Paul M. van Brugge

Stories about young Ukrainian dancers and their hasty flight to the Netherlands. You see their new life as refugees. The former conservatory in The Hague is a shelter for them where they collect their lives and find refuge in their profession: dance. The formation of a new ballet company, The United Ukrainian Ballet, is an important foothold in winning back their lives. They find comfort in each other and close friendships develop. In addition, there is the great love for ballet, for the dancers the best way to express themselves.

Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV architects, always has 100 projects going at once. Documentary filmmaker Jan Louter followed him for two years to make "Under Tomorrow's Sky", a candid and open-hearted look at the highs and lows of the architecture profession.

Jules Deelder turned 75 on 24 November 2019 and died less than a month later. Shortly before his death, 26 other unique characters from Rotterdam paid homage to him by reading part of his 'Portret van Olivia de Havilland': the epic 891 line poem in which Deelder reminisced about the 1950s.

To forever be an outsider in your own country or roam freely in an international but tiny kingdom? That is the choice Tobias, who was born deaf, seems to be faced with.

Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the other until the recent death of the father of both. Now, however, they are half brothers. During the voyage, they meet Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer who will join them on the journey.

The story of a farmer, Helmer, who realizes that his life has been influenced to an unhealthy extent by his aging father.

Warcraft III is the most popular real-time strategy computer game, thrilling over 2.5 million North Americans and 10 million people worldwide everyday. The game creates an alternate universe, where players challenge each other with a mythically-charged online world of humans, orcs, the undead, knights, and elves. In Beyond the Game, we meet - in real life and within the game - two of the game's leading figures, known as Grubby and Sky. Acclaimed filmmaker Jos de Putter tracks these Kasparovs of a new generation and a new game across the world all the way to the world championships in Seattle. A fascinating, surprising, and genuinely touching portrait, Beyond the Game is a study of, and participation in, the reformation of our communities in the internet age.

Young Tiuri has to pass the final test before before being knighted by king Dagonaut. He has to pass a night in the chapel, what is suddenly disturbed by a strangers request of help. With his decision to help the stranger, Tiuri abandons his given task and starts into an adventure, that will shape the destiny of Dagonaut. On his journey he learns about the true meaning of love, friendship, courage and loyalty.

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.

1960년대의 부에노스 아이레스. 8살의 발렌틴은 3년 전 자신을 떠난 엄마가 다시 돌아와 가족 모두가 행복하게 사는것만이 절실한 꿈이다. 일과 여자밖에 모르는 아빠는 발렌틴에게 통 관심을 쏟지 않는다. 발렌틴은 유일한 친구인 피아노 선생님 루포에게만 자신의 고민을 털어놓는다. 아무도 왜 엄마가 자신을 버리고 떠났는지 말해주지 않자 결국 발렌틴은 스스로 이유를 알기 위해 나선다.

In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.

밀레니엄에서 가장 빠른 특급 엘리베이터가 오작동을 시작한다. 엘리베이터 정비사 마크 뉴먼은 문제를 해결하기 위해 나서지만 쉽사리 원인을 찾지 못하고 앞못보는 장애인, 밀레니엄빌딩의 경비원, 임산부, 등등 점점 피해자는 늘어만 가고, 신문기자인 제니퍼에 의해 엘리베이터에 대한 비밀을 듣고 직접 해결을 위해 나선다.

About a largely unsung writer of the twentieth century: John Fante, the renegade author whose highly autobiographical novels illustrate his deep-rooted love of Los Angeles and his struggles working through poverty and prejudice.

Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.

Different couples go to a hotel which has an special offer for staying over at the 31st of december 1999 in to the new millenium. The movie follows the different couples and their reasons to be in the hotel.

After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone.

17세기, '메이콘(Macon)'이란 가상의 도시. 불임이 전염병처럼 창궐하는 이 곳에 사람들이 한 노파의 산고를 지켜보기 위해 대극장에 몰려든다. 무대 위에선 흉측한 모습의 늙은 여자가 진통을 하고 있고, 관중은 상상 임신이나 기형아가 나올 것이라는 독설을 퍼붓는다. 13번째의 진통만에 세상에 나온 아기는 뜻밖에 건강하고 아름답다. 그들은 이제 그를 '베이비 오브 메이콘(Baby Of Macon)'이라 부른다. 노파의 딸(The Daughter: 줄리아 오몬드 분), 즉 아기의 누나는 자신의 어머니를 지하에 가두고 자기가 대신 엄마 행세를 하며 부와 권력을 얻으려 한다. 덧붙여 자신의 처녀성을 만인에게 확인시키며 아기의 주가를 높이려 한다. 그리고 그녀는 파티장에서 주교 아들(The Bishop's Son: 랄프 피네스 분)을 마구간으로 유혹한다. 둘의 관계가 시작될 무렵 바람이 불고 찬란한 빛이 들어오는 가운데 마구간 문을 열고 들어오는 아기. 남자는 죽고 그녀의 성모 마리아 가면은 벗겨진다. 크게 노한 주교(The Bishop: 필립 스톤 분)는 그녀를 죽이고 싶어하지만, 이 도시에서는 처녀에겐 사형을 내릴 수 없다는 법이 있다. 주교와 귀족들은 머리를 맞대고 궁리를 하기 시작한다. 결국 그녀에겐 '죽을 때까지 병사들에게 성적인 봉사를 하라'는 형벌이 내려진다. 커튼 뒤로 흘러나오는 병사의 거친 숨소리와 처녀의 외딘 비명. 그녀는 208번째의 강간에서 죽고 만다. 한편, 교회 안에서는 낙찰이 시작된다. '베이비 오브 메이콘'의 피는 5만 크라운. 교회는 더욱 악랄한 수법으로 아기를 이용해 돈을 벌어들인다. 이미 숨결이 끊긴 아기. 교회 안에서는 기이하고도 장엄한 장례식이 열린다.

One day, Tim (Roy Ward) stops to speak with one of those men with no apparent income and no apparent place of residence who can be seen on the streets of Amsterdam and who are ready to speak of profundities and mock-profundities at the drop of a hat. This particular man tells him that "people don't die, they get killed." For some reason, this strikes the lonely television repairman as profound. He has been building a ham radio at home out of spare parts so that he will have someone to talk to. Shortly after talking to the street person, his circle of friends is diminished by one when his friend Alex is reported to have killed himself. This in itself is a bit of a mystery, and Tim attempts to make sense of it by talking to a lawyer, Alex's girlfriend, and others.

As an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.

José is a young journalist who gets fired over refusing to write an article about an American film crew, overdramatizing the situation in Argentina. When he goes looking for his old girlfriend, he runs into the crew again.