Submit your feature film – fiction or documentary – for the Movies that Matter Festival 2023. Deadline: 21 November.
On Thursday 7 July at 19:00 the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and Movies that Matter will present a screening of The Ants and the Grasshopper at FLOOR. Anita Chitaya is a fighter: she can get men to stand up for equality and knows how to grow food even on dead soil....
In a Ukrainian women’s prison, inmate Lesya has just given birth to a son. Warden Iryna is concerned that he’ll be placed in an orphanage we he is 3, unless Lesya gets parole or finds an alternative home. Feature film with a documentary feel and a beautiful serene quality. Lesya is serving seven years in...
40-year-old Fabiola, her father César and her teenage daughter Gabi hold each other captive in a web of love, family ties and secrets new and old. Beautifully understated, intuitive feature film, subtly but poignantly addressing trauma and sexual abuse. Fabiola (Juana Acosta) is traumatized by a scuba diving accident during which her husband was killed....