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- A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
- A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother's birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and in London, then back to his parents' home in Tanworth. His parents describe his habits and personality. Two friends and the producer, arranger, sound engineer, and photographer for his three albums comment. His mother, a musician and poet, is an early influence. His quiet folk style made his one tour a disaster. His lack of success and gradual withdrawal end with his death at 26. Eleven of his recordings play on the soundtrack, usually as we see his room, a city, or the Warwickshire countryside.
- Position among the Stars, the final part of a trilogy, follows the award- winning documentaries Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon (Joris Ivens Award IDFA 2004 - World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2005). Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi. Director and DOP Leonard Retel Helmrich follows this family in a unique way with his breathtaking Single Shot Cinema-technique. Without interviews and voice-overs, Leonard will bring you closer to Indonesia than you will ever get.
- Filmmaker Dorna van Rouveroy's father, an experienced cameraman, is finally on the other side, when he and other people of the Foundation Japanese Debts of Honour go to Japan on the invitation of the Japanese government. During the demanding itinerary, Van Rouveroy vainly tries to persuade her father to express his emotions. He cracks jokes, acts cynical and hardly flinches when standing face to face with his concentration camp warden. 'I still recall the hard slaps you used to give me', her father says to him. 'Me too', the bully grins. 'You guys were troublesome.' RAIN IN NAGASAKI gradually discloses the soul of a camp survivor, at the same time registering similarities and differences in the Japanese and Dutch attitudes towards the war: they both consider themselves victims, but the Japanese man lives in denial, the Dutchman longs for recognition.
- So as not to Forget A film about the force of memories. Memories make a person into what he or she is, but what happens if you are engaged in a wrestling match with your memories? So as not to forget follows four people in the struggle with their memories. An Iraqi artist had to fight in the trenches of the war against Iran for 8 years. To ward off madness he used to draw, day in day out. Now, in the Netherlands, he is up against the stress of exile and paints the memories of his native town, memories he is so keen to pass on to his children. Old age is keeping a strong, elderly woman locked up in the midst of an incredible wealth of memories; but she has no one to pass them onto. Her tangible memories, will soon have to go, too. A man who lives in a nursing home is faced with the loss of his memory, a process he can do nothing about. Through reminiscence therapy people try to restore to story of his life, hoping to help him rediscover part of his crumbling identity. A few stages on in this process is a woman who does not even recognize herself in the mirror, but entrusts all her love and inner richness to a plastic doll. Leo Divendal, the photographer, welds the various stories together to a larger narrative that tells us about the collective consciousness. So as not to forget is a poetic film about the force and the power of memories.
- If you could see everything for the first time again, what would you see? Would it be different from how you look at the world right now? What do you think you see? You know what the color red looks like, or a house or a bird. But do you really see it? Are you capable to wonder or doubt about what you see? After documentary film director Tamara Miranda gave birth to her first son, Djamilo, she looked with his 'new eyes' at the world and realized she lost this wonder a long time ago. It's not the great perspectives but the small and intimate worlds, that we tend to neglect, that are revealed and celebrated in this film.
- Takes a look at the crack down on corruption among the super rich in Saudi Arabia.