Michael Helmerhorst

The last words of the gangster Dutch Schultz form the starting point for this animated documentary. The FBI noted these words down on Schultz’ deathbed, in the hope he would betray his colleagues. Here, spoken in the english version by Rutger Hauer, they accompany the sober, pencil drawn animation based on traced (film) images from Schultz’ time: the late 1920s, early 1930s.

In the middle of night Luna and Evy are dumped at a gas station along the busy freeway. Feeling miserable and cold the two girls decide to get back home, but when Luna comes up with the plan to cross the hazardous freeway the two girls lose track of each other.

In this impressionistic film by Dutch director Marie José van der Linden, a young girl surfing stations on a shortwave radio experiences a flood of images and memories, until she arrives at the last station on the dial: Umanak.