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- The true story of the all-consuming love between writer Connie Palmen and journalist Ischa Meijer. Based on Palmen's novel of the same name.
- A look at Venice - a city where people move out while it's visited by 3 million tourists every year.
- A chronicle of legendary Dutch singer Ramses Shaffy's rise to fame, from his early days as a stage actor in late 1950s Amsterdam to his emergence as a national music icon throughout the following two decades.
- Who is still afraid of red, yellow and blue? It is one of the most important abstract paintings of the twentieth century and has evoked more than just this provoking question. Fifty years after the event around the painting "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" by Barnett Newman the question is asked: what is art?
- The documentary aspires to tell the stories of those who got confronted with the MH17-plaincrash and shows the collective sorrow that took the Netherlands by surprise. A film about grief - and resilience.
- A computing revolution is coming. And Leo Kouwenhoven might be the man to kick-start it. Discoverer of a fundamental but elusive ingredient for quantum computing, Kouwenhoven is close to inaugurating a new era of information technology. But the competition is hot on his tail. As the heat intensifies and with wealth, fame and ill health at stake, Kouwenhoven finds his brilliance tested like never before.
- How do people spend their time during the daily traffic jams? Standing still in a traffic jam seems an aimless occupation, but there appears to be little resistance against daily driving on Holland's congested freeways. Director Michiel van Erp created a portrait of a variety of Dutch people who live and work in their car. The drivers are portrayed among a cacophony of honking and waiting motorists, far away from their destination, with plenty of time to reflect on their personal lives and works. Are they still on the right track? Stuck offers a moving and revealing insight into the mindset of Dutch men and women from all walks of life. Career coach Titia looks back on her failed relationship with a Senegalese man and clairvoyant Tino Fiorelli contemplates how to deal with his wife's illness. The chauffeur of Alexander Rinnooy Kan-the Dutch Government's top economic advisor-philosophizes on a solution for the traffic jam problem, and Turkish satellite dish installer Ziggy Kayabasi fantasizes about returning to his home town Istanbul. Free of spouses, colleagues and employers, the private world of the personal car seems ideal for inner thoughts and self-counseling. Stuck is a poetic film that provides a unique reflection on a country and its mobile inhabitants.
- Paulien Cornelissen, who studied in Japan years ago, goes back to examine the land of the rising sun. Each episode's theme is a unique, almost translatable word from the Japanese language.
- Thirty years ago Sylvia Kristel became world-famous with 'Emmanuelle'. This erotic film was the starting point of a curious career, during which Sylvia acted in more than 50 international film productions, including a short-lived career in Hollywood. A turbulent life followed, in which alcohol and drug addictions formed a recurring theme. Penniless, she now lives in a small two-room apartment in Amsterdam. Last year La Kristel took stock of her life: her autobiography Nue was published in France and has already been sold to several countries. Director Michiel van Erp followed Sylvia Kristel. She looks back on her career and her life, which two years ago suddenly changed when she was diagnosed with cancer of the throat and lungs. "Sylvia Kristel: Nu" is a portrait of an energetic, self-willed film diva whose career has come to an end. Major film offers no longer come her way and for the main part, Sylvia has to rely on the will to survive that she has made her own. More than ever perhaps, she has to make use of her talent for happiness, as she herself once described it. A life 'after the great successes', medical checkups and peculiar international media performances, where time after time she talks about her time as 'Emmanuelle'.
- I Am A Woman Now (formerly Casablanca Revisited), the first generation of transsexuals who had their sex change in Casablanca back in the mid-1950s to 1960s take stock of their lives. Do these pioneers feel like total women and did it give them the fulfillment in life they expected ? The women featured in the film were all treated by the same 'miracle doctor', Georges Burou. As long as these 'patients' paid, there were no pre-conditions, no questions asked at his clinic in Casablanca. A film about the pursuit of an almost unattainable dream, about the gap between its realization and the hard reality that sometimes follows.
- A personal quest of Sunny Bergman in response to the increasing fierceness of the debate around 'Black Peter', the black-faced helper of Santa Claus. Are we more racist than we think?
- In postwar Liberia Clarice Gargard searches the truth concerning her father's dubious connection to warlord Charles Taylor.
- Van Erp shows us what the Dutch do in their spare time and takes a look at the industry behind all these leisure activities.
- Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands is a hardworking and formal head of state. She hides her thoughts, feelings and private struggles carefully. 'Beatrix, Queen' is a quest for her emotions and motivations. The film not only reflects the life of Queen Beatrix, but also reveals the highs and lows in the lives of a number of namesakes, all women named Beatrix. These women ended up in situations that have parallels with crucial moments in the life of their Queen. By sharing their doubts, emotions and troubles we gain a deeper, more personal insight into the motives of Queen Beatrix.
- A personal search for the essence of keeping things at a time when the digital is superseding the material.
- For Anne, intercourse has been painful and hence impossible for ten years. She makes love to her boyfriend, but he never enters her vagina. She tried different therapies, but without success. Yet, she wants to be able to have penetrative sex at all costs. Where does this desire come from? Why can't she be satisfied without penetration? In her search, Anne speaks with her boyfriend and women who suffer from the same condition. How do they find their way in a world in which penetration seems to be the norm? Is it a disease to be cured? Or a problem put into their heads by oversexed media? The film explores how important penetration actually is. Can Anne find a way to accept that this might be something she can't experience?
- The Need to Dance is a documentary from Peter and Petra Lataster about Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The young Cherkaoui is internationally known as one of the most original contemporary choreographers. Petra and Peter follow him during his extremely busy life at the rehearsals, meetings and performances all over the world.
- An unapologetically honest portrait of a once acclaimed but now aging Dutch star, who throughout her live has desperately searched for happiness and inner peace, only for it to have remained utterly elusive. Full of humor and dignity.
- In Hollands Welvaren II, Michiel van Erp portrays passionate and driven Dutchmen at work.
- Portraits of residents, passers and visitors in the Voorstraat.
- 15 attempts to make a film, to misunderstand an artist or to look at the world without preconceptions.
- A documentary about the legacy of still living actors, with the memories of the beloved but also infamous Carol Van Herwijnen as a starting point.
- A murder case with no known motive. Michiel van Erp shows that there's never just one truth.
- In Fear, documentary filmmaker Michiel van Erp creates a collage of inhabitants of the city of Amsterdam who struggle with various anxiety disorders. Today, more patients with anxiety disorders seek professional help than those who suffer from depression, making anxiety the number one mental illness in the Netherlands. This film will show how a small number of those patients attempt to overcome their fears, in order to get on with their lives in the crowded cosmopolitan city that Amsterdam is today.
- Welcome to Holland profiles Dutch people who are very actively involved in helping immigrants during their integration process. In a cheerful, frank and sometimes ironic way, the programme highlights the developing interaction between different cultures. The programme tries to focus mainly on the human and positive aspects of a multicultural society, not on the abuses or political issues.
- Frans Timmermans, the first vice chairman of the European Commission, is followed during a trying time for Europe. The refugee crisis is always present, and the possible Brexit looms over Europe as well.
- De Wereld aan je Voeten follows the development of a diverse group of Dutch children in Utrecht, from the age of 11 to 18.
- Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (1959) is on the threshold of an important year: his most recent photographic series, Hope, Grief and Rain appear to have given him an international breakthrough. His work has been criticized since the 1980s as being produced merely for its shock value, thus eliminating it as art. But now that important art dealers and museums all over the world are showing his works, and huge crowds are visiting his expositions, it seems as if his years of hard work will finally lead to serious recognition. Yet this is occurring, of all times, in a period of his life in which Erwin Olaf is contending with emphysema, a debilitating disease that obliges him to deal cautiously with his energy reserves. Whether his body can keep up with his work pace is uncertain.
- Ignoring her husband's pleas, Jeanne Hawinkels, 58 years old and married for 37 years, suddenly decides to leave her home town Maastricht with her best friend, embarking on a long journey on foot to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Now that her husband Frans is retired and her children have built a life of their own, she feels that she can finally treat herself to this physically demanding and spiritually rewarding journey that will separate her from her family for three months. From the moment Frans asks his son, cinematographer Pim Hawinkels, if he thinks he can prevent his wife from leaving, Pim feels compelled to closely capture his father's day-to-day life on camera while his mother is away. Frans and Jeanne have been together ever since they were thirteen years old, and in all those years they have never been apart for more than a week. Now that his wife is gone, Frans becomes afraid that she won't be the same when she returns, and openly discusses his feelings with his son. He holds on to the maintenance of his garden and his winery, and his weekly rehearsal with the local brass band. But the longer his wife's absence lasts, the more he realizes the quality of his marriage and the extent of his love for his wife. That is, until something unexpected happens which changes everything.
- Michiel van Erp follows four young and ambitious comedians who under the critical eye of the old guard work on their careers.