AKV St. Joost Breda

A Berlinale award nominated short animation.

Mino is an average white Dutch boy. But when a kid mocks him with slanted eyes, and he gets called a fucking Chinese at the restaurant where he works, disbelief and doubt begin to creep in. His parents insist that he’s ‘just Dutch’, like them. After a heated confrontation, Mino undergoes a transformation, and in this graduation film, for the first time he sees what he really looks like. A comic thriller, based on the filmmaker’s own experiences, about racism and the alienating moment of realising your appearance doesn’t match the culture you’ve grown up in your whole life.

States of Matter is an experimental strata-cut animation crafted entirely from wax and paper. Inspired by Oskar Fischinger's pioneering wax experiments of the 1920s, the film is the result of director Marvin Hauck's research and creative explorations during his postgraduate studies. Complemented by a tactile soundscape, States of Matter offers a space for contemplation and personal interpretation.

A widower is facing the difficulties of being alone. Without his wife everything seems out of place. The table is set, but there is no breakfast. He found his trousers but where is his shirt? A film about loss, loneliness and learning to survive without a soul mate.

A new generation of young adults grew up with the ease of having the Internet. In the documentary My First Porn Film two guys in their early twenties make a plan to create their very first porn movie. What should that film look like? Hard and aggressive like the porn that they know from the Internet? Or maybe soft, with love and an enticing story as an antidote to all impersonal and ruthless porn which they grown up with?