Catalog 2010

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN

17–21 MARCH

NIJMEGEN NL

SHORT FILM FESTIVAL W W W.G O S HOR T. N L – MAI N LO C AT ION : L UX

WELCOME TO THE 2ND EDITION OF GO SHORT We look back on an exciting and very successful â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;premiereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; last year, and are ever so grateful for the warm reception! We feel privileged to be able to organize a follow-up edition and this year, too, we have put together a program to be proud of. Since the upsurge of video on the internet and the ever-quickening distribution through pocket screens on smart phones, short films are now reaching more people than ever before. However, the short film really proves its strength on the big screen. Short film makers do not rely on funding and big returns but on passion and talent. Creativity is prioritized over the money game, hence the huge value of the short film. This shows once more in 2010, considering the high quality of the entries we received for the competition program.

Out of over 900 entries, we made a selection of the most beautiful, moving and eye-catching short films produced recently for our main program, the European competition. We continue many of the programs and cooperation that were initiated last year. We will introduce filmmaker Simon Ellis, and show rare beauties from Romania. Breaking Ground also selected 20 marvelous student films and, with them, we will set up the European student campus again.

As a new feature this year, we started an online competition for short films up to 10 minutes. Another new adventure, a cooperation between Go Short and the art education experts at Grote Broer, is our program for elementary and intermediate schools. And, by presenting their best productions of last year, the Utrecht School of the Arts will provide Go Short with yet another platform for young talent. As an extra treat for our audiences, we put together a World Cup football program, and the NPS will screen a fine selection of our films. Sincere gratitude goes out to our team, who have dedicated themselves with great enthusiasm and, at times, really made the impossible possible. We also thank our loyal volunteers, and the board, who offered up their time and expertise to lift the festival to higher ground. We thank all of our partners who gave us the chance to make the most beautiful programs and turn the festival into a genuine experience, and our ambassadors with their support and care for Go Short and the short film. Also, many thanks to the funds and sponsors who, despite the recession, insist on the value of the festival and keep giving their support. Go Short would be nowhere, had it not been for all of them! Lisa ter Berg & Kirsten Ruber Festival Directors

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COLOFON Go Short 2010 is realized by:

Go Short especially thanks:

Board: Professor Anneke Smelik, Constant Hoogenbosch, Pien Houthoff, Allard Koers, Waldemar Torenstra, Maarten van Schaik, Sydney Neter

Isolde Hallensleben, Danyael Sugawara, Maartje

Directors: Lisa ter Berg and Kirsten Ruber

Verhoeckx, Hasse van Nunen, Olly Smit, Frank Boeijen,

Selection commission: Astrid Bussink, Tijmen Hauer,

all the people at LUX, Mario van de Geijn (in memoriam),

Egbert de Ruiter, Dirk van der Straaten, Lisa ter Berg,

Martijn Stevens, Het Ketelhuis, NPS, de Filmbank,

Kirsten Ruber

André Dumont (Vlaams Cultureel Kwartier), Ellen

Preselectors: Constant Hoogenbosch, Rob Comans,

Kocken (Dziga), Gitta Kruisbrink, Helen Zwaan, Hannie

Anne-Marijn Burgers, Maïté Tjon A Hie

Kunst, Stefan Grond, Marina Blok, Ger Bouma, Kees

Office: Indri Luijckx, Jan van Alem

Brienen, Huub Roelvink, Peter Markus, Wiendelt Hooijer,

Program: Wouter Jansen

Adina Bradeanu, Andrei Dascalescu, Baukje Stamm

Guest Service: Elisabeth van Overloop

(Holland Film), Seraphina Panaud-Coxe (Unifrance),

Communication: Josje Leen

Mihai Mitrica (ESTE’N’EST), Roxana Calinescu (Romanian

Web and Social Media: Arne Broekhoven

Cultural Institute), Mioara Pitut (Embassy of Romania),

Volunteers: Marleen Bakker

Rick Vermeulen, Wim Marijnissen (Marijnissen Advies),

Festival Producer: Irena Nannes

Van Haren Auto’s (car service), De Gelderlander:

Education: Anke Hellebrand

facilitaire dienst, Susannah Burnette, all friends of

Interns: Caroline Weinberg, Charlotte van Zuijlen,

the festival, our jury and all our partners!

Karlijn Vloet, Lindy Voskuil, Newton Da Costa. 48 Hour Film Project: Liane van de Braak

Above all, we thank all the volunteers for their effort.

Jury Assistance: Mylène Ragon

Without you all, there would be no Go Short!

Programming: Constant Hoogenbosch, Rob Comans (Short Invaders), Breaking Ground (Breaking Shorts + Go Short Student Campus) Chief Operators: Anke Hellebrand, Polona Kuzman Technical support: MK2 Audiovisual Interviews: Pieter Nabbe Graphic Design & Concept: www.teunis.nu Print: Drukkerij Hendrix NV Corrections: Radboud in’to Languages (pp. 7, 11-15, 44, 50-55, 57, 60) Web design: Arjen Rienks Website realization: eTurn Online Competition & Jury Screenings: powered by MediaDepot & Woeha Streaming Media Campaign: Teunis (concept + design), Ruud Voerman (concept + photography), David Hazeleger (director + storyboards + editing), Danny Noordanus (camera), TEAM Facilities, Valerie Romers (styling), Corinne van der Heijden & Hanneke den Hertog (makeup artists). Go Short thanks the following hotels and B&B’s in Nijmegen for their cooperation: Amrâth Hotel Belvoir, City Park Hotel, B&B De Prince, B&B De Kleine Prins, Hotel–Grand Café Atlanta, Pension La Résidence, Extrapool.

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Welcome to the 2nd Edition of Go Short Colofon Go Short 2010 Go Short Ambassadors at Work Solar Shorts Vrienden van Go Short The Go Short Jury The Breaking Shorts Jury Opening Night NPS Selection Award Night Sunday Program European Competition: Fiction European Competition: Documentary European Competition: Animation European Competition: The Labo Program Schedule Student Competition: Breaking Shorts Dutch Competition Short Focus: Simon Ellis Wide Awake: Romanian Shorts Short Invaders: A Bright Future, or the End of Everything? GOAL! The 48 Hour Film Project Go Online Online Competition Go Short Report Holland Doc 24 Meestermakers: Short Animation Go Short Education Go Short Student Campus Go Mobile! Go Shorty! Oddstream V – Animated HKU Presents Go Expo Extrapool Presents ARTEZ: Typographic Gun Industry Program + Info Practical Information Film Index by Title Film Index by Country Partners & Funders

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CONTENT

COLOFON Go Short 2010 is realized by:

Go Short especially thanks:

Board: Professor Anneke Smelik, Constant Hoogenbosch, Pien Houthoff, Allard Koers, Waldemar Torenstra, Maarten van Schaik, Sydney Neter

Isolde Hallensleben, Danyael Sugawara, Maartje

Directors: Lisa ter Berg and Kirsten Ruber

Verhoeckx, Hasse van Nunen, Olly Smit, Frank Boeijen,

Selection commission: Astrid Bussink, Tijmen Hauer,

all the people at LUX, Mario van de Geijn (in memoriam),

Egbert de Ruiter, Dirk van der Straaten, Lisa ter Berg,

Martijn Stevens, Het Ketelhuis, NPS, de Filmbank,

Kirsten Ruber

André Dumont (Vlaams Cultureel Kwartier), Ellen

Preselectors: Constant Hoogenbosch, Rob Comans,

Kocken (Dziga), Gitta Kruisbrink, Helen Zwaan, Hannie

Anne-Marijn Burgers, Maïté Tjon A Hie

Kunst, Stefan Grond, Marina Blok, Ger Bouma, Kees

Office: Indri Luijckx, Jan van Alem

Brienen, Huub Roelvink, Peter Markus, Wiendelt Hooijer,

Program: Wouter Jansen

Adina Bradeanu, Andrei Dascalescu, Baukje Stamm

Guest Service: Elisabeth van Overloop

(Holland Film), Seraphina Panaud-Coxe (Unifrance),

Communication: Josje Leen

Mihai Mitrica (ESTE’N’EST), Roxana Calinescu (Romanian

Web and Social Media: Arne Broekhoven

Cultural Institute), Mioara Pitut (Embassy of Romania),

Volunteers: Marleen Bakker

Rick Vermeulen, Wim Marijnissen (Marijnissen Advies),

Festival Producer: Irena Nannes

Van Haren Auto’s (car service), De Gelderlander:

Education: Anke Hellebrand

facilitaire dienst, Susannah Burnette, all friends of

Interns: Caroline Weinberg, Charlotte van Zuijlen,

the festival, our jury and all our partners!

Karlijn Vloet, Lindy Voskuil, Newton Da Costa. 48 Hour Film Project: Liane van de Braak

Above all, we thank all the volunteers for their effort.

Jury Assistance: Mylène Ragon

Without you all, there would be no Go Short!

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GO SHORT 2010 Shorts allow you to move around freely and explore. This goes for filmmakers as well as film buffs. For a filmmaker every short can be a new beginning, for you it can be a new discovery. We have selected a wide variety of quality short films for the Go Short program. A single block of films can easily have you laughing, crying, trembling and relaxing in quick succession. Whatever block you choose, there will always be a short there that fits you perfectly. Go Short! Competition Program The competition program is the backbone of Go Short. The 110 shorts selected for the competition give an impression of the diversity and high quality of European short filmmaking at this very moment. There are separate screening blocks for FICTION, ANIMATION, DOCUMENTARY and THE LABO. Dutch shorts are featured throughout these blocks and in the DUTCH COMPETITION. A selection of student films is presented by Breaking Ground in the student competition BREAKING SHORTS. In Focus Besides the competition program, there are several focus programs. Our special guest Simon Ellis, who made a big impact with the multiple award winning short Soft (UK, 2007), will present his young but already impressive body of work. In the WIDE AWAKE program we will focus on Romanian cinema, which is doing better than ever before. Surprisingly, the European country with the lowest cinema attendance has become a main supplier for film festivals around the world. We will explore the past and present of the future in SHORT INVADERS, a program dedicated to science fiction. Classic films by Georges Méliès and George Lucas will be shown along with recent sci-fi shorts. You can also get your kicks at GOAL! With the World Cup coming up, we just couldn’t wait to put on some football shorts.

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Go Expo Visit the Go Short Expos to refresh your senses. Just step outside arthouse LUX to see the window projections. Go underground in the CBKN fallout shelter where ArtEZ students present their latest work. Just around the corner you can visit Extrapool where multimedia artists shed a different light on filmmaking. Talent at Work Go Short gives talented filmmakers of all ages the opportunity to make films and showcase their work at the festival. HKU presents outstanding shorts from their film students. Teams of filmmakers produce a film in just two days for THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT. Student filmmakers will be working on a short documentary on the GO SHORT STUDENT CAMPUS. An international group of young people will learn the ins and outs of animation-making at ODDSTREAM. During MEESTERMAKERS, experienced animators will pass their knowledge on to newcomers. Many of these activities are also open to the public. More information, trailers, festival reports and an online competition on our website: www.goshort.nl

Connect with Go Short on twitter: @goshortfilmfest

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Connect with Go Short on twitter: @goshortfilmfest

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GO SHORT AMBASSADORS AT WORK The mysterious bus trip of a woman wearing a burqa, a loud kaleidoscopic animation, an interdisciplinary experience that defines the end of celluloid, or the renewal of education in the Chinese outback. These are just a few topics within the shorts program at the Rotterdam film festival. The cinematographic connoisseur must consider himself lucky with these film gems at the festival. Is that the reason that Waldemar, Isolde and Danyael are present? Not really, to be honest. The three of them couldn’t make the time to watch some of these little pearls. That is why they are coming to Nijmegen. But they were there, in Rotterdam. A good opportunity to ask them a few questions about their ambassadorship at out our own Go Short.

It proves that it’s not an easy task to get a hold of them. Isolde is running back and forth, busy with her television program. Filmmaker Danyael and actor Waldemar are only briefly seen at the premiere of a Dutch film. However, all three of them can spare a few moments of their time to shed some light upon the second edition of Go Short.

Waldemar was with us from the beginning, so his return this year can only mean he enjoyed himself? “Oh yes, certainly. Especially since I recognize the passion of the people behind the scenes. But it’s nice to have some support from Isolde and Danyael this year.`

Waldemar: “The last few months, since the birth of our little girl Robin, things have become more fixed. A time of fatherhood and Zen-practice has arrived. Doing the groceries, cook, changing diapers...” Danyael is new to the festival and doesn’t really know what to expect. “That’s what makes it exciting. You see, in Utrecht en Rotterdam shorts are not part of the main program, all the attention goes to the features. Understandably perhaps. But it’s a good thing that now there is a platform especially for this art form. Not a balancing entry, but a full-grown medium.”

Danyael: “I’m especially interested in the poetry and humanity of the world that surrounds me. I try to transfer that to the silver screen. The black screen is a canvas for the cameraman to paint with light. For me, the audience is my canvas and it’s the emotion that I paint on this ‘screen’.” For Isolde too, it is her first time in Nijmegen in the role of ambassador. Is she excited? “Sure. I have a warm heart for film. And that’s a very good reason to be a part of this. And it’s just as Danyael says, short film is mostly the closing entry, so to speak. I want to reach out and try to change that. The festival is a place where people can inspire one another. In the end it can only enrich you.”

Isolde: “I like to confront challenges and I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself. Self-mockery is essential just like humor. Maybe that’s why people sometimes think I’m a stand-up comedian, which I’m not.”

SOLAR SHORTS At Go Short we love all things short and not just in the short term. For a lively and creative climate, a liveable planet is of primary importance.

CosyMo’s Solar Cinema is Holland’s first mobile cinema that is powered completely by solar energy. Solar panels on the roof of the CosyMo’s Solar Cinema bus supply all the necessary energy to provide power for all of the film equipment. Solar Cinema brings film to the people! In collaboration with CosyMo’s Solar Cinema, Go Short is organizing a sustainable open-air film showing. The Solar Cinema is presented by Ons Groene Hert and Stichting Slimmer. Thu 18/3 | 19:30 – 22:00 | city center | free entrance 8 GO SHORT

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SOLAR SHORTS At Go Short we love all things short and not just in the short term. For a lively and creative climate, a liveable planet is of primary importance.

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THE GO SHORT JURY

Go Short dankt al haar vrienden!

Katharina Liebert (AT)

Sol Bondy (DE)

Martijn Te Pas (NL)

For six years Katharina Liebert has been part of the leading team of the Vienna Independent Shorts film festival. She has worked as a coordinator for film projects in Austria and Ireland and has curated numerous short film programs for international festivals and several arthouse cinemas.

Sol Bondy is the winner of last years Breaking Shorts Award. He studied film production at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. His shorts have been shown at festivals worldwide and have received many prizes. This summer he will shoot his first feature film.

Martijn te Pas coordinates the program department of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Te Pas is also the documentary adviser of the Dutch Mediafund, which gives out grants to stimulate the development and production of cultural radio and television programs.

Marina Blok (NL)

Martijn van Boven (NL)

Mihai Mitrica (RO)

As Head of Drama at NPS Television Marina Blok is responsible for series like Dunya & Desie, Flow, Waltz and Annie MG. She also co-produced several arthouse and youth films (e.g. Katia’s Little Sister, Can Go Through Skin, Iep). Together with colleagues from VARA and VPRO, she started talent programs such as One Night Stand. She has a soft spot for short films and has been in charge of Kort! since 2000.

The work of Martijn van Boven lies in the field of experimental film and computer art. He studied at the Image and Sound department of the Royal Art Academy in The Hague. His work has been shown at numerous festivals worldwide and includes a wide variety of video installations, films, collaborations with composers and performances. Van Boven works as a freelance film & video curator and he teaches audiovisual Design at ArtEZ.

Mihai Mitrica has been the director of Anim’est – Bucharest Animation International Film Festival since 2006. He has taken part in the organization of several festivals. He is a connoisseur of Romanian cinema and he has a keen interest in the European film and festival culture.

