Ruben van der Hammen

Películas

The Breath of Life
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After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.
Do Not Hesitate
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A truck carrying a Dutch military convoy on a peacekeeping mission breaks down somewhere in the desert. As a group of soldiers waits for a repair team to arrive, they encounter a local boy who refuses to leave.
Skies Above Hebron
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No Hay Camino
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“No hay camino” sigue a la legendaria directora Heddy Honigmann en un viaje real y espiritual. Hoy, enfrentada a una enfermedad terminal, viajará a su país de nacimiento, Perú y por Europa, revisando todos los lugares y momentos importantes de su vida, ricamente ilustrados con clips de sus películas.
They Call Me Babu
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In the 1940s, Alima decides to flee from an arranged marriage to work as a nanny for a Dutch family. Through all her new impressions and thoughts, she looks critically at colonial society and her own position.
Love Letters
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They still exist: young people who know how to write a love letter. Five people in their twenties read aloud the most intimate letter they've ever written.
Shouted from the Rooftops
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A romantic story set in the heart of a war-torn Kurdish town. When Sherin leaves to fight, her anguished lover Ferhat stays behind awaiting her return.
Waterboys
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Esta película cuenta la historia de un novelista llamado Victor que tiene un hijo de 20 años que toca el violonccelo. Ambos personajes se encuentran solteros, pero deciden emprender un viaje a Escocia para mejorar su relación y, en definitiva, conocerse el uno al otro. Waterboys es divertida y conmovedora, y en ella se resalta la unión establecida entre un padre e hijo.
The Intruder
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In this smart and incisive thriller, a Dutch cop of Moroccan heritage goes undercover in a Moroccan drug ring and finds there a feeling of belonging he never experienced in "normal" society.
The Dinner Club
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Karen (32) and Michel (36) move with their daughter to an exclusive residential area. She soon finds a new close circle of friends: the women of the Dinner Club, and their husbands. But when two of the Club members commit suicide under suspicious circumstances, Karen starts to have second thoughts about her new friends. She has to choose: will she reveal the truth and dish the dirt, or will she protect the interests of the Dinner Club?
Lazy Duck
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What would happen with you if only you know the truth, and people won’t believe you? If the government decides to prosecute you and you have to plea for your own innocence without having the evidence? Peter Putker’s wife Durdana lost her life while sailing along the coast of Colombia. And although Peter states from the very beginning that they were attacked by pirates, the local authorities do not buy in his innocence. For them, he is the one who murdered his own wife. Problem is: only Peter himself was there and truly knows what happens. The Colombian authorities assign the case to the Dutch court. What happens when only you know the truth and any evidence supporting your innocence is lacking?