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- INSTANT DREAMS tells the story of a group of scientist who are trying to unravel the chemical formula of Polaroid and the Polaroid-users that eagerly await its rebirth. Each in their own way tries to keeps their instant dream alive.
- 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?
- One year in the life of a Turkish teacher, teaching the Turkish language to Kurdish children in a remote village in Turkey. The children can't speak Turkish, the teacher can't speak Kurdish and is forced to become an exile in his own country. On the Way to School is a film about a Turkish teacher who is alone in a village as an authority of the state.
- Seventy-seven-year-old Vera Putina, who lives in former Soviet Georgia, has been convinced for years that current Russian President Vladimir Putin is her long-lost son
- In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago. This late-medieval artist lived his entire life in the city, causing uproar with his fantastical and utterly unique paintings in which hell and the devil always played a prominent role. In preparation for the exhibition, a team of Dutch art historians crisscrosses the globe to unravel the secrets of his art. They use special infrared cameras to examine the sketches beneath the paint, in the hope of discovering more about the artist's intentions. They also attempt to establish which of the paintings can be attributed with certainty to Bosch himself, and which to his pupils or followers. The experts shuttle between Den Bosch, Madrid and Venice, cutting their way through the art world's tangle of red tape, in a battle against the obstacle of countless egos and conflicting interests. Not every museum is prepared to allow access to their precious art works.
- In 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire republican history (1821- onwards). A cataclysmic economic meltdown and over 10 years of death and conflict brought upon by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla had left deep scars in the Peruvian population. Furthermore, Alberto Fujimori had just dissolved the congress and senate in order to obtain extraordinary faculties and implement harsh economic measures. It is amidst this critical moment in the history of Perú that filmmaker Heddy Honigmann chronicles the views and lives of 14 real life taxi drivers in Lima. They represent the perseverance and ingenuity with which the everyday man survived and overcame the turbulence of the times in order to achieve advancement for themselves and their families.
- A look at what happened after Borat (2006) was filmed in the Romanian village of Glod. It follows the life of one girl who longs to escape the poverty as foreign lawyers arrive with the promise of suing 20th Century Fox for millions of dollars.
- Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.
- In the days of Franco's dictatorship, a scandalous love affair between the elderly Pepet Tremolls and the eighteen-year-old Rosa Campos de Amor is bafflingly concluded by a suicide on New Year's Eve.
- A behind the scenes look at the 2013 Tour de France of Dutch professional cycling team, Argos Shimano, and its breakout young sprinter, Marcel Kittel of Germany. The team claims to be part of a new generation of anti-doping organizations determined to improve the damaged image of professional cycling, and has confessed doper, Rudi Kemna, as one of its coaches.
- A documentary about the violent lives of the Crips, a group of Dutch gangsters.
- Comedy troupe The Yes Men stage phony events and press releases in an effort to bring attention to environmental dangers and corporate greed.
- Can the working class such as those on plantations in the Congo benefit from Art, instead of being victimized by it through gentrification?
- The only survivor of the Anne Frank House, Otto, Anne's father, returns to Auschwitz to be confronted with Anne's diary. This documentary goes through the life he went and the loss of his family.
- 2003 marks the hundredth anniversary of the making of The Great Train Robbery, the very first western film. Dutch film makers Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus were inspired by this fact to make a nostalgic road movie in search of the remains of this once so powerful film genre. In Go West, Young Man! Delpeut and Dominicus undertake a cinematographic road journey to the icons of the western. What they find are the leftovers of a fading tradition. They visit old paintless film sets and meet craftsmen who live in the knowledge that their skills (wrangling, horse falls) will disappear in the years to come. They call upon famous locations in which they still sense the dramatic force that shaped the classics of the genre: the Grand Tetons which were the awesome backdrop for SHANE and of course Monument Valley, home of many John Ford westerns. A lively and often funny homage to a great film genre that inevitably ends as a bittersweet requiem.
- Architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City, went to Lagos regularly to research the type of urbanity that is produced by uncontrolled, explosive population growth. In this documentary filmed over two years, director van der Haak wanted to take a look inside the head of Koolhaas and through his eyes, a look at Lagos. She says, Lagos is "a city that holds up a mirror to him [Koolhaas], a city that is endlessly flexible, terribly creative and constantly improvising". Using small digital cameras, the filmmaker documented Koolhaas documenting Lagos to grasp and convey a sense of the new urban life that was being invented there.
- Writer Geert Mak travels around Europe to visit the places where history was made. He speaks with eye witnesses, relatives and experts. One hundred years of European history in 35 episodes.
- Peau de Chagrin/Bleu de Nuit follows a bride and groom during the hours leading up to their wedding. Baloji avoids a linear narrative, creating a series of metaphorical images that condense fleeting impressions into unsettling emotions.
- After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to take an extended vacation while filming his journeys so the afterworld can learn about his experiences. He travels to Kathmandu where he meets buddhist monks and a healer woman who soon is trying to medicate him, to Burkina Faso and Mali onto the edge of the Sahara desert and other places. Everywhere he is collecting experiences that help make the rest of his life bearable.
- Set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob, Flemish, and Marcel, Walloon share their solitude, sense of humor and craving for alcohol.