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THE GO SHORT JURY

Go Short dankt al haar vrienden!

Katharina Liebert (AT)

Sol Bondy (DE)

Martijn Te Pas (NL)

Marina Blok (NL)

Martijn van Boven (NL)

Mihai Mitrica (RO)

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THE BREAKING SHORTS JURY

Bram Schouw (NL)

Chris Mouw (NL)

Paul Negoescu (RO)

Bram Schouw is commercial director of Hazazah Film Amsterdam and directed the award winning commercials Together We Can and Sensoor. His short film Impasse (2008) won the NFTVM Vers! Award for young Dutch filmmakers and is still shown worldwide as part of the feature film Stories on Human Rights.

Chris Mouw studied Film and Television Studies at the University of Utrecht. During her time there she was introduced to il Luster Productions, the largest producer for independent animation in the Netherlands. In 2007, she started working as their festival coordinator. Currently, she is also producer, focusing on the production for animation shorts.

Paul Negoescu directed several shorts that have been selected and awarded at many international film festivals (Berlinale, Rotterdam, London BFI, Slamdance). His film Renovation (2009) was nominated at the European Film Academy Awards in 2009. He is also the artistic director of the Timishort Film Festival.

OPENING NIGHT Join us for the opening program on Wednesday 17 March. After the official opening you, the public, can stroll the red carpet and see a selection of this year’s films. You will surely recognize actor Waldemar Torenstra from the Go Short billboards and his appearance in features, in theatre and on television. Tonight we see him at his best in Drop Dead (NL, 2009) by Arne Toonen, a funny short made for the NPS Kort! project. We will screen Patrick Eklunds latest masterpiece, Seeds of The Fall (SE, 2009). His short Instead of Abracadabra was selected for last year’s festival and is now an Oscar nominee! Breaking Ground presents the student film The Package (DE, 2009) by Marco Gadge. The program also includes Telling Lies (UK, 2001) by our special guest Simon Ellis, the documentary The Herd (IE, 2008) by Ken Wardrop, a little gem about the arrival of a strange animal amongst the herd of Limousin cattle on a farm, and Missing (NL, 2009), an intimate film about a troubled relationship between a mother and her daughter by Jochem de Vries. Wed 17/3 | 21:00 | LUX 5 | € 8

NPS SELECTION If you are overwhelmed by the selection of films, don’t feel like sifting through timetables or simply don’t have the time to watch the previews on the website, don’t worry! You can let us treat you to the best shorts. Just sit back and relax, as NPS has made an afternoon-filling selection of shorts from the Go Short 2010 program. Which films are shown will be a surprise, but we promise you it will be diverse and exciting! NPS has a long history of short film projects such as Kort!, New Arrivals, One Night Stand and Micromovies. With such an enduring dedication to short film culture, Go Short is proud to have NPS as a partner. Sun 21/3 | 12:00 | LUX 6 | € 15 / € 12

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THE BREAKING SHORTS JURY

Bram Schouw (NL)

Chris Mouw (NL)

Paul Negoescu (RO)

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AWARD NIGHT

The euphoric moment of every film festival. Put on your best outfit and don’t forget to slip that cheat sheet in your pocket just in case that award goes to you. This is the time to put the best shorts of Go Short 2010 in the limelight. For the second year in a row, NPS is proud to be the spotlight operator at a time when outstanding filmmakers are coming to the fore. The NPS/Go Short Awards for Best Short Film are presented in the categories Fiction, Documentary, Animation and The

Labo. The Audience Award is presented by regional broadcaster Omroep Gelderland. The best European student film will receive the Breaking Shorts Award. This barrage of awards continues, as the winners of the Dutch and Online Competition receive an award. At the ensuing Award Party you can join the winners on the dance floor. DJ Slowpoke will be there to make sure this night will not be a short one!

AWARD SHOW + PARTY: Sat 20/3 | 21:00 | LUX 7 | € 8 PARTY: Sat 20/3 | around 22:30 | LUX 7 | € 5

SUNDAY PROGRAM On the day after the awards there is no competition program. A good opportunity to present the best shorts of Go Short 2010 in a new context. There will be several thematic blocks and best of programs. Check the program schedule for screening times.

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AWARD NIGHT

AWARD SHOW + PARTY: Sat 20/3 | 21:00 | LUX 7 | € 8 PARTY: Sat 20/3 | around 22:30 | LUX 7 | € 5

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

FICTION

Where people come together, new ways to communicate will always develop. There are more ways of living then we could ever imagine. These shorts will hit all your emotional chords. Good Advice

FICTION 1:

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Hanoi – Warsaw / Hanoi – Warszawa

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz | Poland | 2009 | 35mm | 30’ | Dutch premiere

A young Vietnamese woman, Mai Anh, illegally enters Poland through the green border with Ukraine. Now she only has to reach Warsaw, where she will join her boyfriend and start her dreamed life. But the journey through Poland turns into a journey of humiliation and violence. Production: Joanna Rozen / Script: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz / Photography: Andrzej Wojciechowski / Editing: Andrzej Dabrowski / Cast: Thu Ha Mai, Le Thanh Hung, Michał Podsiadło, Viet Dung a.o.

Missing / Missen

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Jochem de Vries | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 12’

A 7-year old girl is taken to school by her mother. Today the young girl will go on a school trip with her class. In everything we feel that bringing her daughter to school isn’t a very ordinary occasion for the mother. Production: Reinette van de Stadt / Script: Jochem de Vries / Photography: Remko Schnorr / Editing: Manuel Rombley / Cast: Lotje Molin, Gitta Fleuren / Website: www.jochemdevries.nl

Good Advice / Goda Råd

Andreas Tibblin | Sweden | 2008 | 35mm | 15’

10-year old Rasmus is tired of his parents never listening to him and decides to run away from home. But before leaving he records a cassette tape with different advice on how to handle life. His mother is pregnant and he plans to leave the tape for his unborn brother. Production: Mikael Flodell / Script: Andreas Tibblin / Photography: Paul Evans / Editing: Stephan Walfridsson / Cast: Sofia Helin, Magnus Krepper, Styrbjörn Roald

Believe

Paul Wright | United Kingdom | 2009 | 35mm | 20’ | Dutch premiere

Believe is the story of Lewis, a man recently widowed following the death of his wife Janice. Unable to accept her death and the reality of life without her, his behavior becomes increasingly distressed and eccentric. Believe captures a desperate journey of undying love, played out against beautifully isolated highland landscapes. Production: Rhianna Andrews / Script: Paul Wright/ Photography: Benjamin Kracun / Editing: Maya Maffioli / Cast: Michael Smiley, Kate Dickie, Paul Thomas Hickey / Website: leroylansaque.blogspot.com

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THU 18/3, 23:00, LUX 3 / FRI 19/3, 19:45, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 19:30, LUX 6

It’s Free for Girls / C’est Gratuit pour les Filles

Claire Burger & Marie Amachoukéli | France | 2009 | 35mm | 23’ | Dutch premiere

In only a few days, Laetitia will have her hairdressing diploma. She and her best friend Yeliz will be able to realize their dream: open a hair salon together. But before taking her exam, Laetitia decides to go to a party. Production: Isabelle Madelaine / Script: Claire Burger & Marie Amachoukéli / Photography: Julien Poupard / Editing: Frédéric Baillehaiche / Cast: Yeliz Alniak, Laetitia Hadri, Vicente Lopez-Lama, Michael Elhen

Jade

Daniel Elliott | United Kingdom | 2009 | 35mm | 16’

Jade, caught in a dilemma of her own making, struggles to choose the right path. It becomes apparent to her, though, that she may have no choice at all. Production: Samm Haillay / Script: Daniel Elliott / Photography: Lol Crawley / Editing: Edd Maggs / Cast: Aisling Loftus, Michael Socha, Jonny Phillips / Website: www.danielelliott.com

Where Is Kim Basinger? / Donde Esta Kim Basinger?

In Chambers / Bak Lukkede Dorer

Marcus and his brother Antoine land in Argentina to celebrate their cousin’s wedding and to discover the pleasures of the capital, Buenos-Aires. Marcus is joyful, while Antoine, who has just been dumped, is completely down. Marcus is well decided to cheer up his little brother.

They’re all inhabitants in this dark and shabby hotel corridor. Pale men, women and children are being collected, dead or alive, by the red- and green-clothed staff. There’s no escape for what’s coming.

Edouard Deluc | France | 2009 | 35mm | 29’ | Dutch premiere

Production: BIZIBI / Script: Edouard Deluc / Photography: Leandro “Negro” Filloy / Editing: Marie-Jo Audiard / Cast: Philippe Rebbot, Yvon Martin

Aleksander Leines Nordaas | Norway | 2008 | 35mm | 10’ | Dutch premiere

Production: Bendik Heggen Strønstad / Script + Editing: Aleksander Leines Nordaas / Photography: Petter Holmern Halvorsen / Cast: Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold, Morten Andresen, Jon Sigve a.o.

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

FICTION

Where people come together, new ways to communicate will always develop. There are more ways of living then we could ever imagine. These shorts will hit all your emotional chords. Good Advice

FICTION 1:

THU 18/3, 21:00, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 11:30, LUX 3

Hanoi – Warsaw / Hanoi – Warszawa

Katarzyna Klimkiewicz | Poland | 2009 | 35mm | 30’ | Dutch premiere

Missing / Missen

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Jochem de Vries | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 12’

Good Advice / Goda Råd

Andreas Tibblin | Sweden | 2008 | 35mm | 15’

Believe

Paul Wright | United Kingdom | 2009 | 35mm | 20’ | Dutch premiere

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FICTION 2:

THU 18/3, 23:00, LUX 3 / FRI 19/3, 19:45, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 19:30, LUX 6

It’s Free for Girls / C’est Gratuit pour les Filles

Claire Burger & Marie Amachoukéli | France | 2009 | 35mm | 23’ | Dutch premiere

Jade

Daniel Elliott | United Kingdom | 2009 | 35mm | 16’

Where Is Kim Basinger? / Donde Esta Kim Basinger?

In Chambers / Bak Lukkede Dorer

Edouard Deluc | France | 2009 | 35mm | 29’ | Dutch premiere

Production: BIZIBI / Script: Edouard Deluc / Photography: Leandro “Negro” Filloy / Editing: Marie-Jo Audiard / Cast: Philippe Rebbot, Yvon Martin

Aleksander Leines Nordaas | Norway | 2008 | 35mm | 10’ | Dutch premiere

Production: Bendik Heggen Strønstad / Script + Editing: Aleksander Leines Nordaas / Photography: Petter Holmern Halvorsen / Cast: Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold, Morten Andresen, Jon Sigve a.o.

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FICTION 3:

THU 18/3, 16:00, LUX 3 / FRI 19/3, 13:45, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 23:00, LUX 3

FICTION 4

Oli’s Wedding / Nunta Lui Oli Amor

Thomas Wangsmo | Norway | 2009 | 35mm | 14’ | Dutch premiere

Five minutes, NOK 2000, everybody’s happy. In a city where young, rich people pay whatever it takes to get what they want, Thomas offers them a service no one else does. Production: Daniel Henriksbø / Script + Editing: Thomas Wangsmo / Photography: Benjamin Loeb / Cast: Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Ida Elise Broch, Mattis Herman Nyquist / Website: www.thomaswangsmo.com/en/films/amor

Mesecina

Sofia Exarchou | Greece | 2009 | 35mm | 30’ | Dutch premiere

“Mesecina”: 1. a music group – they both like it. A music group that doesn’t really exist. 2. a short film about an ill boy who meets a girl or about an ill boy who believes that he can live normally. But he can’t. Genre fiction. Production: Elina Psichou / Script: Dimitris Emmanouilidis / Photography: Dimitris Kasimatis / Editing: Yiannis Chalkiadakis / Cast: Yiannis Papadopoulos, Romanna Lobach, Michalis Sarantis

Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in America. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam with two of his son’s friends. A bittersweet story about scattered families and lonely parents.

Dominique Reding | Belgium | 2009 | 35mm | 23’ | Dutch premiere

In the middle of an afternoon spent blowing up a chicken with his classmates on summer camp, 8-year old Basil meets Mickey at the side of a farm track. Mickey, who isn’t Mickey, will become the plaything of a gang of children who have long ceased to dream. Production: Anthony Rey / Script: Emilie Flament / Photography: Guillaume Vandenberghe / Editing: Laora Bardos / Narration: Dominique Reding / Cast: Philippe Gran’Henry, Albert Chassagne-Baradat

FICTION 4:

Lost Paradise

Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun | France | 2008 | 35mm | 10’ | Dutch premiere

A man and a woman are tenderly making love in a one star hotel room. A moment later when they are both dressed up, the idyll that seamed authentic is now gone. A present-day Adam and Eve story. Production: Pablo Mehler / Script + Editing: Mihal Brezis / Photography: Oded Binnun / Cast: Rotem Zisman Cohen, Moris Cohen / Website: www.odedbinnun.com/lostparadise

THU 18/3, 23:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 22:30, LUX 6 / SAT 20/3, 21:30, LUX 6

Kiss / Kus

Joost van Ginkel | The Netherlands | 2009 | video | 11’

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Bruno finds it very interesting that his father, Daan, routinely wants to shave his beard and head before he leaves on a dangerous military mission in a desert country far away. When Daan offers his son to shave him, Bruno finds it an offer he cannot refuse. Production: Gijs van de Westelaken / Script: Joost van Ginkel / Photography: Rogier den Boer / Editing: Bob Soetekouw / Cast: Koen Bobbelaer, Thijs Römer, Margien van Doesen / Website: www.columnfilm.com

A Blue Dolphin / Sininen Delfiini

Diagnosis

The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy. The film is based on a tale retold by Wilhelm Grimm.

A young couple has moved to an old timber house with their small child. It’s winter, the house is cold and the shower only works on the porch. For a few days, their dreams are being tested. To ask whether we’re lonely or unfaithful is not relevant. The question is: “Who wanted this?”

The story of a pregnant woman. The identity of the child’s father is unimportant. The young woman lives with two men in a run-down part of Kiev in a house due for demolition. After a police raid the woman winds up in hospital where she gives birth to her child prematurely

Production: Aleksi Bardy / Script: Anna Maria Hutri / Photography: Mark Stubbs / Editing: Joona Louhivuori / Cast: Jessica Grabowsky, Tuomas Rinta-Pantilla

Production + Script: Mykhaylo Slaboshpytskiy / Photography: Valentyn Melnychenko / Editing: Oleksiy Salov / Cast: Karina Belova, Maksym Kushov, Olexandr Semyshkur, Volodymyr Gubernachuk

Production, script: Hrönn Kristinsdóttir / Photography: Tuomo Hutri / Editing: Kristján Lodmgjord / Cast: Beate Bile, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson

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Whilst delivering a TV to her sick grandmother, a little girl discovers that the adult world can be a dangerous place. Production: Carolynne Sinclair Kidd / Script: Joern Utkilen / Photography: Ole Bratt Birkeland / Editing: Colin Monie / Cast: Kazmin Borrer, Kezia Doran

FRI 19/3, 20:30, LUX 6 / SAT 20/3, 13:30, LUX 6

Dolor / Harmsaga

Joern Utkilen | United Kingdom | 2009 | video | 15’

Production: Bogdan Craciun / Script: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu / Photography: Andrei Butica / Editing: Filip Muresan / Cast: Adrian Titieni, Alexandru Gatstramb, George Costea, Ioan Cortea

FICTION 5:

Full On / Le Plein d’Aventure

Little Red Hoodie

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Ukraine | 2009 | 35mm | 15’ | Dutch premiere

The Ballad of Marie Nord and Her Clients / Balladen om Marie Nord och Hennes Klienter Alexander Onofri | Sweden | 2008 | 35mm | 29’ | Dutch premiere

Marie is a social worker in an immigrant-dense suburb. In addition to her normal job she runs a youth centre, leads courses and is a parole officer for young Belem, who has served time in a correctional centre. A drama where passion, altruism, crime and hidden racism are intertwined. Production: Göran Lindström / Script: Kerstin Gezelius / Photography: Axel Lindahl / Editing: Håkan Karlsson / Cast: Sofia Helin, Miguel Gatsinzi, Jimmy Endeley, Jovanna Remaeus-Jönson a.o.

