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- In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- When Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new environment and the loss of her mother.
- Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
- As the village of Doel dies a slow death under pressure from the advancing Antwerp docks, the elderly Emilienne tries to continue with her everyday life. But the village pastor Verstraete dies and her friends leave. Ultimately she is also forced to let go as well.
- On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.
- This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
- The film follows three squatters from the start who have gradually grown apart. Their experiences serve to portray the changes at the squat from a center for subversive acts to homes with communal facilities.
- Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
- How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?
- Two half-brothers get to know each other while sailing up a river in an inhospitable region in search of the place where their father was found dead.
- Five sisters get together in a holiday cottage to discuss and plan celebrations for the fortieth wedding anniversary of their parents.
- A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only plagued by her physical decay, but also by visions of her dead sister Marleen.
- De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he never dared during his entire life. Jan, as an outsider, is some sort of spectator of the life in the village, although he is also involved in that life.
- Successful violinist Sacha arrives in Amsterdam, gets mugged, and then meets Caspar and Maarten, two friends who deliberately live outside society.
- Road-movie shot in Riga and Holland about a man in search of another mother for his child. The Latvian Elvis (10) has fallen silent since the tragic death of his mother. He has been stuck in a decrepit children's hospital in Riga for two years with no prospects of recovery. The boy's father can no longer bear to see his son suffer and flees with him the terrible conditions in his country. In the hope of a better future for Elvis he goes to wealthy Holland in search of the woman who was his pen friend in his youth.
- A film about Leonie Brandt, an actress who used her talent to become a brilliant double agent, living a life shrouded in intrigues and mysteries.
- In 1990s Amsterdam, Loe and Bob are in a relationship, but wanting different things. Loe is a singer who likes to party and who is also engaged in migrant support. Bob is a lawyer focused on his career. As the film progresses, the tensions in the relationship become exposed.
- A portrait of filmmaker, producer and teacher Rolf Orthel.
- A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning encounter mysterious deer-men who change their existence.
- A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.
- During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002, Leo Hannewijk (festival director Film by the Sea) approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to make short films based on poems about the province of Zeeland. It would offer an opportunity to investigate the limits of the medium film and, just like poetry, not to focus on the story but to tackle universal and grander themes through mood and form. In the end, eight short films were realized, by eight different filmmakers. The films are connected by intermezzi, aerial shots of the Zeeland coasts. Poems of the Sea is a stirring and surprising portrayal of Zeeland. Filled with desires and passion.
- Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude you?
- Henriette Roland Holst (1869-1952) met with Lenin and Trotsky, and corresponded with Rosa Luxemburg. Her letters, poems and speeches give an insight into her deepest dilemmas; old images lead us into those turbulent years.
- The highway in the Netherlands has a total length of almost 2500 kilometres. There is almost no other country with such an enormous highway density. In this documentary the monumentality, but also the apparent everydayness of our highway is shown. The highway is actually a poorly known arena for a wide range of activities. What does this monumental and almost perfect network say about us?
- A woman looks back on her life, in search of the essence. Visual artist Anet van de Elzen portrays this through her performances. All lessons in life are ultimately about eliminating secondary matters.
- One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about each other come to the foreground.
- A film made in cooperation with the Amsterdam VIDO group about several women in menopause. The film shows how many begin a second run at life precisely in that period.
- Everyone knows the Hollandic Water Line, but only few people know that Brabant also has its own defence line: the line from Bergen op Zoom to Steenbergen, also known as Stelling West Noord-Brabant. The line has an impressive history. Only, not much of it is visible any more. Due to the construction of a new highway (A4), this extraordinary landscape rapidly develops. Director Frans Hoeben and his prodcuer SNG Film/ Digna Sinke follow the history and planned developments in a 4-part series to be broadcast by Omroep Brabant.
- Discusses how the Soviet Union invited prominent architects from western Europe to design the large industrial cities that were needed to house workers for the new coal and iron mines of the steppes.
- One night in the trenches during the Spanish Civil War, Joan Brossa heard a voice call his name. He didn't see anyone and walked towards where he thought the sound came from. A moment later, a shell hit the ground where he had just been standing. From that moment on, Brossa wanted to be a poet. After the war, Barcelona was "a desert of expectations", according to the philosopher Arnau Puig. Franco's dictatorship had put an end to all freedom. No expectation was possible anymore. But Brossa and his friends Antoni Tàpies, Modesto Cuixart, Ponç and Arnau Puig founded a group they called Dau al Set: dice seven. Of course you can never throw a seven and that's what they wanted, in all their youthful recklessness: the impossible. In 1948, Brossa wrote the script for a short film. He was crazy about film, but didn't know anything about the practice of making films. Film was magic for Brossa. Lluis Riera was to be director and the other friends were to play roles. But the film was never made and the script appeared about 50 years later to mark the hundredth anniversary of film in a book called Anthologie du Cinéma Invisible, by Christian Janicot. The documentary BROSSA is not a portrait of an artist, but tries, from all angles, to examine the topic of why the world is occasionally moved a little.
- The history of a Jewish family in Europe during the period of Nazi terror in the Second World War, is the subject of this documentary.
- A traffic jam like a polonaise of cars: nobody can escape. A cynical record plugger, two sisters, a quarreling couple and an illegal man from Poland are confronted with each other and with themselves.
- Future inhabitants of the new Amsterdam neighbourhood of IJburg reclaimed from the water of the IJsselmeer, are portrayed in their old and their new homes.
- A film about talking, stuttering, singing, remaining silent and listening. Communicating.
- Director Kees Hin is searching on the beach of Domburg for people who want to read the poem SEA by the poet J.C. van Schagen. So, everybody strolling by the sea become their own poet and the poet J.C. van Schagen strolls along with them.
- Destination Moscow gives an insight into what remains visible of the effects of the Second World War after fifty years. In the film a journey is made from the Netherlands (Valkenburg) to Moscow.