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- Yuri Dmitriev uncovers the buried truths that the current Russian authorities desperately want to erase. After an extensive search, he stumbles upon a mass grave in the pine forests of Karelia, in Northwest Russia, revealing the dark secrets of Stalin's 'Great Terror' in 1937, where thousands were covertly executed. In a relentless pursuit, Dmitriev takes it upon himself to unearth the identities of those lost souls from the archives and diligently organizes commemorative events for their surviving relatives. Through his unwavering efforts, the long-suffering families finally learn the fate of their vanished loved ones. Dmitriev, who was abandoned as a baby in a maternity clinic, becomes a man with a mission: 'As a human being, one should have the right to know their origins and the resting place of their family.' While foreign nations increasingly acknowledge this 'archaeologist of terror,' Dmitriev faces mounting suspicion within Russia, accused of colluding with the West. Eventually, he is unjustly arrested on fabricated charges. Tragically precise, Dmitriev foresees the fate of both himself and his homeland.
- After the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl. They begin a secret love affair, but soon rumors spread and they meet with strong opposition from the town's residents.
- On his 30th birthday, Tom Fassaert receives a mysterious invitation from his 95-year-old grandmother Marianne to come visit her in South Africa. At that time, the only thing he knows about her are the myths and predominantly negative stories his father told him. She was a femme fatale who went through countless men, a famous model in the 1950s, and a mother that put her two sons into a children's home. Fassaert decides to accept her invitation. But when his grandmother makes an unexpected confession, his venture becomes much more complicated than he could ever have imagined.
- What did the women and children experience in the Japanese internment camps in the Dutch East Indies? What wounds and traumas remained, and how did they cope with them throughout their lives?
- In a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifarious Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.
- A group of Yezidi women and girls, who were used as sex slaves by Islamic State, now have to rebuild their lives. With each other's love and support, and inspired by wise theatre-maker Hussein, they find the strength to look forward again.
- Writer and daughter of the first president of Suriname Cynthia McLeod (1936) has a mission; giving a voice to Elisabeth Samson (1715 - 1771); the first freeborn and first black, female millionaire of Suriname.
- A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.
- Artistic documentary about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. Some images can be disturbing.
- Can the working class such as those on plantations in the Congo benefit from Art, instead of being victimized by it through gentrification?
- Documentary about the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities.
- 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.
- A documentary entirely composed of unique archive footage, which tells the story of a young woman who worked as a nanny in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia.
- A Jordanian family man living in the hometown of Muslim leader Al-Zarqawi struggles to support his family and define his identity in a tense political climate.
- In a search for a classmate of film director Sergio Leone and film composer Ennio Morricone in Rome, this film explores the magical aura of fame. A film about fame and the glimmer of living in the shadows.
- In this travelogue, Mirka Duijn traces the history of the image of Shangri-La, the Utopian place from the novel Lost Horizon (1933), that has now become real.
- 'MORISOT - The Heart is a Rebel', directed by Klaas Bense, investigates the intriguing life of forgotten female impressionist Berthe Morisot. A woman who courageously broke social conventions by choosing her own path in life.
- 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.
- How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?
- Pianist and composer Reinbert de Leeuw has gone back to the St Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach. Filmer Cherry Duyns has followed De Leeuw from the first rehearsals with orchestra and choir, until the performance in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk.
- 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'.
- A film about the importance and the power of friendship, the yearning everyone has for a loving and safe environment.
- In How to Meet a Mermaid, the sea becomes a haven for mankind, locked in its struggle with its 'indifferent universe'. Lex, Rebecca, and Miguel each have their own reasons to lay their lives in the hands of the capricious waters. The question remains, however, whether they will find what they so anxiously seek underneath the surface of the waters.
- A documentary about the passionate translators of the book The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who fight for the preservation of their endangered languages.
- 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.
- The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomenon the man is.
- The Red Soul lays bare the Russian psyche of today and shows a world full of contradictions. In a country where hardly any family escaped the hunger, fear and violence resulting from Stalin's reign of terror, no one has ever been convicted for the crimes committed under his regime. Even now, more than 50 years after Stalin's death, Russians remain deeply divided over how to deal with the memories of this painful past.
- The idealistic intentions with which the Kola peninsula has been explored since the beginning of the Russian revolution have left deep traces in the landscape and in the minds of people.
