Netherlands Film Fund

When the mayor promises housing for everyone and the polls open in this animation, the hounded doves are quick to act. With an election result that would delight the Partij for the Animals.

A mother takes her trans non-binary teenager Frances to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jimpa. But Frances' desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad means Hannah is forced to re-consider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.

Debuting filmmaker Myrid Carten has been filming since she was a child, and when her mother goes missing, she picks up her camera again in response to this new crisis. Her mother Nuala, once a successful social worker, suffered a mental breakdown after the sudden death of her own mother. She shuffles between rehab clinics, psychiatric hospitals, and occasionally the street.