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Red Light Blues
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Red Light Blues

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Amsterdam's Red Light District has run on the same informal rules for centuries: windows for sex workers, coffee shops for soft drugs, and a tolerance policy that made the neighborhood a fixture of the city's identity and its tourist trade. This film follows the district as city hall pushes a redevelopment plan that closes windows, buys out landlords, and rebrands the area for galleries, boutiques, and higher rents. Sex workers, shop owners, and longtime residents describe what the change looks like from inside it: fewer windows lit at night, rising commercial rents, and a sense that the neighborhood's working population is being priced out rather than protected. Officials make the case for the cleanup in terms of safety and organized crime, while critics argue the real target is the visible poverty and vice that no longer fit the city's image. The film stays close to the street level, letting the people whose livelihoods depend on the old arrangement explain what stands to disappear.