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- In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
- Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
- Road-movie shot in Riga and Holland about a man in search of another mother for his child. The Latvian Elvis (10) has fallen silent since the tragic death of his mother. He has been stuck in a decrepit children's hospital in Riga for two years with no prospects of recovery. The boy's father can no longer bear to see his son suffer and flees with him the terrible conditions in his country. In the hope of a better future for Elvis he goes to wealthy Holland in search of the woman who was his pen friend in his youth.
- Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
- A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only plagued by her physical decay, but also by visions of her dead sister Marleen.
- Successful violinist Sacha arrives in Amsterdam, gets mugged, and then meets Caspar and Maarten, two friends who deliberately live outside society.
- De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he never dared during his entire life. Jan, as an outsider, is some sort of spectator of the life in the village, although he is also involved in that life.
- Two half-brothers get to know each other while sailing up a river in an inhospitable region in search of the place where their father was found dead.
- How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?
- When Shay, a young Australian girl, loses her mother, she and her father Koen leave for his home country Belgium. There, Shay finds herself struggling with the new environment and the loss of her mother.
- During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002, Leo Hannewijk (festival director Film by the Sea) approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to make short films based on poems about the province of Zeeland. It would offer an opportunity to investigate the limits of the medium film and, just like poetry, not to focus on the story but to tackle universal and grander themes through mood and form. In the end, eight short films were realized, by eight different filmmakers. The films are connected by intermezzi, aerial shots of the Zeeland coasts. Poems of the Sea is a stirring and surprising portrayal of Zeeland. Filled with desires and passion.
- Hammada walks away from home after an argument with his father. Will a special encounter at the river show him the way back?
- Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude you?
- Inspired by an old gramophone record, Jan Bosdriesz went looking for the Russian/Romanian singer Pyotr Leshchenko (1908-1954), but discovered his own family history.
- Discusses how the Soviet Union invited prominent architects from western Europe to design the large industrial cities that were needed to house workers for the new coal and iron mines of the steppes.
- A portrait of filmmaker, producer and teacher Rolf Orthel.
- A film about Leonie Brandt, an actress who used her talent to become a brilliant double agent, living a life shrouded in intrigues and mysteries.
- A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning encounter mysterious deer-men who change their existence.
- A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.
- When Jeroen van Velzen lived in Kenia as a child he was very susceptible to the stories told to him by an old fisherman. As Jeroen got older, his belief supernatural powers disappeared, but a part of him still longed for that open, unprejudiced way in which he looked at life and for the magic that filled everything with colour. That is why he wanted to return to the country where he grew up. On the coral island Wasini he met Masoud, and his steady helper Juma. Masoud is an old fisherman who still hopes of catching a large shark. How long Masoud also remains without a catch, every day he sincerely believes that tomorrow he will catch a shark. Jeroen would like to tell the story of Masoud in five days. Through this, stories of the past, told by three old people, are woven into the film. On their last day together Masoud shows him the sacred island Mpunguti, the place where his ancestors are buried. There Jeroen realises that the magic of this world rests in the simplicity of it. Wherein Masoud, like generations before him, hunts the impossible in perfect serenity and with confidence in his own abilities.
- A traffic jam like a polonaise of cars: nobody can escape. A cynical record plugger, two sisters, a quarreling couple and an illegal man from Poland are confronted with each other and with themselves.
- The idealistic intentions with which the Kola peninsula has been explored since the beginning of the Russian revolution have left deep traces in the landscape and in the minds of people.
- Struggling to survive in Europe since the age of nine, Zimbabwean OG seeks a balance in her life. Director Carina Molier -her long distance friend- follows her in her quest for reunification with her daughter. The film is about longing for security in an ever globalising world.
- Developments around the second marriage of Agha Mohammed, a man from the village of Kowri in Afghanistan during the times of the Russian War (1979-1989), show the changes surrounding dowry.
- In PASSERS-BY, you become participant of fragments of conversations in a variety of bus shelters in the deserted landscape of the Dutch province of Zeeland.
- Director Kees Hin is searching on the beach of Domburg for people who want to read the poem SEA by the poet J.C. van Schagen. So, everybody strolling by the sea become their own poet and the poet J.C. van Schagen strolls along with them.
- In this short film buildings and other remnants of our industrial past are said farewell to in a poetic manner.
- On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.
- Afghan refugees are followed from May to July 1989 in a camp in the neighbourhood of Peshawar (Pakistan) and on their return to Afghanistan.
- An allegorical love story, a modern parable about the blind leading the blind.
- A fantasy about saying farewell to a memory, based on the poem Domburg by Theo Raats.
- One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about each other come to the foreground.
- The poem Do we settle for Breskens by Kees Ouwens evokes a variety of nostalgic feelings for Ate de Jong. His teenage daughter Lois however reacts in a very different way.
- Along endless stairs in an immeasurable building a birdlike figure seeks contact with it's kind.