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A middle-aged journalist interviews the real-life Dutch star Katja Schuurman, in her own loft.

Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen.

In this film version of the Dutch-language classic (‘heimat’-)novel by Flemish author Felix Timmermans, the title character is a city-boy from Lier who after recovering from a life-threatening disease changes his life completely and his name to the self-invented Pallieter (the Dutch language has adopted this as a noun for a “bon vivant”).

A wealthy visitor to a small town befriends a midget and gets involved with two women as his behaviour becoming ever stranger.

17-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and, in a thoughtless impulse, shoots himself twice. But he survives.

A system of freight railways carries raw materials and finished goods in and out of Shenyang.

Part II, called “Remnants,” and is set in a shantytown whose living conditions mirror the dilapidation of the state-run factories seen in Part I.

Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions in his over nine-hour, three-part documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks.