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  • Prullenpaleis (Trashpalace) (2025)
  • Short | 16 min | Short
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Prullenpaleis (Trashpalace) (2025)
Short | 16 min | Short

In a community center, children sit in a circle with youth worker Nona around a gray trash can. What begins as a playful exercise shouting words into the trash can grows into a powerful outlet for frustrations, worries, and dreams. We dive...See moreIn a community center, children sit in a circle with youth worker Nona around a gray trash can. What begins as a playful exercise shouting words into the trash can grows into a powerful outlet for frustrations, worries, and dreams. We dive into the trash can and follow three children in their personal worlds: Jayden, who has always wanted to be a DJ but feels discouraged by her neighbor, a poet, until she decides to use his art form in her own style and finds her voice as a poetic DJ; Nour, who navigates between the worlds of her Dutch friends and her Egyptian father, searching for her own space within bi-cultural rules; and Kian, whose imagination takes him through climate disasters and political helplessness. Their inner worlds blend music, dance, poetry, and social reflection into a vibrant mosaic of imagination and civic engagement. The film unfolds as a circular narrative: only at the end do we realize that the opening scene is the closing image of a shared journey. Trash Palace is a film about how children, in all their playfulness and seriousness, find a space in a community center to voice their questions, fears, and dreams and dare to express them together. See less
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Director
Roos Spruijt (director)
Writer
Roos Spruijt (writer)
Producer
Pom Cosijn (producer)
Composers
Nahuel Calzado Chaui (composer) | Daniel Gulp (music by) | Mart Pool (music by) | Haytham Safia (music by) | Ezra Tirado (music by)
Cinematographer
Maite Meijlink (cinematography)
Editor
Keno Aladjuz (editor)
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Release date
Sep 27, 2025 (Netherlands)

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