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Overview of films
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Portret van een tuin
Rosie Stapel | 98' | Netherlands | World premiere
At a centuries-old Dutch estate, a gardener and an 85-year-old pruning master work passionately and painstakingly on perfecting the fruit trees and cr -
Rock on Bones
A young French filmmaker decides that the charismatic Russian punk band Oz deserves a career in the West. Besides two years of fun and frustration,… -
Rotterdam Classics: Leve de Koningin!
The festival celebrates Princess Beatrix’s birthday with a film concert about four generations of queens. Stadsarchief Rotterdam and Beeld en Geluid p -
Rotterdam Classics: Photography in Motion
Demolition and construction. An exploration of the relation between man and environment in pre- and post-war Rotterdam. With live musical accompanimen -
Salsa Giants
A behind-the-scenes look at the best living salsa players in the world, as they gather for an unprecendented historic reunion in the Summer of 2012… -
This Ain’t No Mouse Music!
Chris Strachwitz has been producing live albums of American roots music for more than 50 years. With an instinct for authentic, non-mainstream traditi -
Three Minutes Thirteen Minutes Thirty Minutes
Bianca Stigter | 120' | Netherlands | World premiere
How can we see the past? Critic Bianca Stigter investigates a 76-year-old home movie from Poland that writer Glenn Kurtz turned into a rich historical -
Tomorrow Is Always Too Long
Imagining an entirely new take on the city symphony, Collins turned his documentary on Glasgow into a musical. He scouted his lead vocalists in matern -
Weit weit weg
Bjørn Melhus | 39' | Germany | -
A girl tries to create her doppelganger using her mobile telephone after seeing something like this on TV. It turns out to be harder than… -
WERK
Erik van Lieshout | 80' | Netherlands | World premiere
It was to be an ‘epic on the artist as worker’. Which WORK undoubtedly is. Above all, however, it is a cheery shambles, featuring a… -
When Marnie Was There
Yonebayashi Hiromasa | 103' | Japan | None
Ghibli in Japan was perhaps the best animation studio in the world, but work at the studio stopped last year. Temporarily, we hope. If not,… -
When My Sorrow Died: The Legend of Armen Ra and the Theremin
After surviving the Islamic Revolution, bullying by American kids and later the excesses of the New York drag scene, Armen Ra found his true passion…