Carlijn van Vliet

Cubes of cheese, slices of sausage, a piece of weak cake. Family members questioning your life choices, disapproving looks, one too many glasses of wine. For Nena (27) a typical family birthday. The whole family in a circle, waiting, silent.\r Three birthdays in a row, she takes her new partner Jip with her. Each time she is overwhelmed by a load of criticism from her mother, she will have to learn to deal with it.

When Ghanaian cleaner Ebenezer finds a winning lottery ticket, his dream of going to university suddenly seems within reach. But when he is unable to provide identification to claim the prize, he can no longer stay under the radar and is forced to take risks.

A forced diversity mandate disrupts an elite Dutch school, pushing two student worlds into collision. As status games turn hostile and buried tensions erupt, identity becomes a battlefield where belonging must be earned.

Mino is an average white Dutch boy. But when a kid mocks him with slanted eyes, and he gets called a fucking Chinese at the restaurant where he works, disbelief and doubt begin to creep in. His parents insist that he’s ‘just Dutch’, like them. After a heated confrontation, Mino undergoes a transformation, and in this graduation film, for the first time he sees what he really looks like. A comic thriller, based on the filmmaker’s own experiences, about racism and the alienating moment of realising your appearance doesn’t match the culture you’ve grown up in your whole life.

Siljan is a young writer who accidentally discovers that he is adopted. After a confrontation with his adoptive parents, he embarks on a search for his roots, a quest that leads him to his native Macedonia. What awaits him here is the last thing he expects.

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23-year-old Kai is an aspiring writer who believes in achieving creativity by managing his time as efficiently as possible: he is obsessed with planning his days and always knows how his hours will fill up, until an unexpected event causes a break in his routine.

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When there’s no money left at home and the prematurely wise Wesley (12) arrives empty-handed at the birthday party of his impressive classmate Myra (12), he decides to secretly pose as the birthday kid on a radio broadcast to increase his chances of winning the big prize package.

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Nora is confronted with the vulnerability of adults when her older sister Elin returns home for Nora's 9th birthday,

54-year-old Liesbeth is pushed to a new extreme when the men crossing her path don't seem to take her seriously.

In this tragicomedy, three adult sisters and their brother come to the farm of their estranged, deceased mother to divide the inheritance. To their surprise, that includes a flock of sheep. The sisters and brother have drifted apart but it turns out that too is part of their mother's legacy.