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Director Marc Schmidt films his longtime friend Matthijs, an autistic person desperately trying to create order in the chaos around him. When the housing corporation tries to evict him from, suicide seems the only way out for Matthijs...
The Red Stuff: The True Story of the Russian Race for Space is a film about the first heroes of the cosmos from those early years of Russian space travel. Who were the people behind these first successes? Unique archival material reveals the bravery and the unsurpassed stamina of the cosmonauts. What is true and what is false in our view of Russian space exploration? How do those involved look back on their work and their enforced role in the Soviet political machine? Now that the military secrecy and national propaganda of the Soviet Union has crumbled, see the real story of the other side of the space race.
Short documentary on the Carnival at Aalst, Belgium.
Visionary director Jacques Bonzou has challenged himself to make a new film with limited resources. Will he succeed?
A young immigrant boy boards a bus with a wounded pigeon under his jacket.
The Tegelse Passion Play, which is performed every five years, is about the last days of suffering of Jesus Christ. This tradition, in which almost the entire Limburg village in the Netherlands participates, goes back to 1931. It is also a tradition that is often accompanied by conflicts about texts, innovation and the design of the game. Because the Bible is serious business. In the shadow of the last Passion Plays unfold the passion stories of a few passion players who struggle with contemporary dilemmas such as abuse of power, domestic violence, homosexuality, migrants, equality, but also the suffering of Biblical themes such as betrayal, exclusion and misplaced pride.
Short film about the experience of taking psychoactive drugs. ‘I wanted to make a short documentary-style film about marijuana and hashish, psychoactive drugs that in 1955 were still relatively unknown to the general public. They were mainly used by a small group of artists, jazz musicians, intellectuals, and North Africans. I wanted to visualize the ritual of rolling and lighting up a joint, and then put a series of seemingly unrelated images next to each other to represent the feeling of being high. When the movie was finished, we took it to the festival for 16mm films at Cannes, and won the Golden Lion for ‘Best Use of Film Language’. (Shinkichi Tajiri, Tajiri, 1993)
On the day that a benefit concert for Darfur takes place in Barcelona, the inhabitants of this city are chiefly occupied with themselves. A short-tempered guy curses everyone crossing his path. A little later, we see him at work as a living statue. Meekly, he poses for a picture with a tourist. A thief robs her purse and runs through the alleys. On a scooter, the purse is taken to a suspicious-looking character, who is primarily interested in a concert ticket he finds . After these people, we follow countless other characters. We follow them for a few streets or catch snippets of conversations. Sometimes the topic is Darfur, but usually the urbanites are engaged in their daily worries.
A steel worker is told by his girl friend, that she only wants to marry a rich man. A foreign spy hears this and offers him money if he gives him the formula of the new steel he's working with.
A spider starts a family in a dustbag, where he creates his own dogmas.
The 22-year-old Freyja is confronted with the difficulties her depression brings when forming a connection with someone.
A chimney sweep’s daredevil antics are meant to keep a young woman from jumping off the roof. But does she really want to jump? Or does he maybe? A street sweeper is watching and passes the hat round for our hero. Or is he part of the act too?
A portrayal of slacklining legend Samuel Volery's journey as he pushes the different disciplines of jumplining, highlining and freestyle highlining.
Jacob's (84) life is based on rituals; waking up with his favorite music and doing jigsaw puzzles until dawn. He thinks he's perfectly capable of living on his own but his children think otherwise, his fragile body and confused mind increasingly let him down. With great sadness and under protest Jacob leaves his old life behind to discover that living in a nursing home is not so bad at all.
When a young movie star is forced to transform his looks and personality for the marketing of his latest project, he slowly begins to lose himself. On the night of the premiere, he finally hits rock bottom. Two months later, his girlfriend, co-star, and manager look back on that turbulent period, trying to piece together what really happened.
In pursuit of professional success, Sophie left her personal life barren. As her high school reunion approaches, she feels compelled to present a successful image of her life and hires a stranger to play the role of her husband. However, as time passes and their 'relationship' continues, their connection starts to feel less like an act and more like reality..
