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Tag Archives: Netherlands
A Gentle Creature (2017) Sergey Loznitsa, Valeriu Andriuta, Liya Akhedzhakova, Roza Khayrullina

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband Read More »
The Outsider (1979) Tony Luraschi, Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn

Idealistic Vietnam veteran Michael Flaherty (Wasson), enthralled by the stories told Read More »
The Summer of Sangaile (2015) Alante Kavaite

17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Read More »
Close (2022) Lukas Dhont

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Read More »
Village by the River / Dorp aan de rivier (1958) Fons Rademakers

An independent-thinking doctor in a rural community with his own ideas of how medicine should be practiced begins Read More »
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse…! (2008) Peter Greenaway

An ‘essayistic’ documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means Read More »
Miss Universe 1929 – Lisl Goldarbeiter. A Queen in Wien ( 2006)

Lisl, who grew up in Vienna in modest circumstances, first won the title of Miss Austria in 1929 Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 3: Rails (2003)

A system of freight railways carries raw materials and finished goods in and out of Shenyang. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 2: Remnants (2003)

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. Read More »
Sonny Boy (2011) Maria Peters, Ricky Koole

Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. Read More »
Necktie Youth (2015) Sibs Shongwe-La Mer

Emily, Jabz, September, Nikki, Tanya, Matty, Tali and Rashi. Black and whites South Africans Read More »
The Girl with the Red Hair (1981) Ben Verbong, Loes Luca

Johanna ‘Hannie’ Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Read More »
El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War (2005)

Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented Read More »
Black Book (2006) Paul Verhoeven, Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman

Israel 1956. Rachel, a Jew, rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz where she is working as a teacher. Read More »