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- Based on the struggle of young people in Goma (Northeastern Congo) against the prevailing Western reporting about war and misery, Stop Filming Us investigates how these Western stereotypes are the result of a skewed balance of power. Stop Filming Us creates a cinematic dialogue between Western perceptions and the Congolese experience of reality. While the Congolese perspective becomes increasingly clearer in the film, questions arise about the perspective of the film itself; is a white director able to make a film about the new Congolese image or is it primarily a story created by his own Western perspective?
- Experimental documentary in which Martin De Vries films himself as he is walking the Camino, a path of 1.600km through Spain and France, and shares some views and his inner thoughts.
- A unique portrait of phenomenon Louis van Gaal, one of the best and most-discussed football coaches. He looks back at his highs and lows of his colorful life; not only his career but also his background and personal life.
- With the eel threatened with extinction, the search for the mystery of its reproduction takes on a new dimension. What lies behind our obsession with controlling nature?
- Daily life in the animal shelter of Amsterdam. In insite view in the daily business of helping animals and guiding them to their potential new owners.
- A re-edited version of Joris Postema's Stop Filming Us, Vivuya and Twahirwa's film takes a closer look at the imbalance of power inherited from colonialism and its consequences on the representation of the DRC, cinematic and otherwise.
- It is a coming of age story depicting three boys coping, each in his own way, with physical and mental obstacles enclosing life in their Palestinian hometown of Hebron.
- Inside a cuckoo clock lives a lonely man. Every hour he is catapulted out of his tiny house to yell 'Cuckoo!'
- A WAY TO B is a portrait of the flamboyant dance group Liant la Troca, of which some of the performers have a physical disability. Fluently merging documentary and dance into each other, the hybrid film is an ode to zest for life and love.
- Filmmaker Batoul decides that making a film about what happened to her sister Maysoon, who disappeared on the Mediterranean Sea years ago, is the only way to deal with a pain so great that no one in her family can talk about it.
- Personal love stories shed light on the secret alliance between love and death in the musical and cinematographic odyssey L'AMOUR LA MORT. Several characters talk about the sudden loss of a loved one, caring for a partner with dementia and the search for true love. Why do we keep striving to find love, when love can hurt us so much?
- In 2016 the largest and most modern prison in the Netherlands opens its doors. New architecture and a new professional modus operandi enhance the efficiency of the complex and increase the responsibility for prisoners and guards. The demanding and versatile work of guards and prison officials gives us an insight into modern prison practices.
- Due to his uncompromising, sometimes violent behavior, Paul Blanca, one of the most important Dutch photographers, is in danger of being forgotten. A struggle against the inexorable passage of time, until only photographs remain.
- Telstar Football Club from IJmuiden is an absolute underdog in Dutch professional football. The club owes its social right to exist to an exceptional group of people, who make the difference with inventiveness, humor, dreams and responsibility. 'Undefeated in Europe since 1963!' Chairman Pieter de Waard (62), like his father, wants to save the club from ruin and is constantly coming up with new activities to get people involved in the club. On the other hand, for coach Andries Jonker (59) - who worked for clubs like Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Arsenal - professionalization and sporting success is an absolute goal. The club must develop, because for the players Telstar is not a goal in itself but a possibility to make a leap to the higher and richer football clubs. Defender Anass Najah (24) dreams of a better club, while right back Ilias Bronkhorst (24), who works in a sushi restaurant and looks after his single 85-year-old father, has managed to get into the starting line-up. Defender Redouan El Yaakoubi (26) trains just as hard for Telstar as he works for his Dare to Dream Foundation, which supports children in the poor Overvecht district of Utrecht in their personal development. The higher Telstar plays, the bigger the chances that the players can make a step, but at the same time the challenges for the club would grow to survive. Corona puts everything on edge. What happens to a club when there is no audience, no fans? What does that do to the community spirit? And to the income of the club? And what about the ambitions? Will the club, which has miraculously managed to survive since its inception in 1963, manage to survive again? When national coach Louis van Gaal makes a one-off appearance as Telstar's trainer and the public is allowed back into the stadium, new times seem to have dawned for the football club.
- A film - from the inside - about the political campaign of a young party leader, who goes for political profit and is confronted with personal loss.
- The story of how the power statue of Chief Ne Kuko was stolen should not be forgotten. This nkisi stands, trapped behind glass, in a European museum. It connects restitution-activist Mwazulu Diyabanza to a small town in Congo.
- Two individuals in two different spots in the world ask filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez to film them; his best friend and his mother. They both know they have little time to live. They both try to explain themselves to themselves; the reasons, the purpose, and the trace of their path through this world. The feeling of the impending end of their lives triggers a journey. A voyage to a place with no trail of human existence, to a possible vacuum of color, sound, texture and smells. An attempt to visualize the nothing, to touch it. While listening to his friend and to his mother, by mirroring in them and by being part of this journey, the filmmaker tries to get close to that which has no explanation. Why are we here? Is it worthwhile? Is it enough? The Mirror and the Window is an expedition, an exorcism, a spell - as a preparation for the big leap into the void, in an attempt to understand what life is about.
- ShortWhen headstrong Heylken (28) is accused of witchcraft, she resists and inspires the young Griet (12) with her free spirit and powerful voice.
- Caldono was one of the most besieged villages of the war in Colombia. Now the FARC guerrillas return to their former hometown. What's stronger: the urge for revenge or the need for reconciliation?
- In an as stirring as hopeful music story Dj Robert Soko, who came to fame with his Balkan Beats, embraces musical influences from newcomers in multicultural Europe.
- Martial arts legend Jon Bluming's life has been dominated by extreme violence from his early childhood. Traumatic experiences during World War II and the Korean War turned him into the fighting machine people fear.
- THe life of Musical star Pia Douwes takes a nosedive when she gets burnt out.
- It's impossible not to surrender to sleep. The controllable world we are familiar with will sooner or later pass into the intangible and fleeting domain of sleep, in which we are subjected to a fundamentally different way of experiencing things. Things that can't be logically explained. Do we look for the opportunities we allow to slip by during the day, or do we get a glimpse of a greater universe?
- The inhabitants of a small, isolated Frisian village are open to social changes and decide to buy a house for a large Syrian refugee family and welcome them in their strong community. Can they make it work?
- a portrait of Dutch and Syrian fighters in a complex conflict, of young men who are finding their way in life.
- Twenty homeless people, one opera. An Amsterdam based homeless choir is rehearsing an opera written for them. Who is setting the rules?
- What was once one of the most extraordinary and balanced water cities in the world, Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, is now Mexico City, a metropolis where 20 million people have enormous water problems.