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10 COMMANDMENTS: KINGDOM OF SHADOWS (Het Rijk der Schimmen)
Fiona Tan
In her documentary, artist and film-maker Fiona Tan confronts the Second Commandment: a prohibition of images. Those who would like to follow the Second Commandment must cease to make images and to worship them. But Tan feels that without images there is no art. |
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10 COMMANDMENTS: LETTERS TO GOD (Brieven aan God)
Vuk Janic
In this triptych, director Vuk Janic examines how the attitude of parents towards (the first part of) the first commandment I, the Lord, am your God is determined by their children's fates. A woman, who has become pregnant after a long period of doubt and perseverance, cherishes a vague but hopeful belief in a Something, befitting the still unborn child. |
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10 COMMANDMENTS: PRIVATE (Prive)
Heddy Honigmann
The film Prive is part of a documentary series based on the Ten Commandments,
made for Dutch public television (IKON). Prive is about the commandment
'Thou shalt not steal' and illustrates the secret desire to possess and
therefore, sometimes, to steal. |
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10 COMMANDMENTS: SINNED AGAIN (Het was weer Zondig)
Fatima Jebli-Ouazzani
The Seventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is probably the commandment that has been most sinned against. To vow eternal fidelity has been proved to be easier in theory than in practice.
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2 MINUTES OF SILENCE (2 minuten stilte a.u.b)
Heddy Honigmann
In Holland, every year on the 4th of May at exactly 8.00 p.m. traffic stops, and people gather or sit alone in 2 minutes of silence to commemorate the many deaths of the 2nd World War. |
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AMSTERDAM GLOBAL VILLAGE
Johan van der Keuken
In this four-hour epic documentary maker Johan van der Keuken portrays his home town of Amsterdam and the people who live there. During a journey through a labyrinth his camera serenely glides along the city's canals, down its streets and across its squares
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ANGELS OF DEATH (Engelen des doods)
Leo de Boer
The area around the Russian village Mjasnoi Bor was once a prosperous cattle breeding region. Now it is desolate and abandoned. And it carries a terrible stigma. Tens of thousands of dead and unburied soldiers lie scattered in the swamp near the village. |
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ADRELINE
Esther Gould
Vijf jongens moeten van justitie een training volgen om te leren omgaan met hun agressie. Een close-up van deze jongens en hun onvermogen en onwil om geweld uit de weg te gaan. |
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ANOTHER ANOTHER
Bea de Visser
This short film is the story of a duo - the movement and the choreographer - that when walking is measured discovers that distance is zero. A film about walking for which I have asked Rudi van Dantzig (the Dutch choreographer, former dancer and former artistic leader of The National Ballet) to work on this film, because I do consider dance as a problematic way of walking. |
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ARNA'S CHILDREN
Juliano Mer Khamis / Danniel Danniel
Arna Mer (1929-1995) led in the last years of her life a small theatre group of Palestinian children on the West Bank. Her son Juliano, who directed the group, used all those years his camera to film the rehearsals and performances of the plays. The theatre closed a couple of years ago after the Israeli occupation. Back in Jenin he discovers little by little the tragic story of the theatre children who were so dear to him. |
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AYA SOFIA
Jack Janssen
Filmmaker Jack Janssen laat zien hoe gedurende het turbulente, afgelopen jaar de bouw van de mooiste moskee van Nederland op een fiasco uitliep. Het ene conflict stapelt op het andere en zelfs na een juichende minister Donner op de inwijdingsceremonie gaat het nog fout.
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BELA BELA Ik heb het leven nodig
Marjoleine Boonstra
A film about four poets who used their minds and their imagination to survive under what must be the most difficult circumstances of life - imprisonment under a dictatorial regime
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BIBABO
Ramón Gieling
Based on the original music composition for 4 voices BI BA BO (1979) by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, Ramon Gieling directed this experimental musical film with five professional singers of the Quink Vocal Ensemble.
