Writing
Rolf Orthel
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9 titles
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No synopsis available yet.
Laagland
1996
7.0A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.
Mindshadows
1988
7.0The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms.
Donna: Women in Revolt
1980
NRTwo women are dissatisfied with their way of life and work. They also realize that their resistance to the frightening political and military developments in Europe has come to nothing. In seemingly different ways, they try to change their relationship with the outside world. They watch fragments of films by Resnais and Godard and even want to make their own film.
The White Umbrella
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ik ben geen probleemkind, ik ben een uitdaging
2017
6.5Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).
A Silent Traveler
1993
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Laagland
1996
7.0A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.
Mindshadows
1988
7.0The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms.
Donna: Women in Revolt
1980
NRTwo women are dissatisfied with their way of life and work. They also realize that their resistance to the frightening political and military developments in Europe has come to nothing. In seemingly different ways, they try to change their relationship with the outside world. They watch fragments of films by Resnais and Godard and even want to make their own film.
The White Umbrella
1983
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ik ben geen probleemkind, ik ben een uitdaging
2017
6.5Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).
A Silent Traveler
1993
6.5Debuting Iraq-born, Netherlands-based writer/director Ibrahim Selman starts out on docu ground, with a voiceover explaining his objectives and the film’s stand-in location, and recalling Kurdistan before the advent of war. He then shifts into narrative mode, with glimpses of life in a mountain village caught in the conflict between Iraqi military authorities and peshmergas (guerrilla freedom fighters).
A Silent Traveler
1993
10.0When Laura was six, her parents got divorced and her father disappeared from her life. The happiness she experienced on her final journey with her father, when he danced with her at a flea market in Brussels, holds a special place in Laura's memory. When Laura finds the shadow puppets her father once bought for her in the attic, these open up a portal to the past for her.
Shadowland
1993
Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an opportunity for a change.
The Front Door
1985
