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- The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.
- Three young friends grow up as students in Amsterdam when the death of one's father puts everything into a new perspective.
- Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.
- It tells the unknown story of the Amsterdam city tram that collaborated with the Nazis and deported tens of thousands of Jews to the train stations on their way to the death camps. We experience their last tram ride.
- When a successful game show host is robbed of her new video camera, she exaggerates the crime to get the most out of her insurance. Her lie ignites a chain reaction that will forever tie her destiny with that of her young assailant.
- An aspiring teenage dancer finds himself torn between his increasingly destructive mother and his own happiness.
- Turn Your Body to the Sun tells the incredible story of a Soviet prisoner of war. Sixty years later his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father.
- In 1992 The Johnsons was released in the Netherlands. A horror film where the cream of the crop of the Dutch film world had been working on. It was one of the biggest films of the year, won prizes at international film festivals, was released worldwide and even managed to acquire a cult status in the US. But few people know the history of the film and that it is actually a miracle that it has ever been made. The Johnsons was originally a collaborative effort of an American film writing duo. The script they wrote was a black comedy horror which can be best described as a mix of Deliverance meets Crocodile Dundee. The film never got off the ground. From there the script made its way to the Netherlands and into the hands of a Dutch production team. They saw something in the story, something that was unique for their country. They hired a director that had proved himself in making black comedy blockbusters. But it turned out he was impossible to work with. So much that he got fired three weeks before shooting the film. The project was shut down. There was no one to take over the job so the producers turned to an old friend, best known for documentaries and art-house dramas. He got carte blanche and rewrote the whole thing. The dark humor disappeared and in its place came an anthropological structure with a supernatural myth and an underlying coming of age story. Genre experts still find it the scariest and best horror film the Dutch soil has to offer, but many others still look down on it. Xangadix Lives. as a documentary doesn't only dives in the peculiar history of the Johnsons, but also shows that it is indeed an important film that has influenced and still influences people to this very day. Sometimes in the most unexpected places.
- A framed picture of a canal. Black and white, but with a red bike. The Amsterdam edition of IKEA's Vilshult series has been sold almost half a millions times, but nobody knew the remarkable story behind it. Until now.
- A young man agrees to support his ex lover during an HIV test. What starts out as an awkward reunion, soon becomes something more tender. Is there still hope for reconciliation?
- As if meeting your boyfriend's family for the first time isn't bad enough, something sinister seems to be lingering in the old house.
- At night a lonely widow, born and raised in the Dutch East Indies, but now living in the Netherlands, fights off demons from a past she doesn't want to burden her son with.
- Dick Maas is one of the Netherlands' most successful directors. Who is the man behind Flodder, Amsterdamned, Prooi and De Lift really?
- Actors are overly self-conscious, unsure of themselves, affected, vain and always thinking about their image. The are never 'real' . Documentary makers have a swearword: ' Actor!', for in a documentary people should be 'real' and not acting. But is this really true? What is 'real'? And if 'acting' is not real, what is its impact on the actor's psyche? 'It does not leave you unaffected', says Hans Kesting in this film. At the 25th anniversary of Toneelgroep Amsterdam documentary-filmmakers Paul Cohen and Martijn van Haalen made a film about acting as a profession. The follow the rehearsals for the play Husbands, based on the John Cassavetes film. And during the filming process they realize that their own job bears some uncanny resemblance to professional acting.
- Bezorgd (At a Glance) is about a quest for connection by people from various social backgrounds, who are challenged to shake off their prejudices. For pizza delivery guy Izem and his customers, this is not without risk.
- The ShortCutz Annual Awards will honor the best talent in short-film achievements from January 1, 2018 until December 31, 2018, as chosen by the Jury team.
- Filmmaker Nienke Eijsink is on a quest for her childhood idol and first love: Doctor Chris from the Australian TV-series The Flying Doctors, played by actress Liz Burch. Nienke's mission: to pluck Liz Burch from obscurity and give her a starring role in her debut film! This coming-of-age-story deals with the appeal of a character in a TV drama to a young lesbian and the excitement of meeting your childhood idol. But it's also about the pain of growing up, and what happens when fantasy and reality coincide. With animation, blue-screen, archive material and clever editing between Flying Doctors episodes and real life, the film pushes the boundaries of reality and fiction. Fan is a cheerful, poignant and fascinating self-portrait full of self-depreciating humor.
