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- In 1972, the arrival of migrant workers led to riots in the Rotterdam neighborhood of Afrikaanderwijk. An explosion of violence ensued, accompanied by a hailstorm of stones and Molotov cocktails. As the current generation recount testimonials, the events are reconstructed and imbued with present-day significance. This effect is amplified through the use of a split screen showing past and present at the same time. In (Re)membering the riots in Afrikaanderwijk in 1972 or guest, host, ghos-ti, visual artist Cihad Caner explores the things we remember and the things we forget and how memories and perspectives are bound to time and place - different for each individual.
- Beaten and hardened by life in a Nigerian ghetto, Charity leaves for Europe to work as an illegal prostitute. She is saddled with her younger sister Happy, whom she ruthlessly initiates into the world of prostitution. Happy resists her fate, jeopardizing Charity's dream of becoming rich. Together with other unregistered women they endure hardship, exploitation and humiliation with resilience and song, until one day it all becomes too much and they revolt, singing their fury from the rooftops.
- Daily life unfolds in a gated community of Manila amidst birdsong, effigies of the Holy Family, lush greenery and the intricacies of class. Rafael Manuel, alongside co-director Tatjana Fanny, casts an intimate gaze on his own childhood home which oscillates between personal and political, offering a tender yet piercing view into social and familial structures in the Philippines.
- Setting out from Saint Gervais, Mitch Docker is embarking on an epic challenge to emulate one of the greatest rides in Tour de France history; Claudio Chiappucci's crazy solo breakaway through the Alps to victory in the 1992 edition of the race. 250km, over 7000 metres of elevation, 5 brutal Alpine mountains, and the blistering heat of the French Summer lie ahead of Mitch as he undertakes the toughest bike ride of his life. As Mitch rides South through the mountains, he'll have to suffer over the Col des Saises, the Cormet de Roselend, the Col de l'Iseran, the Col du Mont Cenis, and the brutal final climb up to Sestriere. To make this challenge even harder, he'll be riding a replica of Chiappucci's '92 Carrera - complete with a heavy steel frame, down tube shifters, and rim brakes. We'll hear from deluxe commentator Phil Liggett, contemporary rider Pippa York, sports director Giuseppe Martinelli, and Claudio Chiappucci himself as they recount an epic day of bike racing and one of the greatest breakaways of all time. They called Chiappucci El Diablo; the Devil. After this ride, Mitch is going to find out why.
- Agadez, 2021. Following the ban of unlawful migrants transportation by the Niger government, four former smugglers struggle to make a living.
- A sound recordist visits 24 places as a spectral observer after his death, going on a journey that transcends time, space, cinema, and living. Boom mic in hand, he brings us to a diverse set of characters and settings, at times darkly humorous yet always suffused with a patient tranquility.
- A grieving woman at the grave of her lover. A love tragedy that takes place at a fun fair. The miracle of a newborn. Anna Faroqhi creates timeless, silent film miniatures based on three songs from the cycle Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann - interpretations of poems by Heinrich Heine - sung by Faroqhi herself. All three songs and films are about love.
- 54 Days tells the story of the events that led to the lockdown and the gulf between what Chinese officials and scientists knew and what they told the world. Through moving and intimate interviews with public health officials and scientists, this film also chronicles 54 days in which the United States made crucial decisions about the spread of Covid-19.
- Looking for his girlfriend, Mikhael ends up in a private clinic with extreme methods. The wily medical director promises to cure guests of their faith. Mikhael, however, thinks only of the girlfriend he lost. They were in love, but faith interfered.
- After their father is conscripted during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, three sisters begin a Hi8 video diary in their countryside home. They film each other putting on make-up, picking cherries, playing party games, getting into fights and helping their mother cook. This fragile, intimate world is perhaps their only shelter from the reality of bombings, sirens and war.
- A bar serves as the setting for the story of Feliciano, an ordinary man from the northeast of Brazil, about 40 years old. Married to Laurinha, he works as a librarian, but dreams of seeing the only play he has ever written performed one day. At home, besides his wife, he shares the small apartment with his mother, a widow who only thinks about taking her husband's ashes to Jerusalem. While waiting for his death in the bar, Feliciano goes back over the main moments of his life. There, the past and the present blend together, and the scenes take place within the main scene. The film is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Moacyr Góes.
