North Sea Port Audience Award - Top 10
1
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Felipe Bustos Sierra
On a quiet street in Glasgow, an ordinary morning turns into an extraordinary act of resistance. In Everybody to Kenmure Street, Felipe Bustos Sierra reconstructs how a diverse community comes together to prevent the deportation of two neighbours. A compelling portrait of ...
4.96/5
2
Siri Hustvedt - Dance Around the Self
Sabine Lidl
Book by book, a detailed and playful portrait is painted of Siri Hustvedt, the celebrated American novelist and essayist. With her deep love of the written word always at its heart, this moving documentary captures both the highs and lows (and the quiet moments of fragile beauty ...
4.93/5
3
Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh
Two CIA agents arrive on Easter Island for an apparently innocent assignment, only to be confronted with their past. In this offbeat buddy comedy by Martin McDonagh, a tropical getaway spirals into an absurdist trip filled with dark humour and paranoia.
4.86/5
4
The Other Side of the Sun
Tawfik Sabouni
From the shadows of Syria’s infamous Sednaya prison, five survivors return to the place where years of their lives were stolen. Through powerful re-enactments, Tawfik Sabouni explores memory, trauma and the struggle to reclaim silenced voices, revealing how human connection can ...
4.83/5
4
Jonah Was Here
Nathalie Teirlinck
When grieving neurologist Bob moves into his late son's student room, the fifty-something finds himself living among his son's friends, habits and half-finished life. Nathalie Teirlinck's sophomore feature, with a captivating Koen De Bouw in the lead role, turns a father's ...
4.83/5
5
Tegenwoordig heet iedereen Sorry (9+) (Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays)
Frederike Migom
On a sweltering summer day, almost 13-year-old Bianca finds an unlikely confidante in her idol Billie King, a soap star who suddenly appears on her sofa. Frederike Migom, whose previous film Binti (2019) won the Ensor for Best Youth Film, turns Bart Moeyaert's beloved novel into ...
4.79/5
6
Queen at Sea
Lance Hammer
The destructive nature of dementia has been a source of inspiration for many a filmmaker, but perhaps never quite as unvarnished, carnal and discomforting as in Lance Hammer’s Queen At Sea. Eighteen years after his lauded debut Ballast, the independent director returns with a ...
4.77/5
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The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer (La ilusión de un verano sin fin)
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Best friends Guille and Beli live on the vast Argentian pampas, where they give free rein to their imagination. For 25 years, photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti followed them—from their lives as a prolonged children’s game to adulthood, which comes with a script of its own. ...
4.76/5
8
La bola negra (The Black Ball)
Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
Queer epic La bola negra breathes new life into unfinished work by Federico García Lorca. Filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, awarded Best Director at Cannes, explore and celebrate the interconnected stories of three gay men across different eras in Spain. A moving and ...
4.75/5
9
Gugu's world (9+) (Feito Pipa)
Allan Deberton
Colourful twelve-year-old Gugu loves football … and his caring but increasingly frail grandmother Dilma with whom he shares a house. But when Dilma’s age catches up, Gugu is determined to keep their world intact. A radiant queer coming-of-ager from Brazil, Gugu’s World proves ...
4.73/5
9
Coward
Lukas Dhont
Following the international success of Girl and Close, Lukas Dhont heads to the trenches of the First World War with his most ambitious film to date. Behind the lines, young soldier Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia in a striking debut) discovers an unexpected world of theatre, music and ...
4.73/5
10
Memory
Vladlena Sandu
In the deeply personal, poetic documentary Memory, Crimea-born filmmaker Vladlena Sandu seeks to deal with the war trauma from her Chechen childhood. She longs to transform fear into love using the power of imagination as her weapon, rooted in her memories and directed towards a ...
4.7/5
10
Mumbo (4+) (Da Mumbo Jumbo blev kæmpestor)
Karsten Kiilerich
When the little hippo Mumbo grows to giant size, he has to go on a dangerous journey with his three friends to find the witch Baba Yaga so she can turn him small again. Based on Jakob Martin Strid’s children’s book, this adventure might make Mumbo small again, but a whole lot ...
4.7/5