CATALOGUE 2020
Content Foreword 4 JURY Jury Best Children’s Film Competition 6 Jury Best Dutch Family Film Competition 8 Jury Best International Short Competition 10 Jury Best Dutch Short Competition 12 Jury Members Best Dutch Series Competition 14 Cinekid ZAPP Young Talent Award 16 FILM Introduction 19 Best Children’s Film 20 Best Dutch Family Film 27 Out of Competition Feature Films 33 Best International Animated Short 37 Best International Live-Action Short 51 Best Dutch Animated Short 59 Best Dutch Documentary Short 62 Best Dutch Live Action Short 66 Out of Competition Short Films 69 Spotlight 79 Best of Dutch Shorts 84 Best of Cinekid on Tour 86 Educational Screening 88
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SERIES Introduction 93 Best Dutch Fiction Series 94 Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series 97 National Audience Award 101 Television Premieres 102 Special Screenings 106 NEW MEDIA Introduction 113 Installations 114 Game/App 120 Workshops 122 CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS Age of Action 129 Cinekid for professionals Programme 130 Index 132 Credits 136
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Creativity is a superpower Children literally see things we no longer see. As adults, we lose sight of certain things, whereas a child’s gaze springs from the imagination and curiosity about how the world works. Children are inventors, always on a voyage of discovery. As we grow older, we increasingly focus on those things we know we are good at. This often blunts our curiosity and diminishes the creativity we naturally possessed as a child. All these characteristics of children – their boundless curiosity; their exceptionally sharp eye for the essence of things; their unparalleled creativity; and above all their preference for nature – make children more politically aware than we adults usually give them credit for. Children are not just there to be taught: they can also teach us. Creativity is a superpower. As children show us, every single day. I propose that we make more space for the imagination in all our everyday lives. This is particularly important right now. Covid-19 is having a huge impact on everyone’s life. No longer being able to go to school; maintaining contact with the outside world through a computer screen; online teaching – the role of the digital world has again expanded exponentially. This year, Cinekid once again playfully offers children access to global perspectives and new forms of creativity and storytelling from the best makers in the world. We are opening up our festival heart digitally this year; our rich, stimulating programme can be experienced by all children from their own homes through the fictitious Cinekid Play universe. They can explore this universe for themselves, discovering planets with themes that overlap with their own experience, which they can then explore through films, workshops and games. But there is more. For two whole weeks during the autumn holiday we will also be taking the festival to children in their own neighbourhoods, with daily live streams of film
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premières, workshops and much, much more. More than ever before, Cinekid will reach children throughout the Netherlands. In addition, more professionals than ever before can visit Cinekid this year, as for them too the festival will be entirely virtual. We will certainly miss the personal, physical meetings – but as in previous years we will strive to surprise, stimulate and inspire with current forum topics and virtual meetings between makers and other professionals. This has been a surreal time – from the moment I started as director in January, nothing has been certain. The subsequent rollercoaster ride has brought new insights and demanded a great deal of creativity and flexibility. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to our loyal advisers and ambassadors, who this year once again make the festival possible. Of course the highest praise goes to the Cinekid team, who in no time have had to switch from a ‘normal’ festival to the online Cinekid for Professionals, Cinekid Play, ten festivals throughout the country and the Cinekid on Tour programme in 17 cities.
Heleen Rouw Festival director
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Jury Best Children’s Film Competition Out of the 300 feature film entries that Cinekid received from all over the world, 15 films were selected for the prestigious Best Children’s Film Competition. A jury of four international professionals with a background in film or children’s media will decide who get the Best Children’s Film Jury Award and reward the production company of the winning film with a Cinekid Lion statue and the sum of €7,500. Furthermore, the children in the audience at the festival screenings also vote for their favourite film in the competition. The highest-rated film receives the Cinekid Lion for the Best Children’s Film Audience Award.
Likarion Wainaina (Kenya) The gift of storytelling is what turned Likarion Wainaina into an award-winning cinematographer and film/television director. One of his first films, Between the Lines, made history by becoming Kenya’s first film to be projected on an Imax screen. His next short film, Bait, was selected as one of the top shorts to be screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He is also the co-founder of Kibanda Pictures, a film production company that aims to tell African stories in an African way. His most recent feature, Supa Modo, received the Children’s Jury Special Mention at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival, amassed 54 awards from all around the world and is Kenya’s Oscar submission for the 91st Academy Awards.
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Andrea Posthuma (The Netherlands) Andrea Posthuma has worked in the cultural and audio-visual industry for more than twenty years, personally experiencing the structural changes brought about by digitalisation and internationalisation. As the MEDIA programme manager a t the Creative Europe Desk NL, her work encompasses the entire chain: from film education and (talent) development to production, distribution and operation. She advises on and assists with subsidy applications, while also being involved in the implementation of European Commission policy.
Frederike Migom (Belgium) Frederike Migom is a director, writer and actor. She worked as an assistant producer for three years at Caviar Films before setting out to direct her first short film, Malakim, in 2013, followed by Adam & Everything (2014) and Nkosi Coiffure (2015). The latter was supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and has screened at Tribeca and BFI, among many other festivals, winning awards in Valladolid, Washington and Brussels, among others. While writing her feature debut Binti, she shot two short documentaries: Suitcase full of Dreams (2016) for the Belgian national broadcaster and Si-G (2017). Binti premiered in 2019 and was selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2020. The film has screened at more than 40 festivals worldwide, picking up 10 awards so far, including the Cinekid Lion Jury Award.
Ramin Zahed (United States) Ramin Zahed is an L.A.-based author and journalist who specializes in animation, visual effects, pop culture and indie films. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Animation Magazine and has written for Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Sight and Sound and others. Zahed is the author of many books on animation, including The Art of Connected, The Art of Klaus, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie, The Art of Missing Link and J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Movie Magic.
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Jury Best Dutch Family Film Competition The Netherlands is internationally renowned as a major producer of family films. Over the years, the number, quality, and diversity of Dutch children’sfilms have steadily increased, in part owning to the children’s film initiatives of the Netherlands Film Fund. For the Best Dutch Family Film Competition, Cinekid selects the best Dutch feature films made since the last festival, which are aimed at Children under 14 or suitable for the entire family. The winner of the Best Dutch Family Film Jury Award will receive the sum of €7,500 and a Cinekid Lion statue. The children visiting the festival award their own Cinekid Lion Audience Award to the highest-rated film in the competition.
Sebastian Korteweg (The Netherlands) Sebastian Korteweg is the Programming Manager for Pathé. In this role, he curates the range for all cinemas and enters into agreements on films with the independent distributors. He is also responsible for the strategy and programming of arthouse films. He started out at Kaap Holland Film before moving to RTL, where he had final responsibility for film programming, as well as being involved in content acquisition for Videoland and the production and co-production of more than 30 Dutch-language films. For the past two years he has lived in Barcelona, where he has sold film rights for publisher Penguin Random House, while also producing his own documentary in the US.
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Steven Wouterlood (The Netherlands) Steven Wouterlood is a director of films, series and television programmes. His short youth films Anything Goes (2013) and Kingsday (2015) won him an Emmy Award, two TIFF Awards and a Cinekid Kinderkast Award. With Margien Rogaar, he also directed the TV series Remi – Nobody’s Boy (2016), nominated for an Emmy Award. Steven’s first feature-length film for theatrical release came out in 2019: the film version of Anna Woltz’s award-winning youth novel My Extraordinary Summer with Tess. The film premièred in Berlin and went on to win many prizes, screening in cinemas in more than fifteen countries. During Cinekid 2019, the film picked up the Cinekid Audience Lion for Best Children’s Film.
Tosca Menten (The Netherlands) Tosca Menten is an author of youth books. She made her debut in 1999 with Villa Mosterd and the Revenge of Count Gruwel, has won several Dutch Children’s Jury Awards, and in 2011 she was awarded first prize by the Flemish Children’s and Youth Jury for Dummie the Mummy and the Golden Scarab. This book also won an international White Raven. Menten also wrote the 2012 Dutch Children’s Book Week free book. The film and theatre rights to Dummie the Mummy, Dirkje Bakkes and The Revenge of Knor have been sold to various production companies and the translation rights to her work have been sold to publishers in more than fifteen countries. She celebrated her twentieth year as a writer in 2019.
Pauline Kleijer (The Netherlands) Pauline Kleijer studied Musicology and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She lives in Rotterdam and works as a freelance (film) journalist and editor for publications such as De Groene Amsterdammer, De Morgen, De Filmkrant and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. She has written about film in newspaper de Volkskrant almost every week since 1999. She is also a programmer for Rotterdam’s Pleinbioscoop cinema.
Niek Teunissen (The Netherlands) Niek Teunissen is a producer. He graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2012. With Casper Eskes, he founded production company Umami Media, known for theatrically released films such as Painkillers (2014), Enough! (2016) and The Conductor (2018). In addition, he developed and produced the format The Amsterdam Project (winner of the TV Beeld voor Best Format and Best Reality and nominated for the Silver Nipkowschijf and Golden Televizierring awards). He also produced the series The Club of Ugly Children: The Coup, following on from the feature film of the same title released in 2019, recipient of a Golden Film as well as many festival selections and awards.
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Jury Best International Short Competition The Jury Best International Short Competition is a unique programme for short films that are suitable for young children and do not exceed thirty minutes. The competition comprises two categories, one for animation and one for live action. With these short films, Cinekid seeks to introduce young children to themes and narrative styles from as many countries as possible. There is much talent and even in the smallest countries, beautiful works are produced on a regular basis. However, projects that focus on children are still limited and therefore deserve support. This year, Cinekid made a selection of 44 short films, 27 animations and 16 live-action shorts. In both categories, a jury consisting of three members will select a winner to receive the sum of â‚Ź2,500 and a Cinekid Lion statuette.
Fokion Xenos (Greece) Fokion is a Director/ Designer from Athens, Greece born in 1990. As an animation filmmaker he is interested in playful and bold stories that focus on visual wit and emotional honesty. With a particular emphasis on colour and form he is very keen into combining practical and digital techniques to create unique emerging visuals. His MA graduation film Heatwave produced at the National Film and Television School has been awarded by multiple prestigious film festivals such as Edinburgh Int. Film Festival, Cinekid, Athens Int. Film Fest, AnimaSyros and many others. In addition Heatwave has been officially selected in more than 70 film festivals all over the globe including Annecy, Anima Mundi, Encounters, LSSF, LIAF as well as it has been Shortlisted for the Student BAFTA LA. Recently it won best student short film award at the Royal Television Society.
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Kato De Boeck (Belgium) Kato De Boeck (1994) is a Belgian director and script writer who graduated in 2018 from the Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels. She finished her master program in film directing with her autobiographical short film Provence, which was selected at more than 50 festivals and has won over 20 (inter)national awards such as Best International Short at Cinekid and Zlin Film Festival. Kato just finished shooting a new short film, as part of the Belgian tv series Lockdown, and is currently writing an LGBT+ web series Roomies and a new short film Darling, all of this together with her partner in crime Flo Van Deuren.
Melissa Delmee Maletras (The Netherlands) Melissa Delmee Maletras is the director as well as one of the senior programmers of Leiden International Short Film Experience (LISFE). In April 2020 she became a member of the Kijk-Goed Selection Committee from the Eye Museum, which selects educational short films to be used in the classroom by teachers across the Netherlands. She is also part of the Viewing Committee of Movies that Matter.
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Jury Best Dutch Short Competition For the third year, Cinekid hosts a special competition for Dutch short films. The Best Dutch Short Competition aims to highlight the quality and diversity of Dutch shorts for the domestic children audience and to promote the films internationally. A total of 20 short films were selected and divided into three categories: live action, documentary and animation. A jury of five experts from the short film field will choose one film for each category and award them with the Best Dutch Live Action Short, the Best Dutch Documentary Short and the Best Dutch Animated Short Jury Awards, respectively. In each case, the winning film’s production company will receive a sum of ₏2,500 and a Cinekid Lion statuette.
Camiel Schouwenaar (The Netherlands) Camiel Schouwenaar works as a writer/director for film and television. After graduating from the Netherlands Film Academy, he started directing puppet show productions and TV series that won international awards and were broadcast in Europe and Asia. Nowadays, he creates family and animated films. His work includes the animated short Polska Warrior, the ultra-short Blind Date and television series such as Am Mosleh, The Westside Four and Villa Rednose. He has won three Cinekid Jury Awards, and has been recognised with numerous other prizes worldwide, including a Unesco Award in 2018 and the Prix Jeunesse in Munich in 2001 and in 2002.
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Loes Komen (The Netherlands) Loes Komen founded production company Room for Film with fellow producer Eva Verweij shortly after graduating from the Netherlands Film Academy. Room for Film produces fiction films, documentaries, short films and podcasts such as the internationally renowned Marlon Brando, When Grey is a Colour and En Route. She gained experience in the film industry working for established and internationally renowned producers. She was nominated for the annual graduate producers’ award by the FPN (Film Producers Netherlands) and was a participant at Berlinale Talents 2019, Rotterdam Lab at IFFR 2018 and Talent en Route at the HFM (2018).
René van Zundert (The Netherlands) René van Zundert graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2011. His graduation film Hard voor de hal was selected for IDFA and nominated for the Go Short Award for Best Dutch Film. He then made the short documentary Thuisprikkers in collaboration with Vice Magazine. In recent years, he has found inspiration in the Rotterdam-Zuid district. He considers it important to tell stories from this part of the city as these reflect the reality of people who are less visible on television. This resulted in the documentaries Bars and 180cc. The latter won the Best Dutch Documentary Short award at Cinekid.
Sharif Abdel Mawla (The Netherlands) Sharif Abdel Mawla studied Media & Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He then started work in the world of film and advertising. In 2017, he directed the short film 7 Moroccans and Jos. In 2019, he directed his second short, Jetski. This received nominations for the Cinekid Award for Best Dutch Short. In 2019, he was selected for the Talent en Route programme at the Netherlands Film Festival. Since 2019, he has been represented by Partizan, director Michel Gondry’s international film production house. He is currently involved in the production of his latest film, Taco Tuesday, with Partizan.
Wouter Jansen (The Netherlands) Wouter Jansen is the owner of sales and festival distribution company Square Eyes. He worked as the head of programming for the first ten editions of Go Short - International Film Festival Nijmegen. With Square Eyes, he represents bold, author-driven features and shorts and collaborates closely with filmmakers. This has resulted in a small catalogue of films premiering at prestigious festivals and picking up multiple awards at festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand. Furthermore, he has lectured at various film schools, as well as moderating and leading workshops at numerous festivals.
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Jury Members Best Dutch Series Competition The Best Dutch Series Jury Award rewards the best Dutch episodic productions that have aired since the last festival. In total, 14 series were selected in two separate categories: Best Dutch Fiction Series and Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series. For each production, three episodes had to be submitted. For the Fiction Series competition, these had to be three chronologically linked episodes. For Non-Fiction, the participant could choose freely which three episodes to submit. A jury of five experts from the world of children’s television watches all the submitted episodes and chooses one winning series for each category. The production companies of the recipients of the Best Dutch Fiction Series and the Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series Jury Awards are rewarded with a Cinekid Lion statuette.
Iris Otten (The Netherlands) Iris Otten has been a producer with Pupkin since 2009. Having spent several years working for various production companies, in 2009 she became a partner at Pupkin where she produced, among others, multiple Golden Calf winners How to Avoid Everything and We Will Never Be Royals, as well as the Emmy-nominated productions Penguins and Pastry and Boys, as well as the debut films Quality Time and Take me Somewhere Nice, selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition. Her most recent productions are the youth series Seven Little Criminals, Mees Peijnenburg’s debut Paradise Drifters and the Christmas series Rudy’s Crazy Christmas Show.
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Iven Cudogham (The Netherlands) Iven Cudogham has worked in children’s media since 2007. As a presenter of various children’s programmes for broadcaster SBS6, the annual arrival of Sinterklaas in Amsterdam and (for more than seven years) popular AT5 children’s programme Basta, he has extensive experience in children’s television, both out front and behind the scenes. In 2018, he set up children’s media company Seemee, and together with a team of passionate makers fulfils as many children’s hearts as possible with books on the adventures of the smart, naughty spider Anansi from African folk tales.
Janneke van Heesch (The Netherlands) Janneke van Heesch completed her Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in 2012. She went on to direct the television short Basile H., which was nominated in 2015 for the Dutch Directors Guild Award. She also directed the series Diary of a Call Girl and the children’s film Zevenbergen, one of the six short opening films at Cinekid 2015. In addition, she created a series of short experimental films titled De Eurocommisaris for Dutch theatre company Mugmetdegoudentand and directed the twenty-part Christmas series Plaster, based on the book of the same title by Anna Woltz. The feature version of Plaster opened Cinekid 2018 and in 2019 Plaster screened at festivals including the 14th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival in Korea.
Kim Faber (The Netherlands) Kim Faber completed her training as an editor at the age of nineteen, but during her studies soon realised that her true passion is for making documentaries. In 2014, Kim obtained a Bachelor of Design with Honours in documentary directing from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. She graduated with the award-winning documentary I Let You Go, a film about the rights of psychiatric patients to self-determination. Early in 2018 she participated in the Kids & Docs workshop organised by IDFA and Cinekid, resulting in her first youth documentary, Thibault, which premièred at the 2018 Cinekid festival. She also directs for the VPRO youth series One Week to Go, which won Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series at Cinekid 2019.
Niek Roozen (The Netherlands) Niek Roozen made his name playing Max in the first four seasons of Dutch youth series First Year. He has also made his own programme for NPO Zapp: Britt & Niek On Topic. In 2016, he played a lead role in the feature film Renesse and appeared in the NPO Zapp series The Curse of Riding School Pegasus. He has also appeared in the hit film Misfit, Cuban Love and First Year: The Movie. Other acting credits include a lead role in Misfit 2 (nominated for Best Dutch Family Film this year) and Project Gio, as well as a role in the theatre production First Year: The Musical. Alongside acting he also directs, making his debut in 2018 with the short film Pril. His latest short, STIK, premièred in 2019.
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Cinekid ZAPP Young Talent Award Cinekid and broadcaster NPO present the Cinekid ZAPP Young Talent Award. With this award, the two organisations celebrate the most distinctive young maker (<21 years) of the year. Now more than ever, children and young people are active in seeking out and pushing boundaries as filmmakers. During the run-up to the festival, children from all over the country can nominate makers. A five-strong jury put together by Cinekid and ZAPP and consisting of young creatives will then pick the winner. This winner receives a Cinekid Lion and will be present at the opening to receive the award. In addition, the winner will act as an ambassador for the Cinekid festival during that year and will be given a role within ZAPPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programming and digital channels. Furthermore, the makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work will be celebrated on the Cinekid Play online platform and s/he can curate a planet of films and series within the Cinekid programme. An individual person may only win the award once and the winner automatically sits on the jury for the next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award.
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INTRODUCTION
Film Programme With its 2020 edition, Cinekid is again pushing the envelope. In a year unlike any other, Cinekid is exploring new, exciting opportunities to ensure that as many children as possible have access to quality films for young people. Not only is the festival presenting its largest programme to date but the Cinekid film selection will also screen all over the Netherlands, in ten different locations in seven cities. Such a far-reaching festival demands equally ambitious curation. We are delighted that our team has again been successful in bringing together a highly diverse line-up originating from 43 different countries and offering many different themes and ways of storytelling. Eclectic line-up
Supporting the worldwide industry
At the time of writing, cinemas in the Netherlands are not yet operating at full capacity and travel is still very much restricted. It is therefore more important than ever that the festival does everything it can to bring its programming to its audience. As always, it is our goal to present an overview of the best productions in all possible genres. All of this is reflected in the 2020 Best Children’s Film Competition line-up, offering an eclectic selection of the best new children’s films from all over the world. Included in the selection are highly anticipated international premieres such as our beautiful French animated opening film Calamity, but also more introspective titles such as the thought-provoking Finnish production Eden or Lithuanian-Irish kitchen sink drama The Castle.
With the whole film industry suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, it is more important than ever to celebrate the best examples of quality children’s film. We are extremely grateful to once again be able to present many fantastic new productions, including a large number of titles previously developed as part of the Cinekid Script LAB or pitched at the CfP Junior Co-production Market (for example Calamity). Quality entertainment for children remains a vital part of our cinema landscape and Cinekid will keep on playing its part in promoting and stimulating this industry worldwide.
Tales of war and morality Many of this year’s titles deal with children living under wartime occupation, with each film covering this topic in a highly original way. In Norwegian drama The Crossing, the protagonists are forced to make a run for the border; while in the German film Dear Mr. Führer, the children in a small village have nowhere to run and will need to come to terms with the consequences of their own choices. The Fantastic Journey of Margot & Marguerite takes a lighter approach, utilizing a mysterious chest as a device to allow a contemporary girl to trade places with another teen in war-torn France.
Erik Tijman Head of Film & Series
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Bert’s Diary
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
Berts dagbok
Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary
Bert is excited about going to a new school, and is determined to be the coolest kid in class. But this proves more difficult than he thought, especially when he falls for pretty Leila – two years above him and massively popular. To get closer to her, he befriends Leila’s younger sister Amira. His two friends, Åke and Erik, help out by getting him fake tickets for the latest film featuring superhero Lynx. Things seem to be going well until he gets hold of a diary. Is it Leila’s? Should he read it?
In 1863, a caravan treks westward though the United States, in search of more land. Twelve-year-old Martha Jane learns to drive the covered wagon after her father is injured in an accident. To make horse-riding easier, the energetic girl swaps her skirts for trousers. But such unorthodoxy is too much for the leader of the caravan. Following an explosive confrontation, Martha Jane sets off alone. She lives a life of adventure, discovers the sensation of freedom and learns her own value.
The pitfalls of teenage life are colourfully exaggerated in this deft, laconic comedy with lots of winks and its heart in the right place. Naïve Bert might just gain some worldly wisdom through all his trials and tribulations. Based on characters invented by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson (as is Sune – Best Man, also competing at Cinekid).
The dramatic youth of legendary Wild West character Martha Jane Cannary forms the backbone of this adventurous, exciting coming-of-age story inspired by the Western genre, but with a strong female protagonist. Jane continues to be a role model for today’s kids in this Cinekid opening film, which uses a stylised realistic animation style and makes appealing use of colour and true-to-life character sketches. Also competing in the main competition at Annecy.
MICHAEL LINDGREN SWEDEN | 2020 | 90’ | 9+
RÉMI CHAYÉ FRANCE, DENMARK | 2020 | 85’ | 6+
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FACTS
Dutch title Het dagboek van Bert Producer Rebecka Lafrenz
Dutch title Calamity Producer Henri Magalon, Claire La Combe
Screenwriter Tapio Leopold Editor Joakim Tessert-Ekström
Screenwriter Rémi Chayé, Sandra Tosello, Fabrice de Costil Editor
Composer Markus Bergkvist Leading actors Hugo Krajcik, Julia
Benjamin Massoubre Composer Florencia Di Concilio Leading
Pirzadeh, Frank Dorsin, Yussra El Abdouni Production company
actors Santiago Barban, Jérémy Bardeau, Gaspar Bellegarde,
FLX, Sweden, info@flx.se , www.flx.se Sales company Swedish Film
Salomé Boulven, Max Brunner, Claus Toksvig Kjaer Production
Institute, Sweden, registrator@sfi.se, www.sfi.se
company Maybe Movies, France, contact@maybemovies.com, www.maybemovies.com Sales company Indie Sales, France, info@indiesales.eu, www.indiesales.eu Distributor Cinéart Nederland
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BEST CHILDREN’S FILM
The Castle
The Crossing
Pilis
Flukten over grensen
Monika and her mother Jolanta have moved from Lithuania to Dublin. Formerly a professional pianist, Jolanta now works hard in a fish processing plant and caring for Monika’s grandma, who has dementia. Jolanta has set her own dreams aside – unlike Monika, an extremely talented singer. When they receive an offer to perform together in The Castle Jolanta refuses, but thirteen-year-old Monika goes ahead anyway. But in her frustration she does something that could transform her fairy tale into tragedy.
Norway, December 1942. It’s wartime, but ten-year-old Gerda is immersed in playing out a fantasy about the Three Musketeers. Until, suddenly, her parents are arrested. With her serious brother Otto, she finds two Jewish children hiding in the basement. They decide to help them by traveling to the Swedish border together. This is the start of a dangerous journey – all the more so when the Germans find their tracks in the snowy woods. Some people help them, but not everyone can be trusted.
A familiar situation is given an unusual treatment and not only because the confused grandmother keeps trying to walk into the sea, back to Lithuania. An emotionally honest, convincingly acted coming-of-age story and at the same time a poignant, social realist drama that shows how difficult immigrant life can be. The denouement – the moment Monika realises what her music can mean – is guaranteed to move even the hardest heart.
LINA LUZYTÉ IRELAND, LITHUANIA | 2020 | 90’ | 10+ FACTS
This thrilling drama for young people starts with real newsreel footage and presents the adventure realistically, but without losing its youthful perspective or oversimplifying. Otto for example proves susceptible to Nazi propaganda, and a German soldier doesn’t betray the children. Dedicated to the refugees and helpers at the time – also those who didn’t come out alive. Winner of Best Norwegian Children’s Film in Norway.
JOHANNE HELGELAND NORWAY | 2020 | 96’ | 9+ FACTS
Dutch title Het kasteel Producer David Collins, Kęstutis Drazdauskas
Dutch title The Crossing Producer Cornelia Boysen Screenwriter
Screenwriter Lina Luzyté Editor Benjamin Mirguet Composer
Maja Lunde Editor Jon Endre Mørk Composer Stein Berge Svendsen
Jonas Jurkunas Leading actors Barbora Bareikytė, Gabija
Leading actors Anna Sofie Skarholt, Bo Lindquist-Ellingsen,
Jaraminaitė, Jūratė Onaitytė Production company Artbox,
Samson Steine, Bianca Ghilardi-Hellsten, Henrik Siger Woldene,
Lithuania, kestas@artbox.lt , www.artbox.lt Sales company
Kari Simonsen Production company Maipo Film- og TV-
Wide Management, France, infos@widemanagement.com,
Produksjon, Norway, maipo@maipo.no, www.maipo.no
www.widemanagement.com
Sales company TrustNordisk, Denmark, info@trus tnordisk.com, www.trustnordisk.com Distributor In The Air BV
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Dear Mr. Führer
Eden
Das Glaszimmer World War II is nearing its end. As the bombs rain down on Munich, Anna and her son Felix flee to the village where she was born. An old school friend, now a fervent Nazi, has converted almost everyone in the village. Anna rejects this completely, but as a newcomer Felix wants to make friends and goes along with it. When he finds a deserter in an old barn, it turns out to be his father, who Felix believed had been killed at the front. Gradually, Felix finds out that war is no game. Based on the memories of co-screenwriter Josef Einwanger, Christian Lerch gives a convincing depiction of a village permeated by the grim drama of war. Lively use of the handheld camera reinforces our sensation of experiencing the events with Felix. Tense youth adventure about compassion and belonging, propaganda and moral choices with a poignant, liberating denouement.
In Ulla Heikkilä’s first feature – a richly emotional ensemble piece about being young – the director devotes a lot of attention to how these young people experience the world. The characters and their relationships with one another are at least as important as the dramatic incidents; the religious rituals mainly serve to raise questions about life, rebellion and community, shame and understanding. And of course friendship and love.
CHRISTIAN LERCH GERMANY | 2020 | 94’ | 9+
ULLA HEIKKILÄ FINLAND | 2020 | 92’ | 12+
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FACTS
Dutch title De glaskamer Producer Robert Marciniak Screenwriter
Producer Miia Haavisto Screenwriter Ulla Heikkilä Editor Hanna
Josef Einwanger, Christian Lerch Editor Valesca Peters Composer
Kuirinlahti Composer Karin Mäkiranta, Mikko Pykäri Leading
Martin Probst Leading actors Xari Wimbauer, Luis Vorbach, Lisa
actors Bruno Baer, Amos Brotherus, Linnea Skog, Aamu Milonoff
Wagner, Philipp Hochmair, Hans Löw Production company
Production company Tekele Productions, Finland, info@tekele.fi,
Lieblingsfilm GmbH, Germany, office@lieblingsfilm.biz ,
www.tekele.fi Sales company Film Republic, United Kingdom,
www.lieblingsfilm.biz Sales company Arri Media International,
info@filmrepublic.biz, www.filmrepublic.biz
Germany, worldsales@arri.de, www.arrimedia.de
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Not everyone is full of enthusiasm about the Finnish protestant church’s confirmation camp. Critically minded Aliisa has lost her faith; rebellious Jenna would rather be with her boyfriend and sensitive Panu just feels really uncertain about it all. The week-long camp brings about more insights, clashes, fun and intense experiences than the teenagers expected. And this also goes for the ambitious young minister Tiina, who doubts herself as well.
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BEST CHILDREN’S FILM
The Fantastic Journey of Margot & Marguerite
Madison: A Fast Friendship
L’ aventure des Marguerite
Madison
With a nod to Back to the Future, two young girls tumble into one another’s’ life and time: Margot goes from 2019 back to 1942, in the middle of the war, while Marguerite makes exactly the opposite journey. They are both 12 and rebellious, and both have lost their fathers. Margot quarrels with her stepfather and Marguerite’s father is missing in the war. Suddenly, everything is new and different. Perhaps they can help each other?
For twelve-year-old Madison, cycle racing is everything. She’s just as fanatical about it as her father – one of the most successful bike racers ever. So when Madison has to leave the national training camp, her world comes crashing down. Her mother is taking her to the Austrian Alps for the summer. At first Madison is upset – but then she meets Vicky, who’s into mountain biking. Together with Vicky and her friends, Madison learns that biking can be fun, without the pressure of results. When her father suddenly turns up to take her back to training, she must choose between her new friends or high-level sport.
This adventure, filmed with great tension and humour, is not only exciting but also shows how much has changed – for example, in how boys and girls interact. A free adaptation of the graphic novel by Vincent Cuvellier, Margot & Marguerite serves up compelling adventure and appeals through lifelike characters such as Marguerite’s aunt, who is too enterprising to stick to the roles available in her era. And what is Hemingway doing in that French café?
PIERRE CORÉ FRANCE | 2019 | 89’ | 9+ FACTS
This coming-of-age story about the pressures of sport at the highest level is set among the spectacular scenery of the Tirol, resulting in stunning images. Kim Strobl’s debut feature Madison was developed with a subsidy from the German The Special Children’s Film fund.
KIM STROBL GERMANY, AUSTRIA | 2020 | 86’ | 9+ FACTS
Dutch title De fantastische tijdreis van Margot en Marguerite
Dutch title Madison: een supersnelle vriendschap Producer Danny
Producer Michel Cortey, Pierre Coré Screenwriter Pierre Coré,
Krausz Screenwriter Kim Strobl, Milan Dor Editor Britta Nahler
Stéphane Kazandjian Editor Jeanne Kef Composer Rebecca
Leading actors Felice Ahrens, Florian Lukas, Maxi Warwel
Delannet, Astrid Gomez-Montoya Leading actors Alice Pol, Clovis
Production company Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.,
Cornillac, Lila Gueneau Lefas, Nils Othenin-Girard Production
Austria, office@dor-film.at, www.dor-film.com Sales company
company La Station Animation, France, michel@lastationanimation.
