Olivia Lonsdale

Falling in love feels like a bubble in which the rest of the world seems to disappear. Daily life seem to be temporarily suspended. The world freezes, an eclipse in time. Your senses and the world around you is on fire, and everyone is getting burned. It’s overwhelming, frightening and scary but above all magical. FIRST LOVE is a visualization of that feeling that once was.

La historia de un joven holandés-marroquí que intenta mantenerse en una academia de música de élite en un elegante barrio del sur de Amsterdam, mientras su hermano está en prisión.

On a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally, and takes them into uncharted territory.

Un fin de semana de chicas en una cabaña remota en las Ardenas. Las relaciones se enfocan: ¿las cuatro niñas saben todo sobre la otra? El rodaje del 'mejor libro juvenil' de 2012 escrito por Mel Wallis de Vries.

They do not use many words, but brothers Joes and Matthias master the body language all the better. They train continuously for the MMA championship. During these sessions, their bodies are in complete harmony. However, shortly before an important fight, their mother passes away. Suddenly, the brothers need more than their biceps and their fighting instinct.

This rich essay searches for new ways of being together in the age of social media. We arrange our lives to impress the gaze of others and have become accustomed to being seen. For many young people, however, the party is over. Neoliberalism has made murderous competition the norm; and in the meantime, the planet is dying. Following the unmasking of Facebook’s real motives, more and more people are deleting their Facebook accounts – but this often results in social death. The first image in POSSESSED sets the tone: liquefied lead runs over burning smartphones, followed by images of a devastated neighbourhood in Aleppo. Even the smartphones have not survived the attack. The chains of social media must be cast off, but the perpetual question remains: Who is looking out for you? Academics Alex Williams (University of East Anglia) and Nick Srnicek (King's College London) address this crucial question, along with other issues

Deep down inside, a fifteen-year-old boy feels different from the other boys around him. When he becomes friends with an enchanting girl, he gets more and more tangled up in his confusion.

A garden centre employee just cannot get his girlfriend pregnant. With his partner's biological clock ticking, he must swallow his pride and embrace a solution.

A teenage hypochondriac and his equally peculiar mother, father and adolescent sister set out on a tumultuous road trip from Amsterdam to Spain when a family member falls severely ill.

Raymond, un joven holandés, es arrestado en el aeropuerto de Miami con 25000 dólares en efectivo y un Lamborghini esperando para ir a una fiesta.

Abandoned by their parents, two teenage siblings navigate life in youth care.

Ayoub tiene 17 años, su padre es drogadicto, su madre una divorciada solitaria y su hermana frecuenta malas compañías. Perseguido por la reputación de su padre, Ayoub no consigue atraer la atención de Laura, la chica más hermosa del barrio. Para conseguir su propósito contacta con Kalpa, un tipo violento y excéntrico que conduce un Lamborghini y al que es conveniente evitar.

Benny Wult grows up in a world where each human life lasts only a few days and everything happens only once. Sexual intercourse can be done only once after which the genitals are useless. The same goes for drunkenness. Get drunk again, you die. Woman are also only pregnant once. Clothes are worn only 1 time and children literally grow out of their clothes. Only eating repeats itself, but each person eats only three times and each meal is different.