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....
Years after an unspeakable tragedy involving their children, two sets of parents meet to talk. In the face of enormous grief and anger, is it still possible to find understanding, even forgiveness? Gripping drama with incredible performances by Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, Jason Isaacs and Reed Birney. In a sparsely furnished room in an Episcopalian...
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...