Writings Under Streetlight

Sjoerd en Sonny op 1 April 2025

Rusty Horse

Obsessed with understanding his Vietnamese girlfriend's final words before her suicide, a grieving young man seeks help from a therapist who speaks her language. Only to break down, as does meaning in the face of grief.

Weeknights

Three guys working the graveyard shift around a deserted urban college campus try to make it through a long and lonely night on the job.

Ishmael

In a place lost to history, soldiers are sent to cull a rebellion brought on by mass psychosis. Ishmael, the executioner, and Boethius, an officiating priest, have grown tired of this bloodwork. When they’re tasked with killing Absalom, a delusional pig farmer who believes himself the royal heir, the two must make a decision; to execute him or to encourage his delusion. A path that could either absolve them of guilt or leave all three dead.

Luto

Damian, grieving his girlfriend's death, travels through Mexico seeking solace. Along the way, he connects with strangers and witnesses their coping rituals, finding a path through his own memories and regrets.

A Stone Story

Go on, laugh

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental health. the further the film continues, the more prominent his descent into madness becomes.

Butterfly Woman

MiniDV visions portraying the anguish of a curious artist who becomes obsessed with replicating images of a woman he sees in his dreams.

French Story

Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town.

Blue Moon Once

John the Baptist finds himself in a Holešovice silo, a wanderer roams across Prague´s brownfields and several women face their fathers.

Steel City Bloom

A gruff man wanders an industrial landscape.

Verrückt

Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of the subject.

Pattern

Five months after the maternal death of his partner, a man is at a crossroads with how to raise their baby.

Talisman

In a place that offers no hope, Sabreen, burdened by blame and trapped by expectations, yearns for a fleeting moment of freedom to reclaim what remains of herself.

When We Cross

As he declutters his house for a move, a grieving man faces the ghosts tied to his belongings.

A Brighter Summer Day

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

HŏSa

Inundated by the relentless, breakneck pace of Seoul, a weary woman seeks to anesthetize her misery with alcohol and partying. Longing to break free, she will have to take a leap of faith to find solace and serenity.

Breaking Point

A father and son, affected by the tragedy at a railway station in Serbia, grieve in different ways.

Atali'i O Le Crezent (Sons of the Crezent)