Nesting

A pregnant woman ignores her sister’s pleading phonecalls to visit their dying mother. When the hotel staff where she hides seems to mirror the trauma she fled from, she decides it’s time to deal with the fact that she cannot…

Milk Me

In a remote Norwegian valley, the young farmer Per lives his lonely life. He shares the farm with “Vigdis,” his only cow. Their peaceful days will shortly end when Per discovers techno music. He falls in love with the techno,…

Home

On a spaceship three weeks from its destination; young colonials reach the final stages of conditioning.

For Your Sake

Two daughters of a Nepalese Tamang family are preparing to study abroad. Their hopes for a better life are high, but the price is immeasurable. They have to leave behind what is the Tamang people’s greatest good: their family.

Zonder Meer

A campsite in the summer holidays, aimless days spent in the shade of trees. Sunlight is glittering on the lake, but nobody is allowed to swim here. A boy has disappeared and may have drowned. Five-year-old Lucie is trying to…

The Speech

May 2003, Beijing, China. Under the pressure of WHO, the Chinese government announced that the SARS outbreak is real. During a lockdown inside a private boarding , three eight-year-old girls have to find a way to make sense of the…

The bath

Imed, a young father, finding himself alone for a few days with his five year old son due to his wife’s business trip, will have to confront his deepest fear.

Stuff

When there is a break-in in her home, interior buyer Helen is in shock. With this theft, she discovers that she has lost a part of herself that is not easy to replace. When she invites her friends over for…

Song Sparrow

Song Sparrow is about immigration. People of different color and race and culture embark on journeys, eager to find some place they can call home, or just some place they can live in. This short movie may inspire the viewer…

The Brick House

Two friends, Sapa and Hija, re-enact and re-tell short anecdotes of their lives. Coming from another country to The Netherlands, there is a quest for belonging and the (im)possibility to completely feel at home and relate to the world outside…

Playing With Concrete

The short documentary follows the preparations for the renovation of the neighbourhood of Nova Gorica where playgrounds with unique concrete equipment are either desolated or decaying.

Peacock Island

An essayistic narration about a garden island in Berlin with a peacock population founded in 1793. The story is a composition of precise observations of the peacock, natural phenomena, and of passages of historical literature from its day.

Homeport

Samuel has been fishing on Clement’s boat for about ten years now. Samuel’s dream is to become a captain; Clement is more than ready to retire. The two fishermen agree on the terms of the boat’s sale. And yet, the…

Away

After the 2014 coup d’état in Thailand, 400 citizens associated with political activism were summoned by the Junta. Writer-activist, Wat Wanlayangkool was among those summoned, but fled the country. Leaving his home he had to face ‘exile,’ patiently waiting to…

The Sacred Woods

A clash between old and new, this heartfelt documentary unravels the struggle of the spiritual master of an African village in Ivory coast to preserve his ancestor’s legacy. His son will help him keep their customs and ceremonial habits alive,…