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A SHTETL IN THE CARIBBEAN tells the compelling story of two childhood friends who grew up on Curaçao, in search for their family history in Eastern Europe. Mark and Tsale, children of Eastern European Jews that fled to Curaçao, travel back to the home countries of their ancestors. In a documentary road-movie across Curaçao, the United States, Belarus, Ukraine and Israel, we witness their discoveries, courage and despair while they are reminded of the sacrifices their parents had to make to provide their family with a better future. This unknown story is revealed in a journey from the desolate wastelands of Eastern Europe to the exotic Caribbean, a contrast metaphoric for the history of Mark and Tsale's ancestors. A SHTETL IN THE CARIBBEAN originated from a strong emotion: we are all part of the same family, no matter how different we are. The film is also an homage to Curaçao, a small island with a big heart, and a place that has been a safe haven for strangers. Only in such a place a human being can truly build a home.

Like us, people with disabilities, have moods and temperaments that can clash. They have their thoughts, desires, feelings and opinions and a life of their own. In poetic black and white, we peek inside the minds of Nadine, Sofie, Sam, Quan, Mathias and Jessica, who all live in a care center for people with reduced mental possibilities. Sofie cannot do all that much but when she likes or doesn't like something you will understand. Mathias has Autism Spectrum Disorder and although it is not easy to understand all social interaction, he makes people happy by memorising their birthdays. Nadine who has Down syndrome started to suffer from dementia. Sam, who also has Down syndrome, copes with his feelings through music. Quan was born in China and hopes to return there one day. And Jessica finds it difficult to combine work, competitive horse riding and a relationship. While they unravel their emotions over the course of 1 year's time, each of them teaches us about the world, about how to cope with moods and looks and how to cope with ourselves. Please don't stare, but yes, you can take a look, even more: Watch Me.

Separated several months after their birth, twin brothers Peter and Erik learn about each other's existence by accident at the age of 17. Now, they are determined to find the truth behind their mysterious divorce.

Izaline Calister's whole life is shaped by music. She unites two extremes in herself: the spontaneous and sensual tambú of Curaçao and professional jazz in Holland.

Italian singing trio, Trio Lescano, three sisters singing in the close harmony style of the Andrews Sisters, rise to great popularity before World War II, but are detained in 1943 by Italian authorities since they are Jewish.

Everything Must Change - Piet Zwart is a documentary about the influential Dutch designer Piet Zwart.

ONGELETTERD (Illiterate) provides a striking picture of the limited world of Anneke, a young woman who can hardly read. Bravely and brimming with emotions she tackles the task of learning to read and write. An irreversible sense of pride and liberation takes over and she can embark on a new future.

Filmmaker Nienke Eijsink is on a quest for her childhood idol and first love: Doctor Chris from the Australian TV-series The Flying Doctors, played by actress Liz Burch. Nienke's mission: to pluck Liz Burch from obscurity and give her a starring role in her debut film! This coming-of-age-story deals with the appeal of a character in a TV drama to a young lesbian and the excitement of meeting your childhood idol. But it's also about the pain of growing up, and what happens when fantasy and reality coincide. With animation, blue-screen, archive material and clever editing between Flying Doctors episodes and real life, the film pushes the boundaries of reality and fiction. Fan is a cheerful, poignant and fascinating self-portrait full of self-depreciating humor.

Gorgeous Anna entices Jack, whom she does not know, into a remarkable game in a hamburger joint. Jack and Anna challenge each other by devouring their JoyMeal menu as sensually as possible. But before Jack reaches a climax, his French fries are finished.

In Time on your Heels filmmaker Sherman De Jesus takes an intimate look at old people and tries to catch a glimpse of what the world looks like as you get older. The film consists of four parts: The Grand Disappearing Trick; Saving your Skin; No Way Back; Conquering Time. For two years, several men and women from all walks of life were followed, sometimes for months on end, to find out how they and their surroundings cope with growing older. Time on your Heels takes the viewer to the threshold of those moments when we are alive to the fact that our life is finite. Suddenly everything seems foreign and you can feel as if you are living in a foreign country. You realise your body is no longer what it once was. You have a growing fear that there is no way back. And finally the devastating realisation that it's not time that is passing, but you. Passing on...

Documentary about a kickboxer with a past of being bullied.

Once they were best friends: the two transsexual women Cilla and Ilona. However, Cilla's irresponsible lifestyle and, most of all, her skepticism towards Ilona's desire to become a 'real' woman, cause a rift. Director Esther Prade has been following the two for years and along the way discovered that their struggle with life, shows similarities with how she stands in life herself. The result: WhatEver Will Be, a poignant documentary about 'being different'.

