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Director Dick Verdult2023 If Yes, Okay is a black comedy by director Dick Verdult and tells the story of Amy, a young girl from a… Read More »IF Yes, Okay / Als uw gat maar lacht

Triptych (3 shorts) based on Frisian poems by Ester Eva Damen esterevadamen.nl in collaboration with Tsead Bruinja, Nynke Laverman, Elmar Kuiper Hok fan rou/Barn of… Read More »Whisper Wind – Rûzje Wyn – Fluister Wind

Directors: Mirka Duijn & Nina Spiering Feature documentary / 94 minuten A Tibetan tourist spot in China claims to be Shangri-La, the paradise from the 1933 novel… Read More »Shangri-la, Paradise Under Construction

Director: Karin Junger 2021 A musical fairy tale about trafficking in women Synopsis Two sisters from Lagos end up in prostitution in Belgium via Nigerian… Read More »10 Songs For Charity

Director Cindy Jansen2021 In Prince of Muck, retired patriarch, Lawrence MacEwen, is beginning to live out his final days.  As Laird of the Isle of Muck,… Read More »Prince of Muck

Director: Ana Vaz 2020 Apiyemiyekî? is a cinematographic portrait that departs from Brazilian educator and indigenous rights militant Egydio Schwade’s archive – Casa da Cultura de Urubuí – found in his home at Presidente Figueiredo (Amazonas), where over 3.000 drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, a people native to the Brazilian Amazon, during their frst literacy experience are currently kept. Te drawings document and construct a collective visual memory from their learning process, perspective and territory while attesting to a series of violent attacks they were submitted to during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil.  Credits A film by Ana Vaz made with the generous support of Egydio Schwade  … Read More »Apiyemiyeki

Director: Thomas Stokmans 2020 Kees, an introvert man, is trying to mend his broken heart. In his daily life, the thoughts about his ex-girlfriend however,… Read More »Landscape with two oaks

Director: Sebastián Alfie2019 1944. A group of prisoners wrote and rehearsed an opera in a nazi concentration camp. Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a four act… Read More »Kaiser of Atlantis

Peter van Houten IFFR 2019 After WWII, Dutch artist Pierre Raaijmakers bought a house in the French Pyrenees, and went to live in it with… Read More »Miel-Emile

Director: Bobo Jelčić Kroatië, 2018 Divorced father Marko is hardly ever alone: he is surrounded on all sides by family, friends, co-workers and neighbourhood fi-xers.… Read More »All alone

Mohamed Al Daradji Baghdad, 2006. Sara enters Baghdad station with sinister intentions for its reopening ceremony. As she braces to commit an unthinkable act, her… Read More »The Journey

Director: Edon Rizvanolli 2017 Unwanted is a drama set in present day Amsterdam that tells the story of ALBAN and his mother ZANA. Alban is… Read More »t’Padashtun

Director: Jerome Diamant-Berger 2017 After 50 years of exile, an old man comes back to the cinema of his childhood. The Tuschinski Theater of Amsterdam… Read More »Tuschinski’s dream

Director: Karim Traïdia 2017 Chronicles of my village is the story of Bachir’s childhood during the Algerian war of independence. The film considers how a child’s… Read More »Chronicles of my village

Director: Maartje Seyferth & Victor Nieuwenhuijs2016 Cat and mouse unfolds in a deserted, unidentified European landscape. It tells of the tragic death of a small… Read More »Cat and mouse

Director: Daniel Rosenfeld 2016 Has anyone other than Antonio seen things in the sky? Are they UFO’s? What can possibly drive this humble man to… Read More »To the Center of the Earth

Director: Colette Bothof 2014 Anne is sixteen and lives in a remote village in the Southern Netherlands. A forgotten spot where the seemingly endless fields… Read More »Summer

Director: Eugenie Jansen 2014 Together with her father and brother Kelab, Shay ends up in the Belgian town of Ypres, where they find a home… Read More »Above us all

Director: Karin Junger 2014 In recent years, a growing group of illegal prostitutes from West Africa has settled in the suburbs of major cities both… Read More »Sexy Money

Director: Miriam Kruishoop 2013 Greencard Warriors depicts the tragic struggle of an undocumented Latino family in Los Angeles after they have sent their eldest son… Read More »Greencard Warrior

Director: Caroline Strubbe 2013 A man in his thirties is on the run with a young girl. As they take a ferry to the UK,… Read More »I am the same, I am another

Director: Kees Brienen 2014 ‘Dead body welcome’ is a film based on a true story about the discovery of a new perspective on friendschip. Synopsis:… Read More »Dead body welcome

Director: Heddy Honigmann2012 Alia (28) and Hamza (32) are a young Moroccan couple in love. Confronted with a controversial law to ban the wearing of… Read More »And Then One Day

Director: Fow Pyng Hu 2012 Young Nick, charming, talented, but restless and fickle, works as chef in a restaurant. After his girlfriend has kicked him… Read More »Nick

Director: Martijn Maria Smits2001 “C’est déjà l’été” tells the story of a family in the Liège suburb of Seraing. The family is made up of… Read More »C’est déjà l’été

Maartje Seyferth, Victor Nieuwenhuijs2010 – 85 min. An old-fashioned butcher acts out his perverted sexual fantasies with his wife between the hanging cadavers. The filming… Read More »Meat

Director: Diego Martinez Vignatti2000 In Buenos Aires lijdt de tangozangeres Helena erg onder de breuk met haar grote liefde. Die liefdesbreuk is de drijvende kracht… Read More »La Cantante de tango

Director: Nicolas Karakatsanis2001 Bettina en Marcus zijn een passioneel koppel die leven in een kantine te midden van een immense vlakte met eindeloze rijen pylonen.… Read More »Lost Persons Area

Director: Maartje Seyferth & Victor Nieuwenhuijs2000 In this impressionistic experimental drama, a woman walks a fine line between sanity and madness in a world of… Read More »Crepuscule

“King of the Maas” takes place in the port of Rotterdam, in particular at the three main locations -The headquarters of Jaap Koning, on his… Read More »King of the Maas

Director: Michal Shabtay1999 A fresh and unexpected celebration of the richness of Shakespeare’s language and theatre in exploring the character of Shylock in The Merchant… Read More »Shylock

Director: Stefano Odoardi1999 In an apartment, the life of an elderly couple, married for many years, evolves like an old record player: slow and repetitious.… Read More »Una ballata bianca

Director: Erik Van Zuylen2004 When Tim Chesterton-Brown, lecturer in philosophy, has his legs blown off in a mysterious bomb attack we enter the mystery of… Read More »The Mystery of the Sardine

Director: Alejandro Agresti2000 Venerable Argentinian filmmaker Alejandro Agresti turns his lens to his own childhood in this nostalgic coming-of-age tale. Set in the director’s hometown… Read More »Valentin

Director Peter Woditsch2000 An 80-minute film about the erotic chambers that Catharine the Great had built to her own tastes and design over 200 years… Read More »The Secret of Catharine the Great

Various directors  1998 Without wanting to doubt the great practical usefulness of ports and their economic importance, this is not what matters in the role… Read More »On the waterfront

Director: Don Askarian1999 Levon is a writer of Armenian extraction who lives in Rotterdam. He thinks back on his life in his homeland. About his… Read More »The old roman road

Director Vasil Hristov1999 Petar is an intruder. He has skills to break into people’s lifes, to break into their privacies. He observes, examins, studies them.… Read More »The Letter

Director: Vasil Hristov2001 The urge for triumph turns a harmless game into danse macabre. There is no Referee to judge that game. There is no… Read More »The referee