Annegriet Wietsma

As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.

As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? A film about a stubborn Kurdish woman who ended up on a road of no return because of her personal choices. 'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a frank portrait of the backgrounds and motives of Nuriye Kesbir, one of the leaders of the Kurdish resistance movement PKK. Filmmaker Annegriet Wietsma followed Kesbir on her remarkable journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq.

A movie that dives deeply into the stronghold of Vrankrijk; an underground scene of anarchists and activists in downtown Amsterdam. Vrankrix not only houses a colorful group of residents but is also a meeting point for international activists with radical ideas. Hiphop, punk, queer, anarchists, sharing economy, veganism, globalization: it all comes together in this micro cosmos. The comic book of Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods has served as a source of inspiration the mere existence of a small Gallic village becomes jeopardized by the Roman high-rise construction of hotels, playgrounds and tourists.

During the colonial war of 1946-1949, Dutch soldiers fathered thousands of children with Indonesian girls. Tuan Papa ("Sir Daddy") tells the story of war-time love and the forgotten children.