicles how the sustainability movement in several cities in the Netherlands is getting louder, more powerful, and more extensive at a breakneck pace. The cities of Amsterdam, Leeuwarden, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht serve as the backdrop for the film.

Twelve-year-old Ariana dances her way through life. With her long hair swirling around her, she’s a ball of energy. But there’s something almost nobody knows about Ariana: her kidneys don’t work properly. She’d rather not talk about that, because she doesn’t want pity. But she’s going to have to, because they keep getting worse. What if she’s not able to dance anymore?

Zandvoort transformed from a fishermen's village into a seaside resort and home of the Dutch grand prix. In the late 20th century it became a village in decay. But now a radical transition is looming: the Formula 1 mega circus will return to the village. Zandvoort will become world famous. How are the citizens of the village preparing for this event that vanishes everything. Is there still room for a critical view or is euphoria the only touchstone?

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A found-footage, hand manipulated, cameraless 35mm celluloid film.This collage film is about the perpetual image flood we receive daily. Loaded with iconographic images of consumerism and amusement. The film releases an overflow of our own popular culture to the viewer.

Lots of villages in the Frisian area of the Wadden Sea have to deal with population decline. In Holwerd, a town that is known for the ferry terminal to Ameland, a bottom-up approach towards this problem is carried out right now, in order to find a solution for the population decline using the landscape, history, culture and ecological values of the area. In 2013 a group of people from the small town of Holwerd stood up to fight for the future of their hometown, and started a project. The project is called “Holwerd aan zee” (Holwerd at sea) and aims at bridging nature and culture by means of landscape art.

Short documentary on the anual cycling race in the Tour of Flanders in Belgian.

The artwork Everyone is Dead Except Us by Ben Zegers occupies a prominent place on the Binnenrotte, the place where Rotterdam was founded 750 years ago. CBK Rotterdam and Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR) commissioned visual artist and filmmaker Mels van Zutphen to make a film about the realization of this work. This short film shows the creation process of the artwork in various stages.

Based on the novel by Albert Camus

Documentary about the Dutch politician Sigrid Kaag.

Trijn, a spirited girl from Volendam, while dancing to the music of the village band, is seen by two impresarios who offer her a contract to appear in a theatre. Her fiancé, Krelis, tries to prevent her from leaving, but Trijn takes to her heels. She travels by train, hydroplane, ship and automobile, followed all the time by the dismayed Krelis, until she arrives at the theatre where she is to perform. There, live on stage and together with her fiancé, she convinces the incredulous Krelis that she really is a "star". The film was shot in the period 1923-1925.

Documentary on the river Scheldt.

A woman bumps into a man leaving a big stain on the man's coat. They both part ways but a spark has been ignited. They want to see each other again so they both decide to use their colleagues to perform some spywork.

Short documentary on the Ladakh.region.

In a bad dream, a man finds himself on a pirate ship where the barber gives the crew a rather violent shave. Philips Philishave commercial by Dutch puppet animator Joop Geesink.

A surreal short film about a man in a café who hears on his transistor radio that a comet will soon destroy the Earth. Immediately, the man sets out to warn everyone he can.

Take Ten is already the tenth theater program by Het Groot Niet Te Vermijden. Take Ten is a show about brand-new encounters with global citizens and otherworldly developments, from Barbapapa to outer space.

Drona (9) is austistic. He is very smart, but is bad at ordering information. To save himself, he ask an extreme amount of questions. In 'Drona and I', we see Drona's life through the eyes of his brother Arjun.

Follows Rein, a transgender player, and the first national Dutch quidditch team on their way to the European Games.

A cinematic road trip through South Africa. As a Dutch-South-African filmmaker, Saskia Vredeveld asks herself the question: 'did I become a racist, because I grew up in a racist country?' Therefore she embarks on a journey, from Cape Town to the heart of South Africa, to the towns whose 'white' names are about to be erased from the map such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. What contradictory feelings does she have regarding her country? Is there still a future for the white people in the new South Africa?

We like to convince ourselves of things. Trivialities that bring some order to the chaos of our thoughts, things that make life a little more exciting. But what if these thoughts turn against us? What if we convince ourselves of things that aren't necessary? What if we become paranoid about that one unanswered text message, uncertain about the future of our clothing, and afraid that our hero status is unsustainable? It is these illusions that comedian Thomas Smith wants to expose and puncture. And he is looking for a useful answer to the question of life: what to do when you receive good news while you have a headache?

A tribute to the interiors of dining cars, designed in the 1960's and 70's.

A shifting relationship between a lapsed Muslim filmmaker and a charismatic young Belgian man, who has converted to Islam in the post-industrial city of Aalst.