Goud

A young gymnast's ultimate dream – gold at the Olympic Games – is jeopardised when he meets with the slightly older physiotherapist Irene.

Young Timo's life is dominated by gymnastics. He is training intensively for the World Championships, aiming ultimately for Olympic gold. But the powerful feelings he develops for his physiotherapist Irene call everything into question – including his complex relationship with his demanding, disabled father.

VHYes

Life seemed so straightforward in the 1980s. A 12-year old's hilarious, bizarre home video provides a different perspective.

Oh, the 1980s! Women in tight aerobics wear and Tel Sell ads for (Truly Fantastic!) ballpoints. A deliciously crazed, retro comedy shot in VHS with a pinch of Blair Witch and ... climate porn? Hilarious fun for everyone with a fruit fly's attention span and nostalgia for fast forwarding.

Adam

In a small Moroccan bakery, widow Abla gradually opens her heart to Samia, an young unmarried pregnant woman she takes into her home.

Reluctantly giving in to the urging of her eight-year-old daughter, widow Abla agrees to temporarily take in young, pregnant, unmarried Samia. Inside the walls of Abla's small apartment and adjoining bakery, a relationship develops between three very different women in this modest, poignant feature debut.

Ailleurs, Partout

Images on our computer screen allow us to cross borders in a single click. For a young migrant, stranded in an English suburb, the perspective is less bright.

Images on our computer screen allow us to cross borders in a single click. For a young migrant, stranded in an English suburb, the perspective is less bright.

Desterro

A young Brazilian mother walks out of her hopeless relationship and disappears. A big bang of a film, from which several films explode in different directions.

The relationship between a young Brazilian couple seems to be heading for the rocks. Some time after she disappears, he is told that her body is in Argentina. What now? An explosive, disturbing fiction debut, which seems to reinvent itself several times on its way to a poignant conclusion.

Little Joe

Has science gone too far in this clinical bio-thriller about mysterious plants that can create permanent happiness?

In this cold-blooded thriller, bio scientist Alice (Emily Beecham) dedicates her life to the invention of a new plant that makes its owners happy. But the prototype, ‘Little Joe’, maybe works too well. The users turn into anaesthetised zombies incapable of feeling any other emotions.

My Morning Laughter

Tied to his mother's apron strings and never had a girlfriend. It's high time 28-year-old Dejan stood on his own two feet.

His father drives him mad, his mother treats him like a child and he's never had a girlfriend. High time for 28-year-old teacher Dejan to fly out of the nest. This happens in fits and starts in this Serbian tragicomedy, in which everything seems to look deliberately unpolished.

Corpus Christi

A young man escaping from a youth detention centre pretends to be a priest in a village wracked by trauma. Oscar nomination.

Oscar-nominated drama about a 20-year-old delinquent sent on work experience, who ends up not in a sawmill but in the village church, where he is mistaken for the new priest. In this brand-new calling, he struggles with a village trauma, his own demons and the fear of being unmasked as a criminal.

Meanwhile on Earth

This remarkably entertaining documentary zooms in on the 'dead moments' in the routine existence of some employees in the Swedish funerary industry.

One man's tragedy is another man's treasure. Or in this case rather a ready-made salad and nutritious smoothie. While the deceased await their final redemption, anonymous workers take charge of their bodily remains. With dignity, but often with an unintentional hint of absurdity as well. 

The Whistlers

A corrupt policeman gets into hot water in this lively, stylish and witty thriller from Romanian maestro Porumboiu.

A Romanian policeman, a factory owner hiding drugs in mattresses, a femme fatale, a beautiful Spanish island and a centuries-old secret language. Romanian maestro Porumboiu blends these together to create an elegant, drily comical thriller in which good and evil conspire side by side.

Drama Girl

Vincent Boy Kars probes how he can fictionalise the life of fellow millennial Leyla – or is he making a documentary about drama?

Can drama help us understand ourselves and the world better? Assisted by experienced actors, including Pierre Bokma and Elsie de Brauw, director Vincent Boy Kars re-enacts scenes from the life of Leyla, a young woman who is subjected to a certain amount of confusion in this intriguing experiment. What is still real, and what is fiction?

Suzanne Daveau

Passionate geographer Suzanne Daveau carried out field research in inhospitable surroundings. Her life’s story is told in stunning photo series and footage.

Rich documentary portrait of a passionate geographer way ahead of her time. Suzanne Daveau (1925, France) undertook field research in the most inhospitable environments: nothing could stop her. Using stunning photo series and footage, she tells the story of her life, in which work and private life became one.

