DOWNSIDE UP reveals a world in which everyone has Down’s syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.

A young Bosnian refugee family ends up in a small village in the Netherlands after getting a residence permit in 1994. Absurd situations arise as they are trying to make this new world their home. Nominated for the Illy Prize at **Cannes Film Festival**.

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**.

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?

In the late nineteenth century King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, 'I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.' The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants, and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of these characters, many of whom pass through a luxury hotel in the middle...