Country:Netherlands, Uganda

Director:Alice Smits

Summary:

VJs enthuse over their medium and their custom video libraries while the Video Halls Owners and Operators Union is attempting to bring the wayward video halls under their control while shutting down operations which are not up to snuff with government approval.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Saskia Vredeveld

Summary:

The story of the ‘poor whites’, a group hardly discussed who have lost their jobs and fallen into poverty as a consequence of preferential treatment for blacks.

Country:Netherlands, China

Director:Joris Ivens

Summary:

Ivens captures the 1937 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, documenting one of the few aspects of resistance where the Chinese prevailed over the aggressors.

Country:Netherlands, Vietnam

Director:Joris Ivens

Summary:

The best movie ever about the Vietnam War. During the two months of its making, Ivens lived with Vietnamese peasants under frightening U.S. Bombardment.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Femke and Ilse Van Velzen

Summary:

One of the horrors of the conflicts in DRC is the mass rape of women by soldiers. In this film, (former) soldiers tell their stories of the crimes they committed.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Victor Vroegindeweij

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

11 year old Chanaika, who lives with her mother in the colourful Afrikaaner neighbourhood of Rotterdam, wants to perform in an annual summer carnival with her best friends. We follow this eloquent young lady during dance classes and while trying on clothes for the parade with her pals. Chainaika’s live seems cheerful, but she has not had an easy ride. Recently, she personally kicked her father out of the house because he hit her mother.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Hillie Molenaar and Joop Van Wijk

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Hillie Molenaar & Joop van Wijk discover East Africa's largest and most modern newspaper, The Daily Nation, Kenya's only independent source of information. In Kenya's still-developing nation, corruption is a force felt everywhere. In spite of this The Daily Nation struggles to maintain its independence. Its committed staff provide the Kenyan people with stories that make an impact on their life and remind them of the value of an independent press.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Hillie Molenaar and Joop Van Wijk

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

In 1994, at an intersection of roads from Uganda to Tanzania and from Kenya via Rwanda to Zaire, some half a million refugees from Tutsi-Hutu violence streamed in to create boom town called Benaco. The newcomers--whose roles in the Rwandan genocide are unknown--mean big business and a wave of petty crime. A single white wedding dress, rented out to refugee brides, becomes an emblem of innocence and hope that is long gone from the drawn faces of Rwandan orphans.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Frans Zwartjes

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

One of the most remarkable filmmakers from Holland, Frans Zwartjes created a singular body of work in the late sixties and seventies that typically placed strange mannequin-like figures, seemingly imagined yet clearly with a life of their own, in simple situations that become inbued with angst like a slow spreading stain which ultimately engulfs them in waves of arousal and menace.

Country:Netherlands

Director:Jacqueline van Vugt

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

Ami Diarra sees it as her mission to educate the residents of a mining town on Aids and organizes an informal meeting on the disease. Because of her respected position as a griot- a West African musician considered to be protector and narrator of the oral tradition and history –she succeeds in reaching many people. Unfortunately, the authorities will not take her seriously, as we witness when she asks the local health centre to support her campaign. Apparently they will only work with NGOs.