Labyrint Film

In the film "Goudvink," we meet Yaël and Idris, two non-binary people of color in their twenties, who in their turbulent and social lives surprise and overwhelm each other with the words "I love you".

With the escalation of Russia's war on Ukraine, the seemingly unbreakable bond of a vibrant cheerleading team of 50+ year old women called "Nice Ladies" is challenged. They face impossible choices between motherland and grandmotherhood, between staying and leaving. Core team member Sveta flees with her family to the Netherlands, while captain Valia and coach Nadia stay behind in the repeatedly bombed city of Kharkiv. Torn apart, the ladies try to keep contact to hold on to their sanity amid terror, heartbreak, and the plague of Sveta's survivor's guilt. Will the team be able to reunite, save their sisterhood, and find a common language through the emerging scars of war?

When Lot goes blind in an accident, her world comes to an abrupt halt. Her plans to travel, study, dive and live together with her boyfriend Casper seem to fall apart. Lot fiercely resists her new helplessness and tries to escape her painful reality by dreaming as much as possible. In her dreams, she is free and can see again. Only when she accepts her new reality does she begin to get a grip on her life again.

When Sam (19) has sex with a girl one night against his will, he feels completely confused. Six months later, he still cannot manage to talk about this and struggles with his own idea of masculinity.

An adventurous coming-of-age drama about two young deaf girls who go on an unforgettable road trip together where they not only get to know each other better, but also themselves.

In Short Dick Man, Matthijs explores why he has been burdened by the crippling insecurity about the size of his penis all his life, causing him to avoid situations like urinals, locker rooms and dating. In an ultimate attempt to accept his body, he goes to therapy, revisits painful memories and seeks confrontation. Gradually, he discovers that the problem is bigger than himself.

Turkish-Dutch girl Yildiz searches for hope in faith, for herself and her manic destructive mother. In her search, she flees into her fantasy, the only safe place.

Sergei Ovsiannikov (1952 - 2018) migrated from the Soviet Union to the Netherlands in search for freedom. While living in Amsterdam he become a priest for a Russian congregation and is still remembered as an empathic person by all who visited the church. For his children however, he is a more complicated figure, as they also remember him as a punishing, demanding father who burdened them with fear instead of freedom.