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A Burning Desire to Belong and Some Heartbreak On a Roadtrip Across Bosnia & Herzegovina—‘Take Me Somewhere Nice’, dir. Ena Sendijarević, 2019

A young woman’s absurdist journey across her estranged homeland in an intelligent candy-colored debut from a Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker with an exhilarating young cast

August 9th, 2020|Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands|

A Senegalese Village, Swiss Drama and a Masterful Critique of Globalization From Senegal’s Finest Filmmaker—’Hyenas’, dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992

An anti-neocolonialist gem from legendary Mambéty: human nature and capitalist indoctrination are under scrutiny when a billionaire agrees to give money to her struggling hometown—on her terms

July 21st, 2020|Country: France, Italy, Netherlands, Senegal, Switzerland, United Kingdom|

A Father’s Secrets, War Crimes, and a Daughter’s Return to Liberia—‘Daddy and the Warlord’, dir. Shamira Raphaëla, 2019

A striking documentary follows journalist Clarice Gargard to her homeland, as she investigates the connection between her beloved father and Charles Taylor, one of Africa’s most prominent warlords

May 14th, 2020|Country: Aruba, Liberia, Netherlands, USA|

Fuzzy Fur and Fuzzier Ethics of Taxidermy: ‘Animus Animalis’, dir. Aistė Žegulytė, 2018 & ‘Stuffed,’ dir. Erin Derham, 2019

Two woman-made documentaries about people’s relationships with dead animals offer looks on the matter from various parts of the world and across the moral spectrum

March 19th, 2020|Country: Canada, Lithuania, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, USA, Zimbabwe|

Wool Over the Eyes—‘This Magnificent Cake!’, dir. Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2018

Whimsical felt puppet fantasy from filmmaking couple tackles colonization of Congo by Belgian King Leopold in a graceful satirical exploration of the chaos that ineptitude sows

February 6th, 2020|Country: Belgium, DR Congo, France, Netherlands, South Africa|

Film: The Last Male on Earth, dir. Floor van der Meulen, 2019

As the last male northern white rhino in existence nears the end of his life, humans hurry to revive the extinct species in a tragicomic farce of conservation efforts in this observant documentary

November 25th, 2019|Country: Belgium, Germany, Kenya, Netherlands|

The Fantastic Worlds Hiding in the Jungle: the Works of Surinamese Artist John Lie A Fo

An artist whose body of work is as magnificent and as manifold as the demographics and biodiversity of Suriname itself: living proof that curiosity and restlessness are vital to creative fulfillment

November 19th, 2019|Country: French Guiana, Netherlands, Suriname|

Film: State Funeral, dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2019

An immersive experience of Joseph Stalin’s 1953 funeral proceedings carefully constructed from archival footage that gives a rare glimpse into the psyche of the era

October 14th, 2019|Country: Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine|

Film: Traffic, dir. Jacques Tati, 1971

Mr. Hulot navigates the brave new world of transportation: the Tati classic finds new meaning 50 years later, as we anxiously await self-driving cars and battle the public systems for efficiency

August 26th, 2019|Country: France, Italy, Netherlands|

Book: Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh, Blossoms in Autumn, 2018

A graphic novel about a romance between two people past their middle age that combines sensuality and complexity: a refreshing, necessary take on modern love and its boundless possibilities

August 24th, 2019|Country: Belgium, Netherlands|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Music: Noisia, Split the Atom, 2010

January 17th, 2019|Country: Netherlands|

Book: Aart-Jan Venema, Night Windows, 2019

January 14th, 2019|Country: Netherlands|

Book: Willem Frederik Hermans, An Untouched House, 1951

October 10th, 2018|Country: Netherlands|