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Alpha. 2025 star_border 7
After his mother passes away, Rein moves to a small village in the Alps to be immersed in nature, meditate and work as a snowboard teacher. His quiet bubble bursts when his extroverted father Gijs comes to visit. But it isn’t long before Rein has had enough.

Freek de Jonge: Peace on Earth 2024 star_border 2
Registration of the show by Dutch comedian Freek de Jonge. As long as there are privileges, human rights fall short. How can we live together peacefully as humans? During the Christmas conference, Freek de Jonge will answer that question. With his characteristic sharpness and humor, he takes us on a journey through the violent history of humanity and exposes the sore points of our current society.

The Invisible Ones 2024
Filmmaker Martijn Blekendaal thinks there should be a superhero for invisible children: kids who need to be invisible because otherwise their lives are in danger. In The Invisible Ones he tells the stories of four children—some of whom are now 85 years old—who learned to master the art of going unnoticed. This is something he learned to do in his own life.

Vriendschapsketting 2024

Between Small Places 2024

Ask me Anything 2024

Kiezen, snijden, zwijgen 2024
Marieke and Sharan are intersex: born with a body that does not fit into the normative definitions of male or female. During their first meeting, they discover that the things that marked their childhoods have happened to them both: hospital visits, operations, and silence because what they are must remain a secret. The film follows Sharan and Marieke over the course of a year as they tell their secret to friends, comb through medical records, and discover things about themselves that they did not know before. Intimate images show the devastating effect of secrecy and medicalization on the lives of intersex people.

Keane Live at Pinkpop Festival 2024 2024
Live concert by Keane at Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf Netherlands. Broadcasted by NPO on 21st June 2024.

Eternal You 2024 star_border 6.9
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.

Spijtmoeders 2024
What if you love your child, but are unhappy in your role as a mother? Spijtmoeders is a documentary film about mothers who, if they could make the choice again, would rather not be mothers. Three women talk about their struggles with motherhood, the shame and guilt they feel, and the high expectations society places on them. The fear of judgment from others is great: what if people think that they are not a good mother, that they do not take good care of their child? What if they think they don't love their child? The mothers are represented by hyper-realistic dolls, but their voices are real.

Alreadymade 2024
In 2004, a urinal was voted the most influential work ever in modern art. Famed artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp claimed to have created “Fountain”—or rather, he bought the mass-produced product and signed it—but according to some, it is the lesser-known, flamboyant Dadaist artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven who should take credit for transforming this much-discussed porcelain “piss pot” into art.

The Kyiv Files 2024
The former KGB archive in Kyiv was made public in 2017, allowing Ukrainians to view their personal dossiers from the Soviet era for the first time. For many older citizens, it was an opportunity to get answers to questions that had been haunting them for decades.

Trauma Porn Club 2024 star_border 6
Nova is an aspiring artist who can’t seem to get her career off the ground. She feels the reason is her lack of life experience. While it may seem like there is no quick fix for a problem like this, the dark fetish app Sano offers just that. With a few taps, users can gain traumatic experiences, including torture.

Heresy 2024 star_border 7
In a small Dutch village in the Dark Ages, Frieda carries the blame for her struggle to conceive a child with her husband. She believes God is her only hope and seeks help from the village priest. But when the local butcher attempts to take advantage of Frieda, chasing her into the forest, he mysteriously disappears. Frieda comes back unscathed, the first to ever return from the unknown dangers outside of the village. The community becomes suspicious that it was not God who brought her back safely but a dark force cloaked in fog beyond the edge of the woods. Frieda becomes suspicious as well, but her doubts begin to form a new faith within her; a faith in the ones that linger in the darkness.

Venus 2024 star_border 4
After all men worldwide commit suicide, Joyce becomes hopelessly addicted to the past and longs for her lost love. Looking for a way to get her boyfriend back, she comes into contact with a pseudoscientific group of women who try to manifest 'the male'. But should we want men back? Or might a world without men be better?

Amsterdam Alert 2024
Struggling to get home to her stranded baby, a young mother in Amsterdam receives an emergency alert on her phone: a nuclear missile has been launched at the city and residents have forty-five minutes to evacuate.

Binary 2024
Nisha, a trans woman from Pakistan working as a dancer in the Netherlands, is conflicted about proceeding with gender-affirming surgery. Every time she embraces her identity, she is subjected to strange attacks and visions. Chaos ensues when her inner demons decide to take on the demons outside.