Seeds of the Fall / Slitage

Patrik Eklund | Sweden | 2009 | 35mm | 17’ | Dutch premiere

Middle-aged couple Rolf and Eva live in a passionless relationship. They wear and tear at each other and Eva begins to feel sexually frustrated. One night she tries to seduce Rolf. He dismisses her but then something happens that will change their relationship forever. Production: Mathias Fjällström / Script + Editing: Patrik Eklund / Photography: David Grehn / Cast: Jacob Nordenson, Anki Larsson, Daniel Rudstedt, Camilla Larsson a.o. / Website: www.direktorn-fabrikorn.se

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FICTION 3:

THU 18/3, 16:00, LUX 3 / FRI 19/3, 13:45, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 23:00, LUX 3

FICTION 4

Oli’s Wedding / Nunta Lui Oli Amor

Thomas Wangsmo | Norway | 2009 | 35mm | 14’ | Dutch premiere

Mesecina

Sofia Exarchou | Greece | 2009 | 35mm | 30’ | Dutch premiere

Dominique Reding | Belgium | 2009 | 35mm | 23’ | Dutch premiere

FICTION 4:

Lost Paradise

Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun | France | 2008 | 35mm | 10’ | Dutch premiere

THU 18/3, 23:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 22:30, LUX 6 / SAT 20/3, 21:30, LUX 6

Kiss / Kus

Joost van Ginkel | The Netherlands | 2009 | video | 11’

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A Blue Dolphin / Sininen Delfiini

Diagnosis

The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy. The film is based on a tale retold by Wilhelm Grimm.

Production: Aleksi Bardy / Script: Anna Maria Hutri / Photography: Mark Stubbs / Editing: Joona Louhivuori / Cast: Jessica Grabowsky, Tuomas Rinta-Pantilla

Production + Script: Mykhaylo Slaboshpytskiy / Photography: Valentyn Melnychenko / Editing: Oleksiy Salov / Cast: Karina Belova, Maksym Kushov, Olexandr Semyshkur, Volodymyr Gubernachuk

Production, script: Hrönn Kristinsdóttir / Photography: Tuomo Hutri / Editing: Kristján Lodmgjord / Cast: Beate Bile, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson

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FRI 19/3, 20:30, LUX 6 / SAT 20/3, 13:30, LUX 6

Dolor / Harmsaga

Joern Utkilen | United Kingdom | 2009 | video | 15’

Production: Bogdan Craciun / Script: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu / Photography: Andrei Butica / Editing: Filip Muresan / Cast: Adrian Titieni, Alexandru Gatstramb, George Costea, Ioan Cortea

FICTION 5:

Full On / Le Plein d’Aventure

Little Red Hoodie

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | Ukraine | 2009 | 35mm | 15’ | Dutch premiere

The Ballad of Marie Nord and Her Clients / Balladen om Marie Nord och Hennes Klienter Alexander Onofri | Sweden | 2008 | 35mm | 29’ | Dutch premiere

Seeds of the Fall / Slitage

Patrik Eklund | Sweden | 2009 | 35mm | 17’ | Dutch premiere

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

DOCUMENTARY

Where the veneer cracks and real beauty shines through. These short docs will take you all over the world and make you relate to people in everyday as well as unexpected situations. Visiting Day

DOCUMENTARY 1:

THU 18/3, 21:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 13:00, LUX 2

Anders & Harri

Wagah

Anders and Harri are best friends and share an interest in music. Anders is also very fond of trains. They decide to go to Getå, where the biggest train-accident in Sweden took place in 1918. Suddenly, there is music in the air. A film about friendship, fears and trains.

Each night, the only border crossing between India and Pakistan, on a 3323km stretch, becomes the sight of an extraordinary event. Thousands of people gather to witness the ritual closing of the border, after which the masses get as close as possible to the gate to greet their former neighbors.

Production: Åsa Blanck / Photography: Johan Palmgren / Editing: David Ricci / Cast: Anders Wieslander, Harri Raatikainen

Production: DETAiLFILM / Script: Supriyo Sen / Photography: Ranu Ghosh / Editing: Szilvia Ruszev

Notes on the Other

Today Is Yesterday and Tomorrow / Heute Ist Gestern und Morgen

Åsa Blanck & Johan Palmgren | Sweden | 2008 | 35mm | 13’ | Dutch premiere

Sergio Oksman | Spain | 2009 | 35mm | 13’

Each summer, a crowd of Ernest Hemingway doubles meet in Florida to choose his best impersonator. There was a day in 1924 when the real Hemingway also wanted to be someone else. Notes on the Other is the story of this hypothesis. Production + Editing: Sergio Oksman / Script: Carlos Muguiro / Photography: Daniel Sosa / Narration: Jef Espinoza / Website: www.notesontheother.com

Supriyo Sen | Germany/India | 2009 | 35mm | 14’

Taking care of Grandma Ilse is a very difficult job. Bogumila is able to manage their common life even when situations get really tough. But the Polish housekeeper gives more than professional care and Grandma is more than an old lady with Alzheimer’s disease – they are two human beings who became friends.

DOCUMENTARY 2:

THU 18/3, 16:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 11:00, LUX 5

Family 068 / Familia 068

Black Heart

A number is all the information that we can obtain in this documentary. We see a family that lives among hundreds of others in the biggest dump in Nicaragua, La Chureca, where more than 2000 people work every day. Even under the most extreme circumstances, the possibility of happiness, dignity and repulsion to sensationalism exist.

Black Heart is a film about aftermath. It follows three New Yorkers, each struggling with the process of loss. The forth character is New York, as it pulls itself together after the 9/11 tragedy and the scar that has remained.

Production + Editing + Narration: Rubén Margalló / Script + Photography + Animation: Toni Edo / Cast: Marcia, Ana, Wilma and Gonzalo / Website: www.illuster.nl

The Salt Men / Hombres de Sal

Life in the sea is disappearing from our shores... and not just underwater. Production: Antonio L. Sánchez Bermúdez / Script: Manuel Jimenez Nuñez / Photography: Jaime Domech / Editing: Esteban Wiaggio / Cast: Alfonso Esteban, Javier Ruíz Rico, Francisco Núñez

Production: Morten Kjems Juhl / Script + Photography: Ada Bligaard Søby / Editing: Sidse Larsen / Cast: Marina Pavlutskaya, Joshua Lowell Moody, Tim DeWit

Visiting Day

Visiting Day is a short documentary examining the affects of incarceration on the parents of prisoners. Eileen from Limerick and Bobby from Belfast share their stories and their hearts as they both prepare to visit their sons. Should a parent always stand by their child no matter what? Production: David Clarke / Script + Editing: Ciarán Deeney / Photography: JJ Rolfe / Website: www.elzorrerofilms.ie

Production: Jochen Gaßner / Photography: Axel Schneppat / Editing: Anja Bombelli / Website: www.agdok.de

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DOCUMENTARY

Where the veneer cracks and real beauty shines through. These short docs will take you all over the world and make you relate to people in everyday as well as unexpected situations. Visiting Day

DOCUMENTARY 1:

THU 18/3, 21:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 13:00, LUX 2

Anders & Harri

Wagah

Production: Åsa Blanck / Photography: Johan Palmgren / Editing: David Ricci / Cast: Anders Wieslander, Harri Raatikainen

Production: DETAiLFILM / Script: Supriyo Sen / Photography: Ranu Ghosh / Editing: Szilvia Ruszev

Notes on the Other

Today Is Yesterday and Tomorrow / Heute Ist Gestern und Morgen

Åsa Blanck & Johan Palmgren | Sweden | 2008 | 35mm | 13’ | Dutch premiere

Sergio Oksman | Spain | 2009 | 35mm | 13’

Supriyo Sen | Germany/India | 2009 | 35mm | 14’

DOCUMENTARY 2:

THU 18/3, 16:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 11:00, LUX 5

Family 068 / Familia 068

Black Heart

Production + Editing + Narration: Rubén Margalló / Script + Photography + Animation: Toni Edo / Cast: Marcia, Ana, Wilma and Gonzalo / Website: www.illuster.nl

The Salt Men / Hombres de Sal

Production: Morten Kjems Juhl / Script + Photography: Ada Bligaard Søby / Editing: Sidse Larsen / Cast: Marina Pavlutskaya, Joshua Lowell Moody, Tim DeWit

Visiting Day

Production: Jochen Gaßner / Photography: Axel Schneppat / Editing: Anja Bombelli / Website: www.agdok.de

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DOCUMENTARY 3:

THU 18/3, 15:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 17:00, LUX 2

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Los The Herd

A farmer and his mother discuss the arrival of a strange animal amongst their herd of Limousin cattle. Production: Andrew Freedman / Photography + Editing: Ken Wardrop / Cast: Trevor Wardrop, Ethel Wardrop / Website: www.venom.ie

Edward Cook | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 21’

Pollphail

A creative documentary painting a startling portrait of a village in limbo, through the eyes of two men who share an obsession with the strange place. Director Matthew Lloyd explores the imagined future for the village, combining unusual use of archive with stunning photography and a haunting soundscape.

The ferry that has been sailing daily between Stockholm and Helsinki since 1959, is known for the heavy drinking that goes on, encouraged by the tax-free shops, bars and discotheques on board. Here, the usually introverted Scandinavians cut loose in a way that is incomprehensible to outsiders.

Christian Sønderby Jepsen | Denmark | 2008 | video | 38’

How can you live side by side with someone and not have spoken a word for more than 15 years? And what kind of conflict can have been so bad that you plant not just one, but 4 hedges between your gardens? Production: Jesper Jack / Photography: Niels Thastum / Editing: Rasmus Stengaard Madsen

Left Behind / Was Übrig Bleibt

Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein | Germany | 2008 | video | 13’

In Waldenburg, situated in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek are illegally digging for the black gold at their own risk. The miners have been trapped in the tunnels several times and the local police is constantly after them. But they keep going. Production + Script + Editing: Fabian Daub, Andreas Gräfenstein / Photography: Ulf Behrens / Narration: Frau Mayer / Animation: Vadim Schäffler / Website: www.wasuebrigbleibt.de

DOCUMENTARY 4:

Photograph of Jesus

Laurie Hill | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 7’

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own. Production: Basil Stephens / Photography + Editing + Animation: Laurie Hill / Narration: Matthew Butson / Cast: Matthew Butson, David L. Hayles

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Mum / Mam

Adelheid Roosen | The Netherlands | 2009 | video | 13’

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Now that my mother has developed Alzheimer’s Disease, I don’t see her dissolve, I see her appear. Production + Script: Adelheid Roosen / Photography + Editing: Bart Majoor / Website: www.femaleeconomy.nl

Locheng, a young goatherd in northern Uganda, yearns to be able to read and write. But the odds are stacked against him. Forty years ago, tribal elders buried a pen, placing a curse on the written word. Production + Script + Photography: Carol Salter / Editing: Emiliano Battista / Website: www.unearthingthepen.com

DOCUMENTARY 5

Vision

The Shutdown

In 2003 Kristof thought he was the son of God. When he found out it was a psychosis, the disillusion was huge. After the crisis, Kristof lived in a void searching for the sense of life. Director Ilke de Vries filmed his therapy sessions and presented them as a triptych.

Alan Bissett recalls the intense experience of growing up next to one of Europe’s largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that temporarily deformed his father.

lke de Vries | Belgium | 2009 | HD | 16’

Production: Alan Quireyns / Script + Editing: Ilke De Vries / Website: www.ilkedevries.com

DOCUMENTARY 5:

THU 18/3, 16:15, LUX 6 / FRI 19/3, 19:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 19:00, LUX 2

Carol Salter | United Kingdom | 2009 | HD | 12’

Production: Marc Thelosen / Script: Edward Cook / Photography: Vladas Naudzius / Editing: Luce van de Weg

Production: Carina Wilson / Photography: Minttumaari Mäntynen / Editing: Timo Langer / Website: www.producingclarity.com

Side By Side

Unearthing the Pen

Adam Stafford | United Kingdom | 2009 | HD | 10’

Production: Peter Gerard, Leo Bruges / Script + Narration + Cast: Alan Bissett / Photography + Editing: Leo Bruges / Website: www.accidental.tv/shutdown

THU 18/3, 19:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 23:00, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 21:15, LUX 5

Bye Bye C’est Fini

Nyarma

Who says the fun stops just because you get older? Not 73-year old Lina Merceis, who leisurely strolls the beaches of Rio De Janeiro by day and entertains scores of young lovers by night. Unrestricted by the tradition of monogamous relationships or marriage, Lina’s carefree lifestyle disproves preconceptions on aging.

The film is about everyday life of reindeer-breeders of the polar Ural mountain region of Russia. The 17-year old farmer Gosha owns at his rather young age a rather big deer farming. A film portrait, film-destiny of the human and silent melody of mankind.

Tora Martens | Sweden | 2008 | video | 15’

Production + Script + Editing: Tora Mårtens / Photography: Niklas Nyberg / Cast: Lina Merceis / Website: www.toramartens.com

Production: Alexey Telnov / Script: Edgar Bartenev / Photography: Alexandr Filippov / Editing: Svetlana Pechenyh / Website: www.cinedoc.ru

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DOCUMENTARY 3:

THU 18/3, 15:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 17:00, LUX 2

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Los The Herd

Edward Cook | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 21’

Pollphail

Christian Sønderby Jepsen | Denmark | 2008 | video | 38’

Left Behind / Was Übrig Bleibt

Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein | Germany | 2008 | video | 13’

DOCUMENTARY 4:

Photograph of Jesus

Laurie Hill | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 7’

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Mum / Mam

Adelheid Roosen | The Netherlands | 2009 | video | 13’

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DOCUMENTARY 5

Vision

The Shutdown

Alan Bissett recalls the intense experience of growing up next to one of Europe’s largest petrochemical plants and the harrowing experience of an explosion that temporarily deformed his father.

lke de Vries | Belgium | 2009 | HD | 16’

Production: Alan Quireyns / Script + Editing: Ilke De Vries / Website: www.ilkedevries.com

DOCUMENTARY 5:

THU 18/3, 16:15, LUX 6 / FRI 19/3, 19:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 19:00, LUX 2

Carol Salter | United Kingdom | 2009 | HD | 12’

Production: Marc Thelosen / Script: Edward Cook / Photography: Vladas Naudzius / Editing: Luce van de Weg

Production: Carina Wilson / Photography: Minttumaari Mäntynen / Editing: Timo Langer / Website: www.producingclarity.com

Side By Side

Unearthing the Pen

Adam Stafford | United Kingdom | 2009 | HD | 10’

Production: Peter Gerard, Leo Bruges / Script + Narration + Cast: Alan Bissett / Photography + Editing: Leo Bruges / Website: www.accidental.tv/shutdown

THU 18/3, 19:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 23:00, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 21:15, LUX 5

Bye Bye C’est Fini

Nyarma

Tora Martens | Sweden | 2008 | video | 15’

Production + Script + Editing: Tora Mårtens / Photography: Niklas Nyberg / Cast: Lina Merceis / Website: www.toramartens.com

Production: Alexey Telnov / Script: Edgar Bartenev / Photography: Alexandr Filippov / Editing: Svetlana Pechenyh / Website: www.cinedoc.ru

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

ANIMATION

Where acting doesn’t matter because the matter does the acting. Paper, clay and digital particles connect to each other in diverse ways to stimulate your imagination.

