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This short film provides a nerve-wracking and revealing view of a very Dutch phenomenon, the drive-in sex spot. The camera usually looks through the windscreen of a moving car and shows the locations from a man’s perspective.
We are on our way to a new geological era. This requires the inhabitants of the delta to move along with the natural dynamics that are at the core of this area. But where are we moving towards? In De Monding van Morgen Dutch filmmaker Rik van der Linden tries to free himself from the short term chains and goes on an expedition to the future where he learns to see the estuary as a rare area with unique ecological value, where life can be abundant and in which mankind has found its place in time.
For over a decade, Jason (25) has secretly been in love with his best friend Niels (25). He knows his feelings will never be reciprocated, but struggles to let go. Jason is forced to confront his unrequited love when Niels reveals something to him he doesn't want to hear.
When the Israeli army invades the Gaza Strip in 2023, Rania is eight months pregnant. She gives birth to triplets just as her hometown in northern Gaza is bombed. One girl dies at birth, while the other two babies, Jowan and her brother Hamoud, are so weak that they have to be placed in an incubator. When the hospital is evacuated, the twins are moved to southern Gaza, where Rania’s sister Nisreen takes over their care. A travel ban prevents the babies from returning to their mother.
Stuck in a sticky flytrap. Frozen in a block of ice. Doomcrolling trough his past. This surreal mixed media short film follows its pitiful protagonist as he finds his way out.
Bimbo rules the world ! Such is the starting point of this epic, in which we follow a self-proclaimed “ditzy blonde.” Nelly Dansen performs to the rhythm of Iggy Azalea, highlighting how the reappropriation of stigma can serve as a way to rise toward new horizons. A quirky, crazy, but refreshing film, which maintains a staunchly feminist stance. There is no doubt that many will laugh (or cry). This documentary leaves a lasting impression, as both its form and content are deeply moving. So let yourself be swept away and follow Nelly: she will probably awaken that Bimbo buried deep inside you!
Horror short by Erik Zijlstra.
Short film by Bart van Dekken based on the life of Jeffrey Dahmer
Lieve (16) usually spends her days at the city skatepark. Here she pushes the boundaries of growing up alongside her best friends, with whom she shares cigarettes with as well as stories about dating cute boys. Secretly, she hopes to run into Jonas here, a skateboarder she slept with for the first time. Lieve feels a lot of love for Jonas and she can't wait to pursue a lovingly relationship with the skateboarder. However, once Jonas has arrived at the skatepark, he is keeping his distance from Lieve. Step by step, Lieve is starting to realize how the experience with Jonas isn't as right as she once believed. Did he actually care for her and her boundaries? As the truth gradually sinks in, she decides to make a new decision - to prioritize self love.
“If you will it, it is no dream,” wrote Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902 as he dreamed of creating a utopian state for the Jews. One hundred years later, some of the most vocal critics of Israel’s occupation policies are Israelis themselves – a minority of intellectuals, political activists, and artists whose voices are not often heard beyond the borders of Israel.
This examines the human condition through the lens of war, suffering, and death in the Middle East. Inspired by my dreams and personal experiences as a Syrian refugee. The film raises existential questions about life, death, and the search for meaning.
Every day, Russian soldiers perish in the war in Ukraine – a war that has not officially been declared. Their bodies are secretly returned to Russia under the code name ‘cargo 200’. Instead of a hero’s funeral, an anonymous grave awaits them. The battlefield of the undeclared war in Ukraine takes its daily toll of casualties. Who are those conscripts, mercenaries and officers that take up arms for Russia in Ukraine? Why are they willing to put their lives at stake? Reporters who write about them being buried secretly are threatened and molested, and the name signs on the military graves have been replaced by numbers. The families of survivors are subject to intimidation by the secret service and dare not speak out.
After the previous documentaries 'Kees vliegt uit' and 'Het beste voor Kees', Videoland is making another documentary about Kees Momma (59). In 'Kees really flies out', viewers will see him spread his wings from June 11.
