Olli

Jeroen Mourmans | Coming-of-Age, Crime Drama, Social Realism | The Netherlands, 2024, 17 min

Somewhere in the Limburgian countryside, in the southern Netherlands, 17-year-old Olli juggles a job at a local warehouse with a dark side hustle as a burglar. Fueled by desperation, the timid teen transforms into a seasoned and calculating thief as soon as he puts on his mask. But how long before his conscience intervenes?

Hold on Tight

Pim Vogels | Drama, Surrealism | The Netherlands, 2024, 9 min

Hold on Tight is a ten-minute-long, absurd tragicomedy that revolves around life with dementia and the difficult decision of placing a loved one in a nursing home.

Echoes of Juno

Reza Sam Mosadegh | Drama, Sci-Fi | Germany, 2023, 13 min

Hanna spends every day in an AI-controlled device, the "Echoehub", to live a virtual life with her deceased daughter Juno. Hanna's wife, Paula, tries to bring her back to the family she still has in the real world.

Let’s Play

Marzieh Rasekh | Animation | The Netherlands, 2024, 4 min

In a village consumed by adult responsibilities, a child yearns for play and fun. However, unintentionally, his innocent play sparks a war within the village, escalating from simple playfulness to destructive conflict.

Au Suivant 

Marco Bolla, Jeanne Remi | Satire | Belgium, 2024, 12 min

A casting director on the verge of a burn-out terrorizes a rebellious young actress in a desperate search for genuine talent.

Blootje 

Lisanne Sweere | Coming-of-Age | The Netherlands, 2025, 15 min

When Julia (17) is taken to a nudist campsite, she has to face her discomfort with exposing herself – both literally and figuratively. Through her new friendship with free spirit Nenah (20), she gradually learns to open up more.

Wanklank

Sem Dingemans | Drama, Satire | The Netherlands, 2025, 10 min

The day a teacher decided to slap a student, a power shift between teachers and students was caused.

Lieve Lieve

Amber Rozema | Coming-of-Age | The Netherlands, 2025, 11 min

A young teenage girl tries to find a safe place with a skateboarder who has crossed her boundaries in an intimate moment.

Canción Sin Fin

Julia Hollander | Experimental | The Netherlands, 2025, 2 min.

In an endless dream, a woman wanders through a boundless forest, where a singer has been repeating the same Fado song since 1971. As time and reality fade, fear grows: is she also trapped here forever?

Wetboy 

Yentl Vlachos | Coming-of-Age | The Netherlands, 2025, 10 min

19-year-old Sef struggles with his identity and is infatuated with his best friend. When their group of friends spend a summer day by the river Meuse, what  begins as a playful swimming competition ends in an intimate encounter that tests their friendship. 

Tumpengan

Azmi Hoffmann | Drama | Germany, 2025, 12 min

A mother struggles to hide her hidden post-partum depression while preparing a complicated Indonesian birthday dinner.

Droom

Fleur Jonkers | Dance | The Netherlands, 2025, 13 min

In today’s world, it’s almost impossible to truly stand still. We keep ourselves constantly busy, striving for more and getting less in return. DROOM acknowledges this overwhelming feeling and invites us to experience three different phases of stillness.

Rounds

Anna Demianenko | Drama | The Netherlands, 2024, 11 min

When teenage girls, who are being chased and searching for a place to hide at school, find shelter in the gym, they finally feel safe. But not safer than the girl they have tied up and keep hostage.

Katharina Huber

Director

After graduating at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Katharina Huber received a scholarship from the DAAD to study at the Royal College of Art in London. Back in Cologne she continued to work as an independent filmmaker. 

She co-founded of a Studio Huber Casalprim where she produced the semi-doc-essay-feature Out of the Gardens, shot in Antarctica. The film premiered in FID Marseille in 2018. In 2020 her short film The Natural Death of a Mouse was awarded at international festivals and received the German Short Film Prize (Lola). She also wrote, directed and produced the full length fictional film A Good Place which premiered at the Film Festival Locarno in August 2023 and received the Award for Best Emerging Director. 

