Grande Finale

Grande Finale
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Today was the last day of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and at 10 o'clock this morning we jumped into the theatre for the finale Best of IDFA. At six again we came out of Tuschinksi with six movies behind the eyeballs.

Six Weeks on child adaption in (katholic) Poland and the six weeks a mother with an unwanted baby got after birth before defenitely deciding she wants to keep or distance herself from the child

Last Train Home on labour migration in China and how a couple unsuccesfully tries to stay in touch with the children they left in the peasant village when they went to the city to work 16 years ago

Colony on how 'beehive collapsing' is supposed to threaten the future of agriculture in the US -- was not so dumb as it may sound

Iron Crows pretty rough inside view of workers in (big) ship dismantling in Bangladesh

Alberts Winter on a Danish kid that swaps to artschool in a winter his mother is treated with chemotherapy

The Cove on how former Flipper trainer Ric O'Barry fights dolphin killing in Taiji, Japan www.savejapandolphins.org/

This is not Burger King

This is not Burger King
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and i bet .. when you can stand the scorn and take it her way you'll eat the best sandwiches in Amsterdam

Donkey Bridge

Donkey Bridge
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this bridge is next to my house .. in Dutch een ezelsbrug is a proverb for a quick and steady way to memorize something .. and yes it would be adequate to say this bridge reminds me steady and quickly where i live

magic

magic
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two young magicians performed their tricks on us at station Haarlem .. one of them could tranfsorm two purple spheres into a cube .. the other one let sigarettes and pencils dissapear when he put them in a box

my trick is that i can make their heads dissapear without them even knowing ha

David en Goliath

David en Goliath
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this is one of the old squares of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum .. the restaurant David en Goliath put up some kind of box of metalglasswithwireshangingaroundeverywhere to protect the customers from wind and rain .. i think it sucks big time