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- In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
- This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
- Road-movie shot in Riga and Holland about a man in search of another mother for his child. The Latvian Elvis (10) has fallen silent since the tragic death of his mother. He has been stuck in a decrepit children's hospital in Riga for two years with no prospects of recovery. The boy's father can no longer bear to see his son suffer and flees with him the terrible conditions in his country. In the hope of a better future for Elvis he goes to wealthy Holland in search of the woman who was his pen friend in his youth.
- Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
- Two half-brothers get to know each other while sailing up a river in an inhospitable region in search of the place where their father was found dead.
- 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?
- When Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new environment and the loss of her mother.
- Struggling to survive in Europe since the age of nine, Zimbabwean OG seeks a balance in her life. Director Carina Molier -her long distance friend- follows her in her quest for reunification with her daughter. The film is about longing for security in an ever globalising world.
- On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.
- Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude you?
- One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about each other come to the foreground.
- De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he never dared during his entire life. Jan, as an outsider, is some sort of spectator of the life in the village, although he is also involved in that life.
- The film follows three squatters from the start who have gradually grown apart. Their experiences serve to portray the changes at the squat from a center for subversive acts to homes with communal facilities.
- In 1990s Amsterdam, Loe and Bob are in a relationship, but wanting different things. Loe is a singer who likes to party and who is also engaged in migrant support. Bob is a lawyer focused on his career. As the film progresses, the tensions in the relationship become exposed.
- The film provides an associative, lyrical depiction of the poem Frühlingslied by J.C. van Schagen, focusing on a little boy's memories of his mother and bringing together present, past and future.
- A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.
- A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning encounter mysterious deer-men who change their existence.
- Everyone knows the Hollandic Water Line, but only few people know that Brabant also has its own defence line: the line from Bergen op Zoom to Steenbergen, also known as Stelling West Noord-Brabant. The line has an impressive history. Only, not much of it is visible any more. Due to the construction of a new highway (A4), this extraordinary landscape rapidly develops. Director Frans Hoeben and his prodcuer SNG Film/ Digna Sinke follow the history and planned developments in a 4-part series to be broadcast by Omroep Brabant.
- 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?
- Five sisters get together in a holiday cottage to discuss and plan celebrations for the fortieth wedding anniversary of their parents.
- 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.
- A woman looks back on her life, in search of the essence. Visual artist Anet van de Elzen portrays this through her performances. All lessons in life are ultimately about eliminating secondary matters.
- In The State of the Grass, the battle that people are waging with their lawn is portrayed. We see that battle through the eyes of a hedgehog and a magpie.
- One night in the trenches during the Spanish Civil War, Joan Brossa heard a voice call his name. He didn't see anyone and walked towards where he thought the sound came from. A moment later, a shell hit the ground where he had just been standing. From that moment on, Brossa wanted to be a poet. After the war, Barcelona was "a desert of expectations", according to the philosopher Arnau Puig. Franco's dictatorship had put an end to all freedom. No expectation was possible anymore. But Brossa and his friends Antoni Tàpies, Modesto Cuixart, Ponç and Arnau Puig founded a group they called Dau al Set: dice seven. Of course you can never throw a seven and that's what they wanted, in all their youthful recklessness: the impossible. In 1948, Brossa wrote the script for a short film. He was crazy about film, but didn't know anything about the practice of making films. Film was magic for Brossa. Lluis Riera was to be director and the other friends were to play roles. But the film was never made and the script appeared about 50 years later to mark the hundredth anniversary of film in a book called Anthologie du Cinéma Invisible, by Christian Janicot. The documentary BROSSA is not a portrait of an artist, but tries, from all angles, to examine the topic of why the world is occasionally moved a little.
- During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002, Leo Hannewijk (festival director Film by the Sea) approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to make short films based on poems about the province of Zeeland. It would offer an opportunity to investigate the limits of the medium film and, just like poetry, not to focus on the story but to tackle universal and grander themes through mood and form. In the end, eight short films were realized, by eight different filmmakers. The films are connected by intermezzi, aerial shots of the Zeeland coasts. Poems of the Sea is a stirring and surprising portrayal of Zeeland. Filled with desires and passion.
- Portrait photographer Koos Breukel decides to do more personal work after a serious car accident.
- In an immense architectonic universe a figure made of nuts and bolts, with a shell for a head, follows a mysterious crystal ball.
- A portrait of filmmaker, producer and teacher Rolf Orthel.
- LIEVE is about dealing with loss. We experience the world through the eyes of the seven-year-old girl Lieve. She lives near the forest, often sets off by herself and has found a way to perceive the world in a rosier fantastical manner.
- In this short film buildings and other remnants of our industrial past are said farewell to in a poetic manner.
- As the village of Doel dies a slow death under pressure from the advancing Antwerp docks, the elderly Emilienne tries to continue with her everyday life. But the village pastor Verstraete dies and her friends leave. Ultimately she is also forced to let go as well.
- A man is travelling on a long haul express train journey from Amsterdam to Paris. He shares his sleeper compartment with another man who he engages in conversation. He learns that the man is a cannibal who intends to kill and eat him. The man is unsure of where his life is going and begins to be swayed by the cannibal's assertions that being eaten would give his life meaning and purpose. However # how long can the man stall for, with questions on the finer points of eating someone?
- A film about talking, stuttering, singing, remaining silent and listening. Communicating.
- Hammada walks away from home after an argument with his father. Will a special encounter at the river show him the way back?
- Successful violinist Sacha arrives in Amsterdam, gets mugged, and then meets Caspar and Maarten, two friends who deliberately live outside society.