ANIMATION 1:

FRI 19/3, 21:45, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 13:30, LUX 3

Variety / Variété

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Roelof van den Bergh | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 5’

A plate spinning act pictures our modern lives; deceptively simple as we start, but as we grow older the demands on our attention increase. Like the spinning plates, everybody around us needs our attention. Choreographed to the invigorating music of Khachaturian, the act rushes towards the inevitable. Production: Arnoud Rijken / Animation: Roelof van den Bergh / Website: www.illuster.nl

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Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society

Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest | The Netherlands | 2009 35mm | 15’

In Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society, ant Red-End differs from the rest and tries an experiment. Production: Erik Schut / Script + Editing + Animation: Robin Noorda / Website: www.rocketta.nl

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The Man in the Blue Gordini

Madagascar, a Journey Diary / Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage

Chicory ‘n’ Coffee / Cikorja an’ Kafe

The Man Who Slept / L’Homme Qui Dort

Bastien Dubois | France | 2009 | 35mm | 12’ | Dutch premiere

A story about a small deception. The wife has been making Chicory for her ruffian husband, instead of real Coffee for all their lives. He has never caught on to the deception. For him the slush tasted better than the best coffee.

A young woman shares her life with a sleeping ghost. She lives in denial of a loss that has left her all alone. This vibrantly textured animated film is a work about resilience, a journey to night’s end that culminates in an awakening.

Famadihana, custom Malagasy, which means ‘reversal of the deaths’, gives place to important festivities, dances and sacrifices of zebus, but especially demonstrates the importance of the ancient’s cult in the Malagasy society. The story is told in a journey diary, re-drawing the trip of a European traveler

Dušan Kastelic | Slovenia | 2008 | 35mm | 8’ | Dutch premiere

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Dušan Kastelic / Narration: Iztok Mlakar / Cast: Uros Hohkravt, Cory Collins / Website: www.bugbrian.com/chicory

Production: Ron Dyens / Script + Animation: Bastien Dubois / Editing: Boubkar Benzabat

Logorama

Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up...

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city and even more in Logorama!

Production: Marc Jousset / Script + Animation: Stephanie Lansaque / Animation: Francois Leroy / Cast: Amanda Sun / Website: leroylansaque.blogspot.com

Production: Ron Dyens / Script: Inès Sedan / Editing: Natacha Dufaux Animation: Patrick Cohen

ANIMATION 2

Mei Ling

Stephanie Lansaque & Francois Leroy | France | 2009 | 35mm | 15’

Sedan Inès | France | 2009 | 35mm | 12’ | Dutch premiere

H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain) | France | 2009 | 35mm | 16’ | Dutch premiere

Edouard Salier | France | 2009 | 35mm | 17’ | Dutch premiere

Four letters. 400 000 possibilities. Only one is real. Production: Nicolas Schmerkin / Script + Editing: Edouard Salier / Photography: Antoine Gallais Billaud / Animation: Julien Rancoeur / Website: www.edouardsalier.com

Production: Nicolas Schmerkin / Script + Animation: H5 / Editing: Sam Danesi / Cast: Bob Stephenson, Sherman Augustus, Aja Evans, Joel Michaely a.o. / Website: www.logorama-themovie.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

ANIMATION

Where acting doesn’t matter because the matter does the acting. Paper, clay and digital particles connect to each other in diverse ways to stimulate your imagination.

ANIMATION 1:

FRI 19/3, 21:45, LUX 3 / SAT 20/3, 13:30, LUX 3

Variety / Variété

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Roelof van den Bergh | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 5’

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Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society

Robin Noorda & Bethany de Forest | The Netherlands | 2009 35mm | 15’

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The Man in the Blue Gordini

Madagascar, a Journey Diary / Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage

Chicory ‘n’ Coffee / Cikorja an’ Kafe

The Man Who Slept / L’Homme Qui Dort

Bastien Dubois | France | 2009 | 35mm | 12’ | Dutch premiere

Dušan Kastelic | Slovenia | 2008 | 35mm | 8’ | Dutch premiere

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Dušan Kastelic / Narration: Iztok Mlakar / Cast: Uros Hohkravt, Cory Collins / Website: www.bugbrian.com/chicory

Production: Ron Dyens / Script + Animation: Bastien Dubois / Editing: Boubkar Benzabat

Logorama

Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city and even more in Logorama!

Production: Marc Jousset / Script + Animation: Stephanie Lansaque / Animation: Francois Leroy / Cast: Amanda Sun / Website: leroylansaque.blogspot.com

Production: Ron Dyens / Script: Inès Sedan / Editing: Natacha Dufaux Animation: Patrick Cohen

ANIMATION 2

Mei Ling

Stephanie Lansaque & Francois Leroy | France | 2009 | 35mm | 15’

Sedan Inès | France | 2009 | 35mm | 12’ | Dutch premiere

H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain) | France | 2009 | 35mm | 16’ | Dutch premiere

Edouard Salier | France | 2009 | 35mm | 17’ | Dutch premiere

Production: Nicolas Schmerkin / Script + Animation: H5 / Editing: Sam Danesi / Cast: Bob Stephenson, Sherman Augustus, Aja Evans, Joel Michaely a.o. / Website: www.logorama-themovie.com

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ANIMATION 2:

THU 18/3, 22:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 15:00, LUX 5

Pivot

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André Bergs | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 5’

When a man is a witness to a murder and takes pictures of the killer, he has to run for his life. During the chase he is able to turn the tables and the prey becomes the hunter. All resulting in an unfortunate ending. Production: Chris Mouw / Script: Jan Eduards / Animation: Arno de Grijs / Website: pivotthemovie.com

The Man in the Blue Gordini / L’Homme à la Gordini Jean-Christophe Lie | France | 2009 | video | 10’

At the end of the 70’s in an imaginary suburb, the custom is to wear neither underwear nor trousers, only orange tops. With the help of a masked rebel driving a blue R8 Gordini, Mister R and his wife plot a radical clothing revolution and the assault of monochromic orange totalitarianism.

ANIMATION 3:

THU 18/3, 22:30, LUX 6 / FRI 19/3, 14:45, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 23:00, LUX 2

Sunday Drive / Passeio De Domingo

The Black Dog’s Progress

Can you keep a secret? This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car, mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.

The Black Dog, unwanted by his owner, is thrown out into an unwelcoming neighborhood. On his journey he’s corrupted by acts of violence and grows determined to live happily ever after back home. Unfortunately, mother has different plans and his story ends in tragedy.

José Miguel Ribeiro | Portugal | 2009 | 35mm | 20’

Production: Luís da Matta Almeida a.o. / Script: Virgilio Almeida / Photography: Marijke Van Kets / Editing: João Camplon / Animation: Elmer Kaan a.o.

Production: Christophe Jankovic / Script + Animation: Jean-Christophe Lie / Editing: Céline Kélepikis / Cast: Patrick Hauthier, Marion Ducamp, Joël Pyrène, Daniel Crumb / www.primalinea.com/gordini

Wings and Oars

Lost and Found

A former pilot looks back on his life – The Earth, the Sky, the Woman – everything that took place on the journey from an airstrip to an abandoned boat house.

A magical tale of loneliness and friendship based on the award-winning book by Oliver Jeffers. One day, a boy finds a penguin on his doorstep and decides to take it home... even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole.

Vladimir Leschiov | Latvia | 2009 | video | 6’

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Vladimir Leschiov / Website: www.lunohod.lv

Philip Hunt | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 24’

Production: Sue Goffe / Script: Philip Hunt / Narration: Jim Broadbent / Website: www.studioaka.com

English Lessons

English Lessons is an animated English language course, which recycles a 70’s edition of an English audio course. In eight lessons one can learn, in addition to the English language, important things about studying, dynamics between the sexes and money. This film is not suitable for children. Production: CHRZU / Script + Editing + Animation: Turun Anikistit Collective / Narration: Linguaphone English Language Course / Cast: Ayaka Mohri, Mikko Pitkäniemi, Simo Ruotsalainen, André Peterdi / Website: www.anikistit.net

Guliver

Guliver is standing still as a centerpiece of the Universe, the Sun and the Moon. He’s a sign of awe for the Lilliputians who approach him slowly to start building their civilization by using his tied body as it’s backbone, the centre of their world. Production: Goce Vaskov / Script: Zdenko Basic / Editing: Marjeta Lisac / Narration: Pero Kvrgic / Animation: Manuel Sumberac / Website: www.guliver2009.com

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Stephen Irwin | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 3’

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Stephen Irwin / Website: www.smalltimeinc.com

The Suprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother

Felix Massie | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 7’

The story of Francis Cooper and his mother; Emily Maddison and that man’s face; and Craig MacKay and his cat. Production: Sarah Cox / Script + Animation: Felix Massie / Editing: Matt Purgaus / Cast: Alexie Sayle / Website: worldofarthurcox.com

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The Gang of Lidingö / Lindingöligan

Please Say Something

When all is shrouded in fog and lost in the shadows of the memory, figures alternate in a world where signs and images are darkened. Yet it only takes a tiny spark for a child to undertake an unpredictable journey.

The same day the 70’s became the 80’s we left our tiny flat in the city. We did a turnaround: bought a big house at Lidingö and were suddenly far away from our beloved demonstrations against capitalisms exploitation of the poor.

A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future.

Igor Imhoff | Italy | 2009 | video | 6’

Production + Editing + Animation: Igor Imhoff / Website: www.igorimhoff.eu

Maja Lindström | Sweden | 2009 | video | 28’

David OReilly | Germany | 2009 | 35mm | 10’

Production + Script + Animation: David OReilly / Website: www.davidoreilly.com

Production: Mimmi Spång / Script: Maja Lindström / Editing: Kristofer Nordin / Animation: Lars Nordén / Cast: Liv Mjönes, Hanna Ardéhn, Agnes Kantén, Stephanie Möller a.o.

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ANIMATION 2:

THU 18/3, 22:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 15:00, LUX 5

Pivot

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André Bergs | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 5’

The Man in the Blue Gordini / L’Homme à la Gordini Jean-Christophe Lie | France | 2009 | video | 10’

ANIMATION 3:

THU 18/3, 22:30, LUX 6 / FRI 19/3, 14:45, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 23:00, LUX 2

Sunday Drive / Passeio De Domingo

The Black Dog’s Progress

Can you keep a secret? This Sunday will be different. We will not get into the car, mom and dad will not argue and we will play on a garden of gigantic cabbages.

José Miguel Ribeiro | Portugal | 2009 | 35mm | 20’

Production: Luís da Matta Almeida a.o. / Script: Virgilio Almeida / Photography: Marijke Van Kets / Editing: João Camplon / Animation: Elmer Kaan a.o.

Wings and Oars

Lost and Found

A former pilot looks back on his life – The Earth, the Sky, the Woman – everything that took place on the journey from an airstrip to an abandoned boat house.

Vladimir Leschiov | Latvia | 2009 | video | 6’

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Vladimir Leschiov / Website: www.lunohod.lv

Philip Hunt | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 24’

Production: Sue Goffe / Script: Philip Hunt / Narration: Jim Broadbent / Website: www.studioaka.com

English Lessons

Guliver

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Stephen Irwin | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 3’

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Stephen Irwin / Website: www.smalltimeinc.com

The Suprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother

Felix Massie | United Kingdom | 2008 | video | 7’

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The Gang of Lidingö / Lindingöligan

Please Say Something

A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future.

Igor Imhoff | Italy | 2009 | video | 6’

Production + Editing + Animation: Igor Imhoff / Website: www.igorimhoff.eu

Maja Lindström | Sweden | 2009 | video | 28’

David OReilly | Germany | 2009 | 35mm | 10’

Production + Script + Animation: David OReilly / Website: www.davidoreilly.com

Production: Mimmi Spång / Script: Maja Lindström / Editing: Kristofer Nordin / Animation: Lars Nordén / Cast: Liv Mjönes, Hanna Ardéhn, Agnes Kantén, Stephanie Möller a.o.

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

THE LABO

Where image is everything. The Labo is the room where crazy film scientists develop razzle dazzle imagery to tickle your optic nerves and feed your appetite for adventure.

THE LABO 1:

The Suburb Within

FRI 19/3, 12:45, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 15:00, LUX 3

Interstices

LETSMAKEADEAL

Snapshots of the daily underground traffic, edited to the rhythm of the trains’ automatic doors. A composition of parallel and divergent movements: those of the camera but also of the trains and the scrolling publicity panels. The film addresses the tensions between fiction and reality.

An agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each; “he made a bargain with the devil”; “he rose to prominence through a series of shady deals”; “they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other’s business”.

Production + Script + Editing: Michel Pavlou

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Rafaël / Website: www.leafar.be

Michel Pavlou | Greece/Norway | 2009 | video | 4’

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Give Me Back the Propeller

Dusk

The film Give Me Back the Propeller is an idiosyncratic personal reflection on a mythical image of masculinity in cinema and the clash between cinematic representation and real life.

Dusk is a project in which Erwin Olaf portrays a black family as ‘upper middle class’ at the beginning of the 20th century. A social paradise or an oppressive prison, a story of condescension or hope? Olaf’s photographs and video are inspired by photos by Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Editing: Masha Godovannaya

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Erwin Olaf | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 5’

Production: Shirley den Hartog / Script: Erwin Olaf / Editing: Annelies Scheepens / Cast: Ovo Drenth, Donell Osei

Film for above the Sofa / Film für ubres Sofa

Daniel Kötter & Hannes Seidl | Germany | 2009 | HD | 12’

Martin Kippenberger, Katharina Kellermann and Frank Max Müller accumulate objects. They arrange and rearrange the set, they push, pile up and tear apart. They produce sound, movement, noise, film and music.

Forever for a While

Sara Rajaei | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 8’

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A young woman enters a living room, moments later she is an elderly woman looking at herself in a mirror, or she’s a little girl sitting in a chair. The packed interiors, with sometimes mysterious objects that are being picked up, appear to represent the mind of the main character.

Editing: Daniel Kötter / Cast: Katharina Kellermann, Frank Max Müller / Website: www.stock11.de

Script + Editing: Sara Rajaei

August 2008

Corners

In a spacious, classic-looking room, which could also be the décor for a 1950s movie, a man and a woman are singing to each other. You get the impression that they have not spoken to each other for a long time and are going over the latest events.

Corners represents an attempt to interact with obstacles throughout the city of Vienna. By filming and editing these sequences, one can easily discern a certain flow as all of the elements are integrated into a cohesive challenge in maneuvering around, over, under and through these temporary and permanent urban structures.

Rä Di Martino | Belgium | 2009 | HD | 5’

Derek Roberts | Austria | 2008 | video | 11’

Production + Editing: Derek Roberts

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

THE LABO

Where image is everything. The Labo is the room where crazy film scientists develop razzle dazzle imagery to tickle your optic nerves and feed your appetite for adventure.

THE LABO 1:

The Suburb Within

FRI 19/3, 12:45, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 15:00, LUX 3

Interstices

LETSMAKEADEAL

Production + Script + Editing: Michel Pavlou

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Rafaël / Website: www.leafar.be

Michel Pavlou | Greece/Norway | 2009 | video | 4’

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Give Me Back the Propeller

Dusk

The film Give Me Back the Propeller is an idiosyncratic personal reflection on a mythical image of masculinity in cinema and the clash between cinematic representation and real life.

Editing: Masha Godovannaya

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Erwin Olaf | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 5’

Production: Shirley den Hartog / Script: Erwin Olaf / Editing: Annelies Scheepens / Cast: Ovo Drenth, Donell Osei

Film for above the Sofa / Film für ubres Sofa

Daniel Kötter & Hannes Seidl | Germany | 2009 | HD | 12’

Forever for a While

Sara Rajaei | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 8’

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Editing: Daniel Kötter / Cast: Katharina Kellermann, Frank Max Müller / Website: www.stock11.de

Script + Editing: Sara Rajaei

August 2008

Corners

Rä Di Martino | Belgium | 2009 | HD | 5’

Derek Roberts | Austria | 2008 | video | 11’

Production + Editing: Derek Roberts

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THE LABO 2:

THU 18/3, 14:45, LUX 2 / FRI 19/3, 15:00, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 19:15, LUX 5

The Suburb Within / Sisäinen Lähiö Pekka Sassi | Finland | 2009 | video | 12’

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called present.” Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Pekka Sassi

THE LABO 3:

FRI 19/3, 17:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 11:00, LUX 2

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Stardust

RE-constructions

While others are quick to declare that film is dead, this film celebrates its dust and scratches, and its magic powers for time and space travel. It is an imaginative plea to preserve our dying celluloid-past and to fight a complete take-over by digital technology.

