Cinema Delicatessen

2004
Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Alternate names

CineDeli

Description

Cinema Delicatessen is an Amsterdam-based distributor releasing documentary films in cinemas, on DVD and VOD.

In 2004 Cinema Delicatessen was the first distributor in the Netherlands to release films in cinemas digitally. Since then Cinema Delicatessen released Academy Award winner Citizenfour, modern classics Collective, I Am Not Your Negro, The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, Golden Calf winners Living the Light – Robby Müller, Shadow Game, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning, IDFA winners The New Rijksmuseum, A Strange Love Affair with Ego and crowd-pleasers Kedi, The Mole Agent, Sergio Herman: F***ing Perfect. Every year Cinema Delicatessen and IDFA partner up to release The Best of IDFA on Tour, a travelling programme of award winners and audience favourites.

Since 2022 Cinema Delicatessen’s documentaries can be seen online on their own video on demand platform CineDeli (Netherlands only).

“CinemaDelicatessen EN,” CineDeli, n.d., accessed October 16, 2026, https://www.cinemadelicatessen.nl/en/.
Works in catalogue

  • I Am a Woman Now

    film/video, 2011

    Five first-generation transsexual women paint a resonant picture of the successes they enjoyed and the obstacles they encountered in the fifty years since their surgical transformations, all performed in Casablanca, Morocco, by Dr. Georges Burou, who did not require psychological assessments as a precondition. Did their sex change operations change their lives as they had hoped? How did their families react? Using high production values, vintage photographs, and home videos, this respectful and sensitive documentary offers a fresh perspective on these women’s difficult choice to step into the unknown and the consequences that follow the realization of an unattainable dream.