Before container ships leave port, lashers secure the containers using heavy metal bars. They are the last port workers to do such dangerous jobs. In an equally physical cinematic style, each body tells its own story: from grieving for a colleague who died on the job to just keeping going.
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So Loud the Sky Can Hear Us
A group of Feyenoord supporters unfold a hidden world of faith, love, compassion, and vulnerability. -
Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes.Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former residents. -
The Battle of Empty Stomachs
A poetic tribute to the resistance of Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers. -
Bubbling Baby
A celebration of a heritage often overlooked, Bubbling dance culture is reframed and reclaimed.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2021
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 21'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
