The closing film bo of the Netherlands Film Festival, which ends today, willalso be in cinemas nationwide this week. And if you’ve already seen it,there’s still plenty to choose from for a visit to your local movie theater.
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When the intrepid Bo travels to Georgia to visit the grave of her father – awell-known trumpeter – she runs into his former childhood friend Levan. Insearch of her roots and a better understanding of her father, she decides tohitch a ride in Levan’s truck. Despite the age difference, they gently give into the love they feel for each other. Bo’s father’s melancholic trumpetplaying accompanies their journey through the breathtaking Georgian landscape.The blossoming love between Bo and Levan makes them finally dare to sharetheir darkest secrets.
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After witnessing a bizarre and traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr.Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is confronted with ominous events that she cannotexplain. As an overwhelming fear gradually takes over her life, Rose mustconfront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying newreality.
Beautiful Beings
Addi lives with his eccentric mother in Reykjavik, Iceland. After an incidentwith his classmate Balli who is being bullied, he decides to take care of him.Together with two of his comrades, the quartet explores their budding livesinto adulthood. They don’t shy away from aggression and violence, but theyalso learn about mutual loyalty and affection. As their behavior continues toescalate, Addi looks for ways to bring him and his friends back to a saferpath.
Ticket to Paradise
Oscar winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the silver screen asexes on a common mission: to stop their lovesick daughter from making the samemistake they once made. Ticket to Paradise is a romantic comedy about secondchances that can turn out to be surprising.
Escape from Brazil
Joao, a Brazilian police officer, and Laila, his girlfriend, are robbed andshot by an assailant. They recover from their wounds and are left physicallyand emotionally scarred. Joao works on a case involving a kidnapped woman, whohelps her husband Freire during negotiations. Eva, a young and wealthymerchant, struggles to find meaning in life. She returns to an academic careerin the Netherlands, aided by the intellectual John Togg. She conducts researchinto global recovery policies, with the hope of solving socio-economicinequalities in the world. She meets Bram, a bon vivant, and pleads for heroptimism about humanity and the liberalism of the world market. During theirengagement party, Joao accidentally sends a message to Laila, ending therelationship because they don’t want to leave Brazil. He fights with hisbrother-in-law, Fabio, shoots him in front of the whole family and flees.While working with Togg, Eva is inappropriately groped by him, protests andruns off. Joao kidnaps Freire in an affluent neighborhood. He interrogates himand discovers that he has cocaine paste and orders the kidnapping and murderof his own wife. Joao hatches a plan to smuggle the cocaine into Europe andevade the police for Fabio’s murder. Togg reveals that he will no longer helpEva’s investigation. She stands dumbfounded and becomes depressed. Joao risksthe drugs flying into the Netherlands and manages to make his way throughcustoms. He hides it and randomly kidnaps Eva in her house. He meets the Dutchdrug dealer and can’t figure it out. They follow Joao to Eve’s house and holdboth hostages. Joao is gem
nowhere
The lonely existence of André in his fifties is shocked when a homeless boybreaks into his house. While André at first berates him, they soon turn out tobe more alike than expected. The two develop an unexpectedly close bond andhelp each other come to terms with their past. Nowhere is a layered portraitwith moving characters, about connection, hope and family roots.
femi
As the birth of his first child approaches, 21-year-old mentally unstableDennis (Yannick Jozefzoon) must face the loss of his Nigerian father who diedyoung in order to come to terms with himself.
Love, Spells and All That (Ask, Buyu vs.)
Twenty years after their affair ended, two women reunite on a day trip to thecharming Turkish island of Büyükada, where they first fell in love. They tryto break an old spell that one had cast over the other. It will be anunexpected journey through the past.
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) understood the value of art from an early ageand was captivated by its beauty. His worldwide conquests were thereforealways accompanied by collecting, studying, preserving and mapping art. Hebrought artworks from all over the world to France based on his belief thatculture and art should be accessible to everyone. The complex relationshipbetween Napoleon and art has many contradictory manifestations. He used artand culture to legitimize himself as an heir to the classical world, as aninstrument for the aesthetic, moral and bourgeois education of citizens, butart was also propaganda and spoils of war for revolutionary France. Oscarwinner Jeremy Irons takes us from the Brera Academy and Dom in Milan, to theLouvre in Paris, in the company of the best international art historians.
Ningdu
Caught between demigods and mass madness, in a world of propaganda images,surreal collages and pop art animation, Lei’s family struggles to survive thetumultuous times of China of the 1950s and 1960s. Silver Bird and Rainbow Fishis an ode to family, memory and a reconstruction of family history in theHistory of China.
My Beessie and Me
A documentary about the inseparable bond between pets and their owners. Atragicomic quest for whether we need pets to fill a gap in our humanexistence. Because how nice is it to live with an intelligent pig, quirkynaked cats, a dancing dog, a spiritual slug or an Insta cat and what does thisactually say about ourselves? In a visual journey through average Dutchhouseholds, we see how various owners dedicate their lives completely to theirpets and they are an indispensable factor in their lives.