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On Tour: Soldier’s Bones
With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring impactful films to sixteen cinemas throughout the Netherlands. In May, we are showing the documentary Soldier’s Bones. The screenings will be accompanied by talks, reflections, and discussion programmes organised by the local Movies that Matter On Tour groups. See all screening dates About the Film In 1971, young...
Now in Cinemas: The President’s Cake
In poverty-stricken 1990s Iraq, young Lamia is selected to prepare a cake for the President’s birthday. Because basic ingredients are hard to find, Lamia goes on a journey in search of eggs, flour and sugar. It becomes a tender, tragicomic odyssey, offering a child-eye’s view of life under authoritarianism. Writer-director Hasan Hadi’s affecting debut...
Now in Cinemas: Paikar
Afghan artist-filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi returns home from Amsterdam after suffering a great loss to restore his relationship with his aging, authoritarian father. But has the gap between father and son grown too wide to bridge? Afghan artist-filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi is called paikar – the Persian word for ‘war’ or ‘warrior’ – by his family. His...
Now in Cinemas: Divine Comedy
Sharp satire by Iranian director Ali Asgari about the slow grind of censorship and the absurdity of repression. Bahram is a 40-year-old filmmaker whose films have all been banned by the Ministry of Culture. When his latest work is once again denied permission, he’s pushed to the edge of defiance. Bahram has spent his entire...
Now in Cinemas: The Plague
At an all-boys water polo camp, socially anxious 12-year-old Ben is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call ‘The Plague’. But as the lines between game and reality blur, Ben fears the joke might be hiding something real. Blending shades of body horror and psychodrama, writer/director Charlie Polinger instinctively...
Now in Cinemas: Eagles of the Republic
Egyptian political thriller about a famous actor who is forced to make a propaganda film for the autocratic regime. George Fahmy is a big film star, commissioned to play Egyptian President El-Sisi. He reluctantly accepts – and then begins an affair with the wife of the general overseeing the film. George Fahmy (Fares Fares) is...
Now in Cinemas: La Petite Derniere
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. It is springtime, and Fatima (played by non-professional newcomer Nadia Melliti) is in her final year of secondary school. She has a warm...