Films

Flophouse America

A 12-year-old boy defies his parents' alcohol abuse and finds glimmers of hope in an unexpected tragedy, in a heartbreaking film from the desperate flip side of America.

Monica Strømdahl / Norway, Netherlands & United States / 2025 / World Premiere

Holy Electricity

Fiction and social realism merge in an imaginative film from Georgia, where a young man and his uncle come up with a bright idea: they are going to get rich selling neon crosses.

Tato Kotetishvili / Georgia & Netherlands / 2024

Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship

Eight directors from Turkey reflect on (auto)censorship and possible counter-strategies in a video work that looks at prison graffiti, desktop collages, surveillance cameras and the art of cruising.

Firat Yucel, Erhan Örs, Sibil Çekmen, Serra Akcan, Nadir Sönmez, Hakan Bozyurt, Can Memiş & belit sağ / Netherlands & Türkiye / 2024

Tata

The roles are reversed in a brave and unusual film about a courageous filmmaker's willingness to confront her father with the violence and trauma of the past.

Lina Vdovii & Radu Ciorniciuc / Romania, Germany & Netherlands / 2024

The Lions By The River Tigris

Cultural heritage is the invisible casualty of any war. ISIS left Mosul in ruins after liberation. Today, a fisherman, a musician and a collector struggle to preserve what remains of the city's soul.

Zaradasht Ahmed / Norway & Netherlands / 2025 / World Premiere

To a Land Unknown

Two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens dream of Northern Europe. By day they hustle to survive, by night they disappear into drugs and poetry. Mahdi Fleifel's Cannes hit is a feature film rooted deep in reality.

Mahdi Fleifel / United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024

Where Dragons Live

One last summer in an enchanted family home in Oxfordshire for four adult siblings before their childhood home is sold. A charming, arch-British upper-class family story with a dash of dragon's blood and a bit of fairytale magic.

Suzanne Raes / Netherlands & United Kingdom / 2024

Writing Hawa

Three generations of Afghan women dream of freedom and change. A daughter's cinematic and personal letter to her mother takes a tragic turn when the Taliban returns.

Najiba Noori & Rasul Noori / France, Netherlands, Qatar & Afghanistan / 2024

Youth (Hard Times)

Times are hard for the young workers in China's textile factories, struggling with and against each other for a better future. The second installment in Wang Bing’s ‘Youth’ trilogi.

Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024

Youth (Homecoming)

The workers are leaving the factory to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Wang Bing's panoramic film about the dreams and dramas of young workers in the country's textile factories.

Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024