Vpro Movies

What do you do if you dream of success but have secretly always felt that it isn't meant for you? While nearly 30-year-old filmmaker Emma Boelhouwer has been grappling with this question for years, her former classmates Xander Vrienten, Géza Weisz, and Victor...

On 19 July 1965, the South-African poet Ingrid Jonker walked into the sea near Drieankerbaai in Cape Town at the age of 31. She left behind a little daughter and an oeuvre of three laurelled collections of poems. Jonker's work fell into oblivion, until on 25 M...

Marvin goes to a school camp. It looks dreadful because he still wets his bed... Will he keep it dry?

Filmmaker Martijn Blekendaal thinks there should be a superhero for invisible children: kids who need to be invisible because otherwise their lives are in danger. In The Invisible Ones he tells the stories of four children—some of whom are now 85 years old—who...

Report on the ideological foundation Moral Rearmament (MH),based on an idea by the American Frank Buchman, in which critics of the movement have their say. The followers of this group are required to put four virtues into practice: absolute honesty, absolute...

The former KGB archive in Kyiv was made public in 2017, allowing Ukrainians to view their personal dossiers from the Soviet era for the first time. For many older citizens, it was an opportunity to get answers to questions that had been haunting them for decad...

Documentary about an ICRC delegate Albert teaching members of the South Sudan army about the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions. The film highlights the challenges of these kinds of conversations from both sides.

A documentary about slutshaming.

1989 VPRO docu about Maarten Biesheuvel

People detained under hospital orders work hard to return to society. Participating in a theatre project helps, but can also cause tension. Is it possible to leave your demons behind, or will they always remain with you?

You won’t read about it in the papers, but a silent worldwide revolution is taking place: renewable energy is becoming cheaper than energy from fossil fuels. More and more, opting for wind and solar energy is no longer an ethical choice but an economic one. Co...

Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and...

Intimate interview film in which three young women talk about the impact of choosing abortion. About the doubts, the shame and how this experience plays a role in their lives now. The film interweaves the interviews with powerful images that symbolize the diff...

This special examines George Obama, brother to 44th President of the United States, Brack Obama. Barack Obama Sr., married four times before he died and to this day, not all of his children have met one another. The seven surviving children are scattered acros...

Documentary about the so-called "lion staircase" in Vlissingen, which must make way, along with adjacent houses, shops, a hotel, and a small lake, for dike reinforcement.