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BUNUELS PRISONERS (De gevangenen van Bunuel)
Ramón Gieling
The humorous, skillful and atheist provocateur Luis Bunuel had made "Un chien andalou" (together with Dali) and "L'age d'or", maybe the two most famous surrealist films ever, when a friend promised that, if he'd ever win money in the lottery, he'd finance a film Bunuel wanted to make about a certain poor region in Spain: Las Hurdes.
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CARNAVALS VROUWEN
Anne Marie Borsboom
Vrouwen laten zich tijdens Carnaval nog hartstochtelijker gaan dan mannen, ontdekte filmmaker Anne Marie Borsboom. In 'Carnavalsvrouwen' portretteert ze zes vrouwen voor wie carnaval veel meer betekent dan feestvieren. Een documentaire voor feestvierders en carnaval-haters
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CINEMA AMBULANTE
Ramón Gieling
Een eerbetoon aan de reizende film en het publiek in de dorpen rond Salamanca, voor wie de komst van de film op zondag ten tijde van de dictatuur van Franco het enige levensteken van buiten was.
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CRAZY
Heddy Honigmann
CRAZY is a film about the reminiscences of several Dutch UN soldiers about various battlefields were they served; memories that are inextricably bound up with one special song that brought solace far from home.
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CRISTINA BRANCO A Minha Casa
Leendert Pot & Michel Schopping
Michel Schopping heard Cristina Branco sing Fado for the very first time in Amsterdam in 1998. It was the first professional concert by this unique, yet entirely unknown talent.
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DAME LA MANO
Heddy Honigmann
Many Cuban exiles live in New York City and the nearby Latino neighborhoods in New Jersey. Some of them are the central characters in "Dame la mano". All week long, they look forward to Sunday night, when they can let themselves go on the worn-out dance floor of a dance club called "La Esquina Habanera."
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DESI
Maria Ramos
Desi's an ordinary eleven-year-old Amsterdam girl... with one slight difference. After school each day she calls her dad to find out where's she spending the night. At home, or somewhere else? Mum killed herself when Desi was a baby.
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THE DICTATOR HUNTER
Klaartje Quirijns
He hunts dictators for a living as a lawyer for Human Rights Watch. For seven years, Brody has been chasing one former dictator in particular: Hissene Habre, the former leader of Chad, who is charged with killing thousands of his own countrymen in the 1980s.
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DREAMING ABOUT HOLLAND (Dromen van Holland)
Peter Delpeut
In the nineteenth century, Holland was inundated with artists from abroad. They visited a country that was, in their eyes, very exotic. They registered what they saw in paintings that sold like hot cakes abroad. In his book Dromen van Holland.
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THE DUTCH APPROACH
Rene Roelofs
Op 2 december 1975 vindt de eerste treinkaping plaats in de internationale geschiedenis. Om 10.07 uur wordt de stoptrein Groningen-Zwolle in de buurt van het dorp Wijster stilgezet door een groep van zeven Molukse jongeren uit Bovensmilde.
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FACES
GMax
In March 2007 French photographer, street artist JR and his friend Marco embarked on the biggest illegal photo exhibition ever. Enormous portraits were pasted on both sides of the Wall of Separation, as well as in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities.
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FAIRUZ, We loved each other so much
Jack Janssen
`The woman with the golden voice.' `We love Fairuz more than her husband used to.' `Only she is able to talk with heaven.' For half a century, the admirers of the singer Fairuz have been ascribing divine powers to her.
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FORGOTTEN FOOLS
Frans van Erkel - Tijn Sadee
Radomir and twenty other Bosnians, most of them psychiatric patients, have been behind bars in the closed wing of a refugee camp in Hungary since 1992.
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FOR THE TIME BEING (Voltooid Tegewoordig)
Johan van der Keuken
Johan van der Keuken had planned to make another long documentary in 2001: 'For the Time Being'. On a sunny day in January, Johan died. What he left behind in the editing room was over 9 minutes of film, that he had edited together with Menno Boerema in November 2000 as the first part of the film that he never managed to finish.
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GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE
Ramón Gieling
Pilar Manjon verloor haar zoon bij de terroristische aanslagen van 11 maart 2004 in Madrid. Tegen wil en dank is ze woordvoerster van de slachtoffers en nabestaanden, die ze ziet als familie: 'Mensen die ongewild mijn zoon begeleidden op een reis waar niemand om gevraagd had.'
