Discoveries from Netherlands World Cinema

The Passion tells the story of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. Well-known Dutch artists such as Danny de Munk, Frans Bauer and Berget Lewis tell this age-old story using contemporary Dutch pop songs

The life of a young gangster -- who has an affair with his boss's wife -- no longer seems certain. However, he turns out to be tougher than his adversaries.

Theo Staats arrives at his uncle's rubber plantation in 'Our' Indies, The Emerald Belt. He meets Ems, the beautiful singer of the club, and falls head over heels for her. Ems, who comes from a poor Indonesian-European family, does not want to betray her Dutch husband, to whom she owes her status, but she cannot suppress her feelings. The Emerald Belt follows their passionate affair for ten years: from 1939, when the Dutch are carefree and enjoying their colonial power; through the Japanese invasion in 1942 and the difficult war years that will separate the lovers; to the struggle that led to Indonesian independence in 1949, when they are faced with a new choice.

When Ralf traverses the city at night, he gets involved with the escort girls he drives around as little as possible. But when the blonde Kelly gets in his cab, he is caught unawares by her provocative and unpredictable attitude, also because she has a disarming quality. He has to do his very best to keep his distance. Their whole conversation takes place inside the cab, with many close-ups of their faces, while the street lights flash across the windscreen and the city glides by almost invisibly.

After a disturbing call from his mother, Johan has no other choice but to leave Norway and return to the hometown he left many years ago. Back in Volendam Johan has to face the past he has been running for.

Lisa's brother, medic doctor Joe, develops a potion to travel to alternate dimensions. They go looking for their sister Nina, whom they lost in their own dimension. However, they must be careful, as they are not allowed to change anything in alternate worlds. When Lisa risks everything to bring Nina to their world, everything threatens to collapse.

5 Stories about love in Amsterdam (the Jordaan)

In this show, the anubis residents hears from a ghost that the theater that they are about to perform in, that it burns down every hundred years and is about to happen again. They're forced go back to the past through a cursed clock that caused the fire at the time. Amber, Nienke, Patricia, Fabian, Jeroen and Appie have to follow directions to find the winding keys and stop the clock in time!

Registration of the second Kinderen voor Kinderen-concertshow. In this annual event, the Dutch children's choir 'Kinderen Voor Kinderen' performs 12 songs based on ideas sent in by children. The songs make up an album from which the proceeds go to a good cause, namely collecting toys for children in Third World Countries.

In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the industrial revolution. The 100-year-old machinery has been endlessly repaired. State aid kept this sustainable alternative to plastic going, but its future looks bleak.

Just as he does every year, Gerrie flies from sunny Portugal for a three-day visit to the Netherlands, the drab country of his birth. He has his usual errands to run and he visits his doctor for his annual check-up, accompanied by his eccentric grown-up son, Dick.

A campsite in full summer is startled by the sudden disappearance of a six-year-old boy. We see the events through the eyes of little Lucie and her older brother Jeroom.

Jan Decorte's second feature film is an adaptation of the play Hedda Gabler by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Decorte moved the locus of action of Ibsen's realistic play from 1890 to 1950, twenty-eight years earlier than when the film was shot. The story begins when Hedda returns home from an overly long honeymoon with her newly wed but colourless husband Tesman. She is pregnant and will be courted by the writer Eljert Lövbor, an old lover who is about to break through with an exceptional novel of autobiographical quality [Avila].

After a long absence it is hard for Soo Min, a young mother and cello player to resume her place in the family. She feels she has to compete with her six-year-old daughter for her husband's love.

At the end of 2003 the main building of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has closed, in the words of managing director Ronald de Leeuw, becoming 'the most conceivable art museum'. The Spanish architects Cruz and Ortiz signed for the big design; in 2008 the modernized museum would open with a pioneering museum concept. Moviemaker Hoogendijk followed the first four years of what is called the biggest Dutch cultural operation in history.

