In Dutch, vrijman means 'free man'. The late Jan 'Vrijman' Hulsebos earned the nickname as a World War II resistance fighter, and it stuck with him through later life, when he cofounded the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (idfa). Today, thanks to a fund that bears his nom de guerre, 'Vrijman' also means the freedom to make non-fiction films.
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