Ferhat Kaplan

When Ghanaian cleaner Ebenezer finds a winning lottery ticket, his dream of going to university suddenly seems within reach. But when he is unable to provide identification to claim the prize, he can no longer stay under the radar and is forced to take risks.

Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and his friends laugh at him openly. As he scrambles to fix a drug deal that went catastrophically wrong, he desperately searches for an answer to the question: Who or what is punishing me!?

In a desolate fishing village, two residents are struck by lightning but claim it was love. This awakens a deep longing among the other villagers, especially 27-year-old Una.

Asli, a young, Turkish, lesbian woman, returns to the village where she was born to attend the henna-party of her childhood friend. She fears not being accepted, but when she sees her old friends again, she comes to realize that she herself has the biggest prejudice.

Blessed with exceptional hearing, blind Roman Mertens lands his dream job in the local police wiretapping unit — a job more dangerous than he expected.

Jamie, an anthropologist from Utrecht, has her life under control until she's drawn into Brabant's criminal underworld. With the street-smart Petra, she discovers a new side of Brabant-and herself.

Nora produces a podcast about hidden love stories—ranging from forbidden workplace romances to desires that clash with identity, family, and self-image. She helps others bring their clandestine romances out into the open, sometimes with far-reaching consequences. And Nora herself? She is, in a way, one of those secret loves—making the podcast, in essence, a quest of her own.

A manless world, a nuclear missile on Amsterdam, a collective brainwash, and suffering as a recipe for success. Six filmmakers drag the viewer into their most terrifying fantasies.