Germ Hooisma

Every day he milks fourteen cows by hand. 

Germ Hooisma from Akmarijp notices that his 78 years are starting to count, but he thinks his farm is beautiful. He has the storage of silage outside the village, near the land on which the cows graze in the summer. The winter conditions force him to practical solutions. 

Before he gets a few bales, he first lets the engine of the tractor warm up. ,, Otherwise it will not be anything with the lift. The oil is then too cold to put pressure on. '' Hooisma gets three or three bales at once; then he can go a few days ahead.

Contact Clown

People are social beings with a need for contact. This contact is not always self-evident for people with dementia. 

Stichting miMakkus wants to improve contact and communication for people with a cognitive impairment (dementia) or an intellectual disability. The miMakkus method was introduced in Dutch healthcare in 2002. The purpose of the miMakkus method is to make contact with people for whom language is not (longer) self-evident.

Ed Andriessen works as a "Contact-Clown", interacting with people who suffer from dementia. With his bright green shirt, red nose and red beret, he awakens something of early memories in people with dementia without using words. 

His training took a year and his teachers were experienced clowns, theater makers, mimes and people with a Zen background. The training is mainly practical: the emphasis is on doing. That is more important than rational 'knowing'.

Hoe dichter bij Dordt hoe rotter het wordt... (the closer to Dordrecht, the more rotten it gets)

Dordrecht (historically in English named Dort), is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the fourth-largest city of the province, with a population of 118,450. 

Finding a photo of a bearded boinero from Dordrecht with the obscure text: "Hoe dichter bij Dordt hoe rotter het wordt"... ("the closer to Dordrecht, the more rotten it gets"), I became intrigued and found the following:

The saying can probably be explained as follows; traffic used to go by water and whoever came close to Dordrecht was obliged, according to staple right, to display their merchandise for a couple of days before being allowed to sail on. This caused loss of time and caused products to become rotten.

Ntshavheni Wa Luruli

Ntshavheni Wa Luruli is a South African director and he directed TV dramas in South Africa before making feature films Chikin Biznis (1999) and The Wooden Camera (2003), which both won international awards. Wa Luruli he is from Venda in Limpopo Province.

After completing a BA in Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, Ntshavheni went on to study a Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting and Directing at Columbia University under the tutorship of Milos Forman. Winning the Paramount Pictures Writing Award in 1989 with Rambani, Ntshavheni then worked as Assistant Director to Spike Lee on features including Malcolm X for Warner Brothers and Jungle Fever for Universal.

His latest film Elelwani was the opening night film at the 33rd edition of the Durban International Film Festival.

1 May - in Beret

Stand up, all victims of oppression,

For the tyrants fear your might!

Don't cling so hard to your possessions,

For you have nothing if you have no rights!

Let racist ignorance be ended,

For respect makes the empires fall!

Freedom is merely privilege extended,

Unless enjoyed by one and all.

Silent Forests

In Cameroon and Congo’s lush jungles, one of Africa’s most iconic species – the forest elephant – is being slaughtered to extinction. 

After a 2011 survey revealed that more than half the Central African forest elephant population has been lost to poaching in the last decade, there has been a concerted effort throughout the Congo Basin to save those that remain. 

The documentary Silent Forests will explore this story through a range of dynamic subjects; including Cameroon’s first female eco-guard, a grassroots wildlife law enforcement group, a Congolese biologist studying elephant communication, and a team of anti-poaching sniffer dogs led by a Czech conservationist. 

Silent Forests is a character-driven and cinematic look at the fight for the future of the forest elephant.

Silent Grace

Silent Grace is a feature film written and directed by Maeve Murphy. It is about friendship and survival. A fictional story based on real events, covering the untold story of Republican women prisoners’ involvement in the 1980/81 Dirty Protest and first Hunger Strike.

Aine a young tear away criminal is thrown into the same cell as Eileen, a high-ranking Republican woman leader. At first at odds, Eileen helps save Aine’s sanity. An unlikely friendship develops between them as Aine joins the protest and Eileen helps her to survive. In a remarkable turnaround of events when Eileen embarks on a hunger strike, Aine risks all to help save her life...

It is inspired by Nell McCafferty's The Armagh Women and adapted on the play/screenplay "Now and at the hour of our Death" that Murphy co-wrote with theatre company Trouble and Strife.

Rahbar Ghanbari

Rahbar Ghanbari is a veteran of Iranian TV and a prolific maker of short films.

Ghanbari has also helmed two feature films prior to his best-known film Growing in the Wind (Rouyidan Dar Bad).

Ghanbari is a filmmaker with weighty things on his chest, but he does not shy away from the notion that movies can not only be informative ,but also entertaining and moving.

Héctor Babenco

Héctor Eduardo Babenco (1946 –2016) was an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

His mother, Janka Haberberg, was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his father, Jaime Babenco, was an Argentine gaucho of Ukrainian Jewish origin.

He worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States. His best-known films are Pixote (1980), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Ironweed (1987), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1990) and Carandiru (2003).

He directed some of the most respected American actors of his time, including William Hurt, John Lithgow, Raul Julia, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Kathy Bates.

His last film was My Hindu Friend (2016), which stars Willem Dafoe. It recounts the story of a film director close to death.

Boineras from the Netherlands

Boineros from the Netherlands

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