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On the Move

Walking through art museum Fenix (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), you get the feeling that moving around is the prime human condition. Five favourites by De Facto’s Suzanne Hendriks.

Suzanne Hendriks | 29 Dec 2025

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Vlieland filmfestival

Who is going on a trip with us? Off the Map is teaming up with Podium Vlieland, the cutest filmtheater on the island Vlieland, in the north of the Netherlands to organize a film-weekend on February 20-22, 2026. Through films, we will travel to unrecognized countries, micronations, disputed border areas, and other geographical oddities. And beyond the news and geopolitics, we explore wondrous places and captivating human stories.

De Facto | 3 Dec 2025

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Globalicious

Get lost in a lovely in Around the world in 200 Globes, a new publication of Luster by Willem Jan Neutelings. This book is a world in itself, with each highlighted globe telling its own story, whether it’s about trends, materials, political borders and scientific frontiers in the 20th century. A must for our readership.

Suzanne Hendriks | 24 May 2025

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Celebration of Kurdish Cinema

The Amsterdam Kurdish Film Festival (AKFF) showcases films that capture the diversity of Kurdish voices, stories and dreams, and provides a platform for Kurdish filmmakers. From 9-11 May in the Ketelhuis, Amsterdam.

De Facto | 24 Apr 2025

  • Middle East
  • Film
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  • Art

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Movies that Matter 2024

This Friday, 22nd of March, filmfestival Movies that Matter kicks off in The Hague (NL). We are sure the whole program is fabulous, still we cherrypicked some films that feature borders and/or contested territories.

De Facto | 20 Mar 2024

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Mapping Modernity

Mapping Modernity is an exhibition at the Design Museum in Den Bosch (The Netherlands). It has been compiled of 250 maps, so make sure you eat a ‘Bossche bol’ beforehand and take your time to visit this exhibition and take in all the depictions of power and control the maps display.

Suzanne Hendriks | 11 Jan 2024

  • Maps
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  • History

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In the Shadow of History

American photographer Susan Meiselas created an extensive visual archive in collaboration with the Kurdish community. A retrospective of her work is now on show in FOMU, Antwerp.

De Facto | 28 Mar 2023

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On the Border

Tim Marshall explores four frontier communities in this podcast series by the BBC. Some sit on hard borders, others soft; all face challenges. What do Maastricht, Kinshasa, Niagara and Orestiada tell us about managing difference and global relations today?

BBC / De Facto | 30 Jan 2023

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Movies that Matter

On April 8 the Movies that Matter Festival kicks off in The Hague (NL) and online. The festival’s selection focuses on movies and documentaries related to human rights. We selected three of them for you.

De Facto | 5 Apr 2022

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IDFA is in Town

Join us for the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Many great films, among which quite a few about curious borders.

De Facto | 15 Nov 2021

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