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- A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother's birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and in London, then back to his parents' home in Tanworth. His parents describe his habits and personality. Two friends and the producer, arranger, sound engineer, and photographer for his three albums comment. His mother, a musician and poet, is an early influence. His quiet folk style made his one tour a disaster. His lack of success and gradual withdrawal end with his death at 26. Eleven of his recordings play on the soundtrack, usually as we see his room, a city, or the Warwickshire countryside.
- 2013, the 100th edition of the Tour de France. But what if the greatest race of all times has yet not taken place? The King of Mont Ventoux pits five cycling heroes against each other during the Tour de France in an unprecedented race beyond the bounds of time. Crossing the verge of sports, the documentary explores the extraordinary evolution of competitive cycling over the last 40 years. Who will become the king of the Mont Ventoux ? Merckx, Bernard, Virenque, Pantani or Garate ?
- A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work.. sometimes it just isn't worth getting out of bed. A girl in a strawberry pie factory, a stressed desert nomad, a Wall street stockbroker, the last living WW2 female spy, a painter who paints Time for 42 years, the first school shooter in history who wounded eleven children and killed two adults because: 'I don't like Mondays', are the characters in this film. John Malkovich gives voice to the inner bored human being. He crawls under your skin prompting questions: Howmany people in the world are like me?
- As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.
- As Pablo becomes 13 it's time to overcome the difficult situation at home and capricious soccer world to live up his promise of becoming a great football player.
- It is the picture of how a relationship between two people after several years of marriage, you can spend a great love for stifling prison. Is your child that observes and tells his story.
- The Potato Eaters is a film about Nico's Snackbar, where the Gillisse family has been baking French fries for more then 55 years. People from miles around come to the Bezuidenhout, a district in The Hague, for the special taste of their French fries. The film tries to analyze what is so special about this taste. Is it craftsmanship, is it the taste of memories or is it the taste of social contact? The old Nico Gillisse founded Nico's Snackbar in 1955 in the Bezuidenhout, a district almost completely ruined by a mistaken Allied bombing during the Second World War. Nico brought a new kind of food and a new era. Since he died his sons Nico, Martin and Paul took over. They worked in the snackbar with their entire families until this very day. The Potato Eaters tells a post war Dutch family history as a tribute to Van Gogh.
- Sport brings people together, but did the people of Rwanda really find peace with each other 20 years after the genocide? FC Rwanda is a film about the soccer pitch as stage for Rwanda's political reality.
- Wonderful World A city without homeless people is not really a city. Filthy bums, irritating bawlers, dishevelled characters, they enrich our existence in a way we don't really comprehend. Wonderful World immerses into the heads of people who have fallen out of our welfare state. Vagabond Jan Dominique approaches everyday as a beautiful day, even when he is chased out of his 'home' by bulldozers. Saskia is homeless for 15 years and former physician. Her literary knowledge helps her to survive. The love elderly Lucy and Herman feel for each other makes us envious. Wonderful World is a visual and musical tribute to individuals who dangle on the edge of oblivion.
- French writer Michel Houellebecq thinks and speaks about what might be left to say - shot against the background of the set of this feature film, at 'post-apocalyptic' locations in Lanzarote and Andalusia.
- So as not to Forget A film about the force of memories. Memories make a person into what he or she is, but what happens if you are engaged in a wrestling match with your memories? So as not to forget follows four people in the struggle with their memories. An Iraqi artist had to fight in the trenches of the war against Iran for 8 years. To ward off madness he used to draw, day in day out. Now, in the Netherlands, he is up against the stress of exile and paints the memories of his native town, memories he is so keen to pass on to his children. Old age is keeping a strong, elderly woman locked up in the midst of an incredible wealth of memories; but she has no one to pass them onto. Her tangible memories, will soon have to go, too. A man who lives in a nursing home is faced with the loss of his memory, a process he can do nothing about. Through reminiscence therapy people try to restore to story of his life, hoping to help him rediscover part of his crumbling identity. A few stages on in this process is a woman who does not even recognize herself in the mirror, but entrusts all her love and inner richness to a plastic doll. Leo Divendal, the photographer, welds the various stories together to a larger narrative that tells us about the collective consciousness. So as not to forget is a poetic film about the force and the power of memories.
- A tragicomic journey through the city I love, the city I had to leave. The world's most beautiful bay, the world's best seafood and the shadow of the surreal pyramids of garbage. A journey in the company of priests, mafiosi, activists, saints, magistrates, police officers, journalists, bartenders and two outstanding individuals: the Mayor of Naples and the American professor, guru of Zero Waste theory, who maintains that garbage can be reduced to zero not only in San Francisco but also in Naples.
- Three generations of women, wedged between two worlds, struggle to give shape to their lives in present-day Iran. In the world outside they wear headscarves and obey the rules of the state, yet in their world at home breadwinner Maryam runs the show, aided by her mother and her younger sister Ghazal. When Maryam wants to get married, however, these two worlds clash painfully, and the entire family gets involved. Son and co-director Sharog Heshmat Manesh, living in the Netherlands, leads us into this, otherwise closed, private world. 'Daughters of Malakeh' gives us a unique and genuine picture of family life in Iran.
- If you could see everything for the first time again, what would you see? Would it be different from how you look at the world right now? What do you think you see? You know what the color red looks like, or a house or a bird. But do you really see it? Are you capable to wonder or doubt about what you see? After documentary film director Tamara Miranda gave birth to her first son, Djamilo, she looked with his 'new eyes' at the world and realized she lost this wonder a long time ago. It's not the great perspectives but the small and intimate worlds, that we tend to neglect, that are revealed and celebrated in this film.
- 'Last Words' shows Michel Houellebecq while he puts his novel 'The possibility of an Island' into images. Iggy Pop, both an admirer as well as long time idol of Houellebecq, contributes to this document with 7 specially made songs. A search into 'never ending goodbyes' and the 'pure terror of space' by Lieshout, Hagers en Van Brummelen.