Feature Films and documentaries festival 2012
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
The major winner at IDFA 2011. Personal testimony from a Palestinian father who spent five years filming ... »
A personal portrait of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, who gained international acclaim for his ambitious ... »
A year after the euphoria on Tahrir Square, the Egyptian demonstrators’ goals have not even come ... »
‘Documentary thriller' by Fredrik Gertten, relating how fruit producerDole Food tries to get his ... »
Every thirty minutes anIndian cotton farmer commits suicide. Manjusha’s father also took his own ... »
Fiction film by Dutchdirector Paula van der Oest, starring Carice van Houten as rebel South Africanartist ... »
The failure of the American Dream ispre-eminently palpable on the cheerless plains surrounding the Salton ... »
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
In Kyrgyzstan, it is not unusual for a girl to go toschool carefree in the morning, and to end up a bride ... »
Investigators from the International Criminal Court are in the Central African Republic, one of the most ... »
Observational documentaryabout the daily goings-on at Malpensa international airport in Milan. Theairport ... »
A German filmmaker tries tobreathe new life into an old ramshackle cinema in Jenin with the help of thelocal ... »
Iranian coming of age film about soul mates Atafeh and Shireen who discover their awakening love for ... »
Californian woman DeborahPeagler was sentenced to life in prison for her involvement in the murder ofher ... »
Mazwi, Zama and Mnikelo live in the South African informal settlements around Kennedy Road, one of the ... »
Sergey Yenin is a young,liberated homosexual activist from Belarus. He is no stranger to violence; hissexual ... »
Ni Yulan was once a successful and high-spirited lawyer. Now she is homeless and confined to a wheelchair. ... »
Alia (28) and Hamza (32) form a happily married couplefrom Morocco. Faced with a controversial law that ... »
Bittersweet film about a group of Lebanese women who are fed up with the religious conflict in their ... »
Award-winning documentary about what is considered the process of the centuryin the Philippines. Give ... »
No one escapes Guantanamo unscathed; this becomes clear through the stories of four people whose biographies ... »
Portrait of engaging scientist Dr. Gene Sharp from Boston. When his handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy ... »
After the death of hismother, Christian moves from England to Denmark with his father and ends up ina ... »
In a dangerous suburb of Baghdad, an idealistic social worker named Husham is looking for orphaned street ... »
World première of an Israeli-Dutch co-production about gays on the run. They are not free to be ... »
In this subtle and surprisingdocumentary, a thorough-going Congolese lawyer investigates a rape case ... »
Petr Lom was allowed to follow Iranian PresidentAhmadinejad on his trips around rural Iran where he preaches ... »
In Tunesia, justa few kilometres from the Libyan border, lies the Chouca refugee camp. Refugeesfrom surrounding ... »
In Syria, imams believe that women should be at home and that it is their fate to give birth and take ... »
When a teacher asks thechildren in her class what they want to be when they grow up, seven-year-oldAlex ... »
When they turn 13, thechildren in the Little Heaven orphanage in Ethiopia are told they areHIV-positive. ... »
The women in Kabul’s Badum Bagh jail serve a prison sentence for ‘moral offences’, ... »
Egyptian feature film about creative young people in Alexandria’s underground scene. After spending ... »
Luis Alberto Alarcón was once a member of the security forces under former Chilean president Allende. 34 ... »
After having served his sentence, sex offender Karl D. comes up against his neighbours. Daily demonstrations ... »
Two young illegal immigrants from Nigeria try their luck in Turkey. They hope to find fame and fortune ... »
In an orphanage in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, children study tightrope walking. Their feats are ... »
For four years, director andhuman rights defender Mona Nicoara followed a group of Roma children in theirattempt ... »
Critical documentary about the role of the International Criminal Court in the trial against rebel leader ... »
Coming of age documentary about the dilemma facing Russian student Marsha. She belongs to Nashi, the ... »
The soil in Paraguay offersperfect growing conditions for soya beans. Thousands of acres of forest havebeen ... »
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Absurd portrait of thenotorious ‘naked general’ Joshua Blahyi who evangelised after the bloody ... »
As the debate on immigration rages across the Netherlands and Europe, the Dutch government invites some ... »
Britishnational Fergus makes a living as a security officer in post-war Iraq. When hisfriend Frankie ... »
Every year in Pakistan, there are at least 100 people attacked with acid -the majority women. Many more ... »
Silenced Voices - Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile
Journalists in Sri Lanka risk life and limb to practice their profession. Lasantha Wickrematunge was ... »
Romania, 1986. Gregor and Vali decide to escape from the grimconditions under Ceauşescu’s dictatorial ... »
His name and his songs are world-famous. Most people know Harry Belafonte as a singer and actor. His ... »
Filmmaker Jan Jaap Kuiperfollows militant mother-to-be Sasha Volgina. This 31-year-old activist is oneof ... »
Modern, feminist fairytaleabout Muslim women that go on a ‘love strike’ in order to persuade ... »
Opening film from the country that has the strictest immigration laws in Europe. The air in the Frambois ... »
Threeironic video clips in which Western consumers express their thanks to thepeople of the Third World.... »
Two decades after the civil war in El Salvadorcame to an end, survivors return to their devastated mountain ... »
Brazilian action thriller that shows how captain Nascimento and his special police squad take up arms ... »
Political thriller starringRachel Weisz and Vanessa Redgrave. In 1999, a female police officer is sent ... »
A poetic protest: that’s what famous Senegalese director Moussa Sene Absa calls his first documentary. ... »
Between November 2009 and June 2011, three filmmakers followed several young Arabs in their struggle ... »
