Jasmijn Kooijman

Lente journeys out to her grandmother, Siri, who lives on Öland, wrapped in wintery barrenness. It Blooms at Night (Nattljus) is a beautiful, low-key film about meeting over a generational boundary, about life’s joy and about taking farewell.

In the northern region of Hungary, the populist propaganda of Orbán’s regime dictates the lives of military high school student Luca and her friends. But how do you distinguish between the opinions imposed on you and your own intrinsic beliefs in the most forming period of your life? DON'T POLITICIZE is part 1 of the diptych DON'T POLITICIZE : GO HUNGARY

Go Hungary is a personal film diary showing life in Hungary under Viktor Orbán’s rule, from the perspective of queer teenage twins Nati and Dorka. Anger, frustration, and the fatigue caused by the country’s political situation become the starting point for a story about the girls’ everyday lives. Together with the girls, we travel through places marked by omnipresent propaganda and look for safe spaces where freedom can be felt. GO HUNGARY is part 2 of the diptych DON'T POLITICIZE : GO HUNGARY

Danne and Hugo spend their days building model aircrafts. But when up in the air, even the smallest breeze of wind can destroy the planes they have been working on for weeks. “That’s the way it is.” - Hugo says

Two sisters talk about memories, homesickness and nostalgia, but words feel insufficient. How do you describe feelings that are bigger than words and how do you talk about thoughts when thethoughts drift away?

The girls at the refugee home in Färjestaden, in the south of Sweden, tell their own story about love, friendship and how they ended up living at a campground. A story filled with just as many traumatic memories of displacement as insightful hopes for the future and inspiring dancenumbers.

Lente journeys out to her grandmother, Siri, who lives on Öland, wrapped in wintery barrenness. It Blooms at Night (Nattljus) is a beautiful, low-key film about meeting over a generational boundary, about life’s joy and about taking farewell.

In the northern region of Hungary, the populist propaganda of Orbán’s regime dictates the lives of military high school student Luca and her friends. But how do you distinguish between the opinions imposed on you and your own intrinsic beliefs in the most forming period of your life? DON'T POLITICIZE is part 1 of the diptych DON'T POLITICIZE : GO HUNGARY

Go Hungary is a personal film diary showing life in Hungary under Viktor Orbán’s rule, from the perspective of queer teenage twins Nati and Dorka. Anger, frustration, and the fatigue caused by the country’s political situation become the starting point for a story about the girls’ everyday lives. Together with the girls, we travel through places marked by omnipresent propaganda and look for safe spaces where freedom can be felt. GO HUNGARY is part 2 of the diptych DON'T POLITICIZE : GO HUNGARY

Danne and Hugo spend their days building model aircrafts. But when up in the air, even the smallest breeze of wind can destroy the planes they have been working on for weeks. “That’s the way it is.” - Hugo says

Two sisters talk about memories, homesickness and nostalgia, but words feel insufficient. How do you describe feelings that are bigger than words and how do you talk about thoughts when thethoughts drift away?

Two sisters talk about memories, homesickness and nostalgia, but words feel insufficient. How do you describe feelings that are bigger than words and how do you talk about thoughts when thethoughts drift away?

The girls at the refugee home in Färjestaden, in the south of Sweden, tell their own story about love, friendship and how they ended up living at a campground. A story filled with just as many traumatic memories of displacement as insightful hopes for the future and inspiring dancenumbers.

The girls at the refugee home in Färjestaden, in the south of Sweden, tell their own story about love, friendship and how they ended up living at a campground. A story filled with just as many traumatic memories of displacement as insightful hopes for the future and inspiring dancenumbers.

Worried asylum seekers, angry activists, and obedient case workers in an equally wonderful as sharp stop-motion film about people who are all caught in the bureaucratic claws of the migration agency.

Worried asylum seekers, angry activists, and obedient case workers in an equally wonderful as sharp stop-motion film about people who are all caught in the bureaucratic claws of the migration agency.

Romanos bar is the only café in the town of Aboadela: a small place in a valley in the North of Portugal. Here a group of young men spend most of their time - playing cards and talking shit. Some seem to search for a way out of the town, while others have accepted that it is what it is.

Romanos bar is the only café in the town of Aboadela: a small place in a valley in the North of Portugal. Here a group of young men spend most of their time - playing cards and talking shit. Some seem to search for a way out of the town, while others have accepted that it is what it is.

Building on the discourse around the infamous area of molenbeek in Brussels, the filmmakers invite you on a walk in a patchwork of places held together as a floating concrete jungle where logic is substituted by interwoven spaces held in absurd rooms. The journey tries to follow the logic of those who designate an area as a bad one, detaching it from a broader context, as no man is an island.