Because of the big housing problem in the US many people move into cheap, run down hotels, the so-called Flophouse hotels. The director, Monica Strømdahl has been travelling around the US documenting the housing situation and people’s life in different flophouses. Four years ago she met Mikal, one of many children growing up in a hotel. Now Mikal wants to be part of this documentary film, hoping to help others by sharing his story.

A documentary about how Erdal Balci, a Turkish-Dutch writer, his search for self-liberation mirrors the struggle between the secular and the religious in the Netherlands and Turkey.

You can’t choose what you inherit. Or can you? No Place Like Home is an uncompromising look at what gets passed down. Framed around a contested house that split a family between Glasgow and rural North Ireland, it’s a coming-of-age story – a survival story – about the cost of love; and about how difficult it can be to escape.

While making a film about the family of her brother, who lives or survives on the fringes of society, the life of the family and that of the filmmaker is turned upside down by an unexpected turn. How do you relate to your family when things happen that are unthinkable and who is ultimately responsible?

With music, text and image composer Michel van der Aa composes interdisciplinary compositions that question huge themes as humans vs. machines, the truth and our consciousness . What fears, fascination and beliefs do drive Michel as an artist and as a human being?