Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise
A film about Nuriye Kesbir, a stubborn Kurdish woman and one of the leaders of the PKK, who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices.
More infoDe Passanten
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In DE PASSANTEN an historical newspaper building is the point of departure. With historical events as guidelines, the film brings the history of the 'Handelsblad' complex - and its users - to life. It is not a purely anecdotal documentary, because the history of the building reflects the cultural changes that have occurred in the Netherlands as a whole in the past 150 years. Aristocratic families, journalists, protesting adolescents like squatters and punks: all of them file past. The block of buildings with its inhabitants and users, as well as the four streets surrounding it, represent a micro-history of the changes within Dutch society.
Credits
Director
Annegriet Wietsma
Production
Job Filmprodukties
Cinematography
Maarten Kramer
Editing
Dick van der Meer
Sound
Michel Schöpping
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Heengaan en thuiskomen
In HEENGAAN EN THUISKOMEN director Annegriet Wietsma links the joy for the birth of her children to the grief for the death of her mother. It has become a film about the roots of identity. Her children have Frisian, Jewish, Indonesian and Dutch ancestors. In four short portraits of their grandparents those backgrounds are described. After all, as old age and death come nearer the question as to where you come from becomes increasingly urgent. "To determine whether someone feels a tie with his native soil, you have to ask him where he would like to be buried. The answer turns out to be very revealing. A lot of people arrive at their family roots", Wietsma says. In order to give her children their own roots, she made them birth stones which she bricked in in the house where they were born. In this way they have their own place for contemplation.
More infoIDFA history
1994
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