Discoveries from Netherlands World Cinema

Choices follows a young man who can be seen experiencing the same day twice, but the choices he makes throughout the day have an impact on his life.

When brother Ben suddenly dies, Bo (Yolanthe Cabau) gets with her husband Saïd the care assigned for Ben's teenage daughter Emma. She wants to do this as well as possible, but clashes already quickly with the rest of the family. Everyone - Bo's parents first - thinks to know what is best for Emma. While her demanding job drives her further and further into a corner, Bo's marriage wavers and all good intentions degenerate into a battle full of old pain, new secrets and family dramas that no therapy helps against.

During Queen Vilhelminas coronation.

In the 1940s, Alima decides to flee from an arranged marriage to work as a nanny for a Dutch family. Through all her new impressions and thoughts, she looks critically at colonial society and her own position.

Daan is used to stand in front of a camera. Growing up, it was his father's camera, world-renowned photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. Now it's the camera of his good friend, Joris Postema. Together with him Daan tries to get control of his life by confronting his father posthumously. Daan believes his father - who he takes after more than he'd like - is mostly to blame for his mental problems. By means of photos, film footage and meetings with family members and friends, Daan tries to fathom what his father has passed on to him and he makes a surprising discovery.

Qlimax is an annual event held by the Dutch entertainment enterprise, Q-Dance. It is considered one of the leading hardstyle events on the calendar and a major attraction of Q-Dance and contains some of the most sophisticated production and setup for any event.

From the tears of his failed relationship and a pile of pizza leftovers, a monster is born giving a once rejected man a new lease on life and a chance at love again.

Ronald Goededmondt's third stand-up comedy show is about the confusion in the world and taking revenge on it. From big issues to small dilemmas can be read on his face. A man who does more than any other comedian and his performance becomes a social thing.

In a drought-struck region in India, suffering from climate change and a high suicide rate amongst farmers, a group of resilient women farmers, who recently lost their husbands, is coming together with a local psychologist to learn counselling and help others in grief.

The sequel to 'De film van Rutger, Thomas & Paco'

A comedy mockumentary about a guy that decides to become the first real world superhero, but isn't cut out for it

3-part documentary on the life of Belgian singer Arno Hintjens.

Tashkent: The End of an Era reconstructs the complex history of Tashkent by means of archive footage which has never been shown before and the testimonies of its inhabitants.

A woman writes a letter and looks back on the most significant cigarettes in her life.

In this absurdist critique of our media landscape, a voice-over actress, a theatre group and a beginning director are carving their own way. About the pitfalls, the highs and deep lows of the creative process.

The documentary begins with a dramatised reconstruction of the sea voyage by Hartog Simon Pos and his brother Matthijs in the year 1774. They were on their way to Suriname. Nearly two hundred years later, Diego Pos made a trip in the opposite direction: he was the last Pos to leave Suriname. In Ongewisse tijd, Pos returns to Suriname in search of the history of his Jewish family and of Suriname Jews in general. He happens upon unexpected relatives, like Simon Matthijs, who was born out of a slave in the eighteenth century. The search and encounters with various representatives of Jewish communities in Suriname run synchronous with the dramatised story of the brothers Hartog Simon and Matthijs, whose initially close relationship was seriously dampened by love affairs.

A look at the promotional clash between Sparta and Excelsior.

Dik Trom is at odds with constable Flipsen, who even manages to lock up the mischievous boy. But Dik Trom is also constantly at odds with Bruin Boon.

A collection of short scenes portraying highlights of Dutch history, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile. This film was made to commemorate the centenary of the Dutch royal family.

Kate van Marlen is blissfully happy with her partner, Count Alfred van der Loo. However, he has no serious plans for her and says he will never marry her. The young, spirited cavalry lieutenant Count Ruprecht van Halden thinks differently: for him, Lady Kate is the ideal woman. He courts the young girl and asks for her hand in marriage. Kate makes one last attempt to win Alfred over. During a garden party, she confesses her love to him once again, but Alfred refuses.

A nun escapes the convent to discover the real world outside. Her parents however believe that she's kidnapped.

Concert recording of the K3 show at Ahoy, Rotterdam. Karen, Kristel, and Kathleen bring their greatest hits back to life in a nostalgic journey filled with glitter, dance, and music. Together with their original fans, they celebrate the magic of the K3 Originals.

