Submit your fiction or documentary film for the Movies that Matter Festival by 1 November.
On Thursday 26 September, Oy Vey presents a screening of Disturbing the Peace in collaboration with Movies that Matter. Filmmakers Stephen Apkon and Andrew Young tell the story of the group Combatants for Peace, a Palestinian-Israeli movement working for peace since 2005. The screening is held at 21:00 at Rialto De Pijp. Standing Together How...
Retired Georgian teacher Lia travels to Istanbul in search of her estranged niece Tekla. She is accompanied by her young neighbour Achi. Roaming the Istanbul streets, they meet many outsiders in this daring and touching trans drama. Lia, a retired teacher, has made a promise to find out what happened to her long lost niece,...
Patrice Lumumba became the first prime minister of newly independent Congo in 1960, only to be executed the following year. He had become the personification the growing Pan-African movement, which threatened Western hegemony on the African continent. Against this background, jazz music became a political tool. Patrice Lumumba had alarmed Belgium and the United States...