Festival Favourites

Festival Favourites features audience favourites that have proven their quality at international festivals.

Aisha Can’t Fly Away

Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver living in a rough neighbourhood in Cairo. She is stuck between an undefined relationship with a young Egyptian cook, a gangster that blackmails her, and a new house she’s assigned to work in. Craving a better life, Aisha’s dreams keep being confronted with reality.

Mijn woord tegen het mijne

One in ten people hear voices. In this film by Maasja Ooms, we meet five people who live with this phenomenon. One person has a single voice, another has nineteen. One voice wants to protect, another wants to kill.

The Plague

At an all-boys water polo camp, socially anxious 12-year-old Ben is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call ‘The Plague’. But as the lines between game and reality blur, Ben fears the joke might be hiding something real.

The President’s Cake

In poverty-stricken 1990s Iraq, young Lamia is selected to prepare a cake for the President’s birthday. Because basic ingredients are hard to find, Lamia goes on a journey in search of eggs, flour and sugar. It becomes a tender, tragicomic odyssey, offering a child-eye’s view of life under authoritarianism.

The Six Billion Dollar Man

Gripping account of Julian Assange’s rise, fall and protracted seven-year limbo inside the Ecuadorian embassy. With unprecedented access and previously unseen behind-the-scenes material, the film spans five continents, weaving groundbreaking new evidence into an international high-tech spy thriller of secrets, espionage, torture and murder.

Steal This Story, Please!

The story of independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman and her work for the daily online, TV, and radio news programme Democracy Now! In addition to Goodman’s life story, this film shows the alarming history of the commercialization of media and attacks on press freedom in the US.