Dreamlife

Do scientists dream of digital mice? Adventurous film about sensory deprivation and bizarre side effects, based on true story of Michel Siffre.

Taking a 1960s scientific experiment as its starting point, this trippy, hypnotic exploration of human sleep allows visual artist Melvin Moti to expand his vocabulary in surprising ways. While staying faithful to his long-time obsessions, he also immerses the viewer in his laboratory, and allows his imagination to run wild.

Bacurau

A furious genre mash-up of Western, horror and sci-fi that projects Brazil’s disturbing reality several years into the future.

When a remote village in the north-east of Brazil suddenly disappears from all maps in this furious genre mash-up, it turns out to presage an invasion by trigger-happy gringos. Using elements from the Western, horror and sci-fi genres, Brazil’s pitiless reality is projected several years into the future. Winner Jury Prize in Cannes.

Babai

The Babai is the night-time bogeyman for children: traumas determine who you are, according to this claustrophobic portrait of two Russian brothers.

Russian brothers Mark and Gesha struggle with their strict father, while their tough youth illustrates how fear and sadness are unavoidable elements of aging. Using claustrophobic close-ups, Russian filmmaker Artem Aisagaliev provides a universal impression of a human existence characterised by trauma.

A Frenchman

A mellow look back at the Soviet Union when it was sizzling, by Brežnev-era cinema star Andrei Smirnov.

In the late 1950s, Pierre Duran travels to Moscow as an exchange student. While falling in love and making friends in the underground scene, he never loses sight of his real aim: to find his long-lost father. A mellow look back at a still sizzling Soviet Union by Brežnev-era cinema epitome Andrej Smirnov.

Fortezza

A remote military garrison has long since lost its defensive function and now serves as a prison. The staff feel no less trapped in the situation.

In every prison, the same dialectic can be found between resignation and hope of redemption. Inside, time does not fly. There is only the opportunity to look inside oneself. Real inmates act out The Tartar Steppe, the classic, existentialist novel by Dino Buzzati.

Ema

Dance and drama combine seamlessly in this audiovisual spectacle in which a foster mother tries to get her adopted child back.

Platinum blonde Ema comes up with a master plan to get her adopted child Polo back. This audiovisual spectacle full of dance shows the smouldering streets of Valparaiso in all their glory and takes us into the (night)life of a group of young adults. With an ambient-reggaeton soundtrack by Nicolas Jaar.

La Fortaleza

In Venezuela – a country creaking on its foundations – a man retreats into the jungle to battle his inner demons.

Stories from his father, who also plays the lead, inspired the filmmaker to make this intense drama. To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, a man retreats into the jungle and meets old friends. But their former happiness is transformed into evil intentions by the lure of gold.

Atlantique

In Dakar, two young lovers have a star-crossed relationship. Fate may bring them together in this beautiful, darkly romantic tale.

In Dakar, two young lovers have a star-crossed relationship. Souleiman is a construction worker who needs to leave the country for a better future, while Ada is the bride-to-be of someone else. Fate may bring bring them together in this beautiful darkly romantic tale, where realism can definitely be magical.

Los fantasmas

By day, Koki is a nice tourist guide in Guatemala City, but at night he lures men to a hotel – where they are relieved of their property.

In dangerous Guatemala City, handsome Koki lures men to a hotel where they are robbed. He accepts this life as a matter of course – until it suddenly disappears. Using the power of authentic locations and situations, the young director delivers a convincing and exciting character study, and one that makes us stop and think.

Un fils

Tunisian parents stand to lose son to a gunshot wound, as neither may donate an organ in this intense family drama.

It is 2011, just after Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution and things are changing, but Fares and Meriem have lost hope. Intense family drama in which their son who has been shot is in danger of dying because they are not permitted to donate their own organs.

Sammy-Gate

In this deranged psychedelic trip, Sammy Davis Jr uncovers a right-wing conspiracy against black activism while working for president Nixon.

A psychedelic, deranged satirical trip into the heart of Nixon’s political darkness. Working for Nixon, celebrity Sammy Davis Jr uncovers a right-wing conspiracy set up by billionaire Howard Hughes, aiming to get the young black inner-city youth addicted to heroin. Why? Make war, not love.

Atlantis

Grim but urgent portrait of a traumatised Ukraine, in a crisis of almost apocalyptic proportions following the war with Russia.

Traumatised Sergey joins volunteers who recover the bodies of fallen soldiers in eastern Ukraine. This brings him into contact with archaeologist Katya, who is literally and metaphorically digging into her past. Atlantis presents a grim but urgent portrait of Ukraine today, and the horrific consequences of the war with Russia.