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In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts herself with her past and faces up to her tormentors.

An 11-year-old girl who is carefree until she starts to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.

In the comedy-drama Cas, Pepijn and Sjors' steady, seven-year relationship is shaken up after they allow a young student named Cas to sleep on their couch until he finds a place of his own. Gradually, both men fall head over heels for Cas' laconic charm and it forces them to reconsider their many long-term plans. Is Cas' presence endangering their relationship or is he actually a blessing in disguise?

Against the backdrop of an ongoing socio-economic collapse, a disillusioned mother of three is trapped in a vicious circle of terrible decisions and sharply ruthless actions. What can drive a perfectly normal individual to great extremes?

The jarring lives of six immigrant residents of Amsterdam intertwine in a poetic mosaic.

A brutal home-jacking by two brothers goes hopelessly wrong, and one of them goes to prison. Four years later, his brother tries to help him get his life back on track.

In a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten years ago and now living a joyless, hung-over life; Rita is the quiet, mysterious sister of a lounge singer in the local disco. When a sudden death upsets the town and turns the local community upside-down, the two women who had been ignoring each other's existence begin drifting towards each other. As the secrets hidden in the swamps begin to surface, they will have a chance to become each other's saviours.

When the volatile Bo travels to Georgia to visit the grave of her father, a well-known trumpeter, she runs into his former childhood friend Levan. In search of her roots and a better understanding of her father, she decides to hitchhike in Levan's truck. Despite the age difference, they gently give in to the love they feel for each other. The melancholy trumpet playing of Bo's father accompanies their journey through the breathtaking Georgian landscape. In the end, they dare to trust each other to the point where both Bo and Levan share their darkest secrets.

A manless world, a nuclear missile on Amsterdam, a collective brainwash, and suffering as a recipe for success. Six filmmakers drag the viewer into their most terrifying fantasies.

A struggling mine owner supplies his workers with drugs so they'll forget a tough existence. Nearby a small community of reindeer breeders also struggles.This critique of capitalism unfolds against a Western like Lapland landscape.

Nicky's whole world revolves around fitness, with the goal of getting bigger and stronger. But when hidden childhood memories emerge, Nicky's body obsession sets off in an unhealthy direction.

When Suze's colourful and extravagant mother Helena pays a surprise visit to inform her daughter that she's ill, Suze slowly relapses into severe compulsive behavior.

Nisha, a Pakistani trans woman, is conflicted about proceeding with gender-affirming surgery. Every time she embraces her identity, she is subjected to strange attacks. Chaos ensues when her inner demons take on the demons outside.

Incredibly enough, one day before the start of his pension and just hours before his 65th birthday, window cleaner Alfred suddenly finds himself stricken by vertigo. A 64-year and 364-day journey through glass and lather reveals why he is afraid to either go up or go down the ladder. And whilst he finds himself to be an accidental Cupid by hitting anyone but himself with his arrows, it's not until that particular day, 44 years after meeting Dirkje for the first time, that he realizes he has to point the arrow at himself.

A racist remark about her moustache sparks an irreversible process of imposed beauty ideals in nine-year-old Hindustani girl Zeenat.

Longtime friends Carry and Daniel have never acknowledged their underlying feelings for each other. Now that Carry is dying, time is running out.

Two friends have a difficult conversation on the train about their friendship and life decisions, which have subsequently led to distance. This coming together brings relief and understanding, but also sadness. Ruben and Virgil travel by train, while they start a difficult conversation about the great distance that has arisen between them after one of them moved. For the first time, the friend who has moved away makes clear what difficult choices he made and how he feels about them now. As the conversation between the dejected young men in this intimate drama unfolds and feelings of relief and understanding gain ground, all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place for the viewer in this debut.

Frailer tells the story of an actress playing a part that reflects her real life story. Whilst playing a woman dying of cancer, Muis her doctor tells her she has not much more time left. She will die soon. The film follows the transition of her and her film sisters, shifting from their characters to who they really are, actresses dealing with their friend upcoming death. We watch Leonoor become physically frailer but mentally stronger as she is slowly accepting her faith. Whilst ending the film, she leaves her film sisters, her real life husband and children but also the viewer, behind forever.

Nisha, a Pakistani trans woman, is only weeks away from her bottom surgery when her body starts to struggle. The closer she gets to her operation, the more she starts to believe her male gender physically tries to come out of her.