- For most Dutch people, the lockdown proclaimed by PM Rutte is no picnic. Contrarily, for Hussein, who suffers from agoraphobia, a world opens up.
- Marc-Antoine has stayed behind in tourist-abandoned Corsica. He promised his summer love Marie he would visit her in Paris in November. His friend Mickael is full of plans to leave, but Marc-Antoine is unable to escape his solidified routine.
- What do you do when a global pandemic sweeps through a sold-out international opera house? Crazy Days is an opera-style documentary about the importance of art in crazy times.
- Stan is an out-of-work writer. His wife treats him like dirt. In his stories, she runs after him, begging for attention. But who's really calling the shots?
- LUX is based around two protagonists: a young BMX rider from the suburbs of Amsterdam and a homeless man on the streets of the South of Amsterdam. Both live in their own bubble and fail to make meaningful real life contact with others. The young BMX rider showcases his life on social media, the other lives the unnoticed and anonymous life of a homeless man. The two eventually meet each other in a skate park. An encounter that both of them - but especially the young man - will remember.
- Annual awards presentation honoring the best talent in short-film achievements of 2016.
- It's never too late to find a new family.
- What if there has always been a screen between your face and your surroundings? What if you have never seen the face of your lover and have never looked at your own eyes in the mirror?
- In the 50 minutes documentary installation PASSAGE the audience is immersed and taken on a trip on a barge, a Spits riverboat, along the so-called 'North-South'.
- Bittersweet, almost tangible remembrance of times past. A man remembering his wife. A film about aging, loneliness and loss.
- Never a Dull Moment is a film about individual resilience in the most turbulent period of the last century. It is based on the personal documents in albums, the countless photographs he took and an unpublished autobiography by Sam Waagenaar.
- Old Walter has a heart attack, but his heart's desire comes true.
- Three children keep trying to play their own version of street hockey in terribly traffic-ridden Amsterdam. Frustrated, they come up with the idea of occupying a parking space by putting their pocket money into the parking meter. Until an irritable driver turns up, claiming the spot.
- '"A woman in search of human contact finds herself in a house made of glass where she encounters its inhabitants and wonders if she herself is an uninvited guest."
- 'Master Stu' is a Surinamese folk singer living in the Netherlands. His wife Patrice acts as his songwriter and manager. Since the Corona measures, streets are empty and all of his gigs have been cancelled. Stu and Patrice come up with an alternative: free 'pavement parties' for the isolated elderly. Meanwhile, Stu's new music video needs to be recorded under social distancing: "One and a half meter, is the new normal".
- The Dutch pianist, composer and psychiatrist Hans Henkemans searched his whole life for 'the essence' of music. In the 1950s, he made a name for himself at home and abroad with his interpretations of Mozart and Debussy, and is one of the most played Dutch composers. But then he came under fire and his name fell into oblivion.
- 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.
- A love couple want to spent a nice weekend at a castle. When they realize there is a furry weekend in that castle, the atmosphere doesn't get any better.
- The ShortCutz Annual Awards will honor the best talent in short-film achievements from January 1, 2019 until December 31, 2019, as chosen by the Jury team.
- In While We Live, musical journalist Andrea Voets makes a social road trip through Greece, in search for a way out of fundamental loneliness in society. Together with dozens of Greeks and Greek musicians, she deciphers their tools for meaningful contact and the social logic they live by. The journey takes us from the metropole of Athens to the remote island of Lipsi, the mountains of Epirus and eventually to a concert hall in Amsterdam. There, the conversations and images turn into a documentary-concert, in which live music expresses the layers of meaning that could not be put into words.
- In a smudgy hotel, guests and staff have a run in with fate. Fate comes disguised as an old woman sitting in the lobby behind a slot machine. Indifferentely, she pushes the buttons and lets the images decide between life and death.
- Unsuspecting, a car mechanic opens up a hood, but what he finds under there scares the life out of him.