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 & Ten Thousand Images (NOR) Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas | development co-production Tenk TV Frode Sobstad | with  this film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund

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

The Desert of the Real

The Desert of the Real is a documentary about psychosis, fiction and perception. How do we know we are not in a dream – or a nightmare – but in the waking world?

108 mins | colour | 2.39:1 | 5.1 surround

script | director | editor Luuk Bouwman | research Luuk Bouwman & Linde van Schuppen | production managers Gwen Pol & Edgar Kapp | director of photography Jan Pieter Tuinstra | set sound Jillis Schriel | VFX Jos Wabeke, Praba Anandasundaram, Dionne Dol, Sem Driessen, Pien den Hollander, Koen Jager, Sierd Reinstra & Hugo Zijtveld | 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 | editors-in-chief EOdocs Margit Balogh & Hans van der Linden | editors EOdocs Judith Vreriks & Yke van Dok

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

We, the clean

A poetic documentary about cleaning in an indifferent universe.

script & director Joep de Boer | development by Boondocs Jasper Boon | this film is supported by the CoBO-fund and the Netherlands Film Fund | in co-production with AVROTROS  Jessica Raspe (commissioning editor) & Syrine Krabman (editor) 

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)

My brother

After 40 years, can I bridge the distance between me and my brother who died of AIDS?

script & director Koert Davidse | director of photography Ton Peters | sound recordists Kees de Groot & Pepijn Aben | editor Luce van de Weg | art director Yana Engelbrecht | music Berend Dubbe | VFX FLOW | colorist & deliveries Laurent Fluttert | development script Jolein Laarmans | script coaching Hester Overmars | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the context of the OASE programme, Netherlands Film Fund Film Production Incentive & NPO-fund | commissioning editor KRO-NCRV Jelle Peter de Ruiter & Michiel Brongers | producer KRO-NCRV Yolande van der Blij & Zelda Nieuwenhuis

selected for premiere @ Film by the sea 2025

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

Fu-Lab, stats from the gut

development only

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