RE-constructions is a short and compact film about a young couple who are breaking up, and about what happens next. She leaves; he is left waiting. The voice-over, narrated by a man who presumably is already dead, reconstructs how it happened; the images follow his story and loop back to the beginning.

In After the Empire, Elodie Pong orchestrates face-to-face conversations between various late icons of popular culture and political history, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Batman, and Karl Marx.

Martijn Veldhoen | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 6’

After the Empire

Elodie Pong | Switzerland | 2008 | HD | 14’

Production + Script + Editing: Gerda Cammaer

Amsterdam Reconstruction

herspace

White Blindness

Realm 1 Part 1

Amsterdam Reconstruction portrays the city of Amsterdam through a secret visit of the back side scenery.

In her new video work herspace, Berlin artist Ina Wudtke addresses the working conditions of female dj’s, in which Ina Wudtke herself plays the part of four different dj personae, that are interviewed about their work.

White Blindness speaks about trauma, struggle, loss and death. Nina Yuen explains the phenomenon of shell shock or battle fatigue and brings associations with fragility and suffocation while she recounts stories of the fear of impurity and a very detailed ritual for bathing and cleansing a dead body.

In his long-term project, Mohr has built a model for (the visualization of) the processing of incoming images: storing, naming, ordering, structuring, experiencing, sedimentation and erosion. It is a (re)construction of memory, built from 266,144 photographs, taken over a period of 4 years, on different levels of handling. Realm 1 is the product of a first phase in this research.

Archaic Smile

Ketamine - Behind the Light / Ketamin – Hinter dem Licht

Jérôme Schlomoff | France | 2009 | 35mm | 19’ | International premiere

Production: Nathalie Trafford / Editing: Jérôme Schlomoff

Ina Wudtke | Germany | 2008 | DVD | 11’ | Dutch premiere

Production + Script + Narration + Cast: Ina Wudtke / Editing: Evan Franco / Animation: Dick Laurent / Website: www.inawudtke.com

Good Stuff / Hyvä Meininki

Niina Suominen | Finland | 2009 | video | 8’

In this game another one’s loss is no-one’s gain. In the realm of losers, different laws are obeyed and there’s always plenty of good stuff around. All animated food was collected from waste bins. Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Niina Suominen / Website: www.anikistit.net/niina

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n.n. (I don’t want to live like a dove in your kind of europe)

Michel Klöfkorn | Germany | 2009 | HD | 11’ | Dutch premiere

Nina Yuen | The Netherlands | 2008 | HD | 5’

Kurt D’Haeseleer | Belgium | 2008 | HD | 19’

Spikes to deter birds, so-called pigeon stoppers, are brought to life by stop motion technique. On window ledges and billboards, they metamorphose into swarms of technoid insects made of stainless steel and plastic.

An abstract, organic and wavy fabric fills the image. Like a skin or membrane, moving to the rhythm of nervous and minimal sounds, it forms the first and apparently impenetrable film layer. After some time, while the membrane opens and closes, figures appear behind it.

Production: Anna Berger / Animation: Tom Schön

Script + Editing: Kurt D’Haeseleer

Thomas Mohr | The Netherlands | 2008 | HD | 9’

Carsten Aschmann | Germany | 2009 | video | 21’

Driving through the mountains. The sounds of chords, beauty, art and death, echo through the places and elements. The trip ends in the city of Venice, which appears exhausted and deserted. Script + Editing: Carsten Aschmann

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THE LABO 2:

THU 18/3, 14:45, LUX 2 / FRI 19/3, 15:00, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 19:15, LUX 5

The Suburb Within / Sisäinen Lähiö Pekka Sassi | Finland | 2009 | video | 12’

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called present.” Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Pekka Sassi

THE LABO 3:

FRI 19/3, 17:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 11:00, LUX 2

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Stardust

RE-constructions

Martijn Veldhoen | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 6’

After the Empire

Elodie Pong | Switzerland | 2008 | HD | 14’

Production + Script + Editing: Gerda Cammaer

Amsterdam Reconstruction

herspace

White Blindness

Realm 1 Part 1

Amsterdam Reconstruction portrays the city of Amsterdam through a secret visit of the back side scenery.

Archaic Smile

Ketamine - Behind the Light / Ketamin – Hinter dem Licht

Jérôme Schlomoff | France | 2009 | 35mm | 19’ | International premiere

Production: Nathalie Trafford / Editing: Jérôme Schlomoff

Ina Wudtke | Germany | 2008 | DVD | 11’ | Dutch premiere

Production + Script + Narration + Cast: Ina Wudtke / Editing: Evan Franco / Animation: Dick Laurent / Website: www.inawudtke.com

Good Stuff / Hyvä Meininki

Niina Suominen | Finland | 2009 | video | 8’

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n.n. (I don’t want to live like a dove in your kind of europe)

Michel Klöfkorn | Germany | 2009 | HD | 11’ | Dutch premiere

Nina Yuen | The Netherlands | 2008 | HD | 5’

Kurt D’Haeseleer | Belgium | 2008 | HD | 19’

Production: Anna Berger / Animation: Tom Schön

Script + Editing: Kurt D’Haeseleer

Thomas Mohr | The Netherlands | 2008 | HD | 9’

Carsten Aschmann | Germany | 2009 | video | 21’

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EXTRAPOOL: DOING & FRANZEN

ODDSTREAM V: OPEN STUDIO SPEED DATES

FILMMAKERS BRUNCH

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MC: MEESTERMAKERS SHORT ANIMATION

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STUDENT COMPETITION

BREAKING SHORTS

Where the next generation of filmmakers is presented. The student competition is selected and co-produced by Breaking Ground, the platform for European student filmmakers.

BREAKING SHORTS 1:

FRI 19/3, 23:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 13:00, LUX 2

In een Vergeten Moment

Menno Otten | documentary | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 20’

A documentary in which the filmmakers search for forgotten moments. Moments in which we come to a halt in our hectic everyday life and in which we have to surrender ourselves to time. Moments in which we seem to forget the world around us and slowly ascend in our sub consciousness. Production: Derk-Jan Warrink / Photography: Lennart Verstegen / Editing: Saskia Kievits / Film school: Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie / Website: ineenvergetenmoment.filmacademie.nl

Ghost of Icarus

Alberts Vinter / Albert’s Winter

Andreas Koefoed | documentary | Denmark | 2009 | HD | 30’

Albert is at his window watching the snow dance through the cold winter. Eight years old and feeling the pressure of the world. His mother is sick and in chemo therapy. Albert would rather not talk about it. Meanwhile, his parents want him to start choir school. Production: Caroline Blanco / Photography: Niels Thastum / Editing: Jacob Schulsinger / Film school: Den Danske Filmskole

BREAKING SHORTS 3:

THU 18/3, 18:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 13:00, LUX 5

Roëntgen

Anna

1896. The young doctor Georg believes to have found an allround cure for his patients by using the recently discovered X-rays. He gets lost in his research and risks everything. His wife Charlotte wants to overcome the growing estrangement to her husband and is ready for any way to go.

Anna is a 12-year old girl, living in a small fisherman’s village. She is at a crossroad in her life. Her surroundings are changing – and so is she.

Michael Venus | fiction | Germany | 2008 | 35mm | 24’ | Dutch premiere

Production: HMS / Script: Susanna Mewe / Photography: Marius von Felbert / Editing: Hendrik Smith / Cast: Felix Kramer, Sandra Hüller, Kunt Berger, Christoph Tomanek / Film school: Hamburg Media School

Rúnar Rúnarsson | fiction | Denmark | 2009 | 35mm | 35’ | Dutch premiere

Production: Caroline Schlüter / Script: Rúnar Rúnarsson / Photography: Sophia Olsson / Editing: Jacob Schulsinger / Cast: Marie Hammer Boda, Daniel Stampe, Petrine Agger / Film school: Den Danske Filmskole

Narben im Beton / Scars in Concrete

Das Paket / The Package

23-year old Anna is completely overburdened with bringing up her three children. Since her husband had an affair with another woman, right in front of her eyes, she has fallen deeper and deeper into an emotional state of emergency. She silently endures in an attempt to keep the family together.

The two harderned gangsters Klaus and Bernd have to work again. One package. It has to get there in time in this kind of business and the dates should always be kept. But this is not always as easy as it seems.

Juliane Engelmann | fiction | Germany | 2009 | 35mm | 30’ | Dutch premiere

Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln / Script + Editing: Juliane Engelmann / Photography: Sin Huh / Cast: Carmen Birk, Stefan Riedner, Lisa Altenpohl, Maggy Domschke / Film school: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln / Website: www.narben-im-beton.de

Marco Gadge | fiction | Germany | 2009 | 35mm | 9’ | Dutch premiere

Production: Marco Gadge / Script + Editing: René Jacob / Photography: Leif Thomas / Cast: Thomas Dehler, Michael Schrodt / Film school: Fernseh Akademie Mitteldeutschland / Website: www.magentafilm.de

Le Bal de la Gare

Ghost of Icarus is a short experimental film inspired by the city symphony genre and the Soviet montage movement. By connecting the ancient Greek story of Daedalus and Icarus and a trip through a city, questions are raised about the modern way of life.

Augustin Collet was an architect before coming to production design at La Fémis in 2005. After having directed short pixilation footages with the pseudo of Amédé Lamidesmouches, he decides to be a production designer and to continue his activity in experimental animation movies.

Production: HKU / Script + Photography + Editing + Animation: Amos Mulder / Narration: Rafi Metz / Film school: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht / Website: www.amosmulder.com/icarus.html

Production: Elsa Boutault-Caradec / Script: Romain Destresse / Photography: Fabien Drugeon / Editing: Arnaud Ducharne / Cast: Alexandre Cornillon, Marie Plouviez, Zacharie Vos / Film school: La Fémis

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THU 18/3, 14:00, LUX 3 / FRI 19/3, 17:45, LUX 3 SAT 20/3, 18:00, LUX 3

Jacco’s Film

Daan Bakker | fiction | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 18’

Jacco is a scientist, inventor, musician, philosopher, architect and athlete. He lives with his parents because he is still only ten. While his mum and dad argue, Jacco shows us how much he knows about deep sea fish. Is this his way of keeping reality at a safe distance? Production: Derk-Jan Warrink / Script: Daan Bakker / Photography: Robbie van Brussel / Editing: Michelle Hofman / Cast: Micheal Nierse, Mike Meijer / Film school: Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie / Website: www.jaccosfilm.com

Chantier / Under Construction

Pascal, 50, on parole, has turned his back to his tumultuous past only wanting a quiet life. He works as a building worker renovating an old house in the countryside. When Kevin, a young man in trouble, comes to ask him for a job, he gets haunted by his old demons. Production: Benjamin Toussaint / Script + Photography: Damien Dufresne / Editing: Camille Mouton / Cast: Samir Trabelsi, Philippe Duchesnay, Luc Kienzel / Film school: La Femis

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STUDENT COMPETITION

BREAKING SHORTS

Where the next generation of filmmakers is presented. The student competition is selected and co-produced by Breaking Ground, the platform for European student filmmakers.

BREAKING SHORTS 1:

FRI 19/3, 23:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 13:00, LUX 2

In een Vergeten Moment

Menno Otten | documentary | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 20’

Ghost of Icarus

Alberts Vinter / Albert’s Winter

Andreas Koefoed | documentary | Denmark | 2009 | HD | 30’

BREAKING SHORTS 3:

THU 18/3, 18:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 13:00, LUX 5

Roëntgen

Anna

Anna is a 12-year old girl, living in a small fisherman’s village. She is at a crossroad in her life. Her surroundings are changing – and so is she.

Michael Venus | fiction | Germany | 2008 | 35mm | 24’ | Dutch premiere

Rúnar Rúnarsson | fiction | Denmark | 2009 | 35mm | 35’ | Dutch premiere

Narben im Beton / Scars in Concrete

Das Paket / The Package

Juliane Engelmann | fiction | Germany | 2009 | 35mm | 30’ | Dutch premiere

Marco Gadge | fiction | Germany | 2009 | 35mm | 9’ | Dutch premiere

Le Bal de la Gare

Production: HKU / Script + Photography + Editing + Animation: Amos Mulder / Narration: Rafi Metz / Film school: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht / Website: www.amosmulder.com/icarus.html

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THU 18/3, 14:00, LUX 3 / FRI 19/3, 17:45, LUX 3 SAT 20/3, 18:00, LUX 3

Jacco’s Film

Daan Bakker | fiction | The Netherlands | 2009 | 35mm | 18’

Chantier / Under Construction

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BREAKING SHORTS 4:

THU 18/3, 17:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 15:30, LUX 6

Altijd 19

Train of Thought

Ever since 23-year old Wouter van Geyte fell through a roof and landed on his head, he forgets everything that happens. He lives every day in the assumption that he is still 19, that he has a girlfriend and that he is a very ordinary kid who’s good at skating.

In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a man’s sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey.

Production: Leonie Meijer / Photography: Esther Kool / Editing: Sebastiaan van Emmerik / Film school: Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie / Website: www.altijd19.nl

Production + Script + Animation: Leo Bridle, Ben Thomas / Editing: Rachel O’Couceiro / Photography: Kelvin Clayton / Editing: Florence Kennard / Cast: Napoleon Ryan, Marie Thomas Galvin / Film school: The Arts University College Bournemouth / Website: www.train-of-thought-film.com

Life of a Cat

BREAKING SHORTS 5:

THU 18/3, 12:45, LUX 2 / FRI 19/3, 19:00, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 23:15, LUX 5

Hranice / Borders

Noesis

Catharsis

A young mother who is living in the harsh conditions of a wreck yard is forced to give her baby away to a childless, wealthy couple. Not for the money she will gain, but for a better life for her baby, which she never had herself and could possibly never provide either.

Noesis translates the mental process of growing up by the means of ‘imprinting’, ‘growing’ and a papermaché technique. The term ‘noesis’ represents the mental process of acquiring knowledge by means of perception and reasoning. It also describes the mental action of focusing on an object and applying sense to it.

In a world between life and death a little girl embarks on a fateful journey to find her mother...

Production: FAMU / Script: György Kristóf / Photography: Ondrej Belica / Editing: Jan Kulka / Cast: Marie Jansová / Film school: FAMU

Janna & Liv

Janna & Liv is a raging roadmovie about two pregnant women, whose paths involuntarily cross in a packed emergency room. Production: Marcus Olsson / Script: Olivia Demant / Photography: Erik Persson / Editing: Erik Andersson / Cast: Thomas Galvin / Film school: Dramatiska Institutet / Website: www.dramatiskainstitutet.se

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Anders Michael | animation | Denmark | 2008 | DVD | 7’

Production: Caroline Schlüter / Script + Photography + Editing: Anders Michael / Animation: Svend Rothmann Bonde / Cast: Lea Christensen, Ida Dwinger / Film school: Den Danske Filmskole

Krantsid / Strays

Nazeeya is a 24-year old immigrant girl from the Caucasus, who lives in Estonia with her grandfather Jassim and younger brother Emir. Nazeeya has one day to find a man to marry in Estonia before her grandfather Jassim, a devout Muslim man, marries her away to his friend back home. Production: Marianne Ostrat / Script + Editing: Sutharsan “Sui” Bala / Photography: Meelis Veeremets / Cast: Jekaterina Novosjolova, Paulo Kulešov, Ago Soots, Jevgeny Gajchuk / Film school: Baltic Film and Media School

Production: Chris Webster / Script + Photography + Editing + Animation: Sophie Klevenow / Narration: Sascha Mock / Film school: Bristol School of Animation, University of the West of England / Website: www.sophieklevenow.de/noesis

August

Katzleben / Life of a Cat

Flirt

Unwanted visitors disturb the tranquillity of a campsite at the height of summer. While mayhem breaks out on the lawn, a group of ants make brave new discoveries in the grass.

