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Director's statements

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Aliona van der Horst - Beholders 2024 - Gerlach

Beholders 2024 Director's statement

21 augustus 2024

Aliona van der Horst

Ik ken Gerlach al zo’n 30 jaar. Hij is een vriend van mijn vader en ik ben in de buurt van zijn boerderij opgegroeid, in Uithoorn. Mijn vader ging altijd…

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Peter Porta - Beholders 2024 - The Click Trap

Beholders 2024 Director's statement

21 augustus 2024

Peter Porta

I’m a self-confessed tech geek. I use online tools to manage nearly all aspects of my personal and professional life: search engines, social media platforms, online calendars, online meeting spaces.…

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Piet Baumgartner - Beholders 2024 - The Driven Ones

Beholders 2024 Director's statement

21 augustus 2024

Piet Baumgartner

„As a business journalist, I used to interview CEOs of major national and international corporations. I was struck by how abstractly, even distantly, these people often spoke of their employees…

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Alison O'Daniel - Beholders 2024 - The Tuba Thieves

Beholders 2024 Director's statement

21 augustus 2024

Alison O’Daniel

The Tuba Thieves is a listening project that has been constructed through a process I equate to the children’s game Telephone. In this game, a phrase or sentence is passed…

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Faustine Cros - Beholders 2024 - A Life Like Any Other

Beholders 2024 Director's statement

21 augustus 2024

Faustine Cros

In 2016, my mother told me about her suicide attempt. I did not see it coming. How was this possible? From there, I realized a gap had grown between us;…

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John Webster - The Happy Worker - Beholders

Beholders 2023 Director's statement

27 augustus 2023

John Webster

Many of my close friends worked for Nokia - from the glory days through the decline and Microsoft takeover to the bitter end of the Nokia mobile story. They loved…

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Giulia Giapponesi - Bella Ciao - Beholders

Beholders 2023 Director's statement

27 augustus 2023

Giulia Giapponesi

Today a large number of young people around the world know Bella Ciao as the soundtrack to the Spanish Netflix series La Casa de Papel, which since 2018 has turned…

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John Daschbach - Come Back Anytime - Beholders (foto Wataru Yamamoto)

Beholders 2023 Director's statement

27 augustus 2023

John Daschbach

Although I love ramen, I didn’t start out thinking, “I want to make a documentary about ramen” or to profile a famous ramen master. The film found me gradually. One…

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Beholders 2023 Director's statement

27 augustus 2023

Tyler Doehring

When this documentary began, I was largely ignorant of the international impact of pizza and of Michelin Stars. While visiting family in Italy, we dined at a Michelin Starred restaurant…

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Beholders 2022 Director's statement

16 augustus 2022

Jason Loftus

It began in high school in the late ‘90s with my interest in meditation and eastern philosophy. In 1998, I encountered Falun Gong, a Buddhist meditation discipline that was exploding…

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Beholders 2022 Director's statement

8 augustus 2022

Nicola Zambelli

In 2010 we were invited by the Italian association Operation Dove to visit the village of At-Tuwani, where it had been present for some years with a monitoring and unarmed…

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Taming the Garden - Salomé Jashi - Beholders

Beholders 2022 Director's statement

8 augustus 2022

Salomé Jashi

Some time ago, the entire country of Georgia witnessed a surreal scene – a large tree floating in the sea. That was when we learned that the most powerful man…

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Beholders 2022 Director's statement

8 augustus 2022

Sophie Dros

Bijna iedere vrouw die ik ken worstelt met haar vrouw-zijn, omdat we constant geconfronteerd worden met vooroordelen van anderen. Ikzelf ook, maar tegelijkertijd maak ik me zelf ook schuldig aan…

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Beholders 2022 Director's statement

8 augustus 2022

Jennifer Peedom

“After the phenomenal response to Mountain, we spent some time contemplating what would come next in our planned trilogy of orchestral concert films that explore the impact of landscape on…

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Clean Hands - Michael Dominic - Beholders

Beholders 2022 Director's statement

8 augustus 2022

Michael Dominic

When I’m talking about my work, I often get asked the same question. “Why?” “Why do you do what you do? Why do I travel thousands of miles to dangerous…

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Beholders 2021 Director's statement

11 augustus 2021

Marinka de Jongh

Het idee voor deze film is ontstaan toen mijn ouders nog een Thomashuis runden; een kleinschalige woonvorm voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. Mijn ouders gaven de acht bewoners 24/7…

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Beholders 2021 Director's statement

10 augustus 2021

Jason Loftus

It began in high school in the late ‘90s with my interest in meditation and eastern philosophy. In 1998, I encountered Falun Gong, a Buddhist meditation discipline that was exploding…

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Beholders 2021 Director's statement

10 augustus 2021

Anna van ’t Hek

Sinds Yab Yum in 2008 haar deuren heeft gesloten, is er nooit meer een bordeel geweest met dezelfde iconische grootsheid. Yab Yum was een plek waar rijke invloedrijke mannen tegen…

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Beholders 2021 Director's statement

1 augustus 2021

Annejet Brandsma

Documentairemaker Annejet Brandsma is zelf geboren en getogen op het platteland en heeft een ander beeld daarvan dan over het algemeen wordt geschetst. In haar jeugd zijn vrouwen belangrijk en…

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Beholders 2020 Director's statement

11 augustus 2020

Ilse en Femke van Velzen

“Private bedrijven nemen steeds vaker publieke taken over, zoals zorg, onderwijs en veiligheid. En heel vaak zien we, ook in Nederland, dat dit niet goed gaat; soms zelfs met schrikbarende…

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Beholders 2020 Director's statement

10 augustus 2020

Carl-A. Fechner

For over 25 years I have been filming the topic of energy and sustainability. At this point, Climate Warriors is the temporary climax, after my films The 4th Revolution and…

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Beholders Before My Feet Tough The Ground Director Daphni Leef

Beholders 2019 Director's statement

2 augustus 2019

Daphni Leef

When The Social Protest Movement in Israel started I thought I would never make another film. Pressure to go into politics was massive and the obligation to the values and…

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Beholders 2019 Director's statement

31 juli 2019

Rahul Jain

As a five year-old boy I used to roam around in my grandfather’s now-defunct textile mill in Surat, in India’s Gujarat state. It was easy to get lost in the…

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Beholders 2019 Director's statement

2 juli 2019

Bálint Révész

Meredith, Ruben and I, Bálint, are friends in life. We have realized that all of us have a true loving relationship with our grandmothers; and what turns this fact into…

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Beholders King Skate Producer Simon Safranek

Beholders 2019 Director's statement

1 juli 2019

Šimon Šafránek

It started a couple of years ago. Not up on some hill, not on any ramp. On a couch. The afternoon I opened a book written by my friends, Martina…

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