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GARDEN STORIES (Tuinverhalen)
Boris Gerrets
In his documentary debut, director Gerrets describes the role of vegetable gardens in the lives of poor Russians in St. Petersburg and black Americans in Detroit.
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GOD IS MY DJ
Carin Goeijers
Duncan Stutterheim, mede-oprichter van ID&T, wordt door een tomeloze ambitie gedreven zijn dromen waar te maken. De wereld waarin hij met zijn vrienden leeft wordt bepaald door hedonisme en ambitie enerzijds en de zoektocht naar zingeving en geborgenheid anderzijds. Een beklemmende tegenstelling waarbinnen hij zijn weg moet zien te vinden
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GO WEST, YOUNG MAN!
Peter Delpeut/ Mart Dominicus
Heeding the familiar quote by 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley, Dutch filmmakers Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus go on a trip through the American West searching for the reasons behind the rise and fall in popularity of the American Western film genre
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DE GENCO'S
Maaik Krijgsman en Hans Pool
In Amsterdam zijn ze een begrip: de Genco's. Hun naam prijkt op een van de meest succesvolle Turkse supermarkten in de Indische buurt. Dagelijks staan er drie generaties van het Turkse gezin in de winkel.
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GETEKEND LAND
Peter Veer
'GETEKEND LAND, Boeren in het Groene Hart' is een zoektocht van Freek van Leeuwen (26, boerenzoon) en zijn vriendin Nicole de Gier naar de verschillende mogelijkheden om op het familiebedrijf 'De Vierhuizen' te gaan boeren.
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JALAN RAYA POS - The Great Post Road (De Groote Postweg)
Bernie IJdis
Jalan Raya Pos tells the story of the written Pramudya Ananta Toer, one of today's most important Asian writers, and of a road. The Great Post Road. In doing so, it tells the thousand kilometre road through the heart of Java. It was laid in the early 19th century by the Dutch.
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JANNES
Rein Hazewinkel
Jannes van der Wal chose to become a professional draughts player. Nobody can make a living in this profession. JANNES is therefore a film about persistence, passion for a game, about seeking truth, the point of life and finding a destination.
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JOAQUIN SABINA - 19 días y 500 noches
Ramón Gieling
For those who have never heard of Joaquín Sabina, this is the right film. In an overwhelming way, the viewer is taken along in the world of a phenomenal poet and musician. For those who do know Joaquín Sabina, this is essential viewing. |
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JOHAN CRUIJFF : En un momento dado
Ramón Gieling
Johan Cruijff's international fame as a football player is still vividly tangible among the inhabitants of Barcelona, the city where 'number 14' lived for many years and where he has played many matches.
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JUGGERNAUT
Rob Das
Juggernaut is een puur beeldende documentaire die een respectvol beeld geeft van een stad doordrenkt van religieuze toewijding en ingetogenheid, uitingsvormen die in de huidige moderne samenleving meestal ver naar de achtergrond zijn verdrongen.
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KID DYNAMITE
Hans Hylkema
Kid werd geboren in 1911 in Suriname en kwam tegen het eind van de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw naar Nederland. Hij ontpopte zich in de loop van de jaren dertig tot een veelzijdig muzikant met een grote voorliefde voor de jazzmuziek.
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LAGONDA
Robin van Erven Dorens
In 1938 the Dutch architect Jan van Erven Dorens (1904-1994) bought the most beautiful automobile then available, a Lagonda LG6 Drop Head Coupe. During the Second World War he managed to keep the Lagonda out of the hands of the Germans, but immediately after the liberation the car was confiscated by Prince Bernhard‰s staff.
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LAGOS/KOOLHAAS
Bregtje van der Haak
With an estimated population of 14 million now, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities on the African continent. By 2020, it is expected to be the third largest city in the world, with 24 million people. After decades of military rule, and in spite of enormous oil revenue, Nigeria suffers from mass poverty, dysfunctional public services and broken down infrastructures.
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MAESTRO TABACHNIK
Carin Goeijers
Maestro Tabachnik shows the world famous Swiss conductor Michel
Tabachnik. He directed great orchestras like the Orchestre de Paris, the Berlin
Philharmonic and the Royal Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as
composing contemporary classical pieces.
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MATHILDE SANTING GOES NEW YORK
Brigit Hillenius
The idea behind this film began with one of Mathilde Santing's dreams. She told the filmmaker that from the moment she got her apartment in New York, it became her wish to also sing in this city in order to feel more at home. Due to the high costs, it would be impossible to take her own musicians along with her and therefore she would have to look for New York musicians.
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HET MISDRIJF VAN ABRAHAM PRINS
Marcel Prins
Amsterdam, Tweede Wereldoorlog. De jood Abraham Prins loopt door een park dat voor joden verboden is, om de trein te kunnen halen. Een overijverige agent maakt proces verbaal op en Prins krijgt een oproep om zich te melden.
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MISS CHARME
Christel van der Meer
Wie is de mooiste jonge vrouw van Amsterdam Zuid-Oost en wat
kan zij als 'Miss Charme' doen voor het stadsdeel?
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MIXED SALAD Gemengde Sla
Huib Stam
Over the last few years there has been a growing awareness that a more intense experience of nature in the neighbourhood can have a positive influence the well-being of local residents. The Rotterdam Old West area is well known for being a problem area, but also for its exceptional multicultural community.
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MY FRIENDS
Lidija Zelovic
A intimate and powerful documentary about four friends who grew up together in Sarajevo. All four women are now in their thirties and live in different countries around the world.
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MY FATHER'S ISLE (Eiland van mijn Vader)
Carin Goeijers
In 'Eiland van mijn vader' legt documentairemaakster Carin Goeijers de pijn, woede en het verdriet van drie generaties Molukse vrijheidsstrijders bloot. Dertig jaar nadat Nederland werd opgeschrikt door een van de eerste terroristische acties, slaapt de moeder van een van de daders nog altijd met het bebloede shirt van haar omgekomen zoon onder haar kussen.
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O AMOR NATURAL
Heddy Honigmann
An ode to physical love, through humour and solemnity, though bluntness and tenderness. Through melancholy. O AMOR NATURAL is a virile and comforting film with moving, funny, taboo-breaking narratives about one of the wonders of creation: sex.
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PUTIN'S MAMA
Ineke Smits
Not much in Vera Putina's 77-year existence distinguishes her from all those other Russian women who grew up and grew old in the Soviet Union. Until, in 1999, she recognized in Vladimir Putin the son she thought was lost forever.
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RAILMOVIES: BELGRADE-BAR
Vuk Janic
The railway between Serbian Belgrade and Bar in Montenegro; about two discussing guards, a Bosnian refugee who works as a signalwoman and a smuggler who uses the train connection between the two nations. |
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RAILMOVIES: BETWEEN TWO SAINTS
Ramón Gieling
The first six months of his life, filmmaker Ramón Gieling lived in Spain. In the rail movie Tussen twee heiligen, he returns to his native soil, mainly to expose the way in which people in Spain handle death.
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RAILMOVIES: DAKAR-TIMBUKTU
Jacqueline van Vugt
The railway between Dakar and Timbuktu. Director Jacqueline van Vugt brings the ashes of her father to the soil of Niono, where he worked for years on development projects.
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RAILMOVIES: HAARLEM-ALGERIA
Karim Traidia
Karim Traidia and his brother, actor Hakim Traidia travel with their children back to their homeland Algeria. The destination of their travel is - maybe the last - meeting with their old father. |
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RAILMOVIES: IN LOVING MEMORY
Peter Delpeut
Zesduizend spoorwegarbeiders begonnen in 1869 met de aanleg van 115 kilometer spoorlijn tussen Leeds en Carlisle. In zes jaar tijd bouwden ze twintig viaducten en veertien tunnels. Handwerk. Tweehonderd arbeiders stierven van uitputting.
