Jasmin Luu

Crush

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In a luxurious hotel resort, the impulsive Yumi and the reserved musician Toni cross paths. Between music, movement, and glances, a brief but deep connection emerges that changes them both—one song, one night, a feeling of falling in love.

Emma Jane Hedman

The World Is Your Oyster

Directors Village Project - The World Is Your Oyster

Three western European friends vacation the fictive cosmopolitan city of Bahdaro. Expecting the familiar warmth of a southern escape – their holiday turns into a trap, forcing them to confront a more violent underbelly of tourism they never sought out to understand.

Stephen T. Lally

Ernest

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ERNEST, a lonely bureaucrat for The Afterlife, finds his purpose upended by a dying child’s imaginary friend, forcing him to reimagine how we die, and what it means to truly live.

Shirin Aziz

You Do Realize I Can Move Back To My Mom's, Right?

Directors Village Project - You Do Realize I Can Move Back To My Mom's, Right?

When newlyweds Mina and Ishaq move out for the first time EVER, they discover that love isn’t the hardest part. It’s unlearning everything they brought from home.

Sem Dingemans

Rolling into the Pocket

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In a world obsessed with winning, Robbert (36) slowly learns that the greatest victory lies in quitting the game.

Joshua Ianniello

The Departure

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Marta and Samira have just made love. For the very first time they admit they’re in love with each other, and they want to stay together. But the next day, Samira leaves Berlin to return to Peru.

Jonas Robstad Nielsen

Når ingen ser os

Directors Village Project - Når ingen ser os

Henny’s romantic life has come to a standstill as she cares for her husband, Vagn, who has dementia and lives in a nursing home. Everything changes when she meets the charming Kurt, whose wife also suffers from dementia at the same facility. Sparks fly between the two spouses, and everything comes to a head during the nursing home’s annual Tyrolean party.

Aurora Kollerud Nossen

Pappas Skatt

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A son who loves his father’s exciting treasure-hunting stories decides to go looking for him when he disappears on another adventure, but discovers that he is going to prison instead. 

Carmen Maria

Kiek

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The underestimated TV director Terra finally strikes gold with the new lead for the upcoming season of Stad & Land, a dating show that pairs rural locals with city singles. Bert is charming, self-important, and utterly socially inept. In other words, a guaranteed ratings hit. But how far can boundaries be pushed before the cameras are finally turned off?

Arjun Acharya

Trekant

Directors Village Project - Trekant

When a threesome is derailed by a flatmate’s severed finger, a man rushes him to the ER, only to return and discover the others carried on without him, forcing the couple into a messy confrontation about boundaries, infidelity, and what actually counts as cheating.

Claudia Morillo Rodriquez

El Hijo de la Abuela

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Alejandro is a teenage boy who has been raised by his grandmother. When she falls ill, he feels obliged to care for her. But when Alejandro meets Carlota, he is confronted with an awful dilemma: paying his grandma the debt he owes her, or living a normal teenage life.

Ronsson Huynh

Erase Me

Directors Village Project - Erase Me

A Vietnamese man living in Sweden clings to the hope of returning home, but as grief and humiliation push him toward emotional collapse, he’s forced to face the truth he’s been avoiding, he must accept the life he has, not the one he left behind.

Sofia Norlin

Sofia Norlin (Director, Sweden) has lived in Paris since 1994 and works with film and theatre in both countries. Senior lecturer in film directing at Stockholm University of the Arts (since 2020) and writer/podcaster for the Swedish film review POV (since 2016), she also directs educative-social projects in the Parisian suburbs (since 2002) with teenagers and newcomers from wars. At the theatre she’s been an assistant for Ariane Mnouchkine/Théâtre du Soleil and for Wajdi Mouawad. In 2005 her short Les Courants (The Currents) was awarded the French Authors’ Association’s prize Beaumarchais. In 2014 her feature debut Ömheten (Broken Hill Blues) premiered in Berlin film festival. This film was awarded a 500k grant as a script from the Stockholm Film Festival and the film received the Swedish Film Award for Best Cinematography. Sofia was nominated Best New Director. She now prepares her new feature Riviera - co-written with Jean-Pol Fargeau, co-writer of most Claire Denis films - that will take place through large parts of Europe and will be shot from February 2024.

Janneke van Heesch

Janneke van Heesch holds a Master’s in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam and graduated as a film director from the Netherlands Film Academy. She has since directed commercials, short films, TV series, and feature films, spanning experimental, art house, comedy, and children’s genres. Her films have screened at international festivals and aired in several European countries. She also works as a directing coach at the Netherlands Film Academy, specialising in script development and directing actors.

Martin Strange-Hansen

Martin Strange-Hansen is a Danish director and scriptwriter, deeply involved in talent-development in Denmark as a returning Commisioning editor at Filmworkshop Copenhagen, Århus and Odense and by educational efforts at filmschools like The National Danish Filmschool, Station Next, Potemkin Film, Panorama Academy, Filmmaskinen & European Film College. A Graduate from The National Danish Film school. Former president & Vice president of the association of Danish Filmdirectors & Head of Programme at OFF Odense Filmfestival. Oscar winner in 2003 with the short film This Charming Man and Oscar nominee in 2022 with the short film On my mind.