- Dogs, sheep, goats, humans and many other animals go about their daily affairs on a farm in the Czech countryside. Tenderly capturing their reciprocal dynamics, a Few mornings, an Evening invites us to observe and reflect on our relationship with animals in human agriculture.
- A teenager tries to escape the grief about her mother's decease by joining her friends on a graduation trip to a Portuguese party town. Here, she immerses herself into a fuddle of liquor, drugs, dancing and sex. She bathes in the sun on the beach, buys ecstasy in a club and goes to a party with a local boy. But the faster she runs, the more the feeling she tries to escape catches up with her.
- A man tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he finds out that his son is having an affair.
- After an affair leads to an accidental death, a married couple moves away to start all over only to find trouble next door.
- The Ashokan rock-edict in a remote Himalayan village has the last fragment of a script only decipherable by few experts. Some miles away in Shimla, the art-historian V.C.Ohri, who uncovered the origins and techniques of Pahari paintings, warmly welcomes visitors. He is meeting them for the very first and last time.
- Wilmore Jefferson is a lovable schlub who's longing for connection. From his unremarkable job to his disastrous dating history, his life is going nowhere fast. However, all that changes when Ellen Connor, the gorgeous new office temp, invites him over for dinner.
- Behind AC/DC there is a clan, the Young brothers. From a young age, Malcolm, the driving force, and Angus, the guitar prodigy, have had one obsession: composing rock music with a touch of blues. Big brother George helps them along the way and becomes their mentor, producer and the discoverer of Bon Scott, the charismatic singer of AC/DC. The strong bond between the family and music forms the basis of one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
- In Achter de stilte (Behind the silence), we follow six people from Zeeland for eight months: a teacher, a café owner, a hairdresser, a farmer's wife, a very elderly person and the mother of a mentally handicapped woman. How do they manage? How do they deal with the uncertainty, the stress, the new normal? How do they work, teach and be taught? How do they keep their spirits up when almost all their social contacts have disappeared? And how do you carry on if you are cut off from the one you hold most dear?
- For decades, filmmaker Vincent Carelli kept returning to his friend, the late "Captain" Krohokrenhum, the leader of the Gavião indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. As a white outsider, it took Carelli time to gain Krohokrenhum's trust. Their long-term relationship resulted in this multifaceted and layered portrait of Krohokrenhum's life and suffering under the kupen-the Gavião word for the white settlers-from the deadly diseases the settlers brought with them to the battles that flared with neighboring peoples under pressure from their rapidly shrinking territory.
- Ten-year-old Aisha's latest school assignment asks her to say what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realises that all her classmates have written that they are going to take over their parents' businesses or follow them into their professions. Aisha has bigger dreams: she wants to go to Europe and become an actress. How to do it? Her plan is to find a job on a fishing boat so that she can sail all the way to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha doesn't agree - and when she meets Hassan, a drunken fisherman who promises to teach her how to fish, she seizes her opportunity.
- A lonely man lives in a closed, maze-like space, that seems to reflect the state of his mental illness. He doesn't speak, only communicates with body language, and animals are his only partners in conversation: he moves like them and, just like them, follows his instinct and his irrational impulses.
- Three missing people return to a remote town in Tunisia, where the local police inspector, Fathi, tries to unravel the mystery with the help of her friend Amine. Then a second inspector arrives from the capital.
- Sylvana lives in Lebanon, Mohammed in New York, but when they are together, they like to go for walks. Sylvana is in a wheelchair and Mohammed is blind, so she guides the way as he pushes. They talk about the constant lack of autonomy they experience in daily life, and how the obstacles they face are not only physical but above all societal. When Sylvana was a child, other children were forbidden to play with her for fear that her disability was contagious. Although highly educated, Mohammed was unemployed for two years as a result of discrimination. In separate interviews the two talk about their childhood, which they spent in institutions, and their current position in society. Filmmaker Maher Abi Samra followed their meetings over the course of a year, from a visit to a museum in Beirut, where they learn about standards of beauty among the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians and the desire for aesthetic perfection, to a stroll in Paris. Over tea, they talk about their endless, draining struggle for equal treatment. Is it your disability that holds you back, or the barriers raised by society?
