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- In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
- Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
- Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
- Two half-brothers get to know each other while sailing up a river in an inhospitable region in search of the place where their father was found dead.
- When Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new environment and the loss of her mother.
- A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning encounter mysterious deer-men who change their existence.
- Road-movie shot in Riga and Holland about a man in search of another mother for his child. The Latvian Elvis (10) has fallen silent since the tragic death of his mother. He has been stuck in a decrepit children's hospital in Riga for two years with no prospects of recovery. The boy's father can no longer bear to see his son suffer and flees with him the terrible conditions in his country. In the hope of a better future for Elvis he goes to wealthy Holland in search of the woman who was his pen friend in his youth.
- Successful violinist Sacha arrives in Amsterdam, gets mugged, and then meets Caspar and Maarten, two friends who deliberately live outside society.
- On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.
- A traffic jam like a polonaise of cars: nobody can escape. A cynical record plugger, two sisters, a quarreling couple and an illegal man from Poland are confronted with each other and with themselves.
- A man is travelling on a long haul express train journey from Amsterdam to Paris. He shares his sleeper compartment with another man who he engages in conversation. He learns that the man is a cannibal who intends to kill and eat him. The man is unsure of where his life is going and begins to be swayed by the cannibal's assertions that being eaten would give his life meaning and purpose. However # how long can the man stall for, with questions on the finer points of eating someone?
- Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude you?
- De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he never dared during his entire life. Jan, as an outsider, is some sort of spectator of the life in the village, although he is also involved in that life.
- Five sisters get together in a holiday cottage to discuss and plan celebrations for the fortieth wedding anniversary of their parents.
- How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?
- The island Tiengemeten was once reclaimed from the sea, intended for agriculture. In the 1990s a decision was made to set-aside land allowing nature to run its course. Digna Sinke followed the changes in the landscape over a period of 13 years, also recollecting the changes in her own life.
- The film follows three squatters from the start who have gradually grown apart. Their experiences serve to portray the changes at the squat from a center for subversive acts to homes with communal facilities.
- A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only plagued by her physical decay, but also by visions of her dead sister Marleen.
- A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.
- The poem Do we settle for Breskens by Kees Ouwens evokes a variety of nostalgic feelings for Ate de Jong. His teenage daughter Lois however reacts in a very different way.
- A film about Leonie Brandt, an actress who used her talent to become a brilliant double agent, living a life shrouded in intrigues and mysteries.
- Discusses how the Soviet Union invited prominent architects from western Europe to design the large industrial cities that were needed to house workers for the new coal and iron mines of the steppes.
- The film provides an associative, lyrical depiction of the poem Frühlingslied by J.C. van Schagen, focusing on a little boy's memories of his mother and bringing together present, past and future.
- Struggling to survive in Europe since the age of nine, Zimbabwean OG seeks a balance in her life. Director Carina Molier -her long distance friend- follows her in her quest for reunification with her daughter. The film is about longing for security in an ever globalising world.
- The history of a Jewish family in Europe during the period of Nazi terror in the Second World War, is the subject of this documentary.
- As the village of Doel dies a slow death under pressure from the advancing Antwerp docks, the elderly Emilienne tries to continue with her everyday life. But the village pastor Verstraete dies and her friends leave. Ultimately she is also forced to let go as well.
- New Tiengemeten is the account of the transformation of the little island of Tiengemeten, the last "real" island of South-West Holland. Fertile agricultural land is set aside to allow nature to run its course, according to a carefully drawn up plan. The film follows the development of the island after the departure of the last farmer. The asphalt roads are dug up to creeks, the dike is cut, the farms are given a new destination. Will man succeed in making nature? Nature that is also fit for recreation?
- A fantasy about saying farewell to a memory, based on the poem Domburg by Theo Raats.
- In this short film buildings and other remnants of our industrial past are said farewell to in a poetic manner.
- Over two thousand years ago, Vergilius wrote an ode to farming. Is there something to be found for a farmer in Flevoland that has not lost its relevancy?
- Director Kees Hin is searching on the beach of Domburg for people who want to read the poem SEA by the poet J.C. van Schagen. So, everybody strolling by the sea become their own poet and the poet J.C. van Schagen strolls along with them.
- Everyone knows the Hollandic Water Line, but only few people know that Brabant also has its own defence line: the line from Bergen op Zoom to Steenbergen, also known as Stelling West Noord-Brabant. The line has an impressive history. Only, not much of it is visible any more. Due to the construction of a new highway (A4), this extraordinary landscape rapidly develops. Director Frans Hoeben and his prodcuer SNG Film/ Digna Sinke follow the history and planned developments in a 4-part series to be broadcast by Omroep Brabant.
- In PASSERS-BY, you become participant of fragments of conversations in a variety of bus shelters in the deserted landscape of the Dutch province of Zeeland.
- In an immense architectonic universe a figure made of nuts and bolts, with a shell for a head, follows a mysterious crystal ball.
- LIEVE is about dealing with loss. We experience the world through the eyes of the seven-year-old girl Lieve. She lives near the forest, often sets off by herself and has found a way to perceive the world in a rosier fantastical manner.