No.7 Cherry Lane

Turbulent 1960s Hong Kong, a love triangle, and an ode to the city and cinema in this nostalgic animation.

We had a 10-year wait for this film by legendary Hong Kong director Yonfan, and it was also his first animation. In the politically restless Hong Kong of the 1960s, a love triangle develops between student Ziming, 18-year-old Meiling and her mother. An ode to the city and cinema in nostalgic tones.

Chaco

1934. Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Led by a mercenary German general, native soldiers push ever deeper into the hostile Chaco region.

Drama set in 1934. Bolivian soldiers, led by a German commander, wander the inhospitable Chaco plain. The mismatched regiment has been searching for the Paraguayan enemies for ages, but they seem unfindable. Their mission becomes more fruitless by the day, particularly when thirst, hunger, dissent and exhaustion gain the upper hand.

A Girl Missing

Calm drama. Madness and vengeance take possession of nurse Ichiko after her nephew is suspected of a kidnapping.

In this calm, stylised revenge drama by Fukada Koji (Harmonium), nurse Ichiko feels the ground slipping away beneath her when her nephew is suspected of the kidnap of a good friend. Driven by madness and desire, it turns out that Ichiko herself also has a dark side.

All This Victory

When Israel invades Lebanon, five people take refuge from the violence in a house. Israeli soldiers take up positions on the floor above.

Minimalistic – and all the more effective for it – impression of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006. In the ruins of Southern Lebanon, five villagers hide from the fighting – and from the Israeli soldiers holed up on the floor above them. Incredibly claustrophobic award-winner in Venice.

El cazador

Compact drama about a 15-year old boy who receives a video of him having sex with another boy.

15-year old homosexual Ezéquiel’s sexual awakening rapidly lands him in a moral dilemma. Compact, conspicuously subdued drama by Argentinian director Marco Berger, who won the Berlin festival's Teddy Award for Ausente in 2011.

Saint Maud

Nurse Maud masks trauma with devotion, setting out in this slow-burning horror to save her patient's soul.

Young nurse Maud not only takes care of the bodily ills of her incurable patient, former dancer Amanda, but also sets out to save her soul. In this slow-burn horror, it gradually transpires that Maud's devotion is a fragile mask for her own traumas.

Eden

Can love save Éva from a world that is making her sick, or will she have to stay in her sterile apartment forever?

Éva lives cut off from the outside world in her sterile blue apartment. She's allergic to just about everything. Are her allergies caused by a polluting multinational corporation, or is she so sensitive and vulnerable she's making herself ill? A science fiction love story that explores the ambiguity of the modern world.

Passenger

After Munk died while shooting Pasażerka, Lesiewicz completed the film using stills. Would this axiom of concentration camp cinema be as epochal if finished properly?

After Andrzej Munk died in a car accident during the shooting of Pasażerka, Witold Lesiewicz completed the film using mainly production stills for the missing scenes. Could this axiom of concentration camp cinema have been as epochal and axiomatic if it didn’t feel so fragmentary – as unfinished as the history it brings alive?

G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children

This ritual space invites you to explore metaphysical transcendence, spirituality and self-expression and use the space for their own rituals and traditions.

As an extension of their short film AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF, The Ummah Chroma provides a sacred space at Het Nieuwe Instituut entitled G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children. The ritual space invites visitors to explore themes of meta-physical transcendence, spirituality, and self-expression.