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- In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
- This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
- A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.
- Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
- Struggling to survive in Europe since the age of nine, Zimbabwean OG seeks a balance in her life. Director Carina Molier -her long distance friend- follows her in her quest for reunification with her daughter. The film is about longing for security in an ever globalising world.
- An unlikely romance blossoms between an introspective, illiterate baker and a woman he met through dating ads.
- A traffic jam like a polonaise of cars: nobody can escape. A cynical record plugger, two sisters, a quarreling couple and an illegal man from Poland are confronted with each other and with themselves.
- Road-movie shot in Riga and Holland about a man in search of another mother for his child. The Latvian Elvis (10) has fallen silent since the tragic death of his mother. He has been stuck in a decrepit children's hospital in Riga for two years with no prospects of recovery. The boy's father can no longer bear to see his son suffer and flees with him the terrible conditions in his country. In the hope of a better future for Elvis he goes to wealthy Holland in search of the woman who was his pen friend in his youth.
- Two half-brothers get to know each other while sailing up a river in an inhospitable region in search of the place where their father was found dead.
- On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.
- In 1990s Amsterdam, Loe and Bob are in a relationship, but wanting different things. Loe is a singer who likes to party and who is also engaged in migrant support. Bob is a lawyer focused on his career. As the film progresses, the tensions in the relationship become exposed.
- How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?
- A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning encounter mysterious deer-men who change their existence.
- Can you put an end to your doubt, if the certainties of your upbringing elude you?
- Successful violinist Sacha arrives in Amsterdam, gets mugged, and then meets Caspar and Maarten, two friends who deliberately live outside society.
- One year after their father has died mysteriously at the Wadden Sea, two brothers visit the same place where their father died. Hidden feelings about each other come to the foreground.
- Five sisters get together in a holiday cottage to discuss and plan celebrations for the fortieth wedding anniversary of their parents.
- When Jeroen van Velzen lived in Kenia as a child he was very susceptible to the stories told to him by an old fisherman. As Jeroen got older, his belief supernatural powers disappeared, but a part of him still longed for that open, unprejudiced way in which he looked at life and for the magic that filled everything with colour. That is why he wanted to return to the country where he grew up. On the coral island Wasini he met Masoud, and his steady helper Juma. Masoud is an old fisherman who still hopes of catching a large shark. How long Masoud also remains without a catch, every day he sincerely believes that tomorrow he will catch a shark. Jeroen would like to tell the story of Masoud in five days. Through this, stories of the past, told by three old people, are woven into the film. On their last day together Masoud shows him the sacred island Mpunguti, the place where his ancestors are buried. There Jeroen realises that the magic of this world rests in the simplicity of it. Wherein Masoud, like generations before him, hunts the impossible in perfect serenity and with confidence in his own abilities.
- The history of a Jewish family in Europe during the period of Nazi terror in the Second World War, is the subject of this documentary.