Germen Boelens

Como el viento

Como El Viento is a penetrating and realistic drama which threads the universal feelings of fear, hope and loss in a tense and dramatic two-hour ferry crossing between Morocco and Spain.

The Human Surge 3

Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards a disturbing surreal queer fantasy.

Simpele dromen

As a boy, Jamal was kidnapped from a rural area of Sudan to fight in a war he did not want anything to do with. A fight against his own people, which eventually took his leg and his freedom. While working on a prosthesis with filmmaker Pitou Schütz, Jamal explains how losing a leg brought him to the Netherlands. This results in a story, partly visualised through animation, about his flight from brute violence and his search for a new future.

Debt

A foreign musician unexpectedly arrives in a picturesque Dutch village. The hotel owner offers this tourist a suite, coincidentally for the same amount as what he owes the baker. When the hotelier receives the amount in cash, he can finally settle his debt. Next, it turns out the baker also has an outstanding balance, etcetera. In this absurd comedy about the circular economy, it is clear that constantly making and settling debts brings unanticipated consequences.

Brothers

Hassan and Mourad travel to Syria to search for their missing brother Yasin. As they try to follow Yasin’s trail through Jordan and Syria, Hassan and Mourad are involuntarily involved in the Syrian conflict. Will the brothers, despite the confrontation with the atrocities of the war, be brought closer together and the disintegrated family be reunited, or has the war wounded irreparable wounds?

Frontline

Dutch-Kurdish Ceylan is living the perfect life; and has a nice boyfriend, Bastiaan. However, the war in her homeland is fighting for her attention. She no longer can handle watching the misery on TV without taking action. Therefore she decides to become 'Peshmerga' and say goodbye to her secure life with Bastiaan, maybe forever.

Free as a Bird

10 Year old Imad grows up in a warzone. Together with his mother Halima he hides at home. If one day he finds a bird with a broken wing, Imad brings it home. The birds recovers, but the war rages on. Then Imad is faced with a choice: should he keep the bird, or let it go?