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- An aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin.
- In 1947, those aspiring to be priests are sent to a remote monastery to live in seclusion (Seklusyon) on the last day of their training. The purpose is to shield them from evil of the world. The plot thickens when a mysterious young girl arrives there, but the challenge that awaits the candidates is whether she was really sent by God or by the Devil.
- Childhood friends Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown and discovers that Nina is getting married the next day. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.
- Born in a caravan on the side of the road, Alfie Best becomes the richest Gypsy in the world, tackling the biggest challenge of modern times.
- Najib, a young Moroccan born in The Netherlands, has just graduated from law school and aspires to get his master's degree. Because his older brother is being arrested for criminal activities, Najib is now required to take care of his family overnight. Events are jostling in his life. He abandons his studies and fails to meet the needs on his own. Being on the verge of despair, he is approached by Brahim who offers him help. The latter will exploit the of vulnerability and finally convinces him to fight the "holy war".
- Tells the story of a friendship between the disturbed clown Mr. Coco and the tormented child Natalie. When Mr. Coco makes a promise to kill someone at her request the story takes a shocking turn.
- In 1948, Albert Gemmeker, former commander of Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, engages in a war of words with an enigmatic interrogator accusing him of unspeakable crimes.
- A cheeky nine-year-old boy called Gattu lives in Roorkee. The small town along with Gattu shares an obsession with flying kites and defeating the ruler of the skies above Roorkee.
- This eccentric rural New Zealand tale follows two con men as they attempt to trick a small town into their illegal gambling scheme.
- Two innocent orphans, Maiky and Alice, are trying to survive in a world overrun by war. The children hide in a rundown house while the raging war is catching up on them. Maiky and Alice are forced to escape from their shelter strolling through the ruins of a bombed city. Alice and Maiky are looking for a place which enables them to feel like children again, a Safe Haven. It seems they will never be able to escape the war but still they hold on to hope.
- An Afrikaans story about a chubby 17-year old (Kallie) who struggles to fit in in his new school. On top of that, luck has it that he falls in love with the school bully's sister.
- In a historical vegetable garden on a Dutch estate, the 85 year-old pruning master and the gardener tend to the espaliers. As they prune, the men chat about food, the weather, the world and they share their knowledge of horticulture. Surrounded by vegetable patches, citrus trees in the historical orangery, the orchard and lush grapevines we're swept along by their passion, dedication and knowledge that make up the essential ingredients of successfully maintaining a large vegetable garden. Fifteen years they have spent working on the pear arbour. Will it finally close over this year? Despite his old age, the pruning master is still inexhaustible and driven. As he worries about the loss of centuries of knowledge, the younger gardener makes a real effort of soaking up all this knowledge and passing it on. Meanwhile the seasons go by. The gardening lady works the vegetable patches, the citrus trees leave their winter accommodation and we get to meet the Apple Blossom Beetle. The grand finale is in August with its seemingly never-ending harvest and its abundance of taste, colour and scent. As peace slowly returns to the natural world, it's business as usual for the gardener amid the falling leaves and the white frost on the branches. Everything has its time.
- Each episode takes a route past a number of special locations, with the train acting as a guideline. Attention is paid to the trains, the landscapes and cultures. Enjoy the research tour of striking railway lines all over the world..
- David, an internationally renowned actor, has to work hard to manage his success, facing his fears
- A family reaches boiling point during a pit stop on their way home from what might be their last holiday together. But the volatile cocktail of sweltering heat, restless hormones and suppressed frustration fails to explode, leading instead to reconciliation.
- The Street Project tells the story of two journalism students, Oscar and Michael, who sit in the pit after heavy criticism from their teacher for their video report. To still make it through their year, they decide to go into an Amsterdam neighborhood where a a group of street kids are active. Their goal is to both capture the street kids themselves, as the influence of them on local residents and to display that in their film. Through several interviews with this population group it gets clear that the seriousness of the situation is greater than they had ever imagined. Meanwhile, the students become increasingly involved with the neighborhood and its residents. Eventually it's no longer just about a good grade, but about a groundbreaking report.