Emma is 20, 40 and 60 years old and is spending 3 different summers in her house at a lake, when all turn into one. Emma has an affair with an older man, is stuck between laundry and toys and feels like 20, because she is in love. What happens when you meet yourself in a different age?

An old house. A young woman. A morning like every other morning. A moment of miracle.

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Matthias Hoegg / Film school: Royal College of Art, Animation Department / Website: www.matthiashoegg.co.uk

Production: Sándor Buglya / Script + Photography: Rita Both / Editing: Zsombor Csont / Cast: Zonga Plájás, Sándor Buglya / Film school: Sapienta University

Production: Elena Duppler / Script: Laura Lackmann Popescu / Photography: Sebastian Fremder / Editing: Henning Groß / Cast: Daniela Schulz, Lisa Adler, Lore Stefanek / Film school: Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie

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BREAKING SHORTS 4:

THU 18/3, 17:00, LUX 5 / FRI 19/3, 15:30, LUX 6

Altijd 19

Train of Thought

In a world made entirely out of paper, the wistful drawings in a man’s sketchbook are brought to life by the rhythm of a train journey.

Production: Leonie Meijer / Photography: Esther Kool / Editing: Sebastiaan van Emmerik / Film school: Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie / Website: www.altijd19.nl

Life of a Cat

BREAKING SHORTS 5:

THU 18/3, 12:45, LUX 2 / FRI 19/3, 19:00, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 23:15, LUX 5

Hranice / Borders

Noesis

Catharsis

In a world between life and death a little girl embarks on a fateful journey to find her mother...

Production: FAMU / Script: György Kristóf / Photography: Ondrej Belica / Editing: Jan Kulka / Cast: Marie Jansová / Film school: FAMU

Janna & Liv

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Anders Michael | animation | Denmark | 2008 | DVD | 7’

Production: Caroline Schlüter / Script + Photography + Editing: Anders Michael / Animation: Svend Rothmann Bonde / Cast: Lea Christensen, Ida Dwinger / Film school: Den Danske Filmskole

Krantsid / Strays

August

Katzleben / Life of a Cat

Flirt

Unwanted visitors disturb the tranquillity of a campsite at the height of summer. While mayhem breaks out on the lawn, a group of ants make brave new discoveries in the grass.

An old house. A young woman. A morning like every other morning. A moment of miracle.

Production + Script + Editing + Animation: Matthias Hoegg / Film school: Royal College of Art, Animation Department / Website: www.matthiashoegg.co.uk

Production: Sándor Buglya / Script + Photography: Rita Both / Editing: Zsombor Csont / Cast: Zonga Plájás, Sándor Buglya / Film school: Sapienta University

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DUTCH COMPETITION

DUTCH COMPETITION 2:

THU 18/3, 20:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 11:30, LUX 6

Drop Dead / Val Dood

Display

Fons is about to embark upon his first parachute jump. What begins as an exciting adventure takes a nightmarish turn, when his instructor shows signs of suicidal behavior.

Mannequin puppets are posing as they have always done: perfectly flawless and beautiful. When a fly intrudes their space, everything starts falling apart.

Production: Hazazah Pictures / Script: Luuk van Bemmelen / Photography: Martijn van Broekhuizen / Editing: Brian Ent / Animation: Crabsalad / Cast: Bert Luppes, Waldemar Torenstra, Micha Hulshof, Eva Duyvestein / Website: www.hazazah.nl

Production: Michiel Snijders / Script + Animation: Lucette Braune / Website: www.lucettebraune.nl

Still Waters / Stille Waters

Arne Toonen | fiction | 2009 | 35mm | 10’

You will find Dutch shorts eligible for this competition throughout the other competition blocks. The shorts presented here accentuate the diversity of Dutch cinema.

DUTCH COMPETITION 1:

Lucette Braune | animation | 2009 | 35mm | 5’

THU 18/3, 18:15, LUX 6 / FRI 19/3, 21:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 21:00, LUX 2

Strike

Myth Labs

Sunset from a Rooftop

Pete Oldman enjoys his life in retirement. When his apartment gets outfitted with a high-tech surveillance system to check upon its residents, Pete’s life takes a turn for the worse. All his guilty pleasures seem to be prohibited and with each transgression a mysterious progress bar is updated with a strike.

Short animation interweaving Puritan visions, folk art, religious allegories and victims of the current Methamphetamine epidemic.

While Belgrade is being hit by NATO-bombings, Ivana is preparing herself in the early evening for a night out and telling her boyfriend the news of her pregnancy.

Production + Script + Photography + Editing + Animation: Martha Colburn / Website: www.marthacolburn.com

Production: Sander Verdonk / Script: Marinus Groothof, Niels Pietersen / Photography: Marc de Meijer / Editing: Brian Ent Cast: Nataša Markovic, Sonja Kolacaric / Website: www.levpictures.com

Dew / Dauw

Den Helder

Barren / Doffer

Dew, a story about love and the lack of it.

The brothers Maarten and Emiel cannot leave their past behind until they come clean with a secret they both carry.

Jonas Klinkenbijl | fiction | 2009 | HD | 13’

Martha Colburn | animation/experimental | 2008 | video | 8’

Marinus Groothof | fiction | 2009 | 35mm | 10’

Jochem de Vries | documentary/experimental | 2009 | video | 12’

During summer nights, many sailing boats cross the canals of Amsterdam. While the city is asleep, a bridge keeper guides them through. Production + Script: Jochem de Vries / Photography: Remko Schnorr Editing: Katarina Turler / Website: www.jochemdevries.nl

Production + Photography: Floris van der Weijden / Script: Jonas Klinkenbijl / Editing: Jaron de Paauw / Animation: Tom Jacobs / Cast: Bert Luppes / Website: www.strikedefilm.com

Joost Meijer | fiction | 2009 | video | 7’

Production: ZiLtd. / Script + Editing: Joost Meijer / Photography: Josje van Erkel / Cast: Kitty Courbois, Jaap Hoogstraten / Website: www.joostmeijer.nl

Jorien van Nes | fiction | 2008 | video | 38’

Production: IDTV Film / Script: Maartje Pompe van Meerdervoort / Photography: Jeroen de Bruin / Editing: Jurjen Blick / Cast: Robert de Hoog, Ward Weemhoff, Teun Kuilboer, Markoesa Hamer / Website: www.idtvfilm.nl

For years the memories of his late wife have haunted 79-year old Kees. As long as their homing pigeons fly in the garden, he is unable to let go of the troubling memories of their marriage. In a final attempt to free himself, he tears down the dovecot. Production: Annick van Wijk / Script + Narration: Saskia Kluit / Photography: Rogier Timmermans / Editing: Geert van Schoot / Animation: Hanneke van der Linden / Website: www.natzand.nl

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Remains / Nagelaten

Aniëlle Webster | fiction | 2009 | video | 14’

An impatient careerist is forced to pick up the old family Volvo from the seventies he has inherited from his father. During the hasty drive back to his office he gets lost and is suddenly confronted with his past by someone very familiar to him. What happened to his childhood dreams? Production + Photography: Jan Moeskops / Script: Aniëlle Webster / Editing: Jasper Quispel / Cast: Barry Atsma, Roman Lodeizen, Guus Dam, Joris Ebbers

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DUTCH COMPETITION

DUTCH COMPETITION 2:

THU 18/3, 20:45, LUX 2 / SAT 20/3, 11:30, LUX 6

Drop Dead / Val Dood

Display

Fons is about to embark upon his first parachute jump. What begins as an exciting adventure takes a nightmarish turn, when his instructor shows signs of suicidal behavior.

Mannequin puppets are posing as they have always done: perfectly flawless and beautiful. When a fly intrudes their space, everything starts falling apart.

Production: Michiel Snijders / Script + Animation: Lucette Braune / Website: www.lucettebraune.nl

Still Waters / Stille Waters

Arne Toonen | fiction | 2009 | 35mm | 10’

You will find Dutch shorts eligible for this competition throughout the other competition blocks. The shorts presented here accentuate the diversity of Dutch cinema.

DUTCH COMPETITION 1:

Lucette Braune | animation | 2009 | 35mm | 5’

THU 18/3, 18:15, LUX 6 / FRI 19/3, 21:00, LUX 5 / SAT 20/3, 21:00, LUX 2

Strike

Myth Labs

Sunset from a Rooftop

Short animation interweaving Puritan visions, folk art, religious allegories and victims of the current Methamphetamine epidemic.

While Belgrade is being hit by NATO-bombings, Ivana is preparing herself in the early evening for a night out and telling her boyfriend the news of her pregnancy.

Production + Script + Photography + Editing + Animation: Martha Colburn / Website: www.marthacolburn.com

Production: Sander Verdonk / Script: Marinus Groothof, Niels Pietersen / Photography: Marc de Meijer / Editing: Brian Ent Cast: Nataša Markovic, Sonja Kolacaric / Website: www.levpictures.com

Dew / Dauw

Den Helder

Barren / Doffer

Dew, a story about love and the lack of it.

The brothers Maarten and Emiel cannot leave their past behind until they come clean with a secret they both carry.

Jonas Klinkenbijl | fiction | 2009 | HD | 13’

Martha Colburn | animation/experimental | 2008 | video | 8’

Marinus Groothof | fiction | 2009 | 35mm | 10’

Jochem de Vries | documentary/experimental | 2009 | video | 12’

Production + Photography: Floris van der Weijden / Script: Jonas Klinkenbijl / Editing: Jaron de Paauw / Animation: Tom Jacobs / Cast: Bert Luppes / Website: www.strikedefilm.com

Joost Meijer | fiction | 2009 | video | 7’

Production: ZiLtd. / Script + Editing: Joost Meijer / Photography: Josje van Erkel / Cast: Kitty Courbois, Jaap Hoogstraten / Website: www.joostmeijer.nl

Jorien van Nes | fiction | 2008 | video | 38’

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Remains / Nagelaten

Aniëlle Webster | fiction | 2009 | video | 14’

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SHORT FOCUS:

SIMON ELLIS

This year’s special guest is Simon Ellis. The Englishman is internationally praised for his films with themes such as fear and love. He also experiments with new media. Besides the shorts Telling Lies (2001) and the much acclaimed Soft (2007), Ellis also directs video clips and TV commercials.

TEN QUESTIONS TO SIMON ELLIS

What do you expect from Go Short? I have no idea what to expect because each festival is so different. I’ve attended many and learned ned to stop expecting. pecting.

What at is the he charm, beauty or excitement tement ment of a short? A short ort can be anything at all; an anecdote or an epic. pic. ic. It could be a technical experiment, a spontaneous ontaneous aneous documentary, or a narrative music ic video. Shorts provide an excellent way to offl ffload the discharge arge of ideas swimming in yourr head, many of which may never make it out. They are so much ch more than a playground for practicing feature which is quite re films, wh a different fferent discipline. e. It isn’t unusual to me that there are great feature film directors who make ke poor shorts, orr vice versa. versa

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Is in n that respect, the he context or running order er of any importance? ance? During ing a film festival, al, where an a audience will see shorts in a programmed programme selection, the running order of such diverse films can make a huge difference to an individual film’s impact and this needs to be considered carefully. I tend to screen my own retrospective programs in chronological order to show the linear progression of my work as a filmmaker, but the resulting selection jumps from one style to another and is not necessarily the most coherent viewing experience.

What is the audience going to see see, that they haven’t seen before in film? I think it’s fair to say that they will wil see quite a selection of flavors. To declare that th I have something they have never seen before b sounds a rather bold statement, so s I would choose to highlight the variety of in the o work w program. There is drama, comedy, animation, come experimental, xperimental, music videos and a touch of documentary. Who or what does get you going? I’m never sure how to answer that question. Perhaps it’s people who question my ability to do something. Also, spending too much time with yourself is awful so it’s essential to stay busy and keep learning. And the company of other creative people and their talent. GO SHORT 41

SHORT FOCUS:

SIMON ELLIS

TEN QUESTIONS TO SIMON ELLIS

What do you expect from Go Short? I have no idea what to expect because each festival is so different. I’ve attended many and learned ned to stop expecting. pecting.

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SIMON ELLIS:

SAT 20/3, 17:00, LUX 5 / SUN 20:00, LUX 3

Bass Invaders

Subterranean Scene Filter

Dying Backwards

An idyllic village in the Scottish highlands is attacked by a giant loudspeaker with a score to settle, but only two men have the earplugs.

The New York Steam Company began providing service in lower Manhattan in 1882.

The beautiful destruction of a Vauxhall Belmont.

Freya

Thousand

What about the Bodies

It’s hectic being three years old.

Recycled scrap footage of video distortion, computer feedback and damaged film compose a rhythmic visual soundscape.

Mystery and misfortune, in spades.

Doing Really Well

10 Again

What The

A short drama about the perils of taking out a mortgage.

Three pre-pubescent tales of unrequited love, unattainable cool and unremarkable bras.

On television, everyone can hear you scream.

A Storm and Some Snow

Telling Lies

Square One

A two-hour electrical storm, in two minutes, accompanied by the piano of Max Richter.

The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil’s day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another.

Hell is round the corner. Life in the slow lane for a harried executive who finds himself looping in the time-space continuum for reasons his conscience can only attempt to fathom.

A Different Ending

I Surrender

Soft

An anti knife crime commercial.

Videoclip for the band Saybia.

A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation at the worst possible time.

music video | 2001 | video | 5’

Soft

What would you say is the basic theme in your work? Miscommunication. A friend who lectures in screenwriting pointed that out to me, about ten years ago, and he was absolutely right. What’s it like to be funny? Almost everybody is always a bit funny, but to transform humor into film is very difficult. Is it? Haha, I’ve no idea! What one person will laugh at, another will be indifferent to. What is funny is completely subjective, of course. I once walked onto a stage after a screening of one of my short films to a rather extended and humbling round of applause. The crowd had been laughing for the majority of the film and one person put up his hand to ask the first question. This same person had been very active in complimenting the previous films, films which I didn’t like at all. He asked me if I often get extremely opposed responses to my film because he hated it. It doesn’t take a genius to know that you can’t please everybody. There is also humor that is too subtle, or too obvious, and humor that can fail because the overall context isn’t engaging enough to the viewer. I had problems with all three of these things in the feature film I directed. If someone would point a gun to your head saying: “Tell me what 5 feature films and what 5 shorts you’ll bring to an uninhabited island.” What would be your answer? (‘Put that gun down’, doesn’t count) Hmm, I would ask to take music instead but if that just made the gun press harder I would probably blurt something like: Johnny Suede 42 GO SHORT

(Tom di Cillo), The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy), Nuts in May (Mike Leigh), The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa), and then I’d be stuck between The Empire Strikes Back, Rocky, and some kind of porno because the island is uninhabited. I’m sure that with more consideration the selection would be different. But, hey, there’s a gun to my head. That’s right...a big ugly one. No consideration, no wining. Right then. For shorts I’d say: Whistle and I’ll Come to You (Jonathan Miller), Field (Duane Hopkins), A Changed Man (Jens Jonsson), Marilena from p7 (Cristian Nemescu) and, hmm... The Guitar Lesson (Martin Rit), just in case a female turns up on the island one day and suspects that I might be a miserable sort.

documentary | 2005 | video | 5’

fiction | 2001 | video | 3’

experimental | 2008 | video | 3’

animation | 1998 | video | 4’

fiction | 2002 | video | 10’

experimental | 2008 | video | 2’

fiction | 2002 | video | 7’

fiction | 2002 | video | 10’

What line can one, long from now, read on you’re gravestone? This way up. Interview by Pieter Nabbe

experimental | 2006 | video | 2’

We are excited to have Simon Ellis as our special guest. He loves to attend festivals to experience how audiences react when viewing his work. For that reason, presenting his young but already impressive body of work will be his pleasure as much as ours. On Friday Simon Ellis will be there in person to present his short films. SIMON ELLIS PRESENTS: Fri 19/3 | 21:00 | LUX 2 SIMON ELLIS: Sat 20/3 | 17:00 | LUX 5 Sun 21/3 | 20:00 | LUX 3

commercial | 2009 | video | 2’

experimental | 2000 | video | 4’

music video | 2004 | video | 4’

fiction | 1999 | video | 7’

fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 14’

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SAT 20/3, 17:00, LUX 5 / SUN 20:00, LUX 3

Bass Invaders

Subterranean Scene Filter

Dying Backwards

An idyllic village in the Scottish highlands is attacked by a giant loudspeaker with a score to settle, but only two men have the earplugs.

