Hubert Bals Fund
Overzicht van films
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On the Beat
Ning Ying | 102' | China | -
Black comedy about the everyday conflict between tradition and progress in a Peking police station. An influx of semi-criminal newcomers from the coun -
On the Old Roman Road
Don Askarian | 76' | Armenia | World premiere
An old Armenian’s memories of his country of birth, mixed with a modern crime story about Armenian terrorists set in Rotterdam. Poetic reflections in -
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The Orphanage
Shahrbanoo Sadat | 90' | Denmark | None
Bollywood-film nostalgia colours the experiences of fifteen-year-old Qodrat, who ends up in an orphanage during Afghanistan’s 1980s Soviet-oriented period. -
Osama
Siddiq Barmak | 82' | Afghanistan | -
First Afghan film production after the fall of the Taliban regime. A twelve-year-old girl is forced to dress up as a boy, because she has… -
Père
Naguel M. Belouad | 89' | Algeria | World premiere
Algerian kid wants to go looking for the father he doesn’t know in Marseilles. Meandering between fantasy and reality, Belouad creates a convincing pi -
The Perfect Circle
Ademir Kenovic | 110' | Bosnia and Herzegovina | -
A poet who, with wife and children, refuses to leave Sarajevo, where the situation gets worse and worse. He concerns himself with the fate of… -
La petite vendeuse du soleil
Djibril Diop Mambéty | 45' | France | World premiere
Warm-hearted hymn to the courage of street children. Sili wants to sell newspapers in the street, but as a girl she is a threat to… -
The Pharaoh
Sinisa Dragin | 82' | Romania | World premiere
Insights and views change over time. An old tramp can no longer remember his forty years as a political prisoner in Siberia. Dragin (Everyday God… -
The Photograph
Kazim Öz, Özkan Küçük | 61' | Turkey | World premiere
Penetrating Turkish-Kurdish drama about two boys who make friends during a twenty-hour bus journey. One is going to do his military service in the Tur -
Pirated Copy
He Jianjun | 90' | China | World premiere
Life-sized portrait of contemporary Chinese society based on the ubiquitous illegal trade in pirated western features. Eroticism, violence and confusi -
Pizza, birra, faso
Bruno Stagnaro, Israel Adrian Caetano | 83' | Argentina | International premiere
Five kids living on the fringe in Buenos Aires. The film follows their survival strategies and wants to provide a sketch through them of today’s…