- Dexter's controlled life gets thrown into confusion when a girl appears on his work that looks exactly like his girlfriend Stella. At home his beloved Stella doesn't understand what's going on and she starts questioning their relationship. Dexter's life deteriorates furthermore: traffic bills keep coming in, he is banned from his trusted working place, Stella breaks up with him, and his boss sends him on an immediate leave. When Dexter has crashed several cars, he is arrested by the police and taken to hospital. There he is told that a stroke has caused him a brain damage in his right hemisphere. Consequently he doesn't see left anymore and his sense of reality has been affected: he sees the same people everywhere. Dexter has to learn to live in a world wherein people look alike. Initially he reacts rather indifferent. Then, in the hospital he meets another girl who looks like Stella. She is of little words and has a minimal appetite. As she has to regain her taste for life, Dexter has to discover that from all Stella's, there's only one he really cares about. LEFT is a tragicomedy wherein Dexter is forced to look into his other side. The film treats this subject subtly and considerate: everything gets twisted a little bit, but never falls apart completely.
- This film provides a broad overview of !Kung life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a !Kung woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties.
- Two friends, Dennis & Co want to shoot a movie. So they home jack the famous actor Alec Bachman in his Villa in Saint-Tropez. Dennis: "Come on Alec, Act!" Will they succeed in their plan to shoot a Blockbuster and win the Cannes film festival?
- The film concerns female excision which has long been a practice in various African cultures and has taken a variety of forms. In those European countries and more recently in the United States, which has seen a rise in immigration from formerly inaccessible areas of Africa, the term "female genital mutilation" or "excision" and it's practice by newly transplanted Africans within the context of European and American society, culture and law, has become contested ground. Anthropologists, many of whom have long been aware of the practice, are finding themselves in the center of the debate. BINTOU IN PARIS is an excellent introduction to the theme as we are able to understand the complex mix of the pressure to adhere to tradition, while dealing with the desires of a younger generation infused with a sense of female emancipation to conform to the roles and demands of a new culture with new laws and protections. While the film is acted, the inter familial relationships ring true, as do the circumstances the film constructs. The film enhances our understanding of a volatile topic without resorting to horrific images or descriptions.
- An examination of biculturalism wrapped in an extraordinary personal odyssey.
- In the stairwell of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, Dutch filmmaker Corinne van der Borch stumbles upon an ornery elderly resident named Bettina, living in the shadows. Over decades Bettina has surrounded herself with boxes stacked from floor to ceiling, filled with works of her art that never left her studio. She sleeps on a lawn-chair, and dreams of her own museum, while the sediments of her life push her to the verge of eviction. During humorous, intimate and provocative conversations, their difficult friendship gradually grows, as the filmmaker attempts to unveil the life of one of New York's last true eccentrics.
- 'Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies. Facing long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military adopts a controversial new program, 'Human Terrain Systems', to make cultural awareness a key element of its counterinsurgency strategy. Designed to embed social scientists with combat troops, the program swiftly comes under attack by academic critics who consider it misguided and unethical to gather intelligence and target potential enemies for the military. Gaining rare access to war-games in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth, 'Human Terrain' takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine and the shadowy collaboration between American academics and the armed services. The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returned to Brown University to conduct research on military cultural awareness. A year later, he left to embed as a Human Terrain member with the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan. On May 7, 2008, en route to mediate an inter-tribal dispute, his Humvee hit a roadside bomb and Bhatia was killed along with two other soldiers. Asking what happens when war becomes academic and academics go to war, the two stories merge in tragedy.
- In 1928, 200 years after the London premiere of John Gay's "Beggar's Opera", Bertolt Brecht edited a new translation for the opening of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin and, at Lion Feuchtwanger's suggestion, gave the play the title The Threepenny Opera. Kurt Weill's music contains elements of jazz and light music, of church and opera melodies - the audience at the premiere reacts icily at first, then enthusiastically: the evening becomes a triumph, the greatest theatrical success of the 1920s and is only taken off the schedule in 1933 - under pressure Joseph Goebbels' Nazi Propaganda Ministry.
- Shining is a film about cinema. Shining UFO is a film about a film about cinema. We discover manufacturing secrets and the daughter behind the father: the formidable Vivian Kubrick, who opens Pandora's box for us.