Pieter van Huystee : Documentary Listing

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		10 COMMANDMENTS: KINGDOM OF SHADOWS The Second Commandment 'Thou shalt not make graven /IMAGES nor worship them'
		10 COMMANDMENTS: LETTERS TO GOD The First Commandment contains a warning against the worshipping of other Gods
		10 COMMANDMENTS: PRIVATE The Eight Commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal'
		10 COMMANDMENTS: SINNED AGAIN The Seventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not commit adultery"
		2 MINUTES OF SILENCE 2 Minutes of silence is about the emotions envoked by the Dutch National Remembrance day.
		AMSTERDAM GLOBAL VILLAGE In this four-hour epic, Holland's most prolific and respected documentary filmmaker portrays his home town of Amsterdam and the people who live there.
		ANGELS OF DEATH 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. Gouden Kalf 'Best Short Documentary' 1998
		ANOTHER ANOTHER A short film by Bea de Visser with Rudi van Dantzig and Andrew Kelly.
		ARNA'S CHILDREN 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.
		BELA BELA - WHAT KEEPS MANKIND ALIVE A film about four poets who used their thoughts and imagination in order to survive during their captivity.
		BIBABO BiBaBo is a little musical based on de composition for 4 voices by Simeon ten Holt (1979).
		BUNUELS PRISONERS A film about Bu–uels film Las Hurdes
		CRAZY "A homemovie about our boys at war" Gouden Kalf 'Best Long Documentary' 2000 IDFA 'Public Price' 1999
		CRISTINA BRANCO In the film directors Leendert Pot and Michel Schšpping visit Cristina Branco (the Portuguese Fado singer) and her husband (and accompanist) Cust—dio Castelo at their countryside home. There we experience how a Cape Verdian poem leads to a new composition. Cristina and Cust—dio continue to explore boundaries and reinterpret fado music.
		DAME LA MANO New York and the nearby Latin areas of New Jersey are home to many Cuban exiles. A number of them are the main characters in "Dame la mano". Every week they look forward to Sunday evening, the night they can live it up on the worn-out dance floor of a local dance hall called "La Esquina Habanera". This is the only place in the United States where the authentic rumba is still nurtured. Dance is much more than just a night out, it is the oxygen and the life blood of the main characters in this film.
		DESI Director Maria Ramos follows Desi, an 11 year old girl, closely but she never intervenes. Gouden Kalf 'Best Long Documentary' 2001 IDFA 'Public Price' 2000
		DREAMING OF HOLLAND 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. Buitenlandse kunstenaars schilderen Holland 1800-1914, Hans Kraan documents the phenomenon in detail. Whenever film maker Peter Delpeut browsed through the book, he was surprised by the exotic aspect of this 19th-century Holland. In Dromen van Holland, Peter Delpeut goes on a journey in his own country, along routes and sites that were popular with artists in the nineteenth century.
		DUTCH APPROACH The 4-part documentary series the Dutch approach to the Moluccan hijacks in 1970 - '78 Gouden Beeld 'Beste Televisie Documentaire' 2001
		FOR THE TIME BEING The last film Johan van der Keuken made is a series of small portraits of friends and people he met while travelling. The documentary is only a fragment of the feature length he intended and can be viewed at www.johanvanderkeuken.com.
		GARDEN STORIES A portrayal of people who, for a variety of reasons , grow their food in the city. The locations switch between Russia and America. We get a glance into the lives of people who's dreams and aspirations conflict with the larger movements of the modern, urbanised world." Or "Garden Stories is a film about people who grow their food in the city - a glance into the lives of people in Russia and America, who's dreams and aspirations conflict with the larger movements of the modern, urbanised world."
		GO WEST, YOUNG MAN! A century after the release of the first westernfilm Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus pay homage to this once flourishing genre of which the American landscape bears the marks. A lively and often funny film that inevitably ends as a bittersweet requiem.
		JALAN RAYA POS - THE GREAT POST ROAD Roadmovie-like documentarie about The Great Posttrail.
		JANNES Documentary about the fabulous Dutch draughts player Jannes van der Wal. IDFA 'Best Script' 1997
		JOHAN CRUIJFF - EN UN MOMENTO DADO A film about the search for Catalan identity and independence through the past decades and the important role both Cruijff plays, being almost a saint for the Catalans by working his miracles. Finally, Johan Cruijff himself will take the floor...
		KID DYNAMITE A documentary portrait of the legendary Surinamese saxophonist in Amsterdam, who was called 'Kid Dynamite' thanks to his explosive way of playing.
		LAGONDA In 1938 the Dutch architect Jan van Erven Dorens (1904-1994) bought the most beautiful automobile then available, a Lagonda LG6 Drop Head CoupŽ. Immediately after the liberation the car was confiscated by Prince Bernhard«s staff, only to turn up again soon afterwards when war hero Montgomery had himself driven around in it so the citizens of Amsterdam could hail and cheer him. After that day Van Erven Dorens never set eyes on his car again. What happened to the Lagonda?
		LAGOS / KOOLHAAS Filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak accompanies one of the world's most renowned architect, Rem Koolhaas, doing research in Lagos, Nigeria. Koolhaas doesn't want to build or change, but aims to learn from Lagos, fascinated by the energy of this city and his wish to understand modernity in all its aspects.
