“I am far away on a distant journey through my own city”, filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. Read More »
Tag Archives: Netherlands
El bonaerense (2002) Pablo Trapero, Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy
Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. Read More »
Bullhead AKA Rundskop (2011) Michaël R. Roskam, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy
In Sint-Truiden, cattle farmer Jacky visits a distant relative and intimidates him into selling cows. Read More »
4 AKA Chetyre (2004) Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov
Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner “simply Volodya” drop into an all-night bar in Moscow Read More »
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) Paul Cox, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, David Wenham, Jan Kleinejan
The true story of the 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers. Read More »
The Knife / Het mes (1961) Fons Rademakers, Reitze van der Linden, Marie-Louise Videc, Ellen Vogel
A young boy coming to starvation is resentful of his mum’s budding love affair with the best friend of her late husband Read More »
AmnesiA (2001) Martin Koolhoven, Fedja van Huêt, Carice van Houten, Theo Maassen
Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Read More »
Hemel (2012) Sacha Polak, Hannah Hoekstra, Hans Dagelet, Rifka Lodeizen
During her nightly escapades Hemel searches for the difference between sex and love. Read More »
A Tale of Three Sisters AKA Kiz Kardesler (2019) Emin Alper, Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as ‘besleme’ (foster child and maid). Read More »
The Underground Orchestra AKA Het ondergrondse orkest (1998) Heddy Honigmann
THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a glorious documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Read More »