In this poignant and carefully composed portrait of six service dogs and their owners, renowned documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann explores the close bond between animal and human. Honigmann questions the owners in her characteristic way — respectfully and with genuine concern rooted in a deep trust — about what the animals mean to them. Buddy is an ode to the fighting spirit of the main characters and a loving portrait of the deep...

Bruno finds it very interesting that his father, Daan, shaves his beard and head before he leaves on a military mission. When Daan offers his son to shave him, Bruno finds it an offer he cannot refuse. Along with this intimate way of saying goodbye, we see what happens to Daan on his mission in Afghanistan through Bruno playing with his toy soldiers. Nominated for Best Narrative Short at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.

A story revolving around three main characters. The same story is told from each character’s perspective: there’s a boy who demolishes cars, his single mother who dresses up for the opposite sex in an act of desperation, and a great lump of a man who is brusquely rejected by the one he adores. Golden Berlin Bear winner at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.

Luuk is a truckdriver who seems to be a goodhearted father for his daughter Isabel. Isabel lives with her mother so whenever Luuk has the chance, he takes Isabel to the sea or for a ride in his truck which only carries sand. On one of those occasions, Luuk discovers the horrific reason why Isabel is so quiet that day. From that moment on, Luuk has to cope with a new and unexpected situation. Luuk kidnaps his daughter to protect her but he slowly loses...

A young man agrees to support his ex lover during an HIV test. Not having seen each other for a while, they are forced to sit together in the waiting room of an STI clinic. What starts out as an awkward conversation, soon becomes something more tender. Is there still a chance for reconciliation?

The Treatment is an unsettling Belgian murder mystery that gets under your skin and stays there. A nail-biting suspense yarn based on one of a series of best-selling novels by British crime writer Mo Hayder, the film is not an old-fashioned Agatha Christie-type whodunit, but its gritty themes of sexual violence and pedophilia give it a raw, contemporary intensity that places it in the same company as the “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” book and...

At a house party fifteen year old Bram is surrounded by friends and draws the attention of many girls. He has no interest in them. He has fallen hopelessly in love with the pretty boy on the dance floor: Florian. Love at first sight. There is only one problem: no one knows that Bram is gay. As the evening progresses and the tension rises between the two boys, Bram realizes that he has to make a choice. When a game of spin the bottle starts, he decides...

Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is a columnist who is obsessed with reading the endless abusive messages and death threats posted about her on social media. This obsession consumes her life and prevents her from concentrating on the novel she has promised to her publisher. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shocking and unexpected violence. When this brutal and bloody act inspires Femke to write again, she surrenders...

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.

In order to meet future care demands for the elderly who are lonely and suffering from dementia, carebot Alice has been developed by SELEMCA, a research group from VU Amsterdam. Not just scientists but also health and social care professionals, they feed their collective experience into Alice by integrating a computer model of human social-emotional behavior into the robot, giving Alice the ability for moral reasoning and letting her learn from the...