Arri Media International, Germany, worldsales@arri.de,
com, www.lastationanimation.com Sales company Orange Studio,
www.arrimedia.de Distributor Just Film Distribution
France, contact.orangestudio@orange.com, www.orange-studio.fr
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Man Up!
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
Un vrai bonhomme
L’ extraordinaire voyage de Marona
Shy Tom is feeling nervous about going to a new school. Luckily his older brother Leo, who Tom looks up to, knows exactly how to be a cool dude. The only problem is, sporty Leo and bookworm Tom are totally different. Leo’s advice doesn’t really help Tom when trying to make friends or go on a date with a girl.
“I would like to rewind the film of my life now.” After being hit by a car, a dog thinks back on everything she has been through and all the owners she has had. This is the start of the story of a rich, eventful life. Abandoned on the streets as a puppy, saved by an acrobat and finally finding a home with the girl who named her Marona.
Actually, Leo is dead – he died in a car accident. Nevertheless, he appears whenever Tom is feeling insecure. This gives what at first glance looks like a typical teenage story a surprising extra dimension. Themes such as expressing feelings, friendship and processing loss are handled in an attractive way, and in his first feature-length film director Parent displays a good sense of teenage dynamics. Tom has to find his own way through this emotionally rich, at times intense, but always recognisable story with a humorous touch and a poignant ending.
The opening of this colourful animated film seems to set a sombre mood, but the opposite is actually the case. Not only because of the playfulness, the abundance of humour and genuine emotions, as well as the dog’s perspective, but above all because Marona’s feelings are depicted with a freedom of expression we seldom see. In a single movement, Marona can zoom from the heart of Paris to floating among the planets.
BENJAMIN PARENT FRANCE, BELGIUM | 2019 | 88’ | 12+
ANCA DAMIAN FRANCE, ROMANIA, BELGIUM | 2019 | 93’ | 9+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Echte mannen Producer Caroline Adrian Screenwriter
Dutch title Marona Producer Anca Damian, Ron Dyens, Tomas
Benjamin Parent, Theo Courtial Editor Beatrice Herminie
Leyers Screenwriter Anghel Damian Editor Boubkar Benzabat
Composer Pierre Lefeuvre Leading actors Thomas Guy, Benjamin
Composer Pablo Pico Leading actors Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno
Voisin, Isabelle Carré, Laurent Lucas Production company Delante
Salomone, Thierry Hancisse Production company Sacrebleu
Productions, France, contact@delante.fr Sales company Indie
Productions, France, contact@sacrebleuprod.com,
Sales, France, info@indiesales.eu, www.indiesales.eu
www.sacrebleuprod.com Sales company Charades, France, sales@charades.eu, www.charades.eu Distributor Windmill Film
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FILMS
BEST CHILDREN’S FILM
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs
Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers
Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri
Tottori! Sommeren vi var alene
Jack is over the moon when hears he is getting a little brother. When his parents cautiously suggest that Gio is ‘special’ because he has Down Syndrome, at first Jack thinks of a superhero. But years later, when Jack is a teenager, going to a new school and even falling in love, he feels ashamed and suddenly starts acting as if Gio doesn’t exist. How long can you keep up this lie? The consequences are devastating and unforeseen. Maybe Gio’s naturalness can help open Jack’s eyes?
“I want to tell you a story about the summer we got lost”. Thus begins the story of Sisters, told by nine-year-old Vega, who is talking about an adventure she and her five-year-old sister Billie had in a remote natural area of Norway. During a camping trip, their father falls into a ravine and sends the shocked sisters to get help. Together, they try to find their way back to civilisation – but then decide to save their father themselves.
This first feature from Stefano Cipani is a challenging coming-of-age film based on Giacomo Mazzariol’s autobiographical bestseller. It’s a story told with flair that bursts with vitality and balances beautifully between seriousness and humour, sober realism and poignancy, alongside the often conflicting emotions Jack grapples with, all revolving around the hope offered by strong family ties. Winner of the European Film Awards Young Audience Award.
STEFANO CIPANI SPAIN, ITALY | 2019 | 102’ | 10+ FACTS
The filmmakers take their time to weave a meandering, dreamy narrative with an authentic feel. The message is that we should take children much more seriously – and that adults are certainly not free from faults. Sisters is a real family project, as the directors are a married couple and the lead roles are played by their two daughters. The music is by Norwegian singer-songwriter Thomas Dybdahl.
ARILD ØSTIN OMMUNDSEN, SILJE SALOMONSEN NORWAY | 2020 | 78’ | 8+ FACTS
Dutch title Mijn broertje jaagt op dino’s Producer Arturo Paglia,
Dutch title Zussen Producer Gary Cranner Screenwriter Arild
Isabella Cocuzza, Antonia Nava Screenwriter Fabio Bonifacci
Østin Ommundsen, Silje Salomonsen Composer Thomas Dybdahl
Editor Massimo Quaglia Composer Lucas Vidal Leading actors
Leading actors Billie Østin, Vega Østin, Mette Arnstad Production
Alessandro Gassmann, Isabella Ragonese, Rossy De Palma
company Chezville, Norway, post@chezville.no, www.chezville.no
Production company Paco Cinematografica, Italy, infoinfo@
Sales company M-appeal World Sales, Germany, films@m-appeal.com,
pacocinematografica.it, www.pacocinematografica.it Sales
www.m-appeal.com Distributor JEF
company Vision Distribution, Italy, techteam@visiondigital.it, www.intl.visiondistribution.it
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Sky Raiders
Summer Rebels Letní rebeli
Yotam’s big passion is planes, so it’s a shame that, following the death of his pilot father, his worried mother has forbidden him to have anything to do with them. When Noa, a girl from Yotam’s class, finds an old fighter plane from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on a scrapheap, the pair set up a secret project. Helped by grumpy 80-year-old former pilot Morris, they make the plane airworthy again. But Noa’s jealous brother also wants to make his mark at the upcoming air show.
Jonas insists on spending the summer in Slovakia with his cool grandpa Bernard, but his mother won’t let him. He comes up with a cunning plan to get out of Dresden and takes the train, by himself. But once he gets to grandpa’s, it’s not what he expected. Grandpa is moody and drinks too much after losing his job, but luckily Jonas meets adventurous Alex. He has the time of his life – until his grandpa ends up in jail because of Jonas, who then has to go all out to make things right.
This debut feature-length film by Lior Chefetz is an exciting adventure culminating in thrilling aerial scenes and with highly emotional dramatic elements such as a first love, sibling rivalry and the processing of a big loss. In passing, Sky Raiders makes it clear that the memory of that war is still a big deal in Israel.
This bilingual musical adventure filmed in stunning, warm summer colours and centred around themes of rebellion, friendship, family and community is a GermanSlovak-Czech co-production and is the feature debut of Slovakian writer and director Martina Sakova.
LIOR CHEFETZ ISRAEL | 2019 | 103’ | 9+
MARTINA SAKOVA SLOVAKIA, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC | 2020 | 92’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Luchtpiraten Producer Tami Leon, Moshe Edery, Leon
Dutch title Zomerhelden Producer Martin Kleinmichel, Katarina
Edery, Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi Screenwriter Lior Chefetz
Krnacova Screenwriter Martina Sakova, Sülke Schulz Editor Martin
Editor Omer Zaitman Composer Ariel A. Blumenthal Leading
Herold Composer Paul Eisenach Leading actors Kaya Marie Möller,
actors Riki Blich, Nathan Ravitz, Amir Tessler, Arie Tcherner, Hila
Pavel Nový, Liana Pavlíková, Szidi Tobias, Eliás Vyskocil
Natanzon Production company UCM United Channels Movies,
Production company SilverArt s.r.o., Slovakia,
Israel, info@ucm-film.com, www.ucm-film.com Sales company
katarina@silverartfilm.sk, www.silverartfilm.sk Sales company
Global Screen, Germany, info@globalscreen.de, www.globalscreen.de
PLUTO FILM Distribution Network GmbH, Germany, info@plutofilm.de, www.plutofilm.de
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FILMS
BEST CHILDREN’S FILM B E S T D U T C H F A M I LY F I L M
Sune - Best Man
Amira
Sune – Bester Mann Sune has trouble choosing. He wants to go to school camp – Sophie, who he likes, will be there. But he forgot his lovely grandpa is getting married the same weekend. Sune can’t say no to his grandpa, but changes his mind at the last moment. His parents aren’t making things any easier: his father thinks grandpa’s bride is after his money, and Sune’s mother runs into an old flame, causing even more complications. After Sune vs. Sune, Sune is still struggling with self-confidence – a theme running through all the Sune films. Director Holmberg gives a hilarious but familiar twist to problems with school and family. Surprising elements include a playful homage to action films and the humorous, imaginative plotline, in which Sune meets a future version of himself. Based (like Bert’s Diary, also in competition) on the characters created by Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson.
JON HOLMBERG SWEDEN | 2019 | 88’ | 7+ FACTS Dutch title Sune’s keuze Producer Malin Söderlund, Linus Torell
What’s it like to be super-successful at an early age? Dutch-Moroccan kickboxer Amira is already a world champion in her age category. This documentary follows the talented girl and her family as she trains and travels to and from contests during the run-up to her next big fight, somehow also finding time for her homework. This fascinating youth documentary shows a top athlete’s life from a tough young girl’s perspective. Is training really hard, every day, difficult? How do you deal with fame, with disappointments and with a proud father who is also your coach? Besides the themes of elite sport and success, this music video-like portrait is also about identity and family relationships. For instance, do you carry the Moroccan or the Dutch flag into the ring? Or maybe both?
ELZA JO TRATLEHNER THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 55’ | 8+ FACTS Producer Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen Screenwriter Elza Jo
Screenwriter Jon Holmberg Editor Fredrik Alneng Composer Joel
Tratlehner Editor Femke Klein Obbink Music Numidia Feat. Famke
Danell, Andreas Tengblad Leading actors Sissela Benn, Elis Gerdt,
Louise Leading actors Amira Tahri Production company HALAL,
Fredrik Hallgren, Baxter Renman, Tomas von Brömssen Production
The Netherlands, contact@halal.amsterdam, www.halal.amsterdam
company Unlimited Stories, Sweden, info@unlimitedstories.se, www.unlimitedstories.se Sales company Global Screen, Germany, info@globalscreen.de, www.globalscreen.de
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Angel Engel
De Grote Slijmfilm
When shy, eleven-year old Angel from Amsterdam is left at home with her cat Saturn and her eccentric uncle as her babysitter while her parents travel for work, something odd suddenly happens: after taking a strange fall Angel finds a mysterious antique watch. The little silver object proves to be very special indeed as it makes all her wishes come true, as well as those of her tough best friend and all the popular girls in her class. Suddenly everyone wants to be Angel’s friend; but her new life also has its drawbacks.
Happy-go-lucky best buddies Indy and Olivia love slime. They follow slime vloggers and play with the stuff day and night – just like many others their age. What could be more fun than making your own slime? Toy manufacturer Dominicus Duff hates slime. This super-dramatic character wants children to buy his toys. A popular slime vlogger has announced a slime challenge for National Slime Day, but the dastardly Duff works out how to have slime banned everywhere. However, he fails to take the friends’ ingenuity into account.
Magic-realist adaptation of the young adult novel of the same title written by Dutch actress Isa Hoes and her daughter Vlinder Kamerling. The result is a modern, exciting fairy tale about true friendship and being appreciated for who you are – even if you are really just a very ordinary young girl.
Fast-paced, refreshing, original family film about the strength of true friendship, cooperation, being seen by those important to you and discovering your independence. The filmmakers also reveal an eye for eccentric locations and odd characters and their colourful production design aligns with the target group’s world.
DENNIS BOTS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 95’ | 6+
HANS SOMERS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 81’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Danielle Raaphorst Screenwriter Ellen Barendregt
Producer Jeroen Koopman, Lisa May Visser Screenwriter Eveline
Editor Boelie Vis Composer Matthijs Kieboom Leading
Hagenbeek, Maarten van den Broek Editor Michelle Hofman,
actors Barry Atsma, Kees Hulst, Isa Hoes, Liz Vergeer, Yente
Eus Koparan Composer Laurens Goedhart, Fons Merkies Leading
Bos Production company Incredible Film, The Netherlands,
actors Bibi, Geza Weisz, Djamila Verhoef, Vincent Visser, Rómeycia
danielle@incrediblefilm.nl, www.incrediblefilm.com Sales company
Valentijn Production company NewBeTV, The Netherlands,
Incredible Film, The Netherlands, danielle@incrediblefilm.nl,
info@newbetv.com, www.newbe.nl Distributor Splendid Film BV
www.incrediblefilm.com Distributor Just Film Distribution
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The Big Slime Film
FILMS
B E S T D U T C H F A M I LY F I L M
Buladó
Catfun Poeslief
Eleven-year-old Kenza lives with her father and grandad in rural Curaçao. Her father Ouira is a straight-talking cop who orders her to speak Dutch properly, go to school and not play with stray dogs. Grandfather Weljo is a very different man: a free spirit who feels at home in the spiritual traditions of the Caribbean island’s aboriginal inhabitants. The two men view life – and death – very differently. In the meantime, independent, introverted Kenza tries to process her mother’s death. Can you miss someone you never knew? Mature youth film with a few magic-realist elements. Grieving plays an important role in this drama with meditative moments, about the transition from girl to woman. Who do you ask for help with that transformation when your mother is no longer around?
ECHÉ JANGA THE NETHERLANDS, CURAÇAO | 2020 | 86’ | 12+ FACTS
You’ll pretty often see cat characters in Dutch films. The chances are the cat in question is Abatutu: the besttrained film cat in the Netherlands. Abatutu – solid presence, brown and white coat – is now a real Famous Dutch Feline. Frequently on the film set, wandering along the red carpet or mewing away in a talkshow. Or just chilling with his homies. With all that ambition, it’s no surprise that Abatutu now has his own film, just for all cat lovers, big and small. He’s collected the best feline films and provides them with a commentary (voiced by presenter Nicolette Kluijver). After all, cats are lovely, pettable, headstrong and sometimes plain crazy. A mix of found footage, films submitted by people and (archive) footage of Abatutu, from the creators of Wild Amsterdam and The School Garden – specialists in Dutch nature films with an original slant.
MARK VERKERK THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 60’ | 5+ FACTS
Producer Koji Nelissen, Derk-Jan Warrink Screenwriter Esther
Producer Ignas van Schaick, Jeffrey de Graaff Screenwriter Mark
Duysker, Eché Janga Editor Pelle Asselbergs Composer Christiaan
Verkerk, Ignas van Schaick Editor Sam Reitsma, Mark Verkerk
Verbeek Leading actors Everon Jackson Hooi, Tiara Richards,
Composer Jelle Dittmar Production company EMS Films,
Felix de Rooij Production company Keplerfilm, The
The Netherlands, ignas.vanschaick@emsfilms.com,
Netherlands, hello@keplerfilm.com, www.keplerfilm.com
www.emsfilms.com Distributor M&N Film Distribution
Distributor Gusto Entertainment
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Jackie and Oopjen Jackie en Oopjen
Kruimeltje en de strijd om de goudmijn
Even the royal couple visited the Rijksmuseum now that Rembrandt’s famous paintings of Marten and Oopjen from 1634 have been purchased. Jackie, a curator’s daughter, sees the imposing works for the first time in the museum. As Jackie is about to make her way home, Oopjen steps out of her frame. She is searching for her sister Aeltje, but doesn’t know where to look. Luckily smart, courageous Jackie is big-hearted and ready for an adventure, as well as true friendship. The only problem is that Jackie’s brand new BFF doesn’t understand the modern world at all.
Little Crumb is super happy that he lives with his dog Moor and his loving parents in a beautiful mansion; but nothing ever happens and school is plain boring. This makes the former street kid decide to run away, followed by Moor and Anna, a girl who also lives on the estate. However, Little Crumb gets more adventure than he bargained for when they are kidnapped. Dangerous crooks are after the money from Little Crumb’s dad’s goldmine, but soon find out the street-smart kid isn’t easily outfoxed.
This fun adventure for young people in the tradition of magic-realist films such as Night at the Museum playfully teaches viewers more about Dutch (art) history and the ‘Golden Age’ in particular. It’s also simply an exciting tale of friendship and the power of family ties, which should never be underestimated.
ANNEMARIE VAN DE MOND THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 90’ | 6+ FACTS
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Little Crumb
Historic family film inspired by the eponymous character who first appeared in young adult author Chris van Abkoude’s stories in 1923. This fun-filled tale continues where the popular film left off in 1999. Once again, the headstrong character learns valuable life lessons and has exciting adventures in a very Dutch setting.
DIEDE IN ‘T VELD THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 78’ | 6+ FACTS
Producer Chantal van der Horst, Annemieke van Vliet Screenwriter
Producer Rick Engelkes, Frank Groenveld, Denis Wigman,
Myranda Jongeling Editor Jessica de Koning Composer Het Paleis
Marijn Wigman Screenwriter Tijs van Marle Editor Michiel
van Boem Leading actors Frouke Verheijde, Sarah Bannier, Karina
Boesveldt Composer Joep Sporck Leading actors Viggo Neijs,
Smulders, Leny Breederveld, Bert Hana Production company
Sabijn Dunnewijk, Victor Löw, Kim Pieters, Ilse Warringa
Column Film, The Netherlands, office@columnfilm.com,
Production company Nuts & Bolts Film Company, The
www.columnfilm.com Sales company Beta Film GmbH, Germany,
Netherlands, info@nutsbolts.nl, www.nutsbolts.nl Sales company
beta@betafilm.com, www.betafilm.com Distributor Just Film
Just Entertainment, The Netherlands, info@justfilmdistribution.nl,
Distribution
www.justbridge.nl Distributor WW Entertainment
FILMS
B E S T D U T C H F A M I LY F I L M
Misfit 2
Mister Twister in the Clouds Mees Kees in de wolken
This coming school year sees the cliques forming again: from skaters and nerds to VIPs and, naturally, Misfits. Julia and her boyfriend Nick finish each other’s sentences and are musically aligned. Which is a good thing as the pair will represent their school in a national music contest - until Nick unexpectedly switches schools, suddenly becoming Julia’s competitor. While he rehearses at his elite school with talented, conniving Babette, Julia has to collaborate with her rival Sterre and the VIP squad, much to her dismay.
In Mister Twister in the Clouds the nicest teacher in the Netherlands celebrates his birthday. Mister Twister’s friend gives him a balloon ride which scares him senseless as he’s afraid of heights, but he daren’t refuse. His pupils from Class 6b help him overcome his fear. In the meantime, the school celebrates its 50th anniversary and the Head, Dreus, thinks this is a great occasion for a party – but why is she being so mysterious about it? Official parties involve dancing, so she teaches all the pupils how to dance in her own, idiosyncratic way.
This fun young adult adventure with fast editing is the sequel to 2017’s Misfit, which featured famous teens and YouTubers alongside actors. Once again, the film features countless musical intermezzos and deftly touches on themes such as friendship, trust, love and the search for your own identity.
In what is the fifth Mister Twister film, based on the young adult series by Mirjam Oldenhave, various characters learn to overcome their fears. In the same playful, warm style as the previous instalments, characters big and small learn that making mistakes isn’t that bad as long as your best friends are there.
ERWIN VAN DEN ESHOF THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 81’ | 6+
MARTIJN SMITS THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 72’ | 6+
FACTS Producer Jeroen Koopman, Lisa May Visser Screenwriter Erwin
FACTS Producer Chris Derks, Paul Voorthuysen, Katja Scheffer Screen-
van den Eshof, Michel Bonset, Ernst Gonlag, Karen van den Ende
writer Tijs van Marle Editor Michiel Boesveldt Composer Herman
Editor Jeffrey de Vore Composer Jelle Dittmar Leading actors
Witkam Leading actors Leendert de Ridder, Sanne Wallis de Vries,
Djamila Verhoef, Niek Roozen, Jan Kooijman, Gio Latooy, Tinne
Raymonde de Kuyper, Imme Gerritsen, Jochen Otten Production
Oltmans Production company NewBeTV, The Netherlands,
company PV Pictures BV, The Netherlands, mail@pvpictures.nl,
info@newbetv.com , www.newbe.nl Distributor Splendid Film BV
www.pvpictures.nl Distributor WW Entertainment
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The Pirates Down the Street De piraten van hiernaast
De schooltuin
The inhabitants of boring Zandwijk aan Zee are shocked when a real pirate ship, complete with eccentric family, drops anchor at their new housing development. The Donderbus family are loud, settle every argument with their swords and their ship is guarded by a shark. Admittedly, they are kind of – different. However, Michiel sees tough pirate boy Billy as a great friend who can teach him a lot about real, manly things. Nevertheless, not everyone is happy with their extravagant new neighbours.
Various classes of Amsterdam schoolchildren are followed through the four seasons in their school gardens. Passionate gardeners teach the urban children that their food isn’t made in the supermarket and that growing vegetables takes knowledge, time and a bit of love. While raking and sowing, the children learn how bees live and how crucial they are, that pests sometimes get there first and that foxes live in the city too. Getting your hands dirty in the soil definitely bears plenty of fruit.
Original, fun, rebellious young adult adventure. This book adaptation (based on the book by young adult pirate book author Reggie Naus) playfully deals with the theme of ‘the stranger’. People might originate from other cultures or have different lifestyles, but we can learn to accept and appreciate this. Even the adults discover that friendship comes in many forms.
This documentary by the creators of Wild Amsterdam (2018) once again revolves around urban nature. A potted history featuring beautiful archival material shows how old the Dutch school allotment tradition is. Viewers also learn a lot about the benefits of insects, the phases of natural cycles and preparing food you grew yourself.
PIM VAN HOEVE THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 95’ | 6+
MARK VERKERK THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 60’ | 5+
FACTS Producer Ingmar Menning, Johan Nijenhuis Screenwriter
FACTS Producer Ignas van Schaick Screenwriter Mark Verkerk,
Sander de Regt Editor Jurriaan van Nimwegen Composer Matthijs
Ignas van Schaick Editor Helen Delachaux Composer Jelle
Kieboom Leading actors Egbert-Jan Weeber, Tygo Gernandt,
Dittmar Production company EMS Films, The Netherlands,
Matti Stooker, Samuel Beau Reurekas, Celeste Holsheimer
ignas.vanschaick@emsfilms.com, www.emsfilms.com Distributor
Production company Johan Nijenhuis & Co, The Netherlands,
M&N Film Distribution
info@nijenhuisenco.nl, www.nijenhuisenco.nl Sales company Dutch FilmWorks, The Netherlands, info@dfw.nl, www.dfw.nl Distributor Dutch FilmWorks
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The Schoolgarden
FILMS
O U T O F C O M P E T I T I O N F E AT U R E F I L M S
Daniel ‘16
Dreambuilders Drømmebyggerne
German teenager Daniel is sent to a juvenile delinquent centre in a remote Greek village close to the border with Turkey. There he meets fellow inmate Max, with whom he initially doesn’t get on, but a shared secret brings them together. Daniel finds an undocumented refugee and his young son, hiding in a nearby dilapidated building. When the father is murdered by criminals, Daniel secretly looks after the young boy – but this has serious repercussions for his own future.
Minna’s life is turned upside down when her father’s fiancée and her daughter Jenny move in. Jenny turns out to be a demanding stepsister who makes Minna’s life a misery from the start. But then, in her dreams, the teenager accidentally discovers the world behind these dreams – the place where dreams are manufactured. Minna decides to manipulate Jenny’s dreams to make her nicer – but with disastrous consequences: Jenny goes into a coma. In order to bring her back to life in the real world, Minna has to enter the dream world.
Daniel’s transformation from mistrustful teen into a decisive, altruistic young adult takes place against the backdrop of the refugee crisis. His final decision to put his own future on the line to help the boy brings the issue of migration – often an abstract idea for children – closer. This idealistic, documentary style project came about partly through the MFI Script 2 Film workshop and When East Meets West (Trieste).
In Dreambuilders, the highly original idea of a universe where our dreams are literally created by little men busily building whole sets and props is set out with lots of pace and humour. The pain of a divorce and the problems of blended families are also made palpable in this story of two very different teenage girls.
DIMITRIS KOUTSIABASAKOS GREECE | 2020 | 101’ | 12+
KIM HAGEN JENSEN DENMARK | 2020 | 81’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer George Kyriakos, Costas Labropoulos Screenwriter
Dutch title Mina & de Dromenbouwers Producer Sunit Parekh,
Panagiotis Christopoulos, Yiannis Tsiros, Glykeria Patramani,
Nynne Marie Selin Eidnes Screenwriter Søren Grinderslev Hansen
Dimitris Koutsiabasakos Editor Christos Giannakopoulos Composer
Editor Rikke Selin Composer Kristian Eidnes Andersen Leading
Vaggelis Fabas Leading actors Nikolas Kisker, Alexander
actors Robyn Dempsey, Emma Jenkins, Luke Griffin, Tom Hale Pro-
Liakopoulos Buchholz, Filopateer Adel Hafiz Anas Mogras,
duction company First Lady Film, Denmark, www.firstladyfilm.dk
Vassilis Koukalani, Marlene Kaminsky Production company
Sales company Sola Media GmbH, Germany, maren@sola-media.com,
Viewmaster Films, Greece, info@viewmasterfilms.gr,
www.sola-media.com Distributor Splendid Film BV
www.viewmasterfilms.gr Sales company Viewmaster Films, Greece, info@viewmasterfilms.gr, www.viewmasterfilms.gr
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Ducobu 3
Pelle No-Tail Pelle Svanslös
Ducobu is the biggest dunce of Saint-Potache – his biggest talents are cheating and practical jokes – but this school year brings competition in the shape of a new pupil nicknamed ‘TGV’, who also excels at not playing by the rules. When it turns out that Docubo’s school is in financial difficulties and the head is pinning his hopes on the prize money from a national song competition, the two tricksters join forces and, together with Mister Kitrish from the joke store, come up with the ultimate cunning plan to win the competition. Ducobu 3 is the third in a series of films based on this popular Belgian cartoon character. His jailbird-like yellow-and-black striped shirt shows both that he feels imprisoned at school and that he can sting like a wasp with his jokes and tricks. Just like the cartoons, the films are full of crazy, colourful action and absurd exaggerations.
ELIE SEMOUN FRANCE | 2020 | 90’ | 8+ FACTS
A rescue cat with no tail finds a new home with young girl Birgitta. Then a sudden storm blows him towards the city of Uppsala, where he has adventures with other, more streetwise cats. Not all of these are friendly to him – partly because he looks different. Big tomcat Mike and his not very bright helpers, twins Bill and Bull, put Pelle on display as a freak in their cat cabaret – but luckily Pelle meets a sweet female cat, Maya. Eventually he has to make a choice: return to Birgitta, or stay with Maya? This feelgood animal film with songs is based on the classic series of books by Gösta Knutsson, which generations of Swedes grew up with. The adventures of Pelle the tailless cat have been filmed several times before, both in animated and live action versions.
CHRISTIAN RYLTENIUS SWEDEN | 2020 | 60’ | 5+ FACTS
Dutch title Ducobu en de zangwedstrijd Producer Romain Rojtman
Dutch title Pietje Kortstaart Producer Jon Nohrstedt, Gila Bergqvist
Screenwriter Guy Laurent, Marc de Chauveron, Elie Semoun Editor
Ulfung Screenwriter Johan Bogaeus Editor Christian Ryltenius
Sandro Lavezzi Composer Alexandre Azaria Leading actors Elie
Composer Magnus Strömberg, Tormod Tvete Vik Leading
Semoun, Émilie Caen, Frédérique Bel Production company
actors Adam Pålsson, Christopher Wagelin, Li Schmalenbach,
Umedia, Belgium, info@umedia.eu, www.umedia.eu Sales company
Olof Wretling, Sven Björklund Production company SF Studios,
Orange Studio, France, contact.orangestudio@orange.com, www.
Sweden, info@sfstudios.se, www.sfstudios.se Sales company SF
orange-studio.fr
Studios, Sweden, info@sfstudios.se, www.sfstudios.se Distributor Just 4 kids
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O U T O F C O M P E T I T I O N F E AT U R E F I L M S
SamSam
Team Marco
Little SamSam lives in an alien superhero universe where playing outside means stepping into your rocket ship to go play ball on a neighbouring planet. He is the only one at hero school who has not developed superpowers yet. Mega is the daughter of dictator Marshall, who can’t stand children and has banished all offspring from his planet. SamSam and Mega become friends, but their friendship is severely tested when Mega’s father develops a monster with a mission to make the entire universe grey and joyless.
Eleven-year-old Marco lives on Staten Island in New York and is addicted to his iPad and Xbox. His parents are divorced; his mother works hard and his absent father only communicates with him in app messages. Marco’s apathetic existence changes when, after a fire, his grandpa moves in with them. ‘Nonno’ introduces Marco to ‘bocce’, an Italian version of jeu de boules, and Marco’s world gradually starts to expand. His grandpa sets Marco a challenge: if he can get a team together and beat Nonno and his friends, he can have his confiscated devices back.
This colourful, disarming pre-school sci-fi adventure from the Folivari stable proves that laughter can be literally liberating, and that you don’t actually need superpowers to save your friends. The boy SamSam is based on the character of the same name from the French cartoons by Serge Bloch, previously made into a globally popular television series for the youngest viewers.
Italian-American director and screenwriter Gambuto paints a loving portrait of the Italian community on Staten Island. Joe Pesci-lookalike grandpa Nonno clashes regularly with his grandson and daughter on what is really important in life. He despises all these modern gadgets – but eventually finds out they can have their uses.
TANGUY DE KERMEL FRANCE, BELGIUM | 2020 | 80’ | 6+
JULIO VINCENT GAMBUTO UNITED STATES | 2019 | 92’ | 8+
FACTS Producer Damien Brunner, Didier Brunner, Gaëtan David,
FACTS Producer Sam Sandweiss Screenwriter B.R. Uzun, Julio Vincent
André Logie Screenwriter Valérie Magis, Jean Regnaud Editor
Gambuto Editor Nick Garnham Wright Composer Jacques
Benjamin Massoubre Composer Éric Neveux Leading actors
Brautbar Leading actors Owen Vaccaro, Anthony Patellis,
Isaac Lobé-Lebel, Lior Chabbat, Jérémy Prévost Production
Antoinette Lavecchia, Anastasia Ganiasgellin, Greg Rikaart
company Folivari, France, contact@folivari.com, www.folivari.com
Production company Boro Five, United States, gambuto@
Sales company Studio Canal, United Kingdom, info@studiocanal.co.uk,
boroughfivepictures.com, www.meetborofive.com Sales company
www.studiocanal.co.uk Distributor Anga Productions
International Film Trust, United States, inquiries@iftsales.com, www.iftsales.com
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TRASH
Triple Trouble Tarapaty 2
Cynical Slim is a broken cardboard box who lives with his friend Bubbles – an empty coke bottle – in a covered market. They have to watch out for the Suckers: machines that suck everything up and take it all away. Slim’s life changes when he meets Spark, a brand-new box (with contents) who has got lost. They search together for Spark’s destination, a toy shop, but discarded computer tower Kudo and her gang want to get their hands on Spark, and set off in pursuit. All this seemingly worthless waste leads a nocturnal live of its own in this originally designed animated film that teaches children in a playful way about the value of recycling – the magical rebirth pyramid that so fascinates the waste in TRASH, and which they finally find, of course turns out to be the recycling bin.
LUCA DELLA GROTTA, FRANCESCO DAFANO ITALY | 2020 | 88’ | 8+ FACTS
Julka and Olek have been best friends ever since their adventure in Double Trouble. They travel to Pozna&#324; together, where the only Monet painting in Poland is being unveiled in Julka’s aunt’s museum – but during the unveiling the painting is blown up in a stunt worthy of Banksy. It soon turns out that it was actually a copy: but then where is the original? Olek and Julka set out to investigate, but when another teenager, Felka, joins their investigation things start to get complicated, as rivalries develop among the girls. This follow-up to Double Trouble (2017) deals equally with solving the mystery and the relationships between the three teens, and once again friendship is central. As in the previous film, in Triple Trouble a balance is struck between humour and more serious issues, such as having faith in others and yourself.
MARTA KARWOWSKA POLAND | 2020 | 80’ | 8+ FACTS
Dutch title Vuilnisbende Producer Riccardo Cesarini, Mario Lanti,
Dutch title Driemaal drama Producer Agnieszka Dziedzic Screen-
Alan Vele Screenwriter Francesco Dafano, Andrea Nobile Editor
writer Marta Karwowska Editor Aleksandra Gowin Composer
Arzu Volkan Composer Matteo Buyzzanca Leading actors
Jerzy Rogiewicz Leading actors Pola Król, Jakub Janota-Bzowski,
Rossy De Palma Production company AL ONE Srl, Italy,
Mia Goti, Joanna Szczepkowska, Marta Malikowska Production
mariolanti@gmail.com , www.al-one.it
company Koi Studio, Poland, info@koi-studio.pl, www.koi-studio.pl Sales company Renate Zylla - Festival Agent, Germany, rzylla@arcor.de
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FILMS
O U T O F C O M P E T I T I O N F E AT U R E F I L M S B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Valhalla
Apple Tree Man Yabloneviy chelovek
When gods Thor and Loki take her big brother Tjalfe from Midgard to Valhalla, Røskva decides to secretly go along too. Once there, the two Viking children face great danger, as Valhalla is threatened by the fearsome wolf Fenrir and the archenemies of the gods, the barbaric Jötun giants. Side by side with the gods, the children have to fight to save Valhalla from destruction.
A man lives in the countryside with his donkey, living off the proceeds of his apple tree – just like the magical apple tree man who one day settles in the tree. The man starts out young, but ages just like the tree, as its crop keeps diminishing. One day disaster strikes: the tree is hit by lightning during a thunderstorm and seems beyond saving; but the old man won’t accept this without a fight.
Tales from Norse mythology are brought to life in this wild adventure through the eyes of two children. Director Ahmad approach is refreshing, as the world of the gods he sketches is more sombre and sober than what we are accustomed to from the Marvel films. The gods have human traits and the focus is more on humanist values than on heroic feats, which also results in greater authenticity. Based on the comics by Peter Madsen.
A light, funny tale of friendship and cooperation with a plethora of amusing details that are easy to discern thanks to the animation’s structure. The apple tree man symbolises the tree’s soul, which initially seems to accept its inevitable demise but then starts to hope for the impossible, thanks to the old man’s tenacity.
FENAR AHMAD DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, ICELAND | 2019 | 105’ | 10+
ALLA VARTANYAN RUSSIA | 2020 | 10’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Walhalla Producer Jacob Jarek Screenwriter Fenar
Dutch title Het appelboommannetje Producer Boris Mashkovtsev
Ahmad, Adam August Editor Kasper Leick Composer Jens Ole
Screenwriter Lusine Vartanyan, Andrey Gorshkov Production
Wowk McCoy Leading actors Roland Møller, Andreas Jessen,
company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, Russia, info@souzmult.ru,
Cecilia Loffredo, Salóme Gunnarsdóttir Production company
www.soyuzmultfilm.ru Sales company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio,
Profile Pictures ApS, Denmark, mail@profilepictures.dk,
Russia, info@souzmult.ru, www.soyuzmultfilm.ru
www.profilepictures.dk Sales company TrustNordisk, Denmark, info@trustnordisk.com, www.trustnordisk.com
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Archie
At the End of the World Až na konci světa
Archie – who is also a dog but wears clothes – takes his dog on a trip to the home of his beloved aunt. He has inherited the home from her. It is a long, arduous journey and when they arrive at night the weather is horrendous. The house is dilapidated and cold, but also full of memories, such as photographs and the bagpipes. During the night, Archie – helped by his loyal pet – brings this home and his love for his aunt back to life.
You can get anything your heart desires in this funny little shop at the end of the world. It suddenly pops up in the strangest places and the customers always leave satisfied – whether it’s a woman in search of a cat or an octopus wanting a make-over. But every time she makes a sale, the shopkeeper behind the counter seizes her chance to reminisce about her great, lost love. Maybe it’s time she wished for something from the shop for herself.
Clever dialogue-free puppet animation that manages to display and elicit many emotions without much in the way of explanation. The film with its appropriately folky soundtrack deals with love and sorrow as well as the resilience of people who have to keep going after a loss. Death – a subject treated with beauty, humour and respect – provides new opportunities and every day there is renewed hope.
A stir-crazy animation that completely disregards all the rules of logic, time, space and physics. Anything goes and all sorts of worlds and beings whizz by: from dinosaurs and zombies to aliens and the abominable snowman. But amongst all the craziness there is also a place for peaceful, romantic musings and the film gives us the space to think about what people (and aliens) really need.
AINSLIE HENDERSON UNITED KINGDOM | 2019 | 4’ | 6+
MARTIN KUKAL CZECH REPUBLIC | 2020 | 10’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Christopher Young Screenwriter Domenica More Gordon
Dutch title Het verdwijn en verschijn winkeltje Producer Libor
Editor Tim Owen Composer Rachel Portman roduction company
Nemeskal, Petr Babinec Screenwriter Adela Kovarova, Martin
Young Films, United Kingdom, laura@youngfilms.co.uk,
Kukal Editor Libor Nemeskal Composer Jakub Kudlac Music Jakub
www.youngfilmsfoundation.co.uk
Kudlac Leading actors Andrea Elsnerova, Ivo Hrbac, Petra Hobzova, Michal Holan, Jan Radr, Jakub Johanek Production company Kouzelna animace, Czech Republic, nemeskal@kouzelna.com, www.kouzelna.com Sales company University of Tomas Bata in Zlin, Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Czech Republic, studium@fmk.utb.cz, www.utb.cz
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FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Boriya
Cinema Rex סקרב בהאתהל
Bori is seven and bored. She lives in rural South Korea. It’s harvest time and everyone is busy. Even the chicks in the nest ignore her. When her mother has to deliver food to the workers out in the fields, Bori is told to walk the cow. An easy job: the cow grazes at the end of a rope. However, the girl loses herself collecting water snails and only realises things are going wrong when it’s too late. This delicate animation captures summer in sunny, bright colours and deft lines, like a rice-paper drawing. The soundtrack underlines the listless, summer atmosphere: the rustling wheat fields, the babbling brook, birds chirping. Bori’s boredom and the season’s heat become almost tangible.
SUNG AH MIN FRANCE | 2019 | 17’ | 8+ FACTS
In May 1938, Cinema Rex opens its doors in an exceptional location in Jerusalem, on the boundary between Jewish and Palestinian territory. Everyone is welcome and Mouize’s Jewish father is the projectionist: he makes sure the films are screened and Mouize accompanies him. Against his father’s will, Mouize becomes friends with a Palestinian girl. The two don’t speak each other’s language but understand each other, in sharp contrast to their parents. Cinema Rex really existed and was Palestinian-Jewish owned, which was rare. This charming animation shows how ridiculous the separation of peoples is – something children thankfully ignore. The film also makes an excursion into various film genres. Cinema Rex won the Canal+ Family Award at the Annecy animation film festival this year.
ELIRAN PELED, MAYAN ENGELMAN ISRAEL | 2020 | 8’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Emmanuel Quillet, Screenwriter Sung Ah Min
Producer Eliran Peled Screenwriter Eliran Peled Composer Zevik Perry
Composer June Young Joo Production company Marmitafilms,
Production company Cinema Rex, Israel, peledeliran@gmail.com Sales
France, vianney@marmitafilms.fr, www.marmitafilms.fr Sales
company Pink Parrot Media, Canada, info@pinkparrotmedia.ca,
company Yummy Films, France, contact@yummy-films.com,
www.pinkparrotmedia.ca
www.yummy-films.com
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Duodrom
The Eleventh Step Ghadam-e yazdahom
Every human is made up of different sides. In this animation, a man’s two sides – his skeleton and his soft covering – constantly fall apart. Not very handy, as he’s about to open a fairground attraction. Right at the wrong moment, his two sides separate again and he has to bend over backwards to put them back together. A funny, soberly made animation that could be seen as a metaphor, but could just as easily be taken at face value. The amusing idea of two sides that go around separately results in a lot of strange situations. It also becomes clear that the hard skeleton and the soft covering each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it’s handy to be very flexible and sometimes being hard and purposeful works better. Ultimately the message is that people need both sides to work well.
BASIL VOGT SWITZERLAND | 2019 | 8’ | 7+ FACTS Producer Saskia von Virág Screenwriter Basil Vogt Editor
An Iranian journalist tells the story of a missing lion cub. To everyone’s great joy, the animal is born in a zoo, and as soon as it can walk it wants to explore the world. This turns out to be a let-down as, after just ten paces, it hits the bars. The cub slowly learns the limitations of its environment and gives up wanting to venture beyond the bars until, one day, he escapes his cage and seems to have disappeared without trace. This film fluidly mixes reality and fantasy with animals that are caged, but that also knit and suck on pacifiers. The Eleventh Step is the title of a children’s book by Iranian author Susan Taqdis which provides the basis for the film. The paper cut-out animation has great depth in both design and content.
MARYAM KASHKOOLINIA IRAN | 2020 | 10’ | 8+ FACTS Dutch title De elfde stap Producer Nohammadreza Karimisaremi
Mirjam Krakenberger Composer Hipp Mathis Production company
Screenwriter Maryam Kashkoolinia Editor Mohammad Naseri
VIRAGE FILM, Switzerland, mail@viragefilm.ch, www.viragefilm.ch
Composer Sahebnassagh Kiawasch Production company KANOON
Sales company Bonobostudio, Croatia, info@bonobostudio.hr
(Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults), Iran, intl_affairs@jamejam.net, www.kanoonintl.com Sales company KANOON (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults), Iran, intl_affairs@jamejam.net, www.kanoonintl.com
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FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Escape Velocity
The Fox & the Pigeon
Szökési Sebesség On a faraway, strange planet, a space pilot is looking for something – or someone. He encounters weird beings and moves as in a game through funny-coloured water, dark caves and ominous landscapes. Everywhere he goes he is followed at a distance and watched by an unknown, monstrous figure. Why is this beast so interested in the space traveller?
A fox really wants an ice cream. By chance, he finds some money and buys a cone with his favourite flavours, but a hungry pigeon has also set its sights on the cone. An increasingly wild and absurd struggle develops until they have both had enough of the narrative they are caught in. They escape the story, deciding to give it an unexpected twist.
It takes a while before you realise where you are in this special sci-fi animation. The film starts with short, slightly confusing fragments. It gradually becomes clear that the protagonist has landed on a planet with all kinds of alien lifeforms. It remains a mystery until the end what the young man is looking for, and what his mission on the planet is. Ultimately, the film is about love and letting go, as this is sometimes the ultimate way of showing that you love something or someone – even on a faraway planet.
This playful, original animation is by OOV Studios – a group of eleven third-year students at Sheridan College. They play with the unwritten rules of storytelling, but also with natural law – a puddle proves to contain an ocean – and have no qualms about breaking invisible boundaries. The voice-over gets involved, time is turned back, words are jumbled up and re-written. Incidentally, attentive viewers may spot the colourful OOV logo cleverly incorporated into the film.
TAMÁS REBÁK HUNGARY | 2019 | 8’ | 9+
CHELSEA VAN TOL, MICHELLE CHUA, VIKTOR IVANOVSKI, MORGAN THOMPSON, MATT WALTON, TYLER PACANA, SHARON GABRIELLA, SANG LEE, STEVEN WANG, AILEEN DEWHURST, SIKYUNG KEVIN SUNG CANADA | 2019 | 6’ | 5+
FACTS Dutch title Ontsnappingssnelheid Producer Melinda Kiss Screenwriter Tamás Rebák Composer Gábor Erdélyi Jr.
FACTS
Production company Budapest Metropolitan University,
Dutch title De vos en de duif Producer Michelle Chua Screenwriter
Hungary, international@metropolitan.hu, www.metropolitan.hu
Chelsea van Tol, Michelle Chua, Viktor Ivanovski, Morgan Thompson, Matt Walton, Tyler Pacana, Sharon Gabriella, Sang Lee, Steven Wang, Aileen Dewhurst, SiKyung Kevin Sung Composer Viktor Ivanovski Leading actors Andrew Wheeler Production company OOV Studios, Canada, oovstudios@gmail.com
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Hedgehog Spikiney
Jabberwocky
Jez Bodljikavko Nature is cruel: animals who cannot feed themselves inevitably die, especially in winter. But not if hedgehog Spikiney has anything to do with it. Every day, he lays a table in his cosy burrow for the less fortunate animals in the wood. He gives them fruit, vegetables and other tasty snacks. But one day, he finds his guests are sad: someone or something has taken all the food. The next day, the same thing happens again. Spikiney decides to take action, and with his friends sets out to catch the culprit. A sweet film about empathy, compassion and friendship, but also diversity: all of the animals form up a close-knit, colourful group: an elderly ape, an orphan squirrel, a single mother beaver and a lost bird. The heart-warming story is told in warm, autumnal colours, with humorous sound effects and original use of backgrounds.
TIHONI BRCIC CROATIA | 2020 | 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122; | 5+ FACTS
This absurdist poem is about the endless war between good and evil, with the former represented by a clever, brave boy. The story is enthusiastically, descriptively told in voice-over, largely using the language invented by Caroll. The traditional animation has a simple yet effective pallet that suits the bizarre poetry wonderfully. The scenes are accompanied by appropriate, Medieval-sounding music and reward attentive viewers with many funny details.
SJAAK ROOD THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES | 2020 | 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122; | 8+ FACTS
Dutch title Egeltje Spikiney Producer Vinko Bresan Screenwriter
Producer Sjaak Rood Screenwriter Sjaak Rood Music Mark
Tihoni Brcic Editor Tomislav Gregl Production company Zagreb
Nieuwenhuis Production company TED Conferences
film, Croatia, zagrebfilm@zagrebfilm.hr, www.zagrebfilm.hr
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Animation of the nonsensical poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Caroll, author of Alice in Wonderland. It tells the tale of a little boy who is asked to fight the monster Jabberwocky. With his special sword, loyal horse and folded hat, he ventures into the forest for a short, intense battle. If he defeats the fantasy monster, he will become the hero of the village and its odd inhabitants.
FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Just for the Record An old-fashioned, disused recording device is languishing in an attic. It accidentally comes back to life and really wants to record the sound of a singing bird, but the noise it makes scares the bird away. However, the little recorder won’t give up so easily. He tries and tries, but all his efforts seem to be in vain. Why is the sound of the singing bird so important to the little device? This incredibly lifelike animated film from Serbia is about the importance and impact of memories. The cleverly made film has a likeable Wall-E-type protagonist – a little machine with real feelings. At the end of the film it becomes clear, in both sound and pictures, that Serbia’s relatively recent history has left deep scars, and that new memories are needed to wipe out the old.
VOJIN VASOVIC CANADA, SERBIA | 2020 | 7’ | 8+ FACTS
Kapaemahu Kapaemahu relates the myth of four travellers who sailed long, long ago from Tahiti to Hawaii. These giants were both genders at once and bore special gifts. They could heal people, physically and spiritually. Once they had passed on their knowledge and wisdom to the population, they departed. But first, the inhabitants built a monument, which was blessed in a ritual: four huge rocks which over the centuries were forgotten and disappeared, but have now been restored to their rightful place. This exceptional animation, in warm earth tones, is now more current than ever. A plea for tolerance and love; for attention to the past and the passing on of wisdom; for respect for nature and everything our forefathers taught us. It also shows how Western civilisation has – sometimes literally – buried the old world. The images are highly appropriate to the impressive story, as is the entreating, traditional song.
DEAN HAMER, JOE WILSON, HINALEIMOANA WONG-KALU UNITED STATES | 2020 | 8’ | 8+ FACTS
Dutch title Een fluitje van een cent Producer Senka Radivojevic,
Producer Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Vojin Vasovic Screenwriter Vojin Vasovic Editor Marko Kovacevic,
Screenwriters Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Vojin Vasovic Composer Dalibor Bekerevic Production company
Composer Dan Golden, Kaumakaiwa Kanakaole Production
To Blink Animation, Serbia, vojin@toblinkanimation.com,
company Kanaka Pakipika, United States, kumuhina@yahoo.com,
www.toblinkanimation.com Sales company Magnetfilm GmbH,
www.kapaemahu.com
Germany, info@magnetfilm.de, www.magnetfilm.de
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Kippkopp in the Snow
Kitwana’s Journey
Kippkopp a hóban It’s young chestnut child Kippkopp’s first winter. The world has a fairy-tale beauty and the snow is fantastic. Kippkopp can’t believe his eyes; there are so many new things to see. He is enchanted by the singing of a bird, and follows it until he finds one, exhausted. He cares for the little bird, who asks him to take care of the other birds as they can’t find enough food in the winter. A tough job, but Kippkopp is determined to help. He sets off with two big walnuts, braving the cold and winter storms.
Kitwana is a boy from Nairobi. One day, he gets lost at a carnival celebration, and when it’s over doesn’t know how to get home. An older man offers to help, but has bad intentions. Kitwana has to undergo slavery and abuse before managing to escape and find his way back to Nairobi. But even then, he still has to find his family. His mother, in the meantime, is searching tirelessly to find her son in this city with millions of inhabitants.
Kippkopp’s winter world is a magical, snow-white place full of wintry nature. In this dynamic animation, the viewpoints constantly shift, as if a camera is constantly in motion. We see Kippkopp and his surroundings from above then swoop down, swinging and turning, diving and floating. In the meantime, we learn from him about wonder, perseverance and compassion.
The brightly coloured animation and light music contrast with the dark storyline, based on real events. Children in Kenya and many other countries around the world are at great risk of being kidnapped and forced to work; a heavy message reinforced at the end of the film. Kitwana was lucky, but many children don’t experience such a good outcome. The story is told in a rhyming voice-over with guitar accompaniment.
TAMA MIKORI, SZILVIA FABÓK HUNGARY | 2019 | 7’ | 6+
NG’ENDO MUKII KENYA | 2019 | 5’ | 11+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Kippkopp in de sneeuw Producer Tama Mikori Screenwriter
Dutch title Kitwana’s reis Producer Sophie Otiende Screenwriter
Tama Mikori Composer Ivan Trevino Production company Studio
Ng’endo Mukii Editor Ng’endo Mukii Composer Jason M. Ward
Whintokka Bt., Hungary, szilvia.fabok.st@gmail.com
Production company Ng’endo Studios, Kenya, ngendo@ngendo.com, www.ngendo.com
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FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Leaf
The Little Bird and the Bees
Lístek
Der kleine Vogel und die Bienen
A rough-and-ready sailor sets sail for the umpteenth time. Everything he does, he does with ease. No wonder: he has enormous hands and is strong as an ox. The ship is full of passengers, including a little girl who gives him an autumn leaf. This makes him think of home – somewhere he hasn’t been for a very long time. The giant of a man is quite vulnerable underneath and the girl’s wafer-thin gift kindles an intense desire for his own tree and its autumnal leaves.
Joyful animation about a bird who suddenly has to share a tree’s blossom with a bee. Curiosity makes it follow the insect to its nest through a novel, colourful, exciting world of flowers and seed heads. In the meantime, a fox has less innocent intentions as it stalks the bird. This leads to funny situations with the predator as the wimpy victim.
This short animation is coloured like autumn: warm yellows, oranges and reds. Even the disproportionately large sailor’s hair is rust brown, with the sea and his stereotypical shirt providing blue accents. The colours and sounds – primarily the guitar and xylophone – lend the film a sense of melancholy (and make the homesickness tangible).
ALIONA BARANOVA CZECH REPUBLIC | 2020 | 6’ | 6+ FACTS
Fourth in a series of Little Bird animations by children’s author and director Lena van Döhren which see the bird meet a leaf, a caterpillar, a squirrel and now a bee. All in simple lines and bright colours. The events and characters are reminiscent of classic cartoons such as Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner, in which the hunter always fails. The world Van Döhren depicts is sweet and hopeful and focuses on the beauty of nature.
LENA VON DÖHREN SWITZERLAND | 2020 | 4’ | 4+ FACTS
Dutch title Blaadje Producer Lukas Gregor Screenwriter Aliona
Dutch title Het vogeltje en de bijen Producer Gerd Gockell
Baranova Editor Jan Saska Composer Petr Mazoch Production
Screenwriter Lena von Döhren Editor Fee Liechti Composer Martin
company University of Tomas Bata in Zlin, Faculty of Multimedia
Waespe Production company Schattenkabinett GmbH, Switzerland,
Communications, Czech Republic, studium@fmk.utb.cz, www.utb.cz
info@schattenkabinett.com, www.schattenkabinett.com Sales
Sales company Miyu Distribution, France, festival@miyu.fr,
company Magnetfilm GmbH, Germany, info@magnetfilm.de,
www.miyu.fr
www.magnetfilm.de
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The Little Boat That Wanted to Fly Korablik khotel letat
Matilda ir atsarginė galva
Boats and planes are manufactured at a huge factory on the coast. From there, they head to a crèche by water and air, where they are taught to swim and fly, then develop into adult modes of transportation. Unfortunately, one of the baby boats wants to fly. The freight pilot looks after the stubborn little ship and comes up with a way of making its wish come true.
Matilda is well on her way to becoming the smartest kid in the world. She remembers and regurgitates everything her mother and teacher feed her. She knows everything about animals, but knows nothing about ordinary children’s things. One day her head seems to be full; nothing more can be added. Then her mother has a bright idea: let’s order an extra head from the shop.
This adorable animation has a nostalgic, pre-war look and feel thanks to the techniques and colours used, as well as the design of the machines and modes of transport. The stories and dialogues are provided by a single Russian voice. It’s a universal phenomenon: sometimes you are born or manufactured as something you would rather not be, but with some help from those around you, you can develop into something special and be more than you ever hoped for.
Funny clay animation in the Aardman Animations tradition, which isn’t surprising as the animator collaborated on Shaun the Sheep, among other projects. The film seems set in the 1950s judging by the interiors, clothing and haircuts, and the message is subtle: parents with ambitions for their children can lose sight of reality. Children should primarily be allowed to play and be themselves.
EKATERINA FILIPPOVA RUSSIA | 2019 | 6’ | 6+
IGNAS MEILŪNAS LITHUANIA | 2020 | 13’ | 9+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Het bootje dat wilde vliegen Producer Boris Mashkovtsev
Dutch title Matilda en het reservehoofd Producer Marija Raz-
Screenwriter Ekaterina Filippova Composer Ekaterina Filippova
gutė Screenwriter Dangiras Bugas, Ignas Meilūnas Editor Ignas
Production company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, Russia,
Meilūnas Composer Rytis Koreniukas Production company
info@souzmult.ru, www.soyuzmultfilm.ru Sales company
M-Films, Lithuania, marija@m-films.lt, www.m-films.lt Sales
Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, Russia, info@souzmult.ru,
company Miyu Distribution, France, festival@miyu.fr, www.miyu.fr
www.soyuzmultfilm.ru
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FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Melting Heart Cake
Napo
Coeur fondant It’s short-sighted Anna’s best friend’s birthday, so she is planning to take them a fondant cake with a core of molten chocolate. But she has to go through a dark wood to get there, where Lulu the spider is warning everyone about a huge, hairy creature. Ever since this giant moved into the wood, lots of the residents have disappeared. Anna decides to go anyway, because for her sharing a cake with her friends is the best thing ever. The spider – who has an eye on the cake – goes along too. But is that such a good idea?
John lives with his mother. One day, his grandad comes to live with them. That might sound fun, but grandad is taciturn and apathetic – he suffers from dementia and is no longer interested in anything. He spends his days staring at the news, without absorbing a thing – but then John discovers how to bring grandad back to life. Using photographs and drawings, he slowly pulls him from his grey, sombre world.
Creative, original stop-motion animation made with a range of materials, lots of imagination and humour. This film is about prejudices and fear of the unknown, which can mean people missing out on great experiences. The entertaining story is supported by at times threatening and at times cheerful, exuberant music.
Sweet, dialogue-free, Brazilian animation with design reminiscent of the Pixar film Up and on a subject that often encounters a great deal of incomprehension. The film devotes a lot of attention to the development of relationships. John and his mother have their own routines. Mother doesn’t really know what to do with her dad even though she loves him, whilst grandad feels confused and out of place.
BENOÎT CHIEUX FRANCE | 2019 | 11’ | 8+
GUSTAVO RIBEIRO BRAZIL | 2020 | 16’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Smeltend hart Producer Ron Dyens Screenwriter
Producer Bruna Bastos, Thais Peixe Screenwriter Gabriela Antonia
Benoît Chieux Editor Hervé Guichard, Raoul Mallat Composer
Rosa, Gustavo Ribeiro Editor Victor Spadotto Composer Francisco
Pablo Pico Production company Sacrebleu Productions, France,
Okabe Production company Fish Films, Brazil, fish@fishfilms.com.br,
contact@sacrebleuprod.com, www.sacrebleuprod.com Sales
www.fishfilms.com.br
company L’Agence du court-métrage, France, info@agencecm. com, www.agencecm.com
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Northern Lights
Shooom’s Odyssey
Au pays de l’aurore boreale
L’odyssée de Choum
Colin lives in a grim, snow covered area with his grandfather. Originally a city kid, he moved there after the death of his parents and always feels cold. One day, grandad heads out for his annual hunt of the mysterious narwhal. The pale urban boy doesn’t want to go, but fate has different intentions. The journey, in a house on skis, brings the two closer together. Colin learns all manner of new things and proves to like and be capable of more than he thought. When danger looms, he surprises himself and grandpa, and they get some unexpected help.
A big storm leaves two owl eggs in a nest with no parents. One of them, Shooom, breaks out of his egg and goes looking for a mother, dragging his unhatched little brother or sister along. But he then loses the egg, leading to a long search full of danger, funny situations and exciting adventures. Will Shooom find his little brother or sister? And will they ever find a new home?
A lot of this original animation consists of suggestion. For example, about the fate of Colin’s parents. The cold place’s magic shines thanks to the colours, reflections and shadows, the softly falling snow and the score.
A situation that has been described in many fairy tales and children’s books: orphans looking for a home. Following the traditional narrative, the super cute, naïve baby owl tries his luck with various different animals, but is always rejected. He travels through a fairy-tale world – the night is especially magical, filled with exceptional colours and lights. This animation made for television won awards in Annecy and Shanghai and the atmospheric, compelling music has also been frequently nominated.
CAROLINE ATTIA SWITZERLAND, FRANCE | 2019 | 15’ | 8+
JULIEN BISARO BELGIUM, FRANCE | 2019 | 26’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Noorderlicht Producer Reginald de Guillebon, Nicolas
Dutch title Shooom’s Odyssee Producer Claire Paoletti, Olivier
Burlet Screenwriter Caroline Attia Editor Antoine Rodet Composer
Nomen Screenwriter Julien Bisaro, Claire Paoletti Editor Julien
Christophe Héral Production company Nadasdy film, Switzerland,
Bisaro, Claire Paoletti Composer David Reyes Production
info@nadasdyfilm.ch, www.nadasdyfilm.ch Sales company
company Picolo Pictures, France, contact@picolopictures.com,
Folimage, France, contact@folimage.fr, www.folimage.fr
www.picolopictures.com Sales company DANDELOOO, France, contact@dandelooo.com, www.dandelooo.com
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FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Tadpole
Tobi and the TURBOBUS
Têtard
Tobi and the TURBOBUS
Lola can’t stop teasing her younger brother, Gaspard. She tells him her real brother was taken away as a baby by frog monsters and that Gaspard is really a tadpole. This is also what she calls him. Gaspard believes her, even though his mother says it’s nonsense. The nearby swamp, home to many frogs, proves an irresistible attraction to the children. And strange things happen there. Could there be some truth to the story?
If you want to ride the Turbobus to school, you need to have a seat. Tobi is aware of this – he takes the superfast bus to school every day. He always saves a seat for his friend Freddie, who might not be such a good friend after all. When Freddie again goes and sits next to someone else, Tobi faces a dilemma: keep on saving the seat, or not?
Tense, slightly creepy animation in which imagination and reality intertwine. The tension is increased by clever use of shadows and threatening colours. The viewer is drawn into the children’s fear and unbridled imagination. Filmmaker Jean-Claude Rozec previously made films including the animated Cul de bouteille (2010), winner of the main award at the Aspen animated film festival.
JEAN-CLAUDE ROZEC FRANCE | 2019 | 14’ | 10+ FACTS
Sometimes you have to give up old friendships to make room for new, is the message of this witty, energetic animated film in which the characters are played by wolf figures. The characters do not speak to one another – after all, they are wolves – but the voice-over speaks from Tobi’s point of view. A rock song and running jokes give the film rhythm; the bus driver howls before flooring the gas pedal, and anyone without a seat flies out of the bus.
MARC ANGELE, VERENA FELS GERMANY | 2020 | 7’ | 6+ FACTS
Dutch title Dikkop Producer Colette Quesson Screenwriter
Dutch title Tobi en de turbobus Producer Verena Fels Screenwriter
Jean-Claude Rozec Editor Jean-Claude Rozec Composer Arnaud
Verena Fels Composer Alexander Wolf David, Andreas Pfeiffer
Bordelet Production company A Perte De Vue, France,
Production company FelsFilms, Germany, post@verenafels.de,
colettequesson@apertedevuefilm.fr, www.apertedevuefilm.fr
www.felsfilm.com
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Under the Ice Sous la Glace
Teplaya zvezda
At the start of a severe winter, a heron slips and slides on the slick ice trying to catch a fish. He doesn’t do well and to make matters worse a snowstorm develops. He finds shelter in a partially-sunken boat which – luckily – proves to be an ideal fish trap. The bounty causes the bird to forget the arrival of severe King Winter.
In the firmament, high in the sky, an owl is busy polishing the stars. Every cleaned star shines brightly again. However, the owl drops one and it falls to earth. Children playing find it and immediately become enamoured and inseparable. Things get out of hand; the children run to and fro, get dirty and have to have a bath – with the star. The star starts shining thanks to all the care and love, but in a different way from those in the sky.
Six L’Ecole des Nouvelles Images students won the BAFTA Student Film Award with this acutely observed graduation project. This realistic animation shows winter in all its beauty and cruelty. Everything is exactingly detailed: from the heron’s soft feathers and clumsy movements to the ice’s ominous cracking – all made extremely lifelike. The sound design and score give the impression of truly being underwater or in a snowstorm.
MILAN BAULARD, ISMAIL BERRAHMA, FLORE DUPONT , LAURIE ESTAMPES, QUENTIN NORY, HUGO POTIN FRANCE | 2019 | 6’ | 8+ FACTS
Warm Star exudes love and fun. The various worlds are in different colours: shades of blue for the heavens and warm yellows and reds for the summery earth. The characters are funny, mobile caricatures that move unpredictably fast and recklessly, just like children. A sweet film that demonstrates what love can do, even for a fallen star.
ANNA KUZINA RUSSIA | 2020 | 4’ | 4+ FACTS
Dutch title Onder het ijs Producer Julien Deparis Screenwriter
Dutch title Sterrenlicht Producer Boris Mashkovtsev Screenwriter
Milan Baulard, Ismail Berrahma, Flore Dupont, Laurie Estampes,
Mikhail Aldashin, Anna Kuzina Composer Alexey Smirnov Production
Quentin Nory, Hugo Potin Composer Baptiste Leblanc
company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, Russia, info@souzmult.ru,
Production company Ecole des Nouvelles Images, France,
www.soyuzmultfilm.ru Sales company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio,
avignon@nouvellesimages.xyz, www.nouvellesimages.xyz Sales
Russia, info@souzmult.ru, www.soyuzmultfilm.ru
company Miyu Distribution, France, festival@miyu.fr, www.miyu.fr
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Warm Star
FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L L I V E - A C T I O N S H O R T
Baxu and the Giants Baxu lives in a village in Namibia with her brother and their grandma. Brother Khata goes out to work every day for a pittance. Just enough for food and drink and beer for grandma, who goes to the café to forget. When illegal poachers descend on the village, Khata sees this as an opportunity to escape poverty. Then his sister could go to school. But Baxu is fiercely against killing animals. She feels strong ties to the traditions of their forefathers, who respected the animals and the land.
Beef High school is a terrible place for children who want to be free. Melissa would prefer to sing or rap about her path in life. Arguments with her teacher are constant. When she is obstinate again during an exam, the teacher doesn’t know what to do but a surprising, candid outburst seems to turn the tide.
The film tells the story calmly, going on beautiful diversions about Baxu’s ancestors. They were part of the land and shared the land with the animals. Baxu shows how complex the problem of illegal poaching is. It is very easy to recruit new poachers, as everyone wants to escape poverty.
The film starts with a rap describing the desire to break free of life’s chains. The camera approaches the characters, capturing their frustration and impotence, but also their developing understanding. The relationship between Melissa and her teacher is central, yet the class dynamics are also accurately portrayed. The score underlines the tension that develops due to Melissa’s provocative behaviour, culminating in an exceptional denouement.
FLORIAN SCHOTT NAMIBIA | 2019 | 28’ | 10+
INGRIDE SANTOS SPAIN | 2019 | 14’ | 10+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Baxu en de reuzen Producer Florian Schott, Andrew
Dutch title Woest Producer Carla Sospedra Screenwriter Lluis
Botelle, Girley Jazama Screenwriter Florian Schott, Girley Jazama
Segura, Ingride Santos Editor Estel Román, Lluis Segura, Ingride
Editor Robert Scott Composer Lize Ehlers, Karl Ehlers, Imms Nicolau
Santos Composer Tiguerita Music Tiguerita Leading actors Ruth
Music Lize Ehlers, Karl Ehlers, Imms Nicolau Leading actors Camilla
Gabriel, Melisa Peralta Production company Miss Wasabi Films,
Jo-Ann Daries, Wafeeq /Narimab, Anna Louw Production company
Spain, contacte@misswasabi.com, www.misswasabi.com Sales
MaMoKoBo Video & Research, Namibia, florian.schott@gmx.de
company Freak Film Festival Distribution, Spain hola@agenciafreak.com, www.agenciafreak.com
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Bits Delčki
Jag, Julia
Teo’s father is a truck driver. He no longer lives at home, but drops by from time to time. Teo’s mother doesn’t like this because he always wants to do something irresponsible and is unreliable. But one day he promises Teo he will drive him to the Formula 1 race. He will have to defy his mother to do so. Will Teo give his father the benefit of the doubt?
Julia is fourteen and lives with her parents and baby brother. At first sight, she has a normal life, but it soon becomes clear that her father is obsessively controlling and aggressive, particularly with regard to his wife. Julia, who just wants to be a teen, is concerned and seeks help from the children’s hotline and at school, while her mother swears the situation will get better soon. Will Julia manage to change their lives?
This Slovenian film was shot with a handheld camera and, together with the children’s naturalistic acting, lends the film a documentary-like quality. Bits is about a situation many children from broken homes will recognise: one parent keeping the children away from the other. The film makes it painfully clear what this – as well as not keeping promises – does to children.
ÁRON HORVÁTH BOTKA SLOVENIA | 2020 | 15’ | 8+ FACTS
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I, Julia
I, Julia provides a realistic impression of domestic violence. Smart use of mobile phone cameras provides intense insight, from the inside out. It becomes very apparent how one person’s aggression can deeply affect the lives of many. The film captures the pressure-cooker Julia lives in; her father’s influence is even felt at school. Sparing music symbolises the hope for a better life.
ARVIN KANANIAN SWEDEN | 2020 | 14’ | 12+ FACTS
Dutch title Scherven Producer Barbara Daljavec Screenwriter
Dutch title Ik, Julia Producer Mistre Tesfaye Screenwriter Mistre
Áron Horváth Botka Editor Andrej Avanzo Leading actors Teodor
Tesfaye, Arvin Kananian Editor Tove Nowén Leading actors Ylvali
Tot, Ksaver Pratnekar, Zsolt Nagy, Tamara Avguštin Production
Rurling, Anna Littorin, Olle Sarri Production company Makeriet AB,
company A Atalanta d.o.o., Slovenia, info@aatalanta.si,
Sweden, info@makerietfilm.se, www.makerietfilm.se Sales company
www.aatalanta.si
Swedish Film Institute, Sweden, registrator@sfi.se, www.sfi.se
FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L L I V E - A C T I O N S H O R T
July 96
The Kicksled Choir
Juillet 96
Sparkekoret
During a hot summer’s day, Sophie looks forward to her slightly older, favourite niece’s arrival. When she arrives, she proves to have almost transformed into a young woman with new interests. Still spindly Sophie is dragged into exciting teen adventures: boys, smoking and alcohol. But she doesn’t really like this and hankers after the things they used to do together. Also, the boys aren’t very nice. Things go wrong when they play hide and seek.
Gabriel has a voice like an angel, a surly, divorced father and just one big wish: to become a member of the kicksled choir. He wants to sled, singing, through the snow-covered north of Norway collecting money and things for refugees. But his father literally and figuratively blocks his ambition: he has no time for either the choir or refugees – in fact he even gets into a fight with one of them. Will Gabriel be able to melt his father’s hard heart?
July ’96 is filmed literally from Sophie’s perspective. The adults and their adult problems she is not aware of yet remain in the background. The camera sees what Sophie sees and how she experiences the world: the boy’s hand on her niece’s hip; threatening figures in the twilight dunes she gets lost in. Perhaps this is her last summer of innocence.
The snowy landscape provides a harsh, poetic backdrop to this short film. Camera and music work together to portray the tension Gabriel feels with this father, who is under great pressure and explodes at the slightest thing. The film shows how Gabriel is developing his own personality, taking his own decisions and choosing a different path from his father.
MICHÈLE JACOB BELGIUM | 2019 | 25’ | 10+
TORFINN IVERSEN NORWAY | 2020 | 18’ | 10+
FACTS Dutch title Juli ‘96 Producer Sebastian Schelenz Screenwriter
FACTS Dutch title Het sledekoor Producer Julia Andersen Screenwriter
Michèle Jacob Editor Christophe Evrard Composer Éric Bribosia
Torfinn Iversen Editor Torfinn Iversen Composer Sander
Leading actors Liocha Mirzabekiantz, Mahaut Bodson, Raphaëlle
Stedenfeldt Olsen Leading actors Nicholai Evans, Benoni Brox
Bruneau, Orlando Vauthier, Jules Hanquet Production company
Krane, Stig Henrik Hoff Production company Fjordic Film AS,
Velvet Films, Belgium, info@velvetfilms.be, www.velvetfilms.be
Norway, julia@fjordicfilm.com, www.fjordicfilm.com Sales company
Sales company Agence Belge du Court Metrage, Belgium, info@
Norwegian Film Institute, Norway, post@nfi.no, www.nfi.no
agenceducourt.be, www.agence-ducourtmetrage.squarespace.com
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The Kites Badbadakha
Sõlm
Three boys and a girl are neighbours, literally living a stone’s throw apart. However, when the girl’s kite comes down on the boys’ land, distance is not the problem. The children are separated by the mined border between Iraq and Iran, as well as a language barrier. But they use creativity perseverance to attempt to reach one another.
Anton lives with his mother and older brother outside of town. His brother thinks Anton’s soft – he prefers to hang around with a gang of tough boys. One day, the gang go to a deserted prison. In spite of his fear, Anton wants to go along rather than stay at home. In the prison a difficult situation arises that causes Anton to face his own demons – and get a different impression of his brother.
A simple, lovingly made story about how arbitrary borders separate humans from each other while there is so much more that connects them. The Iranian director uses minimal means: the film is set in just a few locations, there are few characters, they speak only when they have to and the rhythm is calm. Despite this, the director uses subtle written and visual jokes to tell a story not only of natural friendship and blossoming love, but also the glaring consequences and the absurdity of nationalism and war.
SEYED PAYAM HOSEINI IRAN | 2020 | 14’ | 9+ FACTS Dutch title De vliegers Producer Mohsen Mohammadi Shasha,
The Knot revolves around the relationship between the two brothers – a relationship that changes during the course of the film. The desolate, bare, inhospitable landscape in which the story unfolds speaks volumes about the situation the two brothers find themselves in. Buildings are deserted and radiate menace. All kinds of suggestions are made about why their father is no longer around. The tension gradually builds and it becomes clear where Anton’s fears and traumas come from.
ANDRÉS LOSADA ESTONIA, PORTUGAL, UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBIA | 2019 | 19’ | 12+ FACTS
Seyed Payam Hoseini Screenwriter Seyed Payam Hoseini Editor
Dutch title De knoop Producer Noorahaya Lahtee Screenwriter
Hadi Ahmadi Composer Hadi Ahmadi Leading actors Asiah
Larissa Curi Editor Mariana Nunes Composer Indrek Soe Leading
Moradi-Zar, Osman Pira, Karo Qavami Production company Parya
actors Hans Matthias Kari, Markus Lehtsalu Production company
Film Haghighat, Iran, payamhosseini0@gmail.com Sales company
Kino Eyes - The European Movie Masters, Estonia,
Cineport International Media, Iran, taheri.sami@gmail.com,
noorahaya.lt@gmail.com, www.kinoeyes.eu
www.cineport.ir
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The Knot
FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L L I V E - A C T I O N S H O R T
Maradona’s Legs
Monkey Girl
Ijrain Maradona
Affenmädchen
During the 1990 World Cup, two Palestinian brothers – fanatical supporters of the Brazilian team – are collecting football stickers. Their album, which also contains Ruud Gullit, is complete: except for Maradona’s legs. They really want to get hold of these, as the first person to fill a complete album wins an Atari console. So they overcome their fears, survive danger and aggression and literally travel the length and breadth of the country.
Unlike her older sister, ten-year-old Alva doesn’t like make-up, beautiful clothes and messing about with her hair. But she’s a real daredevil – more so than the group of friends she hangs around with. So she finds it really stupid that they make a distinction between the boys and her. When one of them says she’s not allowed to break into his brother’s secret hut, this just makes her want to do it all the more.
The World Cup is a huge expression of nationalism, but love of the beauty of the game transcends national boundaries: these boys consider loyalty to a team more important than allegiance to their flag. In their quest for the missing sticker, they learn important lessons from others – but also pass on some of their own (in a passionate speech about loyalty). In the meantime, the competition continues and the reality of the Palestinian Intifada bubbles away in the background.
Why is it suddenly so important whether you’re a boy or a girl? This film focuses on young Alva, who notices that hormones are starting to play a role with the boys in her group. She doesn’t take any notice of gender at all, but nevertheless she’s confronted by it. The others look at her differently, and also treat her differently. Certain scenes make her discomfort and the tension bubbling below the surface very clear.
FIRAS KHOURY PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, GERMANY | 2019 | 23’ | 8+
ISABELLE CAPS-KUHN GERMANY | 2020 | 24’ | 9+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title De benen van Maradona Producer Christian Marohl
Dutch title Apenmeisje Producer Michaela Finis Screenwriter
Screenwriter Firas Khoury Editor Marwen El-Hechkel, Heike Par-
Isabelle Caps-Kuhn Editor Jana Briesner Composer Heiko Schmidt
plies Composer Faraj Suleiman Leading actors Faris Abbas, Ayoub
/ KAHRO Leading actors Matilda Jork, Leo Pérez-Kallscheuer,
Abu Hamad, Ali Suliman Production company schaf oder scharf film,
Hendrix Warnoch, Charlotta Rowohlt Production company
Germany, zorana@schafoderscharf.de, www.schafoderscharf.de
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany,
Sales company Lights On, Italy, lightson@lightsonfilm.org,
sales@filmakademie.de, www.filmakademie.de
www.lightsonfilm.com
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The Music Video
The Name of the Son
Le vidéoclip
El nombre del hijo
Like so many boys his age, Antoine wants to make a rap video with his friends. On the day of the shoot, he is saddled with his younger, just pre-pubescent sister Clara. She is allowed to take part because she can dance, but only if she wears make-up and a stuffed bra borrowed from Antoine’s friend Simon’s sister. It makes her look a lot more womanly and the boys suddenly perceive her differently. With growing discomfort, Clara realises the impact she is having. The question is: can she deal with it?
Lucho is a thirteen-year-old transgender. He doesn’t want to be a girl, but a boy. His sister and father have accepted this; they refer to him as their brother and son. His father does his best to understand Lucho’s feelings, but Lucho himself is still struggling with his own identity. Not surprisingly, as he is just entering puberty and is hormonally speaking not yet a boy.
This naturalistically acted film with embarrassment and fat beats instead of romance and violins makes the hormonal discomfort of puberty palpable. The boys act tough, rapping about drugs and bitches, but don’t really know how to approach girls. Clara slowly realises the role she has been coerced into.
This Argentine short gives insight into the struggles of a young transgender. There is little explanation and the references to a change of sex are very subtle: Lucho gives his dolls to his sister; father calls his daughters to the table. In the meantime, the tension is palpable – how to broach this subject without making it a problem? And how as a father to enter the world of a daughter who is suddenly a son?
CAMILLE POIRIER CANADA | 2019 | 14’ | 11+
MARTINA MATZKIN ARGENTINA | 2020 | 13’ | 11+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title De videoclip Producer Camille Poirier Screenwriter
Dutch title De naam van de zoon Producer Rocío Pichirili, Lucía Vela
Alexis Viau Editor Camille Poirier Leading actors Marilou Forgues,
Screenwriter Martina Matzkin Editor Anna Rüegsegger Leading
Olivier Carignan, Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie Sales company Spira,
actors Tristán Miranda, Daniel Cabot, Amanda Pérez Berch Production
Canada, developpement@spira.quebec, www.spira.quebec
company Groncho, Argentina, ropichirili@gronchoestudio.com, www.gronchoestudio.com Sales company Ouat Media, Canada, info@ouatmedia.com, www.ouatmedia.com
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FILMS
B E S T I N T E R N AT I O N A L L I V E - A C T I O N S H O R T
The Shoes of a Little Girl
Teen Horses
Junu Ko Jutta Little Junu just can’t manage to put her shoes on properly – she never knows which shoe goes on which foot. She doesn’t see this as a problem, but people are always making comments, like her mother and sister at home, and her teachers at school – which she has just started. People even play tricks on her. But one day she finds something that just might help her remember what’s what. This short was filmed in Nepal in an extremely photogenic mountain village, complete with wooden houses and colourful villagers, and takes its time to document Junu’s shoe habits in humorous shots of just her lower legs and wrong-way-round slippers and shoes. The film is the directorial debut of actor and casting director Kedar Shrestha, who also wrote the screenplay.
KEDAR SHRESTHA NEPAL | 2019 | 13’ | 5+ FACTS Dutch title Stoute schoenen Producer Bibhu Poudel, Sushant
After her parents’ divorce, Tania has moved from Finland back to France with her mother and younger brother. There, she attends a new high school and video chats every day with her best friend in Finland. She is determined to return soon, but as time passes she has to start building a new life. Maybe ‘hobbyhorsing’ – a sport with hobby horses, which she’s actually ashamed of – can help her with this. Teen Horses tackles a number of taboos in an indirect way. For example hobbyhorsing, a sport that is hardly known and little loved, and Tania’s sexuality (she likes girls, without this being explicitly stated). The film is also about shame and the unwritten rules of high school, which determine what is and isn’t allowed. Luckily, there are still enough rebels around who don’t let others tell them what they shouldn’t and shouldn’t do to be happy.
VALÉRIE LEROY FRANCE | 2019 | 20’ | 11+ FACTS Dutch title Paardenmeisje Producer Fabrice Préel-Cléach
Shrestha Screenwriter Kedar Shrestha Editor Biplav Raj Pokhrel
Screenwriter Valérie Leroy Editor Julie Delord Leading actors
Composer Riken Maharjan Music Riken Maharjan Leading actors
Mathilde Abd El Kader, Alexia Chicot, Timothée Costier, Elsa
Hisee Lama, Yanjee Lama, Pasang Lhamu Lama Production com-
Houben Production company Offshore, France,
pany Happy Hues Production, Nepal, sushant.sisu@gmail.com
offshore@offshore.fr, www.offshore.fr Sales company Manifest, France, anais@manifest.pictures
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Under the Skin Onderhuids
Perla
Keesje is a member of a synchronised swimming team. The teenage girls are not only caught up in preparations for an important upcoming competition, but also tensions within the team and ruthless competitiveness. The girls, led by tough Lize, constantly expose one another to withering criticism. The smallest mistake can mean exclusion and loneliness: a bitter reality that also impacts Keesje.
If you believe in fairy tales, you needn’t be afraid, a grandma tells her granddaughter when she’s staying with her in an old house full of stuff that belonged to her deceased grandpa. She tells her granddaughter beautiful stories about how the moon is really a magic pearl. The girl has lots of sober explanations, but at the same time also a rich imagination. Just before she goes to sleep, her imagination comes to life – or is the exciting, enchanting underwater world real?
Under the Skin almost literally gets under the skin: the camera comes incredibly close. The subtlest movement, wrong look or bodily blemish is recorded and enlarged – just like in the minds of these teenage girls. The film exposes just what insecurity does to teens and how every situation brings the risk of humiliation and shame. Sound, music and beautifully lit (underwater) images depict the protagonist’s fragile inner world and show what’s going on under the surface – literally and figuratively.
A short, atmospheric and in parts creepy film about how we don’t always need a scientific explanation for everything. Sometimes it’s good to believe in fairy tales – or that your deceased grandpa is watching over you. Dream and reality merge seamlessly and lead to marvellous underwater scenes at full moon. Whether this is real or not isn’t so important – what matters is what it finally brings about.
EMMA BRANDERHORST THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 19’ | 10+
JAKUB KOURIL CZECH REPUBLIC | 2020 | 15’ | 10+
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Watersprite
FACTS
Producer Patou Ten Cate, Eva Schaaf Screenwriter Janna
Dutch title Diepzeeparel Producer Pavel Strnad Screenwriter
Grosfeld Editor Tessel de Vries Composer Leonard Kluen, Tom
Kristina Nedvědová, Jakub Kouril Editor Evženie Brabcová
Schipper Leading actors Nisrine Aghrib Miou, Bas Keijzer, Yentl
Composer Mishan Pajdiak Leading actors Josefína Krycnerová,
Meijer, Isis Braam Production company Eva Schaaf & Patou ten
Veronika Freimanová, Pavel Nový Production company Negativ
Cate, The Netherlands, eef.schaaf@gmail.com Sales company
s.r.o., Czech Republic, office@negativ.cz, www.negativ.cz Sales
Kapitein Kort, The Netherlands, info@kapiteinmedia.nl,
company Czech Film Center, Czech Republic, info@filmcenter.cz,
www.kapiteinmedia.nl Distributor Kapitein Kort
www.filmcenter.cz
FILMS
B E S T D U T C H A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Cliffhanger How many adventures can a human have in a few minutes? The protagonist in Cliffhanger starts relatively calmly with a duel in a Western town. After a shot, he tumbles over backwards into a well. This is the start of an exciting, swirling journey through time, space and genres. There is no time to recover as a series of adventures unfolds that are basically only ever experienced in films. But what is the final destination? Hanging by your fingers from the cliff’s edge is a literally a cliffhanger. This is just one of the incredible situations we experience in this short, high energy animation. The score accompanying every rapidly passing scene is rousing and propulsive: from blaring trumpets in a mystical temple to threatening bells tolling in a cellar fit for Dracula.
DIEDERICK GEERS, JELLE JANSSEN, JASPER LOOS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 2’ | 6+ FACTS Producer Richard Valk Screenwriter Diederick Geers, Jelle Janssen
Human Nature They wait to be milked in the fields, fight for a place on the heater and are scared senseless by a cucumber, or wash ashore with their stomachs full of plastic – familiar images online, but in this scarcely two-minute long, stop-motion animation, animals are replaced by humans. Dogs walk their humans and laugh themselves silly about videos on their phones. This jolly looking, darkly humorous animation gives an exceptional perspective on human nature. The behaviour we normally see in animals proves very similar to that generally displayed by humans. In this topsy-turvy world, how humans treat animals suddenly seems pretty cruel. The score lends a dark touch to this super short, effective film. Human Nature makes us laugh and think.
SVERRE FREDRIKSEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 2’ | 8+ FACTS Producer Noortje Wilschut, Floor Onrust, Chris Stenger
Editor Witte van der Tempel Composer Jeroen Jaspers, Devin de
Screenwriter Britt Snel Composer Bram Meindersma
Vries, Bas van Win Production company Valk Producties, The
Production company Family Affair Films, The Netherlands,
Netherlands, info@valkproducties.nl, www.valkproducties.nl
info@familyaffairfilms.nl, www.familyaffairfilms.nl Sales company
Sales company SND Films, The Netherlands, info@sndfilms.com,
SND Films, The Netherlands, info@sndfilms.com, www.sndfilms.
www.sndfilms.com Distributor KLIK Distribution
com Distributor KLIK Distribution
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INK An octopus in an aquarium is obsessed with cleaning, keeping its home and environment spotless. The only thing it has no control over is the outside of the glass. To his great annoyance, a little girl walking by accidentally smears the glass with ice cream. The day seems saved when the cleaner turns up – but how can the octopus convince him to notice the sticky stain and remove it? The octopus uses everything at its disposal to do so. Energetic, fun film in Rotterdam animation studio Ka-Ching’s fluid style. The makers use bright colours and a rousing sirtaki soundtrack to derail the narrative, which ultimately ends with a spectacular, unavoidable climax. The octopus’ tenacity and the cleaner’s incomprehension lead to wacky, slapstick-like situations.
JOOST VAN DEN BOSCH, ERIK VERKERK THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 2’ | 6+ FACTS
Animation of the nonsensical poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Caroll, author of Alice in Wonderland. It tells the tale of a little boy who is asked to fight the monster Jabberwocky. With his special sword, loyal horse and folded hat, he ventures into the forest for a short, intense battle. If he defeats the fantasy monster, he will become the hero of the village and its odd inhabitants. This absurdist poem is about the endless war between good and evil, with the former represented by a clever, brave boy. The story is enthusiastically, descriptively told in voice-over, largely using the language invented by Caroll. The traditional animation has a simple yet effective pallet that suits the bizarre poetry wonderfully. The scenes are accompanied by appropriate, Medieval -sounding music and reward attentive viewers with many funny details.
SJAAK ROOD THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES | 2020 | 2’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Joost van den Bosch Screenwriter Joost van den Bosch,
Producer Sjaak Rood Screenwriter Sjaak Rood Music Mark
Erik Verkerk, Wilbert Plijnaar Editor Joost van den Bosch
Nieuwenhuis Production company TED Conferences
Composer Rene Merkelbach, Tim Langedijk, Mikis Theodorakis, Jeroen Nadorp Production company Ka-Ching Cartoons, The Netherlands, info@ka-chingcartoons.com, www.ka-chingcartoons.com
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FILMS
B E S T D U T C H A N I M AT E D S H O R T
Spring
Tidy Town
Why does spring happen every year? This fairy tale-like animation gives a possible answer. In a magical world, a girl and her dog trek into a misty forest at the right time with a magic stick. There, she awakens a divine tree being. If she manages to do the right things, a gift will be bestowed upon her that will allow her to take rain, sun and growth back with her – but it doesn’t all go smoothly.
Plastic is a major problem globally. This is also the case in Tidy Town, where the beaches are littered with bottles manufactured by Linnaeus Wolf ’s corporation. Raccoon Joy asks him to help recycle the plastic bottles. The town’s inhabitants enthusiastically collect the waste and deliver it to the factory. However, the recycling doesn’t go as Joy hoped.
Spring was made by Blender Animation Studio, using their self-developed, free, open source software. Last year the studio won the Annie Award – an animation industry award – for their major contribution to the world of animation. This short animation uses highly developed techniques and a moving score to immerse viewers in a magical world of almost unlimited possibilities.
This 2D animation by Dana Alink and Thirza van der Zee addresses the struggles of the insignificant consumer against major corporations. Recycling isn’t done to solve problems but to clean up corporate images. The bottles symbolise all superfluous products created to addict people to consumption. This film, which alternates between impending doom and darkness and lightness and hope, reveals that a solution is far from simple.
ANDREAS GORALCZYK THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 7’ | 7+
DANA ALINK , THIRZA VAN DER ZEE THE NETHERLANDS, PERU, FRANCE, UNITED STATES | 2020 | 7’ | 8+
FACTS Producer Francesco Siddi Screenwriter Andreas Goralczyk
FACTS
Composer Torin Borrowdale Production company Blender
Producer Dana Alink, Thirza van der Zee Screenwriter Dana Alink
Animation Studio, The Netherlands, ton@blender.studio,
Composer Isabella Calmet, Jose Varon Production company HKU,
www.blender.studio
The Netherlands, egbert.deruiter@hku.nl, www.hku.nl
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Tourist Trap
Foreplay Voorspel
A cute little car with a caravan is looking for a beautiful, quiet spot. It finds one on an island, but it doesn’t take long for other holiday makers to discover the amazing place too. The pioneer departs for another delightful location, but soon isn’t alone there either. And, just like all the exceptional holiday destinations in the world, this place soon becomes overrun and its beauty is destroyed by tourism. Lovingly made, colourful, ultra-short animation about how mass tourism and our desire for undiscovered places is ruining the planet. A serene island soon deteriorates into a stinking traffic jam of increasingly large camper vans. The masses scarcely see the beauty all around them, and so they wreck it. Naturally this is all down to herd mentality – but what if that one little car had stayed home instead?
VERA VAN WOLFEREN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 2’ | 6+ FACTS
This documentary doesn’t focus on the lessons and teachers, but rather on the responses and attitudes of the pupils: giggling, wriggling, insecure shuffling, laughing too loudly – but also genuine interest. The children are interviewed directly as well, including pointed questions about porn, expectations and dealing with rejection. The answers are at times hilarious and almost always disarmingly honest. There is strikingly little posturing – the filmmakers succeeded in putting the young people at ease. Foreplay, part of Zappdoc, won a Special Jury Mention in the Competition for Kids & Docs at IDFA 2019.
ANNE VAN CAMPENHOUT THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 10+ FACTS
Producer Floor Onrust, Chris Stenger Screenwriter Britt Snel
Producer JeanMarc van Sambeek, Menna Laura Meijer Editor
Composer Flavia Faas Production company Family Affair Films,
Albert Markus jr., Patrick Schonewille Production company mint
The Netherlands, info@familyaffairfilms.nl, www.familyaffairfilms.
film office, The Netherlands, mint@mintfilm.nl, www.mintfilm.nl
nl Sales company SND Films, The Netherlands, info@sndfilms.com, www.sndfilms.com Distributor KLIK Distribution
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For teenagers, puberty is one long string of embarrassing moments – but classic sex education is worst of all. Foreplay shows how second-year high school pupils are confronted by the reproductive organs, advanced sexual positions and practice with condoms. This naturally results in lots of awkwardness and red cheeks, but also some surprising insights.
FILMS
B E S T D U T C H D O C U M E N TA R Y S H O R T
Girlsboysmix
Holy Moly
Meisjesjongensmix
Heilig boontje
Why is it so important to be a boy or a girl? Wen Long naturally and candidly explains that they were born intersex. The adopted nine-year-old wears both boys’ and girls’ clothes and plays with toys intended for both genders. The only problem is that others don’t know what to think of this. People say: ‘If you are boy and girl at the same time, you are basically nothing’. Wen Long isn’t interested in making a choice, but mainly just wants to be themself.
In her communion class, eight-year-old Merle is given a book called I Celebrate with Jesus. For the Catholic community in the Dutch province of Limburg, first communion is still very special. The camera follows astonished, curious, inadvertently critical Merle on her journey towards this milestone. The questions she puts to adults and children her age result in unusual, funny and disconcerting insights. Where did Jesus come from? Does a blessed communion wafer taste different from an unblessed one?
This insightful, playful documentary reveals how preposterous the imposed binary gender divide really is. Clothing, toys, toilets – everything is strictly separated. The societal taboo on intersex causes problems. A typical example is the fact that Wen Long’s teacher considers the subject unsuitable for children, even though it is an entirely natural phenomenon that also occurs in the animal kingdom. So why is it weird in humans?
LARA AERTS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7’ | 9+ FACTS
Director Eva Nijsten previously explored Dutch Santa Clauses for hire and their helpers. Now she infiltrates the conservative world of Catholic Limburg. With attention to detail and lots of humour, she shows the significance of this religious tradition, which goes much further than just church. A whole retail business – including fashion shows for communion dresses and huge multi-layered cakes – opens up before our eyes.
EVA NIJSTEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Eefje Blankevoort, Laura Verduijn Screenwriter Lara
Producer Nienke Korthof, Willem Baptist, Merle Bemelmans
Aerts Editor Femke Klein Obbink Composer Darius Timmer
Screenwriter Eva Nijsten Editor Saskia Kievits Composer Joep
Production company Prospektor, The Netherlands, info@prospektor.nl,
Sporck Production company Tangerine Tree, The Netherlands,
www.prospektor.nl
info@tangerinetree.nl, www.tangerinetree.nl
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JovannaForFuture
Second Best Tweestrijd
Inspired by her heroine Greta Thunberg, headstrong Jovanna is committed to saving the planet. She does this by conscious living – supported by her sustainable parents – and by drawing attention to the issue. For months she’s been on strike, every Friday, outside the local town hall. She also speaks at demonstrations and is in contact with climate strikers around the world, as the consequences of climate change become ever more noticeable. This short documentary follows Jovanna in her everyday life and as she talks about her motivation, her admiration for and contact with Greta from Sweden, and her dilemmas, as even this hyperconscious teenager occasionally longs for a flavoured yoghurt in a plastic pot. The images of Jovanna are interspersed with video fragments of demonstrations and comments from young climate strikers around the world, fighting together for a cleaner, more sustainable, more liveable world.
