Malika chases a career in basketball but feels constrained by a lack of financial resources that leads to insecurity about her future.
● Reinout Hellenthal
● 29’
● the Netherlands
Selena (14) plays football as the only girl on a boys' team. Her teammates see her as one of the boys. When a new girl joins the team, the dynamic in the group begins to change. Selena does everything she can to protect her position within the group.
● Catherina Iosifidis
● 12’
● the Netherlands
A fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same faithful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.
● Robert-Jonathan Koeyers
● 15’
● the Netherlands
Camouflage is about the impact of an unsafe home on fourteen-year-old Deniz. The film shows how it affects the relationship with his mother, the interaction with his friends and his behavior at school.
● Bregt Verhagen
● 16’
● the Netherlands
This Is Your Captain Speaking is a short fiction film about ten-year-old Asare. To prevent his music teacher Seydou from being sent out of the country, he tries to adopt him.
● Idriss Nabil
● 24΄
● the Netherlands
You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally. When a newcomer prefers different eating habits, the visible consequences turn the world upside down.
● Chenglin Xie
● 7΄
● USA, China
Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images, this animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life and leaves you gasping for breath.
● Laen Sanches
● 2΄
● France