Bring Me Home

Christine, 23, is Stephan's fifth victim. After the loss of his beloved Ann, he kidnaps women that look like her. Stefan wants to relive the memories with his love. Christine gives him his desire, but the closer they come makes him unsure of his feelings and confuses him even more.

KINGLESS is about loneliness, hope and the mechanisms of online emotional deception. In a new hybrid format – documentary fairy tale – the film interweaves action scenes, real messages and documentary evidence to show how a love fantasy gradually turns into a trap. A story about love as manipulation and trust as currency.

Sasheto dreams to be a filmmaker. Together with his best friend Miteto, he goes on a mysterious investigation, which may turn into his best film or unexpected disaster.

Ivan works as a "clicker"—someone who watches online advertisements from home. Although the job is monotonous and tedious, the young man views it as a means to achieve his dream of going to Hawaii. Focused on realizing this wish, Ivan lives a modest life in a small, cluttered apartment. The appearance of a rat turns his quiet existence upside down. Will he manage to deal with the intruder and make his dream come true?

German-born Jewish WWII survivor and former circus star Maxy Niedermeyer (80) lives in a parking lot near Amsterdam with Natasha, her last surviving bear. Raised in a circus family, she entered the arena at just 11 in the former GDR and spent six decades performing with wild animals. But as society turned against animal entertainment, her world collapsed. Today, Natasha is the only family she has left, and the only reason she still has a place to stay. A moving portrait of love, loyalty, animal ethics, and the end of an era.