MIRJAM MARKS THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 8+ FACTS
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Tim and Nick Gerhards, racing champion Peter Gerhards’ twin sons, are go-kart racers. Tim, who is bigger, more muscular and less awkward than Nick, usually comes first. The two only want the best for each other, but they are pretty competitive, and Nick is sick of always coming second. The film follows the brothers at races and whilst conversing at home. The documentary is filmed from underdog Nick’s perspective. The camera follows him everywhere – even onto the racetrack during the umpteenth pursuit of his brother. The young teenage boys are tough yet vulnerable, their unbreakable bond symbolised by their foetal position as they lie in bed together. The film provides a look behind the scenes of kart racing, but also gives insight into the psyches of the growing boys and their ambitious father.
JANETTA UBBELS THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 9+ FACTS
Producer Nienke Korthof, Willem Baptist Screenwriter Mirjam
Producer Albert Klein Haneveld Screenwriter Janetta Ubbels
Marks Editor Sander Cijsouw Production company Tangerine Tree,
Editor Sonja ten Boom Production company Hollandse Helden,
The Netherlands, info@tangerinetree.nl, www.tangerinetree.nl
The Netherlands, mail@hollandsehelden.nl, www.hollandsehelden.nl
FILMS
B E S T D U T C H D O C U M E N TA R Y S H O R T
This Film Stinks
Timo Must Wait
Deze film stinkt
Timo moet wachten
What’s it like not being able to smell? Can you smell under water? How to describe a smell? These are some of the many questions asked in this short documentary. Together with Stan, a boy with no sense of smell, filmmaker Denise Janzee goes in search of answers. Along the way, fascination for this very special sense just grows. Stan finds out that he is missing out on a lot – but that he can do some things better than those with a good nose.
Timo is at primary school. Or rather wás at primary school, as he’s not allowed to go anymore. Because he got angry, he explains. Now he’s at home, mostly just waiting for school to end so he can ask his friends to play, but also for the results of an investigation into why he kept getting so angry. Maybe he’ll have to go to another school – but he really hopes not.
That the film doesn’t really stink frustrates director Janzee, who would have liked to have included odours in her film, as our sense of smell is the most immediate of all the senses – which is what prompted her to explore this subject. She interviews academics and people like Stan with particular experience, trying to imagine what a world without scent would be like.
Young Timo is followed as his life hobbles on, mostly at home or impatiently waiting at the school gates for the liberating bell. He talks candidly about his feelings: boredom and the fear of losing his friends. He accepts the situation with admirable resignation. The adults in the documentary are shown only in the background, allowing the audience to really see things from Timo’s point of view.
DENISE JANZÉE THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 8+
MELLIENA BECKMANN THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden Screenwriter Denise
Producer Sharona Buijert, Anne van der Veer Editor Noël van
Janzée, Tamara Vuurmans Editor Denise Janzée Protagonist
Rens Protagonist Timo Production company EO/IKONdocs,
Stan Production company The Film Kitchen, The Netherlands,
The Netherlands, eo@eo.nl, www.eo.nl
info@thefilmkitchen.nl, www.thefilmkitchen.nl
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Birdland
The Inventors’ Best Kept Secret De uitvinders en het grote mensen mysterie
Eight-year-old Skye lives with her mother Joy in a trailer park. They have a strong, visible, loving relationship. Skye can’t wait to grow up to be just like her sexy, independent, chain-smoking, cursing mother. She is particularly fascinated by Joy’s monthly bleed. One day while her mother is at work, Skye decides to literally step into her shoes – much to the alarm and amazement of the other children. An atmospheric film about a girl who is in a hurry to grow up, and so comes up against invisible boundaries. With at times unusual, intimate camera angles that focus in on revealing details – of both the characters and their surroundings. The film hinges on Fay Vekemans’ uninhibited, vulnerable portrayal of young Skye. The story is not only about growing up, but also breaks the taboo on menstruation; a topic still shrouded in secrecy.
A playful film about children who deviate from the norm. Unlike in many other films, this doesn’t bother this pair. The filmmakers show how the world looks to a child’s mind: a coherent-looking universe, in which anything that doesn’t belong is immediately flagged as adventurous and dangerous. The children finally learn that life is not black-and-white, and that being different has its advantages.
ASHGAN EL-HAMUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 15’ | 8+
CHANTAL DE JONG THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 29’ | 8+
FACTS
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Kiki and Finn are both outsiders, and so they’re good friends. Kiki has a vivid imagination and is dyslexic; Finn is an inventor and a dreamer. Together, they visit people who live in the neighbourhood – Kiki records their visits in a special book – to look for stuff for Finn’s latest invention. In the process, they make an exciting discovery about the local freak. The pair become convinced he’s keeping a horrible secret and decide to investigate.
FACTS
Producer Janneke Doolaard Screenwriter Ashgan El-Hamus
Producer Monique van Dalen Screenwriter Chantal De Jong,
Editor Tessel Flora de Vries Composer Tess van der Velde Leading
Hugo Vrijdag Editor Gretel Vaesen Composer Erwin Steijlen
actors Faye Vekemans, Frieda Barnhard Production company
Leading actors Juliette Heijne, Jago Hensema, Juul Vrijdag,
Doxy Films, The Netherlands, info@doxy.nl, www.doxy.nl Sales
Mike Weerts, Dirk van der Pol, Serge Hogenbirk Production
company Kapitein Media, The Netherlands, info@kapiteinmedia.nl,
company De Regisseur, The Netherlands, chantal@deregisseur.com,
www.kapiteinmedia.nl
www.deregisseur.com
FILMS
BEST DUTCH LIVE ACTION SHORT
STIK
Stolen Kisses Zoentjesdief
Bloem is mad about gulls. She studies them at the seaside with her grandpa Pieter, who combs the beach looking for plastic. Not to throw it away, but to eat it – like the rest of the world, he is now a ‘plasticarian’. He loves plastic soup and crispy polypropylene. But during their day out it turns out that this waste elevated to food is threatening not only the gulls’ lives, but also grandpa Pieter’s. A disturbing vision of a future in which mankind eats only plastic, while animals die from it. This short film reveals the beauty of nature – and the reasons why Bloem refuses to accept her grandpa’s reality. Using simple means, filmed on location with a micro cast, this film has a simple message: beaches, the sea, birds, flowers, fruit – these are all worth saving.
NIEK ROOZEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 12’ | 8+ FACTS
Sometimes there are advantages to your granny going senile. This makes it easy for Amy to win at cards or get paid twice for her report, which is convenient because she is saving up for a skateboard. Yet she really loves her grandma and is super happy that gran has fallen in love with Rinus, who also lives at the nursing home. One day Rinus is moved to another home and Amy decides to do anything she can to help the couple see each other again. Stolen Kisses is based on the true story of filmmaker Lidi Toepoel’s aged grandmother Mientje, who lived in a nursing home with dementia and had a boyfriend there. The film shows what dementia does to people, their friends and family using a delicate touch, and underscores how elderly people with Alzheimer’s are often unfairly dismissed.
LIDI TOEPOEL THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 14’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Stan Egberts, Aziza van den Berg Screenwriter Peter
Producer Dennis de Bakker, Lidi Toepoel Screenwriter Lidi Toepoel
van Roermund Editor Erik van der Bijl Composer Jeffrey van
Editor Efin de Landmeter Composer Tom Sikkers Leading actors
Rossum Leading actors Lena Jimoh, Harry van Rijthoven
Hetty Heyting, Amy Hill, Frits Lambrechts, Christanne de Bruijn
Production company LOER Filmproducties, The Netherlands,
Production company Kek films, The Netherlands, info@kekfilms.nl,
info@loerfilm.nl, www.loerfilm.nl
www.kekfilms.nl
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Under the Skin Onderhuids
Elf
Keesje is a member of a synchronised swimming team. The teenage girls are not only caught up in preparations for an important upcoming competition, but also tensions within the team and ruthless competitiveness. The girls, led by tough Lize, constantly expose one another to withering criticism. The smallest mistake can mean exclusion and loneliness: a bitter reality that also impacts Keesje.
The lives of eleven-year-old Elf and her little brother Jonas change when they lose their father. Elf supports Jonas and her mother, who is having trouble keeping things together. Elf remains okay thanks to conversations with her father, who provides good advice and explains why swallows fly low. Days become weeks as the three learn to live in the new situation, each in their own way, but with each other’s help.
Under the Skin almost literally gets under the skin: the camera comes incredibly close. The subtlest movement, wrong look or bodily blemish is recorded and enlarged – just like in the minds of these teenage girls. The film exposes just what insecurity does to teens and how every situation brings the risk of humiliation and shame. Sound, music and beautifully lit (underwater) images depict the protagonist’s fragile inner world and show what’s going on under the surface – literally and figuratively.
This brief, melancholy, understated film follows the devastated family from the perspective of Elf, who is about to hit puberty. Still a child, the events catapult her into adulthood. The film alternates between panoramic, open scenes outdoors and warm, intimate shots indoors, often filmed very close up. Homely scenes illustrate the strong bond between Elf and Jonas, who are sister and brother in real life.
EMMA BRANDERHORST THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 19’ | 10+
LUCA MEISTERS THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 12’ | 8+
FACTS
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When Birds Fly Low
FACTS
Producer Patou Ten Cate, Eva Schaaf Screenwriter Janna Grosfeld
Producer Karel Jansen, Luca Meisters Screenwriter Luca Meisters
Editor Tessel de Vries Composer Leonard Kluen, Tom Schipper
Editor Mischa Lamping Composer Minco Eggersman Leading
Leading actors Nisrine Aghrib Miou, Bas Keijzer, Yentl Meijer, Isis
actors Ella van Gennip, Siem van Gennip, Judith Pol, Dries Vanhegen
Braam Production company Eva Schaaf & Patou ten Cate, The
Production company Stichting MCEM, The Netherlands,
Netherlands, eef.schaaf@gmail.com Sales company Kapitein Kort,
info@mcem.nl, www.mcem.nl Sales company Kapitein Kort,
The Netherlands, info@kapiteinmedia.nl, www.kapiteinmedia.nl
The Netherlands, info@kapiteinmedia.nl, www.kapiteinmedia.nl
Distributor Kapitein Kort
Distributor Kapitein Kort
FILMS
OUT OF COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
À la mode
The Beauty
À la mode A queen and her subjects can only protect themselves against the monster in the mountains by wearing the very latest fashions.
Realistic-looking animation that appeals to the imagination. Is the undersea world as beautiful if all the animals are made from plastic and other waste?
JEAN LECOINTRE FRANCE | 2020 | 9’ | 8+
PASCAL SCHELBLI GERMANY | 2019 | 5’ | 9+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Uit de mode Producer Laurence Méoc, Nicolas Schmer-
Dutch title Plastiek magnifiek Producer Tina Vest, Aleksandra
kin Editor Laurent Blot Production company 2.4.7 FILMS, France,
Todorovic Production company Filmakademie Baden-Württem-
laurence@247films.fr Sales company Autour de Minuit, France,
berg, Germany, sales@filmakademie.de, www.filmakademie.de
festivals@autourdeminuit.com, www.autourdeminuit.com
Sales company Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany, sales@filmakademie.de, www.filmakademie.de
Bertha and the Wolfram
Beware the Wolf!
Bertha en de wolfram
Attention au loup!
Thirteen-year-old Bertha has the rare disease Wolfram syndrome, which means she can’t see well. But this doesn’t stifle her creativity.
Little Red Riding Hood is very careful not to meet the wolf when going to grandma’s. But when she arrives, she gets a surprise.
TIJS TORFS BELGIUM | 2020 | 15’ | 8+
JULIE REMBAUVILLE, NICOLAS BIANCO-LEVRIN FRANCE | 2019 | 1’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Jurgen Buedts Production company Las Belgas,
Dutch title Pas op voor de wolf! Producer Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
Belgium, jurgenbuedts@lasbelgas.be, www.lasbelgas.be Sales
Production company Prototypes Associés, France,
company Flanders Audiovisual Fund - VAF, Belgium, info@vaf.be,
productions@festival-prototype.com, www.festival-prototype.com
www.vaf.be
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Black&White
Blanket Odeyalko
A small black sheep is rejected by the herd, but doesn’t hesitate to help out when a bird of prey threatens them.
A moody polar bear lives alone in the cold North. One day he gets an unexpected visit.
JESÚS PÉREZ, GERD GOCKELL SWITZERLAND, GERMANY | 2020 | 4’ | 7+
MARINA MOSHKOVA RUSSIA | 2020 | 5’ | 4+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Zwart & wit Producer Gerd Gockell Production
Dutch title Donsdeken Producer Boris Mashkovtsev Production
company Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion, Switzerland,
company Souzmultfilm Studio, Russia, info@souzmult.com,
gerd.gockell@anigraf.org, www.anigraf.org Sales company Gerd
www.souzmult.ru Sales company Souzmultfilm Studio, Russia,
Gockell Filmproduktion, Switzerland, gerd.gockell@anigraf.org,
info@souzmult.com, www.souzmult.ru
www.anigraf.org
Blind Eye
The Cherry on Top La Cerise sur le gateau
A tribe try to sacrifice a brother and sister to the almighty eye, but the pair escape and discover the truth behind their world.
A king wants to boost his confidence by losing weight as quickly as possible, but finds out that self-improvement takes time and effort.
ROHAN DESHCHOUGULE, YUJIA WANG, ROHIT KELKAR, ISABELA LITTGER DE PINHO, GERMAINE COLAJANNI, DIEGO PORRAL, BRUNO COHEN FRANCE | 2019 | 6’ | 10+
FRITS STANDAERT BELGIUM, FRANCE | 2019 | 18’ | 8+
FACTS
Dutch title De kers op de taart Producer Arnaud Demuynck
Dutch title Verblind Producer Moïra Marguin Production company
Production company Les Films du Nord, France, info@lesfilmsdunord.com,
GOBELINS, l’école de l’image, France, info-concours@gobelins.fr,
www.lesfilmsdunord.com Sales company Les Films du Nord, France,
www.gobelins.fr Sales company Miyu Distribution, France,
info@lesfilmsdunord.com, www.lesfilmsdunord.com
festival@miyu.fr, www.miyu.fr
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FACTS
FILMS
OUT OF COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
Cool - Bouldering
Family Bonds
Stoer - Boulderen In each episode of COOL!, a remarkable young kid takes centre stage. This episode is about boulderer Ties, who can climb really high walls.
Little fox Hugo was brought up by two geese, but when Hugo sees another fox, he realises that his family is different from the rest.
ANNELIES DE WIT THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 4’ | 4+
MARIA SCHMIDT GERMANY | 2019 | 7’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Leonie Steenbakker Production company KRO-NCRV,
Dutch title Familiebanden Producer Nina Schwarz Production
The Netherlands, info@kro-ncrv.nl, www.kro-ncrv.nl Sales company
company Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany,
KRO-NCRV, The Netherlands, info@kro-ncrv.nl, www.kro-ncrv.nl
sales@filmakademie.de, www.filmakademie.de Sales company Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany, sales@filmakademie.de, www.filmakademie.de
Go! Go!
Hanging Hangend
An alligator escapes from his cage and runs through the theme park, hoping to see the fireworks from close by.
Making drawing charcoal using the instructions is not so hard; but drawing a coat rack that holds your coat is more difficult than you think.
PATRADOL KITCHAROEN UNITED STATES | 2019 | 4’ | 5+
MATHIEU GEORIS BELGIUM | 2019 | 2’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Patradol Kitcharoen Production company USC School
Producer Vincent Gilot Production company Atelier de Production
of Cinematic Arts, United States, animation@cinema.usc.edu,
de la Cambre, Belgium, lacambre@lacambre.be, www.lacambre.be
cinema.usc.edu Sales company USC School of Cinematic Arts, United States, animation@cinema.usc.edu, cinema.usc.edu
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Hors Course
The Kindergarten Show Le spectacle de maternelle
Hyper-realistic animation in which two chameleons chase a beetle in the desert, but end up somewhere they’ve never been before under the sand.
The toddler group at animal school are putting on a play. The big night has finally arrived, but the performance doesn’t go as planned...
MARTIN BURNOD, NICOLAS LOPEZ, JULIA MONTI, CLÉMENT MASSON, AÉLIS ENSERGUEIX FRANCE | 2019 | 5’ | 8+
LOÏC BRUYÈRE FRANCE | 2019 | 8’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS Dutch title Het kleuterspektakel Producer Reginald de Guillebon
Dutch title Buitenspel Producer Julien Deparis
Production company Folimage, France, contact@folimage.fr,
Production company Ecole des Nouvelles Images, France,
www.folimage.fr Sales company Folimage, France,
avignon@nouvellesimages.xyz, www.nouvellesimages.xyz
contact@folimage.fr, www.folimage.fr
Sales company Miyu Distribution, France, festival@miyu.fr, www.miyu.fr
King of my Castle
A Little Bird Told Me About the ABC
Het rijk alleen Three friends miss each other terribly because of the COVID-19 epidemic
The wonderful birds in this cheerful animated film know everything about the alphabet, as they use the letters every day.
JUUL OP DEN KAMP THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 12’ | 3+
DIEK GROBLER SOUTH AFRICA | 2019 | 5’ | 4+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Juul Op den Kamp Production company Canard Bizar,
Dutch title De letterlijsters Producer Diek Grobler Production company
Belgium, juulopdenkamp@gmail.com, www.canardbizar.be
Fopspeen Moving Pictures, South Africa, diek@fopspeen.co.za, www.fopspeen.co.za
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FILMS
OUT OF COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
The Little WideMouthed Frog
A Lynx in the Town
La petite grenouille a grande bouche A hungry frog goes looking for new snacks along the riverbank, but he himself is on the menu of other river creatures.
A curious lynx goes prowling in a sleepy city. Amazed by this weird place, the lynx forgets the time – until the residents wake up.
CELIA TOCCO BELGIUM, FRANCE | 2019 | 8’ | 6+
NINA BISIARINA SWITZERLAND, FRANCE | 2019 | 6’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title De kleine breedbekkikker Producer Arnaud
Dutch title Lynx in de stad Producer Reginald de Guillebon,
Demuynck Production company Les Films du Nord, France,
Nicolas Burlet Production company Nadasdy film, Switzerland,
info@lesfilmsdunord.com, www.lesfilmsdunord.com Sales
info@nadasdyfilm.ch, www.nadasdyfilm.ch Sales company
company Les Films du Nord, France, info@lesfilmsdunord.com,
Folimage, France, contact@folimage.fr, www.folimage.fr
www.lesfilmsdunord.com
Margin of Terror
My Family is a Circus Circus zonder tent
An evil professor tries to make a monster to carry out his fiendish plans. Except the monsters he makes are always way too cute!
Ten-year-old Romy does something unusual during the summer holidays: she and her family go to France, where they perform in a circus.
KIERAN MCLISTER UNITED KINGDOM | 2020 | 4’ | 6+
NINA LANDAU BELGIUM | 2020 | 15’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Minimale monsters Producer Kieran McLister
Producer Mark Daems Production company Associate Directors,
Production company Edinburgh College of Art, United Kingdom,
Belgium, info@adirector.be, www.adirector.eu Sales company JEF,
jack.allen.film@gmail.com, www.eca.ed.ac.uk Sales company
Belgium, info@jeugdfilm.be, www.jeugdfilm.be
Edinburgh College of Art, United Kingdom, jack.allen.film@gmail.com, www.eca.ed.ac.uk
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Onigami
Papito
Two Oni - Japanese trolls - are mainly interested in breaking stuff, until one of them discovers origami. But it turns out creating is harder than breaking.
Little Emilio made a cartoon for his father, but he’s too busy to notice. When Emilio sneaks into his daddy’s office, things go wrong.
ERIC WANG UNITED STATES | 2020 | 2’ | 6+
SARIKA PERSUAD UNITED STATES | 2019 | 4’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Eric Wang Production company Ringling College
Producer Jimmy Calhoun Production company School of
of Art and Design, Computer Animation, United States,
Visual Arts BFA Computer Art, United States, ddemaglie@sva.edu,
cafestivals@ringling.edu, www.ringling.edu Sales company Ringling
svacomputerart.com Sales company School of Visual Arts BFA
College of Art and Design, Computer Animation, United States,
Computer Art, United States, ddemaglie@sva.edu, svacomputerart.com
cafestivals@ringling.edu, www.ringling.edu
Patchwork Penguin
The Peak
Der Pinguin auf Meiner Schmusedecke Running fast is difficult if you only have little legs, as this little penguin knows. So how can you move forward quickly?
Going to the toilet in the dark at night can be pretty scary, especially if you have a lively imagination, like this little girl.
ANGELA STEFFEN GERMANY | 2019 | 4’ | 4+
SATOSHI TAKAHASHI JAPAN | 2019 | 5’ | 6+
FACTS Dutch title De lapjespinguïn Producer Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Dutch title De berg Producer Haruhiro Uchida Production
Production company Studio FILM BILDER GmbH, Germany,
company MARZA ANIMATION PLANET INC., Japan, peak@marza.
studio@filmbilder.de, www.filmbilder.de Sales company Studio
com, www.marza.com
FILM BILDER GmbH, Germany, studio@filmbilder.de, www.filmbilder.de
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FACTS
FILMS
OUT OF COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
Psychophonic
Pushing Duwen
A curious cat is chased by two murderous humans, but soon finds out that music has a remarkable effect on his pursuers.
A short animated film about two neighbours, one of whom has to make way for the other. Who can push hardest?
ALINE ROMERO SPAIN | 2019 | 6’ | 9+
SJAAK ROOD THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 2’ | 6+
FACTS Dutch title Psychoplaatje Producer Carles Isern Production
FACTS Dutch title Duwen Producer Sjaak Rood
company ECIB escola de cinema de Barcelona, Spain, acjdistribucion@gmail.com, www.ecib.es
Radio Felix
Ramón
Felix is twelve and has trouble at school because of his autism; luckily he can air his thoughts and frustrations in his radio show.
Eight-year-old Ramón wants to become an elite kickboxer and qualifies for his first national championship. Will he be the champion?
LAURANNE VAN DEN HEEDE BELGIUM | 2020 | 15’ | 8+
NATALIA BERNAL MEXICO, COLOMBIA | 2020 | 7’ | 6+
FACTS Producer Bram Crols Production company Associate Directors,
FACTS Producer Natalia Bernal, Giselle Geney, Alejandro Coronado,
Belgium, info@adirector.be, www.adirector.eu Sales company JEF,
Andrés Montaña Production company Pescadito Films,
Belgium, info@jeugdfilm.be, www.jeugdfilm.be
Colombia, giselle.geney@gmail.com
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Shoot When a bungling hunter has trouble catching his prey, a deer decides to help him. But this turns out to be harder than imagined.
A little snail gets a lift from a whale, but when the whale washes ashore, the snail must think of a way to help him.
EMA MLYNARČÍKOVÁ SLOVAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC | 2020 | 3’ | 7+
DANIEL SNADDON, MAX LANG UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY | 2019 | 27’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Mis! Producer Lukáš Gregor Production company
Dutch title De slak en de walvis Producer Michael Rose, Martin
University of Tomas Bata in Zlin, Faculty of Multimedia
Pope Production company Magic Light Pictures, United Kingdom,
Communications, Czech Republic, studium@fmk.utb.cz,
office@magiclightpictures.com, www.magiclightpictures.com
www.utb.cz Sales company Czech Film Center, Czech Republic,
Sales company Magic Light Pictures, United Kingdom,
info@filmcenter.cz, www.filmcenter.cz
office@magiclightpictures.com, www.magiclightpictures.com
Snip, Snap, Snut and the Colours
So but not so
Snipp, Snapp, Snut och färgerna
Assim mas sem ser assim
When the paint runs out, Snip, Snap and Snut decide to use something else. Not everyone is happy with the results.
A boy is encouraged by his father to go outside and gets to know all the incredible people who live in his block of flats.
MIA HULTERSTAM, CECILIA ACTIS SWEDEN | 2019 | 5’ | 4+
PEDRO BRITO PORTUGAL | 2019 | 10’ | 9+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title Snip, Snap, Snut en de kleuren Producer Emma Åkes-
Dutch title Net even anders Producer Humberto Santana
dotter Ronge Production company Anagram Sweden, Sweden,
Production company Animanostra, Humberto Santana,
info@anagram.se, www.anagram.se Sales company Swedish Film
Portugal, animaprod@animanostra.pt, www.animanostra.pt
Institute, Sweden, registrator@sfi.se, www.sfi.se
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The Snail and the Whale
FILMS
OUT OF COMPETITION SHORT FILMS
The Tomten and the Fox
Truffles!
Reven og Nissen
Nina Landau
A hungry fox is looking for a tasty meal and makes friends with a garden gnome. A heart-warming story by Astrid Lindgren.
Bears naturally have a huge appetite, so they have to find lots of good food. The bears in this film fancy something very special: truffles!
ARE AUSTNES, YAPRAK MORALI DENMARK, SWEDEN, NORWAY | 2019 | 9’ | 8+
KATEŘINA KARHÁNKOVÁ, ALEXANDRA MAJOVA CZECH REPUBLIC | 2019 | 7’ | 4+
FACTS
FACTS
Dutch title De kabouter en de vos Producer Ove Heiborg
Dutch title Berenhonger Producer Bára Příkaská Production
Production company Qvisten Animation, Norway, heidi@qvisten.no,
company Bionaut, Czech Republic, bara@bionaut.cz,
www.qvisten.no Sales company Qvisten Animation, Norway,
www.bionaut.cz Sales company DANDELOOO, France,
heidi@qvisten.no, www.qvisten.no
contact@dandelooo.com, www.dandelooo.com
Turtles in the Plastic Soup
Vardavar
Schildpadden in de plastic soep Julieta lives in Curaçao and is committed to saving turtles in need and improving their living environment, which is seriously threatened by pollution.
During the traditional summer festival Vardavar, Armenian children find all kinds of ways to keep cool on the streets.
MIRJAM MARKS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 15’ | 8+
ANJA SHU UKRAINE, ARMENIA | 2019 | 1’ | 4+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Willem Baptist, Nienke Korthof Production company
Producer Mirtad Gazazian Screenwriter Anja Shu Composer
Tangerine Tree, The Netherlands, info@tangerinetree.nl,
Sergio Chegodayev Production company Anja Shu Art &
www.tangerinetree.nl Sales company Tangerine Tree, The
Animation, Ukraine, anjashuart@gmail.com, www.anjashu.com
Netherlands, info@tangerinetree.nl, www.tangerinetree.nl
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Winter Lake
The Witch & The Baby
Talvinen järvi
Baba Yaga y malishka
You normally go camping in the summer, right? Not this Finnish brother and sister – they show that camping in the cold can also be fun.
A witch needs a baby for a spell to make herself young again, but things go very wrong when she brings a princess home.
PETTERI SAARIO FINLAND | 2019 | 15’ | 10+
EVGENIA GOLUBEVA RUSSIA | 2020 | 4’ | 5+
FACTS Dutch title IJsvissen Producer Elina Pohjola Production company
FACTS Dutch title De heks en de baby Producer Boris Mashkovtsev
Citizen Jane Productions Oy, Finland, info@citizenjaneproductions.fi,
Production company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, Russia,
www.citizenjaneproductions.fi
info@souzmult.ru, www.soyuzmultfilm.ru Sales company Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, Russia, info@souzmult.ru, www.soyuzmultfilm.ru
The Zillas Have a Picnic Familie Zilla macht Picknick Huge reptilian monsters also like a nice picnic. But someone else also wants to use their picnic spot.
CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT GERMANY | 2019 | 4’ | 8+ FACTS Dutch title De Zillas gaan picknicken Producer Christian Schmidt Production company FranzAnimation, Germany, info@franzanimation.de, franzanimation.de
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FILMS
SPOTLIGHT
The 48 Hour Film Project Cinekid The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild, sleepless weekend in which filmmakers and their teams make a movie – write, shoot, edit and score it – in just 48 hours. The teams are given a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all of which must be included in their movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be finished. Extra rules for the Cinekid edition: films must be suitable for children and spoken in Dutch.
Billy Elliot Miner’s son Billy Elliot is growing up in a deprived area of the UK with his father and bossy brother. His father wants Billy to box, but Billy accidentally ends up in a ballet lesson and is fascinated. He really wants to do ballet, but his father and brother don’t think boys should dance. Billy secretly takes lessons from Mrs Wilkinson. She recognises Billy’s talent and sends him to auditions at the Royal Ballet School in London. One day, Billy is practising in an empty hall when he’s caught by his father, who is furious – until Billy shows him what he can do. Billy Elliot is a modern British classic from 2000, directed by Stephen Daldry and won three BAFTAs: for Best Film, Best Actor (Jamie Bell in his breakthrough role) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Julie Walters).
VARIOUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2018 | 90’ | 8+ FACTS
STEPHEN DALDRY UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE | 2000 | 110’ | 8+ FACTS
Production company The 48 Hour Film Project Amsterdam,
Producer Greg Brenman, Jon Finn Screenwriter Lee Hall Editor
The Netherlands, amsterdam@48hourfilm.com,
John Wilson Composer Stephen Warbeck Leading actors
www.48hourfilm.com/amsterdam-nl/cinekid
Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood Production company Universal Pictures USA, United States, www.universalstudios.com Sales company United International Pictures (UIP), United Kingdom, enquiries@uip.com, www.uipcorp.com/
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The Brothers Lionhart
Jason and the Argonauts
Bröderna Lejonhjärta The main characters in this youth film, brothers Jonathan and Karel, die in quick succession in the opening scenes. Fortunately, they meet again soon after in Nangijala, a heavenly land of sagas and campfires, which Jonathan had often told his younger brother about. But when they arrive they find out that, even here, all is not always sweetness and light. The kingdom is divided into two valleys, one of which has been conquered by the black knight Tengil who has set up a cruel dictatorship. The brothers join the resistance and set off on a risky adventure. This adventure film from 1977 is based on the book of the same title by Astrid Lindgren, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is tense and exciting, and tackles serious themes such as chronic illness, death and the afterlife.
OLLE HELLBOM SWEDEN, ICELAND | 1977 | 102’ | 8+ FACTS
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Pelias murders king Aristo so that he can become king of Thessaly. According to a prophecy, his reign will be overthrown by a child of Aristo’s. Pelias kills Aristo’s daughter, but his son Jason gets away. Twenty years later, Jason saves Pelias from drowning, but doesn’t recognise him as his father’s murderer. Pelias encourages Jason to search for the Golden Fleece – a mission certain to end in death. Jason follows this advice and gathers the best men in Greece, including Hercules. Their epic journey is filled with battle, mythical figures and even an army of skeletons. Jason and the Argonauts is based on stories from Greek mythology. This fantasy film was made in 1963, in cooperation with stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen, renowned for his legendary fantasy creatures. The fight scene with seven skeleton warriors is a classic.
