Take on Power

In Take on Power we show films about uneven power relations. And about people taking on forces and structures that seem bigger than themselves.

All About the Money

A son of one of America’s wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts. For him it’s a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in, but has now come to despise. It’s the starting point of an astonishing journey.

Alles moet beter

Alles moet beter (Do Better) portrays what it is like to grow up in a world shaped by systemic crises. The film follows several young people who are each affected by this failure in different ways, and traces their search for how things can—or must—be done better.

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.

Heilig Schuim

The once-exiled brewer John Christian Kavakure returns to conflict-scarred Burundi to fulfil his old dream: a brewery that frees Burundians from dependence on multinational Heineken. With locally brewed banana beer, made according to his grandmother’s special recipe.

My Father and Qaddafi

A daughter’s search for the truth about her father. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was Libya’s foreign minister and ambassador to the UN. After defecting from Moammar al-Qaddafi’s increasingly brutal government, he became a peaceful opposition leader. But in 1993, he disappeared. Now his daughter Jihan pieces together a father she barely remembers.