IDFA Project Space Collection

Hoera, je bent 13! Het jaar dat je eerste keren beleeft, de hormonen je om de oren vliegen en je eindelijk serieus genomen wordt. Is dat nou leuk, dertien zijn? Ehm.. niet altijd, maar vaak ook wel. In 13over13 hoor je er alles over, op TV én via social media.

5 Houses and the people who inhabit their rooms. An old teacher, a young homosexual, a man who lives in an isolated farm, a group of nuns who runs a school and a boy whose parents died 20 years ago. They tell their stories and, in doing so, some of mine.

50 Meters features Yomna the female director making her debut film about her father and his water aerobics team, a group of men over sixty, as her way to approach her father in a confined pool. Will she be able to regain her own life narrative, find reconciliation and move forward with her life choices in such a patriarchal society

A meditation on the colonial imaginary and the role of the optical in its creation.

A young Tunisian joins the Bosnian war, where he falls in love with a Bosnian woman. After getting married, they seek asylum in Luxembourg. But they are deported with their kids to Tunisia. He is sent to prison and his wife leaves him and their children. Now he is stuck between being a father or seeking revenge.

'In a closed Roma community in Romania, a 14-year-old Roma girl is isolated from the outside world by her parents. Regina is forbidden to leave her palace and her garden until she gets married off. During her isolation and the preparations to become a woman, the expectations of this girl, for whom a new world has opened up through her phone, clash with the expectations of her surroundings. She is looking for a way to take charge of her own life as a woman, without breaking up with her family and without denying her traditions.’

Bassam, a filmmaker and activist, reaches out to his estranged father. He revisits and reconstructs traumatic memories of his father's political arrest and torture in 1989, which had decisive ramifications on Bassam and his mother. Can an immersive experience with their painful memories help them heal and move on?

In Aeolus, we follow the crew members of the eponymous installation vessel, from the bottom to the top of the ship’s hierarchy, as they construct one windmill in a new wind farm at sea. The aim: to propel humankind forward.