Society- Culture
1 hour 99 years
For most young Iranians, Tehran is a frustrating place to live. The press is censored, boys and girls are often separated and everything that has to do with sex is taboo. read more >
A Deadly Dilemma- Euthanisia from a Doctor's Perspective
‘Deadly Dilemma. Euthanasia from a Doctor’s Perspective’, provides an intimate look at the feelings of three general practitioners as they prepare for euthanasia on one of their patients. read more >
A Touch of Class
For this documentary in three acts (behaviour, care and work), filmmakers Mascha and Manfred Poppenk followed the pupils of the Kingmaschool. These pupils are all dealing with a learning disability. This documentary shows the struggle and inability of these young people to hold their own daily life and the boundless efforts of the school, which far exceed those of any other school system. read more >
Abortion – Right or Wrong
Every year, throughout the world, fifty million women have abortions and about thirty five thousand of these abortions are being performed in the Netherlands. read more >
Against All Odds
Against All Odds is a documentary about the first 10 years of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia read more >
AIDS: The Woman's Story
“If I had to choose between medicines or changing the mentality of men, I would choose the mentality. Because while taking the medicine, the antiviral drugs, you still need support, you will still need love, you will still need care. So the attitude has to change.” Monique – Nairobi, Kenya read more >
An Ox for a baby
Two million women worldwide suffer from fistula. In Ethiopia alone, some 100,000 girls and women suffer from obstetric fistula and there are 9,000 new cases each year. read more >
Angelique&Titia
A mother and her mentally handicapped daughter have to let go of each other, so that each can make a new start. read more >
Anna's silent struggle
Young deaf filmmaker Tom is in search of getting an answer to the question of what happened to deaf Jews during the war, and how some were able to survive the horrors of the Nazi persecution, despite their tremendous handicap. read more >
Ave Maria
Mary of Nazarene is one of the most popular female figures of our world’s history. read more >
Backlight: Buenos Aires - Human Resources
A documentary about a daily Argentinian televisionshow Recurcos Humanos (Human Resources)where two candidates compete over a job. read more >
Backlight: California Dreaming
California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the land of unbridled opportunity, dreams and stars, with a heavenly climate. But the Golden State is bankrupt. And after California it is now the turn of Los Angeles. Public services are dramatically cut, unemployment continues to rise, and many people have not only lost their jobs but their health insurance and their homes too. But at the same time optimism and confidence in the American way are unbreakable. read more >
Backlight: Caracas - The Informal City
In this documentary Rob Schröder portraits the created self-built constructions of six million inhabitants who live in the informal conditions of the barrios in Caracas. read more >
Backlight: Daddy is a Martyr
In Backlight: My Daddy is a Martyr, the viewer gets the opportunity to get an unique view into the lives of members of Hezbollah’s Shiite Muslim community. read more >
Backlight: Flight From Heaven
Terrorist attacks like the one on a disco in Bali in October 2000, the attack on the Marriot Hotel in Jakarta in July 2003 and the recent attacks on restaurants in Bali have shocked the world. read more >
Backlight: Grand Paris- The Architect and the President
French president Sarkozy not only wants to see a prestigious building built in his name - like his predecessors - but he wants to shape the future of Paris in its entirety. read more >
Backlight: I am Gurgaon- The new Urban India
The shining facades of Gurgaon, a satellite city of New Delhi, are symbols of India’s unparalleled economic growth. Gurgaon was built at the turn of this century by the largest project developers in the world. A village 15 years ago, has now grown into a city of 1,4 million inhabitants, but with little or no infrastructure. How viable is this new type of city? read more >
Backlight: Mamma Please Call Me
This documentary portrays the daily lives of the Carino-family "living apart together" in London, The Hague and Manila. It concentrates on the way the family keeps contact through telephone, letters and e-mail. read more >
Backlight: Metropolis- Coming to the City
Andala, Maria, Nick and Dong Bing live in four different continents, but they all have one thing in common: they have decided to start a new life in the big city. For six months, the four newcomers are followed by our local Metropolis video correspondents. read more >
Backlight: Purple Hearts
This documentary portrays six American veterans who were seriously wounded in the war in Iraq. read more >
Backlight: Real Man Don´t Rape
‘Real men don’t rape’. With these words South Africa’s president Mbeki echoed the slogan of a rally against rape, late 2002 in Johannesburg.