Three women with Roma backgrounds each seek their own path to freedom and independence. Ruva was born deaf and fled Kosovo at a young age to escape the culture. Nadita was adopted as a baby and never knew her Serbian biological parents. Cillia lives according to the strict rules of traditional Sinti culture, which sometimes clash with her career as a dancer.
In a historical vegetable garden on a Dutch estate, the 85 year-old pruning master and the gardener tend to the espaliers. As they prune, the men chat about food, the weather, the world and they share their knowledge of horticulture. Fifteen years they have spent working on the pear arbour. Will it finally close over this year?
Mister De Vries (93) sits at his window awaiting his death. Until one cold winter day he is surprised by the arrival of a parcel. When he subsequently sees a pigeon flying off he knows that this is no ordinary message. His time has come. Mister De Vries momentarily hesitates to open it. When he chances it, he finds his old Frisian skates. There’s only one thing to be done.
Everyone has to deal with loss at some point in life. And however large or small that loss may be, it always hurts. The three young children in this somewhat stylized film can attest to this, and they do, candidly and in detail. Their experiences are all different, as are their ways of dealing with them: whether it's losing a favorite stuffed animal, an important fencing tournament or an older sister. Fillmaker Arianne Hinz handles all of these losses with the seriousness they deserve. The children place the event in context, against the background of the places where the loss is felt most keenly: a tent made from blankets and towels, the gym where the fencing matches are held and the stables where the deceased sister’s favorite horse is kept. The children roam around in a dreamlike lost and found, looking for something that can illlustrate the sense of loss, that can fill the void or replace what is no more. But this is an impossible task: “A little piece of your heart is missing.”
A Czech dissident with memory loss is being manipulated by shady characters to perform an assassination for them.
As a house is demolished, flashbacks are shown of the lives of the people who lived in it.
Doing really well on your school assessment tests, but still having the school recommend that you go to preparatory vocational school. Going to a club with friends and having the bouncer keep you out. Having to endure jokes from classmates. These are examples of the sort of casual racism that the children of director Karin Junger and their friends have to face. In Ik alleen in de klas, director Karin Junger, white mother of three darker-skinned children, stands with her family to confront the racism they experience in their daily lives. Twelve adolescents meet at a mansion in France. The group consists of Junger’s children and their friends. All of them come from ethnic minority backgrounds and share a feeling of being excluded from Dutch society. Re-enactment is used to explore painful situations again. In this simple but effective documentary, we can see the impact of subtle and less subtle forms of racism on the lives of young Dutch people.
An elderly lady joins an old peoples' home, but while filling in the form is lost in memories of the past.
Much suggests that democracy has had its day and that the power of the Dutch parliament is virtually nil. So the parties flee into the sham world of party leader elections and mega coalitions. The media, as always, run like dogs after every discarded stick. Beyond idealism, beyond populism, beyond realism, we will choose and vote on September 12, 2012. For what and for whom?
Debut show of this Dutch duo
Billie Turf is a student at Dennenheuvel boarding school. According to his teacher Kwel, he is unreliable, a good-for-nothing, and a liar who can only think about good food. Due to his boorish behavior during various activities, such as training for sports days, washing a car, and going on a fishing trip with his teacher, Billie repeatedly comes into conflict with the boarding school's management, which results in him receiving the same punishment every time: cleaning duty and going to bed without dinner. He is only resourceful and clever when it comes to obtaining food. His good nature is finally revealed when, together with Jossie, the director's niece, he manages to find the kidnapped student Kareltje and the ransom money.
A film by Tom Chomont
Documentary about the recording of 'Als de liefde', the last album by Dutch comedian, poet and singer Toon Hermans.
Stage registration of the eleventh show by the Flemish cabaret duo Kommil Foo. In 'Wolfijzers en Schietgeweren' Raf en Mich Walschaerts collect the best songs and stories from their old shows and turn it into a new show.
