The short films:

En Route

  • Year: 2019
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Director: Marit Weerheijm
  • Duration: 10min

When Inay (9) and her little brother have to join their father on a special trip through the city, she tries everything to cause a delay. She knows that if they arrive late at their destination, she will be rewarded with loads of sweet desserts.

Muedra

  • Year: 2019
  • Country: Spain
  • Director: Cesar Diaz Melendez
  • Duration: 7min

Life can arise anywhere, nature behaves in strange ways and days can last for minutes! A powerful stop-motion film about nature and its secrets. The director also worked on feature films such as “Isle of Dogs” and “Ma vie de courgette”.

Tiger Tibbe

  • Year: 2020
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Sarah Lederman
  • Duration: 4min

Tibbe prepares himself for a special event. The special animal costume he’s wearing makes him change, together with his environment. The actor Michael Pas takes on the role of a loving teenager who wants to impress. That’s promising!

Yana

  • Year: 2019
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Sarah Baur
  • Duration: 20min

Yana, 10-year-old girl, has to clean up the shards of her parents’ broken marriage in the attic of her former home. Unprocessed grief undermines her grip on reality, but in the end it’s precisely the magic-realism of this narrative that liberates Yana of her emotional pains.

My family as a circus

  • Year: 2020
  • Country: Belgium
  • Director: Nina Landau
  • Duration: 15min

Romy (10) has to say goodbye to her classmates because she’s going to France..Her family’s travelling circus will set up camp in an amusement park for a few months.  In a letter to her classmates, Romy talks about the ups and downs of her life as a circus artist and about her big dreams!

Extra info

Intimate stories, in different styles, about growing up, letting go and pushing boundaries. A series of short films in Dutch and without spoken words, ideal to submerge yourself in the Dutch language.