Submit your feature film – fiction or documentary – for the Movies that Matter Festival 2023. Deadline: 21 November.
On Wednesday 5 October we will screen the documentary Ghost Fleet by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron in collaboration with the Amsterdam film theater Studio /K. In 2019, the film won the Activist Documentary Award at the Movies that Matter Festival. A life on the water may be the embodiment of freedom for many, but...
As part of Black Achievement Month, the Bijlmerbios, in collaboration with Movies that Matter and IZI Solutions, will screen the documentary On These Grounds on Thursday 6 October at 19:45. Several US states have laws criminalising ‘disturbing school’. It is under such a law that Ben Fields, a white South Carolina police officer, confronts the...
El houb from director Shariff Nasr is about a Moroccan-Dutch man who decides to break the silence and open up about his sexuality to his parents. Moroccan-Dutch Karim returns to his parental home in Rotterdam to tell his parents that he likes men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The...
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