How would we, inhabitants of the Earth, present ourselves if we were to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? Would they see us as an enemy? Or can E.T. teach us how to interact with one another? All over the world there are people seriously concerned with these questions. Their daily life is spent looking for signals from extraterrestrial civilisations and devising ways to present ourselves during the encounter. A penetrating insight into human fears and longings.
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In 1972, a dart on a map of Europe changes the life of Congolese–Belgian musician Jack Roskam: he moves to Yugoslavia. After a successful career as a guitar player in a well-known local band, Galija, he is confronted with the Balkan war. While his colleagues starts to sing pro-Serbian songs, Jack exchanges his Fender guitar for a Kalashnikov and joins the Croatian army. In 2008, Jack returns to Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia to meet the former members of Galija for the first time since the war. Will the shared past win over the memories of war?
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Striking images of a hard-edged brilliance are the reason to see Winter Silence, video artist Sonja Wyss's feature debut, composed in an isolated Swiss village suspended in time. Wyss tells the story of a widow and her four daughters locked in a hermetic web of intense Catholic faith and local superstition, all tied to the snow-bound landscape. It is an archaic story of sexual awakening and religious mysticism in the director’s Swiss homeland.
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Jacob’s, the bookkeeper’s new client is the talented and flamboyant actress, Anne. Jacob soon discovers that Anne has made a mess of her personal finances and has a lot of debt. She may even have to sell her houseboat. During the evening of the auction, Anne organises a big good-bye dinner and invites all her colleagues and friends on the boat. When Jacob is about to tell Anne how he wants to save her houseboat (he has bought it himself for her), she comes up with a totally different plan.
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Just imagine having an incurable kidney disease, being in constant pain and calling hospital your second home. You’ll always be small and ugly. What do you do then? Instead of turning into a victim, Bart de Graaff went on stage, became a media star and set up the most popular Dutch TV channel. He died in 2002 at the age of 35, after single-handedly turning the entire world of Dutch television upside down. A moving story about a small man and his desperate struggle for a great life.
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A fascinating look at the world of the incredibly popular online game Warcraft, the “thinker's game” in the cyberworld. The film follows the world’s best players in the run-up to the World Cybergame Championship, Sky (Chinese) and Grubby (Dutch), the current and the former world champion. The story of these two top players on the way to their final duel makes a hypermodern western.
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Anna lives quietly with her husband and her 3-year-old son in the suburbs of a major city. She regularly travels to developing countries where she works as a consultant in irrigation projects. During a visit to Egypt, one of her colleagues commits suicide and it is Anna who discovers the body. Even though Anna didn't know her well, this sudden death makes a big impression on her. She realises for the first time that you can remain unknown even to those who are the closest to you.
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The story is set in the early 1960s. Sixteen-year-old Simon befriends the immensely wealthy brothers Arnout and Victor. On the estate where the brothers live, the boys spend their days playing tennis, listening to music and hanging out with Arnout’s beautiful girlfriend. Hidden in the attic, without the brothers’ parents knowing it, the boys keep their friend Ronnie, a petty criminal on the run from the police. However, after a time Ronnie becomes a burden and starts to blackmail them. The boys try to make him leave but when this fails, they come up with an unthinkable way to resolve the situation.
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A romantic comedy about the problems in the lives of six couples who find that love is everywhere. They all want to have it, but love is like Santa Claus, you have to believe in it, otherwise it will not work.
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