- Fillmmaker Kenneth Anger exhumes newsreel footage of mighty dirigibles hovering ominously in the sky, the filmmaker's characteristic fusion of magic, symbolism, mystery and myth imbuing the already incredible footage with an eerie, supernatural quality.
- The adventurous Peter Paul worked his way up through the police force from the late 1990s to become a specialist in the Special Investigative Applications Service (DSRT), better known as the 'stealth section'. As an undercover agent, he found himself among the Netherlands' most notorious criminals, placing listening devices in cars, houses and flats, once even dangling from a block of flats. But after a period of highs - also on a personal level - Peter Paul finds himself in a free fall and several years later sits at home alone with his service weapon, full of compulsive thoughts about suicide. Eventually, he is diagnosed with occupation-related PTSD. Can Peter Paul regain his grip on reality?
- An in depth look at the 21-22 season of Belgian soccer club Union.
- Coincidence brings four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul together in humorous and playful ways. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.
- Pianist Djuwa Mroivili was one of the few students of color during her classical music training at the conservatory. As a black musician, she played music by white composers there. In this documentary, she explores her relationship with the traditionally white world of classical music. When Mroivili starts a historical research of the 1883 World Expo, an exhibition that did not just display machines, but also people from Dutch colonies, Mroivili discovers bewildering parallels between this World Expo and the current programming of classical music.
- The 1980s was a time when artists in both the UK and US were delivering powerful social commentary in their songs. Dylan Jones selects some of the finest alternative voices from this era. From The Cure on Top of the Pops at the beginning of the decade to The Stone Roses' debut TV performance in 1989, this episode takes a comprehensive look at the alternative music of an entire era. It also features powerful live performances from Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, Bronski Beat and The Selecter. In addition, there are archival gems from Pixies, The Smiths, Suzanne Vega, The Fall, REM and many more.
- Three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last nomads. From the independent life of hunting on the Keewatin tundra to taking the reins of the new territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, we see it all. The film is the result of a close collaboration between Ole Gjerstad, a southern Canadian, and Martin Kreelak, an Inuk. It's Martin's family that we follow, as the story is told through his own voice, through those of the Elders, and through those of the teens and young adults who were born in the settlements and form the first generation of those growing up with satellite TV and a permanent home.
- Rammstein present themselves as never before. The documentary 'Anakonda im Netz'/ 'Anaconda in the Net' reveals - more than ever before - what it is that keeps the Rammstein flame burning as brightly as it does. The documentary examines a whole range of topics, from the pure logistics of keeping Rammstein on the road, to the group's regular pre-show ritual, plus the ups and downs of life as a touring musician - which in this particular case can involve either being burnt or having your shoes ripped off. The documentary 'Anakonda im Netz' combines onstage material and unique documentary footage to provide an exclusive insight into these musicians and the Rammstein story.
- A group of animals are playing hide and seek on the savannah. Suddenly, Gerda's neck starts to grow like that of a giraffe. Everyone's in shock as Gerda tries to adjust to her new body. There's no hiding for her now. And with her head in the clouds, she can't see her friends any longer. It's the start of a new version of hide and seek.
- Rob cruises the Amsterdam canals with his great hero André van Duin. Based on ten life questions, an intimate conversation forms in which they look back on the difficult period of mourning after the death of his husband Martin. André tells how he cried every day for two years and how his new love helped him through this. Furthermore, he talks about why he doesn't like being alone. But the importance of recognition and his childhood are also discussed.
- The documentary takes time to show the staying power of the exceptional politician Angela Merkel and traces fundamental questions defining her politics.
- As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
- What seems to be a normal day quickly takes a strange turn, when the metro doors refuse to open.The passengers failed attempts to get out, descends into frustrated chaos. Losing all sense of rationality, they go wild in order to ensure their own survival.
