Portrait in which several inhabitans of Walenburg, the Amsterdam home for the homeless, are observed without further comment. In 1992 it won a Golden Calf for the Best Documentary.
For the Pandora Foundation, an organisation for helping people with psychological or psychiatric problems, Froukje Bos made five documentary portraits about the social position of mental patients and ex-patients. In Ballad of Being, some residents of De Walenburg, the Amsterdam centre for homeless people, are observed without comment. The film won the 1992 Golden Calf for Best Feature Lenght Documentary.
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Stichting Pandora
Added Films International
Added Films International
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NTR
Gouden Kalf winner
Beste Lange Documentaire (1992)
Froukje Bos
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