Meet the Fokkens

"They're up to their old tricks"

Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.

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Straight from the Heart

1994

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

1996

Young at Heart

Young at Heart

1987

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment

1991

A Story of Healing

A Story of Healing

1997

Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride

Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride

1997

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

2000

Big Mama

Big Mama

2000

Sing!

Sing!

2001

Asylum

Asylum

2003

God Sleeps in Rwanda

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2005

Freeheld

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2007

The Warriors of Qiugang

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2010

Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing

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2006

How to Cook Your Life

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2007

Karama Has No Walls

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2012

Hotel Nueva Isla

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2014

Jesus Camp

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2006

Divine Divas

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2016

The Cambridge Squatter

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2017