13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Read More »
Tag Archives: Netherlands
Mother Dao, the Turtlelike (1995) Vincent Monnikendam
In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. Read More »
Habitat (1997) Rene Daalder, Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige
In a future world where Earth’s ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist Read More »
The Paradise Suite (2015) Joost van Ginkel, Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. Read More »
The Dress (1996) Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Ingeborg Elzevier, Khaldoun Elmecky
The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Read More »
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »
Pentimento (1979) Frans Zwartjes, Helen Hedy, Moniek Toebosch, Trix Zwartjes
Scientists subjected women to dark and inhuman experiments, in which sexuality and cruelty are fused together. Read More »
Daens (1992) Stijn Coninx, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible Read More »
Lyrical Nitrate (1991) Peter Delpeut, Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm, Documentary
This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »