Tu
28
Dec
16:05 - 17:05
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Conscious Universe
 B. Alan Wallace, PhD, is at the forefront of bridging the insights of Buddhist contemplatives from the past two and a half millennia with modern physics, neuroscience, and psychology. We encounter him and his ideas as he leads a group of meditators through an eight-week retreat in Thailand.
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We
22
Dec
21:20 - 21:55
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PROFILE: HERMAN WIJFFELS
 A portrait of Herman Wijffels. After having held positions at the Rabobank, the Social-Economic Council and the World Bank, he has dedicated himself to sustainability. An image of an enthusiastic individual who doesn’t shy away from an argument.
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Su
19
Dec
23:35 - 24:35
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LUCIA RIJKER AND THE POWER OF SILENCE
 Boxer and buddhist Lucia Rijker investigates different facets of silence. Can silence bring wisdom and power ?
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Su
28
Nov
13:00 - 14:00
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On Our Own
 ‘On Our Own’ tells the story of 14 year old Sem and his two friends, Berend and Max, who have decided to go on a summer vacation without their parents for the first time. It will be a trip which will put their friendship to the test.
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Su
21
Nov
14:00 - 15:00
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THE TRANSFORMATION GAME
 Spiritual game show, based on the Transformation game. Four participants sit round a board game, run by the games master, and answer personal and emotional questions.
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Su
21
Nov
24:35 - 01:10
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ONS SAL ALTYD VRIENDE BLY
 After a happy childhood as a missionary’s son in South Africa, Hans Busstra, was raised in the Netherlands. Now, twenty years later, he returns to provide us with an adult’s perspective on his own childhood.
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Su
7
Nov
14:00 - 15:00
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Consciousness beyond Life
 For many people the book Consciousness beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience radically by Pim van lommel changed their views on life and death. The film explores how such an experience can radically change four very different people.
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Su
7
Nov
23:40 - 24:40
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THE DIRECTORS
 In 1984, Ate de Jong, Dick Maas and George Schouten founded The Directors, a band made up of movie directors. Later on, more directors joined and so did actors, actresses and singers. This documentary follows the band members.
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We
27
Okt
22:55 - 23:30
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FUTURE EXPRESS: SRI LANKA – AN ISLAND WITH A SMILE
 Rob Hof takes the train from coastal town Galle – once a VOC trading post – to the town of Trincomalee on the coast. Until recently, such a train trip would have been almost impossible. Sri Lanka is turning its face to the future and smiling again.
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Su
24
Okt
14:00 - 14:50
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THE GARBAGE SHOW
 In The Garbage Show, presented by Bas Westerweel, consumers, retailers and representatives of food organisations debate the key issue: 'How can we achieve a twenty percent decrease in food waste by 2015?'
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We
20
Okt
22:55 - 23:30
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FUTURE EXPRESS: MADE IN TAIWAN
 Travelling by high-speed trains (320 km per hour) and ATR trains (130 km per hour) Rob and Erik Hof criss-cross an island Portuguese seafarers once named ‘Ilha Formosa’.
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Su
17
Okt
23:00 - 23:55
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TASTE THE WASTE
 An international documentary about global food waste. We throw away just as much food as we eat. Taste the Waste travels all over the world to investigate how we have come so far, and what we can do about it.
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Su
26
Sep
14:00 - 14:30
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ZENJU'S PATH
 Zenju’s Path takes viewers into the diverse, urban population of Oakland where the documentary explores Zenju’s embrace of Buddhist teachings while at the same time, dynamically challenging tradition.
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Su
12
Sep
14:00 - 15:00
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THE ROAD TO SUSTAINABILITY
 A portrait of several companies that have radically opted for sustainability.
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Mo
23
Aug
24:05 - 24:35
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UNHEARD: FRANK SCHEFFER
 In the six-part late night talk show Ongehoord writer Chris Keulemans talks to his guests about the music they make, the music they love and how music affects their outlook on life and the arts. The sixth guest is cinematographer Frank Scheffer.
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We
18
Aug
10:15 - 10:45
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LIVING OFF THE WIND
 Growing up in a world filled with possibilities and temptations, many young people find it hard to get their lives on the right track. A portrait of two young men who each have gone their own way.
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Mo
16
Aug
24:05 - 24:35
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UNHEARD: BLAXTAR
 In the six-part late night talk show Ongehoord writer Chris Keulemans talks to his guests about the music they make, the music they love and how music affects their outlook on life and the arts. The fifth guest is Dutch hip-hop artist Blaxtar.
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Tu
10
Aug
24:05 - 01:20
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ATLANTIS
 In the near future, everybody is mandatorily happy and society is perfectly organised. But Xenia, a 13-year-old girl is different from all other girls.
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Mo
9
Aug
24:05 - 24:35
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UNHEARD: SPINVIS
 In the six-part late night talk show Ongehoord writer Chris Keulemans talks to his guests about the music they make, the music they love and how music affects their outlook on life and the arts. The fourth guest is one-man-band Spinvis.
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Tu
3
Aug
24:05 - 01:20
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GALGENVEN
 Photographer Anna Smeets returns to her native village in Limburg. It turns out that part of the environment and the surrounding area will have to make way for project developers with large-scale plans. A fierce battle flares up between Anna and large landowner Hyacint De Beaumont.
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Mo
2
Aug
24:05 - 24:35
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UNHEARD
 In the six-part late night talk show Ongehoord writer Chris Keulemans talks to his guests about the music they make, the music they love and how music affects their outlook on life and the arts. The third guest is author Margriet de Moor.
