Maasja Ooms

Jason (2021)

A painfully frank portrait of 22-year-old Jason as he undergoes trauma therapy. This is the third and final part of Maasja Ooms' trilogy about the failing Dutch youth welfare services. As in the two previous documentaries Alicia and Rotjochies (Punks), the ...

Doula's van de Stad (2021)

Two Stones (2019)

Let's embark upon a journey to discover two collective housing projects. One in Kharkiv, Ukraine, from the early days of the Soviet era in 1930; the other, in the suburbs of Rotterdam, in the 1950s. Their connection? Lotte Stam-Beese, the first woman to tr ...

Punks (2019)

The parents are at their wits' end, so a temporary supervision order is the last hope for a group of teenagers in Punks. Now, on a remote farm in France, they're going to have to get their lives back on track, with the help of a counselor. If they want an ...

Alicia (2017)

"It's not easy to find a foster family for you," an orphanage supervisor explains to nine-year-old Alicia. "After all, you are a very special girl." Alicia is crying. "I'm not special. I'm just a girl." This disturbing scene sets the tone for this film abo ...

Love Is Potatoes (2017)

One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. It was as if life had handed her a card she felt forced to play. She began a journey ...

0.8 Amps of Happiness (2015)

The documentary closely portrays three patients who are being treated with Electro Convulsion Therapy (ECT) for their depression or psychosis. ...

15 Attempts (2013)

15 attempts to make a film, to misunderstand an artist or to look at the world without preconceptions. ...

Water Children (2011)

As a film about fertility, Water Children is an ode to womanhood and the body Filmmaker Aliona van der Horst followed the trail of the unconventional Dutch-Japanese pianist and artist Tomoko Mukaiyama who made a huge work of art on the theme of womanhood ...

Boris Ryzhy (2008)

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up... ...

Yvette (2008)

Director Simonka de Jong follows sixteen-year-old Yvette from Nieuwegein in the last eighteen months of her eventful secondary school years. On the face of it, Yvette is a tough girl: she wears Lonsdale clothes, hangs around the schoolyard smoking and indi ...

The Hermitage Dwellers (2006)

As much about the people who work in Russia's renowned museum as it is about the glorious art works housed in this St. Petersburg institution. We meet with several "Hermitage-niks"—including Olga Bogdanova, the head of museum maintenance, icon curator Al ...

Voices of Bam (2006)

Two Dutch filmmakers travel to the Iranian city of Bam to chronicle the aftermath of a December 2006 earthquake that claimed 43,000 lives and left 60,000 homeless. Survivors reflect on the catastrophe in voice-over narration that's accompanied by images of ...

Unexpected Blow: Relieved (2004)

Teenager Kristopher feels relieved about his coming-out, which as yet seems to bring him more advantages than disadvantages. ...

Kaandorp Zingt Kaandorp (1999)

TV adaptation of Brigitte Kaandorp's theatre tour 'CD Opname', in wich the Dutch comedian Brigitte Kaandorp sings a selection from her songs, accompanied by 9 musicians. ...

The Lady with the White Hat (1997)

Documentary about the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the former Soviet Union. Hanna Michailenko, an Ukrainian schoolteacher from Odessa was locked up in a psychiatric ward from 1980 until 1988 for refusing to work for the Soviet Secret Servi ...

Kermis - Ode aan de ongedwongenheid van het bestaan (2009)

Poetic film about the funfair, which concentrates on human conditions: The enchantment of children. The ease of the youth, full of expectations. Fleeting smiles. Devotion to the moment. Felicity... but also melancholy and vulnerability. The funfair as meta ...