Frankenstein’s dream

An animated science-fiction world where sex, language and technology are inextricably intertwined. A creation myth for the age of artificial intelligence. Voiceless creatures accept total control as the price for the technology of language. But does the technology have its own purpose? Are humans finally just its host and breeding ground?

script & director Simon Pummell | script coach Margot Knijn | animation & VFX Barend Onneweer | development 3D animation Ryan Cherewaty | motion capture choreography Peeping Tom dance company | choreography Gabriela Carrizo | editing Tim Roza | music Roger Goula | performed by Echo collective | sound design Senjan Jansen | co-produced with Visualantics Steven Dhoedt | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, Flemish Audiovisual Fund & Hot Property

Ziggurat

A dead body is found at the art fair. Commissioner Ziggurat and Lieutenant Le Bon go to investigate.

script & director Pieter Samyn | production design & animation Pieter Samyn | music Ruben de Gheselle | sound design Senjan Jansen | supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund & Netherlands Film Fund | a co-production with S.O.I.L. Brussels Linda Sterckx & Geert van Goethem

Dromodriller

Mister Ø has been working alone for years on a slow boring damp tunnel drilling machine. He passes his time well with his Concorde flight simulator. Until he gets a grain of sand in his eye.

script & directors Serge Onnen & Sverre Fredriksen | technical development & support Zoltan Korai | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of De Korte Verbeelding (Short Imagination) & Creative Industries Fund NL

Nostalgia for the future

A film based on the life and work of director Chris Marker. A documentary essay about memory, history, nostalgia and how images of the past shape our future. The essence of the archive as the fundament of our collective memory itself is being questioned.

script & director Brecht Debackere| editor Beppe Leonetti | sound design Wiebe de Boer | music Rutger Zuydervelt | supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Netherlands Film Fund & Fondo per l’Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia | a co-production with Visualantics (Brussels) Steven Dhoedt | international sales Cat ‘n Docs Catherine Le Clef | film distribution Lightlines Wallie Pollé

ZAAD

ZAAD is the story of a man who gazes blindly at the supposed heredity of his father’s mental illness, without realizing that the most powerful drug against it is within his grasp.

script & director Dries Meddens | director of photography Benito Strangio | sound design Wiebe de Boer | music Maarten Meddens & Arthur Fink | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund & Flemish Audiovisual Fund | distribution Windmill Film Distribution Annemiek van der Hell & Wallie Pollé | a co-production with Associate Directors Mark Daems

Desert of the Real

Intimate conversations with ex-psychotics unravel seeking answers to how much control man has over his own psyche. During the film, the boundary between madness and common sense appear rather cloudy.

script | director | animator Luuk Bouwman | research Luuk Bouwman & Linde van Schuppen | line producers Gwen Pol & Edgar Kapp | design Pien den Hollander | director of photography Jan Pieter Tuinstra | set sound Luuk Bouwman | VFX Jos Wabeke | co-produced with EO | supported by Netherlands Media Fund in the framework of LEF & by CoBO Fund & the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of Teledoc | commissioning editor EOdocs Margit Balogh | editor EOdocs Judith Vreriks

This is your captain speaking

What would you do if you could fly for one day? While local residents answer this question, we fly with them. Along the flight it becomes clear that fantasy is more urgent for some persons than for others.

script, director & animator Nienke Deutz director & animator Digna van der Put supported by the Netherlands Film Fund

Forget All You Know (about aliens)

The 12-year-old black girl Ella is deprived of safety, opportunities, and freedom. Ella discovers that she has lived multiple lives in Ghana, Curaçao and Surinam as the immortal, extraterrestrial Xoxo. In this magical realistic feature with elements of science fiction, a paralleled world is created from where the aliens observe human thoughts and feelings.

script & director Mirella Muroni | script coach Jenny Mijnhijmer | director’s coach Nanouk Leopold | line producer Edgar F. Kapp | production manager Vivianne Jorritsma | director of photography Esther Kool | set sound Henk-Jelle de Groot | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund & Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

with (amongst others): Chloé Bouterse | Julia van de Graaff | Yannick Jozefzoon | Jennifer Muntslag | Layla Oren | Ragnhild Rikkelman | Jonas Smulders | Christine van Stralen | Adanna Unigwe | Hanna van Vliet

selected for Netherlands Film Festival 2025 (in competition)

Breaking Walls

Journalist Hao Yi fights internet censorship and advocates freedom of speech. He hides his homosexuality for his mother, and because of his mother he even married a woman. In a unique style of documentary and animation we follow Hao in his journalistic works and his quest for personal freedom. Can the two be combined?

script & director Jan-Dirk Bouw | script coach Ernie Tee | art director & lead animator Sverre Fredriksen | co-producers Visualantics (BE) Steven Dhoedt & 10.000 images Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas | this film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund