Moving Mountains

To map the consequences of climate change, mountain hydrologist Walter Immerzeel and his team travel to remote altitudes where other scientists do not go. From his tent camp in the Himalayas, he uses around two hundred measuring instruments to collect data on precipitation, temperature, air pressure, solar power, wind speed and more. The more accurate this data, the more reliable the models with which Immerzeel tries to predict future developments in the water cycle. This reliability is of great importance to the millions of people who live in the climate-sensitive area downstream. In Moving Mountains, Immerzeel is followed on one of his mountain expeditions by filmmaker and mountaineer Renko Douze.

• Watch the film here
• Character: Walter Immerzeel
• Director: Renko Douze
• A production by Ammodo Docs
• Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen & Renko Douze
• Length: 15'
• Moving Mountains has been shown on NPO2EXTRA since April 2023 and at various (inter)national film festivals and events, including: Bolton International Film Festival, Bolton, UK, Docville, Leuven, BE, Dutch Mountains Film Festival, Heerlen, NL & Aachen, DE, Eugene Environmental Film Festival, Eugene, VS, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, NL, Festival MAAS – Studium Generale, Maastricht, NL, Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, NL, Inkafest Mountain Film Festival, Arequipa, PE, International Film Festival Ekotopf, Bratislava, SL, Prague Science Film Festival, Prague, CZ, Silbersalz Science and Media Awards, Berlin, DE, VRT, BE (a fragment will be broadcast).
• There is also collaboration with cultural institutions and educational organisations: Eye Film Player, Labocine (online platform), Network Film Education (database with films and lessons for Dutch education)

The Digital Dilemma

From homework and groceries to healthcare and agriculture – our daily lives are being radically changed by data, algorithms and AI. But are they really improving? Ethicist Tamar Sharon investigates how digitalisation is changing our lives and how Big Tech is increasingly entrenching itself in the public domain. Are we the ones who benefit, or mainly the tech giants? Sharon advocates stricter rules and a new way of thinking – so that technology can once again serve the public interest. The Digital Dilemma is part of Ammodo Docs, a series of short documentaries about original thinkers in art and science.

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• Character: Tamar Sharon
• Director: Stephane Kaas
• A production by Ammodo Docs
• Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen & Renko Douze
• Length: 18'

Three Acts

Opera can be approached from different angles – the music, the singing, the scenography. Then there is the story, the emotion, the ideas. How do you combine these elements to create an experience that opens the doors to fantasy and dreams? In Three Acts, internationally renowned opera director Pierre Audi gives us a glimpse of what this is all about. We see him rehearsing for a performance of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegrain Tokyo (with set design by renowned visual artist Anish Kapoor). In between, Audi shares his vision of the genre. According to him, the dramatic world on stage can bring contemporary issues closer than the news ever could. The theatre offers hope. ‘It helps people connect with themselves.’

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• Character: Pierre Audi
• Director: Marjoleine Boonstra
• A production by Ammodo Docs
• Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen & Renko Douze
• Length: 16'

Eyes Wide Open

In an ongoing series of theatre productions, Nicole Beutler investigates how people are causing irreversible damage to our planet. What does our future look like? She makes performances about the necessary transformation of the position of man on earth: the end of the Anthropocene is central. She describes this process as “going into the dark with open eyes”. Beutler combines a strong artistic vision with room for input. She continuously asks her team for their vision in order to arrive at a collectively supported work of art. In this way, she embodies a new form of leadership. In the film we see Nicole Beutler working on GINKGO or: 56 million years ago there were palm trees on the North Pole. A confrontational dance opera about the end of the world as we know it and the first performance of her RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION trilogy.

• Watch the film here
• Character: Nicole Beutler
• Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
• A production by Ammodo Docs
• Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen & Renko Douze
• Length: 14
• Eyes Wide Open has been shown at various (inter)national film festivals and events since April 2023, including: Exeter Dance International Film Festival, Exeter, UK, Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, NL, Nacht van Ontdekkingen, Leiden, NL, NYBA Dance Film Festival, San Jose, USA.
• There is also a collaboration with cultural institutions and educational organizations: DIF TV, of the Exeter International Dance Festival and Eye Film Player

Dear Home of Scars

In Dear Home of Scars we see acclaimed visual artist Ibrahim Mahama return to his birthplace of Tamale in Northern Ghana and the Red Clay Studio, a cultural and art centre he founded there. He is working on a new installation of old colonial trains and a reconstructed section of track. When Ghana was a British colony (1821-1957), gold and other raw materials were transported to the coast by train. Now, the remains of railway lines lie abandoned, silent reminders of a history of exploitation. They are the ‘scars in the landscape’, according to Mahama. The project provides renewed energy and self-awareness to local residents. In the meantime, Mahama reflects on his role as a sought-after artist and builder of local communities.

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• Character: Ibrahim Mahama
• Director: Marina Meijer
• A production by Ammodo Docs
• Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen & Renko Douze
• Length: 20'

The Storm Within

On her native soil just above the Arctic Circle, Norwegian-Dutch theatre director Eline Arbo recaptures her teenage spirit: 'I had so much shit, meaning and fun - I often think back to that'. Today, she feels like a fighter who is doing everything she can to change the strange and unjust world around her. In The Storm Within, Arbo reflects on her role as a leading theatre director and rehearses for the new play Huagtussa, based on a Norwegian cycle of poems in which a young woman with magical powers seeks refuge in nature. With a dark and mysterious theatre adaptation, Arbo wants to create a world never before seen on stage. In her eyes, the ominous mythical scenes from the nineteenth-century Haugtussa are eminently contemporary.

• Character: Eline Arbo
• Director: Marjoleine Boonstra
• A production by Ammodo Docs
• Co-producers: Hasse van Nunen & Renko Douze
• Length: 20'
• Premier: August 2025