Hubert Bals Fund

A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.

On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.

Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their ...

The history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.

A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted.

Delia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

Alejandro, a cab driver, and his girlfriend Cecilia are in the midst of breaking up when they become adopted by a social group led by a bossy husband and wife team, Sergio and Susana.

After his bike and money gets stolen from him, Lucio struggles to find his place in the surrounding reality of Argentina in the 1990s.

An escort at a karaoke bar struggles to raise money to send her daughter out of the city to live with her grandmother and settle her debts with her pimp. She moves in with an aging photographer and helps him fulfill his last wishes.

A touching tale of how far a father will go for his child, no matter how old they get. During the illegal crossing of the Danube, the two fathers meet; Nicu, a Romanian searching for his kidnapped daughter Ina who was forced into ...

An 11-year-old and her mother are separated as the try to eke out a life on Nicaragua's largest landfill.

When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. But when she arrives, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, and she is fo...

Profound portrait of immigration, disillusionment, and the elusiveness of home.