Dutch Film Works releases on 29th August 2014 the classic drama Hotel Adion.

It's where commerce and politics meet money and glamour, and where sin can count on discretion – the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, one of the grandest of the world's grand hotels. This is the story of a vision made reality, a family saga inspired by the events that marked the first 90 years of Germany's most extraordinary hotel. It begins with the birth of Sonja, whose life will be inextricably bound up with the Adlon's fate. The tragedies to come are heralded by the dark secret surrounding Sonja's origins. Financial problems soon plague the hotel, and the Kaiser ends his patronage after abdicating. Louis Adlon and his father Lorenz continue to prize their independence, and Louis' new wife Hedda proves to have an uncanny business sense, organizing spectacular balls and other lucrative events in the Roaring Twenties. It is in the lobby of the hotel that has become her home that Sonja meets Julian, a Jewish musician, and falls in love with him. But it is now the late 1930s, and Julian must flee, with their little daughter. A new period of sorrow and suffering begins, as Sonja steadfastly guides the Adlon through the war and postwar years, while burning to know what has happened to Julian and her daughter...

DUTCH VERSION

Op 29 augustus 2014 verschijnt op Dutch Film Works het klassiek drama Hotel Adion.

Dramaserie over het meest luxueuze hotel van Berlijn. De familiesaga van de Adlons, vol tragiek, romantiek en geheimen, is al even meeslepend en fascinerend als de historie van het hotel. Geld en glamour, intrige en verdorvenheid: dat zijn de ingrediënten van Hotel Adlon! Winnaar van een Golden Camera Award en de Magnolia Award voor Beste TV-serie. Met o.a. Heino Ferch, Marie Bäumer, Tom Schilling en Josefine Preuß.

After the recent, quite ‘different’ release ‘Spasms’ on Infinite Fog, here now finally the NEW ‘regular’ ATARAXIA album – their first regular album since Llyr (Prikosnovenie, 2010)!!! ‘Wind at Mount Elo’ is another Modern Classical/Neofolk masterpiece by the Italian project, active, successful and highly respected worldwide since their first appearance in 1990.

Ataraxia in their own words on ‘Wind at Mount Elo’: “On a day of Winter 2012, Springtime came. At Mount Elo. With the Wind. Warm. Powerful. Radical. When the wind of change comes and we are at the right moment in the right place, we strip down to the bones in a breath and rise like a perfume detaching from things. Abruptly, our stomach is relieved so that we can feel like a part of the horizon. The new album is called Wind at Mount Elo and when it's out, bringing its breath out of us, we will be free! It's two years and a half of our intimate life, the thick one inside each of us. It's an album made of blood, nerves and liver, come down to the underworld and come up again stuck to our flesh. Lucid beginning of change. We celebrate this moment to the fullest. As a primogenial act. Music is born from the wild motion of the wind!”

On 29th August Dutch Film Works will release The Borgias 3 on DVD and Blu-ray.

Pope Alexander survives an assassination attempt and comes back stronger than ever, reaching the pinnacle of power, influence and wealth; Cesare marries a French noblewoman, defends Rome and his family against the very determined Caterina Sforza and fights to prove himself to his father; Lucrezia's marriage to Alfonzo falters as she and Cesare draw closer than ever, and she successfully dabbles in the black arts; Micheletto finds love and faces the ultimate betrayal.

DUTCH VERSION

Op 29 augustus brengt Dutch Film Works The Borgias 3 op DVD en Blu-ray uit.

In het derde en laatste seizoen van de veelbesproken drama/ misdaadserie worden de spanningen binnen het Vaticaan tot een hoogtepunt opgevoerd. Rodrigo, alias Paus Alexander VI keert terug en heeft geen tijd te verliezen. Hij is doodziek en vreest dat zijn dood nadert. Rodrigo smeedt plannen om zich met één vernietigende klap van al zijn vijanden te ontdoen. Maar de bloederige eindstrijd kan ook het einde betekenen van de kerk en van de Borgia’s… Met o.a. John Doman, Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk en Marta Gastini.

Miniscule DVD 3 will be released in August on Victory.

Although children aren't entomologists, when they take a trip to the country and start roaming through fields and meadows, they do spend an incredible amount of time observing insects. Unlike grownup specialists, our knee-high observers with scabby knees have a peculiar perception of these tiny creatures, readily imagining them in utterly weird, surrealistic situations. Such an offbeat, and often comic vision provides the basis for how MINUSCULE will be showing insects in their day-to-day existence, "at grassroots level," as if we were right there with them. So forget everything you've ever learned about segmented, winged or wingless little creatures, because you're about to discover bug reality. MINUSCULE revolves around the day-to-day existence of insects. Although the series calls to mind a wildlife documentary, it's a documentary in which the insects are presented in burlesque situations, with a fair amount of philosophical contemplation thrown in. You might call it a cross... 

DUTCH VERSION

Minuscule dvd 3 komt in augustus uit op Victory.

Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo, Frankrijk 2006

Eindelijk kan ook jij mee op avontuur in de microscopische wereld van Miniscule en volg de avonturen van lieveheersbeestjes, mieren en een moeder-rups. De allerkleinsten onderons beleven er de grappigste avonturen en leren ondertussen over de natuur en al zijn wonderen. Dompel je onder in de wondere wereld van knotsgekke insectjes die vliegen van avontuur naar avontuur… 

The Missing Picture will be released in August 2014 on Contact Film.

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.

Click below to see the trailer.

DUTCH VERSION

The Missing Picture verschijnt in augustus 2014 op dvd op Contact Film.

Zelfgemaakte klei-figuurtjes van beeldhouwer Sarith Mang, diorama's en found footage- archiefbeelden zijn de 'missing pictures' waarmee Panh verslag doet van zijn jeugd en de ervaringen van zijn familie die werd omgebracht. Hij moet de beelden wel zelf creëren, want behalve de propaganda van de Khmer, zoals georkestreerde documentaires en slecht geacteerde actiescènes die ze gebruikten om hun overwinningen aan het volk te laten zien, is er geen gefilmd materiaal uit die tijd. De Franse voice-over is gebaseerd op teksten uit Panhs boek The Elimination.

Een enkele foto-uitsnede van broers en zussen komt langs, uit een vrolijke tijd voor Pol Pots troepen de hoofdstad binnenvielen met hun pure revolutie. Het begint met puurheid en het eindigt met haat, zegt de stem. Honderden kleifiguurtjes staan bevroren in landschappen waar de camera overheen dwaalt, stille getuigen bij gebrek aan sprekende.

Awards

Prix Un Certain Regard - Cannes Film Festival 2013

In Spirit for Freedom Award voor Beste Documentaire - Jerusalem Film festival 2013 

Speciale Vermelding Jury - International Film Festival Gent 2013

Nominatie - Academy Awards (Oscars, Cambodjaanse inzending) 2014

Pers

"Als je maar één film kunt zien dit jaar, dan moet dit hem zijn. - Het resultaat is verbijsterend en magisch. Een meesterwerk." - Parool

"Whatever one takes away from “The Missing Picture,” there can be no doubt that its very

existence — rising from the ashes of a system designed to obliterate, among other things,

intellectual and artistic achievement — is itself a powerful form of resistance." - Variety

"The result is a gripping, fascinating and visually arresting memoir well deserving of its Un

Certain Regard prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival." - Film.com

"The Missing Picture is een picture die je niet mag missen." - naardecinema.com