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- Two families fight for justice from within the digital prison of the Chinese surveillance state.
- Shadow Game is a journey through the dark side of Europe with teenage refugees as our guides.
- Look What You Made Me Do shows three women, victims of terrible abuse, who killed their partners. The women testify with courage and disarming sincerity of a patriarchal system that wants to deprive them of the right to rebellion.
- Lin, a long-distance swimmer, is training for a cross-channel swim when she encounters Henri, a deep-sea welder, who, like her, thrives on danger. Drawing each other deep into an intense love affair, they forget that lovers too can drown.
- In a desperate attempt to meet their parents' expectations, Andy goes on a hunt for a lesbian woman to marry and Cherry in search of a baby to adopt. Being homosexual makes it hard to conform to their families' and society's expectations, but both Andy and Cherry are determined to do things 'the right way'.
- Follows an abusive man when he speaks out, positioning himself as a critic of violence.
- On November 26, 2008 a series of terror attacks occurred in Mumbai. The famous five-star Taj Mahal Hotel was one of the targets. In the film, some of the surviving hotel guests return to India and talk about what it means to live through an attack like that. The film observes them for 24 hours in and around the hotel. At first, together with these protagonists we get to know the luxurious hotel and then we return with them to the dark hours of the attack. Gradually we discover how this drastic event has impacted the lives and thinking of the victims. The years that went by since the attack offer space in their minds for reflection on fear, both at an intimate, personal level and at the level of society.
- Vetri joined the Tamil Tigers at age 16 to fight in the more than 25-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka. Although the war ended in 2009, the scars have not yet healed.
- Marloes Coenen is at the autumn of her carrier as a women's-MMA superstar. She is a multiple world champion and desperately wants to win the 145 pound belt one last time. Created by acclaimed director Victor Vroegindeweij, The Last Fight is an action packed, emotional roller coaster. It's the first documentary that deeply examines the mind and soul of the modern-day gladiators of Mixed Martial Arts and allows us a glimpse into a secretive world.
- The godwits are disappearing from the Frisian landscape. The farmers have switched to English rye-grass, perfect for cow pastures. But farmer Bote does everything in his power to keep them coming, even if it costs him his farm.
- In His Image focuses on reproduction after death in Israel, where posthumously harvesting sperm is legal. The film follows the bereaved parents of three sons who died during military service. Using semen collected just before, or shortly after, their sons' death, they hope to have them live on in a posthumous grandchild. But can new life cure their grief?
- On the day of her abortion, Dana looks for her own way to come to terms with her decision.
- Rising Tides is a four-part documentary series in which internationally acclaimed Dutch photography journalist Kadir van Lohuizen investigates the consequences of the rising sea level and how sea level rise affects the lives of ordinary people.
- Internationally acclaimed director Oeke Hoogendijk reconstructs the musical universe and dramatic life story of the legendary and controversial composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Licht shows the creation of his magnum opus; the most radical opera cycle in history.
- The young conductor John Warner (27) and the musicians of the Orchestra for the Earth go to Austria in search of the deeper meaning behind the magical composition 'Das Lied von der Erde' by Gustav Mahler. They travel by train because they refuse to fly. After all, that is the symbol of the pollution that leads to climate change.
- When director Saskia Boddeke saw the performance Furia by Kamak, a professional theater group for actors with intellectual disabilities, she was so impressed that she decided to make a film about the ensemble. The piece they perform, a lavishly designed fairytale about lust and anger, is cinematically portrayed by Boddeke with beautifully staged shots in rich, saturated colors. She also follows the rehearsal process, zooming in on various members of the group.
- Black Angolan soldiers, known as 'The Terrible Ones', once fought white South Africa's colonial wars as part of the notorious 32 Battalion. Repatriated to South Africa at the end of the 1980's, some of the ex-combatants still languish in the ruins of Pomfret, a former asbestos-mining town remotely situated at the edge of the Kalahari Desert. When the town's dilapidated buildings turn into a film-set and the ex-soldiers become actors in the Biblical story of Judas Iscariot, it prompts a confrontation with their past. Pivoting between Biblical myth and present-day reality, the film pulls into focus the paradox of being both perpetrator and victim. It reflects upon the notion of betrayal and free will, while providing a compelling view of those at the margins of history. During the course of the film, the prevalent voice of Judas eventually merges into the voice of the filmmaker, interrogating the fundamentals of human existence.
- After twenty years, filmmaker Wiam Al-Zabari asks his father to open up about their past for the first time. Why did they flee Iraq and why did they never talked about it? Can he let go of the past and finally embrace a future in the Netherlands?
- Millionaire Won Yip is the sole ruler of his family business, that runs from Las Vegas to Amsterdam. In his smoky office beneath Dam Square, the cash machines are working at full speed. Everything he touches seems to turn to gold. Until his long hidden Chinese family history starts to make its way to the surface again.
- In her psychoses, Gioia has lived the most beautiful dreams and the darkest nightmares. Now, a stable life anchors her to the everyday world. But what space is there for imagination?
- Four kids, who all lost a parent to suicide, share their journey from the moment they heard the news. The filmmaker, who experienced the same tragedy, asks them the questions no one dared to ask her at the time.
- In Havana, transsexuals Odette, Juani and Malú wait for genital surgery - performed by European top surgeons and organized by the president's daughter, Mariela Castro. Castro is leading a sexual revolution combined with classic state socialism. New possibilities face old problems: will Cuban trans people find happiness despite intolerance, poverty and prostitution?
- In the documentary My Father's Choice, director Yan Ting Yuen links the personal history of her father and his family to the major developments of the past fifty years in China: the great Chinese famines in the fifties, the Cultural Revolution in the sixties, the exodus to the West in the seventies. These events created the Chinese conjunction of communism and capitalism and rendered today's China the greatest economic power in the world; events for which its people paid a hefty price. A story unfolds in which the relationship between the individual and the collective, the small-scale, personal history and the big, global history, is one of continuous friction.
- In 1889, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh arrived at the psychiatric institution Saint-Paul de Mausole. Through the letters he wrote and the experiences of the current patients, this film explores the line between madness and creativity.