Vpro Movies

Frans Bromet made a documentary about the 2002 Dutch parliamentary elections. As an undecided voter, Frans interviews the party leaders Paul Rosenmöller (GroenLinks),Pim Fortuyn (LPF),Thom de Graaf (D66),Jan Marijnissen (SP),Fred Teeven (LN),and Hans Dijk...

Reporter Nicolaas Veul decides to set up his first Instagram account and accumulate as many followers as possible. Over time, he becomes more interested in the social network's inner workings and uncovers a well-oiled machine based on fraud. While users enthus...

What if your whole life is a play? Almost ten years after her grandfather's death, director Anne Vaandrager finds out that he was a gay man in a heterosexual marriage and died of AIDS. Using interviews, archive material, and fictional scenes, she attempts to r...

In times of rampant populism and increasing distrust of the elite, the filmmaker accompanies the 81-year-old founder of the controversial World Economic Forum over the period of one year in his efforts to implement his leitmotif: to improve the state of the wo...

Late at night, a woman gets off at a deserted subway station somewhere in Amsterdam. Walking home, she notices that she is being followed, so she starts to make a run for it. After an unhelpful night watchman refuses to help her, the woman takes refuge in a pa...

Environmental film maker John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restoration projects in China, Africa, South America and the Middle East, highlighting the enormous benefits for people and planet of undertaking these efforts globally.

Discover the endless highway in British Columbia where over 40 indigenous women and girls (by unofficial estimates) have disappeared since the 1970s.

Produced for Dutch television and directed by Roelof Kiers, this documentary offers an observational portrait of musician and composer Frank Zappa in the early 1970s. Filmed at Zappa’s home and during rehearsals and performances with the Mothers of Invention,...

A dive into the world of a theatrical tradition with riders in classical costumes, hunting horns and bloodhounds. The drag hunt is a hunt without guns, where you do not hunt an animal, but a piece of cloth. It seems to be something of this time, but drag hunti...

Documentary about five deserters during the Dutch military campaigns in the Indonesian War of Independence. Of the five men, four now live in Indonesia as Indonesian citizens.

Near Charleroi, Colin lives alone with his mother in a dilapidated house that collapses a little more each day. Faced with this misery, he writes with his friends in his room, which has been converted into a kind of improvised "youth center." Rap. As a safety...

When Jen's old boyfriend Oscar returns to her small town in Ireland, she is forced to face the tragedy that marked them for life.

Whoever wanted a sex reassignment surgery in the 1950's could do so in Casablanca, at French gynaecologist Georges Burou's clinic, without fear of psychological examination. The French transgender singer known as Coccinelle was one of the first to use Burou’s...

A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.

A Dutch mockumentary about children and their ambitious parents' quest for fame at a local talent show in the small town of Bannebroek.

A curse that is centuries-old. An island full of annoying people. A contaminated prime-minister. A boy full of dreams who can turn this around. But how? A movie full of raps that don't rhyme, talking dolls and heroic actions.

Directed by Roelof Kiers for Dutch television, this documentary follows Frank Zappa at home and during the making of 200 Motels. Combining interviews with backstage and on-set footage, the film captures Zappa discussing the project while documenting performers...

Registration of the first theatre program by the Dutch comedian Merijn Scholten.