The Dancing Monkey(2023)

More Than Friends(en)

A love story based around two characters - Angela and Tennille. Growing up through out the years Angela, a heterosexual female, never realizes that Tennille, a dominant female, is deeply in love with her. After several years of Angela being in the dark about Tennille's true feelings, she soon discovers the love that Tennille has for her and realizes those feelings are mutual.

Nightwatching(en)

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.

Off the field(uk)

An avowed communist who is an experimental superhero born in a test tube during the Cold War meets his old friend who plans to change the history of mankind once and for all. The protagonist has to decide whether to allow changes in world politics or to kill his own and most importantly his close friend.

With Difficulty Comes Ease(en)

Zainab, a recently widowed Muslim woman, endures the suffocating confines of her mother-in-law's home, where she must remain until the end of her mandatory mourning period. Burdened with financial woes and a secret pregnancy, an unlikely friendship becomes her lifeline as she confronts her grief and redefines her aspirations in a struggle to move on.

Espectro(pt)

How Am I Driving(en)

An expressionless man drives along a sterile freeway. Unaware of his concrete and steel surroundings he is consumed by the surface of his world. But is he so consumed that he is unable to see what’s underneath?

Forest Giant(fi)

Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.

Clouds Weep on the Greenness(fa)

A young girl is trying to relate to her grandmother's death which quickly becomes more than a personal loss.

Revolver(es)

Revolver, a trans sex worker, tells us the reason behind her nickname while facing violence and discrimination in the world of prostitution every night

No Bruises(en)

“No Bruises” is a narrative short film that explores the cyclical nature of emotional abuse, played out in vignette-style glimpses into one man’s relationships with three different women over time.

Pepijn(nl)

Escape(en)

A couple is stuck in an escape room, and a failing relationship, with no way out.

Sound of Sun(en)

The discovery of self-awareness in a twisting venture between dreams and reality. (The first piece of the director's Transformational Trilogy)

Elisa(en)

When Elisa confronts Sean about finally building towards the life they both dreamed of, it occurs to Sean that there's no time like the present to make a change. The question is, did he wait too long?

The Match Factory Girl(fi)

Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

In The Depression(pt)

A 17-year-old young man is about to finish high school, but after a traumatic event, he starts using drugs, thus incurring a debt with The Godfather of the Italian mafia in Ituberá.

Drop(en)

Aging out of his art form, a contemporary dancer is forced to deal with an unknown future while desperately trying to save a young friend from a life of crime echoing his own shady past.

Above the Hospital(en)

A couple in their mid-20’s are forced to confront each other’s life goals when their friends unexpectedly surprise them at their place one rainy evening with "big news".

Ariel(fi)

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

Dancer in the Dark(en)

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.