MM Filmprodukties 

Productions of MM Filmprodukties include:

AFRICAN BRIDE
The retired Belgian ex-paratrooper Gilbert rents a house in Diani Beach, Kenya. He loves the climate, the beer and the local women: ‘Once you go black, you always go black’. But finding real love is more difficult. African Bride shows in a tragicomic, sometimes painful way how prejudices and cultural differences make the relationship between Gilbert and his African girl-friends virtually impossible.
2019/ 88 minutes
Script & Direction: Roy Dames & Jos Driessen

LOMAX THE SONGHUNTER
A musical roadmovie about the route that Alan Lomax took across America and remote villages in Europe. The film also tells Lomax’s story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, using archival recordings of music greats Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and gathering footage of the cotton fields, rock quarries and prisons where Alan Lomax captured America’s quintessential music.
2005/ 93 Minutes
Script & Direction: Rogier Kappers

EUROMANIA
An international documentary series about the arrival of the euro in Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands: will it be the first step towards a new European identity or a loss of our national identity?
Idea and production: MM Filmprodukties/NCRV
2002, Digi Beta 4x 40 minutes

IN MONEY WE TRUST
A lighthearted documentary which follows a few people who’s lives are influenced by the euro. The Dutch part of ‘Euromania’.
Script and direction: Kim Landstra
2002, Digi Beta 40 minutes

A GARBAGEMAN IN ISTANBUL
A film in order of a city district board as part of their project to reach more consciousness on diversity of cultures within their organization. Script and direction Rogier Kappers and Joost Verhey
2002, DV Cam 42 minutes

AICHA
Documentary about the search of the Somali foster daughter Aïcha to the balance between the culture she originates from and the culture she lives in: a search to her mother, to her native country and to where her future will be.
Script & direction: Annemarie Strijbosch
2001, Digi-Beta , 53 minutes, Co-production with NPS
Nomination Academy Award 2002

BOARDED UP
A series of four episodes following all the developments and the human emotions of the leaving residents around the demolition of a row of houses in Amsterdam. Also in a long film version.
Script and direction: Steef Meyknecht
2000, Digi-Beta, 4x 40 minutes and a 110 min. version. Co-production with NCRV.

IN A WHITE MAN’S LAND
Documentary about “AMA’s”: single minors requesting asylum who are followed during their procedures while living together in a AMA-house in the Netherlands.
Research and script: Kim Landstra
1999, 35mm, 52 min. Co-Production with NCRV.
Nomination Ako Media Award 2001

SPACE TO THINK
Information film under order of the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture with the aim to inform people about the subsidy possibilities of the Foundation.
Script and direction: Digna Sinke
1998, Digi-Beta, 35 min.

FOOLISH MOTHERS OF TURKEY
Documentary about the ‘Saturday mothers’, mothers who have been protesting for three years in the heart of Istanbul against the disappearance of their sons, daughters or husbands.
Script and direction: Ayfer Ergün
1998, Digi-Beta, 29 min. Co-production with NPS.

IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE
The documentary centers around the directors personal quest for her father’s love. By refusing to marry as a virgin, she went against the tradition and her father’s will.
Script and direction: Fatima Jebli Ouazzani.
1997, 35 mm, color, 67 min. Co-production with NPS.
Distribution: NOS Sales, Hilversum
Best International Documentary Award-Hot Docs Toronto; Golden Spire Award & Special Mention- International Film Festival San Francisco, Prix Spécial du Jury-Biennale des Cinémas Arabes Paris Golden Calf Best Long Documentary-Dutch Film Festival Utrecht, Best Documentary- Festival National du Film Casablanca.
Theatrical release in the Netherlands and screenings on various international festivals.

MISS INTERPRETED (MARLENE DUMAS)
A documentary about the famous south-African artist Marlene Dumas. On the basis of archive footage, video footage, paintings and drawings, all edited in an associative way, an image is presented of a woman living on the fracture zone of politics and history.
Direction: Rudolf Evenhuis, Eugène van den Bosch, Joost Verhey.
1997, 16 mm, color, 63 min. Co-production with HUMAN.

GANTENBEIN
A documentary about a brain operation on Gijs van Eijck that went wrong. As a result of this, his memory is unstable and his body partly paralyzed. These far reaching effects put an enormous strain upon him and his family.
Direction: Ine Poppe en Agnes de Ruyter
1997, video, color, 42 min. Co-production with KRO

LOVE – MOVEMENTS
A series of special portraits in 7 episodes. In each episode two couples tell the story of their not everyday relationship. Personal stories told in a positive way.
Script and direction: Ine Poppe & Agnes de Ruijter.
1995, Betacam SP, colour, per episode 25 min. Broadcasted on RTL 5.

DFL. 171,15 ; TO BE SPENT IN AFRICA
The story of a Dutchman, trying to integrate in an African society, but he gets confronted with the limitations of his own possibilities to adapt to such a foreign society.
Script and direction: Steef Meyknecht.
1994, 16 mm, colour, 50 min. Broadcasted on NOS- and BRT (Belgium)-Television.

INTO THE WIND
Documentary about Paul Wahlen. Owner-Captain of probably the last sailing freight ship in the Western world. We follow him and his inexperienced crew on their rough journey to the Canary Island Lanzarote.
Script and direction: Kees Schaap.
1994, Betacam SP, colour, 44 min. Broadcasted on TROS-Television.

BRAM
The documentary shows the story of the blind soundartist Bram, in which she unfolds her vision on the world of sounds. She turns sounds into compositi¬ons that, like a mirror, reflect back on the sighted world which appears deaf to the chaos of sound in which it lives.
Script and direction: Joost Verhey.
1993, 16 mm, colour, 68 and 50 min.
Broadcasted on NCRV-Television, 50 min.version.
Special Mention: MediaNet AWARD 1994, Munich, Germany.

ROUCH’S GANG
The main subject of this documentary is the unique friendship and working-relationship between Jean Rouch, famous French director and his three African friends, Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim and Tallou Mouzourane.
Script : Philo Bregstein. Direction: Dirk Nijland, Steef Meyknecht and Joost Verhey.
1993, 16 mm, color, 70 min.
Broadcasted on IKON-Television.

IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING GODS
The documentary shows a group of Dutch tourists facing the different culture in India.
Script and direction: Louk Vreeswijk.
1993, 16 mm, color, 65 and 52 min.
Broadcasted on NOS-Television, 52 min. version.

DEAD END TRACK
The documentary shows a disappointed ex-freedom-fighter who left Mozambique in the early eighties and now returns to the country he fought for.
Script and direction: Jack Janssen.
1990, 16 mm, colour, 52 min.
Broadcasted on HOS Television.
Distribution: Jane Balfour, London.

THE RETURN
This documentary shows the problems related to the return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Script and direction: Joost Verhey.
1990, 16 mm, colour, 52 min.
Broadcasted on NOS and BRT (Belgium) Television.
Distribution: Tapestry, New York.

IN THE SHADOW OF WAR
This documentary shows the influence of the war on the sociol-economic conditions of an Afghan village.
Script and direction: Joost Verhey.
1988, 16 mm, colour, 82 min. and 48 min.
Broadcasted on IKON-Television, 48 min. version.