- Moeder Suriname is a moving documentary that uses unique archive material to tell the life story of a Surinamese washerwoman, inspired by Tessa's grandmother Fansi. The life story covers the period from the abolition of slavery in 1863 to Surinamese independence in 1975. Fansi's story begins in an abandoned village where she grew up as a house slave, after being given up by her white mother and black father. When Fansi becomes a mother at a young age and is abandoned by her husband, she moves to Paramaribo for her sake to offer children a better future. As a single mother, she fights hard to offer her children better opportunities. When her children leave for the Netherlands, she is left alone, not ready to leave Suriname. Only in her last years did she cross over to the Netherlands herself and experience the uprooting of her motherland.
- As the second-born child during the Chinese one-child policy, director Louis Hothothot was illegal for a while. In his film Four Journeys the Chinese-Dutch filmer exposes family traumas by going back to China and interviewing his parents and his sister. A painful history of Mao's China.
- 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 documentary on Brazil's relationship with the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and to their own sexuality.
- A documentary film by Heddy Honigmann on the traumatic effects of war on the soldiers of United Nations peacekeeping missions.
- A detailed and in-depth look at the early days of the Soviet Union's space program as told by cosmonauts themselves.
- Arthur Parisius alias Kid Dynamite (1911-1963) was born in Surinam where he got to know the Afro-Surinamese traditional religion 'winti', which would have a major influence on his life and music. In the late 1920s he was one of the first blacks to come to the Netherlands. He became more and more known as a musician and in the 1930s he played with his band in various establishments. Their swinging jazz, inspired by South American music, was immensely popular with the public, although jazz purists found it too commercial. In the late 1930s, the authorities turned against this 'negro music', and many clubs had to close. After the war, Kid Dynamite toured Europe, but later the popularity of his music waned. In 1963 he died in a car accident in Germany. Kids' life story is told by former colleagues, friends and by his ex-wife Bep and his sons.
- In 2003 an optimistic start was made on the renovation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Netherlands major tourist attraction would re-open its doors in fresh splendour in 2008. But alas, right from the start the grand project was opposed by unyielding counter-forces and Rembrandt's palace changed into an, apparently permanent building site. To make her unique and prize-wining documentary series, Oeke Hoogendijk filmed behind the closed doors of the museum for ten years. What meant to be a standard length documentary grew into a four-part epic about ambition, love of art and typically Dutch decision-taking processes, and finally 'part four' the historic and emotional 'homecoming' of the masterpieces in the spiny of 2013.
- The young talented soccer player Frits finds the truth about what really happened at his birth.
- This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker's own Amsterdam.
- A yup has to deal with a burnout.
- An account of the brutal torture, imprisonment and murder carried out by Chadian dictator Hissene Habre during the 1980s.
- To forever be an outsider in your own country or roam freely in an international but tiny kingdom? That is the choice Tobias, who was born deaf, seems to be faced with.
- 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.
- Well-respected and admired abroad. In his homeland reviled while alive, neglected after his death. This is the untold story of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.
- In 1929, celebrated journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay was invited to take part in the first round-the-world flight of a commercial airship, the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin. Recently widowed from a man 50 years her senior and bored to tears with covering ladies fashion, Lady Grace leaped at the chance to be the only woman onboard one of the media sensations of the decade. At journey's end she returned to America a star, thanks to her good looks and gutsy charm. But her reports on the ship's travels for the front pages of the Hearst press empire only told part of the story. In her diary she recorded a far more intimate journey-her struggle to get over her secret affair with shipmate, mentor, and married man Karl von Wiegand. Combining spectacular archival footage of the journey across New York, Siberia, Tokyo, and the Pacific with narration drawn from Drummond's articles and her private journals, this sweeping black and white documentary stands as a vision of technological marvels and global hope in that narrow window between world wars when everything seemed possible except true love.
- They were called 'the golden generation', the young Yugoslavian soccer players who won the Junior World Soccer Championships in 1987 in Chile. To be sure, many of them became world-famous and today play in Rome, Milan and Madrid. But the country they represented in Chile no longer exists. Director Vuk Janic talks with soccer heroes like Zvonimir Boban and Sinisa Mihajlovic and visits the neighborhoods they grew up in. Via the soccer, he tells the story of the disintegration of his country. The supporter riots in 1990 during the match between Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb heralded the imminent war. Shortly after, the team fell apart. Seven years later, as national players of Croatia and little Yugoslavia, they compete in two charged qualification matches for the 2000 European Championships. Soccer is not war, but the war is never far away. The first match in Belgrade has to be canceled due to NATO bombings, and the two national hymns are drowned in deafening whistles from the audience.
- No Hay Camino follows legendary director Heddy Honigmann on a real and spiritual journey. Today, facing a terminal illness, she will travel to her country of birth, Peru and through Europe revisiting all the important places and moments of her life, richly illustrated with clips of her films.
- Like so much of Spain, the small village of Frigiliana is marked by the violence of Franco's dictatorship, with tragedies, disappearances, and unprocessed pasts reverberating into the present. Decades on, inhabitants continue to mourn their dead. In attempt to heal from past loss, a plan is made to dramatize the violent events of the past - but not everyone wants to open up old wounds.