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A six-part series about the life of Gied Jaspars, told to Frans Bromet.
Arnon Grunberg leaves his parental home in Amsterdam South when he is eighteen. He wants to become an actor and escape his childhood nest, his dominant mother, and his taciturn father. By now, he is 44 and returns to his parents. Arnon Grunberg leaves New York for the Netherlands to write a book about his mother, Hannelore Klein. During conversations about the war years, the tension between mother and son becomes palpable, as does the unconditional love they feel for each other. The conversations are interspersed with intimate scenes, revealing the world the writer has always carefully shielded from his public life.
Lidy sees terrifying apparitions in her cottage. She hears strange noises in the attic and sees chains moving. She has also already been dragged down the attic stairs by someone. Frans Bromet and energy house cleanser Lise come to her aid.
Mortgage advisor Remco Trommel has found the Holy Grail: if you give terminally ill patients an advance on their life insurance, which is only paid out after their death, clients can realize their dream before they die.
Frans Bromet made a documentary about the 2002 Dutch parliamentary elections. As an undecided voter, Frans interviews the party leaders Paul Rosenmöller (GroenLinks), Pim Fortuyn (LPF), Thom de Graaf (D66), Jan Marijnissen (SP), Fred Teeven (LN), and Hans Dijkstal (VVD) about their election manifestos. He tries to find out who he should vote for.
What do you do if you dream of success but have secretly always felt that it isn't meant for you? While nearly 30-year-old filmmaker Emma Boelhouwer has been grappling with this question for years, her former classmates Xander Vrienten, Géza Weisz, and Victor Crezée—boys she once played with in the sandbox—have grown into successful bassists, actors, and DJs. Why did they manage to lead successful lives, while she feels her life has yet to begin? In this personal, tragicomic documentary, Emma delves into the lives of her successful former classmates to find an answer to the question that has been occupying her for years: is there still hope for Emma Boelhouwer?
Three friends decide to realize their dream: their own wellness center. After all, everyone wants to enjoy themselves these days. But will their optimism and drive withstand the financial crisis?
Documentary about the monument Joods Werkdorp.
Uit elkaar is a two-part documentary by filmmakers Frans and Silvia Bromet. They followed couples who are forced to live separately after a long marriage. One of them has dementia, and living at home is no longer possible. What do you do then?
Programme maker Frans Bromet visits eight public libraries with camera and microphone and speaks to visitors, staff, and volunteers. The idea that libraries are boring institutions where you only go to borrow books and CDs turns out to be completely outdated. Everyone is welcome in the library, it is a pleasant place to spend time, and not unimportantly: the library is the only public place that is accessible for free all day long. From the homeless person to the millionaire and from the student to the pensioner: the library is a place where the whole of the Netherlands comes together.
If it were up to Matthieu Smakman (52), a living community would rise in rural Purmer in the foreseeable future, where residents would be entirely autonomous in meeting their own needs. A place where vegetables come straight from the vegetable garden and you can still see the stars in the night sky, 'to get in touch with nature and bring your life into balance.' That is necessary because, at the height of Smakman's eventful career as an entrepreneur, he is often so busy that he forgets the names of his children. What begins as a small-scale and noble endeavor grows ever larger. With inexhaustible enthusiasm, the couple conquers the administrative offices. However, they also face setbacks. Will Matthieu Smakman manage to hold on to his ideals at all costs?
Beukbergen is a documentary that paints a comprehensive picture of the large-scale renovation of the Beukbergen trailer park, the largest trailer park in the Netherlands. This documentary, broadcast on NPO 2, offers a unique look behind the scenes of a project that is drastically changing the lives of many people.
The young, entrepreneurial brothers Edial and Floris Dekker dream of owning their own internet company and leave for Berlin after their studies to make their dream a reality. 'Startup city' Berlin is a gathering place for ambitious young people and a breeding ground for countless internet startup companies. The brothers launch the website Gidsy, where organizers of small-scale local activities can connect with potential participants. Whether you want a tour of Amsterdam's Red Light District, to search for oysters in the Oosterschelde, or do life drawing in Berlin, you will find it on Gidsy. Edial and Floris soon manage to interest a few investors, including the famous actor Ashton Kutcher, to invest $1.2 million in their fledgling company.
Documentary filmmaker Silvia Bromet is fascinated by the woman who, despite the setbacks in her life, keeps standing tall time and again. What lies behind that radiant smile? What drives her to still perform so much? By whom is she herself comforted?
In 1995, Frans Bromet created the successful series Opvoeden (Raising Children), in which he portrayed families facing significant parenting challenges. Twenty years later, Frans looks back on the difficult childhoods of the now-adult children. As ‘products’ of their parents, are the protagonists capable of taking a completely different approach, or does the parenting style they inherited prove to be deeply embedded in their DNA?
Frans Bromet delves into a mysterious feud that has divided his family for decades. Its origins lie in a conflict that arose on the Jewish side of the family after the Second World War.
A documentary can be that simple and effective. Three grandfathers and three grandmothers tell their grandchildren about their experiences during the Second World War. When they were still children themselves. One was in hiding and was abused, the other had a wonderful childhood in the Groningen countryside.
In the late 1970s, filmmaker Frans Bromet worked on a film about Holocaust survivor and painter Sieg Maandag. The film was intended to answer the question of how one can continue living after a concentration camp. Sieg Maandag was the little boy in the famous photo in the American magazine LIFE, walking towards his freedom shortly after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The film 'Life’s Picture' was never completed at the time due to a conflict between Bromet and the producer, who envisioned a heroic film about the Second World War, whereas Bromet wanted to keep it small and personal. Behind the search for answers to the question of why the film failed, a loving monument emerges to a survivor who, despite the misery he endured, managed to create a life in which optimism and inspiration predominated.
Dutch men commit suicide twice as often as women. Why is that? Filmmaker Frans Bromet investigates, together with journalist Nathan Vos, what is going on with men.
Care in the Netherlands is deeply embedded in our social system. However, care has become unaffordable; something must change to curb costs. The Municipality of Rotterdam has therefore put care in its municipality out to tender with the aim of offering a new, affordable form of care. The deployment of volunteers is intended to bring down costs. Full of enthusiasm, the new care workers are embarking on their mission, leaving the old organizations that previously performed the work destitute.
