

Director Yuanzheng Feng
Production Beijing People’s Art Theatre
Composer Xiangming Niu, Jamie Alpherts

Max is organizing the house party of the year with his best friends, determined to have an unforgettable night filled with drinks, drugs, and picking up women. But when the perfect match, Romee appears, Max faces a dilemma: does he continue with superficial flings, or does he pursue this new genuine connection?
Director Gora Mboup
Producer Yunus M. Benli, Staas Nelis, Merel van Beek
Composer Jamie Alpherts

This documentary has been selected as part of Makers of Tomorrow, the platform for debuting documentary talent of npodoc.nl.
Against the backdrop of the parliamentary elections, residents of the small Overijssel village of Mariënheem are concerned about a national highway that has literally and figuratively split their village in two for decades.
Director Ollie Launspach
Producer Swaantje Kooijmans, Isa Sluis
Composer Jamie Alpherts

In the middle of the wild meadows, where everyone wants to be a living or dead legend, lives Jan. A passionate musician whom no one wants to listen to because of his tame songs. Until a notorious bounty hunter walks into the brown pub and takes Jan along on the adventure of his life.
Director Floris van Doorn
Producer Nova Nagel, Kes Raven, Lot Regoor
Composer Xiangming Niu
Fiction, 23′

This film was made with support by BNNVARA.
When recent graduate Nora moves in with her boyfriend, she quickly realizes that his house will never be her home. Their plans for the future feel like a straitjacket that doesn’t fit her. In an attempt to find her own path, she decides to explore sex work.
Director Rosa Lackroy
Producer Kayleigh Kok, Nina-Sophia de Laat, Isa Sluis
Composer Xiangming Niu

The 75-year-old Cor spends his days perfecting his front garden. His daily routine is disturbed when Theo moves into the dilapidated house across the street. Theo decides to spruce up his own front yard, literally making the grass greener on the other side of the fence. In this film, this sparks a fierce competition for the nicest garden, while passers-by put their oars in. But of course this story has a moral.
Director Daphne Severeijns
Producer Isabelle Bakker
Composer Jamie Alpherts
In 2020, Sanyi, the rooster, escapes from the market square in the Hungarian city of Békéscsaba. For four years, he lives like a kingin the town square, cherished by the residents, a symbol of hope. Sanyi unites the community until his mysterious death breaks the bond and makes way for suspicion and polarization.
Director Lotte Salomons
Producer Raphael Hogers, Nova Nagel, Kes Raven
Composer Jamie Alpherts
This film was created in collaboration with BNNVARA.
In “Kiss Kiss, Bang, Bang,” a love portrait of home videos, photos, diaries, audio recordings, and interviews, director Ollie Launspach explores the impact of his transition on his girlfriend Sterre Mulder. As he tries to understand her emotional world, the chaos in his own mind slowly unfolds.
Director Ollie Launspach
Producer Swaantje Kooijmans, Isa Sluis
Composer Xiangming Niu

In a dark, apocalyptic world where every falling star brings Earth one step closer to total eclipse, a lone inventor desperately works on a machine that can send the stars back into space. When the last star crashes to Earth, the inventor manages to fit it into his finished machine just in time. All seems well until the machine suddenly explodes. The star goes out, and all hope seems lost.
Director Jeroen van Duyvenbode, Joey van Eykel
Producer Yunus M. Benli, Rik Kornmann
Composer Xiangming Niu

When eleven-year-old Billie learns a secret quality inspector is staying at her mom’s hotel, she turns into a detective, hoping to catch him and win back her mother’s attention.
Director Julia van Braak
Producer Staas Nelis, Kes Raven
Composer Jamie Alpherts