Every year, throughout the world, fifty million women have abortions and about thirty five thousand of those are in the Netherlands. Abortion has only been legal in the Netherlands for the last thirty years and has since been carried out safely in safe surroundings. Legalisation was one of the major social and moral controversies of the last half of the 20th century. The right to abortion in Holland now seems so fundamental that it is difficult to imagine that it is still a major issue for many women in the world. Filmmaker Sherman De Jesus shows the course of an average day at the oldest abortion clinic in Holland, Bloemenhove. There they are nowadays confronted by anti-abortion demonstrators. But also by women who once stood and demonstrated at the clinic for the right to life, and who now come to the clinic with their own pregnant daughters. What do these pioneers wrestle with? And have their opinions changed over the years? The film also tells the open-hearted story of the abortion of a seventeen year old girl. The story is told from her own point of view and from that of her mother and takes a surprising turn when she unexpectedly faces a choice for the second time. Has this acquired freedom changed personal and social attitudes? Is a woman's decision to have an abortion any less painful now than it used to be? Has it given women more freedom to organize their own lives?

Eva is beautiful, successful and single. On her 35th birthday, her friends give her as a special gift the only thing she doesn't have but always wanted. A man. But the question is, how best to use him? Fortunately, he comes complete with an owner's manual. Eva decides he should first clean up after the party, then make himself a bed on the sofa. The next morning, he surprises her with breakfast. When later Eva finds him taking a shower she is shocked by the sight of his nakedness. Eva becomes more appreciative when she sees how popular the gift is with her family. It begins to occur to her that at last she may have found the ideal man. Even so, soon his cheery kindnesses start getting on her nerves and she impulsively decides she simply must return him. Eva is surprised to regret sending him back. After searching the dark city in vain, she realizes how much she misses him. Never before has she been happier than finding him at home waiting for her. At last the kiss. In the morning, Eva wakes up in his arms. This gift is for real, but just as she is finally able to accept this man, something disconcerting happens...

Starting in New York City the film shows the birth of Nite Lite, a huge work of art by international artist Jan Henderikse who in a sense takes the strategies of Warhol and Duchamp further and applies them to our banal little reality. All Is Light - Jan Henderikse in a very humorous way lays bare the way the artistic attitude interferes with our lives and our thinking.

Using only historical archive footage from the turn of the 20th century to the late 1950s, the film provides a gripping and funny sketch of an era in which all that counted was passion for the ball, love of the game and the glow of victory. In a creative and idiosyncratic way, at that time Dutch soccer players and their coaches laid the basis for the great international successes that would follow. Gijs Scholten van Aschat and Huub Stapel narrate the film. They use fragments from the wealth of Dutch soccer prose and poetry. For instance, they quote from 'His Majesty King Football' by Dico van der Meer, 'Poems 1938 / 1970' by C. Buddingh, 'Football Hymn' by Charivarius, 'Football Names' by Hans Heesen, 'The Club in the Stadium' by Nico Scheepmaker, 'The Last Dutch Man' by Jan Tetteroo, 'A Poem for Our Abe' by Willem Wilmink and 'National Poem' by J.A. Deelder.

HOW JAN SCHOONHOVEN - THROUGH AN ACT OF FAITH - BECAME A FAMOUS ARTIST. In his own lifetime, the works of Jan Schoonhoven (Delft, 1914 -1994) were compared to those of Swiss painter Paul Klee and Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan. The symmetric and yet mysterious white reliefs made out of carton and papier maché by the artist, are now auctioned for large sums at Sothebys's and Christie's. Jan Schoonhoven himself however lived a sober and modest life as state postal official no. 18977. Who was this man, who one day spontaneously let world-famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama paint his nude body with Polka dots to appear the next day neatly dressed at the office? In 1967 he won a prize at the Ninth Bienal in Sao Paolo, which brought him instant fame internationally. Since then, he has been regarded as one of the most important European artist of the 20th century, an influence for a whole new generation. During research the filmmakers found out that an important commissioned art work had disappeared from its wall at the Post Office in Delft. In the film his friend, artist Jan Henderikse sets out to find the lost work. An image of Schoonhoven's life, his mysterious character and the meaning of his art work starts to reveal itself. For Jan Schoonhoven, Gothic churches and the streets in his home town Delft were a great source of inspiration, as well as the imposing cathedrals of Chartres, Paris and Cologne. In the early 1960s Dutch artists Armando, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters and Jan Schoonhoven formed the 'Nul Group', linked to the 'Zero Movement' in Germany, Italy and Japan with the French Yves Klein, the Italians Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, Germans Mack, Piene, Uecker and Japanese Yayoi Kusama. Jan Schoonhoven - Official 18977 contains unique footage of Jan Schoonhoven from the 1970s and 1980s.

Originally Daan along with his little daughter just wanted to pick up his pregnant wife. However some things come into the way...

Everyone wants to grow old, but no one wants to be old. The generation that has grown up with a faith in social engineering is determined to keep control of their lives. New scientific insights and therapies offer prospects of a world in which it's possible to live (much) longer. FOREVER YOUNG is about investigating the new and controversial world of anti-aging. We are fascinated by the prospect of timeless life, mesmerized by spectacular developments in science and motivated to get answers about questions about a longer and more vital life.