Unspooling from 21-29 March in The Hague, Netherlands, the 17th edition of Movies That Matter showcases 98 films with ten world premieres, encompassing fiction features, documentary features and short films eligible for awards in several competitions. The festival will open with the world premiere of Daan Veldhuizen's The Promise [+leggi anche:
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Comprising eight films, the Grand Jury Fiction Competition notably features the world premiere of Morgan Knibbe’s The Garden of Earthly Delights [+leggi anche:
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Outside of the festival’s opening film and one other work, all of the documentaries in the Grand Jury Documentary Competition, which consists of nine films, will be celebrating their Dutch premiere at the festival. Spanning a diverse range of topics, the selection includes Tommy Guliksen's Facing War [+leggi anche:
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The thematic competitions include the aforementioned Justice Frame sidebar, focused on “the importance of the rule of law and the fight against impunity”; the Activist Lens, featuring documentaries centred on human rights champions; and the Dutch Focus competition. World premieres in the latter strand include Petr Lom’s The Coriolis Effect, Geertjan Lassche’s Ik was een kind and Thomas Stokmans’ Meneer L. Films in these thematic sections are also eligible for prizes within their respective categories, no matter if they overlap with the Grand Jury competitions, meaning that several works have been nominated for and will be considered for more than one prize.

The festival will close with the Dutch premiere of Sissel Morell Dargis’s Danish documentary Balomania [+leggi anche:
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