• Angeniet Berkers (NL)

The compelling history of the programme to provide the Third Reich with a new generation of leaders, focusing on the personal consequences for those involved.

• Lana Mesić (NL)

An examination of the role and meaning of the enemy image in the complex history and contested borders that shaped the countries of former Yugoslavia.

• Peter Pflügler (AT)

An intimate journey through the labyrinth of a family secret, focusing on the impossibility of secrets and intergenerational trauma.

• Sari Soininen (FI)

The portrayal of a transcendental experience that explores encounters with alternative dimensions of reality and perceptions of otherworldly signs.

• Crystal Bennes (US)

Extensive research on the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved.

• Marc Schroeder (LU)

A documentary research into the deportations of ethnic Germans from Romania to Soviet forced labour camps on Stalin’s order in 1944.

• Wiosna van Bon (NL)

Portraits of the families of detainees, who are suddenly confronted with ethical questions that put their relationships under great pressure.

• Valeria Cherchi (IT)

A photo-text book that attempts to decode the complex kidnapping phenomenon on Sardinia between the 1960s and the 1990s.

• Lynn Alleva Lilley (US)

An exploration of sceneries, residents, refugees and animals in Jordan, using photography to make sense of what Alleva Lilley was seeing and feeling.

• Peter Dekens (BE)

A memorable photo project about the coping process of surviving relatives of suicides in West Flanders, Belgium.

• Miyuki Okuyama (JP/NL)

Documenting the offspring of Japanese soldiers and Indonesian women, born during the Pacific War, now living in the Netherlands.

• Karin Borghouts (BE)

A poignant but serene look at a childhood home that was destroyed by fire.

• Peter Dekens (BE)

A moving photo story about a young man born blind, captured during the twilight hours of the day in his apartment.