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- Vital (16) is confronted with the fact that her pissed best friend posted a very sexy photo of her.
- Dutch TV program in which actors improvise a scene.
- Raised in a home broken by wartime trauma, the frustrated teenage son of a Dutch Holocaust survivor starts down a path of further tragedy when he finds belonging in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.
- A lonesome ambulance driver turns both his life and society upside down after one night he violently loses his temper with the hoodlum youths who hinder him in performing his duties.
- A child guitarist is at the brink of a great musical career. At 17, however, drug addiction, mental problems and the imprisonment of his father all lead to his fast decline. Will Jimmy manage to get back on track?
- Isabel is a promising young gymnast who is trying out for the European championships. At the same time she is trying to get an abortion but, as per Dutch law, has to wait the 5 day cooling period. While experiencing the natural process of pregnancy, Isabel continues to train and is determined to make it work.
- Focussing on the Amsterdam borough North, the documentary series explores social inequality in the Dutch education system.
- A documentary on the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China, under strict control by the Chinese government.
- Malle's miserable life changes when Bran, from the paradisical Anderland (Otherland) washes ashore.
- A drama about the absurdity of daily life, a film about love and betrayal. A train conductor and his wife are very much in love, expressing that love not always with words, but always with the heart. When he only has one shirt on his back, she feels the draft. He dreams of them both taking a long trip, she'd rather they not go so far. But the day she is diagnosed with a malignant tumor and must be hospitalized for tests, everything changes. He can't stand seeing her waste away. She asks her single sister to look after him in the meantime. They find themselves caught up a web of desire, guilt and disappointed hopes. Three people in despair who seek consolation. All three know: that's life...
- Mankind distinguishes himself from the animal due to the ability of making goals in the future. He conceives of his life as a project. This project can be crossed with his awareness of death.
- Follows representatives of Nokia as they examine working conditions at a Chinese factory that manufacturers products for the company.
- November 2nd 2004 Theo van Gogh is killed under the filmmaker's window. Although he's an eye-witness, he decides not to film. The windows remain his frame towards the outside world. The filmmaker asks himself why he did nothing, the morning of the fatal shots. Van Gogh had insulted his mother and was now lying dead under his window. The self-proclaimed mayor patrols the area with his big Mastif-dog and cries about his little neighborhood. He claims to have shot Mohammed B. (Van Gogh's assassin), if he'd have reached the scene of the crime earlier. The artist tries to give meaning to the spot by placing a canvas on the bullet holes, but reality overwhelms him. Slowly the facts around the murder dissolve to make place for its personal signification. The film is a personal search into guilt and punishment.
- The conspiracy: the killing of Theo van Gogh. What was the role of the Dutch politics, the secret service (AIVD) and the press?
- In Fragile Happiness Peter and Petra Lataster-Czisch reveal, through modern stories of money, happiness and morals, the age-old Dutch dilemma: 'the embarrassment of riches' - the friction between luxury and discomfort.
- Documentary maker Eveline van Dijck follows Loek en Anke van den Boog, who started third world aid organization Net4kids.
- Frailer tells the story of an actress playing a part that reflects her real life story. Whilst playing a woman dying of cancer, Muis her doctor tells her she has not much more time left. She will die soon. The film follows the transition of her and her film sisters, shifting from their characters to who they really are, actresses dealing with their friend upcoming death. We watch Leonoor become physically frailer but mentally stronger as she is slowly accepting her faith. Whilst ending the film, she leaves her film sisters, her real life husband and children but also the viewer, behind forever.
- Just like in real life, things go wrong in Max's dreams. Whether it's football or Iris - the two great loves of his life.
- The young talented soccer player Frits finds the truth about what really happened at his birth.
- Ex-child-soldier Kon Kelei gets asylum and schooling in Holland. Guilt about the children left behind motivates him to return to South-Sudan.
- According to Protocol follows the responsible but also emotional work of two employees of the emergency services 112, who are expected to adapt to the commercialization of health care.
- Burden of Peace follows Guatemala's first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. After taking office Claudia obtains spectacular results and many high level arrests are made. But her determination encounters strong resistance from powerful elites, that have up to then felt above the law. Will Claudia be able to win this battle?
- In a working-class neighborhood in North Amsterdam, almost everyone is deep in debt. Every month a parade of heavies, a bailiff, a police officer and a locksmith moves through the streets to evict people from their homes. It's the ultimate, most dramatic consequence of the centuries-old hunt down on debtors. While the locals struggle with fines, guilt and shame, bailiffs and social workers face locked doors. At city hall, a councilman designates the debt problem as the spearhead of his policy. Meanwhile, the unpaid bills keep piling up. In Debt Society, we get to know them all: the residents, social workers, creditors, the bailiff and the local politician - inextricably linked with each other. Despite their different motives, they share the desire to find a solution to the problem. This six-part documentary series captures their resilience, hope and sense of humor, but also the absurdity of a money-guzzling system in which everyone plays their own part. You can't get blood out of a stone. So who pays the price in the end and who is to blame? In Debt Society, the character-driven storylines, plot twists, poetic voice-over and soulful score are inspired by drama series. Together, they tell a riveting, cinematic tale about a growing phenomenon in the Western world.
- Pyotr Alexeyev disappeared in 1937 from his daughter Era's life. At the height of Stalin's purges, he was arrested and transported to a labor camp where he died during the war. Era and her granddaughter Katya try to understand Pyotr's fate, with the letters he wrote from the camp as their starting point. Pyotr - letters from the Gulag will premiere at the graduation festival of the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in June 2008 and will screened at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht.
- Since the welfare state has had to make way for the participatory society, citizens are required more responsibility and self-reliance. A social assistance benefit is not just a right, but a provision for which you have to give something back. Rotterdam has been ahead of these developments for some time now and is known as one of the most stringent municipalities in the Netherlands with an often high-profile approach.
- A film about the artist Marlene Dumas: - There's no right way to portray or to understand someone. It's just an acknowledgment , not a denial of reality. Here are my paintings.
- The parents of Emma just got divorced and she is doing everything possible g to please them. But all the arguments and changes make her restless. At the same time, she has to train hard for the national championship shooting, where she hopes to win the competition. Emma cannot concentrate. While she is still getting used to living between two homes, her father turns up with a new girlfriend. She is trying her best to keep up with all the changes, but when they break up within a few weeks, she is fed up with everything. It is finally time for Emma to think about herself. In her audio diary, Emma (15) shares all her thoughts and feelings. Doing this, she shares the emotional journey she undergoes as an adolescent girl with divorced parents. The divorce of her parents brings along a lot of stress, which is not something Emma needs when she is about to become the national champion in shooting. When she reveals her feelings in her diary, it gives us, of the viewers, a surprising insight.