Now a handful of ‘real men’ have turned activists, trying to prevent rape and to reform rapists. read more >
Backlight: Rising Gulf
While the focus of most of the world’s media is on conflict areas in the Middle East, a ‘silent revolution’ is taking place in the Gulf States. read more >
Backlight: Saturday is for the dead
Hearses slow down the traffic and burials are the order of the day. Of South Africa’s population of roughly 46 million, about 350,000 die of AIDS every year. Undertakers are doing a brisk trade and cemeteries are bursting at the seams. read more >
Backlight: Saudi Solutions and Femmes Fatales
Two unique documentaries that refute the stereotypical image of the Arab woman as subservient and illiterate. Personal portraits of strong and ambitious women in a dynamic region, currently at the center of public attention. read more >
Backlight: Second Thoughts
The dilemmas surrounding euthanasia are nowhere in the world as openly under discussion as in the Netherlands. However, this does not make the issues any less emotionally charged. Backlight follows the negotiations between a doctor, a patient and the family in an Amsterdam nursing home. read more >
BACKLIGHT: THE LAST MARKET
C.K. Prahalad: “Don’t consider the poor as victims or as a burden, but start to see them as flexible and creative entrepreneurs and consumers”. read more >
Backlight: The Truth According to Wikipedia
As traditional mass media wither away and an increasing number of people access information through Wikipedia, critics warn that “our” Web is taking a course that will eventually lead to an info-crisis and loss of truth. read more >
Backlight: The World According to Google
This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and search. read more >
Bagdad Film School- How to survive as an independant filmmaker in Iraq
Baghdad Film school is about a group of dedicated filmmakers, students and teachers, who won’t let the harsh circumstances of their daily lives come in between themselves and their dreams. Baghdad Film school is an optimistic film about the need to create your own dreams and the invincible will to survive. read more >
Banana verdict, The
A wide-ranging documentary depicting the international banana trade battle. read more >
Banking the Unbanked
Is microfinance the answer to poverty? We follow two young ambitious Gambian bankers in their attempts to make Reliance into a steady microfinance institution. Will they succeed in this interesting and expanding market? read more >
Beachy Head
Mainly flooded by senior tourists, Beachy Head holds a grim record. With 20 dead persons a year, it's the first suicide spot of the world. read more >
Belfast Taxi
Intriguing documentary on the lingering conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland and the effects it has on the daily life in Belfast. read more >
Between Heaven and Earth
Two circus artists, Achat and Tarsun, are forced to choose between continuing the old circus tradition and politics. Their different choices seriously affect their lifelong friendship. read more >
Black Diamonds
They hang out in glitzy bars, drive luxury cars, compete for the best homes and shop in upmarket stores. South Africa’s black middle class has arrived. How do they live as nouveau riche in South Africa? read more >
Bollywood Blues
In a few months time 23 year old Monique will graduate from university. After all the hardship she longs to be free at last, to go out and date and become a Bollywood-star. read more >
Bonne and Wanda - Livin' & Lovin' in Alaska
Alaska has a long history as the land of dreamers. The picture of gold hunters and trappers has faded and the far Alaska now attracts a new kind of fortune seekers. The independent state has become America’s last refugee for those who have cheated and been cheated on. On the run for their past they find a save haven in the far and isolated north. read more >
BORIS RYZHY
A film on poetry, the Russian Mafia, suicide, love and the tragedy of the Perestroika years. A portrait of a young 21st-century poet for whom life became unbearable. read more >
Boundless Love
According to a recent survey, mixed marriages are more likely to end in divorce than matches between partners from the same ethnic background. In this four part series we follow four couples from different ethnic backgrounds. read more >
Bridging the gap
Bridging the Gap highlights a new generation of young western people in the top tiers of the international aid industry. read more >
Bridging two worlds
In a world divided like never before, in which the rift between rich and poor has never been greater, comes a timely story that offers hope. This film charts the life Motalib Weijters. A remarkable man, at home in two contrasting worlds - Bangladesh and the Netherlands. read more >
Buddha's Lost Children
In the borderlands of Thailand's Golden Triangle, a rugged region known for its drug smuggling and impoverished hill tribes, one man devotes himself to the welfare of the region's children read more >
CARMEN MEETS BORAT
A gypsy village is suddenly confronted with huge dilemmas after they are portrayed as backward people from Kazachstan in the motion picture 'Borat'. read more >
City Folk, The best of
City Folk is a television series which portrays the lives of ordinary people in big European cities. The series profiles their lifestyles, dreams, dilemma’s, passions, and their sometimes dramatic and remarkable life story read more >
Cross Aid Post
The door to the Cross Aid Post, a Christian health clinic located in the heart of Amsterdam's Red Light District, is always open for uninsured people and illegal immigrants. read more >
