Annual awards presentation honoring the best talent in short-film achievements of 2014. This years jury consisted of Tygo Gernandt, Hanna Verboom, Vincent van Ommen, Mijke de Jong, Jeroen Koolbergen, George Sluizer, Harmen Jalvingh, Jans Possel, Marko van Kampen, René Wolf and Laser 3.14.

Shortcutz Amsterdam Annual Awards 2015

Amsterdam'da yaşayan Müslüman bir genç kız, devamlı maruz kaldığı ön yargılar karşısında aidiyet hissini kökten dinci İslam anlayışında bulmaya çalışır.

Layla M.

Desperate attempts by Wunderbaum’s actors to change the world radically. Not words but deeds! So they set off into the suburbs, do some urban gardening and start a crying cafe as the conclusion of their socially-committed project.

Stop Acting Now

Actress and writer Nazmiye Oral discusses with her Turkish mother everything that was previously not discussed in the family. In stylized recordings, the women show extreme frankness. The viewer witnesses what the integration process looks like within this Turkish family, making it clear what the process of dialogue, misunderstanding and alienation yields within the intimacy of immigrant families. The understandable pain of this family about the modern life of their daughter gets an accessible face.

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Three middle-aged siblings — two sisters and a brother — with wildly different personalities struggle to make it through the Easter holidays as the brother suffers one of his psychotic episodes.

God Only Knows

On the border of Turkey and Iran, 19-year-old twin sisters Zahra and Fatimah from Afghanistan lose their family. To survive in a hostile world of smugglers and drug dealers, they face choices and dilemmas that severely test their symbiotic relationship and conscience.