Michel Schöpping

Lying on the bunk bed in the children’s home, eleven-year-old Lu talks dreamy-eyed about her mother. Karina, she says, is a famous Hollywood actor who smells of oranges, talks to the stars and does her own stunts. One more sleep, then she finally comes to visit. But instead of an orderly meeting in the Dutch hometown, Lu unexpectedly finds herself in a rusty old Chevrolet – with cowboy boots and wigs in tow. The destination: Poland, where Lu’s grandmother is said to have hidden a lot of money. With this, mother and daughter aka Bonnie and Clyde plan on finally staying together forever. On their Hollywood-like road trip towards the east, always a car length ahead of reality, they attempt to get closer to their dream.

A amizade entre dois meninos de treze anos, Leo e Rémi, acaba de repente. Sem entender o que aconteceu, Léo procura Sophie, mãe de Rémi.

Francis sobreviveu à sua fuga da África Ocidental. Quando ele acorda em uma praia no sul da Europa, ele está determinado a viver uma vida normal e decente de agora em diante. Mas ele acaba na Berlim atual, onde um apátrida sem permissão de trabalho é tratado tão impiedosamente. O imigrante inicialmente resiste a uma oferta de traficar drogas, mas depois fica sob a influência de Reinhold, seu amigo neurótico e viciado em sexo que o acolhe. Quando Francis conhece Eva, a dona do clube, e a prostituta Mieze, ele sente que encontrou algo que faz sentido pela primeira vez, algo que ele nunca conheceu antes: um pouco de felicidade - que é exatamente o que Reinhold o inveja e fará tudo para destruir.

Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. Jonathan wants to forget the past and is determined to become a different and better person. But even though he strictly adheres to the rules, his good intentions are soon put to the test when a young woman moves in next to him with her small daughter.

When they are confronted with the disease of the pater familias, all the members of the Liefhebber family have to face their fears, faults and their troubled interrelationships.

Nicoline (Carice van Houten), uma psicóloga experiente, inicia um novo emprego em uma instituição penal, apesar de ter resolvido nunca mais voltar à psiquiatria. Ela conhece Idris (Marwan Kenzari), um homem inteligente com um distúrbio de personalidade antissocial e narcisista, que cometeu uma série de crimes sexuais graves. Após cinco anos de tratamento, ele está prestes a fazer sua primeira liberdade condicional desacompanhada.

Na região da bacia de Donbass, divisa entre a Ucrânia e a Rússia, ocorrem diversos conflitos civis entre grupos de ambos os lados, além do movimento da Nova Rússia, que pretende anexar regiões ucranianas ao país vizinho. Em meio aos conflitos, surgem situações inesperadas, grotescas, articuladas como uma comédia absurda e violenta dos tempos individualistas em que vivemos.

Filme de drama belga de 2016 dirigido por Fien Troch. Kevin tem 16 anos e acaba de ser liberado de um reformatório. Voltar a morar com os pais não é mais uma opção, então ele se muda para a casa da tia. Será que sua nova casa conseguirá salvá-lo da delinquência juvenil? Ou ele perderá essa oportunidade?

How do Europeans deal with their recent dark history (the wars, dictatorships and occupations)? What traces are etched?

In this smart and incisive thriller, a Dutch cop of Moroccan heritage goes undercover in a Moroccan drug ring and finds there a feeling of belonging he never experienced in "normal" society.

Elise e Didier se apaixonam à primeira vista, apesar de suas diferenças. Ele fala, ela escuta. Ele é um ateu romântico e ela é uma religiosa pé-no-chão. Quando a filha deles adoece gravemente, o amor deles é posto à prova.

Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene, a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.

In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.

In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.

In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.

Tobias used to be a successful cellist. Following heart failure in 1997, his life took a dramatic turn. He was pronounced clinically dead and brought back to life with jolts of electricity. He was in a coma for several weeks and, when he woke up, he turned out to be physically and mentally handicapped. In this way, at the age of 39, Tobias found himself in a wheelchair and was no longer able to talk as a result of his brain damage. From that moment on, playing the cello was a thing of the past.

A family is on summer vacation. Their adolescent son is a mixture of bored and horny. A yellow jacket wasp joins them in their car and then at their vacation campsite. A sultry young woman is doing laundry outdoors just as a brief, torrential downpour occurs and the wasp allows her to reveal, much to the young man's delight, her special knowledge of how to deal with insect bites.

Portrait of a traditional youth dance group from Grozny, Chechnya, on tour in Europe. Images of daily life in ruined Grozny combined with poetic visuals of performances. The art of survival.

Veterans of the Vietnam War tell about their experiences. The disasters but also the glorious moments of war. The central figure in the documentary is the scenario writer of Full Metal Jacket, Michael Herr. The veterans describe how it felt to kill for the first time and how those feelings still hunt them.

Different couples go to a hotel which has an special offer for staying over at the 31st of december 1999 in to the new millenium. The movie follows the different couples and their reasons to be in the hotel.

Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997.

Twentysomething innocents Jacqui and Martijn move to Amsterdam and immerse themselves in the intense and drug-laden underground club scene. Life turns out to be far more complicated, difficult, and dangerous than they bargained for. Their relationship is tested - repeatedly.