“Forbidden Fruits” (2026)
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.

Tika, the daughter of TiTa Tovenaar, can stop everything around her just by clapping her hands. But she longs to learn so much more and to meet other people. She feels quite lonely in the sky castle where she lives, and her father, TiTaTovenaar, is mostly busy turning strawberries into camels. Luckily, there are the Grobbebollen and the wizard’s apprentice Kwark. Through them, Tika ends up in the Grobbedal and gets caught up in an exciting adventure, where she meets the Grobbedalers as well as the wicked Grobelia and Grobbema…
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.
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