With her Cologne-based production company Acker Film, she is currently developing new feature and short film projects

Wensly Francisco

After ending his career with the Ministry of Defense in 2013, Wensly Francisco joined Public Broadcasting as a researcher and documentary filmmaker. Since 2024, he has been Talent Coordinator at the Netherlands Public Broadcasting Corporation (NPO). 

Sarah Lederman

Director

Sarah Lederman studied both Documentary and Fiction at  The Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound (RITCS) in Brussels. She finished her Film MFA at Sint-Lucas Brussels with her short film Les Racines de l’Eau. She is part of Lukas Dhont's Future Five. ​​

She specializes in visual intimate stories through fine story telling, honest and pure with a considerate attention for detail. She has a great sensibility for capturing unfolding unique moments. Documentary and fiction film both fascinate her.

Currently she's in post-production for Blue Feather Tone and writing on her first feature within the scenario atelier of the VAF. 

Pim Vogels

Director

In 2019, Pim Vogels graduated, from Fontys Academy for Creative Industries with a 
Bachelor of Arts and fully immersed himself in the film industry.  One of his main focus is supporting young creators; in that respect  Pim made three experimental anthology films (Refractions (2020), Timelapse (2022), The Way we Dream (2024)) which provided a platform for emerging experimental filmmakers. 

Since then, Pim has written and directed several films, notably Hou Je Haaks (Hold on Tight), which has been selected to the Euregion Short Competiton of the 2025 Euregion Film Forum. He is currently part of the Netflix x Playgrounds Writersroom where he is working on the series Our Village together with Justus van den Elsen and Jochem de Vet.

Pim strive to contribute more to the film industry in Brabant by connecting filmmakers, educating students, and organizing film-related events.

Marco Bolla

Director

Marco Bolla is a Brussels-based, Flemish-Italian director, writer, editor, and actor.  He graduated from the MAD Faculty with a Master of Audiovisual Arts (Specialty Televison and Film) in 2016 and has since written and directed many short fillms such as ALFA (2017), or We're Expecting (2023).

His work is known for its playful blend of genres and an empathetic exploration of our shared human experience.

His film Au Suivant, co-directed with Jeanne Remi, was awarded Best Film in the Prize La Trois category of the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 2024. Au Suivant has been selected to the Euregion Short Competition of the 2025 edition of the Euregion Film Forum.

He is currently working on his next short Is that it?

Guide Franken

Director Limburg Film Office

Guido Franken has led CineSud since January 2012. In 2018, he was officially appointed director of the foundation. In addition to his work at CineSud, Guido is director of the Limburg Film Office foundation since 2016. 

In December 2021 he became the chairman of Screen Talent NL before joining  the board of Screen Talent Europe in February 2024.

Stijn Bouma

Director

Stijn Bouma is a Dutch filmmaker from Hoorn. After earning a Master’s in Film Studies (UvA), he studied at the Sarajevo Film Academy’s Film Factory, founded by Béla Tarr. His short films Lejla (2017) and Regained Memory (2018) screened at Cannes and Karlovy Vary. His documentaries on the Surcharge Scandal culminated in The Search for Meral Ö. (2024), nominated for two Golden Calves. He is currently developing new projects.

Can Ünlü

Project: Yâren Yâren Armil

Maria Kuiper

Project: Demy & Nicole

Elena Atalmi

Project: If on a summer’s day a girl

Boudewijn Lemmens

Project: Het Seizoen

Mees Wolfs

Project: 2:17

Sofya Hmain

Project: The Parcel

Zoë Grijn

Project: The Uninvited Guest

Marc Pötgens

Project: The Retreat

Tim Jans

Karel Konings

Lore Loyens

Leonoor Koster