DON CHAFFEY UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES | 1963 | 104’ | 10+ FACTS
Dutch title De gebroeders Leeuwenhart Producer Olle Nordemar,
Dutch title Jason en de Argonauts Producer Charles H. Schneer
Olle Hellbom Screenwriter Astrid Lindgren Editor Jan Persson
Screenwriter Jan Read, Beverley Cross Editor Maurice Rootes
Composer Lasse Dahlberg, Björn Isfält, Leading actors Allan
Composer Bernard Herrmann Leading actors Todd Armstrong,
Edwall, Folke Hjort, Lars Söderdahl, Gunn Wållgren, Staffan Götestam
Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall
Production company SF Studios, Sweden, info@sfstudios.se,
MacGinnis Production company Charles H. Schneer
www.sfstudios.se Sales company SF Studios, Sweden,
Productions Sales company Sony Pictures Entertainment,
info@sfstudios.se, www.sfstudios.se
United Kingdom www.spe.sony.com
FILMS
SPOTLIGHT
Long Live the Queen
Long Way North
Lang leve de koningin
Tout en haut du monde
With her pocket money, Sarah buys a chess set from the father of a friend, who teaches her the basics of the game. In her imagination, the game completely comes to life. She’s no longer being taught by her friend, but by the chess pieces themselves. The queen and the king turn out to be the most useful pieces. Sarah learns to play so well that, in spite of her teacher’s scepticism, she is allowed to take part in a simultaneous chess match against a wellknown grandmaster. Along the way, she also finds out more and more about her father, who she never knew.
Sasha, a young girl from the Russian aristocracy, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather, Oloukine, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer who has yet to return from his latest expedition. Sasha has always been fascinated by the adventurous life of her grandfather and has the same calling as Oloukine to be an explorer. But Sasha’s parents, who already made arrangements for her marriage, strongly disapprove the idea to say the least. Defying her destiny, Sasha flees her home and launches an adventure-filled quest toward the Great North, in search of Oloukine and his ship.
Long Live the Queen is a heart-warming Dutch youth film from 1995 by Esmé Lammers, granddaughter of legendary chess grandmaster Max Euwe. The film, starring Monique van de Ven and Jack Wouterse as the queen and the king, won a Golden Calf for Best Film in 1996.
ESMÉ LAMMERS THE NETHERLANDS | 1995 | 118’ | 7+ FACTS Producer Laurens Geels, Dick Maas Screenwriter Esmé Lammers
This modern French animated classic won several prizes at festivals worldwide, including the grand prize at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival (2016), the Children’s Jury Prize at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and the Audience Award at Annecy.
RÉMI CHAYÉ FRANCE, DENMARK, BELGIUM, UNITED STATES | 2015 | 81’ | 8+ FACTS
Editor Hans van Dongen, Mark Glynne Composer Paul M. van
Dutch title Reis naar het noorden Producer Ron Dyens, Claus
Brugge Leading actors Monique van de Ven, Tiba Tossijn, Derek
Toksvig Kjaer, Henri Magalon Screenwriter Claire Paoletti, Patricia
de Lint, Lisa de Rooy, Jack Wouterse Production company First
Valeix Editor Benjamin Massoubre Composer Jonathan Morali
Floor Features, The Netherlands Sales company Cupola Films,
Leading actors Christa Théret, Féodor Atkine, Thomas Sagois,
The Netherlands, kantoor@esmelammers.com, www.cupola.nl
Loïc Houdré Production company Sacrebleu Productions, France, contact@sacrebleuprod.com, www.sacrebleuprod.com Sales company Urban Distribution International, UDI, France, sales@urbangroup.biz, www.urbandistrib.com Distributor In The Air BV
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Marked for Life
Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter
Getekend voor het leven
Ronja Rövardotter
Is it possible to ever again have a semi-carefree childhood if you’ve had to flee your home as a young refugee? YouTuber, presenter and War Child ambassador Quinty Misiedjan wonders how these children keep going. In this documentary, she travels to Jordan, Colombia and an asylum-seekers’ centre in the Netherlands, looking for the personal stories of young refugees.
Ronia lives happily at her father’s castle until one day she meets Birk in the nearby dark forest. The two become close friends, but their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. When their families find out Birk and Ronja have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Now, the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.
In her own inimitable style, Misiedjan interviews these children: always up for a laugh, but also taking them seriously. Who or what do they miss most? How do you deal with things you should never have to see or experience? What is it like to live in a place that is totally alien to you and where you know no one? However diverse their reasons for fleeing, Misiedjan finds out that one thing is common to all these children’s lives: their vitality.
This youth film classic, based on the 1981 novel of the same title by Astrid Lindgren and that Lindgren personally adapted for the screen. It was a major success, becoming the highest-grossing film in Sweden that year and awarded with a Silver Berlinale Bear.
Made in collaboration with War Child Holland.
QUINTY MISIEDJAN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 70’ | 9+ FACTS
TAGE DANIELSSON SWEDEN, NORWAY | 1984 | 126’ | 8+ FACTS
Editor Quinty Misiedjan, Michael Jessurun Protagonist Jeanmaris,
Dutch title Ronja de Roversdochter Producer Waldemar
Faviana, Shatha, Taymaa, Bilal, Hassan,Lina, Sarah, Mustafa,
Bergendahl Screenwriter Astrid Lindgren Editor Jan Persson
Mohammed Production company War Child, The Netherlands,
Composer Björn Isfält Leading actors Hanna Zetterberg, Dan
info@warchild.nl, www.warchild.nl
Håfström, Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman Production company SF Studios, Sweden, info@sfstudios.se, www.sfstudios.se Sales company SF Studios, Sweden, info@sfstudios.se, www.sfstudios.se
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FILMS
SPOTLIGHT
Shorts By Kids Many of the productions showing at Cinekid are made for children by adults. But we’ve known for a long time now that children can make their own films – often with surprisingly good, creative results. Cinekid offers a professional platform for these young filmmakers. Before the festival, Zapp Echt Gebeurd, Kidsweek and Cinekid invited children aged 9 to 14 to submit a short non-fiction film lasting up to 3 minutes they made themselves, about what they did during the summer holidays. A selection of the most striking submissions will premiere at the festival. A jury made up of media professionals will then select a winner from these, and the maker of the best film will take home a Cinekid Lion award. While the jury are deliberating, a selection of the winners from the film category of Kunstbende (the Dutch national art competition for children) will screen.
VARIOUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 90’ | 8+ FACTS Dutch title Shorts By Kids
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180CC Will Jose keep stunt cycling, although he could be arrested?
Trapeze artist with fear of heights is pushed to the limit.
RENÉ VAN ZUNDERT THE NETHERLANDS | 2018 | 17’ | 9+
FRODO KUIPERS THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 9’ | 9+
A Butcher’s Heart
Comment of Men
Does Wessel want to stay in the family business?
Whatever granddad and grandson do, they are criticised.
MARIJN FRANK THE NETHERLANDS | 2017 | 15’ | 9+
ROB LÜCKER THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 11’ | 10+
Dajo
Daydreaming
Rutger doesn’t want the gifts from his mother’s many boyfriends
Three children are connected through seriously ill Zoë.
HANRO SMITSMAN THE NETHERLANDS | 2003 | 8’ | 10+
YIM BRAKEL THE NETHERLANDS | 2018 | 10’ | 10+
Doggy
En route
Parents are at their wits’ end when their son keeps barking.
Traveling with her father, Inay tries to cause a delay.
SIMONE VAN DUSSELDORP THE NETHERLANDS | 2007 | 8’ | 8+
MARIT WEERHEIJM THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 10’ | 8+
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Ballone di Cannone
Giovanni and the Water Ballet
Lemonade salesman has trouble keeping off his own goods.
Giovanni wants to enter the synchronized swimming championship.
FRODO KUIPERS THE NETHERLANDS | 2011 | 5’ | 8+
ASTRID BUSSINK THE NETHERLANDS | 2014 | 15’ | 6+
FILMS
BEST OF DUTCH SHORTS
I Am a Girl!
Leaving Home
Joppe’s crush doesn’t know she was born as a boy.
Young man has te leave home, but that’s not so easy.
SUSAN KOENEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2010 | 15’ | 8+
JOOST LIEUWMA THE NETHERLANDS | 2013 | 7’ | 8+
Listen
Outside In
Conversations between children and the children’s help line.
Emma has to get used to living with divorced parents.
ASTRID BUSSINK THE NETHERLANDS | 2017 | 15’ | 10+
ELS VAN DRIEL THE NETHERLANDS | 2017 | 16’ | 10+
(Otto)
Pony Place
A childless woman steals a little girl’s imaginary friend.
Emma’s grandma has to take care of her digital ponies.
JOB, JORIS & MARIEKE THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 10’ | 6+
JOOST REIJMERS THE NETHERLANDS | 2013 | 10’ | 8+
Seven Things I’ve Learned About Time Travel
Swimming Paradise
Young boy has good reason to build a time machine.
Anne and Lotte have an uncomfortable day at the swimming pool.
JONATHAN HERZBERG THE NETHERLANDS | 2016 | 10’ | 8+
LODEWIJK CRIJNS THE NETHERLANDS | 2009 | 10’ | 6+
A Year Without my Parents When Tareq escapes Syria, he has to leave his parents behind. ELS VAN DRIEL THE NETHERLANDS | 2015 | 24’ | 9+
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Butterflies Sara sees a falling star en wishes she could fly.
Multi-coloured bird in a world full of single-coloured ones.
KJELL-ÅKE ANDERSSON SWEDEN | 2007 | 51’ | 4+
OANA LACROIX SWITZERLAND | 2018 | 6’ | 4+
Eliot & Me
Fred and Anabel
Ten-year-old Lucy is searching for her missing dog.
Cat misses goose who has flown south.
FINTAN CONNOLLY IRELAND | 2011 | 60’ | 8+
RALF KUKULA GERMANY | 2014 | 8’ | 4+
Fruits of Clouds
Funny Fish
Bear sets off to discover unfamiliar territory.
School of fish saves what they believe is another fish.
KATE_INA KARHÁNKOVÁ CZECH REPUBLIC | 2017 | 11’ | 4+
KRISHNA CHANDRAN A. NAIR SWITZERLAND, FRANCE | 2017 | 6’ | 4+
Ice Nose
KUAP
Two icy noses are forced to work on a common goal.
Tadpole discovers the fun in being a late developer.
VERONICA L. MONTAÑO SWITZERLAND | 2018 | 8’ | 4+
NILS HEDINGER SWITZERLAND | 2018 | 8’ | 6+
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Coucouleurs
Little Spicy
Hungry caterpillar sets his sights on a bird’s nesting leaves.
Can a friendship survive peer pressure?
LENA VON DÖHREN SWITZERLAND | 2017 | 5’ | 4+
JORDI LEILA HUNGARY | 2018 | 8’ | 8+
FILMS
BEST OF CINEKID ON TOUR
The Liverpool Goalie
Molly Monster
Marie helps Jo confront his fears and become a goalkeeper.
Molly desperately wants to watch her mother’s egg hatch.
ARILD ANDRESEN NORWAY | 2010 | 90’ | 10+
TED SIEGER GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, SWEDEN | 2015 | 72’ | 4+
Mr. Night Has a Day Off
Night Moves
What does Mister Night do when it turns day?
At night, wonderful fantasy figures come to life.
IGNAS MEILŪNAS LITHUANIA | 2016 | 2’ | 6+
FALK SCHUSTER GERMANY | 2018 | 5’ | 3+
Paw
Queen of Niendorf
Rescue dog Paw and his master are always willing to help out.
Summer adventure of a brave girl and her boys’ gang.
ROBERT-ADRIAN PEJO HUNGARY | 2015 | 92’ | 7+
JOYA THOME GERMANY | 2017 | 68’ | 9+
The Race
The Secret Society of Souptown
Mary dreams of being a race car driver.
Adults have started behaving like children, what now?
ANDRE NEBE IRELAND, GERMANY | 2009 | 90’ | 8+
MARGUS PAJU ESTONIA, FINLAND | 2015 | 105’ | 8+
Strength in Numbers
Tiger
Bear sneezes so loud he gets trapped in his own cave.
Tiger on plate comes alive when no one is watching.
ANAIS SORRENTINO FRANCE, BELGIUM | 2017 | 7’ | 5+
KARIEM SALEH GERMANY | 2016 | 3’ | 4+
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Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House
Short but Sweet Compilation
Pettersson und Findus: Findus Zieht um
Kort maar krachtig compilatie
Findus thinks he is old enough to live on his own, and so Pettson, who’s happy to not have to share his bedroom anymore, transforms an old toilet cubicle into a home for his cat. However, once he’s moved in, Pettson suddenly feels lonely, although neighbour Beda assures him that it is natural for child-animals to grow up and start leading their own lives. Findus, too, has to get used to his new life. In the end, both Pettson and Findus realise that life is better when spent together.
The Short but Sweet compilation is a diverse collection of short animation and live action films, aimed at children aged 8 and up. The shorts are from all over Europe and have been selected for their heart-warming stories and interesting film styles. The eight shorts are:
Already the third part of the live-action film series about the gentle farmer Pettson and his lively cat Findus, known from the books by Sven Nordqvist. Just as the other parts, this is a cheerful, endearing film for the little ones, full of silliness and slapstick. Selected for the Cinekid Wrap Project 2020
Heatwave: There’s only one way to beat the heat... going to the beach! The Kite: Heartwarming story about a little boy and his old grandfather. All in Good Time: What’s a 100-year time difference when you are best friends? My Life in Versailles: The unlikely friendship between an orphan and her grumpy uncle. Slurp: Granny’s eating noises are annoying, can her grandson find a solution? Hors Piste: A rescue mission goes a little pear-shaped... Selected for the Cinekid Wrap Project 2020
ALI SAMADI AHADI GERMANY | 2018 | 81’ | 4+ FACTS Dutch title Pettson & Findus 3: Findus gaat verhuizen Producer Helmut G. Weber, Thomas Springer, Sonja Ewers, Christoph Arni Screenwriter Thomas Springer Editor Andrea Mertens Composer Ali N. Askin Leading actors Stefan Kurt, Marianne Sägebrecht, Max Herbrechter Production company Tradewind Pictures GmbH, Germany, mail@tradewind-pictures.de, www.tradewind-pictures. de Sales company Wild Bunch Germany GmbH, Germany, office@ wildbunch-germany.de, www.wildbunch-germany.de
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VARIOUS POLAND, SLOVAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, GREECE, UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND, FRANCE | 2020 | 70’ | 8+ FACTS Dutch title Kort maar krachtig Compilatie
FILMS
E D U C AT I O N A L S C R E E N I N G
Verhalen met een staartje Compilation
Of Love and Lies
Verhalen met een staartje compilatie
Fourmi
The Tales with a Tale compilation is a fun and vibrant collection of short animations for children aged 6 and up. The shorts are from all over Europe and have been selected for their eye-catching animation style and heartwarming stories. The six shorts are:
Talented soccer player Theo worries about his father. After his parents’ divorce, his dad started drinking and often causes trouble. Theo therefore pretends that he has been selected by Arsenal, just to make his dad happy. And it works: his overjoyed father picks up life again, but soon the lie spins out of control. What if the truth is discovered? Luckily, when this eventually happens the well-meant lie has already generated a lot of hope and new activity, which cannot be undone.
Big Wolf and Little Wolf - Big wolf ’s peaceful live gets disrupted when a smaller wolf decides to join him at his tree. Tiger with no Stripes - A little tiger goes on a search for his stripes. Sams Dream - A mouse wants to fly through the sky like a swallow. The Last Day of Autumn - The animals of the forest intend to have one final great race before winter arrives. Overboard! - Two stowaways on Noah’s Ark. What could possibly go wrong? Heatwave - There’s only one way to beat the heat... going to the beach!
The theme of a child feeling responsible for a parent gets a lively and imaginative treatment here, without becoming unrealistic or moralistic. Despite the serious subject and sad beginnings, this is essentially a feel-good movie full of comic and moving moments, including Theo’s smart but agoraphobic friend and a girl that has lost trust in fathers. But young Theo and his father remain the warm centre of this film. Selected for the Cinekid Wrap Project 2020
Selected for the Cinekid Wrap Project 2020 VARIOUS FRANCE, BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND, GREECE, UNITED KINGDOM, CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA | 2020 | 55’ | 6+ FACTS Dutch title Verhalen met een staartje Compilatie
JULIEN RAPPENEAU FRANCE, BELGIUM | 2019 | 105’ | 9+ FACTS Dutch title Mier Producer Michael Gentile Screenwriter Mario Torrecillas, Julien Rappeneau Editor Stan Collet Composer Martin Rappeneau Leading actors Ludivine Sagnier, Laetitia Dosch, Maleaume Paquin, François Damiens, André Dussollier Production company The Film, France, info@thefilm.fr, www.thefilm.fr Sales company TF1 Group, France, sales@tf1.fr, www.tf1studio.com
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Heirs of the Night
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INTRODUCTION
Series Programme Episodic programming has been an essential part of the festival’s programming ever since Cinekid first launched. During the decades that followed, the festival has grown and expanded, and the media world has undergone many changes. Along the way, creators have embraced the many new platforms and technical possibilities that emerged, to explore new and innovative ways to tell stories. Cinekid seeks to highlight these inspirational developments in its annual competitions and programme sections. This year’s special festival format offers unique opportunities to showcase and experience the breadth and diversity of international episodic productions. Cinekid Play
Dutch harvest
To allow as many children as possible to take part and experience the festival programme, this year Cinekid has decided to develop an online platform called Cinekid Play. Although initially envisioned as a creative way to tackle the challenges caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the platform also offers ways to present more episodic content through an infrastructure children are accustomed to.
The Dutch television industry has produced many great series in recent years, and 2020 is no exception. Our Best Dutch Series Competition gives an overview of the best fiction and non-fiction productions broadcast during the past year, including such global successes as Heirs of the Night and Talking Heads. During this festival, we will also be screening premieres of what hopefully will become the classics of the future, such as the highly anticipated Rudy’s Crazy Christmas Show and the mind-boggling Brainstorm.
International perspective Cinekid strives to highlight the best episodic productions from all over the world. It’s fantastic that our audience can discover brand new productions, such as the German preschool series The Musiphants, which was previously pitched at Cinekid’s Junior Co-Production Market. We are also delighted to be able to showcase new seasons of the Cartoon Network hit series Mao Mao and premiere the second season of the adorable animation series Moominvalley.
Erik Tijman Head of Film & Series
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Doopie
Floor Rules
Dropje
De regels van Floor
Doopie is neither a boy nor a girl. Doopie just is Doopie: a fluffy toy. Doopie lives in the Everything Store, where you can buy everything you need (whether you knew you needed it or not). Together with the children who visit the store, Doopie has amazing adventures. Even if adults may hardly notice them, the smallest things can be big and important to young children. Thanks to Doopie’s curiosity, the little toy always manages to ‘survive’ the sometimes bizarre situations s/he gets into in a unique, funny and rather unconventional way.
The third season of the popular series Floor Rules again serves up remarkable life lessons from the headstrong – and sometimes opportunistic – Floor. Floor is a girl who believes that children should have a say in setting life’s rules, and so makes up rules of her own. What should you do, for example, if you just need that one particular sticker to complete your album? And what if everyone at school is suddenly wearing a UniCorny?
This series of approximately six-minute episodes stands out thanks to a unique cross-over form that uses both puppet animation and live action. During recording, Doopie is operated by puppeteers, who are then digitally removed from the footage. The series had its première at Cinekid last year.
MEIKEMINNE CLINCKSPOOR, MAARTEN VAN VOORNVELD, LILIAN SIJBESMA THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM | 2019 | 7’ | 3+ FACTS
Floor Rules is based on the series of books by Marjon Hoffman. The VPRO TV series won Best Series at this year’s International Emmy Kids Awards – the most prestigious awards for international children’s programmes worldwide. In 2018, the series won a Cinekid Lion for Best Dutch Fiction Series and in 2019 the Cinekid National Audience Award, age 6-12. The series has been sold to broadcasters in Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France.
MAURICE TROUWBORST, JAMILLE VAN WIJNGAARDEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 10’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Sabine Veenendaal, Marina Blok Screenwriter Lilian
Producer Kaja Wolffers, Sabine Brian, Ronald Versteeg Screen-
Sijbesma, Meikeminne Clinckspoor, Maarten van Voornveld Editor
writer Dirk van Pelt, Lotte Tabbers, Luuk van Bemmelen, Martijn
Patrick Schoonewille Composer Helge Slikker Leading actors
Hillenius, Renske de Greef, Tim Kamps, Maurice Trouwborst Editor
Immanuelle Grives Production company Submarine Film,
Yamal Stitou, Imre Reutelingsperger Composer Alexander
The Netherlands, info@submarine.nl, www.submarine.nl Sales
Reumers Leading actors Bobbie Mulder, Ole Kroes, Romy Voll,
company Walking the Dog, Belgium, info@walkingthedog.be,
Ferdi Stofmeel, Elisa Beuger Production company NL Film & TV,
www.walkingthedog.be Distributor Superights Broadcaster NTR
The Netherlands, info@nlfilm.tv, www.nlfilm.tv Sales company Dutch Features Global Entertainment, The Netherlands, sales@ dutchfeatures.com, www.dutchfeatures.com Broadcaster VPRO
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SERIES
BEST DUTCH FICTION SERIES
Heirs of the Night
Mister Twister The Series Mees Kees De Serie
It’s the year 1889, and an aristocratic vampire gets a stern warning: he has to unite the five remaining vampire clans in Europe to save all of vampirekind from destruction. No easy task, as the clans are permanently at war with one another. But the vampire leaders agree to send their children to a special vampire school, where each can develop his or her individual powers and learn to survive, together. One of these children is fifteen-year-old Alisa. She has to choose between eternal life as a vampire, or a human life which can save all the other vampires from destruction.
Mister Twister is without doubt the coolest teacher in the Netherlands. As a trainee teacher he has a lot to learn, but he always manages to solve problems facing his class and himself in his own, unique way. His approach to teaching is different, and this is what makes him a favourite with all his pupils. This young trainee does great things in class, and usually these are a big success. Unfortunately the school’s strict head, Dreus, doesn’t often agree with these unorthodox methods. Luckily Mister Twister can count on his energetic pupils and their creativity, humour and enthusiasm to make everything right.
Heirs of the Night is an international co-production based on the German books Die Erben der Nacht. It is developed by Maria von Heland and Diederik van Rooijen, who also directs. The cast includes actors from eight countries, including Dutch actors Monic Hendrickx, Anna Drijver and Benja Bruijning.
Mister Twister is based on the popular series of books by Mirjam Oldenhave. After four successful feature films, it was only logical that there would be a series taking us into the wonderful world of Mister Twister.
DIEDERIK VAN ROOIJEN NORWAY, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY | 2019 | 25’ | 10+
ANNA VAN KEIMPEMA, BOB WILBERS, MARTIJN SMITS, DIEDE IN ‘T VELD THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 25’ | 6+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Fleur Winters, Leontine Petit Screenwriter Diederik van
Producer Katja Scheffer, Paul Voorthuysen Screenwriter Pasja
Rooijen, Maria von Heland Editor Moek de Groot, Ruben van der
van Dam, Bart Koene, Tijs van Marle, Lidewij Martens, Nena van
Hammen, Stanley Kolk Composer Bart Westerlaken, Stein Berge
Driel, Ashar Medina, Randa Peters Editor Philip Smeulers, Michiel
Svendsen Leading actors Anastasia Martin, Ulrik William Græsli,
Boesveldt, Jeffrey de Vore Composer Herman Witkam Leading
Aisling Sharkey Production company Lemming Film, The Nether-
actors Leendert de Ridder, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Raymonde de
lands, info@lemmingfilm.com, www.lemmingfilm.com, Hamster
Kuyper, Jochen Otten, Ellie de Lange Production company PV
Film GmbH, Germany, info@lemmingfilm.com, www.lemmingfilm.
Pictures BV, The Netherlands, mail@pvpictures.nl, www.pvpictures.nl
com, Maipo Film, Norway, maipo@maipo.no, www.maipo.no, Maze
Broadcaster AVROTROS
Pictures, Germany, info@mazepictures.com, www.maze-pictures. com/de Sales company ZDF Enterprises, Germany, info@zdf.de, www.zdf.de Broadcaster AVROTROS
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Remy and Juliyat
SpangaS
Remy en Juliyat Things are not easy for Remy at home. His parents just got divorced and he constantly quarrels with his father, who is struggling to adjust to his role as a single parent. His father is also angry about the arrival of an asylum-seekers’ centre in their village. He is very active in demonstrating against the centre. The residents of the asylum-seekers’ centre in turn distrust the villagers. Tensions run high: council meetings are disrupted, fires are started and things get destroyed. In the meantime Remy meets Juliyat, who has just arrived after a traumatic escape from Syria. She has moved into the centre with her rebellious brother and unhappy parents. These two teenagers are fated to fall in love... Remy and Juliyat is a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet and was originally broadcast in the days before Christmas 2019.
TESSA SCHRAM THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 10’ | 10+ FACTS
In SpangaS, every day we follow the experiences of a group of pupils at their high school, Spangalis College. The teenagers have all kinds of exciting adventures which will be very familiar to high school pupils. The stories take place mainly in and around the school and playground, and occasionally at home. Each pupil has his or her own unique story, encountering love, work, friendship, loneliness, sorrow, parents’ divorces, belonging, bullying, or coming out – in short, life itself. SpangaS is more than a series. It is a cross-media world the audience can get involved in: for example with their own website. The characters also keep their online selves updated, and there is a forum where questions can be asked and tips exchanged: on spots, exams – and of course romance. The fourteenth season of SpangaS, now named SpangaS: the Campus, had a première in August in three different Cinekid on Tour locations.
ANNA VAN KEIMPEMA, BENTE DE VRIES, DAVID COCHERET, HARM VAN DER SANDEN, LODEWIJK VAN LELYVELD, EVA NIJS, LUCAS CAMPS, MICHIEL DE JONG, RAYNOR ARKENBOUT, NICK JONGERIUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 10’ | 7+ FACTS
Producer Ronald Versteeg, Kaja Wolffers, Sabine Brian Screen-
Producer Kaja Wolffers, Sa Brian, Ronald Versteeg Screenwriter
writer Brian de Vore, Diana Sno Editor Elsbeth Kasteel Composer
Brian de Vore, Ceciel Jacobs, Diana Sno, Gerben Hetebrij, Jetske
Matthijs Kieboom Leading actors Aqil Dahhan, Bas Keijzer, Bilal
Vulsma, Lidewij Martens, Manon Spierenburg, Marije Willemsen,
Wahib, Cees Geel, Leyla Cimen, Sonia Eijken Production company
Patrick Limpens, Nasja Covers, Pepijn van Weeren, Anya Koek,
NL Film & TV, The Netherlands, info@nlfilm.tv, www.nlfilm.
Simone Duwel, Vincent van Zelm, Valerie Latul Leading actors
tv Sales company Dutch Features Global Entertainment, The
Bo Maerten, Bruno Prent, Claudia Kanne, Felix Burleson, Giorgio
Netherlands, sales@dutchfeatures.com, www.dutchfeatures.com
Sanches, Imanuelle Grives, Iris van Loen, Jard Struik, Joe Sinduhije,
Broadcaster AVROTROS
Juud Doorman, Marcel Harteveld, Mike Reus, Renee de Gruijl, Roosmarijn Wind, Steef Hupkes, Tobias Oelderik, Yeliz Dogan Production company NL Film & TV, The Netherlands,
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info@nlfilm.tv, www.nlfilm.tv Broadcaster KRO-NCRV
SERIES
BEST DUTCH FICTION SERIES BEST DUTCH NON-FICTION SERIES
War Stories
Anne Frank Video Diary
Oorlog-stories
Anne Frank videodagboek
In War Stories, we see World War II through the eyes of a teenage girl on social media. What stories does she share with her followers and how do other young people respond to these? Right from the early days of the war, Esther shares her experiences with her followers. She introduces her family and provides insights into her everyday life. At first, she manages to stay positive, but the situation gets more serious all the time. When it turns out her life is in danger, the pressure to hide her identity piles up. Will she surrender, or give up her name and pretend to be someone she isn’t?
What if Anne Frank got a video camera for her birthday instead of a diary? This YouTube series shows us how this might have looked. The series follows 14-year-old Anne from 29 March 1944, when she has been hiding for more than eighteen months. Anne – played by Luna Cruz Perez – films herself and the secret annexe in the back of the house. She looks back at the period before she went into hiding, talks about the war and shares her thoughts and feelings. The video diary ends on 4 August 1944: the day Anne and the others were arrested.
War Stories is an online series for teenagers in which a fifteen-year-old girl shares her everyday experiences through NPO Zapp’s Instagram and YouTube channels. The series was inspired by the war diaries of Edith Velmans-Van Hessen.
The series consists of fifteen episodes and can be seen with subtitles in more than sixty countries. By replacing the diary with a camera, the story of Anne Frank is brought into the modern age, allowing young people to put themselves in the shoes of Anne and her contemporaries.
DAVID COCHERET THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 13’ | 8+
HANNA VAN NIEKERK, FRANK DE HORDE, TIM VLOOTHUIS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6’ | 8+
FACTS
FACTS
Producer Jasper van der Schalie Screenwriter Willem Bosch
Producer Tom Brink, Frank de Horde, Tim Vloothuis, Nadia
Leading actors Claudia Kanne, Isa Hoes, Kees Boot, Thijs
Dorrestijn, Heleen Harmsen, Barend van Balen Screenwriter
Boermans, Rein van Duivenboden Production company
Natascha van Weezel, Wies Fest, Frank de Horde Editor Björn
Stepping Stone, The Netherlands, info@steppingstone.nl,
Mentink, Inèz Poortinga Composer Camiel Jansen, Erik Ver-
www.steppingstone.nl Broadcaster Evangelische Omroep
wey Leading actors Luna Cruz Perez, Anne Rietmeijer, Rosalie Wammes, Olga Beemster, Ezra Blok, Shai Eschel, Katarina Justic, Howard van Dodemont, Jasper van Overbruggen, Noël van Santen Production company Every Media, The Netherlands, info@everymedia.nl, www.everymedia.nl
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Baking with Bunnies
Cooking Adventures
Koken met konijnen
De proefkeuken
In Baking with Bunnies, presenters Diederik Kreike and Ayrton Fraenk receive visits from pets and their owners. The amateur cooks receive their guests in a studio kitchen where they conjure up delicious dishes that appeal not only to the pets – but to the owners too. So the pets get a real treat, with meals that are easy to recreate at home. In the first season, Kreike and Fraenk’s visitors include a homeless rabbit with no teeth, a pig with an amazing heart, a traumatized hamster and a cat with no ears. During the cooking sessions, solutions to problems are discussed and questions answered.
How are everyday products made? What is in them? And can you make them yourself ? Presenters Pieter Hulst and Willem Voogd get to grips with these questions in Cooking Adventures, examining both edible and not so edible items with equal enthusiasm.
The first season of Baking with Bunnies premièred at Cinekid last year and was broadcast by VPRO last summer. A second season is currently being made.