The New York Steam Company began providing service in lower Manhattan in 1882.

The beautiful destruction of a Vauxhall Belmont.

Freya

Thousand

What about the Bodies

It’s hectic being three years old.

Recycled scrap footage of video distortion, computer feedback and damaged film compose a rhythmic visual soundscape.

Mystery and misfortune, in spades.

Doing Really Well

10 Again

What The

A short drama about the perils of taking out a mortgage.

Three pre-pubescent tales of unrequited love, unattainable cool and unremarkable bras.

On television, everyone can hear you scream.

A Storm and Some Snow

Telling Lies

Square One

A two-hour electrical storm, in two minutes, accompanied by the piano of Max Richter.

The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil’s day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another.

Hell is round the corner. Life in the slow lane for a harried executive who finds himself looping in the time-space continuum for reasons his conscience can only attempt to fathom.

A Different Ending

I Surrender

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An anti knife crime commercial.

Videoclip for the band Saybia.

A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation at the worst possible time.

music video | 2001 | video | 5’

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documentary | 2005 | video | 5’

fiction | 2001 | video | 3’

experimental | 2008 | video | 3’

animation | 1998 | video | 4’

fiction | 2002 | video | 10’

experimental | 2008 | video | 2’

fiction | 2002 | video | 7’

fiction | 2002 | video | 10’

What line can one, long from now, read on you’re gravestone? This way up. Interview by Pieter Nabbe

experimental | 2006 | video | 2’

commercial | 2009 | video | 2’

experimental | 2000 | video | 4’

music video | 2004 | video | 4’

fiction | 1999 | video | 7’

fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 14’

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WIDE AWAKE: ROMANIAN SHORTS Romanian cinema is doing better than ever before. An extremely talented generation of filmmakers has emerged, presenting diverse and unique film styles. Surprisingly, the European country with the lowest cinema attendance has become a main supplier for film festivals around the world. A recurring theme in these films is Romania’s relatively new membership of the EU and the changes this brings to everyday life and personal relationships. Go Short presents 16 shorts made in the last decade. Among them are Palme D’Or winning shorts from Marian Crisan and Cristi Puiu. The program also includes an early short from Cristian Mungiu, well known from 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (2007), whose new film Tales from the Golden Age (2009) will be screened by arthouse LUX starting 18 March.

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Some of the filmmakers are present at Go Short and attending the screenings of their eye-opening shorts. On Friday, a public panel discussion with the directors and jury member Mihai Mitrica (Anim’est International Animation Film Fesitval) is scheduled after the films. Go Short also hosts the official opening of the Netherlands-based Romanian Cultural Platform. The Romanian ambassador, Calin Fabian, and his cultural attaché are attending this event on Friday.

WIDE AWAKE 1:

FRI 19/3, 13:00, LUX 6

For Him / Pentru El

A Trip to the City / Calatorie la Oras

Stanca Radu | fiction | 2008 | video | 9’

Corneliu Porumboiu | fiction | 2003 | video | 19’

A young woman gets in touch with her boyfriend, who is working abroad, through a webcam. She barely knows how to use it but tries to perform in front of it, for him, out of love and loneliness.

A beautiful spring morning, the need for internet connectivity in a little Romanian village, and the pink toilet that the mayor’s wife is crying for, bring together the local teacher and the mayor’s driver, for a little trip to the nearby city.

Ariadne’s Thread / Ariadné Fonala

Immerse

The true story of Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur.

Inner Space...

The Tube with a Hat / Lampa cu Caciula

Home / Acasa

Radu Jude | fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 23’

Paul Negoescu | fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 14’

On a very early morning, Marian, a 7-year old boy from a small and isolated Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city, in order to fix their old TV set.

A Romanian migrant worker returning home from Spain on Christmas Eve. During the ride from the airport, the taxi driver reveals he wants to work abroad too. But after he sees the cold reunion of his client’s family he has a second thought...

Zapping

A Good Day for a Swim / O zi Buna de Plaja

Cristian Mungiu | fiction | 2000 | 35mm | 14’

Bogdan Mustata | fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 10’

What is happening when you cannot stop pressing the buttons on your TV remote control?

Three young delinquents driving a van pick up a woman they find at the side of the road and take her to the beach for a day of amoral pursuits.

This program is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute

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WIDE AWAKE 1:

FRI 19/3, 13:00, LUX 6

For Him / Pentru El

A Trip to the City / Calatorie la Oras

Stanca Radu | fiction | 2008 | video | 9’

Corneliu Porumboiu | fiction | 2003 | video | 19’

A young woman gets in touch with her boyfriend, who is working abroad, through a webcam. She barely knows how to use it but tries to perform in front of it, for him, out of love and loneliness.

Ariadne’s Thread / Ariadné Fonala

Immerse

The true story of Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur.

Inner Space...

The Tube with a Hat / Lampa cu Caciula

Home / Acasa

Radu Jude | fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 23’

Paul Negoescu | fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 14’

On a very early morning, Marian, a 7-year old boy from a small and isolated Romanian village, wakes up his father and persuades him to go to the city, in order to fix their old TV set.

Zapping

A Good Day for a Swim / O zi Buna de Plaja

Cristian Mungiu | fiction | 2000 | 35mm | 14’

Bogdan Mustata | fiction | 2007 | 35mm | 10’

What is happening when you cannot stop pressing the buttons on your TV remote control?

Three young delinquents driving a van pick up a woman they find at the side of the road and take her to the beach for a day of amoral pursuits.

This program is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute

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SPECIAL: WIDE AWAKE 2 + DISCUSSION: FRI 19/3, 17:30, LUX 6 WIDE AWAKE 2: SUN 21/3, 14:30, LUX 2

SHORT INVADERS:

A BRIGHT FUTURE, OR THE END OF EVERYTHING?

Megatron

Oli’s Wedding / Nunta lui Oli

It’s Maxim’s birthday. He’s 8 years old and lives with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his birthday, his mother takes him to a McDonald’s restaurant.

Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in America.

Liminal Introspect

Bedtime Story

An interlude between indeterminate lapses of nothing.

There lived a family that loved cookies very much, but once they mixed in some poison in the flour. Adaptation of the short story of Örkény István.

‘Even though the term ‘science fiction’ has been around for about a hundred years, no one has yet been able to coin a lasting definition. A disappointing dictionary definition has us going for the wisdom of author/researcher Mark C. Glassey. He says SF is a bit like porn: “You don’t know what it is, but you know it when you see it.” In that sense, this year Go Short provides the best definition available, by showing 14 short films that make up a sample-card of the genre. They may be diverse in form, content, vision or narrative: they are all, obviously and without question, challenging, exciting and stimulating science fiction. The two programs NEW WORLDS, NEW IDENTITIES and POST-APOCALYPTIC SOCIETIES allow for typical genre elements like robots (Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 1&2), time travel (La Jetée), disturbing visions of the future (THX1138 4EB) and alien visits (Alive in Joburg). The latter two short films stand out for other reasons, since both were later

re-vamped into full-length features. George Lucas’ graduation project was the basis for his first science fiction movie (long before he made it big time with “a galaxy, far, far away”), whereas Neill Blomkamp transformed his 5-minute short into the surprise hit District 9 last year. Although the genre usually looks toward the future, we decided not to neglect the historical perspective. In 1902, Le Voyage dans la Lune by pioneer Georges Méliès was the equivalent of Avatar in today’s cinemas, a dashing adventure full of mindblowing special effects. With its duration of 12 minutes, an awesome feat in those days, Voyage is not only the first science fiction film, but the actual first science fiction epos in film history.’ Anton Damen On Thursday film journalist Anton Damen accompanies the film program with a lecture.

SPECIAL: SCI-FI 1: NEW WORLDS, NEW IDENTITIES + LECTURE: THU 18/3, 14:00, LUX 6

Toma Cuzin was a true adventurer. He liked strawberryflavored cigars, old fashioned hats and his favorite perfume was “Caractère”.

While Romania enters the EU, Titinel and Mihai, two shepherds live by their own rules on the outskirts of Bucharest. Their sole purpose is their relationship with animals and to obtain the most natural milk.

A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune

Georges Méliès | France | 1902 | 35mm | 8’

My Name Is... / Numele Meu Este... Dorin Moldoveanu | fiction | 2008 | 35mm | 12’ | International premiere

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Cigarettes and Coffee / Un Cartus de Kent si un Pachet de Cafea Cristi Puiu | fiction | 2003 | 35mm | 13’ |

The bus leaves Mr Tomescu in downtown Bucharest, in front of the Graceland restaurant. He enters and sits down at the table where his son Vlad is seated who invited him during his lunch break to listen to his problems.

Lost Cargo

Pieter Engels, Efim Perlis | The Netherlands | 2006 | 35mm | 16’

At a scientific congress Professor Barbenfouillis convinces his colleagues to take part in a trip to explore the moon.

Intergalactic space trucker Eugene occupies himself with mailordering useless gadgets. When his merchandise is attacked, his little robot Han-D can no longer handle the workload.

Swim

Alive in Joburg

In a time where all is designed to be controlled, the elementary force of our very existence brings an undeniable fusion for a magic moment.

An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.

Sil van der Woerd | The Netherlands | 2005 | video | 5’

Neill Blomkamp | US | 2004 | DVD | 6’

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SPECIAL: WIDE AWAKE 2 + DISCUSSION: FRI 19/3, 17:30, LUX 6 WIDE AWAKE 2: SUN 21/3, 14:30, LUX 2

SHORT INVADERS:

A BRIGHT FUTURE, OR THE END OF EVERYTHING?

Megatron

Oli’s Wedding / Nunta lui Oli

It’s Maxim’s birthday. He’s 8 years old and lives with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his birthday, his mother takes him to a McDonald’s restaurant.

Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in America.

Liminal Introspect

Bedtime Story

An interlude between indeterminate lapses of nothing.

There lived a family that loved cookies very much, but once they mixed in some poison in the flour. Adaptation of the short story of Örkény István.

SPECIAL: SCI-FI 1: NEW WORLDS, NEW IDENTITIES + LECTURE: THU 18/3, 14:00, LUX 6

Toma Cuzin was a true adventurer. He liked strawberryflavored cigars, old fashioned hats and his favorite perfume was “Caractère”.

A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune

Georges Méliès | France | 1902 | 35mm | 8’

My Name Is... / Numele Meu Este... Dorin Moldoveanu | fiction | 2008 | 35mm | 12’ | International premiere

Cigarettes and Coffee / Un Cartus de Kent si un Pachet de Cafea Cristi Puiu | fiction | 2003 | 35mm | 13’ |

Lost Cargo

Pieter Engels, Efim Perlis | The Netherlands | 2006 | 35mm | 16’

At a scientific congress Professor Barbenfouillis convinces his colleagues to take part in a trip to explore the moon.

Intergalactic space trucker Eugene occupies himself with mailordering useless gadgets. When his merchandise is attacked, his little robot Han-D can no longer handle the workload.

Swim

Alive in Joburg

In a time where all is designed to be controlled, the elementary force of our very existence brings an undeniable fusion for a magic moment.

An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.

Sil van der Woerd | The Netherlands | 2005 | video | 5’

Neill Blomkamp | US | 2004 | DVD | 6’

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GOAL! Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 1

Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 2

The two-part prologue to The Matrix.

Mahiro Maeda | US | 2003 | DVD | 10’

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB

Strike

The protagonist is shown running through several passageways. It is soon discovered that he is escaping his community.

When Pete Oldman’s apartment gets outfitted with a hightech surveillance system, his life takes a turn for the worse.

George Lucas | US | 1967 | DVD | 15’

Jonas Klinkenbijl | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 13’

SCI-FI 2: POST-APOCALYPTIC SOCIETIES: FRI 19/3, 15:45, LUX 3

La Jetée

Once Again | Nog Eens

The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world’s fate.

A terrifying image of the future: a figure with a gasmask walking through a desolated world.

Space Alone

Legacy

Allegoric animation about loneliness and looking for friends...

The story of an alien arriving on Earth to find a human specimen.

Lazarus Taxon

Still Birds | Alle Fugler

The feared consequences of global warming are at their peak when one man crosses the New Sea trying to save his daughter from the clutches of death.

Meaning is about to disappear in the world. The only remaining people are children who have lost the ability to use language.

Chris Marker | France | 1962 | DVD | 28’

Ilias Souas | Greece | 2007 | DVD | 3’

Denis Rovira | Spain | 2008 | 35mm | 15’

Hans Nassenstein | The Netherlands | 1982 | DVD | 15’

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Gregorz Jonkajtys | Poland | 2008 | DVD | 3’

Sara Eliassen | Norway | 2009 | 35mm | 13’

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With the World Cup coming up, we just couldn’t wait to put on our football shorts and rush onto the field. Later this year we will be watching the same matches along with millions of people around the world. For now, let’s get together and get our kicks at GOAL! These shorts show you the most popular sport in the world from angles you won’t see in Studio Sport anytime soon. Amongst others Go Short screens:

The Swiss film Alptraum (2007), a comical fairytale by This Luscher about soccer, dreams and the belief that the impossible can come true.

In Las Pelotas (2009) by Chris Niemeyer, also from Switzerland, we see that nothing gets you through bad economical times like a son with soccer talent.

The Polish documentary Go on Goska! (2007) by Joanna Kaczmarek tells the story about Małgosia, a 17 year old girl with a dream to meet Ronaldinho and play at the World Cup.

In the Dutch short Balbezit (2007) by Willemiek Kluijfhout, we see actor Peter Heerschop desperately trying to get his football out of the ditch.

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GOAL! Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 1

Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 2

The two-part prologue to The Matrix.

Mahiro Maeda | US | 2003 | DVD | 10’

ALSO IN THE DUTC H COMPETI TION

Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB

Strike

The protagonist is shown running through several passageways. It is soon discovered that he is escaping his community.

When Pete Oldman’s apartment gets outfitted with a hightech surveillance system, his life takes a turn for the worse.

George Lucas | US | 1967 | DVD | 15’

Jonas Klinkenbijl | The Netherlands | 2009 | HD | 13’

SCI-FI 2: POST-APOCALYPTIC SOCIETIES: FRI 19/3, 15:45, LUX 3

La Jetée

Once Again | Nog Eens

The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world’s fate.

A terrifying image of the future: a figure with a gasmask walking through a desolated world.

Space Alone

Legacy

Allegoric animation about loneliness and looking for friends...

The story of an alien arriving on Earth to find a human specimen.

Lazarus Taxon

Still Birds | Alle Fugler

The feared consequences of global warming are at their peak when one man crosses the New Sea trying to save his daughter from the clutches of death.

Meaning is about to disappear in the world. The only remaining people are children who have lost the ability to use language.

Chris Marker | France | 1962 | DVD | 28’

Ilias Souas | Greece | 2007 | DVD | 3’

Denis Rovira | Spain | 2008 | 35mm | 15’

Hans Nassenstein | The Netherlands | 1982 | DVD | 15’

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Gregorz Jonkajtys | Poland | 2008 | DVD | 3’

Sara Eliassen | Norway | 2009 | 35mm | 13’

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The Swiss film Alptraum (2007), a comical fairytale by This Luscher about soccer, dreams and the belief that the impossible can come true.

