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The end of an long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the present.

Myrid searches for her missing mother in Ireland, facing family disputes over property, life-threatening secrets; her journey explores love's influence and struggle for freedom.

In the early 90's, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became a ritual among thousands of families. Video cameras and presents allowed these mothers and children to share glimpses of their realities while being apart. As time passed, it became clear that the mothers' return was an increasingly distant prospect. Children turned into teenagers and, disillusioned, they stopped recording. Through these intimate private archives, Otilia Babara, a Moldovan filmmaker living in Brussels, depicts the fragility of family bonds through the eyes of a generation of mothers and daughters who were forced to live apart in order to survive. While doing so, she portrays a post-soviet country caught in a crossroads of history. A country whose women were unwittingly put in charge of making the transition from communism to capitalism.

To prevent anxiety and optimize their well being, an increasing number of people use data technology. But what is actually measured when collecting data about our mental state? What gets lost in this quest for our optimal selves?

Farewell Paradise is about the search for a truth within a broken family, based on the personal story of director Sonja Wyss's family. From one shared history, through 6 different perspectives, 6 different stories emerge.

The film looks into the increasing solitude among the Dutch elderly, as news are more and more heard about those who die without anyone noticing for quite a while. A group of volunteers is commissioned by the municipality Rotterdam to pay organized visits to the isolated elderly in the neighborhood, so that they again make contact with the world outside.

A film about life on the edge of society

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?

The family history of Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet, working on the cutting edge of architecture, word craft and sculpture, unfolds as a thrilling spy story.

De Beveiligers is a documentary which follows several security people making sure the public is safe.

A center in Rotterdam helps young men from problematic backgrounds to build a future. Hardened by the past, they struggle to find their way.

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers takes us along on her epic quest to map the world's fungi networks and understand their behaviour, before it's too late.

In his multimedia operas, composer Michel van der Aa explores the big themes of our digitised age, contemplating existential questions in the border area between humans, machines and consciousness.

Intrigued by their skilful way of rolling sailboats up and down the beach, visual artist Jonathas de Andrade attempts to capture the ingenious choreography of the traditional Jangadeiros (sailors).

Building the world's first quantum internet before 2030? Stephanie Wehner believes it can be done.

A new installation by Ibrahim Mahama exposes the colonial 'scars in the landscape' in Northern Ghana - and inspires the local community.