Feature Films and documentaries 2013
The festival offers a stage for feature films, documentaries, animated films and shorts that have their premiere as well as numerous films that will make their unique appearance in the Netherlands during this festival. Furthermore the festival presents varying theme-based progammes as well as two 'The Best Of' selections.
Films alphabeticallyFilms per daySelections
August 1968 marked the Red Square protest of seven people against the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Five ... »
Former leaders of Indonesian death squads go fifty years back in time to play their role in the 1965 ... »
Roma radio reporter Orhan Galjus tries to find out what happened to the Sinti and Roma during the ... »
Rwandese nationals in Belgium who testify against Ephrem Nkezabera, the ‘genocide’s banker’, ... »
David Kato is one of the first declared homosexuals in Uganda, a country in which homosexuality is a ... »
The horrific account of Shin Dong-hyuk who grew up in a North Korean labor camp but escaped at the age ... »
It is dusty and hectic in the Moroccan slums where the brothers Yachine and Hamid grow up in a world ... »
Oppressive movie about 23-year-old Muslim woman Rahima and her 14-year-old brother Nedim. They struggle ... »
Insight into the busy life of Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal ... »
Poetic docufiction. One day, a young Iranian dancer wakes up in a prison cell in Tehran, trying to remember ... »
A group of women in post-communist Cambodia fight an uphill battle against eviction. The directors film ... »
First Iranian movie starring a transgender as central figure is a progressive road movie in which fate ... »
Despite constant resistance, influential cyber feminists from Cuba, China and Iran keep blogging about ... »
This documentary follows two bloggers on their journalistic road trips across China. They denounce social ... »
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Directing debut by Angelina Jolie about the impossible love between Serbian Danijel and Bosnian Alja ... »
Close-up drama about an ordinary Roma family in a Hungarian village, the day after the racist killing ... »
‘David versus Goliath’ story about the determination of Guatemalan Rebeca to find the assassin ... »
The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-violence
Intriguing documentary about the defence of Khmer Rouge leader Kang Guek Eav, also known as ‘Duch’, ... »
Musical film with documentary-like features. In the hustle and bustle of the Congolese capital some 30,000 ... »
A desperate appeal for attention for the impending global water shortage: the biggest social issue facing ... »
In a series of interviews, Israeli law enforcement officials speak plainly about the legal system they ... »
Prize-strewn coming of age film about Egyptian brothers Mo en Rashid who grow up in the London Hackney ... »
Mohammed El Koerd is a Palestinian boy who grows up in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem. ... »
Catchy comedy, filled with unlikely plot turns and the cultural realism of real African life. The trump ... »
No Fire Zone – The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
Shocking documentary about the bloody denouement of the Sri Lankan war, which has raged for almost twenty-six ... »
This documentary shows a mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who ... »
Psychology student Nimr from Ramallah and his new friend Roy, a lawyer from Tel Aviv, are in seventh ... »
Somewhere in Afghanistan during an unnamed war, a young woman, abandoned by her family, diligently looks ... »
Poignant story about the odyssey of a group of African men who cross the Atlantic on a pirogue, a wooden ... »
Wry humour and deep tragedy – Chilean fiction film combines personal and political drama. »
Fascinating investigation the power of education pitted against the strength of tradition. When a Bedouin ... »
During the revolution in Yemen in 2011, Kais, the friendly, qat-chewing tourist guide, transforms from ... »
When Algeria introduces an amnesty law for jihadists, young fighter Rachid decides to lay down his weapons. ... »
Poetic film that is as much a political indictment as it is an epic love tragedy. The Iranian-Kurdish ... »
In Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started back in 2010, tyranny and oppression have been replaced by ... »
Portrait of Russian author and dissident Victor Erofeyev. He grew up as the son of a rich diplomat in ... »
A unique glimpse into the daily grind of a Dutch detective named John, who fights a thankless battle ... »
Documentary about the tense daily life of a Jewish enclave in Hebron, where 800 colonists live among ... »
Actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Biutiful) strives to let the world know about the forgotten ... »
The conflict in Syria from the viewpoint of the ordinary citizens, who are being crushed in the ongoing ... »
In a Senegalese village, modern life cautiously makes an entrance. The sisters Coumba and Debo are the ... »
Epic story about the installation of a power supply network in an isolated Moroccan village in the Atlas ... »
Saturday Night Fever in grim Chili in the year 1978. Augusto Pinochet’s regime is oppressing and ... »
In 1961, three young visionary architects were given the task by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to design ... »
Unique portrait of controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the rise and fall of the biggest ... »
Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta commissioned ten young directors to film events taking place ... »
Unique, intimate and humorous insight into in the life of Palestinian refugees in the Ain el-Helweh (‘... »
