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- Much has been written, but little is known about Johannes Vermeer, painter of iconic paintings and crowd pleasers such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring. His small oeuvre is almost everything he left behind. Dicht bij Vermeer (Close to Vermeer) follows Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In the year before he retires, he works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of Vermeer enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer. Through new discoveries and by dissecting the work layer by layer, this film brings us closer to the painter to understand the decisions he made and the steps in his oeuvre.
- George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.
- In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows the unfolding of the case, in a sequence of crises that puts Brazilian democracy at risk.
- Farmer Gerlach is the last small arable farmer under the smoke of Amsterdam. His little house in the middle of the country is the raindrop in which the world is reflected, existentialist and absurdist.
- Turn Your Body to the Sun tells the incredible story of a Soviet prisoner of war. Sixty years later his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father.
- An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter.
- A Parked Life is an intimate portrait of Petar Bonchev, one of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European truck drivers who work in the west.
- Esther Kiobel's husband Barinem was one of the men executed in 1995 after revolting against Shell's pollution of Ogoniland (Nigeria). Almost 25 years later, Esther takes Shell to court in the Netherlands.
- A dialogue in film between a writer and a scientist about the disease dominating their lives.
- The Long River Slides is a musical ode to sadness. 'De Kift' frontman Ferry Heijne sets sail and meets people willing to share their stories with him. The poetic brass band punk provides comfort along the waterfront.
- Four people,in their struggle to improve the world during Occupy Amsterdam. The downfall of the encampment is part of their search for ways to bring about change. But why don't we want to hear their message?
- Ivo van Hove is a world famous director of cutting edge theatre productions. He worked together with David Bowie, Jude Law and Isabelle Huppert. In 2020 he made his version of the West Side Story on Broadway. The role of his partner, scenographer Jan Versweyveld is less known. The couple worked together for more than 40 years. The documentary Two Men sees them working on a large-scale production called Age of Rage with their own ensemble, in which they intend to bring together everything they have learned over the past 40 years. The film focuses on the microcosm of their collaboration and unravels the story of a love that is uniquely sustained by creating great theatre together.
- In the footsteps of a man with a camera. Using previously unpublished interviews, family films and propaganda films, 'The Propagandist' tells the story of the rise and fall of filmmaker Jan Teunissen. As head of the Department of Film of the Dutch Nazi Party and SS and as leader of the Film Guild, he became the most powerful man in the Dutch film industry during World War II. What drove Teunissen to become part of the Nazi regime? A film about limitless ambition, alternative facts and the manipulative power of film.
- What do you do when a global pandemic sweeps through a sold-out international opera house? Crazy Days is an opera-style documentary about the importance of art in crazy times.
- 13-year-old Wessel faces a dilemma: will he become a butcher, like his tough father and grandfather or does he prefer to work with living animals?
- The financial crisis of 2008 was a turning point during which the complexity of our financial system manifested itself. It was a web we had spun for over for more than thirty years, and which had brought us prosperity, larger houses and widescreen-televisions. But it turned out to be a giant house of cards. Starting in the US where the Lehman Brothers fell, the crisis spread like wildfire. Only two weeks after Lehman, the crisis infected Europe. 'On Day Eight' is a film about those seven days in 2008, during which all European countries had to work together, despite their differences. Suddenly, every second counted, the next morning, the stock-exchange would open again. Trust became more valuable than money. And unorthodox methods had to be used to save one of Europe's largest banks, FORTIS/ABN-Amro, which was twice the size of Lehman and had the potential of triggering the widely-feared domino-effect of falling banks all over the rest of the European continent and the British isles. Those who held all the power and control now take us back into this almost disastrous week in a harrowing hour-to-hour reconstruction.
- After the death of her best friend, director Marijn Frank goes running in the clothes inherited from her friend. She trains for a marathon and at the same time tries to accept the biggest loss of her life. How do you at least regain the illusion of a grip on life? While running she looks back on their friendship and tries to process her grief.
- In these Covid times, Dutch singer and comedian Claudia de Breij realizes how much she misses the stage to express herself. Together with musicians Michelle Samba and Abdelhadi Baaddi, she performs some of her own new songs, which tell the wonderful life and war story of singer and comedian Heintje Davids (1888-1975), but which are also essentially about themselves - because all three of them had to fight for their place on the stage. In HIER ZIJN WIJ (Here we are) director Suzanne Raes follows the creation of this production, which was developed during lockdown and shows how the makers were inspired by Heintje Davids.
- Singer Boudewijn de Groot says farewell to the songs with which he stormed the charts in the last 50 years. Through the reflections of friends and family, the elusive, almost mysterious personality of the singer comes to life. With archival material, but also film material that Boudewijn de Groot and Lennaert Nijgh made themselves, the singer's extensive oeuvre, together with his elusive character, comes to life.
- Jochem Myjer is one of the Netherlands' most successful comedians. But there is a flip side to his success story: the disease that ravaged his body nine years ago still has serious repercussions today.
- How do children experience the lockdown? How does the crisis affect them? What changes do they face? What are their fears? #lockdocs is a playful report on the Coronavirus crisis, filmed by Dutch kids themselves.
- A quest, with political reporters Kees Boonman and Charlotte Nijs, for the necessary reform of our parliamentary democracy.
- Neuroscientist Jeroen Geurts feels like he is walking through a dark forest as he searches for the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS).