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Every love, no matter how happy, sooner or later ends unhappily; either due to loss, due to death, or due to a broken bond. These are all sides of the same medal. Why do we love others if love can hurt us so much? Wouldn’t it be safer not to love? In this documentary, several people who have been profoundly confronted with love and death in their lives, provide glimpses of the enigma of love, based on their personal stories. On Freud’s famous couch, they are questioned about their experiences. Their stories are interwoven with timeless works from the history of painting and music. When words are not adequate, there is art and music.
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Every love, no matter how happy, sooner or later ends unhappily; either due to loss, due to death, or due to a broken bond. These are all sides of the same medal. Why do we love others if love can hurt us so much? Wouldn’t it be safer not to love? In this documentary, several people who have been profoundly confronted with love and death in their lives, provide glimpses of the enigma of love, based on their personal stories. On Freud’s famous couch, they are questioned about their experiences. Their stories are interwoven with timeless works from the history of painting and music. When words are not adequate, there is art and music.
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La muerte de Antonio Sánchez Lomas, Al igual que gran parte de España, el pueblo de Frigiliana está marcado por la violencia de la dictadura de Franco, con tragedias y pasados sin procesar que reverberan en el presente. Décadas después, los habitantes siguen llorando a sus muertos. En un intento por sanar de las pérdidas pasadas, se hizo un plan para dramatizar esos eventos violentos, pero no todos quieren abrir viejas heridas.
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La muerte de Antonio Sánchez Lomas, Al igual que gran parte de España, el pueblo de Frigiliana está marcado por la violencia de la dictadura de Franco, con tragedias y pasados sin procesar que reverberan en el presente. Décadas después, los habitantes siguen llorando a sus muertos. En un intento por sanar de las pérdidas pasadas, se hizo un plan para dramatizar esos eventos violentos, pero no todos quieren abrir viejas heridas.
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La muerte de Antonio Sánchez Lomas, Al igual que gran parte de España, el pueblo de Frigiliana está marcado por la violencia de la dictadura de Franco, con tragedias y pasados sin procesar que reverberan en el presente. Décadas después, los habitantes siguen llorando a sus muertos. En un intento por sanar de las pérdidas pasadas, se hizo un plan para dramatizar esos eventos violentos, pero no todos quieren abrir viejas heridas.
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La muerte de Antonio Sánchez Lomas, Al igual que gran parte de España, el pueblo de Frigiliana está marcado por la violencia de la dictadura de Franco, con tragedias y pasados sin procesar que reverberan en el presente. Décadas después, los habitantes siguen llorando a sus muertos. En un intento por sanar de las pérdidas pasadas, se hizo un plan para dramatizar esos eventos violentos, pero no todos quieren abrir viejas heridas.
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Twenty homeless people, one opera. An Amsterdam based homeless choir is rehearsing an opera written for them. Who is setting the rules?
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Twenty homeless people, one opera. An Amsterdam based homeless choir is rehearsing an opera written for them. Who is setting the rules?
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On a Sunday afternoon, a man is asked to come to the police station to see if he can be of any help in the investigation of the rape and murder of two women.
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Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories is a labyrinthine narrative in which notables such as Peter Sellars, Emio Greco, Simon Halsey and painter Rinke Nijburg explain their special relationship with Bach’s St Matthew Passion to Ramón Gieling (Johan Cruijff: en un momento dado). They speak against the backdrop of a church which has fallen into disrepair, while a choir of homeless people and Pieter Jan Leusink’s Bach Choir & Orchestra rehearse the Passion. Leusink isn't just the conductor, he is one of the main characters himself, with a painful past in which this musical piece has played a dominant role. Stories from the others alternate seamlessly with this. We learn how the St Matthew Passion played a decisive role in the relations between men and women, fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, mothers and their unborn children, and finally that in spite of our differences we all find a common denominator in the secret of Bach's music.
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Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories is a labyrinthine narrative in which notables such as Peter Sellars, Emio Greco, Simon Halsey and painter Rinke Nijburg explain their special relationship with Bach’s St Matthew Passion to Ramón Gieling (Johan Cruijff: en un momento dado). They speak against the backdrop of a church which has fallen into disrepair, while a choir of homeless people and Pieter Jan Leusink’s Bach Choir & Orchestra rehearse the Passion. Leusink isn't just the conductor, he is one of the main characters himself, with a painful past in which this musical piece has played a dominant role. Stories from the others alternate seamlessly with this. We learn how the St Matthew Passion played a decisive role in the relations between men and women, fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, mothers and their unborn children, and finally that in spite of our differences we all find a common denominator in the secret of Bach's music.
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Cyriaque Kouenou was forced to leave his country and fled to the Netherlands. Staying there he has now entered his fourth year on a surrealistic trip with no end in sight, with stopovers in a tent camp, an empty church, an old office building and a former prison. A no man's land where you are stuck after being told that you aren't allowed to stay but also can't be sent back.
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Cyriaque Kouenou was forced to leave his country and fled to the Netherlands. Staying there he has now entered his fourth year on a surrealistic trip with no end in sight, with stopovers in a tent camp, an empty church, an old office building and a former prison. A no man's land where you are stuck after being told that you aren't allowed to stay but also can't be sent back.
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A dramatic documentary about how the Netherlands got its first constitution.
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Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt achieved worldwide renown in 1979, when his work for four pianos Canto Ostinato was first performed. Although some music experts viewed it with disdain - it broke with prevailing notions of serialism and tonality - the piece was a huge hit in the contemporary classical music world. In the years since, numerous musicians have released their recordings of Canto, and it is still being performed around the world. Director Ramon Gieling interviewed a large number of people about the sometimes far-reaching impact this composition has had on their lives. One interviewee tells of how Canto was the soundtrack to the birth of her son; another has a section of the score tattooed on his arm. Gieling seeks to unravel the mystery of the universal power of music, and his blend of documentary footage, fiction, essays and archive material produces a multifaceted response to the question of just what it is about this piece that touches people so deeply.
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Ambientada en Cadaqués, en los años de dictadura franquista, gira en torno a la posible relación que han podido mantener nuestros protagonistas antes de que uno de ellos muera ahorcado. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Ambientada en Cadaqués, en los años de dictadura franquista, gira en torno a la posible relación que han podido mantener nuestros protagonistas antes de que uno de ellos muera ahorcado. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Joaquín Sabina es un conocido cantante y poeta, en España y Latino América. Después de una ‘depresión negra’ de tres años regresó hace un año con un nuevo álbum, con el que realizó su gira por España y Latino América. En Cerrado por derribo canta: Por las arrugas de mi voz se filtra la desolación de saber que estos son los últimos versos que te escribo. Algunos de estos temas recogidos en 19 Días y 500 Noches, entre ellos Donde habita el olvido y Ahora van a jugar un papel decisivo en la película. Incorporan los temas habituales en las obras de Sabina: la melancolía como medio para sobrevivir, esperanza en un mundo desesperado. Sabina, como personaje, es un digno heredero de renombradas figuras de la literatura española: Don Quijote, Don Juan, el Lazarillo de Tormes.
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In this film with its humorous undercurrent, a widower rents the upper floor of the house of a young couple, who can no longer afford the mortgage after a dismissal. The man immediately moves in. The only thing he brings with him - hidden under a cloth - is a large cage. Acting against the man's express warning, the couple goes up to his room when he is away. Their curiosity costs both them and the tenant dearly.
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In this film with its humorous undercurrent, a widower rents the upper floor of the house of a young couple, who can no longer afford the mortgage after a dismissal. The man immediately moves in. The only thing he brings with him - hidden under a cloth - is a large cage. Acting against the man's express warning, the couple goes up to his room when he is away. Their curiosity costs both them and the tenant dearly.
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Johan Cruijff - En un momento dado is a 2004 documentary film by Ramon Gieling on the life of Dutch footballer Johan Cruijff.
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Johan Cruijff - En un momento dado is a 2004 documentary film by Ramon Gieling on the life of Dutch footballer Johan Cruijff.
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A documentary set in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital. In this hospital the staff treats the victims as well as the offenders of the numerous attacks in Israel's capital. The doctors make no distinction between their patients but for the patients it can be hard to accept that victims as well as terrorists are treated the same way.
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Ramón Gieling visita la comarca de Las Hurdes, donde Luis Buñuel hiciera su único documental en 1932. Esa región ha cambiado mucho desde que Buñuel rodó allá, cuando era una de las regiones más pobres y marginadas de España. Los habitantes de Las Hurdes tienen sentimientos encontrados en relación a la película de Buñuel. ¿En qué medida Buñuel alteró lo que vio entonces, y hasta dónde fue un registro fiel de la realidad que atestiguó? Algunas de las personas que, siendo niños o jóvenes, fueron testigos del rodaje, dan su versión.
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Ramón Gieling visita la comarca de Las Hurdes, donde Luis Buñuel hiciera su único documental en 1932. Esa región ha cambiado mucho desde que Buñuel rodó allá, cuando era una de las regiones más pobres y marginadas de España. Los habitantes de Las Hurdes tienen sentimientos encontrados en relación a la película de Buñuel. ¿En qué medida Buñuel alteró lo que vio entonces, y hasta dónde fue un registro fiel de la realidad que atestiguó? Algunas de las personas que, siendo niños o jóvenes, fueron testigos del rodaje, dan su versión.
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When I told Johan van de Keuken I wanted to make a film about him and his work, we decided to make a film in a film, that is I would shoot the making of the film he was supposed to make about the Chinese photographer ToSang who would be making photographs of his clients. The film won a Jury Award in Figuiera da Foz, Portugal.