CHARLOTTE HOOGAKKER THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 13’ | 8+ FACTS
In this sixth season, they take an in-depth look at tattoos, the famous Dutch fried snack bitterballen, spring rolls, pyramids, lighters and electric guitars. Having deconstructed them, Hulst and Voogd then try to make their own in the shed. Is it possible? To find out, they gather all the ingredients and throw these together with some creative thinking and weird and wonderful techniques. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so they then put all their creations to the test. Will they taste or work as well as the factory versions? Or maybe even better?
PIETER HULST, WILLEM REVIS, TIM VAN GILS, TOM ROES THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 24’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Martijn Bakker Screenwriter Charlotte Hoogakker
Producer Barbara Coronel, Paulien Katerstede, Maarten Remmers
Editor Daan Bol, Jotte den Dulk Presenter Diederik Kreike,
Screenwriter Maarten Remmers Presenter Pieter Hulst, Willem
Ayrton Fraenk Production company VPRO, The Netherlands,
Voogd Production company BlazHoffski Productions BV/
info@vpro.nl, www.vpro.nl Distributor VPRO Broadcaster VPRO
Dahl TV, The Netherlands, info@blazhoffski.nl, www.blazhoffski.nl Broadcaster VPRO/NPO3
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BEST DUTCH NON-FICTION SERIES
Hello, I have Cancer
Outdoors Bound
Hallo, ik heb kanker
De buitendienst
In 2017, the Netherlands got to know Catherine, Daimon, Julian and Rachel. In a video diary, they reported on everyday experiences such as medical treatments, school and activities with friends. Three years later, the three teenagers again pick up the camera. The two new episodes make it clear that cancer is with you for life. Daimon has been diagnosed with leukaemia for a third time; Julian is getting used to the idea that he doesn’t have much time left. Catherine and Rachel seem cancerfree, but they still live with the consequences of the disease every day, and the fear that it could return.
Outdoors Bound teaches children about nature and the environment in a playful way. A three-episode miniseries was made after the coronavirus outbreak, dealing with the virus and its consequences. What kind of virus is it and why is it so difficult to overcome? How can we stop it? And how can we keep on enjoying nature while we are all stuck at home? Presenters Matthijs, Sosha and Jonata set about finding out.
This medical programme for young people is made by the young vloggers themselves. They are visited at significant moments by presenter Anne-Mar Zwart. The series seeks to stimulate open discussion of this disease, particularly among children. In 2017, this series won the Cinekid Kinderkast Audience Award.
ELLEN VOS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 27’ | 9+ FACTS Producer Michiel Beumer Screenwriter Ellen Vos Presenter
In a world where children pick up disturbing news reports every day, Outdoors Bound provides context, background and pleasure and encourages children to take positive action, such as caring for the environment. The series has a cheerful tone with funny costumes, sketches and over-the-top acting, so children will feel safe and comfortable while watching. Outdoors Bound is also competing for the Cinekid National Audience Award.
INGE TOL, JOHAN VAN HESPEN, STEFAN COPPERS, MARIJE MEIJER, STEFAN EGBERTS, EVA NIJSTEN, CHARLOTTE HOOGAKKER THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 20’ | 8+ FACTS
Anne-Mar Zwart Production company Evangelische Omroep,
Producer Patty van der Heydt, Stephanie de Beer, Jip Köster
The Netherlands, eo@eo.nl, www.eo.nl Broadcaster Evangelische
Screenwriter Inge Tol, Johan van Hespen Editor Yoran ten Brinke,
Omroep
Dennis Wander Presenter Sosha Duysker, Matthijs IJgosse, Jonata Taal Production company NTR, The Netherlands, info@ntr.nl, www.ntr.nl Distributor NTR Broadcaster NTR
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The Smudgy Quiz De smerige quiz
Hoofdzaken
The Smudgy Quiz is a gameshow all about the joyful wonders of your own body. How amazing are our bodies and what incredible things can we do with them? To find out about this, two teams of children answer questions and compete in games centred around their senses, limbs and organs. Who is the best red blood cell? Who can feel the best with his or her feet? And who can make the most beautiful nose art?
Children share their views on life with hairdresser and interviewer Marko while he cuts their hair. In this second season, the children again talk about their concerns, what makes them happy and what occupies them. As we watch in the mirror, we not only see a new hairstyle taking shape, but also hear what is going on inside the children’s heads. Anything from fear to anger to love, or the trials of growing up.
The Smudgy Quiz has been broadcast since February by EO on the NPO Zapp channel, and is presented by Rachel Rosier and Doctor Elbert Smelt. The first season tackles questions such as: how well can you taste with your eyes closed? And how can you use an arm that is much too long? Season two has its première at Cinekid.
The openness with which they talk and the way Marko puts the children at ease result in an authentic, episodic programme that appeals to children and adults alike. There are funny and poignant stories and lots of anecdotes recognisable to both the children and their parents. There is no room for embarrassment and the interview isn’t over until the children are happy with their new haircuts.
BAS VAN OORT THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 25’ | 8+
MENNO OTTEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 14’ | 7+
FACTS Producer Anneke Edelman Screenwriter Esther Knibbe Presenter
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Talking Heads
FACTS Producer Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen Screenwriter Menno
Rachel Rosier, Elbert Smelt Production company Evangelische
Otten Editor Saskia Kievits Composer Benny Sings Presenter
Omroep, The Netherlands, eo@eo.nl, www.eo.nl Broadcaster
Marko Suds Production company Keplerfilm, The Netherlands,
Evangelische Omroep
hello@keplerfilm.com, www.keplerfilm.com Broadcaster VPRO
SERIES
N AT I O N A L A U D I E N C E A WA R D
NATIONAL AUDIENCE AWARD GROUP 1 – 4
Cool - Bouldering
NATIONAL AUDIENCE AWARD GROUP 5 – 8
Holy Moly
Cool kids and remarkable sports: Ties is great at bouldering!
Merle’s first communion is approaching. But what’s it for?
ANNELIES DE WIT THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 4’ | 4+
EVA NIJSTEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 15’ | 8+
Doopie
Outdoors Bound
Fluffy toy Doopie has adventures in the Everything Store.
Outdoors Bound takes a close look at the coronavirus.
MEIKEMINNE CLINCKSPOOR, MAARTEN VAN VOORNVELD EN LILIAN SIJBESMA BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 7’ | 3+
INGE TOL, JOHAN VAN HESPEN, STEFAN COPPERS, MARIJE MEIJER, STEFAN EGBERTS, EVA NIJSTEN, CHARLOTTE HOOGAKKER THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 20’ | 8+
INK
Remy and Juliyat
Germ-obsessed octopus needs its aquarium stain free.
Will this modern Romeo and Juliet find a happy end?
JOOST VAN DEN BOSCH, ERIK VERKERK THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 2’ | 4+
TESSA SCHRAM THE NETHERLANDS | 2019 | 10’ | 10+
Ok and Kiddo
STIK
Join Kimberley, Ok and Kiddo on a grand childhood adventure!
Bloem tries to cure grandpa Piet of his plastic addiction.
STELLA DAMAVANDI THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7’ | 4+
NIEK ROOZEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 12’ | 8+
Tourist Trap Super-short animation about a cute island destroyed by mass tourism. VERA VAN WOLFEREN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 2’ | 6+
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Between Head and Tail
Brainstorm
Tussen kop en staart In this new infotainment programme, presenters Rachel Rosier and Elbert Smelt – who is also a doctor – marvel at the animal world. In eleven episodes, they discover how animals’ bodies work. They investigate what’s so special about the body of the white rhino, the chameleon, the reticulated python, the Nile crocodile and several farm animals and domestic pets. Each episode is presented from the studio, where the pair make all kinds of discoveries and solve puzzles. They also visit zoos and vets. They meet a tarantula who has just given birth, help out the zookeepers and guess which animal made which droppings. Furthermore, Elbert Smelt carries out anatomical research in the regular feature ‘The Dissecting Table’. The presenters are assisted by Rosier’s Labrador, Mozes. With Mozes, they do TikTok challenges for the NPO Zapp TikTok channel. Mozes invites all pets to take up the challenge too, along with their owners.
JAN POOL, MIKE WARMELS, WOUTER PETERS, EVA VAN BARNEVELD, STELLA DAMAVANDI THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 25’ | 9+ FACTS
‘There’s more to your brain than you might think.’ This is the starting point for the new youth programme Brainstorm. In this programme, each week presenter and test pilot Janouk Kelderman (The Apple Core) and neuroscientist Job van den Hurk dive into the fascinating world of our brains. Through all kinds of spectacular tests and experiments, they show what takes place in your brain and your mind– which is quite a lot. Brainstorm is a new youth programme from NTR which will be broadcast from the end of October on the NPO Zapp channel. This infotainment programme premières at Cinekid and will be streamed at various locations. Janouk Kelderman and Job van den Hurk will be visiting the festival to do brain tests and play games with the children present. And of course there will be time for questions from the audience.
ROBERT SCHINKEL THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 23’ | 8+ FACTS
Producer Michiel Beumer Editor Ruben Verweij, Ernesto
Producer Lonneke van het Erve, Jolijn de Boer, Nienke Galestin
Hatumena, Mike Warmels Presenter Rachel Rosier, Elbert Smelt
Editor Sander Lith, Jos Lunel Presenter Janouk Kelderman,
Production company EO, The Netherlands, eo@eo.nl, www.eo.nl
Job van den Hurk Production company The Media Brothers, The
Broadcaster EO
Netherlands, info@themediabrothers.nl, www.themediabrothers.nl Broadcaster NTR
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Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart Sheriff Mao Mao is a heroic, slightly narcissistic cat who can’t get enough action and adventure. During one of these adventures, he and his hero friend Badgerclops get stuck in the charming little town of Pure Heart Valley. Badgerclops is half badger, half cyborg and has an arm with lots of cooking utensils built into it. Which is handy, as Badgerclops loves his food. In Pure Heart Valley, the two of them meet Adorabat, a very cute little bat, and the three of them protect the residents of Pure Heart Valley against the forces of evil. Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart is an American animated series for Cartoon Network by Parker Simmons, who also voices the character Mao Mao. The first season premières this year on Cinekid’s online platform, and a second season is in the pipeline.
MICHAEL MOLONEY UNITED STATES | 2019 | 11’ | 6+ FACTS
Moominvalley The star of the animated series Moominvalley is a curious, idealistic little creature called Moomintroll. Together with his exceptional family and flighty friends, he takes the viewer on an adventure into the magical Moominvalley: an idyllic place untouched by the modern world. Sometimes they wander beyond the valley, straying into the vast wilderness, dark woods, faraway islands and hazardous mountains. Moomintroll is a typical teenage hero in a coming-of-age story. As we watch him growing up among his family and other beings, we learn more about our own humanity, relationships, emotions – and love. Moominvalley is an adaptation of the popular Moomin books and cartoons by writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, whose books have been translated into more than fifty languages. The first season of Moominvalley premièred at Cinekid last year; this year, we première season two on Cinekid’s online platform.
STEVE BOX UNITED KINGDOM, FINLAND | 2020 | 22’ | 7+ FACTS
Dutch title Mao Mao: Helden met een puur hart Producer Laura
Producer John Woolley, Marika Makaroff, Louise Holmes Screen-
Allen Screenwriter Akira Mark Fujita, Keith Fay, Nina G. Bargiel,
writer Steve Box, Mark Huckerby, Nick Ostler, Josie Day Editor
Nathanael H. Jones, Emily Oetzell, Phil Ahn, Alexandria Kwan,
Stuart Bruce, Andy Goodman Music Pekka Kuusisto, Samuli
Nora Meek, Chris Ybarra, Kelly Lynne D’Angelo, Allison Craig,
Kosminen Production company Gutsy Animations, Finland,
Angelo Hatgistavrou, Danny Ducker, Michael Moloney,
info@gutsy.fi, www.gutsy.fi Broadcaster Zappelin
Parker Simmons, Griffith Kimmins Composer Jake Kaufman Production company Cartoon Network - US, United States, cnfestivals@turner.com, www.cartoonnetwork.com Broadcaster Cartoon Network Netherlands
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The Musiphants
Rudy’s Crazy Christmas Show
Die musifanten
Rudy’s Grote Kerstshow
Retired circus elephant Grandpa Günter is no less than two hundred years old. He and his grandson Charlie share a hobby: singing. Singing and trumpeting, the two elephants make all kinds of musical excursions into other eras – such as the swinging, roaring twenties. They visit a cake shop and even take a trip in a rocket. They also meet peculiar characters like a singing cactus and a neighbour called Mister Krause.
In Rudy’s Crazy Christmas Show, popular young pop singer Rudy is accidentally kidnapped by the parents of Sara, who’s seriously ill. Rudy’s family does absolutely everything they can to get him back, but as Christmas approaches Rudy and Sara become closer and Rudy starts to doubt whether he wants to return to a life in the spotlights.
This cheerful musical animated series consisting of seven short episodes is a real treat for children aged three and older. The Musiphants was realised through the Cinekid Junior Co-production Market. A preview of two episodes of The Musiphants was shown at Cinekid last year, and this year the entire first season of the series premières at the festival.
MEIKE FEHRE GERMANY | 2020 | 4’ | 3+ FACTS
Rudy’s Crazy Christmas Show is a brand new series of twenty short episodes. These will be broadcast on the NPO Zapp channel every day in the run-up to Christmas. The heart-warming children’s Christmas series – previously including Remy and Juliyat (2019), Plaster (2018) and Circus Noël (2017) – are now a regular feature of the festive season. This year’s series was written by Luuk van Bemmelen (Floor Rules, Soof) and Martijn Hillenius (The Apple Core, Floor Rules). Director Anna van der Heide’s previous credits include feature films Mr. Frog (2016) and Fidgety Bram (2012), and director Nicole van Kilsdonk is known for Taking Chances (2011) among others.
ANNA VAN DER HEIDE, NICOLE VAN KILSDONK THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 10’ | ALL AGES FACTS
Dutch title De musifanten Producer Meike Fehre, Sabine Dully
Screenwriter Luuk van Bemmelen, Martijn Hillenius Leading
Production company ahoifilm, Germany, info@ahoifilm.de,
actors Kylian de Pagter-Colin, Noëlle Simson, Ruben van der Meer,
www.ahoifilm.de Broadcaster KiKA
Nadja Hüpscher, Ferdi Stofmeel, Jasmine Sendar, Michiel Romeyn, Abbey Hoes Production company Pupkin, The Netherlands, info@pupkin.com, www.pupkin.com Sales company Dutch Features, The Netherlands, jacqueline@dutchfeatures.com, www.family.dutchfeatures.com Broadcaster VPRO
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The Smudgy Quiz
Talking Heads
De Smerige Quiz
Hoofdzaken
The Smudgy Quiz is a gameshow all about the joyful wonders of your own body. How amazing are our bodies and what incredible things can we do with them? To find out about this, two teams of children answer questions and compete in games centred around their senses, limbs and organs. Who is the best red blood cell? Who can feel the best with his or her feet? And who can make the most beautiful nose art?
Children share their views on life with hairdresser and interviewer Marko while he cuts their hair. The children tell him about their concerns, what makes them happy and what occupies them. As we watch in the mirror, we not only see a new hairstyle taking shape, but also hear what is going on in the children’s heads, including fear, anger, love and the trials of growing up.
The Smudgy Quiz has been broadcast since February by EO on the NPO Zapp channel, and is presented by Rachel Rosier and Doctor Elbert Smelt. The first season tackles questions such as: how well can you taste with your eyes closed? And how can you use an arm that is much too long? Season two has its première at Cinekid.
BAS VAN OORT THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 25’ | 8+ FACTS
The openness with which they talk, and the way Marko puts the children at ease result in an authentic programme that appeals to children and adults alike. There are funny and poignant stories and lots of anecdotes recognisable to both the children and their parents. The second season was nominated for Best Dutch Non-Fiction Series. Season three will première at Cinekid, and hairdresser Marko and director Menno Otten will be present for a Q&A.
MENNO OTTEN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 15’ | 7+ FACTS
Producer Anneke Edelman Screenwriter Esther Knibbe Presenter
Producer Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen Screenwriter Menno
Rachel Rosier, Elbert Smelt Production company Evangelische
Otten Editor Saskia Kievits Composer Benny Sings Production
Omroep, The Netherlands, eo@eo.nl, www.eo.nl Broadcaster
company Keplerfilm, The Netherlands, hello@keplerfilm.com,
Evangelische Omroep
www.keplerfilm.com Broadcaster VPRO
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Zapp Your Planet
20 Years NTR Kort 20 jaar NTR Kort
In this programme about nature and sustainability, presenters Manon Hoijtink, Remy Hogenboom and Toon Maassen set out to show children how beautiful and exceptional our planet is. They help viewers form opinions on the challenges the future will bring, explore sustainable development and draw attention to urgent climate issues. Zapp Your Planet is a well-known NPO Zapp title which in recent years has given children opportunities to take action for nature during special campaign days. These included a save the bee campaign, activities aimed at cleaning up waste and supporting koalas in Australia. From September 2020, the programme is being expanded into a regular feature of Friday evening programming, with weekly broadcasts of Zapp Your Planet. Presenter Remy will be at Cinekid to attend the première of the new season.
JOHAN VAN HESPEN, STEFAN COPPERS, INGE TOL THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 20’ | 8+ FACTS Producer Patty van der Heydt, Stephanie de Beer Presenter Manon Hoijtink, Remy Hogenboom, Toon Maassen Production company NTR, The Netherlands, info@ntr.nl, www.ntr.nl Broadcaster NTR
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of NTR Kort!. Kort! gives both new and established filmmakers the opportunity to create short fiction films. Every year a selection of 10 films is made out of all the projects that are entered. This collection of very diverse shorts has been a great source of content for Cinekid throughout the years. In celebration of this anniversary, Cinekid wants to highlight NTR Kort! films that have been selected for the festival throughout the years. A compilation of no less than 12 NTR Kort! titles (screened between 2003 and 2019) will be celebrated, such as the hilarious Pony Place, the poignant En Route and the bittersweet modern classic Dajo. All will be available on Cinekid Play.
VARIOUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 10’ | 8+ FACTS Dutch title 20 jaar NTR Kort Broadcaster NTR
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Plastic Premiere
Pre-schoolers Workshop Moominvalley
Plastic Première
Kleuterworkshop Moominvalley
Climate, especially the negative impact we as humans can have on it, has increasingly become a more important issue for adults and children alike. This becomes apparent in the three short films that make up this compilation regarding the topic ‘plastic’. The three shorts are a diverse combination of a live-action film, an animation film and a documentary.
Every year, Cinekid organises a pre-schoolers workshop. This workshop focuses on a certain programme shown at the festival and for this edition the new animation series Moominvalley was selected. The idea behind the workshop is to introduce our youngest audience to different aspects of media. This year, they will create their own Moominvalley music video to learn about the importance of music in films or series.
STIK (Niek Roozen) has already had its premiere, but it is included in our Best Dutch Live-Action Short Competition. The short animation film Tidy Town (Dana Alink), is also included in our Short Competition, and will premiere at Cinekid. To complete this Plastic Premiere is the new Just Kids documentary Turtles in the Plastic Soup (Mirjam Marks), in which new Climate Clips are added, which are also featured in our MediaLab.
MIRJAM MARKS, NIEK ROOZEN, DANA ALINK, THIRZA VAN DER ZEE THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 60’ | 8+
For the music clip, they will create their own Moomin character, that they will then use with the music in the series. While they are watching previously made video’s from the second season of Moominvalley, the workshop leader will edit their scenes into a video that they get to watch at the end of the workshop.
RIANNE VAN DUIN THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 75’ | 3+
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Prize Winners Just Kids
Prize Winners KRO-NCRV Zapp Echt Gebeurd
Prijswinnaars Mensjesrechten
Prijswinnaars KRO-NCRV Zapp Echt Gebeurd
Every child has the right to live a happy life, as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) says. Sadly, in reality not every child lives a happy life. Just Kids is a collection of short youth documentaries about kids whose rights are obstructed in one way or another, to show what they should be able to have or be. Each documentary focuses on a different child and the specific right that has been taken away from him or her. Just Kids is made by Dutch broadcaster and media company EO.
What used to be Dokument Junior has since a few years been known as Zapp Echt Gebeurd: a compilation of youth documentaries commissioned and produced by broadcaster KRO-NCRV. The focus of these documentaries, all aimed at kids between the ages of eight and twelve, is on the children themselves and the stories they tell. This emphasis on a child’s point of view makes the stories that are told especially genuine and varied. KRO-NCRV Zapp Echt Gebeurd is a recurring programme at Cinekid.
At this year’s festival, we will be showing three prizewinning and nominated Just Kids documentaries: 180CC (René van Zundert), Outside In (Els van Driel) and A Year Without my Parents (Els van Driel).
At this year’s festival, we want to celebrate and highlight prize-winning titles from the KRO-NCRV Zapp Echt Gebeurd collection. These four documentaries will be streamed on our platform Cinekid Play: I Am a Girl! (Susan Koenen), Giovanni and the Water Ballet (Astrid Bussink), A Butcher’s Heart (Marijn Frank) and Listen (Astrid Bussink).
VARIOUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 53’ | 8+ FACTS
THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 60’ | 8+ FACTS
Production company EO/IKONdocs, The Netherlands, eo@eo.nl,
Producer Michiel Brongers, Yolande van der Blij Production
www.eo.nl Broadcaster Evangelische Omroep
company KRO-NCRV, The Netherlands, info@kro-ncrv.nl, www.kro-ncrv.nl Broadcaster KRO-NCRV
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Binti De 12-jarige Binti droomt ervan om een bekende vlogger te worden. Op een dag moet ze met haar vader vluchten voor de politie. Ze ontmoet Elias en de twee worden vrienden. Ze bedenkt een plan zodat ze in het land kunnen blijven: haar papa moet trouwen met de mama van Elias.
Het Zakmes Twee vrienden Mees en Tim verliezen elkaar uit het oog omdat een van hen verhuist. Op allerlei manieren probeert Mees zijn vriend te bereiken omdat hij hem zijn zakmes wil teruggeven. Als niets helpt, komt Mees op een geniaal idee: meedoen aan een tv-spel, dan zal Tim hem wel zien.
Supa Modo Jo, een fantasierijk meisje van negen, houdt van actiefilms en superhelden. Zo vergeet ze dat ze ernstig ziek is. Het liefst zou ze zelf de hoofdrol in een superheldenfilm spelen. In deze vrolijke en ontroerende film doen haar moeder, haar oudere zus en alle dorpsbewoners hun best Jo's wens uit te laten komen.
Polleke Polleke groeit op bij haar excentrieke moeder. Ondertussen moet ze ook een beetje zorgen voor haar vader. Behalve vader is hij namelijk ook dichter en junkie. Ook is ze smoorverliefd op Mimoen.
Voor meer kinderfilms & - series kijk je NPO Zapp Check tijdens het festival de Cinekid Toppers op zapp.nl en npostart.nl
Wat wil jij ze vertellen?
Bereik kinderen doeltreffend Effectief communiceren met kinderen is een vak op zich. Kennis- en expertisecentrum Young & Connected is hier al meer dan 17 jaar in gespecialiseerd. Onze redacteuren en vormgevers vertellen dagelijks de ingewikkeldste verhalen op een passende wijze voor Kidsweek en zoeken de verdieping op in Samsam. Onze marketeers weten kinderen te bereiken: thuis en in de klas. Mogen wij meedenken met jouw verhaal? Ga voor meer informatie naar www.yandc.nl
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Play (your part) 2020 has been a strange but fascinating year challenging us to re-formulate how we look at our world, now a new world. Stuck at home, we have all entertained and amazed ourselves in new ways, adjusting to how we have had to allow new media to take on different roles in our lives. Suddenly no longer at school but at home, behind digi-teaching tablets, Cinekid viewers have experienced a radical shift in their media diet. Where in Covid-19 times new media was often mainly for entertainment and relaxation, now it can also be something you want to escape from. Until recently, the extent to which all children in the Netherlands (and far beyond) now live and work digitally was unimaginable. This year is forcing everyone to look at the world, and the role of new media in this world, in a different light. Cinekid is there to show that this can be beautiful, good, inspirational, well balanced. This year’s MediaLab programme, always an audience favourite, has been cut up and spread across the country in bite-size portions to receive as many people as possible – as well, of course, as being completely digital. Cinekid Play, the new hybrid Cinekid media environment, is an invitation to discover the digital world anew, both at the festival and at home. We will be showing new interactive artworks: from a digital wishing well dealing with the history of the internet to a meeting with a digital fortune teller and an interactive ASMR environment about how sound can have a calming effect online. With the Futurotheek, we are investigating how facial recognition software will keep an eye on us in the future and in The Portal, an Instagram series, a girl makes friends with an Artificial Intelligence teen. There will be also plenty of colour and pixels: RGB Jumper allows you to experiment with your body and colour; in the XR Lab we find out how imaginary digital animals look (both on locations in Amsterdam and at home); and Filtered: The Hmm on Your Face gives us by The Hmm gives us a radical make-over using Insta filters from all around the world.
Cinekid visitors undertake a voyage of discovery through an ever-changing digital world. Always with one eye on the major issues of our time: the climate and the seductive technology that surrounds us. Cinekid allows you to take a deep dive into this in all its glory, but also to give your own views: whether environmentally aware or simply up-to-the-minute with new media. In Film Tricks for example, you can learn all you need to know about TikTok-ing like a pro, and in Earth Speakr you can transform yourself into a spokesperson for Mother Nature courtesy of world-famous artist Olafur Eliasson. And in Climate Clips, children from all over the world reveal how the climate is changing in their own immediate surroundings. Whatever your role, the MediaLab hands you tools and tricks with which to conquer this new world – digitally. Play your part.
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Climate Clips All around the world, signs of climate change are different. In the interactive website Climate Clips, you can travel the globe and listen to children from all corners of the earth talking about pollution and the consequences of climate change in their immediate surroundings. What role does nature play in their lives, where do they think things are going wrong, and what solutions do they see to save the world? In the Climate Clips Globe we meet Elena from Italy, Hortencia from Madagascar, Jaden from Switzerland, Ileni from Namibia, Julieta from Curacao, Kyara from Costa Rica, Luoxuan from China and many others and find out how waste, excessive traffic, pollution, drought and the plastic soup are part of their everyday lives. Thanks to their involved, honest tone, the observations and thoughts of these youngsters provide a remarkably clear, engaging and personal look at the state of our planet. This new generation is clearly ready to speak out for change – for example in these Climate Clips.
MIRJAM MARKS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 8+ FACTS
Are you worried about the climate, but afraid that your voice isn’t being heard? The studio of world-famous artistt Olafur Eliasson has a solution. Using the app Earth Speakr, you can film yourself as you give a message about your solution for a better climate. Your face then transforms into a digital character, which you can place in a surface in your immediate vicinity. For example, you could get a tomato with your voice to talk about the use of pesticides in agriculture, or have an old chestnut tree complain about deforestation of the Amazon, or let a pool of water have its say about the plastic soup in the oceans. Thanks to this smart application, it’s as if the earth itself is joining in the daily discussions. The app also allows you to hear other messages from children all over the world. So Earth Speakr becomes a loudspeaker for the future of the climate.
OLAFUR ELIASSON GERMANY | 2020 | 7+ FACTS
Project website climateclips.org Artist website tangerinetree.nl
Project website aerthspeakr.art Artist website olafureliasson.net
Production company Tangerine Tree, tangerinetree.nl
Production company Studio Olafur Eliasson, olafureliasson.net
Producer Nienke Korthof, Willem Baptist Assistant Producer Hannah Borchard, Mascha Arkink Design Rob Maas Graphic Designer Martijn Boot
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Filtered: The Hmm on Your Face There’s nothing so changeable as your face: at least, in these times of face filters. For years now, it’s been easy to put on a funny mask on Instagram, transform yourself into an animal or monster, see what you will look like when you are old or dust your face with eternal digital youth. The Hmm, an organisation that carries out research into how digital image culture is changing our lives, have collected fifteen face filters from all over the world, and now you can try them all. However many you may have tried in the past, now it’s not only companies making these filters, but also other internet users, as it’s getting easier all the time to publish your own filters and spread them all over the world. Filtered: The Hmm on Your Face shows off the best face filters the world has to offer. The strangest, the most grotesque, the most beautiful and the funniest. Once you have chosen a filter, you can use it yourself on Instagram. This installation was created specially for Cinekid and The Hmm.
THE HMM THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+ FACTS
Fonies In Fonies, you use your smartphone to open up new portals to another world, full of digital animals. Using a web application and a place marker, you conjure up these creatures in AR, and they then merge with the real environment. The strangest beings can appear on your screen, and it’s just like they exist in the real world. The animals in Fonies are fantasy creatures, all different and all equally surprising. And diverse, as they all like different environments. For example, an animal that thrives in a cold environment will be happiest in the fridge, no? And animals with a preference for water can appear in the bath or the shower. By printing out the AR place markers or copying them by hand, you can transform your own house into a new AR universe. The place marker acts as a digital portal to another world, and how this reaches into our world is completely up to you. Fonies was made specially for Cinekid.
XR-LAB THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+ FACTS
Project website onyourface.thehmm.nl Artist website thehmm.nl
Project fonies.nl Artistt website xr-lab.nl Production company
Lead programmer & design Erik Sachse Design Erik Sachse Set
XR-lab, xr-lab.nl Lead Programmer Dimitri van Manen
production House of Bouw Face filter design @pascalsendar,
Programmer Juda Hensen, Marcin Zalewski, Lucas de Jonghe,
@annehorel, @davidoreilly, @mitsukokubota, @gijswahl,
Thomas Linsen, Tiesto Schouten Producer Merel Booleman,
@iamcraiglewis2, @eddyin3d, @johwska, @oleg.pashkovsky,
Steven Honders Concept Ruben Koops, Martijn Vorstenbosch
@iamvictorcrespo, @i_look_better_online, @pablo.rochat
commissioned by Cinekid Game Designer Ruben Koops, Martijn
Concept The Hmm Funded by Cinekid, Stimuleringsfonds
Vorstenbosch Lead Artistt Reniet de Vries Art Zoe Baars, Derrick
Creatieve Industrie Thank you all wonderful face filter models
Aboagye, Madelief de Vries, Rumeysa Bozkurt, Luke van Klooster
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The Fortune Teller In The fortune teller, we get to know Mother Earth in the form of a soothsayer. She is stunning, serene and caring and, in spite of her age, still looks fresh and healthy. But is she really? Through a number of critical questions and assignments, she probes whether you are thinking sufficiently about the state of the planet. Are you recycling? Be honest! Do you make sure you’re not wasting too much when you do your shopping? She is stricter than you think – while the temptation to consume is greater than ever, as advertising is omnipresent. At the end of your conversation with the soothsayer you receive a Tarot card made specially for you, showing what the future holds for the Earth as you will leave it behind. TeYosh (Sofija Stankovic and Teodora Stojkovic) have been at Cinekid before: in 2017 they won the audience award for their VR world Bananza. The Fortune Teller was made specially for Cinekid with support from the Mondriaan Fund.
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De Futurotheek In the Futurotheque, you can find out what role ‘Facial Recognition Software’ could play in your life in the future. Because computers recognise your face and can, wherever they want, look at what you are doing in life. Things such as: are you really old enough to watch this film on Netflix? Did you have a good day, or can I cheer you up? That might not be so bad. But imagine that the computer tells you you should maybe eat less sweet stuff and get more exercise – in short, that you’re getting fat? Or that it follows you everywhere you go, in stores and online, and so knows exactly what you buy so it can make you a new target for advertising? In the Futurotheek, we discover, step by step, the strange, beautiful, absurd and at times dangerous inf luence of what happens when your face becomes data and a commercial property in a future that is increasingly difficult to predict.