When her relationship flounders, a young woman returns to the village where she was born, on an island in Zeeland. She had hoped that getting into a regular habit, having coffee and tea with her aunt, would bring her some peace – but pretty soon she’s had enough of the stultifying atmosphere. The village of Zonnemaire is no longer how she remembers it. Sinke shot this film in the village where she herself grew up. The unaffected acting and attention to detail with which the day-to-day activities of Rina's uncle and aunt are depicted give the film an almost documentary feel.
Short horror film.
As a viral video challenge encourages people to interview the places in their lives, HTTTP questions what kind of stories places could hold, and what gives them the title of place to begin with.
A town. No Venice, Paris or Amsterdam. An ordinary town. The eight town of the Netherlands. For approximately 154.000 inhabitants a daily, inescapable environment. By the inhabitants ironically called “the most beautiful town of the country”. In not a distant past known as “the woolen town”, its contours marked by dozens of smoking factory chimneys and the spires of church-towers.
Gaze Is a Bridge raises many questions and, in the manner of Katarina Zdjelar’s previous works, this work questions personal and collective positions, questions autobiographies and their meanings, and questions the gaze and what it is.
When Joanna discovers that her car has been taken to the pound, she panics. In a frenzied race against time, Joanna is surprisingly willing to do anything to get her car back.
Little Red Riding Hood: the whole story in 1m 30sec.
An insomniac ponders her condition during a night walk.
A tale of courage and hope.
Sergei Ovsiannikov (1952 - 2018) migrated from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands in search for freedom. While living in Amsterdam he become a priest for a Russian congregation and is still remembered as an empathic person by all who visited the church. For his children however, he is a more complicated figure, as they also remember him as a punishing, demanding father who burdened them with fear instead of freedom.
How would you feel if you were condemned to endless, never-ending repetition? The film follows a black tourist van while a dark form crosses the forest by night. Reflected in the headlights, the trees pass quickly, like a mirror.
A compilation of color-tinted footage from various parts of the world. Sweden, Cambodia, and possibly other locations.
A poetic blend of fiction and found footage from the 1960s and 1970s. Two girls grow up along a European border. Slowly, they are driven apart and experience what it means to be separated by borders.
Documentary on Mark Slats voyage on a sailboat competing in the Gloden Globe Ocean Race
Daily life unfolds in a gated community of Manila amidst birdsong, effigies of the Holy Family, lush greenery and the intricacies of class. Rafael Manuel's (co-director alongside Tatjana Fanny) intimate gaze on his own childhood home oscillates between personal and political, offering a tender yet piercing view into social and familial structures in the Philippines.
Experimental animated film inspired by Chalcolithic cruciform figurines found in Lemba. Archeologists there found statues of deity or fertility depicting male and female body-parts, meant to be either joined or separated. This film is a geometrical interpretation of the parts.
A short film about the director's expectations of being gay. Why do so many people focus on the sex between two men? When you come out of the closet, do you have to have a lot of sex with a lot of men or is there still a possibility for a cozy life?
The Sensitive Plate consists of 1250 filmed black-and-white photo portraits made between 1913-1969 by the Amsterdam photo studio Merkelbach, ran by father and daughter Jakobus and Mies Merkelbach. The sequence of faces is interrupted only by the year in which the photos were taken. In this chronology, each year consists of one minute of film time. Each photo is displayed for two seconds; 57 years are displayed in 57 minutes.
The many hues of Mexico's colour-dominated streetscape create a motley, almost abstract backdrop against which everyday life takes place.
Plagued by his many fixations and obsessions with, among other things, the weather and sounds, 32-year-old Kees Momma tries to get through everyday life. Unexpectedly high temperatures for the time of year, doors that slam too loudly, a runny nose that is picked up loudly; these are annoyances that make the life of autistic Kees unbearable. It is thanks to his mother, who supports him unconditionally, that Kees survives in the outside world, which is so threatening to him. Subject to a strict daily rhythm, he makes long journeys every day in the autumn season as a passenger of his own model train.
Demonstration of the reliability of the Schuttevaer, which took place in a Rotterdam shipyard in the presence of a group of well-dressed gentlemen.
