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#lockdocs What is it like under lockdown in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy or France? 14 Dutch children living in different places around the world filmed their own situation. They show and talk about what they do, think, miss or like, how they are taught, celebrate their birthday and how they are bored stiff. Many things are the same, yet Maiza from Almere is afraid for her brother who has cancer, and Mika in Italy can’t see his mother, a nurse, for a long time. Tessa’s mother in Amsterdam caught Covid-19 and became severely ill, and Julliette from Alkmaar cannot cuddle her father because he is a member of a high-risk group. However, there are also positives: for instance, Lucia has had to move with his family to the Spanish countryside and is having loads of fun with his brothers and sisters.
SANNE ROVERS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 22’ | 8+ FACTS Producer Ilja Roomans Screenwriter Sanne Rovers Editor Sonja
Free as a Bird Ariana is nuts about dancing. She trains four times a week, takes part in contests and is basically always dancing, even in the back garden or her room. She also has a super sweet dog called Mikey. Nothing suggest that Ariana is actually really ill. Her kidneys don’t work properly, and she needs a new one. Together with her older brother she tries to shoot a video about herself in which she appeals for a donor. This is very hard for her: ‘I’d prefer to forget about it all. I don’t want people’s pity,’ she explains. Shooting the video made her illness much too real. We not only witness how Ariana shoots a video, but also how she lives. How she dances, sleeps on the couch, and goes to hospital with her mother to talk about her kidneys. Ariana might be ill; she is far from piteous.
ANNELIES KRUK THE NETHERLANDS | 2021 | 12’ | 8+ FACTS Producer Willem Baptist, Nienke Korthof, Screenwriter Annelies
ten Boom, Daan Wierda Composer Tobias Borkert Production
Kruk Editor Saskia Kievits Production company Tangerine Tree,
company docmakers, The Netherlands, info@docmakers.nl,
The Netherlands, info@tangerinetree.nl, www.tangerinetree.nl
www.docmakers.nl
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