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Based on Michel Houellebecq's 1991 essay "To Stay Alive", about struggling artists, the role of the poet, and mental health problems. Featuring marginal artists as well as Houellebecq and Iggy Pop.

A futuristic vision of a world after a catastrophic disaster. In this dark parable mutated limbs are looking for cooperation, but due to miscommunication this mission is doomed to fail.

A search for the identity of the woman whose picture graces the box of a hairdryer from the 1970's.

In 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. Shock Head Soul interleaves documentary interviews, fictional re-construction and CGI animation to portray his story. Daniel Paul Schreber was a successful lawyer who, in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a Writing Down Machine that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next 9 years confined to an asylum: tortured by delusions of cosmic control, suffering the belief that he was shifting gender and that his body was subjected to cruel 'miracles'. Schreber believed that only his submission to God's plan to change him into a woman would save the world. During his confinement he wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, which has earned him lasting fame as an outsider artist, it allowed him to argue that that his belief system was a matter of religious freedom and that he was sane enough to return to society. Running as a recurrent motif through the film is an imaginary Writing Down Machine inspired by both the delusory writing down systems envisioned by Schreber and also the Hansen Writing Ball. This early visionary design for a typewriter is famous because Nietzsche used such a machine to compose reflections on the relationship between writing and technology. The film's mix of forms explores the borderline between religious vision and deluded fanaticism, and the intimate link between family secrets, psychiatric diagnosis, and our societal understanding of mental illness.

A traditional shepherd is forced to innovate in a neo-liberal world that conflicts with his idealistic views. Will his struggle pay off or is he forced to go with the flock?

It follows three hikers on their personal odysseys, after a coincidental meeting high in the mountains

A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation's nightmare.

After finding people who still spoke Cappadocian, a language believed to be extinct, both Professor Mark Janse 's world and that of the speakers changes.

What if there has always been a screen between your face and your surroundings? What if you have never seen the face of your lover and have never looked at your own eyes in the mirror?

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.

Tea Tupajic was seven years old when the civil war in the former Yugoslavia reached her hometown Sarajevo. The scars the war left play a major role in her work as an artist. Tupajic asked Dutchbat veterans Frank and Harm to spend an entire night in conversation with her. The empty theater gradually darkens. Tupajic wants answers to some painful questions, but she also tries to discover something in the two men that can give her hope. A woman, a man and a camera: through this simple set-up Darkness There and Nothing More concentrates all attention to the words, gestures, and acts in these two meetings, which are often captured in tight camera frames. They show a dialog between two worlds that simply won't combine, despite a shared longing for some kind of deliverance. Harm carries a huge sense of guilt, while Frank is entirely locked off from his emotions. Tupajic tries to explain that none of her family and friends, despite being alive, really survived the war. Are they ever going to understand each other's grief?

Never a Dull Moment is a film about individual resilience in the most turbulent period of the last century. It is based on the personal documents in albums, the countless photographs he took and an unpublished autobiography by Sam Waagenaar.

An exploration of the multidisciplinary work of Eindhoven-based artist Dick Verdult, who is increasingly recognized internationally as a visual artist, and in his 60's has become a cult musician in South America, Russia and Japan.

In Dinner with Murakami director Yan Ting Yuen takes us into the surrealistic world of Japanese bestselling author Haruki Murakam of contemporary Japan and of a culture where people are still torn between the ironclad laws of the group, and the individualism as found in Murakami's work.

As the world starts moving around him, the young desert dweller decides to follow the footprints of his fellow tribesmen to the origin of natural forces, time.

Left behind at an isolated boarding school, young Will quickly becomes a target for bullying. Only the friendship from a small bird gives him solace. But as the bullying worsens, Will's means of escaping the world grow darker..

A tried and tested 31-year-old pop idol will shamelessly live up to its reputation after its first major success. He masters his profession and speaks the language. Congenital, learned or perhaps brought in? A search for the origin of his image provides the answer.

Birth of Light" explores the impact of electricity and a 4G network on a remote nomadic community in Northern Kenya, raising questions about modernization's effects on their traditional way of life and touching on themes of globalization, capitalism, and climate change.

In a slightly super national print shop an abundance of manuals is produced. No problem, however peculiar, goes it without its brochures. Leaflets come to life, addressing manifold issues: avoiding fatal penile shrinkage, surviving the boredom of paradise, how did I get into this duck decoy. Highly eclectic in sub matter and design, in this film we find that putting our own view into perspective can be a quite pleasant experience.

Ironic visual essay about the superiority of falling over jumping.

Ferry Bertholet has a fascination for the Far East. Over the past 30 years he was specialized in collecting Chinese erotic art, which is no longer to be found in China itself, where it has been banned and destroyed. As a result, Bertholet now owns a big part of this cultural heritage. His collection is one of the largest in the world. It has also dominated his life: day and night, all he thinks about is his collection. At odds with this is the realization that his collection is basically just things. This is why he is now contemplating the idea of selling everything. If all goes well, this cultural heritage will return to its country of origin. Will it be a regret or a relief?

A filmmaker who found his home in a novel, tries against hope to retrieve this world in reality. The result is a dialogue in images and words between the writer and filmmaker. With excerpts from the novel Chapel Road by Louis Paul Boon.