“What beauty offers solace to all world’s sorrow? ‘ in the film ‘rotterdam’s tears ’4 youths muse over the city. What makes their lives worth living? What gives it ‘lustre’ and ‘oomph’.

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Dutch filmmakers marieke helmus femke montney and yoka van zuijlen form an unconventional yet successful young directors team. Their combined background in filmmaking, graphic design and performing arts provide for a unique approach to independent cinema. Their first film cape town soup was shot in 2010 in South Africa and portraits a city through the eyes of its inhabitants. Modern dance and jazz music merge with a dialogue of four south africans on their desires of life and love. The dancers, too, contribute to the unusual and often witty composition, giving the city the allure of a contemporary stage scene.

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