Dropje lives in 'The Everythingshop', a store in which you'll find everything you can think of. That's paradise for Dropje, who is extremely curious and adventurous. It's not a boy, it's not a girl, no animal nor a stuffed toy... It's Dropje! And Dropje experiences the most wonderful things with the children that visit the store. Everyday routines become the biggest adventures when you're with Dropje. And if you get in trouble, Dropje will save you in unique, funny, often illogical and bizarre ways. Come and meet this happy creature!
When Aunt Judeska goes into lockdown on the estate of the family of the Deputy Prime Minister this creates tensions that culminate in a hilarious battle between the two camps.
Through her very real subject Edgar Figner, director Nathalie Alonso Casale offers us an intimate sense of the 21st-century Russian zeitgeist. A true alchemist, Mr. Figner has spent his life in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as a sound-effects artist at Lenfilm Studios, where from the silent era to the present he has used commonplace objects (cabbages, old shoes) to create complex sound effects for films. Under the pressures of contemporary Russian life, Figner begins to retreat into a past comprising his own personal history and the history of Russian cinema. As reality and memory blend with stunning scenes from Soviet films, Figner’s art becomes a soundtrack for the muffled culture created by the repression of the Soviet era. This delicate mix of documentary, reality and cinematic imagination creates a deeply sensitive account of the silences at the heart of the Russian social, political and cinematic experience.
The pupils from the third class of Middle School #2 in Chongqing, the best school in central China, are being honed to fill important positions in the new global economy. The pupils are children of the new Chinese middle class. Often their parents have lived through hunger and their children must now succeed where they did not. The members of China's youngest generation have the eyes of the world pinned upon them. Will these representatives of the "I want-generation" live up to their promise? Is our fear for these smart, hard working children justified?
Unprecedented Longing is an honest coming of age film about two boys searching for their identity and love, in which making music plays a central role. An ode to nonverbal communication and unspoken longing and affection.
A man is thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend, while checking out a gorgeous woman in a bar.
In October 2006, the Dutch women’s hockey team became world champions for the first time in 16 years. Niek Koppen’s documentary about the period leading up to this victory begins with the celebrations accompanying their arrival as champions at Amsterdam Airport. He then leaps 10 weeks back in time to the start of intensive preparations for the World Cup. Koppen uses neither comments nor interviews, but the extensive access to his subjects lets him show how excited the players and the technical staff are about the competition in Spain. Rather than focusing primarily on the sport itself, the director highlights the difficult process the team is going through.
From Sunday evening, October 16, 1988, through Sunday evening, April 11, 1993, VPRO TV presented a live broadcast of Keek op de Week immediately following the 8 o'clock news. This DVD contains a more than 4-hour anthology from the 112 episodes of this legendary program. You will meet Dirk the vagrant, Prof. Dr. Ir. Akkermans, the Veenendaal sisters, Berendien uut Wisp, Dr. Clavan, Dutch language expert Dr. Kipping, quiz show contestant Lex, the German teacher, Ed van Thijn, Louc Hobbema, Mehmet Pamuk, Memien Holboog, mother and son Van Putten, the Lonely Vandal, Robbie Kerkhof, and 65 other unforgettable creations of Kees van Kooten and Wim de Bie. Three complete episodes ('Hele Keken') and 59 'loose slices of Keek' show you how little has changed in the Netherlands: Keek op de Week was so satirical, hilarious, and prophetic!
Macbeth is an animated story from the tragedy by William Shakespeare. This film was made according to traditional methods, drawn entirely by hand by John Croezen.
In a recreated bedroom, Roaa, Zainab and Noe Noe, three refugee girls living in the Netherlands, draw and describe their self-invented fantasy monster, Cappi Don Liii. Reflecting on the monster and themselves, they talk about happy and less joyful memories, about growing up in an asylum seekers center – and the power of their friendship and fantasy.
When the cheerful, crazy, fun, and sweet Milou is confronted with multiple traumatic experiences in her early teens, she develops severe flashbacks and serious psychological problems. Everything is tried, but no one can silence the monster in her head. Milou is seventeen when she dies in her mother's arms. Weary, completely exhausted, she is finally allowed to go. Milou is the first minor in the Netherlands to die by euthanasia due to hopeless psychological suffering.