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- Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.
- Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
- Three young pets set out to find Saint Nicolas to hand over their wish list with presents.
- Holland's most popular children's characters Woozle and Pip, set out on a fantastic new adventure in their first feature length film. A journey full of friendship, adventure and happiness.
- When a man is robbed and stabbed by a junkie, he sees the youth friendship with the perpetrator flashing before his eyes. We see how two bosom friends who grew apart end up in their respective positions.
- When father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems attached to the house. When an unfortunate alteration in life takes place, Richard is forced to stand on his own feet.
- In this modern version of an ancient Russian folk tale, a humble bun runs away from its makers to avoid being eaten. The little round loaf tumbles through the hands of a host of hungry characters in the modern Russian urban jungle. Seen through his freshly-baked eyes, the artefacts of the Soviet empire loom large as we are plunged into a maelstrom of comic references to Russian life and culture, in which archaic film and folk customs survive among the mechanical guts of a modern city.
- A very infertile husband is so desperate to have a baby that he actually treats the liposuction fat from his wife as his baby. Strangely enough this all does lead to a cure! Only in Joost Lieuwma's universe this is not just possible, but even logical.
- A humoristic turbo drama. Floyd, after being dumped by his girlfriend, suffers from psychological problems manifested as a little demon who disrupts his everyday life. Floyd has to go through great depths before he can continue his life.
- Burning in the desert sun, Eduardo - a lemonade seller - is fighting the urge to drink his last and final bottle of refreshing lemonade. When a thirsty client comes crawling to his stand, Eduardo comes into conflict with his own moral code.
- A white horse and his cowboy are riding into an old Western Towm in the hot Utah desert. The locals return from a hanging and are looking for more trouble. A shootout seems inevitable, but.... This film is a drawn hommage to the traditional Western and to the horror movie, creating a whole new genre: the drawn horror western parody.
- Filmmaker Nienke Eijsink is on a quest for her childhood idol and first love: Doctor Chris from the Australian TV-series The Flying Doctors, played by actress Liz Burch. Nienke's mission: to pluck Liz Burch from obscurity and give her a starring role in her debut film! This coming-of-age-story deals with the appeal of a character in a TV drama to a young lesbian and the excitement of meeting your childhood idol. But it's also about the pain of growing up, and what happens when fantasy and reality coincide. With animation, blue-screen, archive material and clever editing between Flying Doctors episodes and real life, the film pushes the boundaries of reality and fiction. Fan is a cheerful, poignant and fascinating self-portrait full of self-depreciating humor.
- What do you do when your spaceship crashes on a desolate planet, and there's no mechanic in sight?
- The Dutch 'Wad' (coastal mud flats) is a strange place. At low tide, many square miles of mud flats surface between the mainland and the northern islands. The Netherlands grow and shrink with the movement of the moon. Sudden incoming tide make these flats 'sea' again, sometimes drowning hikers by surprise. The Wad does not know what to make of itself. Land, see, mud, ocean floor... Two characters (and their dog) are stranded there in that desolate place. The only dramatic elements in this comical short are the sea, the wind, the sand and a lonely sea gull. Drawn in mud and tar on wet sandpaper.
- 7-year-old Mia tries to liberate her overworked mother from the clutches of an overpopulated metropolis. In her quest, she unlocks the hidden secrets that make the world turn.
- In the car on her day off Marja has a sudden rush of panic: did she turn off the gas? And did she leave the water running? And lock the window? In her mind her imaginary mistakes grow to absurd proportions.
- A young boy moves to a new neighborhood and falls in love, for the first time, with the much older girl next door.
- Little Quentin tells the story of an oversexed bunny, a murder, a cover up and the discovery of a terrible secret.
- A dangerous intruder gives Pilar the chance to discover the wild animal within and the means to escape the post-apocalyptic village she lives in.
- Inspired by the idea that the Unknown Soldier might be their (great) great grandfather, a group of children from Brussels with different roots fantasizes about the adventures of their ancestors in World War I.
- Can you keep a secret?... This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car. Mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.
- At a sunny flea market, Robin tries to sell her own made-up stories. As she tells one of her stories with increasing confidence to a potential customer, all the main characters come alive and anxiously listen in.
- It is Halloween and three kids go out for 'tricks or treats'. It is a windy night and the only welcoming friendly person in the small town is unfortunately treated to a rather frightening and truly horrific sight.
- In a desolate desert, two desperados prepare for a duel in classic western style under the blazing sun. The stake is a bag with valuable contents. Eyes leer, foreheads are beaded with sweat. Who will be the fastest shooter?
- Manequin puppets are posing as they have always done: perfect, flawless and beautyfull. When a fly intrudes their space, everything falls apart.
- A Direct Film Farewell is an homage to celluloid and direct filmmaking. In the tradition of Len Lye and Norman McLaren, Oerd scratches a universe in which frivolous figures like butterflies float around between lines, drops and chemical reactions. A Direct Film Farewell is an energetic and lively gallery of color and shape explosions driven by a rousing piano recital.
- Everybody once had thoughts about their own death and what it will cause to our loved ones. Jorka portrays the aftermath of the process of loss. After a tragic accident of the protagonist, we see the departed coping with his demise. The stories of the mourners are connected by telephone calls going through the ether. Each individual deals with the loss in their own way. What one says can be very different from one's actual thoughts... But the big question remains; is actial contact between the dead and the ones left behind possible?
- For a vaudeville plate spinner, the older he gets the more plates he must spin.
- Deep Shit is a musical comedy in which two prominent members of the punk rock band 'Brides of Mayhem' use the help of the devil to be successful, but thereby be thwarted by the jealous singer of a rival band. The result of their rivalry is disproportionate: the city where they live, is inundated by a flood.
- An old lady in an invalid car unintentionally sparks a race with two douche-bags in a souped up car. A retelling of the classic fable of the hare and the tortoise, the two boys harass granny on the road, while enjoying themselves at several stops in between. In the end, they get what they had coming. But what effect does all this have on poor old granny?
- An anthropomorphic cat and dog receive an invitation for a romantic rendezvous. When they eventually arrive at their destination after multiple moments of near-interaction the lovers don't turn out to be whom we thought they were.
- Night after night the ambitious Eduardo, assisted by the vertigo-suffering Loet, performs dare devilish stunts in the circus. When the rich mayor visits the show, Eduardo blinded by greed raises the stakes and difficulty of the Salto Mortale to dazzling proportions. Will the nervous Loet be able to hold up to the pressure?
- Jack is leading a happy farmer's life until prices for his farming products suddenly drop and he is caught in a dramatic downward spiral, having to work harder for less money. A salesman and a scientist claim to have a solution.
- Two Mimes fight over the romantic affection of the girl who runs the house of horror. They get caught up in their act so much it comes to an epic battle.
- In this animated short parodying the Greek myth, director Paul Driessen offers a backwards tragicomic version of the classic tale. Oedipus is Driessen at his absurdist best.
- Enter the playful world of the three Tumblies and their pet dog. It is all about fun, play, discovery and fantasy. Let's play with a music box or with a plate as a ramp.
- Artist Rembrandt van Rijn is famous for his portrait paintings, many of which are of his family, friends and of himself. The design of this animation is based on Rembrand's pencil drawings and sketches. One early morning, Rembrandt is having difficulties with painting one of his self-portraits. He loses control over his brushes and the portrait literally takes over his life.
- A giant turtle floats through space and reads its book. He meets Adam and Eve, who take over the book and rip the still empty pages from it. But by doing so they set free all unwritten ideas from which objects begin to grow and fill the world of Adam and Eve. When eventually these objects take over their world, Adam and Eve escape. They will end where they started, meeting a giant turtle who shuts his book. It is a film about technological development and man's control or loss of control over it. It is about man's wish for more, faster, better and newer and about losing control over an ever - and fast changing world filled with ideas, plans and inventions.
- Set in the South Pole, a penguin writes his letter to Santa Claus, but despite his many attempts to have it sent to the North Pole before Christmas arrives, the letter keeps coming back to him. After many tries, he ends up giving up, but his penguin friends prepare a surprise for him. It's Christmas' magic, and Santa even shows up to give him a present.
- In a busy city an old man can no longer catch up. He has his own slow pace, making it impossible for him to connect with anybody. When he meets a little girl it appears he is not completely alone in his isolation from the bustling world.
- When the film 'the phantom of the cinema' breaks, the light behind the screen is turned on and the audience is witness to the struggles of a cinema-owner, the lavatory attendant and the technician. In an attempt to start the screening again they tumble through their chambers behind the screen.
- 3000 BC. A small group of inhabitants of the 'Low Countries' are fighting the elements and hunger. Their impulsiveness and clumsiness leads to the building of the mysterious standing stone buildings of The Netherlands.