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Agenda

1 April to 30 April

On Tour: The Promise

With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our favourite films to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In April, we will screen The Promise, the opening film of the Movies that Matter Festival 2025. A forgotten struggle, a lost future. In the 1960s, it seemed that West Papua was on the path to independence....

1 May to 31 May

On Tour: Flophouse America

With Movies that Matter On Tour, we bring our favourite films to seventeen film theatres across the Netherlands. In May, we are screening Monica Strømdahl’s documentary Flophouse America. Due to the severe housing crisis in the U.S., many families are forced to live in rundown, low-cost hotels known as Flophouse hotels. Director, Monica Strømdahl, has...

Magazine

 Portrait of Raki Ap, spokesperson for the Free West Papua Campaign

The Promise opens MtMF25

On Friday 21 March, The Promise will open the Movies that Matter Festival 2025 in the presence of director Daan Veldhuizen.

Education

On Tour

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Mission and vision

Our mission is to broaden views on human rights. Films are at the heart of all Movies that Matter activities.

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