Haider Hussain | Live-Action | 13’51’’

Mariyam, a twenty-year-old Dutch Muslim heavy metal vocalist, realizes she might be pregnant. How does she reconcile this news with her different cultural identities and, above all, tell her mother?

Ewan Macbeth | Experimental | 12’30’’

An unseen narrator tells his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country and his random release. Based on a letter sent to Amnesty International by the filmmaker’s father and a surreal interview given about it. ‘Prison with Songbirds’ is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital celluloid collide.

Sander van Dijk | Live-Action | 10’50’’

An anxiety-ridden man meets his friend for dinner in a shadowy restaurant to share a dark suspicion. At first, his friend doesn't believe him and tries to convince the man nothing is happening. But the further they get into their midnight conversation, the more they begin to fear: something about this evening isn't quite right…