Raymond van der Kaaij

The Occupant

Abby Brennan refuses to accept the news that her sister Beth is dying. Her last hope: an experimental and expensive treatment she believes could save her sister’s life. To pay for this, Abby takes a job as consulting geologist for a Georgian uranium mine. When she chances upon a rare and mysterious meteorite fragment in the remote taiga, she thinks she has found the golden ticket to Beth’s cure. But on her flight home, the helicopter crashes and she is stranded in the relentlessly cold wilderness. There is a beacon of hope; John, an American pilot whose plane was brought down in the harsh conditions, guides her in his direction through the radio. As Abby fights her way across an unforgiving landscape, she gradually realises that John is not who he claims to be and that he has an ulterior motive…

When the Light Breaks

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

Electric Child

A computer scientist bargains with the AI character that lives on a virtual island inside his supercomputer simulation, offering it freedom in exchange for a cure to his son's rare, deadly neurological disease.

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.

Eami

Eami means ‘forest’ in Ayoreo. It also means ‘world’. The story happens in the Paraguayan Chaco, the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 25,000 hectares of forest are being deforested a month in this territory which would mean an average of 841 hectares a day or 35 hectares per hour. The forest barely lives and this only due to a reserve that the Totobiegosode people achieved in a legal manner. They call Chaidi this place which means ancestral land or the place where we always lived and it is part of the "Ayoreo Totobiegosode Natural and Cultural Heritage". Before this, they had to live through the traumatic situation of leaving the territory behind and surviving a war. It is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the point of view of Asoja, a bird-god with the ability to bring an omniscient- temporal gaze, who becomes the narrator of this story developed in a crossing between documentary and fiction.

Five Tiger

South Africa, present day. A god-fearing woman finds herself in a transactional relationship as she tries to support her sick husband and daughter.

Bruce Lee and the Outlaw

Nicu, a homeless street kid, is adopted by the notorious 'Bruce Lee' and brought up in the subterranean tunnels of Bucharest. As he grows up, he begins to realise that this 'King of the Underworld' may not be the father that he needs. Filmed over five years by photographer Joost Vandebrug, the film is a real life Oliver Twist story about growing up, and finding a family.

Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.

Seven Things I Learned About Time Travel

While his depressed mother has been lying on the couch for some time and his father has disappeared, a clever boy of almost nine builds a time machine. In the voice-over, Markus tells what he has learned about time travel. He takes the viewer along to the past and the future, and what would you know? It is all far less complicated than you think, and at the same time much less is possible than you would like to. To be honest, after a while it is mainly boring, the precocious kid explains. But who is he actually talking to all this time?

Love & Friendship

From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.

Namibia: Cuba’s Female Boxing Revolution

The short film captures the tireless battle of Namibia Flores Rodriguez, the only known female boxer in the Caribbean nation. Training at Havana’s Rafael Trejo arena in defiance of the ban, the athlete undertakes the same unrelenting regime as her male counterparts—running the same circuits, lifting the same truck tires—but without the hope that she might one day represent her country.

They Have Escaped

Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.

Supernova

Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house.

Johnny Bakru

Nine year old Rose is living happily with her mother, four brothers and a limousine. Until the charming folk singer Johnny Ster walks into their live. Rose’s mother falls madly in love with Johnny, but Rose sees what nobody else seems to notice: Johnny is a ‘Bakru’, an evil spirit that is becharming her mother

The Datcha

Jordy is an eleven year old boy who's family has not been functioning after his homesick mother went back to her home-country Russia. Jordy devises a master plan to get her back. He builds a Russian house, a datcha, in the backyard of their house. He is convinced this will make his mother feel at home again. Eventually his mother doesn't come back, but Jordy's actions do get his family back on track.

22nd Of May

Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.