Il Luster

This film was developed with the support from The Netherlands Film Fund

A play of light and shadow in a virtual world.

In this short a tram ride through Amsterdam in the 1930's shows how close but yet separated the rich and very poor live in the metropole.

Get acquainted with an alternative universe, where everyone has been animated and people share the world with gnomes and other characters. In this compilation of their social media posts, you share in the magic of this dimension. Like in our world, these users sympathise with animal rights and funny animal videos, but these animals are far more absurd than in our non-animated life.

Burning in the desert sun, Eduardo - a lemonade seller - is fighting the urge to drink his last and final bottle of refreshing lemonade. When a thirsty client comes crawling to his stand, Eduardo comes into conflict with his own moral code.

When father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems attached to the house. When an unfortunate alteration in life takes place, Richard is forced to stand on his own feet.

A dangerous intruder gives Pilar the chance to discover the wild animal within and the means to escape the post-apocalyptic village she lives in.

An animated short film about a man struggling against the storm. Suddenly he discovers that not everybody is affected by the wind...

“Psychoanalysis is, in it’s entire spectre, an eminently POP discipline: anybody can relate to it without having studied and/or understood it. Cinema, an art for the age of self-reflection par excellence, is nothing less.” Fernando de Felipe departs from this premise to tell us the story of Duffy, a seven year-old boy who decides to settle accounts with his parents one dinner time. A black comedy retelling of the myth that became a complex without becoming complicated.

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.

A humoristic turbo drama. Floyd, after being dumped by his girlfriend, suffers from psychological problems manifested as a little demon who disrupts his everyday life. Floyd has to go through great depths before he can continue his life.

A team of three pets, a playful ferret, a sweet canary bird and a know-it-all stick insect, head out to ask Saint Nicolas presents for their animal friends and themselves. The journey is filled with adventures and their friendship is severely tested.

At a sunny flea market, Robin tries to sell her own made-up stories. As she tells one of her stories with increasing confidence to a potential customer, all the main characters come alive and anxiously listen to her.

During a stormy night, our known reality becomes entangled with another dimension. Two different timelines collide and create a fatal ending…

In true hard-boiled detective style, a rooster tries to find the thief of the egg that was stolen from his chicken. Soon all traces point towards the farmer. But before the egg can be saved from becoming hard-boiled itself, the rooster and his chicken have to fight the farmer's cat for it. Spectacular action, including a fight, a chase, and the birth of a new chicken.

Two Mimes fight over the romantic affection of the girl who runs the house of horror. They get caught up in their act so much it comes to an epic battle.

Everybody once had thoughts about their own death and what it will cause to our loved ones. Jorka portrays the aftermath of the process of loss. After a tragic accident of the protagonist, we see the departed coping with his demise. The stories of the mourners are connected by telephone calls going through the ether. Each individual deals with the loss in their own way. What one says can be very different from one's actual thoughts... But the big question remains; is actial contact between the dead and the ones left behind possible?

Abstract Day is a semi-abstract animation film by Oerd van Cuijlenborg based on a story which is told in sound. We witness a day in the life of a couple, who fight, make love and escape the hot and crowded city. It is a simple story in which the visuals and sound are produced together to merge into a unique world.

A unique journey across a topography created entirely from a form of digital light and shadow—a bristling terrain of poles bending the light in every direction. This film is the remake of Barcode, an abstract road-movie about light and shadows.

On her way for a simple grocery, a girl literally has to struggle through her fellow beings. Some of those people tend to leave a mark, but only one person leaves a mark that sticks.