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July 14, 2024

Dina’s Dabke

In war-torn Gaza, orphaned deaf girl Dina defies skepticism to join a Dabke dance group, guided by choreographer Sami who initially doubts her abilities. As they bond over dance, their resilience is tested when a tragic attack threatens to extinguish their shared dream.

script | director Randa Nassar | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of Cypher Cinema
July 14, 2024

Fu-Lab, stats from the gut

According to Jingyuan Fu, the microbiome in the human body is always in dialogue with the environment, there is constant interaction between the two without a person realizing it.

How did her knowledge come about? How would she characterize the current microbiome? Is there a lot of bacterial stress? And if so, where will this lead in the future?

script | director Katelijne Schrama | with Jingyuan Fu | director of photography Ben Gerearts | set sound Alex Booy | VFX Neda  Gueorguieva | editor Tim Roza | music Gert-Jan Blom | supported by Ammodo Docs Maartje Bakers, Marente Bloemheuvel, India Rose Klap & Oda Barten
October 19, 2023

No man’s air

In 1974, Cyprus was split into a Greek and Turkish part. The border, known as the ‘green line’, is a strip of no man’s land. In it lies the ruins of Nicosia Airport. Pilot Adamos Maneros relives the last flight to this airport. Found footage of the decaying airport, the plane’s wreckage and flight simulations depict his story in VFX.

script | directors Gerco de Ruijter | Peter Delpeut | Gerben Schermer | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
October 19, 2023

Loud Apparitions

In an audiovisual dance of appearing and disappearing, the nineteenth century optical illusion Pepper’s Ghost and the phenomenon of human echolocation come together in an abandoned theatre. Loud Apparitions shows the potential of shifting focus and sensorially conveys how richly we experience the world when we rely more on sound.

script | director Bregje Benecke | script-coach Tim Leyendekker | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
March 1, 2023

Bipolaris

An essay about the difference in which our 2 hemispheres experience the world. These 2 worlds are depicted and interwoven by means of fictional scenes, interviews, documentary images and a soundscape. A portrait of the paradox that seems to dwell in us, which questions the essence of The Enlightenment: that we can predict or replace experiences with our thinking ability.

script | director | Maaike Anne Stevens | script-coach Ingrid van Tol | research & production Erika Roux | director of photography Peter Mann | sound design Stephan Blumenschein | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
December 17, 2022

Funeral march

In a procession, the hunter is carried to his grave by the animals he threatened until recently. When it dawns on them that they have been freed from their oppressor and can master his dogs, their moods change dramatically.

script | director | animator Lucette Braune | music Gustav Mahler | distribution by Kaboom distribution Ursula van den Heuvel | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
December 3, 2022

Desire Lines

Branko obsessively trails his brother through Belgrade, trying to fathom his unusual behavior, but realizes along the way that he himself is the strange one, an observer, an apparition.

Branko keeps walking and leaves the city behind, passing through landscapes and borders on his way to somewhere else: a place where everyone and everything has a story to share.

script & director Dane Komljen | director of photography Ivan Markovic | a co-production with DART FILM & VIDEO Natasa Damjanovic, Marletti Armin Hadzic, Flaneur Films Zsuzanna Kiraly | distribution by Windmill Film Distribution, Megocom Films | supported by the Film Center Serbia, Hubert Bals Fund / Netherlands Film Fund, Media Plus, Megacom, Sarajevo Ministry of Culture & Sports
April 6, 2022

Headless trees

A family in a semi-utopian town, in an undefined country, is torn by war, socio-political instability and superstition. They take refuge in imaginary worlds: they dance to fight ghosts, turn funerals into celebrations and plan a tunnel through the earth, all to counter the trauma of disappearances, possession and death.

produced by near/by film Manon Bovenkerk | script & director Sara Rajaei | director of photography Reinier van Brummelen | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of De Verbeelding (The Imagination) programme | production coaching by seriousFilm
December 11, 2021

Die wrede relaas van Vuilgat en Stilte

An ominous journey through a feverish dreamworld where nothing is forbidden. When they finally opened the cave, on the third day after the stoning, her body was gone.

In a world where nothing is what it seems, true love means the torture never stops.

script & director Aryan Kaganof | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of the Thuthuka programme