Human Rights

The winning generation

For almost a century, the Harutyunyan family has been fighting for theindependence and integrity of Armenia. When Shahen was 14, his fatherShant was arrested, and Shahen decided to follow in his footsteps andcontinue the family’s mission. Now aged 23, he has founded...

Manuscripts don’t burn

A documentary with Russian writer Vitali Sjentalinski about Michail Bulgakov, Andrej Platonov, Osip Mandelstam and Isaac Babel in KGB’s Literary Archive. A film by Reza Allamehzadeh, Sjifra Herschberg and Lies Janssen, RVU Educational Broadcasting,1997.

Nationality: None

Kees Hin with mother of Svetoana Slapsak  Predrag Dojcinovic and Slobodan BlagojevicA documentary about the prewar memories of 4 writers/intellectuals from former Yugoslavia: Bogdan Bogdanović, Dubravka Ugrešić, Svetlana Slapšak and Zdravko Grebo. Production....

Asielzoeka’s

Documentary about young asylumseekers with nostalgia for the refugee shelters, where they stayed after coming to the Netherlands. Scriptediting. Director Sergej Kreso, producer Zuidenwind Filmproducties, broadcaster IKON, 2014....

The Desert and the Sea

Documentary about refugee Algerian writers in France. Production. Director Karim Traïdia, editorial staff Willem van Toorn, broadcaster RVU Educational Broadcaster, 1998.

Drinking Dutch Water

Drama film on the occasion of 50 years Universal Declaration of Human Rights, based on authentic texts of newcomers in the Netherlands.  Production. Director Karim Traïdia, based on an  idea of Adriaan van Dis and Wim Willems, broadcaster RVU educational broadcaster,...

There is a House in Holland

Production on the occasion of 50 years Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Five refugee filmmakers on the notion of ‘Home’. Productie Directors Amiran Tchikhinashvili (Georgia), Miguel Petchkovsky (Angola), Soheila Najand (Iran), Jennifer Yiu Ja Feng (China) en Vuk...

Holy Crime

Documentary about Iranian state terrorism in Western Europe. Production. Director Reza Allamehzadeh, broadcaster RVU Educational broadcasting, 1994. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTSdJTi9pLM

Three Faces of a Mountainman, who Loves to be a Seal

Dramaproduction about the traumas and dilemmas of a Kurdisch refugee in the Netherlands.   Production. Written and played by Ibrahim Selman, director Bram van Erkel, broadcaster RVU Educational broadcasting, 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CKCYKshFrI&t=624s...

The Night after the Revolution

Documentary about the affaire Rushdie in the context of the history of censorship in Iran. Production. Director Reza Allamehzadeh, broadcaster RVU Educational Broadcasting, 1989. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot0GSG6LMOA  Iranian writer Djamalzadeh who suffered...

A Suitcase full of Illusions

Documentary about political refugees in the Netherlands in the years before Word War II.   Research, interviews and production. Director Bram van Erkel, Broadcaster RVU Educational Broadcasting, 1989.  Alfred MozerHeinz Junge

Nothing more Bewildering than Man

Documentary about the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Research and production. Director Manus van de Kamp, broadcaster RVU Educational Broadcasting, 1988.  Eleanor Roosevelt