Su
27
Dec
12:30 - 13:00
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TOUCHING THE EDGE: MICHAEL MCCLURE
 Michael McClure is a Beat poet from the very beginning. At the time he didn’t realize he was going to be the spokesperson for a generation along with Allen Ginsberg. You could say that they paved the road for the protest generation of the ‘60s. In his collection of poems ‘Touching The Edge’, in which McLure expresses his fascination for the indescribable and nature.
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Su
27
Dec
12:00 - 12:30
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WAKE-UP CALL OF A POET - ANNE WALDMANLDMAN
 Anne Waldman is a poet and an activist, known as “Fast speaking Woman”. One generation younger than Beat poets such as Michael McClure or Allen Ginsberg; although the latter called her his ‘spiritual wife’. Waldman feels it’s critical to deal with environmental issues and her work can be viewed as activist poetry.
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Sa
5
Dec
24:15 - 01:45
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THE MOURNING FOREST
 In a mountain village Shigeki lives peacefully at a retirement home with fond memories of his late wife. Machiko, newly-appointed caretaker to the home, also lost her child in an accident and lives her life with the sense of loss and sadness. Shigeki and Machiko, getting over the two opposite positions, care-receiver and care-taker, gradually come to understand each other as two persons in the same situation.
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Su
29
Nov
12:00 - 13:00
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HIMALAYA ALERT
 For three years climate journalist Bernice Notenboom reported from the hotspots of climate change: The North Pole region and the South Pole. In 2009 she focuses on a different important area of climatological change: The Himalayas.
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We
25
Nov
00:20 - 01:20
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CELESTIAL MOVEMENT
 Setting high goals, despite great limitations, what do you do when you are mentally in top shape, but your body doesn’t cooperate? One three-wheel biker and two hand bikers cycle from Lhasa to Kathmandu, taking on altitudes of up to 5300 meters. The film explores the catastrophic fault-lines in the lives of the participants.
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We
25
Nov
15:15 - 15:40
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BABA
 More information will follow soon
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Su
15
Nov
12.00 - 13:00
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TEACHER OF TEACHERS – LOPÖN TENZIN NAMDAK
 Long before Buddha Sakyamuni lived Tonpa Shenrab, the founder of the BON religionore information will follow soon. One of the greatest teachers in the Yungdrung Bon tradition is Lopon Tenzin Namdak. A passionate Mexican entrepreneur visits Lopon in his monastery in Kathmandu and shares with us how the wisdom of this teacher has encouraged him to develop numerous initiatives.
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Th
12
Nov
11:05 - 11:25
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Monkey king
 Anna and her Chinese grandfather don't speak the same language. Yet they understand each other. Together with the monkey king they set out on a journey to find a solution for that which they both don't want to be true.
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Su
1
Nov
13:00 - 13:30
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ZAZEN NOW
 Madelon Hooykaas, visual artist and Zen Buddhist, spent time in a Japanese Zen monastery in 1970. Almost forty years later she returns to Japan and films her experiences during her stay in Bukkoku-ji, a Soto Zen training monastery in Obama.
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Su
18
Okt
12:00 - 13:00
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ZEN AND WAR
 In the beginning of the 20th century Japan committed atrocities that matched those of the Nazis during the Second World War. In Zen and War a number of Buddhist Zen monks in Japan talk about their predecessors’ collaboration for the first time.
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Th
8
Okt
23:55 - 00:55
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BUDDHA’S LOST CHILDREN REVISITED: RETURN TO THE GOLDEN HORSE TEMPLE
 Information will follow later Buddha’s Lost Children Revisited is the sequel to the successful documentary Buddha’s Lost Children made in 2006. Buddhist munk Khru Bah and his young novices risk their lives to fight drug abuse in the surrounding mountain villages.
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Su
4
Okt
12:00 - 12:30
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THE POWER OF AN OPEN QUESTION
 Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel lives in Crestone, Colorado, in a very deserted place. She studied the Dharma for 25 years under the guidance of her teacher and husband Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche whom she met in Nepal. To always view your teacher as perfect can be a big challenge if you share your life with one.
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Su
20
Sep
12:00 - 13:00
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Find the Orchard
 The Orchard is the true story of Patrice Kennedy, a dancer whose husband, Roderic Leigh, died in 2002. She is left behind with their three children. Her husband’s sudden demise causes a deep rift between herself and life. Film maker Kees Hin captures her unique, creative journey, with her friends, children and colleague supporting her in coming to terms with bereavement.
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Su
6
Sep
12:00 - 12:30
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PASSER-BY IN ORANGE
 Geshe Konchog Lhundup was born in the Tibetan high mountains, fled the country and became a monk until the Buddhist community in the Netherlands was in need of a new teacher in 1984. The man of the mountains was sent to the Lowlands. In this poetic road movie we follow Geshe-La as he returns to the places and people that were important during his stay in the Netherlands
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Mo
13
Jul
23:25 - 24:25
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LUCIA RIJKER AND THE FIGHT FOR LOVE
 More information will follow soon Lucia Rijker and the fight for love is a documentary about love, pain and longing. Before she turned 40, Lucia Rijker, world champing boxing, only lived for her sport. Now she has the time and the opportunity to learn what love is.