Failing novelist Herman Henkelman tries to regain his audience with socially engaged writing, but grapples with the question of what he really has to say.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

When Evan is at his psychologist for an E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) treatment to process the trauma he has from his parents' divorce. Evan has to go back to the moment, back to his trauma. He relives the entire experience. They do it several times until the psychologist wants to try a different approach. She changes a few words, confusing Evan. Evan does what he has been doing the whole time, closing his eyes and reliving the moment, but now there's something different. He sees the moment very differently. Instead of his parents telling him they are divorcing, he sees someone standing between them. He sees his parents now lying dead on the ground. The person between them turns out to be Evan himself. Evan is in disbelief. He becomes angry and attacks the psychologist. The security guard quickly intervenes and removes him. The psychologist reveals that this has been one of several attempts and that she is going to try again.

Frits and Jef are mates on a ship and have been friends for long. Frits, who is the steward, is also engaged to Jef's sister Marieke. When the two men disembark in Antwerp, their birth town, Frits realizes to his shock that a drug runner has hidden his contraband in his baggage. He informs the police at once and starts his own investigation...

In this show, the new Anubis residents find half of the hidden Symbol of the Celtic Wheel of Life with its five rings. From that moment on, everything will go differently than planned, and our friends will have to go to extremes.

Four illegal Brazilian musicians come to try their luck in dynamic Amsterdam... It will be a survival of the fittest.

Young Fernando will unintentionally bring St. Nicholas' eve in danger when he misses the boat with the golden key in his pocket. With his best friend Pony he trots as fast as he can overland to Holland, but will he still be on time?

Interviews with seamen’s widows form the basis for a loose narration between the poles of distant love, fake luxury and colonial artifacts. Shot on 36-hour ferry cruises between Rotterdam and Hull, and Kiel and Oslo the film as a souvenir itself draws a connection between the ship as the largest arsenal of imagination and the nautic space of the cinema.

The beautiful princess Rapunzel has magical hair. One day, she is kidnapped and locked up in a tall tower by an evil sorceress who wants her hair. Every day, Rapunzel has to lower her braid from the tower window so that the sorceress can climb up. The years pass and Rapunzel grows up in solitude to become a beautiful woman, dreaming of a brave prince who will rescue her. Will her savior ever come?

In the Netherlands, the final year of elementary school means turmoil for the pupils and their parents. There is no escape from the pressure on children to score as high as possible on tests to get into the best secondary schools. Parents who can afford it pay for as many private lessons as possible; other parents put pressure on the teachers. This documentary shows pupils and parents from very different backgrounds going through this process. They struggle anxiously for the same goal: the best possible start in life.

During the unique world tour of the RCO celebrating its jubilee in 2013 we meet musicians and concertgoers. The tour develops not just into a journey across the globe but also as a trip to the core of classical music, a quest for the palette of emotions which only classical music can arouse. In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra tours the whole world to celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50 concerts spread over 6 continents. Unbounded passion and love for music brings musicians and concert goers together. Documentary maker Heddy Honigmann lands with the orchestra in Buenos Aires, Soweto and St Petersburg and shows how the ensemble succeeds in gaining the hearts of people with a different cultural background. A journey to the kernel and the power of music which knows how to touch unexpected emotions and which helps to overcome the pain of living.

Venice, a determined student, faces a timed test that triggers her deep-seated anxiety and learning challenges. As the clock ticks, numbers on her paper distort, and an overwhelming creature of her fears grows within her mind, feeding on her rising panic. Just when the pressure becomes unbearable, her teacher’s calming voice brings her back, guiding her to breathe and find her center. By accepting her learning difficulties, she finds clarity realizing that her challenges are not her weaknesses, but her strengths in disguise.

Musical actress Fenne is preparing for her premiere, but she is mysteriously transported to Lacisumia, the Land of Musicals. There she discovers that the young king Louis has been kidnapped by the evil Countess Berthilda of Silencio. Together with court jester Jeroom, Fenne attempts to free the young king and save the land from destruction.

A short film about Johnny, just fired, who wants to buy a ring for his girlfriend and marry her.

15 attempts to make a film, to misunderstand an artist or to look at the world without preconceptions.

Which includes the parody of the seventies craze of the sensitivity training, the simplistiese on culture, the stencil war, the slide with the clowns. And of course many other highlights from the first carpet-beater-years. Additional seen on this DVD: the four cinema advertising films that Lord Koot and Lord Bie made to promote the Postgiro. (The material on part 10 was aired between 1974 and 1976 by the VPRO television.)

A news photographer is asked to photograph a factory and accidentally takes a picture of a dead body.

Stop-motion animated commercial featuring the Philips MiniWatt-E radio tubes.