How can we make meaningful contact after language fails us? In this short film, Genetic Choir singers make contact with elderly living with dementia through improvised sound.
The singers of the Genetic Choir Ensemble visit nursing homes and interact with residents living with dementia.

Can you make a virtue of necessity? When the nursing home Tuindorp-Oost in Utrecht deals with increasing vacancy due to budget cuts, the management comes up with a trick: rent the empty elderly homes to young people looking for residency.

Sil (10) and Merlijn (11) are about to go on a big journey: they will visit a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. From their mothers – who both volunteer in refugee camps – they’ve heard the stories about the children who live there. Now they want to see and experience it for themselves. 

How can you please a men without losing yourself? How do you build a stable relationship that lasts longer than a trial on a magazine? In a village in Zambia, the documentary filmmaker Kim Brand searches for the life lessons women share during the initiation rites of girls to adulthood.

This is a short documentary about a typical day in an elderly care facility, where bureaucracy and efficiency are increasingly what matter. The title, The Care Factory, is no exaggeration: the nurses carry cash cards and are constantly watching the clock.

By the hospital’s revolving door, a cat quietly observes. In this short documentary, Brand takes its place and meets visitors who reflect on illness, life, farewells, and gratitude.