SANDER VEENHOF, LEONIEKE VERHOOG THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+ FACTS
Project website ecofortuneteller.com Artist website teyosh.
Project website futurotheek.nl Artist website www.sndrv.nl
com Funded by Mondriaan Fonds Lead programmer DXR Zone
Co developer Frank Bosma Funded by Cinekid & Nederlands
Commissioned by Cinekid
Filmfestival Thank you Paulien Dresscher
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Parallel Archaeologies The internet is older than you think, and a whole load of decisions were taken on the way to making the digital world. It could have all looked very different! In Parallel Archaeologies, we meet the alternative digital world we don’t know yet. As if in a technology folklore fairy tale, we look into a wishing well and see a new world – and before we know it, we’ve fallen in. While falling, we discover all the alternative worlds which, parallel to our own, resemble the internet we know, but have evolved just a little differently. Each digital world – whether a website, a game or a VR world – starts with code; the binary building block for everything digital. Work by Geoffrey Lillemon has been at Cinekid before: in 2017, with Dept of New Realities by Wieden+Kennedy, he won the jury award for the VR game Senseless Fairytale and showed the VR zombie cycling game Bitmap Banshees. Parallel Archaeologies was made specially for Cinekid with support from the Mondriaan Fund.
GEOFFREY LILLEMON THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+ FACTS
Pit-a-pat While the internet is filling up with videos, noisy vloggers and influencers on platforms such as YouTube and Instagram, in recent years a more subtle, absurd genre has arisen: ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). Unpacking videos; squeaky plastic; hoarse voices; eating with as much noise and pleasure as possible: these sounds give us ‘brain tingles’, lovely sensations in our brains that give us a cosy feeling. ASMR videos seem strange to the uninitiated and are characterised by high-quality audio and usually purely functional images, in which the maker painstakingly performs a whole range of auditory feats. In Pit-a-pat, Eden Mitsenmacher introduces us to ASMR in an interactive environment. Online and in the physical installation, the viewer can bring together different sounds, depicted using GIF animations, to form a single audio-visual comfort zone. Use ASMR audio to create your own personal audio cosy space in your headphones, and marvel at how a random sound can suddenly be surprisingly exciting. Pit-a-pat was made specially for Cinekid with support from the Mondriaan Fund.
EDEN MITSENMACHER THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 5+ FACTS
Project website parallelarchaeologies.geoffreylillemon.com
Project website pitapat.org Artist website edenmitsenmacher.
Artist website geoffreylillemon.com Co-production company
wordpress.com Lead Programmer David Jonas, davidjonas.art
Random Studio, random.studio Lead Programmer Philip Ghering
Programmer Arimit Bhattacharya, arimitb.com, Jasper Kamphuis,
Programmer Larix Kortbeek Assistant Producer Rachael Short
thebestunknown.com Commissioned by Cinekid Funded by
Sound Thomas de Rijk commissioned by Cinekid Funded by
Mondriaan Fonds
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The Portal In The Portal, we discover what could be possible if technology and science were used for the good of society, instead of big tech giants and governments who use it mainly to grab and keep hold of power. In this Instagram adventure – a series of fifteen episodes – we follow Anna who, depressed by the world in which she’s growing up, discovers a portal to the future. She makes friends with an Artificial Intelligence her own age, encounters Deep Fake technology and discovers, step by step, how an unpredictable future full of technology need not necessarily be threatening. In fact, maybe innovation could be our salvation. The Portal is her Instagram record of this turbulent search for a hopeful future. The Kissinger Twins (Katarzyna Kifert and Dawid Marcinkowski) created The Portal for EU Connect to open up a different perspective on technology in Europe. Their previous works include the highly praised Sufferosa, a multimedia project launched at Sundance which went on to win a Webby (the internet Oscars).
KISSINGER TWINS UNITED KINGDOM | 2020 | 8+ FACTS
In a world of LCD monitors, tablets, laptops and spectacular smartphone screens, it would be easy to forget how simple the process of creating colour on these screens is: RGB stands for Red Green and Blue, the three basic colours that can be mixed into any colour whatsoever using pixels. In RGB Together, you can test for yourself, using your body, how to bring these RGB values into balance to create an exact colour. It’s not as easy as you might think, however simple the input you give might seem. The R, G and B form a huge swirl of confetti in response to your body as seen by a webcam. Then all the colour pixels get mixed together and a digital colour emerges. Can you really have an influence on the result? Or what if you try it together: if three children each control R, G and B? Will they all agree (and jump for joy on the screen)? RGB Together was made specially for Cinekid and MU, with support from KunstLoc Brabant.
ALICE WONG, SIMO TSE THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 9+ FACTS
Project website instagram.com/theportaldiaries/ Artist website
Project website jonasersland.net Artist website missalicewong.com,
kissingertwins.com Lead Programmer Popesz Lang Producer Jan
simo-tse.net Music Yuval Reuven, reuven.nl Lead Programmer
Świerkowski Graphic designer Agata Marcinkowska Composer
Jonas Ersland Design Alice Wong, Simo Tse, Jonas Ersland,
Ollie Taylor Photographer Katarzyna Kifert Video Max Ziemba
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Sub/liminal Soundscapes II Hearing, feeling, stroking and looking: in the digital era, you could be forgiven for thinking that your senses are irrelevant. After all, all the stimuli in our lives are input or output from a digital translation process. In Ildikó Horváth installation Sub/liminal Soundscapes, you can re-learn what sound is. More than a digital track, this is a spatial experience in which a vibrating bass tone passes around the installation through several ceramic sculptures linked to one another. How does sound feel – do you remember? And how different can it feel if the physical sound carrier changes? By interacting with the installation, you learn how sound lives on, from place to place, as an echo within its own environment. More tactile, beautiful, exciting and palpable than you think. We don’t only hear with our ears – we also use our hands.
ILDIKÓ HORVÁTH THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 4+ FACTS Artist website ildikohorvath.com Technical support Fedde ten Berghe, Frank Baldé, Okke van Breemen, Yannick Adriaansen Thank you STEIM Foundation
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Found Poetic mini game in which you play two characters looking for each other in the snowy woods. How? Just trace each other’s steps and check which trees you can see!
In this weird, cheerful, endlessly generating universe you can discover new micro-planets, asteroids and UFOs. But remember: your own spaceship needs parts!
FERRAN BERTOMEU CASTELLS THE NETHERLANDS | 2018 | 4+
RUBEN NAUS THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+
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Website fonserbc.net Art Vanja Mrgan Twitter @vmrgan
Website sokpop.co Production company Sokpop Collective
Music Elie Abraham
Music Tom van den Boogaart, Aran Koning
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Own Worst Enemy
A great retro variant of the ‘limbs all over the place’ game. All you need is a keyboard, but don’t think that makes it easy...
In this clever game you are a hungry amoeba. But watch out: every time you eat something, you get another doppelganger!
ADAM PYPE UNITED STATES | 2018 | 4+
BHARAT RAMAN, BRIAN PINKLEY, BURAK YILDIRIM UNITED STATES | 2020 | 8+
GAME/APP
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A Short Hike
Stereophyta
As a bird, you can walk, climb and fly through wonderful, atmospheric, ever-changing mountain landscapes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but be careful, the weather can turn in an instant.
In Stereophyta, everything makes music. You can create a melody by walking through the landscape and make new instruments by planting seeds.
ADAM ROBINSON-YU CANADA | A | 5+
KAS GHOBADI UNITED STATES | 2020 | 6+
FACTS Website adamgryu.com, thestaticman.itch.io/stereophytaii
FACTS Website thestaticman.itch.io/stereophytaii
Art Dawn Blair Production company Whippoorwill Limited Programmer Adam Robinson-Yu Logo design David Czarnowski
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Cosmos Viewer How to make your own kaleidoscope phone lens? With just a few ingredients like a template, some card and reflective paper, participants in this workshop can assemble their own kaleidoscope lens. Looking through the lens, you can see stunning mirrored patterns that change constantly as the lens is moved. At the end of the workshop, this magical cosmic party carries on as the children can take their lenses home with them. The world never need look boring again, and the kids can carry on making fantastic films and photos after the workshop is over from their own homes. This short workshop will be given at four Cinekid locations. Admission to the workshop is free, it is only for children and lasts on average about twenty minutes. Participants can come and go as they please.
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DIY Disco Club Nou&Herkauw invite Cinekid visitors to a sparkling digital dance party. First the participants in this workshop draw, cut and paste their own puppets. These are then photographed and scanned â&#x20AC;&#x201C; then they are ready for the digital dance floor, where they can show off their best moves. Will other childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creations be impressed? This workshop is offered both online and offline. Both versions are the same, except that in the offline version the puppets are already printed out. As soon as the puppets are ready, they are photographed and transformed into 3D figures. They then end up in an online game, which looks like a digital dancefloor. Participants can take their puppet by the hand and get it to dance with the others made during the workshop. This short walk-in workshop will be given at all ten Cinekid locations. On average it takes twenty minutes.
NOU & HERKAUW THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 4+
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Film Tricks In apps and on social media, every day children come into contact with films in which the impossible happens thanks to cool special effects. Paint flies through the air, hair dances all over the place and much, much more. In Film Tricks, children can learn how to create these effects for themselves. How to overcome gravity and levitate, still sleeping, off the bed? And how to make things move, without even touching them? In this workshop, children learn all kinds of film tricks that are actually used in the film business â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but using their own smartphone (or a volunteerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s). This short workshop will be given at various Cinekid locations and is only for children. Admission is free and it lasts about twenty minutes. Participants can come and go as they please.
CINEKID THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+
Jump in the movie In this workshop, children learn to work with a green screen. They work in pairs, equipped with iPads and the green screen. The workshop starts with an introduction to this well-known film technique for the whole group. How does a green screen work and what can it be used for? The technique is then tested using a film clip and the children can as it were step into the film. They learn how to fly using a green stool, how to make things float and how to replicate themselves using a green screen. At the end of the workshop, the whole group watches the short films they have made. All participants must sign up for this workshop. The workshop takes place at various Cinekid locations and lasts about an hour and a half. The workshop is for children only.
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This year, Cinekid is exhibiting artworks by children in the online Magic Museum. With a little help from Cinekid, the participants are transformed into artists, creating their own works. Children who don’t feel the urge to create are also welcome in the Magic Museum, where they can roam around as museum visitors and study the works of others. Guaranteed never to get boring, as new works are added every day. This online workshop was developed by Viesueel Geweld. Children are given a range of assignments teaching them to create online works of art such as 3D statues. They can then upload these and at the end of the day the works are installed in the museum. The Magic Museum’s collection grows a little every day, resulting in an ever more exciting online 3D world which children can explore as artists, art lovers or critics.
You don’t need much more than a smartphone to make your own VR glasses. Participants in this workshop learn to do exactly that. With a few fretsaws, they can make their own VR goggles – and then create their own VR world as a group using an iPad. They can then step into the world they have made using the VR glasses and explore this in Virtual Reality. The glasses work according to the same principle as the Google Cardboard, using a smartphone. At the end of the workshop they don’t need to leave their VR creations behind, as they can take the goggles home with them.
VIESUEEL GEWELD THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+
CINEKID THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+
All participants must sign up for this workshop. The workshop takes place at various Cinekid locations and is for children only. It lasts about an hour and a half.
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WATCH ENJOY MEET FILMS FROM THE NETHERLANDS www.international.eyefilm.nl
L IFE I S I N CO L OU R B U T B L AC K & W HIT E IS MOR E RE ALIS T IC S amu el F ul ler in ‘D er St an d der Din g e’ (Wi m We nd er s, 1 9 8 2 )
B R EM ER & DE Z WA A N IP, M EDIA, CO MMERCI AL CO NT RACT S, GOVERNAN CE www. breme rdezwaan.nl
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INTRODUCTION
PROFESSIONALS
Age of Action 2020. A year that resonates with many emotions; fear, insecurity, disappointment, but at the same awareness, gratitude and solidarity. This year more than ever it has become clear that society needs the creative sector. Media content is consumed both extensively and speedily because our demand for it has never been greater. How do we as creatives operate in this new reality as we create content for new generations? Cinekid for Professionals invites guests to reflect on these major issues this year, as we contemplate a future that may be both uncertain - but also full of creative opportunities. Welcome to the 2020 Cinekid for Professionals programme, which we hope will again offer you fresh insights, new tools, an expanded network and renewed inspiration for your work within children’s media. Not like we used to, live and kicking in Amsterdam, rather in the cloud. Which is sad, but look on the bright side; more people than ever are able to engage this year’s festival! We are grateful that many of the key players within the children’s media industry will, during our full Industry Forum, enlighten us with their experience and expertise in adapting to the changing industry. We are delighted that leading international professionals see Cinekid as an essential platform for sound and profitable business. Over the years, more than 400 projects have been selected for the Junior Co-production Market (JCM), of which 50% have been realised, many very successfully. The effectiveness of previous JCMs is reflected again in the 2020 Cinekid Festival Programme, which contains eight titles previously pitched there.
I would like to thank our funders, the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme and the Netherlands Film Fund, for their on-going and essential vital funding. I would like to thank our loyal supporting partners, without whom Cinekid for Professionals would not exist. I would also like to thank the Cinekid Advisory Board for being our ambassadors, and for sharing our vision on children’s media. Last, and certainly not least, I would like to thank my fantastic team. On behalf of the entire Cinekid team we hope that this year’s programme will excite, enrich, fuel and inspire you for the year to come. Until we meet again… Enjoy!
Nienke Poelsma
Besides the projects in development, we also select completed productions for the ScreeningClub, our digital video library which offers 400 recently completed children’s productions from all over the world.
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Ask your Audience
Online available from Wednesday 7 October until Sunday 8 November.
Invitation only.
Thursday 15 October.
English language or subtitles. Accredited guests only. Cinekid’s digital screening facility offers a selection of all the latest productions for children from the past year. Professionals can watch these productions via the online platform for programming or acquisition purposes.
Producers Programme Monday 15 October – Friday 23 October.
Selected participants only. The Producers Programme is an international exchange programme for producers who want to expand their international network within children’s media. The attending producers are nominated by our international partner organisations, Ace Producers, Catalan Films, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute and Producers Alliance Netherlands
Industry experts attending the Junior Co-Production Market get the chance to pitch their projects in development to a group of international (English-speaking) children. A unique opportunity for professionals to see how the target audience responds to their projects. In this programme children are the experts, and their feedback might just influence the final outcome of these productions.
Industry Forum Monday 19 October until Wednesday 21 October 10.00 – 18:30h.
Accredited guests only. English language. During Cinekid’s Industry Forum more than 40 professionals within the field of global children’s media will share their ideas, tips & tricks with you. In rapidly alternating sessions of 40 minutes, experts will tell you about the successful development of their projects and the hurdles they had to overcome en route. From diverse backgrounds, these experts will offer their own take on, and experiences within, children’s media – from pushing the limits internationally to their use and presentation of data. Enter the dialogue and get an exclusive insight into these super-creative minds and their working practices. Compile your own programme during this full 3-day event, this year solely online! Check out the complete programme here.
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Junior Co-production Market
Cinekid Script LAB
Thursday 22 October & Friday 23 October 10.00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 18:00: JCM One-to-One Meetings Online.
Selected participants only.
Sunday 11 October - Friday 16 October
Accredited guests only. The Junior Co-production Market is an integrated two-day co-production market held during Cinekid for Professionals. It enables financiers, broadcasters and producers to find new and innovative projects in development, for young audiences across the film and television sectors. A high degree of interactivity and the potential for cross-financing across these sectors reflects in the market selection. A total of 20 projects in development will be presented within a unique and nurturing environment designed to encourage international co-operation. More information on the selected projects can be found at www.cinekid.com, and in the JCM-booklet.
Cinekid Script LAB is a six-month script-training programme for writers with a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film project. The programme was initiated by Cinekid in 2014, and takes place during Cinekid in October and Berlinale the following February. This year Cinekid welcomes 19 writers from 13 countries to the 7th edition of the Lab. Script LAB is funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme and organised in close collaboration with international partner organisations, such as Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Finnish Film Foundation, Icelandic Film Centre, Netherlands Film Fund, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, and Swedish Film Institute.
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(Otto) 85
Butterflies 86
The Fantastic Journey of Margot & Marguerite 23
180CC 84
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary 20
Fata Morgana 84
20 Years NTR Kort 106
The Castle 21
Film Stinks, The 65
The 48 Hour Film Project Cinekid 79
Catfun 29
Film Tricks 123
À la mode 69
The Cherry on Top 70
Filtered: The Hmm on Your Face 115
Amira 27
Cinema Rex 39
Floor Rules 94
Angel 28
Cliffhanger 59
Fonies 115
Anne Frank Video Diary 97
Climate Clips 114
Foreplay 62
Apple Tree Man 37
Comment of Men 84
The Fortune Teller 116
Archie 38
Cooking Adventures 98
Found 120
At the End of the World 38
Cool - Bouldering 71, 101
The Fox & the Pigeon 41
Baking with Bunnies 98
Cosmos Viewer 122
Fred and Anabel 86
Ballone di Cannone 84
Coucouleurs 86
Fruits of Clouds 86
Baxu and the Giants 51
The Crossing 21
Funny Fish 86
The Beauty 69
Dajo 84
Giovanni and the Water Ballet 84
Beef 51
Daniel ‘16 33
Girlsboysmix 63
Bert’s Diary 20
Daydreaming 84
Go! Go! 71
Bertha and the Wolfram 69
De Futurotheek 116
Hanging 71
Between Head and Tail 102
Dear Mr. Führer 22
Hedgehog Spikiney 42
Beware the Wolf! 69
DIY Disco Club 122
Heirs of the Night 95
The Big Slime Film 28
Doggy 84
Helionaut 120
Billy Elliot 79, 77
Doopie 94, 101
Hello, I have Cancer 99
Birdland 66
Dreambuilders 33
Holy Moly 63, 101
Bits 52
Ducobu 3 34
Hors Course 72
Black&White 70
Duodrom 40
Human Nature 59
Blanket 70
Earth Speakr 114
I Am a Girl! 85
Blind Eye 70
Eden 22
I, Julia 52
Boriya 39
The Eleventh Step 40
Ice Nose 86
Brainstorm 102
Eliot & Me 86
INK 60, 101
The Brothers Lionhart 80
En route 84
The Inventors’ Best Kept Secret 66
Buladó 29
Escape Velocity 41
Jabberwocky 42, 60
Butcher’s Heart, A 84
Family Bonds 71
Jackie and Oopjen 30
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Jason and the Argonauts 80
Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart 103
The Peak 74
JovannaForFuture 64
Maradona’s Legs 55
Pelle No-Tail 34
July 96 53
Margin of Terror 73
Pettson and Findus: Findus Moves House 88
Jump in the movie 123
Marked for Life 82
The Pirates Down the Street 32
Just for the Record 43
Marona’s Fantastic Tale 24
Pit-a-pat 117
Kapaemahu 43
Matilda and the Spare Head 46
Plastic Premiere 107
Keyboard Twister 120
Melting Heart Cake 47
Pony Place 85
The Kicksled Choir 53
Misfit 2 31
The Portal 118
The Kindergarten Show 72
Mister Twister in the Clouds 31
Pre-schoolers Workshop Moominvalley 107
King of my Castle 72
Mister Twister The Series 95
Prize Winners Just Kids 108
Kippkopp in the Snow 44
Molly Monster 87
Prize Winners KRO-NCRV Zapp Echt Gebeurd 108
The Kites 54
Monkey Girl 55
Psychophonic 75
Kitwana’s Journey 44
Moominvalley 103
Pushing 75
The Knot 54
Mr. Night Has a Day Off 87
Queen of Niendorf 87
KUAP 86
The Music Video 56
The Race 87
Leaf 45
The Musiphants 104
Radio Felix 75
Leaving Home 85
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs 25
Ramón 75
Listen 85
My Family is a Circus 73
Remy and Juliyat 96, 101
The Little Bird and the Bees 45
The Name of the Son 56
RGB Together 118
The Little Bird and the Caterpillar 86
Napo 47
Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter 82
A Little Bird Told Me About the ABC 72
Night Moves 87
Rudy’s Crazy Christmas Show 104
The Little Boat That Wanted to Fly 46
Northern Lights 48
SamSam 35
Little Crumb 30
Of Love and Lies 89
The Schoolgarden 32
Little Spicy 86
Ok and Kiddo 101
Second Best 64
The Little Wide-Mouthed Frog 73
Onigami 74
The Secret Society of Souptown 87
The Liverpool Goalie 87
Outdoors Bound 99, 101
Seven Things I’ve Learned About Time Travel 85
Long Live the Queen 81
Outside In 85
The Shoes of a Little Girl 57
Long Way North 81
Own Worst Enemy 120
Shooom’s Odyssey 48
A Lynx in the Town 73
Papito 74
Shoot 76
Madison: A Fast Friendship 23
Parallel Archaeologies 117
Short but Sweet Compilation 88
Magic Museum 124
Patchwork Penguin 74
A Short Hike 121
Man Up! 24
Paw 87
Shorts By Kids 83
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Under the Skin 58, 68
powers 25
Valhalla 37, 77
Sky Raiders 26
Vardavar 77
The Smudgy Quiz 100, 105
Verhalen met een staartje Compilation 89
The Snail and the Whale 76
VR World 124
Snip, Snap, Snut and the Colours 76
War Stories 97
So but not so 76
Warm Star 50
SpangaS 96
Watersprite 58
Spring 61
When Birds Fly Low 68
Stereophyta 121
Winter Lake 78
STIK 67, 101
The Witch & The Baby 78
Stolen Kisses 67
A Year Without my Parents 85
Strength in Numbers 87
Zapp Your Planet 106
Sub/liminal Soundscapes II 119
The Zillas Have a Picnic 78
Summer Rebels 26 Sune - Best Man 27 Swimming Paradise 85 Tadpole 49 Talking Heads 100, 105 Team Marco 35 Teen Horses 57 Tidy Town 61 Tiger 87 Timo Must Wait 65 Tobi and the TURBOBUS 49 The Tomten and the Fox 77 Tourist Trap 62, 101 TRASH 36 Triple Trouble 36 Truffles! 77 Turtles in the Plastic Soup 77 Under the Ice 50
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Credits CINEKID FOUNDATION Kattenburgerstraat 5 003-G 1018 JA Amsterdam +31 (0) 20 531 78 90 www.cinekid.nl / info@cinekid.nl SUPERVISORY BOARD Hedda Bruessing, Errol Nayci, Guido van Nispen, Jeroen van Dijk, Marlene Wickel Director Heleen Rouw Manager Finance & Operations Christine Breur PROGRAMMERS Head of Cinekid for Professionals Nienke Poelsma Head of Digital Culture Ward Janssen Head of Education Rianne Vogel Head of Film & Series Erik Tijman ADVISORY BOARD Astrid Bussink, Barbara Bredero, Charlie Duran, Dries Phlypo, Eric Goossens, Evelien Bosch, Floor Onrust, Henrike van Gelder, Ido Abram, Janneke van de Kerkhof, Jeroen van Mastrigt, Justine Bannister, Nasim Miradi, Nienke Korthof, Pien Houthoff, Roel Spits, Viola Gabrielli
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MARKETING & COMMUNICATION Head of Marketing & Communication Veerle Snijders Online Marketing & Communication Laura Bos Press Officer Diane Borst Graphic Design Tess Semin PROGRAMME PRODUCERS Producer Film Alexander Sommers Producer Series Berit van Lier Producer MediaLab Amsterdam Lisanne van Wijk Producer Cinekid for Professionals Thijs van der Laak Producer Special Programmes CfP Babs Anemoon Pol Producer Junior Co-production Market CfP Eline Warnier Producer Guest Service CfP Hannah van der Mark Producer Workshops Sonja Volmer Assistant Producer Workshops Lies de Jager Producer Education Nicky Maas Producer Opening Barbara de Haan Advisor Film Merel Gilsing Producers Cinekid Livestreams Kimberly Willems, Berit van Lier
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FESTIVAL PRODUCTION Head of Festival Production Lisa Luijten Festival and Cinekid on Tour Producer Jessie van Vreden Executive Festival Producer Marc Selanno Coordinators Volunteers Noortje Veerman, Judith Rigter CINEKID PLAY Concept & Digital Development Next Empire ICT Development Cinekid Indyvideo in corporation with Medialoc and Filmfetch Project Manager Jordy den Haan Content Manager Kimberly Willems Technical Producer Mark Ridder Technical Producer Cinekid for Professionals Nathalie Scholten Technical assistent Chloë van Baar OFFICE MANAGEMENT Office Managers Hannah Bremer, Rahana Sahib-Madhar PA Director Mary-Louise van Driessche TRAINEES Cinekid for Professionals Giovana Galvao Film & Series Ayla Rasing, Jane Heinze Screeningclub Ayla Rasing Education Brechje Meijers Workshops Sietske Bosma Marketing & Communication Nicky Beckers Graphic Design Sophie Zweers
CREW ICT FMO Solutions, Tinus Nijmeijer WORKSHOP SUPERVISORS Mo Anouar, Willemijn van Arnhem, Ilona Baars, Susanne Beckers, Melanie Essink, Katja Fred, Lottie Herfkens, Dicky Jansen, Inti Mego, Juan Rooijakkers, Patrick Ros, Kimber van Valkenburg, Marieke Verdijk, Els Hiddink, Barbara Rink JURY SUPPORT Youth Jury Coordination Merel Booleman Participating schools for the Cinekid National Audience Award De Vlissingse Schoolvereniging, Vlissingen; Nassauschool, Groningen; OBS ’t Landje, Rotterdam; De Springstok, Amsterdam; PCB De Zevensprong, Dronten; O.B.S. Twa Yn len, Echtenerbrug; Basisschool de Klinkert, Oudenbosch; De Columbusschool, Almere; Freinetschool De Bothoven, Enschede; OBS De Esmarke, Enschede; IKC Het Palet, Leeuwarden; Wilhelminaschool, Amerongen; De Arenberg, Zevenbergen; Basisschool Samenspel, Amsterdam; Alan Turingschool, Amsterdam; Kindcentrum Valkenhorst, Assen; CBS De Elout, Den Haag; Islamitische Basisschool Al Jawhara, Amsterdam Q&A Presentation Educational Screenings Dicky Jansen, Michiel Vaanhold, Rens Weijenborg, Kimber van Valkenburg
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OPERATIONAL PARTNERS Box Office & Ticketing Filmchief Festival Locations Het Ketelhuis, Theater De Krakeling, Studio/K, Eye Filmmuseum, de Meervaart, Filmschuur, LantarenVenster, Forum Groningen, Concordia, Chassé Cinema, LUX Nijmegen Film Transport Gofilex Technical Facilities Film*Techniek Rotterdam, BeamSystems, Firma Buurman, Marbl.tv PARTICIPATING THEATRES CINEKID FESTIVAL ON TOUR Filmhuis Alkmaar, De nieuwe Bibliotheek Almere, Plein Theater Amsterdam, Focus Filmtheater Arnhem, Filmtheater het Kruispunt Barendrecht, Filmtheater Cinebergen Bergen, Filmhuis Bussum, Filmhuis Lumen Delft, Filmhuis MIMIK Deventer, Podium ’t Beest Goes, Filmhuis Gouda, Filmtheater Hilversum, Cinema Middelburg, ’t Hoogt in Bieb Neude Utrecht, Stadsschouwburg Velsen IJmuiden, Luxor Zutphen, Filmtheater Fraterhuis Zwolle MARKETING & COMMUNICATION PARTNERS Editor Nick Cunningham Festival Design La Bolleur Festival Photography Corinne de Korver, Mélanie Lemahieu, Melle Meivogel Partnerships Marije Plaum Technical Realisation Website Frank van der Wal, Vruchtvlees Translations Mark Baker
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CAMPAIGN / COMMERCIAL 2020 Artwork & Animations Woodwork Editing & Post Production The Pastry Shop Sound Design THNDR, KlevR Voice Over Hannah Krausz CATALOGUE 2020 Coordinators Alexander Sommers, Thijs van der Laak, Veerle Snijders Editor-in-chief Mirjam Groen Text Contributors Alexander Sommers, Ayla Rasing, Erik Tijman, Govrien Oldenburger, Jane Heinze, Leo Bankersen, Mirjam Groen, Nicole Santé, Nienke Poelsma, Maricke Nieuwdorp, Merel Gilsing, Ward JanssenTranslators & Editors Mark Baker, Nick Cunningham, Titus Verheijen Photo Credits Corinne de Korver, Max Kneefel, Mélanie Lemahieu, Melle Meivogel Design Tess Semin CINEKID LIONS DESIGN Daan de Haan CINEKID 2020 HAS BEEN REALISED WITH THE SUPPORT FROM Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Amsterdam Art Fund, Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, VSBfonds, Fonds 21, Mondriaan Fund, KunstLoc Brabant, Fonds voor Cultuur Participatie
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MEDIA PARTNERS Kidsweek, NPO Zapp, Cartoon Network, VPRO Gids, Jean Mineur Mediavision PARTNERS & SPONSORS CINEKID FESTIVAL Anga Productions, ANWB, AVROTROS, Bremer & De Zwaan, Cartoon Network, Cinéart Nederland, CJP, Dopper, Dutch FilmWorks, ECFA, Els Kuiper, EMS Films, Evangelische Omroep, EYE, Family Affair Films, FedEx, GreenDCP, Gusto Entertainment, HALAL, HKU, Hollandse Helden, IDFA, IMC Weekendschool, In The Air, Institut Francais - Pays-Bas, JEF, Just Film Distribution, Just4Kids, Kapitein Kort, Keplerfilm, Kidsproof, KLIK! Distribution Service, KRO-NCRV, Kunstbende, Kunst Centraal, Lemming Film, Martin Koolhoven, Michiel Brongers, Mirjam Marks, MU artspace, NewBeTV, NL Film & TV, Nou & Herkauw, Nuts & Bolts Film Company, NTR, PABO, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Pupkin Film, PV Pictures, Questions Collective, Rianne van Duin, ROC Amsterdam, Ronald Simons, SND Films, Splendid Film, Spoony, Ster, Superights, Tangerine Tree, The 48 Hour Film Project, Viesueel Geweld, VPRO, War Child, Wim Pel Productions, Windmill Film, kinderboeken.nl, WW Entertainment, XS4ALL, Ympact020, Zapp Echt Gebeurd, Zoekhelden
FUNDERS & PARTNERS CINEKID FOR PROFESSIONALS 2020 Funded by Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, Netherlands Film Fund Partners Eurimages,Filmmore, SEE NL, Creative Europe Desk NL, Creative Europe Desk Norway, Polish Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute, Catalan Films, ACE Producers, NAPA, Rose Stories, The Children’s Media Conference And all other organisations, volunteers and individuals that helped realise the 2020 festival with their artistic, organisational, scientific or technical contributions. And all other organisations, volunteers and individuals that helped realise the 2020 festival with their artistic, organisational, scientific or technical contributions.
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