The photographer Issa Touma can’t leave is flat in Aleppo – there’s a fierce battle raging on his doorstep: Assad’s army against the insurgents, and then the IS enters the fray.
Student elections in rural Kenya. What do the candidates stand for? Who cares? It’s about prestige, and “little somethings” they distribute to the electorate. A basic course in democracy.
A Dutch woman goes through the initiation rites of young women preparing for marriage in Zambia. Sensual lessons in happiness and good sex, reflections on womanhood.
Dark thoughts lie over this film like fog over a city. You can’t look through them, you can’t touch them. Suicide and the life that led up to it, the grief that follows and the suicide note read aloud
Young female artists in Cairo, treading a fine line between self-determination and tradition. A political poem with art objects and performances in oscillating images.
South African fishermen struggling to survive in the face of an official ban on fishing. Black fishing, drugs, family dramas, a love that falls apart, and always the sea.
When all Jews have returned to Israel the Messiah will come again. At least that’s what the Dutch missionary in Ukraine, Koen, believes. Christian fundamentalism as a whacky psycho trip.
“Eat or be eaten”, people would have said in the past. Today we have a different, wider perspective on nature ...
Bach’s Matthew Passion: why does it move us even today? People talk about their relationship with God, grief and guilt. Powerfully staged music and visuals.
A powerful film about five young Netherlanders who live outside traditional gender images, and their intelligent and frank reflections on their lives in the in-between.
The Syrian photographer Issa Touma travels from Europe to his native city of Aleppo, visiting his family, old friends and students who still live there.
Sometimes adults visit the places of their childhood and remember their former playmates. In this case these were various pets which ...
A road movie in Abkhazia: The puppet artist Sipa Labakhua meets Georgian peasants, Orthodox priests, Abkhazian nationalists, Syrian refugees – and confused identities.
Robby Müller (1940–2018) knew how to play sources of light like musical instruments. A finely spun portrait of the cinematographer of Jarmusch, Wenders and other great auteurs.
Mama, a neuroleptic, the telephone and the director: Using few words but telling much, Vincent Sparreboom unfolds t(his) mother-son relationship in which she hopes and he fears.
In Italian playgrounds a song is chanted that dates back to World War I. It is a dark tale of a soldier who returns home to find his girlfriend in the arms of another man.