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RAILMOVIES: JOURNEY THROUGH EMPTINESS
Rene Roelofs
Regisseur Rene Roelofs emigreerde in 1982 naar Australie. Het land heeft ongeveer evenveel inwoners als Nederland, maar is tweehonderdvijftig maal zo groot. Roelofs werd gelokt door de goede verhalen over de filmindustrie, de uitgestrekte ruigheid en het mooie weer.
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RAILMOVIES: RIO - A DAY IN AUGUST
Maria Ramos
The railway from Campo Grande to Central do Brasil. Maria Ramos meets people who travel every day by train to their jobs in the city center: a nurse, a refrigerator technician, a cleaning woman and two boys selling candy on the train.
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RAILMOVIES: THE GOLDLINE
Hans Hylkema
Hans Hylkema follows the, in some places overgrown, in others flooded, track of De Goudlijn, the train that ran from Paramaribo to the gold mining region of Lawa from the early twentieth century to 1987. During the civil war in 1986, this section, a project of then governor and later constructor of the Dutch Afsluitdijk, Ir. C. Lely, permanently fell into disuse.
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RAILMOVIES: THE REUNION EXPRESS
Jack Janssen
The railway between Saigon and Hanoi. After the Vietnam war the old railway between Northern and Southern-Vietnam was re-established quickly and renamed the 'Reunion Express'...
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RAILMOVIES: TRIP TO PARADISE (Reis naar het Paradijs)
Ben van Lieshout
In April 2002, director Ben van Lieshout and cameraman Stef Tijdink travel by train across Iran, from the caviar of the Caspian Sea to the oil of the Persian Gulf. It is the month of mourning; black flags fly above the streets, where people are dressed in black.
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RAILMOVIES: UNDER MOSCOW
Leo de Boer
The Moscow Metro was built by Stalin in the thirties and forties as an architectural ode to the communist utopia. The stations - a strange collection of underground buildings like palaces, cathedrals and fortresses with names like 'Barricade', 'Revolution' and 'The Red Way', formed the backdrop against which the people could see how life should be lived.
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RIVIERA HOTEL
Bernie IJdis
In the fifties Havana became a symbol of extravagance and glamour. This originated from the Malecon, Havana's promenade, where at that time, notorious American Mafioso like Meyer Lansky, Santo Traficante and Lucky Luciano owned several hotels and casinos, like the renowned Riviera Hotel.
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SIDE CANAL B (Zijkanaal B)
Huib Stam
Van de 120 varende schepen en woonarken die in Zijkanaal B liggen, heeft er welgeteld een een offici'le ligplaats. Alle andere schepen zijn in de afgelopen twintig jaar aan de rietrijke oevers tussen Spaarndam en de A9 komen te liggen.
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SINTI, ROMA & GADJE
Huib Stam
De Tweede Wereldoorlog vormt het startpunt van het tweeluik Sinti, Roma & Gadje. De documentaire schetst aan de hand van interviews met zigeuners, politici en ambtenaren en met gebruikmaking van uniek, soms onthutsend archiefmateriaal, een verhelderend beeld van de bewogen geschiedenis van de zigeuners in Nederland.
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SWEET CECILE
Jet Homoet
In 1977 Cecile Jansen caused a great commotion in the Dutch society. She loudly proclaimed her choice for single motherhood in the media. Being the 'first' single mother by choice, she tried to get in touch with women who shared her convictions: the phenomenon of 'bachelor mothers' was born..
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THE BARREN LAND
Bea de Visser
The Barren Land is loosely based on monologues from the great Tragedies and other words of rumour, humour and horror. The principle character goes through stages of distortion. He creates situations that excite him or that might bring him back on the main tracks of mind that he has temporary lost. |
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THE FIRST OF THE REST (Eerste van de Rest)
Dimitri Hettinga
De documentaire "Eerste van de Rest" gaat over de nostalgie van zijn carriere in de jaren 70 en het doorgeven van Rob Bron's passie op zijn protege; Nympha. Een klein tenger meisje van net 20 jaar oud.
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THE LAST YUGOSLAVIAN SOCCER TEAM (Het laatste Joegoslavische elftal)
Vuk Janic
Born in the same county, they grew up with the same dream.
