Hanneke van der Tas

Peaches Goes Bananas

Peaches Goes Bananas takes an intimate look at artist and musician Peaches' playful and intoxicating creative world. Real name Merrill Beth Nisker, Peaches left home and her job as a schoolteacher in Canada with the ambition of making a name for herself in the Berlin Underground, combining sex, punk, and the sweet memory of the early '80s, when disco went underground again.

Axolotl Overkill

Mifti is a teenager as beautiful as she is reckless. Mentally unstable, fed up with her dysfunctional family, oblivious to the youthful world, and aware of the sexual magnetism she gives off with her peculiar appearance, she wanders through the dark path of several bohemian adults with questionable lifestyles.

Friends from France

1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists celebrating their engagement, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening they slip away from the group and meet “refuseniks”, Jews persecuted by the Soviet regime for wanting to leave the country. While Carole is motivated by political commitment and a taste for risk, Jérôme’s motivation is Carole.

Last Cowboy Standing

In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.