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- Shabu, a 14-year old from Peperklip, Rotterdam, accidentally crashes his grandma's car. He then spends a summer trying to make money for the car while pursuing his passion: making music.
- On the border of Turkey and Iran, 19-year-old twins Zahra and Fatimah from Afghanistan lose their family. To survive in a hostile world of smugglers and drug dealers, they face choices and dilemmas that severely test their symbiotic relationship and conscience.
- Four kids, who all lost a parent to suicide, share their journey from the moment they heard the news. The filmmaker, who experienced the same tragedy, asks them the questions no one dared to ask her at the time.
- In the four-part documentary series Staal, we follow steel plant Tata Steel and its neighbors in changing times. After a century of steel production in the dunes of Wijk aan Zee, IJmond residents are diametrically opposed. For many IJmonders, the factory is their life and their bread. They see the smoking colossus in the dunes as a natural part of the landscape. Other, often new, residents are deeply concerned about their health. Plans to go green may come too late. Because patience is running out and protests by local residents against Tata Steel are growing. Steel is about today's big question: how do you live together, when interests are so divergent?
- Burning Out is literally a drama about life and death. For two years, the Belgian director Jérôme le Maire followed the members of a surgical unit in one of the biggest hospitals in Paris. Constantly under severe stress, understaffed and subject to severe budget cuts, employees fight each other for resources. Meanwhile the management imposes ever more stringent efficiency and profitability targets. All over Europe burnout has reached epidemic proportions among employees in the public and private sectors. Will we end up killing ourselves? Or will we be able to find meaning and joy at work?
- When the Polish au pair Karina goes grocery shopping with the family's children, she notices that the mother does not trust her with her PIN code. A small rift appears in the bond of trust between Karina and the family, with all its consequences.
- Focussing on the Amsterdam borough North, the documentary series explores social inequality in the Dutch education system.
- Wanneer er thuis geen geld meer is en de vroegwijze Wesley (12) als enige met lege handen aan komt op de verjaardag van zijn imponerende klasgenoot Myra (12), besluit hij zich stiekem voor te doen als dé jarige job in een radio-uitzending.
- Two individuals in two different spots in the world ask filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez to film them; his best friend and his mother. They both know they have little time to live. They both try to explain themselves to themselves; the reasons, the purpose, and the trace of their path through this world. The feeling of the impending end of their lives triggers a journey. A voyage to a place with no trail of human existence, to a possible vacuum of color, sound, texture and smells. An attempt to visualize the nothing, to touch it. While listening to his friend and to his mother, by mirroring in them and by being part of this journey, the filmmaker tries to get close to that which has no explanation. Why are we here? Is it worthwhile? Is it enough? The Mirror and the Window is an expedition, an exorcism, a spell - as a preparation for the big leap into the void, in an attempt to understand what life is about.
- A poetic blend of fiction and found footage from the 1960s and 1970s. Two girls grow up along a European border. Slowly, they are driven apart and experience what it means to be separated by borders.
- The documentary 'Mother on the Line' tells the story of three daughters who take care of their mothers. 'But it's my mom' echoes an innate sense of responsibility. But where does a daughter set her limit?
- An intimate portrait of the symbiotic relationship between 19 year old Dunya and her mother Sabine, in which we see their close bond on the one hand, but also feel how limiting this relationship can be for Dunya. Will Dunya succeed to escape a repetition of their troubled past and differentiate from her mother?
- In the footsteps of a man with a camera. Using previously unpublished interviews, family films and propaganda films, 'The Propagandist' tells the story of the rise and fall of filmmaker Jan Teunissen. As head of the Department of Film of the Dutch Nazi Party and SS and as leader of the Film Guild, he became the most powerful man in the Dutch film industry during World War II. What drove Teunissen to become part of the Nazi regime? A film about limitless ambition, alternative facts and the manipulative power of film.
- After a terrible car crash, Ben saves himself first, then tries to rescue his son Luca in vain. He can't hold his breath long enough to save him. Ben and Nina lose a child. Trapped in guilt and grief Ben starts to avoid contact with Nina.
- Three male voices openly discuss their paedophile tendencies and how they try to deal with this ethically. This documentary reveals the complex emotions behind an orientation society deems perverted.
- Lenno and the Angelfish tells the story of a 10-year old boy, who tries his best to behave. But how to be 'a good boy 'when everybody has their own opinion of what the difference is between right and wrong?
- Mery fled from Armenia to the Netherlands and left everything behind. Her son David (14) is a talented break-dancer. Can David make up for his mother's lost dreams, or will he choose his own path?
- On March 20, 2003, the American Army under the command of George W. Bush invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime and to destroy its supposed weapons of mass destruction. A war that lasted for eight years, costing the lives of 500.000 civilians, and displacing five millions. Although there are 1.3 millions lawyers in activity in the United States and thousands of NGOs, no one has ever intended to sue the planners of a war deemed illegal by the United Nations. No one except Inder Comar.
- In an air polluted future the 20 year old drummer Olly wants only one thing: to get inside the dome, where the air is clean and the best musicians live.
- Today's activists are on a virtual frontline. Some of the biggest social movements of recent decades started as hashtags. #BlackLivesMatter got millions of people worldwide to go and protest and #MeToo put Harvey Weinstein behind bars. Writer and feminist Tessel ten Zweege (25) also ventures into the virtual landscape of cyberactivism, in which she particularly speaks out for women's rights. Yet she increasingly wonders how effective cyberspace is as a battleground for her social activism. In the 3Lab: Tessel in Cyberspace she investigates how effective so-called hashtag activism actually is.
- Marijn, Dora and Lieke all grew up with gay parents. They reveal how this form of parenting has shaped them.
- The staff of the Judith van Swethuis cares with an inexhaustible strength for the 55 residents in this psychiatric care facility. The inhabitants don't get treatment but are cared for. Many of them have been in and out of mental institutions for the biggest part of their lives. In this house they finally find a sense of safety, comfort and a structured way of living. The outside world is too much of a challenge for them without people to help them. With a personal approach and a lot of patience caretakers Jeffrey and Tanja try their best to give meaning to the life of these people. Day and night they make an effort to make this house feel like home for this fragile group. The caretakers are always searching for the balance between chronic psychiatry and social care. One Thing at a Time (original title: Thuishaven) is an observing film about a miniaturised community and the people who have devoted their life to make other peoples life as best as possible.
- The young friends Eva, Sarah and Abd wander through the ruins of Aleppo. They seek support from each other and encourage each other in their struggle to break away from their parents.
- About the difficult work at the the Dutch naturalization service