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Mo
6
Jul
23:20 - 24:20
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DIARY OF A TIMES SQUARE THIEF
.jpg "Diary of a Times Square Thief") Diary of a Times Square Thief documents a journey of discovery: the search for the writer of a mysterious diary that the filmmaker found on Ebay.
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Sa
27
Jun
0:16 - 1:41
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THE BOW
 On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard...
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Fr
5
Jun
17:30 - 18:30
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THE DALAI LAMA IN THE NETHERLANDS
 The Dalai Lama will visit the Netherlands on June 4 and 5, 2009. He will give buddhist teachings and a public lecture on June 4th in the RAI Conference centre in Amsterdam. The BOS will broadcast a summary and an impression of this lecture.
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Su
31
May
13.00 - 13:30
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QUIET MIND [2]
 Quiet Mind: meditation for real life is a new series - the first of its kind - introducing the living traditions of meditation in a visually rich and imaginative style. Quiet Mind examines how these ancient practices apply to our contemporary, fast paced lives through the use of fascinating characters, practical information and real life examples. In this episode: Healing Qigong and Hatha Yoga.
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Su
17
May
12:00 - 12:30
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QUIET MIND [1]
 Quiet Mind: meditation for real life is a new series - the first of its kind - introducing the living traditions of meditation in a visually rich and imaginative style. Quiet Mind examines how these ancient practices apply to our contemporary, fast paced lives through the use of fascinating characters, practical information and real life examples.
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Su
3
May
12.00 - 13:00
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QI – THE CHINESE ART OF HEALING
.jpg "Qi - the art of healing") Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long since arrived in the West. To find out more about the roots of this millennia-old science we go on a journey through the People’s Republic of China and to the people who practice TCM today.
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Su
19
Apr
12.00 - 12:30
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SISTERS FOR LIFE
 Julia Kim went to South Africa to work as a doctor 10 years ago. She quickly realized that the HIV/Aids epidemic could not be resolved with medical care alone. Julia Kim started up the IMAGE project (Intervention with Microï¬nance for AIDS and Gender Equity Study) with the help of other women. This training, ‘Sisters For Life’ has a life-altering significance to the participants who manage to regain their self-confidence and leadership skills.
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Su
5
Apr
13:00 - 14:00
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CAMERAS FOR THE INVISIBLE
 Karin Kuiper, widow of the well-known Dutch author Karel Glastra van Loon, went to the Thai-Burmese border in order to fulfill Karel's wish to draw international media attention to Burma's ‘forgotten refugees’. Determined to realize Karel's plans, Karin returns to Mae Sot in March 2008, a trip that has resulted in a compelling story.
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Su
22
Mrch
12.00 - 13:00
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BORN TO SERVE
 While most monasteries kept their doors closed to westerners in the ‘60s, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche opened his doors to them in Kathmandu. His fame and unconventional approach spread rapidly. The film tells the story of this unique teacher during the initiation of his reincarnation in November 2008.
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Su
8
Mrch
12:00 – 12:30
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ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: TO INTERVENE OR NOT TO INTERVENE?
 The Chinese occupation of Tibet has been going on for fifty years now. The Olympic Games in Beijing have done little to bring about change. Globally there are still many other places where human rights are violated on a large scale. But what can be done? Zen philosopher Maurice Knegtel discusses the problems of human intervention with specialists Christa Meindersma, Gelijn Molier and Cedric Ryngaert.
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We
4
Mrch
23:35 - 00:55
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THE DALAI LAMA: 50 YEARS AFTER THE FALL
 A feature documentary to mark the 50th anniversary of the failed Lhasa uprising of 10th March 1959, which led to the fall of Tibet and the flight of the Dalai Lama into exile. As the Dalai Lama faces what could be his greatest challenge yet – to find a resolution to the Tibet question before his death – the film takes a comprehensive and intimate look at the current situation in Tibet.
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Su
22
Feb
12.00 - 12:30
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WALKING WITH KUKAI
 Documentary about the Kukai Pilgrimage. Each year, tens of thousands of people follow the route plotted out by the buddhist monk Kukai centuries ago. By car, by foot, in a bus or on a bicycle. Despite heat, wind, rain and exhaust fumes. What keeps them going? We meet the modern Pilgrim.
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Su
8
Feb
13:00 - 13:55
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SEVEN YEARS IN SHAOLIN
 For the last seven years Christopher S. from Leipzig has been living in the famous Shaolin monastery in the Chinese province of Henan. The fillmakers follow him, and were granted unrestricted filming rights from the Abbot of the Shaolin Temple within the temple and with its monks.
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Su
25
Jan
12.00 – 13.25
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INNER VOICE - MEREDITH MONK
 Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director, choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater, films and installations. She has alternately been proclaimed as a ‘magician of the voice’ and ‘one of America’s coolest composers.’ Monk has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts. We follow Monk during the process of making her latest piece, Songs of Ascension.
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Su
11
Jan
12:00 - 12:55
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Lucia Rijker
 Zenmaster Thich Nhat Hanh says to 'embrace your anger', but young people don't even recognize their anger when they see it. Boxer and buddhist Lucia Rijker ventures out onto the street to see what drives young people, and gets embroiled in a street fight.
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