- Ben van Lieshout takes the audience on adventure in Siberia. The documentary links past and present by its focus and narrative, while venturing on the river Yenisey and visiting villages and their inhabitants. It gives the viewer a look inside the mineral mining of Russia and the world that comes with it.
- Born in Rotterdam in 1892, Ernst van Leyden regarded himself a gifted painter. After his education at international art schools he moved his studio to the Dutch island of Urk, to depict the fisherman's life. But the wider world lured him, and he left the Netherlands for a nomadic life of painting. In Ascona (Italy), he met the beautiful German artist Karin Kluth fourteen years his junior. They married, and had a son, Ragnar; all the while traveling the world and painting. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War they set sail for America. They emerge as Facebookers avant la letter: They move in society circles, make portraits of the Chaplin family, are photographed with film stars and socialize with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning. They take pictures of themselves in glamorous poses, while working on murals, collages, paintings, and comply with the art movements of their time, yet true success and recognition elude them. When not together, they conduct an intensive correspondence in which they stoke each other with money problems and concern for their image - their ultimate piece of art. While feeding each other creatively, they suffocate each other equally in their unachieved desires. Their lives end separately, in France for Ernst in 1969 and in Switzerland for Karin in 1977. CAPTURED IN BEAUTY illustrates Ernst and Karin van Leyden's desire for fame and their struggles as artists with excerpts from their voluminous personal letters and photographs from private collections. Their son Ragnar, now 83, sketches a shocking picture of the absent parents of his childhood. In 2006 he sold the Van Leyden collection to the Dutch art collectors of AllAboutArt. These collectors are fascinated by the artistic life of Ernst and Karin van Leyden, and although their names are still a footnote in art history, they are eager to put them posthumously on the map.
- Fien de la Mar (1898-1965) was a Dutch actress with exceptional allure and extraordinary talent. With this she celebrated many triumphs, but her life ultimately ended in tragedy.
- When Jeroen van Velzen lived in Kenia as a child he was very susceptible to the stories told to him by an old fisherman. As Jeroen got older, his belief supernatural powers disappeared, but a part of him still longed for that open, unprejudiced way in which he looked at life and for the magic that filled everything with colour. That is why he wanted to return to the country where he grew up. On the coral island Wasini he met Masoud, and his steady helper Juma. Masoud is an old fisherman who still hopes of catching a large shark. How long Masoud also remains without a catch, every day he sincerely believes that tomorrow he will catch a shark. Jeroen would like to tell the story of Masoud in five days. Through this, stories of the past, told by three old people, are woven into the film. On their last day together Masoud shows him the sacred island Mpunguti, the place where his ancestors are buried. There Jeroen realises that the magic of this world rests in the simplicity of it. Wherein Masoud, like generations before him, hunts the impossible in perfect serenity and with confidence in his own abilities.
- Every year Amsterdam hosts an exciting street soccer tournament with a big final on Dam Square. In this long youth documentary, we follow five twelve year old boys who participate in this tournament. They come from different areas of the city and all have different cultural backgrounds. Each boy has to meet his own challenges in life. They have one thing in common: the love for the ball! Who will win the prestigious tournament ? 'Champions of Amsterdam' is about the lives of five 12 -year-old boys and their love for street soccer .
- Henriette Roland Holst (1869-1952) met with Lenin and Trotsky, and corresponded with Rosa Luxemburg. Her letters, poems and speeches give an insight into her deepest dilemmas; old images lead us into those turbulent years.
- Lou Biou is a documentary about courage, identity and the deep seated passion for the wild bull in the French Camargue. Village festivals are impossible without bulls. they are the key to the local culture. Bull breeders, manadiers, identify with their bulls as much as with their own family. Daring young men dressed in white, raseteurs, challenge the bulls during the stunning Course Camarguaise. Speed, timing and courage are required to grab the cocarde from between the bull's horns. The bull is the hero and will never be killed. The raseteur does not know if he will leave the arena alive. When an Algerian raseteur wants to become champion, identities are put to the test.
- The highway in the Netherlands has a total length of almost 2500 kilometres. There is almost no other country with such an enormous highway density. In this documentary the monumentality, but also the apparent everydayness of our highway is shown. The highway is actually a poorly known arena for a wide range of activities. What does this monumental and almost perfect network say about us?