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The twin brothers Peter Anema and Erik Hulsegge did not know about each other’s existence for 17 years. Why were they separated upon adoption?

In this travel series, journalist Nina Jurna investigates how history affects the present in seven countries and how this leads to a new Caribbean culture.

A search for how and why director Erik Fransman feels like a Jew as an atheist, without god or religion to hold on to. Together with his family who, just like him, are Jewish without god, he looks for answers.

Dande is an old Aruban custom when the Dande group goes door-to-door making music to bring prosperity for the new year. Filmmaker Cindy Kerseborn immerses herself in a world still unknown to the Netherlands. The Dande is hypnotically contagious. It makes you happy, even when you hear it for the first time.

What impact does it have on your adult life, when one of your parents disappears from your life after a divorce, by fault of the other parent or as a result of a decision you made as a child?

A photo is worth a thousand words, the cliché goes, but in The Photograph one photo unleashes thousands of special stories. About New York and its black residents, about pride and tradition, about the power of photography, and about the grandfather of director Sherman De Jesus.

What happens when the leading national museum focuses its gaze on the slavery history of the Netherlands? This is the subject of New Light, a highly topical documentary from director Ida Does about the genesis of the slavery exhibition in the Rijksmuseum.

The Whole Wide World is an intriguing look into the identity of three bright young people that live in two worlds, and the obstacles they have to conquer to arrive and acquire a place for themselves in a new society.
 

What happens in your childhood defines your life, according to artist Armando. His childhood was defined by one crucial incident; a boy kills a German soldier in the woods during the Second World War.

Going to a concert, dancing on technopop, hanging out on the beach, riding horses. But also: is there a place in my life for a relationship, how do people look at me, what is normal?

When he is ten years old, George Maduro travels from his native Curaçao to study in...

The dingy looking building from the twenties at the Carnotstraat 17 in Antwerp used...

No artist has rid himself with as much flair and force of the arrogance and conceit of the Dutch art world as Henk Peeters did.

To protect him against bullies at school father and mother Stolzenbach send their son Dennis to kickboxing class.

Shtetl in the Caribbean

A documentary exploring the new and controversial world of anti-aging. Aging is...

Dutch Masters in the 21st century is a series of short film portraits of...

Dutch Masters in the 21st century is a series of short film portraits of contemporary visual artists in their studio or workshop. The project is intended to grow into an extensive series recording a whole generation of artists. Sherman De Jesus made a portrait of the artist Henk Peeters for Dutch Masters.

For more than 20 years Cilla, a black transsexual in her mid-forties, has a dilemma...

EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE – PIET ZWART

“If I hadn't met father Kotte, I wouldn't be interested in the Catholic Church”,...

Lost Down Memory Lane directed by Klara Van Es, is the first documentary, about...

Oerdak – Poem in Progress is a portrait about the style and approach of the poet...

This coming-of-age documentary tells the story of a child of the television...

Luca’s family is special: ‘My moms are lesbian and my daddies are gay, that is how...

The youth documentary Reporters From the West, follows a group of children with...

Illiterate provides a striking picture of the limited world of Anneke, a young...

Everything in the life of vocalist Izaline Calister focuses on music. On the island of Curaçao she found the key: the tambú, the very rhythmic improvisation-based music of Curaçao with its roots in Africa.

Under the regime of Benito Mussolini in the 1930s, radio came to the fore in Italy....

Every year, throughout the world, fifty million women have abortions. In the Netherlands the right to abortion seems so fundamental that it is difficult to imagine that it is still a major issue for many women in the world.

In his own lifetime, the works of Jan Schoonhoven (Delft, 1914 – 1994) were...

Souls of Naples, a visually overwhelming non-fiction film about Naples and a...

Eva is beautiful, successful and single. For her 35th birthday, her friends give her the only thing that she hasn’t got and always wanted to have: a man! But what does she have to do with him? After a short trial period, she decides to send him away, but she regrets this….

Black Businessman Mr.Ecury from Aruba arrives in the Netherlands after WWII to search for the body of his son Boy, who was executed by the Nazis because of his work as a resistance fighter. Mr.Ecury has only one thing to go on: Boy died with a smile on his face.

“It’s not time that passes, but you and I; there is no time outside our thoughts.”...

The film shows the special building technology used in the super-modern ‘Sluijmer House’. It was built in the heart of a protected historic area, in the canal area of the centre of Utrecht surrounded by historic buildings.

Starting in New York City ALL IS LIGHT- JAN HENDERIKSE narrates the birth of Nite...

While Jack (Freerk Bos) enjoys his Joy Meal in a fast-food restaurant, he catches...

Daan risks his reputation as a respectable husband and father when he takes an interest in a whore on the street. His little daughter Akke, not yet two years old, is a witness from the back seat as her father gets in a jam which seems to end in the death of the prostitute.

In Zuilen Takes a Deep Breath, Esther Pennarts meets Annie Cabo, Truus van Beuningen and Monaïn Kharrate.

Cola Debrot once said: The City of Utrecht had a hollow bottom. Walking at night from the society to the Oudegracht, I could hear voices coming from beneath the earth. They talked about love and longing, of sorrow and tears. They were probably the voices of the Romans. It made me feel melancholy. I still remember the bronze voice of the Utrecht Tower, I still hear it admonishing: “Keep your heart up, keep you heart up!”

Using only historical archive footage from the turn of the 20th century to the late...

Java, 1941. Journalist and writer Willem Walraven (Gerard Thoolen) is imprisoned in...

The story of Ocalia is told using the diary that Ocalia left behind. With shots of...

All his life, candle-maker Ruud Snel has been tied to his wheelchair. In many...

Stage is A Village brings stories together of men and women around the world. They...

The title of the film is derived from a statement in “Guene” by the grandfather of...

Adam Adamus needs to hurry; tomorrow members of the European Commission are coming...