Nederlands Filmfestival

'Don't sleep too long; never spend the night on the street; shower daily; don't get attached and stick around; don't beg for money; and never, ever give up.' By these rules, the homeless Maye strives for a free and adventurous life, free from the expectations of her traditional Chinese parents. In her quest for adventure she finds herself in a whirlwind of hard partying, fleeting loves and irreversible choices.

A Parked Life is an intimate portrait of Petar Doychev, one of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European truck drivers who work in the west.

Una ventenne lesbica laureata ad Amsterdam si prepara a partire per Montreal, nel frattempo navigando nella sua vita sociale e nella carriera di scrittrice.

Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships.

On the border of Turkey and Iran, 19-year-old twins Zahra and Fatimah from Afghanistan lose their family. To survive in a hostile world of smugglers and drug dealers, they face choices and dilemmas that severely test their symbiotic relationship and conscience.

One summer morning Sven experiences something odd--cold shower, no lights and a leaky fridge. Also, no power and Sven has invited his friends over to watch a soccer match. Sven decides to look for alternative solutions himself.

After its former president Dési Bouterse is convicted for murder, the people of Suriname remain bitterly divided. Opponents and supporters of the ex-president are unable to put the country's turbulent history behind them. Ananta Khemradj (32) wants to know what it takes to reunite the Surinamese people.

Bezorgd (At a Glance) is about a quest for connection by people from various social backgrounds, who are challenged to shake off their prejudices. For pizza delivery guy Izem and his customers, this is not without risk.

Robertico and the FC Kip squad are ready for some new and even more hilarious adventures.

A rapper finds himself being the centerpiece of an online backlash after sharing his honest but controversial opinion.

Un pilota di caccia viaggia indietro nel tempo per salvare il mondo futuro da un disastro ambientale, ma un effetto collaterale la rende giovane e nessuno la prende sul serio.

Anna travels to Spain to find out how her mother was at her age while she was a propper in one of the biggest clubs in Lloret.

When a long and destructive period of wild night life comes to an end, Terrance is left with an uneasy silence. Together, him and his girlfriend Sanne embark on a journey in their motorhome to the south of France to visit an old friend, only to be confronted by the reality of a changing world.

Unemployed Jacob moves in with his elderly mother at the start of the corona lockdown. He falls under the influence of an internet conspiracy-theorist and goes slowly insane.

Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.

Franck, un regista di video musicali, s'infiltra in un quartiere violento nel Sud della Francia per filmare Tony, il carismatico ma imprevedibile leader di una gang coinvolta nel narcotraffico che vuole sfondare sulla scena rap.

Diaphony is a short animated documentary following three people who share their experiences of the pandemic. Each handles this difficult time in their own way, but it turns out that they share the same way of finding comfort through music.

After the sudden disappearance of their superior, three young soldiers are left to guard a military vehicle by themselves. As their situation and the scorching desert heat renders them increasingly disconnected from reality, an encounter with a local boy escalates into a fight that will mark their lives forever.

Rhena's father tells a story about Atlas, a forest entity that whispers stories of the dead to its trees. That same night he disappears into this forest. Rhena does everything she can to get her father back.

Six individuals are asked what they imagine would be on an undeveloped super8 cartridge of unknown origin. Preoccupations with perception and being perceived, the infinite, that which does not exist (yet), and the limitations of visualizing imagination.

Elisabetta is a poetic documentary about identity, or rather about the lack of an identity and its impact on the life of the maker. Not only does the filmmaker not have her own birth certificates, but someone else is using them.

When the birth of his first child is approaching, student Dennis (21) moves back in with his mother in his hometown. Due to an aggressive episode, Dennis is no longer allowed to see his highly pregnant ex- girlfriend. Unprocessed emotions and questions about the death of his Nigerian father Adé start haunting him. Even more so when he spiritually seeks the confrontation with his unborn child through a voodoo spell.

Racconta la storia di Richie e del suo percorso per diventare il più grande artista rap dei Paesi Bassi. Una sera è vittima di una rapina violenta e perde il suo oggetto più prezioso: un orologio di valore.

As the second-born child during the Chinese one-child policy, director Louis Hothothot was illegal for a while. In his film Four Journeys the Chinese-Dutch filmer exposes family traumas by going back to China and interviewing his parents and his sister. A painful history of Mao's China.

Una giovane donna e il suo estraneo padre lottano per sopravvivere bloccati su un versante di montagna durante una tempesta di neve.