Hubert Bals Fund
Overzicht van films
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Po di Sangui
Flora Gomes | 90' | Guinea-Bissau | -
Optimistic feature about a changing society in Guinnea Bissau, threatened by trees being felled. -
Poet on a Business Trip
Ju Anqi | 103' | China | World premiere
In all its simplicity, a completely unique film, shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A poet sets off on a ‘business… -
A Poet
Garin Nugroho | 90' | Indonesia | -
The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder… -
Poor Folk
Midi Z | 105' | Taiwan | -
A gangster film that doesn’t look or feel like one, but like life itself. At least, life in the lawless border area between Myanmar (Burma)… -
Promised Land
Jason Xenopoulos | 100' | South Africa | European premiere
London lawyer gets stranded with an eccentric Boer family on his way to the home of his deceased mother in South Africa. Exciting début with… -
Raya
Zulfah Otto-Sallies | 26' | South Africa | -
Intense narrative about Raya, just out of jail, whose mother never came to see her but did look after her daughter. -
Reimon
Rodrigo Moreno | 72' | Argentina | -
Her days consist of commuting and cleaning all over Buenos Aires. While Reimon vacuums, her wealthy clients read to each other, fascinated, from Marx’s Capital.… -
El Reino de los cielos
Patricia Cardoso | 52' | Colombia | World premiere
Fable about the difficulties confronting the blind 70-year-old Bernabe when he regains his sight after an operation. -
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Rio Belongs to Us
Ricardo Pretti | 75' | Brazil | -
After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here… -
Sacrifices
Ossama Mohammed | 113' | France | -
Death, fear and power are the most important themes in this symbolic film that is almost Rembrandt-esque in its portrayal. A shadowy family tale in… -
Scenery
He Jianjun | 95' | China | World premiere
Brand-new Chinese film about a young and ambitious lawyer, a female taxi-driver, a hairdresser and a rapist the lawyer has to find.