Wilant Boekelman

100UP is a film which investigates the will to live. It portrays a colourful selection of 100+ year old people from all over the world. They have lived for over a century and witnessed great historical events, but instead of dwelling on the past, they look ahead. With the clock inevitably ticking, these centenarians cling to life, set new goals with a joie de vivre, refusing to admit the betrayal of their deteriorating bodies. Time is both their enemy and their friend. They have overcome diseases, lost partners and some of them survived their own children. Nevertheless, these active, curious and creative 100+ year olds are amazingly good at restarting every new day.

Three high school teenagers reflect on the absence of the seriously ill Zoë. Voice overs reveal their deepest thoughts in this poetic triptych.

At korfball practice, a timid young teenager finds himself forced to show his true colors upon witnessing his fellow players' locker room banter take a cruel turn at the expense of the most popular girl on their team.

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

A movie about a deaf-mute night gatekeeper of a hotel where strange things happen.

Vivendo em meio a carências afetivas, pois a mãe está ausente e o pai trabalha e quando está em casa pode se tornar violento, o pequeno Jojo passa o tempo sozinho. Ao descobrir um filhote de corvo caído no chão, e passa a criá-lo e preenche, com o animalzinho, uma lacuna de amor em sua vida. Enquanto bate de frente com o pai para cuidar do filhote, saberemos o paradeiro de sua mãe, que tanta falta tem feito.

William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. Chris tries his best, but William is one lump of impenetrable rock, secretly wondering if the events of the night before, when Jack went off with fifteen-year old Marianne, had anything to do with the accident...

Quando o marido de Stella (Maartje Remmers), Jur (Javier Guzman), retorna da missão de paz na Uruzgan, ele parece ser um estranho para Stella. Ela não só perdeu seu irmão na guerra, mas agora ela começa a perder seu marido também. Tudo aquilo em que Stella acredita começa a mudar, iniciando assim sua própria guerra pessoal.

A waiter is instructed by his boss to spy on the latter's woman with a camera and to catch her committing adultery.

Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman...