Landscape painting with creative pixel glitches. José Miguel Biscaya explores a nature scene with the camera and rediscovers it through manipulated MPEG algorithms and deliberate encoding errors.
Lizzy has some very special pets. Alba the striped owl is her favourite among the four birds of prey and occasionally gets to ride on the handlebars of Lizzy’s bicycle.
Kasper has taken in a young blackbird and nursed it until it was able to fly.
Geertje knows how to box and occasionally teaches boys who make trouble a lesson.
Victor has discovered that he can watch a squirrel from his window.
The photographer Issa Touma can’t leave is flat in Aleppo – there’s a fierce battle raging on his doorstep: Assad’s army against the insurgents, and then the IS enters the fray.
Student elections in rural Kenya. What do the candidates stand for? Who cares? It’s about prestige, and “little somethings” they distribute to the electorate. A basic course in democracy.
A Dutch woman goes through the initiation rites of young women preparing for marriage in Zambia. Sensual lessons in happiness and good sex, reflections on womanhood.
Dark thoughts lie over this film like fog over a city. You can’t look through them, you can’t touch them. Suicide and the life that led up to it, the grief that follows and the suicide note read aloud
Young female artists in Cairo, treading a fine line between self-determination and tradition. A political poem with art objects and performances in oscillating images.
Whenever Ben spots a cute girl, his nose starts to stickle. This ends in a big sneeze – every time! Ben is ashamed and feels lonely … until that day he notices a cute girl sneezing louder than he has ever heard before.
South African fishermen struggling to survive in the face of an official ban on fishing. Black fishing, drugs, family dramas, a love that falls apart, and always the sea.
When all Jews have returned to Israel the Messiah will come again. At least that’s what the Dutch missionary in Ukraine, Koen, believes. Christian fundamentalism as a whacky psycho trip.
“Eat or be eaten”, people would have said in the past. Today we have a different, wider perspective on nature ...
Legends from a ghost town, in conflict with the documentary concept.
