Discoveries from Netherlands World Cinema

Documentary by Gerrard Verhage about five (ex-)communists and the influence their political convictions have had on their lives

Application of double frame technics with two synchronized 16mm projectors. Each frame functions alternately as the [abstract] painter's canvas and as a 'concrete' filmscreen itself.

Bram (10 years) steals a small boat, puts wheels under it and travels towards the sea. The man that helps him reach an old shipwreck turns out to be more than a casual passerby and saying farewell proves difficult for both.

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Franky and Coen, two passionate entrepreneurs, have been traveling with their chip shop to frontline areas. There, they provide residents, refugees, children, and soldiers with a warm moment of hope and comfort: a bowl of fries as a powerful gesture of humanity in times of war. What drives Franky and Coen to do this? And what is it like for their loved ones, who repeatedly see them depart for a war zone?

Reportage about the festivities that were held in connection with the 700th anniversary of the city of Harderwijk. On 9 September 1931, Prince Hendrik and the Minister of Defence L.N. Deckers visited the celebrating city of Harderwijk. We witness the historical parade, and see the locals who have dressed themselves up in historical clothing and costumes.

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.

Short documentary about Wen Long, an intersex child. The nine-year-old is very happy that her parents give her the freedom to decide for herself whether she wants to go through life as a boy or girl. But that is not easy.

Prohibition has been brought back into effect in the year 2012. A vigilante whisky distiller, Chuck, tries to get his life back on track after the only profession he has ever known is outlawed.

Loss won’t pay the bills is a moving and humorous portrait of Holland’s oldest greengrocer and his wife, who put their heart and soul into running their business and don’t want to hear about quitting. Adrie and Francien’s greengrocer’s shop in Flushing’s old town has been there for 65 years. Old age has affected their walking ability, but Adrie still works 14 to 16 hours a day. Just before they got married in 1957, they went on holiday for the first and last time. Since then they haven’t got around to it. Working hard is their creed. Ada, Adrie’s much younger sister, helps out in the shop every day. She worries at the prospect of spending three months in the south of France. Will Adrie and Francien be able to carry on or will they have to close down their shop?

Why do you have to do what everyone else does and why does everyone have to look the same? Ninnoc struggles when she is in a group. She doesn't just want to adapt to the others, but she's also afraid of being excluded. Can you deviate in a group? Or will you then end up alone?

A mentally drained anthropomorphic cat enjoys his lunch on a bench on a warm spring day. An anthropomorphic fish, his natural prey, sits down next to him and accuses him of every single bad thing under the sun. Will the cat be able to go back to eating his lunch in peace?

Comedian Diederik van Vleuten wonders why his father did not confidentially initiate him into the world of men, but instead preferred to teach his son complete speeches by Winston Churchill.

During a holiday, Charlie invites his friends for a weekend getaway at his family’s beach house in Caruao, Venezuela. Already on the first night, an unexpected triangle causes tension within the group. This has an impact on the rest of the weekend. Sultry coming-of-age drama in which youthfulness, friendship, curiosity and freedom are extensively celebrated. Relationships are damaged, against the background of a paradisaical place where anything seems possible.

Rapidly alternating fragments of women's portraits, planes, trains, revue dancers, animals, a motorcyclist with 'Ferdi' written on the back of his jacket and in between the artist himself and abstract images; scratches and wild drawings, among others. Colourful abstract and expressive images and texts, painted directly on the celluloid, are interspersed with images from the maker's other films; THE VIPERS and FERDI.

The Dutch water polo men's team has not qualified for the Olympic Games since 2000. The team will get a new chance during the 2021 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Rotterdam. This documentary follows Bilal, Eelco, and Robin during the preparations. The chance that they will succeed is small, they all know that. But imagine that it will work.

Dimitri is lonely and depressed: since his shop in party goods went bankrupt, he has been struggling with a dead-end situation, with all the mess in his house and everyday troubles like a leaking freezer. Marina recently ended her relationship and decided to set off on an adventure. She finds Dimitri via a website for cheap lodgings. It seems something beautiful may develop between them, perhaps even romantically. But not everything is what it seems in this dark fairy-tale.

Documentary about four criminal friends from Amsterdam spanning 25 years. Verbrande Herman, Rooie Jos and Jantje van Amsterdam look back on their lives.

A Czech dissident with memory loss is being manipulated by shady characters to perform an assassination for them.

Registration of the tenth theatre program by the Dutch comedian Theo Maassen. Maassen investigates differences between men and women, white and black.

Rose, a young girl suffering from aplastic anemia, desperately seeks to find a stem cell donor to save her life. When insurance companies refuse to pay for treatment, life for Rose and her mother Céline becomes very hard.

A collage of autobiography, reflections on previous work and the photographer in action. Van der Elsken tells us that he’s working on a photo book about life, from the cradle to the grave, about how people are: physical, sensuous, naked. He takes the time to show us a selection from the thousands of slides he has made during his wide-ranging travels as a photo reporter.

Johan van Rijthoven is a modern farmer who will do anything in his power to hand over a healthy farm to his children, like his ancestors before him. Because his cows don’t give enough milk and his business is in danger of going under, the dairy farmer is engaging in a battle with the multinational who delivered three faulty milk robots. A battle that will lead to confrontations with himself, his immediate environment and uncontrollable forces on his farm yard…

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.

The film shows the election campaign of GroenLinks lead candidate Jesse Klaver leading up to the 2017 House of Representatives elections and the weeks that followed. The documentary was compiled based on footage by Boink, who was employed by GroenLinks during the filming. The film also contains footage of Klaver's private life, including the funeral of his mother, who passed away during the cabinet formation.

At a sunny flea market, Robin tries to sell her own made-up stories. As she tells one of her stories with increasing confidence to a potential customer, all the main characters come alive and anxiously listen to her.

Habib tends his flock of sheep in a broad, rolling landscape, chain-smokes and every now and then catches a partridge. In the early 1980s he and his family had to flee as the Turkish army razed thousands of villages in the southeast of the country in an attempt to break Kurdish resistance. Habib has now returned to the village where he was born, and has started a new family, his first family having decided to stay in Istanbul.

Recording of the musical by Gerben Hellinga en Jacques Klöters, written in celebration of Louis Davids' 100th birthday.

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are lots of these “artisanal” oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop cultivation for selling the oil they pump from the ground by hand.

Woodland creatures come to the aid of a mouse looking for a lost flower, but the quest gets out of hand.

Fragment nul uur nul chimes with the tune of such a symphony, yet plays eclectically with form and image. A hidden gem, it was originally conceived as a backdrop to a theatre play and offers, if you will, a form of expanded theatre/cinema. The Filmliga protagonists‘ practice to cut up films as they seemed fit, or to show only fragments and loose ends to support their aesthetic preferences, is reflected here.

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Documentary about the Dutch painter Caspar van Wittel.

Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: “No, not be scared old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you”.

After a series of disasters, nothing is left of human civillisation. All that remains are the people left behind who live in a post-apocalyptic no man's land. When Lil, a young lonely woman, finds a wounded stranger near her shelter, she has to decide if she'll help him or not. Does she remember what it's like to do something good for another human being?

Mini & Maxi make fun of an entire orchestra en show their musical talent. Extra's: Documentary Mini & Maxi 20 jaar Part 2

Stage registration of the sixth show by the Dutch comedy duo Alkemade & Bloemen, 'Je moet niet alles geloven wat Gemma zegt' ('Don't believe everything Gemma says'). The show consists of absurd and unpredictable scenes about aliens, frustrated doctors and obsessive neighbors.

Transporting the viewer to a very different time and place, Nellie is inspired by the life of Cornelia van Rijn, Rembrandt's illegitimate daughter, who at the age of sixteen emigrated to Batavia (present-day Jakarta). Little is known about Cornelia's life; no portraits of her are known to exist. But this omission from the history books was for the artist an opportunity to give her imagination free reign. With this unsettling work Tan offers a touching homage to a forgotten woman, whose 'suspended history' becomes activated again.

3 generations of filmmakers tell a story about Brussels, 3 stories settled in the rue Saint Quentin, a forgotten street somewhere in the shadow of the European administration area.

In the Middle Ages, a group of actors travels around the country and performs the legend of the elf daughter Gwyncilla.

Bram Vermeulen searches for the origin of man and his civilization on earth. The Sumerian clay tablets, which are considered the first historiography, lead him via the story of creation and the theory of evolution to a revealing conclusion.

In 2014, THE SEDUCERS surprised friend and foe with an unprecedentedly sharp attack on the monetary system and the banks. Since then, everyone has been convinced: Less power for the commercial banks! A stone had been thrown into the pond… 10 years later, NOTHING has changed. It's gotten much worse. But what turns out: We are on the cusp of a huge change. The Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is currently being developed. With this new monetary system, power will shift from private banks to the central bank. Finally, good news! Ironically: nobody knows about it. High time for an inevitable sequel, in which THE SEDUCERS will get to the bottom of things with razor-sharp precision. Because is CBDC all good news? We don't want to be ripped off again 10 years later!