• Daniel Chatard (DE)

An investigation of the impact of brown coal extraction in Germany’s Rhineland, showing the emotional and physical toll of the mining operations.

• Stephen Cornford (GB)

A colourful speculation on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record.

• Tanja Engelberts (NL)

A photographic exploration of the offshore oil and gas industry, highlighting the raw structures on the sea while evoking a sense of awe and guilt.

• Kristof Titeca (BE)

A collage of decorative and political works from Nasser Road, Kampala, a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud.

• Sem Langendijk (NL)

A documentary fiction about the environments of port cities, highlighting the transformation of disused docklands and its communities.

• Sander van Wettum (NL)

An exploration into the off-season state of seaside resorts of the coastlines of Southern Europe, along surreal architecture, spaces and atmospheres.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

A surprising and critical artistic view of the downsides of the digital platform economy.

• Heleen Peeters (BE)

An exploration of the long shared history of the relationship between human and horse in different parts of the world.

• Lucas Leffler (BE)

Over the course of 50 years, a former employee of a photographic factory secretly recovered tonnes of silver from a wastewater creek in Antwerp.

• Natascha Libbert (NL)

About life in the technical zone around locks, ports and ships, following the renovation of the sea lock in IJmuiden, port access to Amsterdam.

• Arthur Mebius (NL)

Monitoring the routine operations by the North Korean aviation crew which appears as a rehearsed play of maintenance, controls and procedures.

• Esther Hessing (NL)
• Sophieke Thurmer (NL)

Firsthand stories of the people living and working in the Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl, 30 years after the nuclear accident.

• Christopher J Everard (GB)

An objective investigation of the guilt that surrounds the adult entertainment industry and the consumption of its products and services.

• Reinout van den Bergh (NL)

A portrait of the miners who lived in the mine housing estate in Beringen, where life and work went hand-in-hand.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

An examination of the development of new food crops and how this process bears upon the world food problem.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

An investigation of the mystic nature of high-tech research, focusing on the relationship between people and technology.