In Your Shadow (documentary)

Directors: Thabi Mooi, Tom Fassaert
Script: Thabi Mooi, Tom Fassaert
Dutch producer: EVDJ
Co-producers: Long Story Short (ZA), Les Films d’Ici (FR)
Logline: After thirty-seven years of silence, filmmaker Thabi has decided to break her family's silence and investigate her father's secret past as a South African freedom fighter. In search of the roots of his silence and their disrupted bond, she takes her father on a journey through his footsteps in exile. It's a final attempt to escape the shadows of the past and heal their bond.
Granted support: € 180,000,-

Lucca Mortis (feature film)

Director: Peter Greenaway
Script: Peter Greenaway
Dutch co-producer: Witfilm
Lead producer: Facing East Entertainment (CH)
Co-producer: The Family (IT)
Logline: An elderly American writer keen to leave a book of short stories as his legacy travels to beautiful Lucca in Italy with his family, using his search for his origins as inspiration and an enquiry into contemporary questions about universal longevity.
Granted support: € 625,632,-

The Man Maker (feature film)

Director: Jamel Aattache
Script: Rene Molenaar, Michiel Peereboom
Dutch producer: Talent United
Logline: The Man Maker is an original comedy about (self) confidence and believing in yourself. The 40-year-old Anne transforms hopeless men into desirable specimens, but now discovers all that may have been for nothing.
Granted support: € 285,414,-

The Man with a Smile (documentary)

Director: Paul Cohen
Script: Paul Cohen
Dutch producer: Witfilm
Logline: My Jewish father, nearly succumbing to starvation and disease in the "Japanese camp," travels by Train through devastated Germany in March 1947. He feels only resentment and hatred towards the German people, until he sees a starving German girl. His journey is mirrored by a number of train travelers in the present, each traveler having a story about their own compassionate path to forgiveness.
Granted support: € 145,778,-

Metamorfose (documentary)

Director: Pim Zwier
Script: Pim Zwier
Dutch producer: Moondocs
Logline: Maria Sibylla Merian depicted the metamorphosis of butterflies in detailed engravings and paintings. Unhampered by the conventions of the 17th century, she dedicated her life to art and science. Metamorphosis is an unconventional documentary about an artist, who was also aware for what was happening beyond the world of insects.
Granted support: € 124,549,-

Miss Braaksel and the magical Ring (feature film)

Director: Aram van de Rest
Script: Michiel Peereboom
Dutch producer: AM Pictures
Logline: Lotte and Thijs have a sweet teacher, Miss Evi. But then the creepy Miss Brakel becomes director and everything changes: They have to come up with a plan to get rid of that nasty Miss Vomit! Could Miss Evi's magic ring help with that?
Granted support: € 284,426,-

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