BORIS RYZHY WINS SILVER WOLF IDFA 2008
A film on poetry, the Russian Mafia, suicide, love and the tragedy of the Perestroika years. A portrait of a young 21st-century poet for whom life became unbearable.
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The Future Express
The Future Express is a cross-media project consisting of an interactive website, a weekly television series, a digital television channel and radio reports. It is a road movie shot on a train travelling through six continents, focusing on the major issues of these times in which globalisation is taking on drastic proportions: a rapidly changing world, migration, modernisation and a growing need for individuals to have an identity of their own.
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BACKLIGHT: CARS 2.0
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With rising temperatures and rising gas prices, cars need to become greener fast. And superficially, the large car manufacturers seem to work hard to improve the fuel efficiency of their products. But are they really? The technology to make cars much more fuel efficient already exists for decades, but it never makes it to the showroom. Why do we have to wait so long for fuel efficient vehicles?
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Backlight: Rising Gulf
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While the focus of most of the world’s media is on conflict areas in the Middle East, a ‘silent revolution’ is taking place in the Gulf States. A rapid modernization process is taking place in this part of the Arab world, one that we have never seen before.
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BACKLIGHT: HERE COMES THE SUN!
Here Comes the Sun! is a 50-minute story that will change your ideas about the future of energy
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BACKLIGHT: THE SETTLER AT KIBBUTZ KARMYA
Division and friendship on disputed territory. The reconstruction of two family histories, their ideals and disappointments, which together tell the story of the sixty-year-old state of Israel.
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BACKLIGHT - A WAY OUT OF THE WAR ON TERROR
This is a film about Alastair Crooke, a man who believes, based upon his experience with negotiating with terrorists, in the power of talks as the only way out of the war on terror.
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In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century
Film director Roel van Broekhoven and best-selling historian Geert Mak take us on a grand tour through 20th century Europe. By train, car and boat, they literally flow the tracks of time, through the century, through the continent; starting off in fin de siecle Vienna, past Madrid and Volgograd, the bunkers of Berlin, the toy-cars left behind by the children of Chernobyl, ending at the ruins of Sarajevo.
They show beautiful archive material and listen to the experiences of witnesses: writers and politicians, a farmer in the Pyrenees, the grandson of the German Emperor, dozens of ordinary people whose lives have been influenced by the larger historical events. Basques, Silesians and Serbs. We are all part of Europe, but we each have our own story and our own identity.
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Backlight: The Truth According to Wikipedia SCREEN ONLINE!
As traditional mass media wither away and an increasing number of people access information through Wikipedia, critics warn that “our” Web is taking a course that will eventually lead to an info-crisis and loss of truth.
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STOLEN CHILDREN
This documentary portrays two mothers who are fighting for the right to keep their children after an international separation.
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The Imagined Harem
A documentary by Liesbeth Hagen on myth and reality about the Harem in Western art.
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Trails from the East
A beautifully illustrated book provides background information about the cultures and regions the train travels through. The reports and interviews in and outside the train deal with the dreams, motivations and backgrounds of the people we meet.
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BACKLIGHT: THE LAST MARKET
C.K. Prahalad: “Don’t consider the poor as victims or as a burden, but start to see them as flexible and creative entrepreneurs and consumers”.
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VPRO's NEW BACKLIGHT THEME...YOUNG IN...
A Backlight series that focuses on youth in different parts of the world in different circumstances. read more >
MOTHER NATURE - MOTORCITY TURNS GREEN
Just imagine …. How would it be if the hometown of mass production and also one of the most polluted cities in America would turn green again? A script many environmentalists are dreaming about. Utopia? Not in Detroit! read more >
ON-LINE PREVIEW AVAILABLE !
From September 2008, we are able to provide broadcast professionals a tool to screen our (new) programmes online... read more >
MR. ISRAEL: THE STORY OF SHIMON PERES
An exclusive interview with Mr. Peres on the eve of the celebration of Israel’s 60th Independence Day. read more >
