Due to the Covid-19 outbreak this is currently not possible!
Are you a complete cinema addict or rather someone who likes to snuggle up on a Monday night after a long day at university and watch a movie? Come and join ISN Amsterdam for our monthly Dutch Movie Nights!
We ask a guest speaker to introduce the movie and give some background information about the topic then let you enjoy some typical Dutch movies (with subtitles of course). These movie nights are completely FREE; however, don’t forget to bring your student card or ESN card.
Monday, the 11th of February: Chez Nous is a Dutch comedy and feel good movie about a charm- ing drag queen bar in Amsterdam that, when its owner dies, is being closed down. Bertus, together with other regulars, tries to find a way to keep the bar. They plan to steal a valuable piece of jewellery from a well secured museum during the Amsterdam Gay Pride. Where will their plan take them? And will they succeed in keeping the bar?
Monday the 18th March. ‘Hoe duur was de suiker’ (The Price of Sugar) is a movie about slavery in former Dutch colony Suriname. The movie is based on a novel by Cynthia McLeod and tells the gripping, romantic and heart-wrenching story of Sarith and Mini-Mini as they grow up on a sugar plantation in the eighteenth century. Where Sarith is considered the most beautiful woman in the colony and behaves accordingly, the mulatto Mini-Mini lives forever in her shadow, a slave to her own half-sister. She, the woman in the shadow, tells us about the real price of the sugar…
Monday 8 April. ‘Zwartboek’ (Blackbook) is a Dutch thriller film by Paul Verhoeven. At the time of release in 2006, this was the most expensive Dutch film ever made, and also the Netherlands’ most commercially successful. The film, credited as based on several true events and characters, is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters during World War II to help the Dutch resistance after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis. You might recognize the lead actress Carice van Houten from Game of Thrones!
Monday 13 May. ‘Soof’ is a romantic comedy that could be called our very own Dutch Bridget Jones! Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: is this all there is?