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

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

East of Noon

Dutch feature fiction East of Noon is selected for Cannes’ Quinzaine des Cinéastes | Directors’ Fortnight. The film is written and directed by Hala Elkoussy, and is produced by vriza productions (NL) and seriousFilm (NL), in co-production with Nu’ta Films (EG). East of Noon is supported by De Verbeelding (The Imagination), a co-operation between the Mondriaan Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund, Alwan (EG), Fonds 21, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, and Doha Film Institute.

short synopsis

Set in a confined world outside time, East of Noon is the fable of prodigy ABDO (19) who uses music to rebel against his elders: showman SHAWKY (70), an eccentric showman who rules with a mix of performance and fear, and storyteller JALALA (75), who provides relief with stories of the Sea, which no one else has seen. East of Noon is a satire on the inner workings of an ailing autocracy and its inherent vulnerability to youth’s unchained vision of a better world.

genre black comedy, drama | running time 109’ | original title EAST OF NOON (SHARQ 12) | producers vriza productions (NL) – Lonnie Van Brummelen, seriousFilm (NL) – Marc Thelosen | co-producer Nu’ta Films (EG) – Hala Elkoussy, Abdelsalam Moussa | writer – director Hala Elkoussy | D.O.P. Abdelsalam Moussa | © 2024 | language Arabic | cast Ahmed Kamal, Menha Elbatroui, Omar Rozeik, Fayza Shama

Lunatic

The improvisation animation film tackles urgent earthly issues in a surrealistic and sometimes hilarious way, as seen by a lonely astronaut on the moon.

text, art, direction, camera, animation, edit, vfx, sfx Robin Noorda | astronaut puppet Jeroen Zijlstra 5 A.M. Studios | music Alfred Marseille | technique Paul Godschalk | sound editor Camiel Muiser | re-recording mixer  Jos van Galen | audio post studio Posta | graphic design Margot van de Stolpe | producers Tropism Art & Science Collective & Morphosis | executive producer seriousFilm

NEUTRINO

Deep inside a mountain in Japan, international physicists are researching the so-called ghost particle. On that mountain lives a small village community with its very own view of nature. Neutrino is a poetic-philosophical documentary about the interwovenness of elementary particles, countless gods, picking chestnuts, pixels on a computer screen and the art of making tofu.

script & director Jan van den Berg & Hannie van den Bergh | script & directors coach Tamara Vuurmans | translations & local production Maokoto Sugano | director of photography Claire Pijman | sound recordist Jeffrey Jousan | editor Katarina Türler | music Jacq Palinckx | sound design Wiebe de Boer | grading & delivery Laurent Fluttert | in co-production with KRO-NCRV | commissioning editor Laetitia Schoofs | supported by the NPO-fund, NIKHEF, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts & Physica Foundation

Quoting masterpieces

How close to an artist you admire can you get? In an ultimate effort, I identify to the extreme with the work of Japanese artist Yokoo Tadanori.

script & director Koert Davidse | director of photography Annigje Jansen | research, translations & photography Hiko Uemura | editor Luce van de Weg | sound design Wiebe de Boer | grading & deliveries Laurent Fluttert | supported by the City of Rotterdam | visual arts, VEVAM & IAAF foundation

le Crépuscule

The sun shines down warm and generously on a square full of people soaking up its rays. A state of emergency has been declared. Slowly, the sun sets. What happens when time and space seem to be shrinking?

script & director Laura Vandewynckel | a co-production with Walking the Dog, Brussels | supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund

HOME

The filmmaker examines the public space in front of his house; a small, but also dynamic part of the city, where residents and visitors are looking for space since the 2020 lockdown. How do people move and relate to each other here, to the virus measures and to the place itself?

script, director, camera & editing Marco Niemeijer | music Alex Simu | sound design Selle Sellink & Mark Glynne | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of Lockdown Cinema

Nightlight

Memories of a first love, with the idyllic coasts and forests of southern England as a backdrop, are inextricably linked to the history of a special children’s home that provided shelter for hundreds of Jewish refugees during the Second World War.

script | director Barbara Meter | personal assistant Wim Oudshoorn | directors of photography Guy Sherwin & Ewald Rettich | sound recordist Sam Simons | production Salina Sorgdrager | editor Dorith Vinken | VFX & grading Maaki Nurmeots | sound design Mark Glynne | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts | a co-production with EO | commissioning editor Alfred Edelstein