In 1989 they were world youth champions in Chile and played together until 1990, when war broke out and Yugoslavia started to fall apart. |
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THE LONG HOLIDAY (De Groote Vakatie)
Johan van der Keuken
In October 1998 Johan van der Keuken called his doctor at the Academical Hospital in Utrecht (Head of radiotherapy) from Paris and heard that he only had a few years to live. Prostate cancer cells had taken hold in his body. |
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THERE AIN'T NO EASY ROAD, Fred J. EAGLESMITH
Huib Stam
Frederick Elgersma - son of an immigrant family from the Dutch province Friesland in Ontario, Canada - was ten years old when he first saw Elvis on television. 'I'm gonna do that', he cried out. That day he wrote his first song.
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THE RED STUFF
Leo de Boer
The Red Stuff is a film about the first real explorers of the cosmos, the "Eaglets", from the early years of Russian space travel. A period in which Russians had one success after another and were streets ahead of their arch rivals, the Americans.. |
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THE SONG OF 80 SPRINGS (Het Lied van 80 Lentes)
Marieke van der Winden
The film follows the married couple Dirk (82) and Liz (80), who form a musical duo called the Tubos, and sing Dutch tearjerkers. They are extremely popular in old people's homes. Dirk and Liz met each other twelve years ago after their partners had died.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE DIKES (Strijd om de Dijken)
Linda Lyklema
De documentaire brengt de angstige week terug in de herinnering. Maar de film belicht ook achterliggende oorzaken zoals de bestuurlijke strijd, waardoor de dijken niet aan de veiligheidsnorm voldoen tot het hoogwater werkelijk komt.
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THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA (Het Ondergronds Orkest)
Heddy Honigmann
L'Orchestre Souterrain Powerful music is played and sung throughout The Underground Orchestra, but people also tell their stories from the heart. The film is a musical journey through a world at war, a trip through the world of exile.
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THE VOS AFFAIR (De Zaak Vos)
Leo de Boer
Reconstruction of the case in which a Dutch company supplied glycerine to Haiti for the production of cough syrup; This glycerine turned out to be mixed with toxic antifreeze, through which between sixty and eighty children died. The case was hushed up by Dutch justice.
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THE WORLD OF SILENCE (De Wereld van Stilstand)
Elbert van Strien / Paulo van Vliet
Kafkaesque thriller about a journalist of a local newspaper, who feels his life has come to a standstill when his former school-friend and untalented writer Max has published a book. Struggling with this injustice the journalist discovers a conspiracy of mediocrity. A note from the mysterious K.
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VECHTERS HART
Hans Pool / Maaik Krijgsman
Tom Harinck spreekt over de sport waarin hij als trainer in de afgelopen dertig jaar internationale faam verworven heeft, het Muay Thai-kickboksen. Een harde vechtsport met een twijfelachtige reputatie in Nederland, maar met een grote aantrekkingskracht op jongeren die vanuit de onderkant van de maatschappij op deze manier aanzien en respect proberen te verwerven.
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WAITING FOR COLONEL PARKER
Constant Meijers
The man who became famous for being Elvis Presley's manager, has hardly ever been portrayed in a positive light. Colonel Tom Parker is considered to be a crook, a haggler and by some the man who was responsible for the fact that Elvis died at the early age of 42.
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YO SOY ASI
Sonia Herman Dolz
Mario has lived for thirty years in a small room on the fourth floor of a house without a lift. At night he changes into a woman to work in a nightclub and when day breaks he 'shrivels up' into a man. Mario is a transformista. With a few other ageing artistes he performs every evening in front of a tiny audience in the variety club 'La Bodega Bohemia' in Barcelona.
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ZONEN VAN SURINAME
Rene Roelofs
Op 8 december 1982 worden in Fort Zeelandia te Paramaribo, Suriname 15 moorden gepleegd. Het militaire regiem, onder leiding van Desi Bouterse - op 25 februari 1980 door een coup aan de macht gekomen - ontdoet zich in een klap van zijn belangrijkste critici. Alle slachtoffers worden standrechtelijk geexecuteerd en vertonen tekenen van marteling.
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