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
A Dutch special effects expert, who supplies the film industry with weapons, considers small arms a form of entertainment. read more >
Dear Europe
Two illegal passengers were found frozen to death in the luggage compartment of an aeroplane, they carried a letter with them, directed to the leaders of Europe. read more >
Death on Request
The Dutch government became the first in the world to legalise euthanasia, under very strict guidelines. read more >
Desi
In this touching documentary we follow the daily rhythm of Desi, an eleven year old girl with an extraordinary life. read more >
Displaced
What moves Western aid-workers to go to the most remote, inhospitable and dangerous places in the world to help other people? What are their true motives and can they really make a difference? read more >
Dream City
This documentary film portraits the staff and visitors of "Dream City" amusement park in Dohu, Iraq. read more >
Dying with Dignity
Looking at four cancer patients 'Dying with Dignity' illustrates how the request to die by the affected person is treated. read more >
En Un Momento Dado - Johan Cruijff
Johan Cruijff’s international fame as a football legend is still alive in Barcelona, the city where ‘number 14’ himself lives nowadays and where he has played many matches. Thirteen people from Barcelona talk about the most important moment Cruijff has given them. read more >
Faja Lobbi
Broad rivers flow through the primeval forests of Surinam, at times peaceful, at others angrily beating against rocks. read more >
Fan
A coming-of-age documentary about a child of the television generation. Both her fantasy world and her real world are heavily influenced by the hugely popular Australian drama series from the 1980’s, The Flying Doctors. read more >
Farmer who wanted to emigrate, The
"When farmers leave, it's the end of a free society". A hilarious and moving portrait of one of the last free-thinking farmers who now longs for freedom - the freedom to farm. read more >
FEAR
In the penetrating film ‘Fear’ director Michiel van Erp follows the lives of six people, all dealing with an anxiety disorder. read more >
Food Factory, The
The Food Factory features the renowned Dutch chef Pierre Wind who is not afraid to reach into a pile of waste food or to engage in a tug-of-war with a pig to help us realize there is more to food than we see in the supermarket. The Food Factory is an international, seven-part series that takes an irreverent look at food and the food processing industry. read more >
Forgotten Fools
Radomir and twenty other Bosnians, most of them psychiatric patients, have been behind bars in the closed wing of a refugee camp in Hungary since 1992. read more >
From Moscow to Magadan
In this entertaining series 'From Moscow to Magadan' author and host Jelle Brandt Corstius travels around modern Russia and its satellite states in a quest for authentic and interesting stories that dominate the lives of ordinary Russians today. read more >
Fugitives, The
This documentary reveals the secrets of Radovan Karadic´s and Ratko Mladic´s nine year flight from international justice. read more >
Garden of Remembrance
On 11 March 2004, Daniel Paz, son of Pilar Manjón (47) of Madrid, lost his life in a terrorist bomb attack. Manjón reluctantly became the spokesperson of the survivors of the 192 dead and 2000 injured. read more >
Glass Kisses
Denise (32) is married to Michael (28), an American who is sentenced to death. read more >
God is my DJ
God is my DJ is a documentary about the world of dance, a world of spectacular parties, where youngsters are looking for sensuous pleasures, ‘being yourself’ and, as an individual, feeling part of a crowd. read more >
Grito de Piedra
In the 17th century Potosi was one of the richest cities
in the world, thanks to Cerro Rico (the Rich hill). There is not much left of this wealth and Potosí is now depending on a new source of income. read more >
Heart's Desire
A portrait of Derrick, Erika and Jannae, representing the thousands of abused children in the United States who have been removed from their homes. Through dating techniques and glamour photography they try to present themselves as appealing as possible to potential adoptive parents, in their search for a new home. read more >
Helpless
This documentary gives the viewer an intimate and unique insight in the life of parents with intellectual disabilities. read more >
Hospice in Amsterdam, a
At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die read more >
Human Dutch, The
With candid cameras Haanstra filmed people; relaxing on the beach, celebrating carnival, getting married etc. read more >
I Never Want to be Famous
A portrait of the successful cellist Tobias Prenen who, at the age of 39, had a hart failure and was in a coma for several weeks. read more >
If we Knew
Everyday paediatricians ath the neonatology ward of a hospital struggle with ethical dilemmas concerning the life and death of newborn babies. read more >
In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century
Film director Roel van Broekhoven and best-selling historian Geert Mak take us on a grand tour through 20th century Europe. By train, car and boat, they literally flow the tracks of time, through the century, through the continent; starting off in fin de siecle Vienna, past Madrid and Volgograd, the bunkers of Berlin, the toy-cars left behind by the children of Chernobyl, ending at the ruins of Sarajevo.
They show beautiful archive material and listen to the experiences of witnesses: writers and politicians, a farmer in the Pyrenees, the grandson of the German Emperor, dozens of ordinary people whose lives have been influenced by the larger historical events. Basques, Silesians and Serbs. We are all part of Europe, but we each have our own story and our own identity. read more >
In My Father’s House
Award-winning film-maker and journalist, Fatima Jebli Ouazzani, paid a high price for her choice not to marry according to Moroccan tradition: she hasn’t seen or spoken to her father for 16 years. read more >
Is this the Will of Allah
Is this the Will of Allah is a series of two films, following Muslim patients in a Moroccan and in a Turkish hospital from the moment they get bad news until death. read more >
Israeli Fighter Pilots
A documentary about Israeli pilots carrying out missions above occupied territory.
Pilots who could have been the assassins of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. What goes on in the minds of these pilots? read more >
Ivo
This film portraits the unauthorised biography of the eighteen year old gorilla Ivo in the Berlin Zoo. Ivo is a special gorilla because he has a few close relationships with women. All the women who have close relationships with Ivo have their own personal story. All these stories together create the personal biography of Ivo. read more >
Keep on Steppin
Inspired by the American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) of the New Orleans Sketches, the Dutch filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra, drifts through the devastated streets of New Orleans, as the result of the hurricane Katrina. read more >
La Vie en Chantant - I’m alive because I sing
La Vie en Chantant is a storey abouth the Belgium brown café Les Olivettes, where the common folk gets the upportunity to sing and perform, just to feel like a star for a short while. read more >
Leaving Mandela Park
Leaving Mandela Park is a kaleidoscopic documentary about the dreams of children living in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa. It tells the story of five youngsters with a special drive to escape, however briefly, the drabness of everyday reality. read more >
Lessons from Tülay, Bahar and Naima
"Lessons from Tülay, Bahar and Naima" mostly takes place inside the cars in which three independent Muslim women give driving lessons. read more >
Living rights
Living Rights is a six part documentary series on the Rights of the Child seen from the perspective of everyday life with intimate portraits of children living in a situation conflicting with the United Nation's convention. read more >
Locked-in
Story of a man who suffers from the Locked-in Syndrome, his only method of communication is blinking his left eye. read more >
Longstay
This documentary gives an unique insight in the lives of several Dutch inmates who are in 'Longstay'; life imprisonment. read more >
Lou Biou - The Feast of the Fabulous Bull
Lou Biou is a documentary about a community with a deep-seated passion for the wild bull in the French Camargue. read more >
Making of Teuntje, The
Intriguing documentary about Teuntje and her sister Nikki and their three mums. Nikki and Teuntje, have been conceived with the help of several sperm donors. read more >
Malaria
Malaria, the Silent Plague tells the story of the comeback of the most widespread infectious disease in the world. read more >
Mama-Benz & the Taste of Money
A humorous story about the fashion business in West Africa. read more >
Martha Vonk goes Istanbul
To make a living of selling carpets in his store in Istanbul, Ahmet has his unique way of how to approach the tourists. read more >
Miss Universe 1929
A documentary about great fame and eternal love. The life story of Lisl Goldarbeiter (Austria’s first and only Miss Universe) and her cousin Marci Tänzer (amateur film maker). read more >
Mojave
The wildness of the Mojave Desert, in the South West of the United States, seems a far cry from civilization, which to all intents and purposes seems to have vanished altogether. read more >
Mr. Rakowski
There are many holocaust survivor stories which focus on the familiar pain, guilt and shame suffered by survivors. This is not one of them. read more >
My Enschede
In My Enschede filmmaker Astrid Bussink returns to Enschede, a city in the east of the Netherlands where she studied and lived.
