Cycling Trip

Three young artists delve into their family past to break the generational silence about the Dutch East Indies history.

Three grandchildren take their Dutch-Indonesian grandparents to the place where they first set foot on Dutch soil. Can they unravel the long-silenced history of their grandparents about the colonial past in Indonesia? Through a journey into history, the grandchildren attempt, for the first time, to break the silence surrounding the Indo-Dutch past, addressing themes such as survival, colonialism, and secrets.

In FEAST, perpetrators, victims and their spectators become involved in a dramatic reconstruction of the Groningen HIV case. The film tells a story about power and surrender, the reversibility of truth and the desire to come home somewhere.

The young Ivan lives with his eccentric single mother in Rotterdam. When he receives a samurai sword one day, all his hopes and dreams become reality. Reality, however, proves to be more threatening than he could ever have imagined.

Mama’ku: During a trip to Indonesia, dancer Cheroney Pelupessy and her taciturn mother find a way together to come to terms with the mother’s repressed past, marked by migration, domestic violence, and intergenerational trauma. The new documentary by Sven Peetoom (Tussen Wal en Schip – Geruisloos Indisch).