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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...

A forgotten struggle, a lost future. In the 1960s, it seemed that West Papua was on the path to independence. But international interests, geopolitical power struggles, and economic motives dictated otherwise. Using uniquely restored 35mm archival footage, The Promise brings this history back to life, revealing how an entire people is systematically betrayed and oppressed. As the...

Olivia (Sophie Lindner) and her mother (Thekla Reuten) have an unruly bond: intense, unpredictable, but inseparable. After an intense confrontation, Olivia is placed out of home and ends up in an emergency shelter. There she encounters other young people who, like her, carry their wounds with them, and gradually this new living situation tilts her...