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- What a small country can be great at - or can it? Dutch-grown cannabis was a Dutch export product like cheese and Cruyff. But how can our policy of tolerance be consonant with the incarceration of cannabis king Johan van Laarhoven in 'the hell of Bangkok' - thanks to our own Public Prosecutor? Cannabis looks at the history of the Dutch soft drugs policy since the 1970s. Against the backdrop of a 50-year policy of tolerance, it tells the story of the rise and fall of cannabis king Johan van Laarhoven (convicted in Thailand to 103 years in prison). While Van Laarhoven is languishing in his cell, the film reveals that not Thailand but the Netherlands was behind his arrest. The seeds for the hunt for Van Laarhoven were already sown in the late 1970s. This debunks the myth of the Netherlands as an exemplary constitutional state.
- Short drama in which the friends, family and acquaintances meet after the funeral of late twenties Thobias to share their loss. Tobias' three best friends then stay together until deep into the night, hoping to achieve a certain acceptance.
- "Harsh theatrical monologue by a desperate man. Ray is a crack addict who has not scored for too long. Withdrawal symptoms cloud his paranoid mind. He sharpens his knife to take it out on his girlfriend who fled with his pipe and his crack. Sometimes his cruel and violent sexual fantasies are visualized, but in general the insane verbal ravings of the goaded Ray predominate."
- For more than thirty years, the coffee shop has been the international model of tolerance and lenience in the Netherlands. Nobody is penalized here for using soft drugs. But the production nederwiet (Dutch skunk) is still prohibited. The result is an equally hilarious and worrisome cat-and-mouse game played by growers, coffee shop owners, organised crime, police and judges at the backdoor of coffee shops. Filmmakers Maaik Krijgsman and Hans Pool decide to start growing marijuana at home. Their ill-fated enterprise is entertaining to watch. But the stories of the hemp grower, the seller of growing equipment and the coffee shop owner they do business with are sobering. The stricter police policy forces up the price, which paradoxically only fuels the interest of heavy criminals. The idealist hippie era is over. Nederwiet shows all sides of the nederwiet business: from police raids of home growers and visits to large-scale nurseries to a musician who tries to end his weed addiction.
- Chronicle of post-war German history in the rural East German village of Groß Lüben, on the River Elbe. For more than forty years, this river symbolized the divide between East and West. River of Time portrays several villagers who have seen difficult times since the end of the Second World War.
- A cinematic quest for the man behind photographer Sanne Sannes, a contemporary of Ed van der Elsken. In 1967, Sannes died in a car accident at the age of thirty. He left behind thousands of pictures of naked women; dark, mysterious and experimental. After a period of relative obscurity, his work is now in demand among collectors. Filmmaker Frodo Terpstra was introduced to Sannes' work and was immediately intrigued by the artist, particularly by a girl's portrait which has been meticulously scratched. It turned out that Terpstra rode his bike for many years along the road in Bergen where Sannes had his fatal accident. Through conversations with the past models, Terpstra tries to find the key to Sannes' mystifying work. Gradually, the image emerges of an outsider who could only make contact with women through his photos and who grew increasingly unhappy in his final years. After conversations with Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, who sat next to Sannes in the car as his assistant, and Sanne's youngest brother Rob Sannes, the quest eventually evokes as many questions as answers.
- A woman travels through a chilling landscape of dreams and nightmares in which the rules of logic do not apply. The rooms she encounters are specklessly white, creating blank spaces that give no frame of reference. It makes the few symbols she does find stand out: doors, a heavy key, a knife, a clock. The items all seem to carry a subconscious meaning, but what is it? Enough to think about, but the haunting images, sound and music go straight to the gut.
- The film follows three squatters from the start who have gradually grown apart. Their experiences serve to portray the changes at the squat from a center for subversive acts to homes with communal facilities.