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- Christmas Eve. A dubious priest has captured Santa Claus and taken him to an abandoned warehouse, where he can finally enjoy his long-awaited revenge... But killing Santa is not going to be as easy as he thought.
- The Amsterdam Red Light District covers a large area of the oldest part of the city. Dating back to the 14th century, this famous neighborhood has always been a major turist attraction. However, the district is a magnet for petty criminals and, according to the authorities, for human traffickers, drug lords and mobsters involved in money-laundering activities. In 2007, the Amsterdam City Council started a clean-up action of the area and managed to close down a large chunk of the prostitutes' windows through the forced sale of about a third of the buildings used for prostitution. Many of the shut down windows have been transformed into art spaces and fashion ateliers. Most of them have been made available to young Dutch designers, as part of a project known as Red Light Fashion.The initiative has raised a controversial debate. As expected, local owners of sex-related businesses are outraged; petitions have been signed and thousands of protesters marched through the city. Critics fear that an Amsterdam without a Red Light District will result in fewer tourists coming to the city. Some state that the action against the District is part of a larger conservative political trend. Many opposers also accuse the City Council of not being honest in its intentions of fighting local crime and question its premise that prostitution leads to criminal activities in the area. According to them, the city just wants to gentrify the neighborhood and create up-scale businesses in the area, supporting its own economical interests.The short documentary gives voice to both sides of the debate, while exploring the controversial issue of legalized prostitution in The Netherlands.
- The right to freedom of speech is an essential element to democracy. In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spread throughout Italy, as an answer to the lack of public access television and a statement against the oligarchic control over the most influential medium. INTERFERENZE explores the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station who initiated the movement.
- Dutch artist Ap Verheggen is determined to inspire people to respond to climate change in a creative and innovative way. Is the idea of building a glacier in the desert so crazy after all?
- "Basta con la Plastica" tells the story of Italy's first Ocean awareness week. The project aims at raising awareness, both in Italy and abroad, about the urgent issues we face in regard to ocean plastic pollution.
- 2011–8.5 (12)TV EpisodeIn the series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, Hamilton Morris, VICE's resident expert in all mind-bending substances, spans the globe in search of the perfect buzz. In this episode, he takes a trip to Amsterdam to learn about the ban of psychedelic mushrooms and the rise of truffles that contain psilocybin (the stuff that makes you trip balls).