- Ans Hoornweg died in 2022 at the age of 80. Hers was an extraordinary story. Extraordinary for others, that is, as contact with extraterrestrials was nothing special for Ans: she appeared on TV several times as a medium who could communicate with aliens. In Ans en het universum, for one last time, she recalls her out-of-body experiences and her visits to other planets. Ans also discusses her media appearances and how people would call her crazy, but still, Ans did not have one shred of doubt: aliens are everywhere and we're slowly transitioning to an era where current gender norms are no longer applicable.
- This documentary takes us back to this incredible life and career with numerous excerpts from films, songs, rare archives in which Perkins speaks in impeccable French, and the testimonies and memories of friends, colleagues and journalists who have worked with him.
- Jaime and Rocío are a married couple settled in a routine, the passion that existed between them disappeared a long time ago. They never talk about it openly, they have never been able to face reality. A night like any other, they fall asleep and begin to dream. Then they will have to face the truth that they are not able to face.
- With unadulterated truth and complexity, Arab Women Say What?. paints an unparalleled portrait of Arab women living in Canada. The film offers a counter-mainstream narrative that embraces the unique experiences and perspectives of eight Arab women sharing their insights, cuisine and laughter. Amid the rhythm of poetry and music, they tackle issues of feminism, politics, exile and the yearning for a sense of belonging.
- By chance, two inmates of Yuma State Prison, Ted Logan (Micky Molina) and Ricardo Montero (José Varela), find themselves free, with before them an inhospitable desert and an adventure to run, Indians and an implacable Marshall. John Donovan (Pedro Lopez), Ted and Ricardo's cellmate, who had previously won his freedom after eight long years behind bars, embarks with his brother Frank (Alex Navarro) in search of those who betrayed him.
- In a haunted apartment building, a paranormal investigator in decline has to reunite with his daughter to solve the mystery of the building and regain his credibility as a writer and father. All this, while trying to escape from the terrible creature that stalks the place, killing the tenants one by one.
- Buzkashi has been a popular sport in Central Asia for centuries. It is played only by men, who battle it out against one another on horseback. We see players galloping across vast plains, against a backdrop of snow-topped mountains and blue skies, and leaping on each other like rugby players to get hold of a goat carcass and take it across the goal line. The sound of whinnying horses is intensified by exhilarating drum rhythms.
- Is nuclear energy the solution to the climate crisis? Whether it is the only carbon-neutral technology capable of tackling the crisis or a fatally convenient stopgap, time is running out.
- Loubna, a 30-year-old woman who has spent her life hiding her autism to conform to societal norms goes on a road trip through France with her mother. During the trip, Loubna reveals her struggles and desire for self-acceptance as she interacts with her mother, mentor, friend and colleagues.
- A Swiss filmmaker of Palestinian origin travels to the West Bank to make sense of the break-up with a childhood friend who became a Jewish settler. While trying to understand why their friendship has not held up in the face of the political situation, he reveals his own tragic family history in Palestine. An emotional exploration of friendship and identity, through the brutality of the occupation and a cry for the survival of Palestinian culture.
- Jesse and his girlfriend are silently driving their car at night, when he motions her to stop. In front of the car, they see a strange object. When Jesse gets out and approaches the mysterious colossus, it crackles. The first taps turn out to launch a rapidly escalating express train full of secret desires.
- In Beat Me: The Five Knock-Outs, singers from different genres compete against each other in a musical duel. The winner of the previous week can have the prize money paid out or continue playing for an even higher amount of money. But that is not without risk: if you lose the duel, you go home empty-handed. The outcome will be decided by the audience and a three-man jury.
- The Amsterdam-based actor Bilal Wahib (1999) is a rising star who worked his way up from poverty and special education to Shooting Star at the Berlinale. Everyone embraces this golden boy. The night before receiving the Edison Award, he starts a livestream. Due to an ill-chosen joke, the internet explodes and heroism is swapped for banishment. Based on in-depth interviews with Bilal and the people around him, archive footage and rehearsal scenes, we gain insight in Bilal's life then - and now.