1992: The undocumented Ghanaian Agymah (50) lives a secluded life as a cook in the outskirts of Amsterdam. When the ambitious dreamer Nina (12) arrives, Agymah is effectively forced to become her guardian. Nina drives Agymah crazy with her callous way of life and her eagerness to make contact with the outside world. Gradually, though, Agymah comes to understand that this is exactly what he has been escaping from and he realizes he must choose for life instead of waiting for death. When El Al flight 1862 crashes into their building, Agymah goes on a desperate search for the girl that gave him a reason to live. Into Thin Air is the first film based on the Bijlmer crash. It tells a human story of an event that has been branded into the collective memory of The Netherlands. Officially there were 43 fatalities, but because of the large number of illegal residents the actual figure will never be known.

Fourth film in a series of city portraits. Shot on a Bolex h16, all edits and effects were done in-camera.

Drawing on previously unpublished interviews, journals, family footage and propaganda films, The Propagandist tracks the rise and fall of the Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen, who lived from 1898 to 1975.

Amidst a worldwide pandemic, two young sisters are stuck in an isolated home. An odd man appears in a hazmat, apparently wanting to help...

Izzy (12) and her father Koos (40) are waiting for Izzy’s mother, who will be coming home for the first time in twelve years. But as the evening goes on and Koos starts behaving more and more strangely, Izzy begins to wonder whether her father can be trusted. Will her mother actually come? KOSMOS is a short fiction pilot.

The 12-year-old black girl Ella is deprived of safety, opportunities, and freedom. Ella discovers that she has lived multiple lives in Ghana, Curaçao and Surinam as the immortal, extraterrestrial Xoxo. In this magical realistic feature with elements of science fiction, a paralleled world is created from where the aliens observe human thoughts and feelings.

In 1970, during the annual Dutch national commemoration of those fallen in World War II, two men try to make a statement against gay discrimination. In the moments before and after the incident, their doubt, fear and firm belief becomes clear.

In FEAST, perpetrators, victims and their spectators become involved in a dramatic reconstruction of the Groningen HIV case. The film tells a story about power and surrender, the reversibility of truth and the desire to come home somewhere.

A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.

The A’dammer - The Man Behind the Cabinet follows the life of designer Aldo van den Nieuwelaar. He designed the iconic A’dammer cabinet, an international design icon, with over seventy versions sold worldwide. Museums acquired his work, and he became a promising name in the design world. But Aldo was more of an artist than an entrepreneur, and his perfectionism clashed with commercial interests. His tense relationship with director Harm Scheltens of furniture manufacturer Pastoe, in particular, escalated into a years-long legal battle over money, recognition, and control.

14 year old Yuri has a strong bond with her father, border patrol guard Lorenzo, dubbed 'The Hunter': not only because he is good at his job, but also because he is a passionate huntsman. In winter, when the snow blurs the contours in the landscape Yuri turns 15. Lorenzo decides that she is now old enough to carry their family's generational rifle. Lorenzo, Yuri and her uncle Ivan drive deep inland to go on a hunting trip for a few days. But Yuri's 'rite de passage', this celebration and almost ritual initiation, takes a disastrous and irrevocable turn. Lorenzo struggles to place the impact the tragedy has on their lives.

Jewish cemetery in Riga, Latvia became a park in the 1960s. Now the park becomes a place for alcoholics and American tourists, but still he last witness of violent history. A film dedicated to Jewish community.

Joep is on the verge of bankruptcy. That is why this year the family holiday is no luxurious stay in Portugal, but a simple domestic getaway. In fact the getaway even means a flight from Joep’s criminal clients. With his wife Claire and daughter Saskia, Joep stays in an old cabin at a declining campsite. Across from them a Sinti family settles in. Whereas Claire and Joep are not particularly keen on getting in touch with the family, something beautiful blooms between Saskia and Dukker, the son of the Sintis.

The second show of Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen: sex, violence and foul language in a string of songs, abrupt transitions and evocative characterizations.

Simon, a lonely comic strip artist, uses a gifted pencil with supernatural powers to win over his unattainable love. But is genuine love makeable?

Commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the SS camp Breendonk. Students meet resistance fighters who were imprisoned there. Discussions arise about the past, present, and future.

She's a lawyer with a social conscience. He's a calculating industrialist who keeps many deals hidden from her. But when she discovers that her husband is involved in illegal arms traffic and is also having an affair with one of her colleagues, a direct confrontation ensues.

Artist Joris Hansma is financially broke. He wants to end it, but even that seems impossible. His girlfriend Maria also feels miserable enough to commit suicide. They plan to drive a car on an unguarded level crossing to be crushed by a train. An anything but depressing image of a couple who want to commit suicide.

The notorious December killings in Surinam in the early eighties seem to be the starting point for the political thriller Paramaribo Papers. Largely shot in Surinam, this TV film tells about secret agent Robert Lipmann, who is ordered by the Dutch government to start a search for the disappeared journalist Kevin Poelgeest. The country is plagued by great agitation under the military regime of commander Raymond Markelo, who is forcefully thwarting the opposition. During his search, Lipmann meets Elvira, Kevin's sister who is having an affair with the commander. Like Lipmann, she is convinced that Kevin's supposed death involves a settlement in the drug scene. But then, important evidence pops up and the cause of Kevin's disappearance has to be regarded from quite a different perspective. Unknowingly, they head for the tragic events of 8 December 1982.

A 'very intellectual' dirty talk on online sex work and a remix of 23-different-sources on the lookout for the answer to 'What happens to violence when you are not looking at it?' In this new work, EMIRHAKIN traces the parabola of performativity and gauges the unequal distances of labor in performance art and webcam performances from the focus point of body politics.

Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.

Hip hip hurray, it is Miss Roos' birthday! Of course she organizes a nice birthday party and everyone is invited. Miss Roos her funny neighbor, Gijs, adorns the colorful mill in which Miss Roos lives. But Gijs uses way too many balloons. Much to their horror, the mill takes off due to the many balloons. Miss Roos and Gijs are still in it! They have an exciting adventure around the world in their flying mill. Will they be back in time to treat in Miss Roos her class?

Compilation of five fairytalelike and musical films for little maidens and knights.

Against the backdrop of war, the tension between a shy porcelain collector and his cheeky, chain-smoking fugitive is systematically heightened.

Janus Fortuin is a goodhearted piano tuner married to a greedy landlady. Their daughter Polly is engaged to young songwriter George van Reen. When rich uncle Barend from Batavia makes a surprise visit — pretending to be a lodger called 'Van Santen' — the Fortuin family finds their lives turned upside down.

The self proclaimed screwup Olivia discovers that she can time travel. This gives her the opportunity to correct the mistake she made with the love of her life Lars. Once she begins correcting things, she loses control and one things leads to the other. On her ultimate try things finally lead to getting Lars back. Will this really make her happy?

A man obsesses over Rubia as the girl of his dreams, but she is lost in a world of her own as she obsesses after a man who doesn't know she exists.

Het wrak in de Noordzee ('The North Sea Wreck') is a fisherman's drama about the romance between the daughter of a Scheveningen captain and a young fisherman. Their love is threatened when another fisherman sinks the boat of his rival, and blackmails the girl's father to give away her hand in marriage. Eventually the missing fisherman pops up again, and marries his beloved. His criminal rival is punished.

A critical burglar does not just want to steal anything. Everything he wants to steal, breaks.

The film describes the first working day of a twelve-year-old girl, shortly after the turn of the century. After a miserable childhood in a proletarian family, where she was mother to five toddlers, the sensitive girl follows in the footsteps of her parents and seventeen-year-old sister and sets off for the brickworks. The girl bravely defends herself at work, enduring the boys' bullying without tears, but when the day comes to an end, the foreman tells her that she must go to Krevelt, the boss, to be registered.

When Kelly is released from prison, her sister Samantha tries hard to keep her on the right track. But then Kelly’s ex-boyfriend Eddy gets back into her life.

A documentary about the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Netherlands.