True Stories
Overview of films
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Doorgeven aan betreffende
BarBara Hanlo | 68' | Netherlands | World premiere
How did a young bird watcher meet his death in the dungeons of the Nazis? The film maker tells the story of her uncle, who… -
Experiment on a Map
Barbara Kaiser | 10' | Austria | -
As simple as a game at a birthday party, yet also a sensitive political pinprick. -
Frammenti Elettrici Nº 1: ROM (Uomini)
Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | 14' | Italy | -
A stroll to see the gypsies. Post-war roadside tourism. -
Frammenti Elettrici Nº 2: Viet Nam
Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | 9' | Italy | -
Sensitive found-footage film based on amateur material shot by a French soldier in Vietnam. A diary relived. -
Frammenti Elettrici Nº 3: Corpi
Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | 9' | Italy | World premiere
Document of an obsession. 8mm material from the 1950s from a collection of female bodies filmed in secret. -
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Peter Mettler | 180' | Canada | -
Visual and associative documentary of and about the highest quality. All about psychedelia. The Swiss Van der Keuken; the Canadian Marker. -
Green Card
Mohammad Jafari | 25' | Iran | -
Young Afghan film maker in Teheran follows in the footsteps of Kiarostami. With a cameo part for the Dutch embassy. -
Gwenyambira Simon Mashoko
Michael Pilz | 210' | Austria | World premiere
For anyone for whom Rotterdam is too fast, too cold and too hectic, and who yearns for lethargy, African music and warm beer. A film… -
Heaven’s Crossroad
Kimi Takesue | 35' | USA | -
Poetic travelogue about Vietnam. Also a traveller’s glimpse of another culture. -
Histoire de ma vie racontée par mes photographies
Boris Lehman | 210' | Belgium | -
Collecting as a cheerful obsession. Cineaste tells his life story through his collection. More than personal. -
Homemade Sake
Ono Satoshi | Japan | -
The director made a personal portrait of his father, who never has any money for sake and has therefore turned counterfeiting into an art form. -
Imitations of Life
Mike Hoolboom | 75' | Canada | World premiere
Ingenious and very filmic investigation of the portrayal of childhood memories. Freud as video.