movies that matter on tour

Every month, fifteen Dutch movie theatres present Movies that Matter on Tour, containing highlights of both feature films and documentaries that were shown at the latest edition of the Matter Festival in The Hague.
The screening of these socially engaged productions is followed by a debate with filmmakers, politicians and experts

The films are either spoken in English or subitled in English.

Debates and q&a's are in Dutch, with the exception of the Lumière venue in Maastricht, where these are held in English.

From October 2011 till June 2012 Movies that Matter presents the On Tour programme in cooperation with the following filmtheatres Provadja/YXIE in Alkmaar, de Lieve Vrouw in Amersfoort, Kriterion in Amsterdam, Focus in Arnhem, Filmhuis Lumen in Delft,  Filmhuis Den Haag in Den Haag, Vera Zienema in Groningen, Filmtheater Hilversum in Hilversum,  Lumière in Maastricht, LantarenVenster in Rotterdam, Louis Hartlooper Complex in Utrecht en the Fraterhuis in Zwolle.
Two theatres in Brabant have joined the programme this season:  Verkadefabriek in Den Bosch and Filmfoyer in Tilburg.

The sixth season of  Movies that Matter On Tour opened in October with the audience favorite of the Movies that Matter Festival 2011 Min Dît - The Children of Diyarbakir. This fall we also screened  two documentaries and a feature film, covering various topics varying from a disappearing Polynesean island in There Once Was an Island  up to Greek xenofobia in the comic feature film Plato's Academy and last winter's Jasmine  Revolution, in the documentary No More Fear.

From February to June 2012, the programme includes Belvedere, dealing with the consequences of the Bosnian war, and El Premio, that takes us back to the days when Argentina was a military dictatorship. These films can be seen in February and May, respectively.
No Entry, No Exit, which shows the moral dilemmas surrounding the return of a convicted sexual offender to his place of residence, and Justice for Sale, the third part in the trilogy about the Congo by Femke and Ilse van Velzen, will be on tour throughout the country in March and May/June.
In eleven Dutch cities, open-air screenings of Justice for Sale are scheduled in May and June.

For more information about the programme click here.