Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar-winning virtual reality installation Carne y Arena is coming to the Netherlands. Share the experience of illegal migrants clashing with US border police.
Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya on her feminist western Marlina the Murderer. The image of the heroine trudging around with the head of her rapist proved quite confrontational. It is a film that also says a lot about men and women in today's Indonesia.
The 47th Rotterdam Film Festival opens with Jimmie, a flight story upside down. Director Jesper Ganslandt on filming with his infant son and the connections with his debut Falkenberg Farewell.
The growth of the Dutch cinema sector continued in 2017, but Dutch cinema remains a problem child. Despicable Me 3 was the most visited. Soof 2 was, as in 2016, the most successful Dutch title. How is the Netherlands doing internationally? And what are we looking forward to in 2018?
Well, we're not big on hypes and traditions here, but still. The dark days around Christmas are very dark this year, so why not something with lists. This year, no list of toppers from the editors, but random entries from random readers, in random, if slightly alphabetical order. Motto of the readers' question was: which things...
Watching with new eyes. That is what the Amsterdam documentary festival IDFA does with Shifting Perspectives: the Arab World. Imaging without stereotypes, as in the magisterial family portrait Homeland: Iraq Year Zero.
Brandend Kalf wants more fire in Dutch cinema. Parallel to the opening of the Dutch Film Festival, this initiative group organised a meeting where objections to the far too safe Dutch film were listed. Where is the subversive cinema?
Giving the viewer a voice in the twists and turns a film story takes. It's a dream that has proved difficult to realise. But now there is the interactive cinema film Late Shift. A film or a game?
Having already won several awards for his short work, Daan Bakker now presents his wonderfully original first feature-length film Quality Time.
Compared to many artistic experiments in virtual reality, the comedy High Five is remarkably carefree. Cheerful spectacle for a wide audience at Amsterdam's VR Cinema.
The Berlinale claims to be the most political film festival, but are we much wiser from the label 'political cinema'? Django, about the legendary Django Reinhardt, opened the 67th edition.
The Jurriaanse zaal in de Doelen is the setting for a Masterclass by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (1955), an old friend of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His is the following typical quote: 'Filming the face of an actor is, in my opinion, the most powerful thing cinema is capable of. If the frame is right, if...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam(IFFR)'s famous Tiger logo has been changed into a colourful IFFR Planet, in which, with a little effort, the tiger can still be found. That colourful is also reflected in the programming. I am looking for the finest gems from the programme. From the USA comes 'Paterson', vintage Jim Jarmusch. But there...
Barry Jenkins, the fast-up director of the Oscar-nominated discovery Moonlight gave a master class in Rotterdam. On finding your voice and an intuitive way of filmmaking.
The Golden Calfs have not even been handed out yet and the next film festival is already about to begin. On Friday 30 September, the 11th Buddhist Film Festival Europe (BFFE) will kick off at Eye in Amsterdam with a very special film. The opening film is produced in one of the smallest film countries and one of the most fascinating countries in the Far East: Bhutan. According to IMDB...
Book adaptations set the tone at the Netherlands Film Festival 2016. The Hero after Jessica Durlacher's novel opened the Utrecht film festival.
Good news for anyone who also thinks the Dutch film world could use a bit more spice. On 29 September, film theatre Springhaver in Utrecht will host the Evening of the Burning Calf organised. Rounded off with the presentation of the Brandend Kalf, the new film award for the most sensational, daring, cheeky or inspired Dutch film initiative. At least, if enough crowdfunders are those who want to support this project by film journalist Karin Wolfs and writer A.H.J. Dautzenberg.
Yes, you see, this event takes place, not entirely coincidentally, on the evening preceding the presentation of the Golden Calf awards. And no, the Brandend Kalf is not a side-programme of the Dutch Film Festival. When we ask Karin Wolfs to explain, she first of all wants to emphasise that it is a completely independent project. Nor a private party of Wolfs and Dautzenberg. Hence also that crowdfunding. If it succeeds
Imagine has been transforming for several years. When this festival was still going through the world under the name Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, its main focus was on genre cinema. The Fantatstic genre is an insidious term used as a catch-all for science fiction, fantasy and horror. In these postmodern times, fantatstic is harder to delineate. The festival therefore changed its name back in 2009,...
The Cinéma Arabe festival (from 19 April) is showing a rich palette of new work from the Arab World. Interview with director Hany Abu-Assad who sets a new tone with The Idol. And he has plans for a film about William of Orange. 'That will be my parting gift to the Netherlands.'
These are bleak times. A few days after the opening night of the Movies that Matter festival (MTM) in The Hague, the world was rocked by the attacks in Brussels. For an event that focuses on human rights issues, a sign that the violent consequences of international conflicts seem to be getting closer. This raises the question of whether an audience that is...
Can a robot understand our feelings? Can we know others. Japanese drama Sayonara and American stop-motion animation Anomalisa have an unexpected common ground.
The Rotterdam Tiger Competition selected films by newcomers with a distinctive voice of their own. History's Future by Fiona Tan is a philosophical essay bursting with imagination.
Movies that Matter is organising a screening of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 'The President' on 10 January with special guest -writer and journalist- Alexander Münninghoff (The Stamholder). In 'The President', a deposed dictator in an Eastern European country is confronted with his actions after he is forced to go into hiding with his grandson. In Mohsen Makhmalbaf's satire, the roles are briefly reversed and with it...
Today, the appeal against the conviction of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in prison is due to be heard. European Film Academy appeals for help from director Nikita Makhalkov.
10 years ago, it all started. A group of recent graduates of Leiden University found that their dear Alma Mater [hints]Latin for nurturing or caring mother. Alma mater refers to the university or sometimes the school where someone received their education. In ancient Rome, the term Alma Mater was used for the mother goddess; in the Middle Ages, Alma Mater referred to...
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