FICTION

Turkish-Dutch girl Yildiz searches in faith for a reason for herself and her manic-destructive mother to continue living. In her search for the right to exist, she flees into her fantasy.

Director: Ayla Çekin Satijn
Screenplay: Ayla Çekin Satijn
Co-production: TBD
Fund: Netherlands Film Fund, Limburg Film Fund, Kattendijke/Drucker Foundation
Length: 15 minutes
Expected release date: 2024
Status: in production

FICTION

When Lot goes blind in a fireworks accident, her world comes to an abrupt halt. Her plans to travel, study, dive and live together with her boyfriend Casper seem to fall apart. Lot fiercely resists her new helplessness and tries to escape her painful reality by dreaming as much as possible. In her dreams, she is free and can see again. Only when she accepts her new reality does she begin to get a grip on her life again.

Director: Mercedes Stalenhoef
Screenplay: Britt Snel & Mercedes Stalenhoef
Co-production: NTR
Fund: Netherlands Film Fund, CoBO, NPO Fund
Distribution: September Film
Length: 95 minutes
Expected release date: 2024
Status: in post-production

DOCUMENTARY

A film about a priest who wants to conquer his “inner sniper”.

Director: Nataliya Golofastova
Screenplay:  Nataliya Golofastova
Co-production: Multimediale Stichting Aard
Fund: Netherlands Film Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Amarte Fund, Kattendijke/Drucker Foundation, Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fund
Length: 80 minutes
Expected release date: TBD
Status: in post-production

DOCUMENTARY

Nice Ladies is a documentary about a group of elderly cheerleaders from Kharkiv, Ukraine called Nice Ladies. Despite self-doubt, unrealistic beauty standards and being considered old or ‘expired’, they collectively claim the spotlight. For these women cheerleading is a sport, a community and a gateway to a fulfilling life. On February 24, 2022, the brutal Russian invasion disrupts their lives and their training for the European Cheerleading Championship. 62-year-old Sveta, one of the key figures of the team, flees to Amsterdam: she has to save her 2-year-old grandson. While she is trying to remain in contact with her beloved friends who stayed in Kharkiv, she becomes more and more absorbed in the role of grandmother. However, Sveta is not ready to give up and continues her training. Wil the Nice Ladies be able to reunite, succeed to preserve unity and find a common language despite the scars of war?

Director: Mariia Ponomarova
Co-production: TABOR production, HUMAN, MDR
Fund: Netherlands Film Fund, Amarte Foundation
Distribution: Cinema Delicatessen
Length: 90 / 52 minutes
Expected release date: end of 2023 / beginning of 2024
Status: in post-production

Selected for the Ex Oriente Film training program, DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market and the dok.incubator workshop 2023.

DOCUMENTARY

In their new car, bought in Belgium, Angie (33) and her father Mansour (73) undertake the same journey he made 42 years ago from Brussels to Beirut. Yet the route is no longer the same, nor is their relationship.

Director: Angie Obeid
Co-production: Savage Film
Fund: VAF, Netherlands Film Fund, Al Jazeera, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Doha Film Institute, Creative Europe
Distribution: Cinema Delicatessen
Length: 75 minutes
Expected release date: TBD
Status: in post-production

FICTION

An advertising man sees his carefree existence slip through his fingers when a mysterious newcomer at his office cunningly blackmails him with an affair he simply can’t seem to remember.

Director: Michiel van Jaarsveld
Screenplay: Michiel van Jaarsveld
Fund: Netherlands Film Fund
Length: 100 minutes
Expected release date: TBD
Status: in development

FICTION

On an Israeli kibbutz in 1977, young naive Dutchman Roman falls in love with the married Noah. Amid rising personal and political tensions on the kibbutz, their love soon proves doomed. When they meet again many years later and Roman has a particular request for Noah, it becomes clear how much they still love each other.

Director: Tom Bakker
Screenplay: Tom Bakker
Length: 90 minutes
Expected release date: TBD
Status: in development

DOCUMENTARY

Queens of their own South African desert, a queer performance ensemble go on a road trip to help shine a light on the extreme violence suffered by our LGBTI community.

Director: Andrew Brukman
Co-production: Spier Films, Caspian Films
Distribution: Gusto Entertainment
Length: 90 minutes
Expected release date: TBD
Status: in development