Memory Dealers 2024
Guilty of having allowed greedy businessmen to take over her city and wipe its residents' memories clean, mayor Teo conspires with a motley bunch of outsiders to set things right. Armed with homemade hallucinogens, the gang sets out to free citizens from their painless, amnesiac existence.

Slipjacht 2023
A dive into the world of a theatrical tradition with riders in classical costumes, hunting horns and bloodhounds. The drag hunt is a hunt without guns, where you do not hunt an animal, but a piece of cloth. It seems to be something of this time, but drag hunting is still under pressure. Can this age-old tradition survive in modern society? How do the riders view this spectacle full of etiquette?

Jippie No More! 2023 star_border 2
Jaap Peter, a lively 16 year old boy, eagerly prepares for his older sister's wedding at their beloved grandfather's country house. As the whole family rallies together to create the perfect celebration, Jaap Peter falls in love for the first time. But when the girl of his dreams is smitten with his younger sister instead, Jaap Peter is disheartened. Through the chaos and tender moments, Jaap Peter learns that his presence and the unbreakable bond of his family are vital in ensuring the wedding's success.

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De Wit en de Brit 2025
Who are the winners and losers of Brexit? Former United Kingdom correspondent Tim de Wit returns to reflect on his own role as a journalist and to investigate what became of the Brexit promises. Has migration decreased? Has healthcare improved?

Laura H. 2024
Laura H, The teenager from Zoetermeer takes on a new identity in her search for herself and travels with her husband Ibrahim and two children to the caliphate in Syria. When she shows up at the border in 2016 and says she has escaped and regrets it, doubts about her motives are great. Why did Laura choose to travel to the 'Caliphate'?

Droomdorp 2024
After the holidays, do you sometimes get the feeling that you would like to change course? For example, spend more time in nature, live more sustainably, grow your own food and care more about each other? A group of people from all corners of the Netherlands didn't think about it, but decided to do it. Their ideal village had to be built in the Oosterwold district of Almere. Documentary series 'Droomdorp' followed the group for four years and shows how the residents try to uphold their ideals and dreams together.

Meisjes van de Goede Herder 2024
From 1860 to 1978, twenty thousand girls with difficult childhoods were cared for in five homes in the Netherlands, the Monasteries of the Good Shepherd. Britta Hosman travels with Lies Vissers, Joke de Smit and R. Riet to the city and country to reconstruct what they and everyone else experienced during their youth.

De butlers 2023
At The International Butler Academy in Simpelveld, The Netherlands, students from all over the world and of all ages are taught the tricks of the butler trade. The film follows six students during their training. What motivates them to choose this servile profession?

Seeds of Deceit: The Sperm Donor Doctor 2023
Who are you, when half your DNA isn't what you thought? Dr Jan Karbaat was a trusted IVF expert - but deception lay at the heart of his clinic. A shocking story of fertility fraud.

100 dagen in de vergeten wijk 2023 star_border 9

Sander versus the socials 2023
Sander Schimmelpenninck investigates the far-reaching influence of social media on our society and politics. To this end, he talks to journalists, moderators, philosophers, lawyers and troll hunters. How does social media use undermine our democracy and why is no one doing anything?

Gazeta, de Poolse krant onder vuur 2023

Danny and the Americans 2023

From Bahia to Brooklyn, Caribbean stories 2023
Nowhere have so many peoples and cultures from all over the world been violently brought together as in the Caribbean. Slavery and colonialism have turned society into a multi-colored melting pot. In this travel series, journalist Nina Jurna investigates in seven countries how history continues to impact the present and how this leads to a new Caribbean culture.

Onze man bij de Taliban 2023 star_border 10

Murky Skies 2023 star_border 8
The 1992 crash of an Israeli Boeing 747 into an apartment building in Amsterdam remains a three decades mystery, fueled by unexplained illnesses, lost evidence, mysterious cargo, and one missing black box. An international thriller that chronicles how narratives are conceived and uncovers the hidden threads between business, politics, the military and us: the people.

Lampje 2023 star_border 9
This elaborate and curated fairy tale adventure tells the story of Lampje, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, who has to climb a grand staircase every evening to light the lantern and shrink ships before the rocks. One night, in the midst of an approaching storm, she finds that her matches have run out - disaster strikes and an adventure begins.

Ongeschreven regels 2022

In de schaduw van het WK 2022

The Spectacular 2022 star_border 4.8
In the late 1980s, a Dutch anti-terrorism detective sets out to take down an IRA cell ruthlessly targeting English military personnel on leave in the south of the Netherlands.

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