Shadow Game, directed by Eefje Blankevoort & Els van Driel and produced by Witfilm, will celebrate its world premiere in the Grand Jury Documentary Competition. The film is a journey through the dark side of Europe with teenage refugees as our guides.

Three Dutch productions and co-productions are selected in the Grand Jury Fiction Competition:
Feature film Mitra, by Kaweh Modiri, produced by BALDR Film (NL), and co-produced by IGC Films (DE) and Snowglobe (DK). In Mitra Haleh discovers the woman who betrayed her, 35 years after her daughter’s execution in Iran.

Bosnian-Dutch co-production Quo Vadis, Aida? by Jasmila Žbanić will also screen in the Camera Justitia Competition. The film, co-produced by N279 Entertainment, is also nominated for the Best International Feature Oscar. Quo Vadis, Aida? tells the story of a translator attempting to save the lives of her husband and sons during the Bosnian genocide.

Oasis by Ivan Ikic, is a Dutch minority feature film co-produced by Keplerfilm. International sales are handled by Heretic Outreach. The film won the Europa Cinemas Label Award at Venice Days. Marija and Dragana live in an institute for young people with mental disabilities near Belgrade. They are both in love with the quiet Robert, and start competing for his affections.

Both Mitra and Shadow Game will also compete in the Dutch Movies Matter Competition, together with 5 more films from the Netherlands:

Desert Paradise (documentary, world premiere)
Directed by Ike Bertels, produced by BALDR Film (NL) and co-produced by Clin d'oeil films (BE).
A society of black and white residents in a diamond town in Namibia look set to lose their paradise due to the closure of the mine. Will they leave or will they fight?

I Don’t Wanna Dance (feature, world premiere)
Directed by Flynn Von Kleist and produced by The Rogues.
The film is a coming-of-age story about Joey, a 15-year-old boy who needs to decide whether to pull out of the destructive dance with his mother, or stay with her at the cost of his own happiness.

Feast (feature) 
Directed by Tim Leyendekker, produced by seriousFilm.
In 2007 in Groningen, a city in The Netherlands, drugged guests were injected with HIV-positive blood during sex parties. This film deconstructs the subsequent very controversial court case.

Here We Move Here We Groove (documentary)
Directed by Sergej Kreso, produced by DOXY. International sales: Rise And Shine World Sales.
Former Yugoslavian refugee turned musician Robert Soko journeys through Europe in search of connections to the music of the new generation of refugees.

Brief aan mijn Papa (documentary, world premiere) 
Directed and produced by Ibrahim Selman.
More than forty years after his father was killed, Kurdish writer and theatre maker Ibrahim Selman writes him a letter.

For more information:
https://moviesthatmatter.nl/en