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Dealing with nuclear testing and its deadly effects, the story portrays Boy, a young widower living in the desert on a nuclear testing site. Living as a hermit, he waits for the end of the world.

Well to do business man Pierre (Rutger Hauer) falls for the unpredictable and free-spirited Toni (Willeke van Ammelrooy). They begin a relationship, despite the fact that she's living with another man, who is the father of her child.

Homeland is the fourth film in a series about two Palestinians families George Sluizer followed since 1974. Homeland is also a personal film about George's motivation and his relationship with members of the two families who became very close. They are now scattered around the world, unable to return to the homeland. It's also a historical saga about the Palestinians and their struggle for land an dignity.

An older man consumed by jealousy over his much younger wife decides to venture into the jungle in search of riches without her. When he returns 4 years later, he finds that his mistrust in her may have been well-founded.

It is a film about the followers of the Palestinian guerrillas and a film about two families driven from their rightful territory. The film is reflective about a situation of political tension, violence and terror, nevertheless a film about daily life.

In 1974 George Sluizer made a film about two Palestinian families and their desire for recognition. At the end of the civil war in Lebanon he returned to see if his friends had survived. Most did, but the years of fighting left and indelible mark on their lives.

A film about the daily life of unschooled youngsters in a popular quarter in Amsterdam. All belonging to the subculture of hard drugs, thefts, bank robberies and prisons. A fragmentary film because some of the characters suddenly disappeared. Youngsters without a home to go to, without a place to learn , without a future.

Short film showing a man escaping town and discovering the vastness of the Dutch meadows. At first, he enjoys the space and the serenity, but sees it later turn oppressive.

The picture retraces the professional, social and family life of Zeca, a cow-boy from the northeast of Brazil. From the most perfect calm he can fly into a state of the wildest excitement. From his lazy hammock he leaps into the hard saddle, which carries him at breakneck speed along tortuous paths in search of his cattle.

Adios Beirut is the third part of a chronicle of two Palestinian families, and their life over eight tumultuous years, is a story about fear, uncertainty, longing, is a film about the new Diaspora of the Palestinians, is shot in Lebanon, Israel, France, Italy and Cuba.

A portrait of Germany's major architect. In 1920, Scharoun wrote: 'All building must be found in Man's inner life'. Man stood always in the center of Sharoun's thinking. Buildings should enhance relationship with others. The Darmstadt primary school concentrates for example on all that has to do with the child's mental growth. The class rooms differ in form, decoration, color and lighting. Kant wrote : 'Space is a form of conscience'. The Philharmonie in Berlin is the complete realization of this ideal.

The film is the personal report of the expedition made by two Dutch filmmakers to an inhospitable part of the jungles of South America, where no human being has yet set foot. They followed an unknown river, set off through the jungle and filmed and commented on each other in turn. They learned to live with the measureless jungle and each other.

The film follows a group of parents who want to change the classical education to what is now considered the anti authoritarian education. More freedom for the children, less sanctions.

A little village. Between the loam huts, a new construction: the school. In the classroom, adults make a first attempt at writing. At home,the children help their illiterate parents with their schoolwork. A woman says : "Why I am at school? I don't need to read or write. But I want to vote.".

Scotland, the small communities in the islands and highlands are disturbed by the heartbeat of today's industry; oil. Yesterday weavers are now welders of oil rigs, fisherman catch their fish between the pipelines. Will there be a future for them and their children in the land of tales, whiskey and bagpipes?

Texas is the homeland of the Western diamondback rattlesnake, a plague to cattle, oil pipe engineers and everyone not on the alert. At Sweetwater's annual Rattlesnake Round-Up - the largest in the world - only live snakes are brought in, to extract the venom needed for medical research. Thus, ingenious and scrupulously delicate hunting techniques are developed.

In 1982, it was the bicentennial of Dutch- American diplomatic relations. Five people who emigrated to the United States during these 200 years are pictured in this TV special : Walter Cronkite - the voice of CBS - whose family left Holland one and a half century ago, family Ekker who became Mormons when they arrived in Utah and now live on the ranch where Butch Cassidy took shelter. Helen Colijn, granddaughter of Prime Minister Hendrik Colijn, who went to California as soon as she could leave the Japanese prison camps in the Dutch Indies at the end of the War. Bill Dotter, who built a sailing ship like the Mayflower to sail back to Holland.And Koos van den Akker, the flamboyant fashion designer, who left Holland because he loved New York in the movie 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'.

Fantasio was the centre of Amsterdam hippie life in the late sixties. Music, soft drugs and dance brought the young generation who were fighting the establishment together in that then famous magic place.

Three days of exuberant joy in a town of the Northeast of Brazil during the Carnival: three days respite from poverty and daily life problems for the young and old, the poor and the rich, and the healthy and the lepers.

An intimate account on a 1000 km journey on a river in the North East of Brazil, on a self made raft, carrying a small household including two children. Life in slow motion with fleeting encounters along the banks. When the family arrives after a month in Teresina, the merchandise is sold, the raft dismantled, branch by branch, leaf by leaf.