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Suzanne Raes
Suzanne Raes has been working as an independent filmmaker for more than 20 years. Her early films a.o. The Houses of Hristina (2007), The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island (2009), and The Successor of Kakiemon (2012) premiered at IDFA and won several awards at international film festivals. Her film Come Closer about Boudewijn de Groot received the IDFA Music Audience Award in 2015. For her film a…
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Close to Vermeer · 2023Close to Vermeer
★ 7.82023
MovieDocumentaryHistory
In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. Together with Weber, a number of enthusiasts and experts go in search of what truly makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.
Overgave · 2022Overgave
★ 8.02022
MovieDocumentary
Two Men · 2022Two Men
2022
MovieDocumentary
A portrait of Ivo Van Hove, internationally the most highly regarded stage director of the Low Countries. And of his partner in love and work, scenographer Jan Versweyveld.
Groenkijkers · 2023Groenkijkers
2023
MovieDocumentary
Vleesverlangen · 2015Vleesverlangen
★ 6.32015
MovieDocumentary
Hou me vast - De Dijk · 2013Hou me vast - De Dijk
2013
MovieDocumentaryMusic
De Dijk has toured the Netherlands for almost 30 years. From Nijeveen to Bergen op Zoom, from Weert to Broek op Langedijk. In almost unchanged composition, this band has been able to bind an ever-wider audience. They grew up together and made each other better by working together in a unique way. While for the outside world Huub van der Lubbe is the face of the band, the band is mainly a collective inside: everything is jointly decided. The documentary shows the year in which they release their first international album Hold on Tight and which would be crowned with a performance with Solomon Burke in Paradiso. It is different - the morning of his arrival in Amsterdam, Solomon Burke dies at Schiphol. De Dijk is devastated: they lose a friend, but also a possible international dream is shattered.
The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island · 2010The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island
2010
MovieDocumentary
In this politically charged documentary, survivors of the 1985 attack on the Greenpeace ship the &NFi;Rainbow Warrior&NFi_; recount the vessel's history and its key role in increasing public awareness of nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific. What began as a "rusty old ship" became a symbol of Greenpeace's environmental activism -- and eventually attracted the attention of the French secret service.
The Successor of Kakiemon · 2012The Successor of Kakiemon
2012
MovieDocumentary
A beautifully observed account of life and work within a legendary dynasty of Japanese ceramicists.
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Groenkijkers · 2023Groenkijkers
2023
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Vleesverlangen · 2015Vleesverlangen
★ 6.32015
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