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Tu
27
Jul
24:05 - 01:05
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SOMETHING UNKNOWN
 Is it possible that some people can read your mind? Or look into the future? Why is it that some people can cure themselves while in the last stages of a deadly cancer? A fascinating and quirky feature documentary by Dutch filmmaker Renée Scheltema.
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Mo
26
Jul
24:05 - 24:35
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UNHEARD: MERLIJN TWAALFHOVEN
 In the six-part late night talk show Ongehoord writer Chris Keulemans talks to his guests about the music they make, the music they love and how music affects their outlook on life and the arts. The second guest is composer, violinist and all-round theatre creator Merlijn Twaalfhoven.
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Mo
19
Jul
24.15 - 24:45
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UNHEARD
 In the late night talk show Ongehoord writer Chris Keulemans talks to his guests about the music they make, the music they love and how music affects their outlook on life and the arts. The first guest is the lead singer of the band Roosbeef.
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Su
27
Jun
12:00 - 12:45
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CHARLY LOWNOISE - NO FRICTION, NO SHINE
 Ramon Rollfs or Roelofs and his buddy Theo Nabuurs became world famous as the duo Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo. But what happens when the artist Charly Lownoise takes over from the man Ramon Roelofs? Ramon discovers he isn’t just a Hardcore DJ but also a very spiritual person.
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Su
13
Jun
12:00 - 12:30
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TIBET - HOLLAND
 Artisty Tashi Norbu lives and collaborates with a group young fellow Tibetans at the crossroads of two cultures. A film about how the youngest generation of Tibetans manages to create a niche for themselves in their host country while at the same time working hard at sharing their own culture with others.
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Su
30
May
13:00 - 13:30
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PLAYING WITH ENLIGHTENMENT
 Floris is four years old and was admitted to hospital recently. When asked what he thinks about when he’s in a lot of pain he says: ‘Oh, then I just think about the Buddha’. Raising your children in a Buddhist way. What does that mean? And how can Buddhism help children thrive?
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Su
16
May
12:00 - 12:30
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FORM IN SPACE
 Can you see beauty in a construction site? Can boredom be positive? Looking for the answers to these questions, sculptor and buddhist Ton van der Laaken introduces us to his world of concrete wasteland and the silence of his studio.
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Su
2
May
12:00 - 13:00
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KINDNESS
 When Tsering Jampa is four years old, Chinese soldiers occupy her home. Shortly after, the family flees Tibet and moves to India. Forty years later, in March 2008, her people rise up unexpectedly in Tibet! Tsering has been living in the Netherlands for 23 years. During a demonstration at the Chinese embassy in The Hague, she manages to control the anger and frustrations of the young compatriots in a masterly way.
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Su
18
Apr
12:00 - 12:30
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THE BODY AS TEACHER
 Antony Gormley, who has been using his body as the basis for his work for thirty years now.nformation coming soon. Lee Ning Ning is a young doctor in training who initiates us into the special approach to the body in a hospital in Taiwan. The dead body isn’t reduced to a mere object, but cherished as a source of life.
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Su
4
Apr
13:30 - 14:00
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THE PATH
 The second part of the diptych on Japanese Zen monasteries. Sogen-ji, a Rinzai training centre in Okayama, Japan, is one of the few Zen monasteries in Japan that admits Westerners who want to undergo training. This personal account by Madelon Hooykaas follows daily life in the monastery.
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Sa
3
Apr
23:20-00:55
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ROSA`S HISTORY OF HELL
 Rosa von Praunheim has completed a feature-length documentary about the history of Hell. It records his personal search for the source of the idea of soul, for the origins of religions and of conceptions of retribution in the afterlife.
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Su
21
Mrch
12:45 - 13:00
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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
21
Mrch
12:00 - 12:45
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LAWRENCE JORDAN: MOMENTS OF ILLUMINATION
.jpg "Lawrence Jordan") A founder of American Avant Garde Cinema, Lawrence Jordan has been creating masterworks for over 50 years. Jordan is credited for having made many of the greatest films ever made by cutout collage animation.
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Su
7
Mrch
13:00 - 14:00
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
 This movie explores the life and work of the greatest poet, visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher of the Beat Generation.
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Su
21
Feb
12:00 - 13:00
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A ZEN LIFE – D.T. SUZUKI
 Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) was a widely published author and Zen philosopher. He is credited with introducing Zen Buddhism to the West. The film combines Suzuki’s public and private life, and presents his legacy through interviews of people who knew him personally.
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Tu
16
Feb
23:25 - 00:25
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LUCIA RIJKER AND A NEW LIFE
 In the mid-‘90s Lucia Rijker, multiple world champion boxing, started a new life in Los Angeles. Very soon she created similar living circumstances as in her previous place of residence, Amsterdam. In this film she sets out to share her own experiences and learn from those of others.
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Su
7
Feb
12:00 - 12:30
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BETWEEN BETTER AND WORSE
 After her first marriage failed, 'Sixties' mother Kerry Lee, author of children’s books, remarried. Both partners had children of their former marriage. The children couldn't get along, however. To avoid another pending divorce the family decided that a few minutes daily meditation could be the antidote. After much initial resistance, this unconventional act proved effective.
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Su
24
Jan
12.00 - 13:00
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TULKU
 Gesar Mukpo is a filmmaker who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the son of the great Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Gesar reveals his own poignant story of living in the West with this unique label and legacy - endlessly scrutinized as someone supposed to be special and monumental. What does it mean to carry on a role designed for an old world when you’re living in a completely new one?
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Su
10
Jan
13.00 - 14:00
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WINTER FLOWER
 Commissioned by a well-known publisher to write her autobiography, martial arts master Li Rong Mei (Winter Flower) leaves her Swiss home and her schools of Wushu and heads for China, her native homeland, seeking the landmarks of her former existence.
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