On her last day there, 13th of may 2000, while packing her belongings to move to Amsterdam, a fireworks storage -apparently located across her house- exploded, leading to 23 people dying and over a 1000 people injured. The neighborhood looked liked it was bombed. read more >
My Friends
A intimate and powerful documentary about four friends who grew up together in Sarajevo. All four women are now in their thirties and live in different countries around the world. They are Olja, Emina, Jasna and the director of this film, Lidija. read more >
On the Edge of Life and Death
On the Edge of Life and Death explores decision-making and ethical questions of doctors and parents in a Dutch neonatology department concerning the early birth of premature children. read more >
Overseas
On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, Mei Fang en Jinju return to their hometown to celebrate the festival with their families. They tell about their dreams, their motives and their experiences of migration. What does it mean to become an 'overseas', a 'hua qiao' ? What is there to win, for whom, and what is the price to be paid, by whom ? read more >
Patents or Patients
A documentary about the staggering medicine prices and the stand-off between the established parmaceutical industry and manufacturers of cheap medicine. read more >
Please Hold the Line
Every day immigrants from all over the world call home, the telephone shop is important to each and every one of them. It's their only way to keep in touch with the world they have left behind. read more >
Prisoners of the Ground
Prisoners of the Ground deals both literally and figuratively with survival in the dark. It’s a portrait of an inverted melancholic society; a Finnish tango captured on film. read more >
Putin´s Mama
There’s not much in Vera Putina’s 77-year existence that sets her apart from all those other Russian women who grew up and grew old in the Soviet Union.
Until, in 1999, she recognized in Vladimir Putin the son she thought was lost forever. read more >
Pyongyang Crescendo
It’s a film about the people living within a totalitarian system. A unique story about real people, not selected by the North Korean authorities. And contrary to most films shot in North Korea, none of its scenes were staged for the cameras by the government. read more >
Return to Bosnia, The
This is a gripping film about two young Bosnian widows who, together with their five young children, have to return to Bosnia after living in Germany as refugees for five years. read more >
Romance de Valentía
Film-maker Sonia Herman Dolz follows the young Spanish bullfighter, Enrique Ponce. read more >
Sam: An Astonishing Life
What if your life goes downhill ever since you are a five-year-old boy…when you become deaf, when you become blind…when you can’t walk anymore…when you eventually have to live your life tied up in a wheelchair, you only weigh 15 kilos and aren’t able to inhale without a medical ventilator. Who decides if this is quality of life or not? read more >
School for Reality TV
The Dutch created the first formats for reality shows. Ever since, many ordinary people want to have their 15 minutes of fame and apply for a reality show. In New York the School for Reality TV runs courses to prep the perfect candidate. read more >
SHOUT
Born on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, best friends Ezat and Bayan are given the chance to study in their parents’ homeland: Syria. Shout is a film about their search for adventure and a sense of belonging in one of the world’s most persistent conflict zones. read more >
Souls of Naples
The incomparable splendour of Naples, situated in the shadow of a volcano and by the blue sea of an enormous bay, inspired Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to the famous statement: “See Naples and die”. But Naples also has a more complex side. read more >
Stayin' Alive in Jo'burg
Johannesburg is the largest economic metropolis in Africa. Downtown Johannesburg, however, is one of the world’s most violent places. Most office buildings have been vacated or squatted and are occupied by several groups of illegal Africans from neighbouring countries. Thousands of fortune seekers are trying to build a new life in this anarchist urban jungle. read more >
STOLEN CHILDREN
This documentary portrays two mothers who are fighting for the right to keep their children after an international separation. read more >
That's Life
The challenging search of photograher/director Sander Veeneman for three young adults living in poverty in Mozambique, South Africa and Peru. read more >
The Birthday
A young man is followed in his process of becoming a woman through a transsexual operation in Iran. read more >
The Broken String
A library in Cape Town contains 150 small notebooks. The marbled covers mention a date and initials. The books’ pages show two columns. One column contains strange symbols and the other an English translation. This is all that remains of the language of the |Xam, the aboriginal people in northern South Africa. read more >
The Comfort Zone
