The Netherlands

Through exploring faces and expressions, Dutch filmmaker Malu Janssen focuses on the consequences and not the reasons of witchcraft accusations. In Barlebas, women are singing to the rhythm of resistance.

Naomi Pacifique’s new short film dwells in melancholy and unlocks a form of intimacy that is unlike anything else we’ve seen bodies share on screen.

Photos from a family album reveal a city that perhaps used to exist. Sara Rajaei anchors these images not fully in reality but instead extracts the poetry from them.

In an attempt to tell a universal story, Nienke Deutz’s The Miracle arrives only at vagueness.