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September 17, 2026

Stand Up

After a night out drinking with friends in Rotterdam ends in a terrible crash, twentysomething Vera wakes in the hospital to discover one of her legs has been amputated. Frustrated and angry, she struggles to accept her new reality until she encounters kindred spirit Xander inside her rehabilitat...

September 17, 2026

Animation Shorts: Altered States

The End of the End’s striking style, reminiscent of paper cutouts and puppet shows, mythologizes the journey of a recently deceased woman through her final moments with the five senses she used in life. In two ice creams please, inky 2D animation bleeds into stop motion as two increasingly fever...

September 17, 2026

two ice creams please

When two Belgian tourists follow a monkey into a dense rainforest, their subpar survival instincts leave them feverish, frightened, and lost. With charming stop motion animation that gives way to hallucinatory 2D digital drawings, this darkly funny short treats themes of friendship, impulsivity, ...

A young man with Down syndrome poses in front of a large, lit-up yellow and green star.

May 5, 2025

Jippie No More!

Jaap Peter, a lively 16-year-old boy, eagerly prepares for his older sister's wedding at their grandfather's country home. As the family rallies together to create the perfect celebration, Jaap Peter falls in love for the first time. When he realizes the girl of his dreams is smitten with his you...

April 27, 2024

Zurich

Adrift and searching, Nina wanders Europe in an attempt to flee her painful past. While taking refuge at a rest stop, she befriends Matthias, a German trucker and the two form a bond. As their intimacy intensifies, memories of her former life begin to haunt her. What is she running from? Steeped ...

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