		LAST WORDS , MY SISTER YOKA A movie about Johan van der Keukens big sister; Joke.
		MATHILDE SANTING GOES NEW YORK A documentary film about Dutch singer Mathilde Santing recording her new jazz album in New York.
		MIXED SALAD - IMPRESSIONS OF A CITY OASIS Mixed Salad - Impressions of a City Oasis (Gemengde Sla - Impressie van een Stadsoase)shows how beautiful these little bits of nature are, and the great importance they have for those who use them. Not using the educational tones of development workers, but seen through the eyes of the attentive visitor, who realises with wonderment that happiness can be found in a sprig of mint.
		O AMOR NATURAL O Amor is a documentarie about the erotic poetry from one of the greatest South-American poets this century; Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Prix Italia 'Prix Special' 1997
		PUTIN'S MAMA 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 President Vladimir Putin the son she thought was lost forever.
		RAILMOVIES: BELGRADE-BAR 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.
		RAILMOVIES: BETWEEN TWO SAINTS In this railmovie Ramon Gieling crosses Spain by train from the Basque Provinces to his village Frigiliana in Andaluc’a, in search for the vitality of death.
		RAILMOVIES: DAKAR-TIMBUKTU 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.
		RAILMOVIES: HAARLEM-ALGERIA Karim Tra•dia and his brother, actor Hakim Tra•dia travel with their children back to their homeland Algeria. The destination of their travel is - maybe the last - meeting with their old father.
		RAILMOVIES: IN LOVING MEMORY A railmovie along the picturesque railway between Leeds and Carlisle flows into a search to people from the past. In Loving Memory is a film about the value of remembering and commemorating.
		RAILMOVIES: JOURNEY THROUGH EMPTINESS The railway between Sydney and Perth. Director RenŽ Roelofs once lived at the sea in Australia trying to realise his dreams. What is left of that period?
		RAILMOVIES: RAIN IN NAGASAKI A Dutch group of former camp prisoners during World War II travels back from The Hague to Japan. Japanese students who hear their stories, are surprised. The past may seem long ago, but the question who can be kept responsible for the atomic bomb is still alive among the Japanese youth.
		RAILMOVIES: RIO - A DAY IN AUGUST 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.
		RAILMOVIES: THE GOLD LINE The railway between Paramaribo and Dam. On a railway yard near the small town Onverwacht a steam engine, a couple of diesellocs and carriages are waiting for better times. Once they were used for the gold fields in the Lawa-area.
		RAILMOVIES: THE REUNION EXPRESS 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'.
		RAILMOVIES: TRIP TO PARADISE The railway between the caviar of the Caspian Sea to the oil of the Persian Gulf, where martyrdom is omnipresent in daily life. In the mountain villages of Iran however, away from the big city, ostentatious fanaticism dissolves and the filmmaker comes upon tranquil serenity. This film gives an intriguing image of the Iranian society.
		RAILMOVIES: UNDER MOSCOW A documentary about the subway in Moscow, which was built in the thirties and fourties during the Stalin regime and is acknowledged as an architectural tour de force of the communist utopia.
		RIVIERA HOTEL Documentary about Cuba and the people connected to the Riviera hotel.
		SIDE CANAL B A documentary portrait of one of the last illegal houseboat areas in the Netherlands.
		SWEET CéCILE A documentary film about women who prefer to raise their children alone.
		THE BARREN LAND A torn up monologue by a man who has temporary lost his tracks.
		THE FIRST OF THE REST The documentary "The First of the Rest" is about the nostalgia and melancholy of motorcycle racing in the Seventies IDFA 'Best Scenario' 1997
		THE LAST YUGOSLAVIAN SOCCER TEAM A film about the last Yoegoslavian football team
		THE LONG HOLIDAY The Long Holyday is a personal 'road-air-movie' by Johan van der Keuken.
		THE RED STUFF The first Russian cosmonauts who wanted to go higher and higher.
		THE SONG OF 80 SPRINGS A film about one of the hardest but most valuable things when we grow older: keeping the lust for life.
		THE STRUGGLE FOR THE DIKES In the winter of 1995, the river dikes in Gelderland threatened to give way. 250.000 people were evacuated from the area, and the cattle were transported elsewhere with great haste. All of Holland held its breath. Would the dikes hold? Linda Lyklema looks back at those hectic days with the people who experienced it all, and investigates how it ever could have gotten so out of hand.
		THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA 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.
		THE VOS AFFAIR 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.
		The world of silence A philosophical and spiritual photo-film about a man who finds his inner voice.
		THERE AIN'T NO EASY ROAD The Canadian singer Fred Eaglesmith, son of an immigrant family from Friesland, has played in every bar on the North-American continent, but never visited Friesland.
		TRANGA UMA Every year, Marjorie da Cunha organises the Miss Charm competition in South East Amsterdam. The winner of the competition gains the title of Miss Charm and ambassador for South East Amsterdam. The Miss Charm competition is used as the vehicle to tell the story of a generation of young women aged around 20 from the South East of Amsterdam, as they attempt to rise above their origins and to shape their own future.
		WAITING FOR COLONEL PARKER A documentary about Andreas van Kuijk, also known as colonel Tom Parker, the manager of Elvis Presley.
		YO SOY ASI A film about the famous nightclub 'La Bodega Bohemia' and her artists in Barcelona.

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