Paula Callahan and John Bridle have given the best years of their life to people in crisis situations all over the world. Over 15 years they worked for Doctors Without Borders in the most difficult circumstances. How do they survive back home? read more >
The Fine art of Seduction
They are called PUA’s. Pick Up Artists. The Casanova’s of the disco, guys who effortlessly wind the cutest girls around their fingers, night after night, day after day. Meanwhile, thousands of young men worldwide wonder how they do this. Why don’t the PUA’s start to blush and sweat like they do, and why do they always know the right thing to say? read more >
The Future Express
The Future Express is a cross-media project consisting of an interactive website, a weekly television series, a digital television channel and radio reports. It is a road movie shot on a train travelling through six continents, focusing on the major issues of these times in which globalisation is taking on drastic proportions: a rapidly changing world, migration, modernisation and a growing need for individuals to have an identity of their own. read more >
The Houses of Hristina
Hristina is invisible. Quiet and unnoticed, she cleans houses. Each day a different house each day the same work. She is a Bulgarian, living in Amsterdam. Contact with her employers takes place mainly through notes. To come to terms with her life, she takes photographs of the interiors of 'her' houses. Together these photos form the house she inhabits in the Netherlands. A house that holds her prisoner. read more >
The Lost Colony
In some vague newspaper article I read about “newly opened KGB documents” revealing that at some time somewhere in Russia an attempt had been made to cross monkeys with humans. “Somewhere in Russia” turned out to have been a primate laboratory in Abkhazia, a beautiful subtropical former Soviet republic. read more >
The Road to Mecca
Are the West and the Muslim world heading for an inevitable clash or are we just experiencing the growing pains of a rapidly globalizing and multicultural world? Can we find a common ground on issues like freedom of speech and the separation of religion and state? How deep is the ideological water really? Flemish musician and philosopher Jan Leyers, one of Belgium’s most famous and renowned TV hosts, decided to go out and look for answers in an exploration into the Muslim world; resulting in a series full of extraordinary encounters. The Road to Mecca is the account of an overwhelming adventure in a world understood by few, feared by many, and from which no one returns unchanged. read more >
The West Lusaka Man
Roel Goosen, a Dutch young man, faces a harsh fate when he is sentenced to death for murder in West Lusaka, Zambia. read more >
There Goes my Heart
A touching documentary about the only home for elderly drug addicts in the world. read more >
This will never go away
In an Amsterdam women's refuge Mirella, Sylvia and Johanna are sitting together. They have fled from their violent partners. read more >
Touch Me Someplace I Can Feel
This is a documentary about the provocative American cartoonist John Callahan (54). At the age of 21 Callahan got involved in a serious car-accident and was paralyzed from the waist down. read more >
Trails from the East
A beautifully illustrated book provides background information about the cultures and regions the train travels through. The reports and interviews in and outside the train deal with the dreams, motivations and backgrounds of the people we meet.
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Transit Dubai
In the heart of the Middle-East a brand-new, modern city is rapidly arising; the city of Dubai. read more >
Tulip, The light of the East
This is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire and anguish have all played their part in the development of the tulip, from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to a world-phenomenon. read more >
Vietnam, the memory
This documentary focuses on the social fate of the Vietnamese veterans. read more >
Voice of the water, The
The Dutch master of documentary, Bert Haanstra, has skillfully composed a portrait of all aspects of the bigger part of Holland, WATER. read more >
Waste as development aid
Is the trade in recycable refuse, like paper and plastic, good for the environment and the economy of the Third World? read more >
Water, The Drop of Life
A fascinating series dealing with the major problems with regards to water. read more >
Welcome to Hadassah Hospital
A gripping documentary about an Israeli Hospital, ironically the only place were both Israelis and Palestinians are treated equally. read more >
Where is Gary?
Documentary maker Jean-Baptiste Dumont, aka JB, has been tricked by a certain Gary in a train station in Brussels. A guy who says his wallet got robbed, that he's stuck there, and needs 80 euros to go back home to Norway. JB fell into the trap. But when he googled his name, he realized soon enough Gary has scammed many people, all around Europe, for many years. read more >
Women under the Royal Thumb
A film about the influence of polygamy on the AIDS epidemic in Swaziland. read more >
Young in.....Belgium
Young in.... is a new theme of VPRO's documentary strand Backlight. read more >