In Las Pelotas (2009) by Chris Niemeyer, also from Switzerland, we see that nothing gets you through bad economical times like a son with soccer talent.

The Polish documentary Go on Goska! (2007) by Joanna Kaczmarek tells the story about Małgosia, a 17 year old girl with a dream to meet Ronaldinho and play at the World Cup.

In the Dutch short Balbezit (2007) by Willemiek Kluijfhout, we see actor Peter Heerschop desperately trying to get his football out of the ditch.

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THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT

GO ONLINE The popularity of short film is soaring. Online and mobile technology are making it easy to watch short films, anywhere and at any time. Audiovisual content has become the main fabric of the internet. New possibilities arise every day for co-producing, distributing and promoting films online. You can connect to Go Short online in many ways. On the Go Short website, www.goshort.nl, you can view trailers for the films in the competition. You can get a taste of the festival through our Go Short Report. You can watch shorts and be a jury member for the Online Competition.

Only 48 hours to produce a film with nothing more to start from than a line of dialogue, a prop and a genre. Impossible, you say? Not for the teams participating in The 48 Hour Film Project. As soon as the clock starts ticking, they get cracking. In one hectic, busy, sleepless, but most of all inspiring and fun weekend, these teams will produce a complete short film from start to finish. The 48 Hour Film Project has proved to be an irresistible challenge, both for novices and professional filmmakers. In 8 years time, the project that originated in the US has spread to 80 cities all around the world. Now it’s Nijmegen’s turn to host the biggest global film competition.

drop-off. Shorts finished on time may receive worldwide fame, but arrive a second too late and all the team’s efforts will have been in vain.

The challenge starts even before the clock starts ticking. The first task is getting a team together of enthusiastic filmmakers and actors. These teams then have to charter their own equipment, costumes and catering. The teams start their race against the clock on Friday 12 March. It’s a wild ride from there on out. Conceptualizing, scripting, directing, shooting, editing and sound tracking are all done in just two days. On Sunday 14 March, the teams will rush to the finish line for the

THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT NIJMEGEN: Fri 12/3 – Sun 14/3 THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT SCREENINGS: Thu 18/3 | 18:00 and 19:30 | LUX 3 | € 6 THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT + PARTY: Thu 18/3 | 21:00 | Merleyn | € 4 www.48hours.com/nijmegen

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All the 48 Hour films will be shown to the public on the big screen on Thursday 18 March. A professional jury will give out awards for best script, best directing, best editing and best acting. The most prestigious award is that of best film because the winner will represent Nijmegen at the international play-off in the US. The winning film will compete for the world’s best 48 Hour film with other awardwinning productions from all over the world.

GO ONLINE! WATCH SHORTS BE THE JUDGE!

GO SHORT ONLINE COMPETITION WWW.GOSHORT.NL/ONLINE

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THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT

drop-off. Shorts finished on time may receive worldwide fame, but arrive a second too late and all the team’s efforts will have been in vain.

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GO SHORT ONLINE COMPETITION WWW.GOSHORT.NL/ONLINE

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GO SHORT REPORT You are bound to run into our Go Short video team. They are constantly mingling with the crowd to capture the festival’s atmosphere. The Go Short video team talks to filmmakers, takes a look behind the scenes and lets us see reactions among the audience. They will capture it all and channel it straight to you in the daily Go Short Report.

HOLLAND DOC 24 Holland Doc goes short! The main Dutch platform for documentaries uses a cross medial approach in promoting documentary culture. Through television, radio and their web portal they present a wide variety of documentaries. During the festival week, digital TV channel Holland Doc 24 features a selection of short docs. Some of the best documentaries from Go Short 2009 and previews of the 2010 festival will be shown here, from Monday 15 March until Sunday 21 March. Every night you can watch several short docs from around Europe. The selected films include Romanian Milky Way (2006) by Ivana Mladenovic, about two wayward shepherds; the small intimate portrait Freya (UK, 2005) by this year’s special guest Simon Ellis and the winner of the Go Short Audience Award 2009 Roos Rebergen – Weet ik niet zo goed... (Bas Berkhout, NL, 2009). Mon 15/3 - Sun 21/3 | around 21:00 | Holland Doc 24 www.hollanddoc.nl

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MEESTERMAKERS: SHORT ANIMATION Go Short aims to be a place where filmmakers can get together and exchange experiences. The Meestermakers program, which is organized in collaboration with Dziga, is such a meeting place where a renowned filmmaker meets with a rising talent, and the two of them discuss their work. Two separate sessions of Meestermakers: Short Animation are presented, where a young filmmaker and a more experienced master will meet each other, the public and upcoming filmmakers to talk about the joy and hard work that goes into animating.

Gerrit van Dijk (1938), the renowned master invited to the festival, is an idiosyncratic animator who has won many national and international prizes, including the Holland Film Award and a Golden Bear. He began his career as a painter and started to explore crossovers between painting and animation in the 1970s. He produced the celebrated film Frieze Frame (1991) in which he brings 39 paintings to life and has them overflow into one another. >>>

Floris Kaayk (1982) is the up and coming talent who specializes in blending computer generated images with live-action video. His distinctive technique and style seems to herald the emergence of a new genre. He graduated in 2006 with the film Metalosis Maligna, and his previous short The Order Electrus (2008) was an online hit. Playing upon the characteristics of documentaries, Kaayk explores new amalgams of technological and organic life forms. He does not use his animation skills to show off, but rather to tell a story. The first session is a public talk where Gerrit van Dijk and Floris Kaayk talk about their sources of inspiration, their working methods and secrets of the trade. They present fragments of their own work and that of others who inspired them. For the second session, three young filmmakers join the table to discuss their experiences in animation and to get advice from the masters. PUBLIC TALK: Thu 18/3 | 20:30 | LUX 6 | € 6 MASTER CLASS: Sat 20/3 | 16:00 | LUX 6 | € 6 Combination ticket € 10 www.dziga.nl

Floris Kaayk

Gerrit van Dijk

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Gerrit van Dijk

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GO SHORT EDUCATION GO SHORT STUDENT CAMPUS

GO SHORTY!

For the second year, Go Short and Breaking Ground, the platform for European student films, are organizing the Go Short Student Campus. Fifteen film students from all over Europe are participating in the six-day campus program. A place for students to meet each other, work together and learn from professionals in the film industry.

In collaboration with partner Grote Broer Kunsteducatie, Go Short has developed three stirring educational film projects for the younger film fanatics among us. There will be a funny and touching film program for children aged 8 to 12, school projects and workshops. No less than 5 primary and 4 secondary schools are participating in this new festival program.

This year’s focus is on making a short documentary. Every day, they will get inspired by workshops, lectures, speed dates, parties and of course the screenings. The Go Short Student Campus creates a learning environment and a network space for young talent with the help of professionals and other students. Workshops include The art of telling a story where they create the basis of the documentary and Directing people in documentaries. The students will be practicing on Thursday morning on the streets of Nijmegen, so take a look if you’re around. Finally, students learn how to sell their film in The pitching workshop. The actual pitching and the screenings of the documentaries take place in front of a committee of film professionals and is accessible for the public on Sunday morning. If you haven’t yet met the students on the streets or during the public lectures this is your chance to meet up with them. You can pick up your free tickets at the box office. Be early because there are only a limited number of seats available. GO SHORT STUDENT CAMPUS: Tue 16/3 – Sun 21/3 PITCHING & SCREENING: Sun 21/3 | 11:30 | LUX 2 | free tickets available at LUX Box Office www.breakingground.eu

GO MOBILE! / WORKSHOP Maak je eigen korte gsm-musicvideo tijdens Go Short! Iedereen tussen 14 en 24 jaar mag zich aanmelden via michel@grotebroer.com. Wees er snel bij want het aantal plaatsen is beperkt! Do 18/3 | 18:00 – 21:30 | Grote Broer | P7 | € 10 Meer info: www.goshort.nl. Liever in je eigen tijd of met de hele klas? Check de website, download de handleiding en... Go Film it!

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Go Short and Grote Broer form a platform where children and adolescents can take notion of the fundamentals of film making, like shooting, editing and telling stories with moving images. Together we want to give children and young people the opportunity to use, enjoy and understand moving images.

Grote Broer is one of the largest providers of art projects with educational purposes in Nijmegen. It is the place to go for courses in circus, street dance, soap acting, musical or theater. Grote Broer develops daring art classes and projects for both small children and young adults at primary schools and high schools throughout the entire province. www.grotebroer.com

ODDSTREAM V – ANIMATED

Twice a year, young people from different countries come together at Oddstream and work intensively on audiovisual productions. Oddstream is an international youth exchange program, organized by Stichting Pink Sweater Productions from Nijmegen and sponsored by the European Union. The name Oddstream represents the mix between cultures and various artistic expressions. Every Oddstream is an experiment with room for discovery, that allows for the development of talent. The participants live and work together intensively for a period of 8 days, which leaves a lasting impression.

During this fifth edition, 24 youngsters from Lithuania, Italy, Slovenia and the Netherlands come to Go Short. Some already have a little experience with animation, while others don’t. Together, they will attend workshops in animation and create animation films on the topic of migration. The final results of Oddstream V will be presented in the form of short animations. To get the real Oddstream experience you can visit their workspace. OPEN STUDIO: Fri 19/3 | 12:00 – 18:00 | Kunstraffinaderij ODDSTREAM V SCREENING: Sat 20/3 | 20:00 | LUX 3 | € 5 www.oddstream.org GO SHORT 55

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HKU PRESENTS Never a fixed recipe and always an individual signature. For young filmmakers who want to create new ways of video and film production the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) is a fertile breeding ground. At the Faculty of Art, Media and Technology students explore the possibilities of new media and technologies for

GO EXPO filmmaking. In the HKU program you can see animation films, short fiction, documentaries and music videos produced in the last year. The diversity of the production gives a good idea of the room the academy offers students to develop their skills.

HKU 1: Thu 18/3 | 13:00 | LUX 5 HKU 2: Sat 20/3 | 15:45 | LUX 3 + Sun 21/3 | 12:30 | LUX 3

Ghost Of Icarus

Mesopotamie

It’s great to be able to see so many shorts. But sometimes you need to go about and explore your surroundings. There’s plenty to discover in the vicinity of LUX! Visit the Go Short Expos to refreshen your senses and expose yourself to new experiences.

EXTRAPOOL PRESENTS At Extrapool international artists are invited to create, analyze and present work that defies classification and crosses boundaries. During Go Short, the curious attitude of Extrapool is turned to the filmmaking proces. On Wednesday, Dan Geesin (UK) observes the ordinary and works with a variety of media to tell a story that is not so ordinary at all. On Wednesday, there is a live-act by Melanie Valera (FR). Legendary animation artist Bruce Bickford (US), who cooperated with Frank Zappa, gives a presentation of his work on Thursday. On Friday, Karel Doing and Jesse

Franzen deal with elusive subjects such as music, rhythm, poetry, death, memory and felicity in their Darkloupe performance. Ate M. Hes shows short films and Major B performs with live musicians. During the weekend Ate M. Hes gives reality just the right spin to dazzle you with the Megapool installation. PERFORMANCES: Wed 17/3 – Fri 19/3 Doors: 20:30 | Start 21:00 | Extrapool | € 5 EXPOSITION: Sat 20/3 – Sun 21/3 | 14:00 – 18:00 Extrapool, free entrance www.extrapool.nl

ARTEZ: TYPOGRAPHIC GUN

Offseason

The Passenger

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Open Surgery

Trash Vortez

Vonk

From the moment the printing press was invented, type has been a weapon and paper the battleground. The recent shift towards digital media has expanded and intensified this writing warzone even further. The audiovisual installation TYPOGRAPHIC GUN explores the subjective potential of the written medium. The library becomes the epicenter of a conflict between two opposing texts, opinions or ideals. The subjectivity is hidden behind interpolating typography, alternating between 5 and 20Hz, melting the two channels together, but at the same time generating the conflict by means of anti colors and after image. Spectators can choose to block out any of the information streams by means of a color filter.

Every book that has been uploaded into the system produces its own unique soundtrack, converting sentences into a rhythm of microtonal sound that adds to the experience of the conflict. The Typographic Gun is a project by students of the ArtEZ institute of the arts, the Department of Interactive Media Design and Martijn van Boven. Thu 18/3 – Sun 21/3, 12:00 - 17:00 | Fallout Shelter at CBKN | free entrance www.artez.nl www.interactiefarnhem.nl

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HKU 1: Thu 18/3 | 13:00 | LUX 5 HKU 2: Sat 20/3 | 15:45 | LUX 3 + Sun 21/3 | 12:30 | LUX 3

Ghost Of Icarus

Mesopotamie

ARTEZ: TYPOGRAPHIC GUN

Offseason

The Passenger

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Open Surgery

Trash Vortez

Vonk

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INDUSTRY PROGRAM + INFO

Go Short offers the professional industry a video library, industry meetings, a multimedia room and many social events. During the festival there are special events for film industry and special guests where new relations, friendships, and ideas develop, while existing ones are enforced. Filmmakers and other film professionals can submit a request for accreditation at www.goshort.nl. VCK Video Library & Multimedia Room Professionals with a festival accreditation have access to the video library to see the selected films from this, and last year’s festival, outside the regular screenings. Go Short has created an industry workspace at the VCK Video Library. Complimentary coffee and WiFi are available for all accredited guests. VCK Video Library & Multimedia Room Vlaams Cultureel Kwartier (VCK) Vlaams Arsenaal 2nd floor Arsenaalpoort 5 Thu + Sat | 12:00 – 21:00 Fri | 13:30 – 21:00 Guest | Press Service Staff at the festival guest service will greet you on arrival, provide you with your festival accreditation and all necessary information. Our staff will be happy to help you throughout the festival. The guest service is located at de Klinker, where you can meet up with others for a talk and a drink. Accredited guests can also have breakfast and dinner here at a modest rate. If you would like to join in for breakfast or dinner, please sign up no later than a day before at the festival guest service, because seats are limited.

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Guest | Press Service De Klinker Van Broeckhuysenstraat 46 Wed | 14:00 – 18:00 Thu – Sun | 12:00 – 21:00 * Wednesday night, from 18:00 until 21:00, accreditations can be picked up at the Go Short info desk at LUX Events There are several social events, professional activities and parties during the festival. Sometimes you’ll need to sign up before at the guest service. More information, locations and times can be found in your guest map. A few highlights: The official opening Wed 17/3 | Invitation only Party: Go Short a GoGo Thu 18/3 | 22:00 | Merleyn The Nomination Party Fri 19/3 | 22:00 | de Klinker Announcement of the nominees around midnight Award Night Award Show and Award Party Sat 20/3 | doors: 20:30 | start: 21:00 | LUX 7 GO SHORT 59

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION TICKETS

LOCATIONS

Prices: Regular Day Fare: € 6 / € 5* Regular Evening Fare (from 18:00): € 7,50 / € 6,50* Day Pass including parties: € 30** Festival Pass including parties & award night: € 75 / € 60* Special events & parties: various Award night: show + party: € 8

Arthouse LUX (main location) LUX Box Office: ticket sales & info desk Mariënburg 38–39 6511 PS Nijmegen T: 0900 589 4636 www.lux–nijmegen.nl

* Reduced rate for students, 65+, C4J–card, CJP–card and LUX-card holders * Discounts are not valid in combination with other discounts ** Day Passes give access to all public screenings & parties, except for Saturdays award night.

Reservations: Presale: starts 10 March All tickets are available at the LUX box office, except for parties Merleyn/Klinker and performance nights at Extrapool. Tickets are sold at the door. LUX box office Open from 10:00 (Mo–Fri) and from 11:00 (Sat–Sun) until last film Reservations by phone: 0900 589 4636 Reservations online: www.belbios.nl Please Note: This program is correct at the time of going to press but the festival organisers reserve the right to make changes. For the most up to date information please visit our website at: www.goshort.nl. Unless stated otherwise, film screenings are suitable for people aged 15 or above.

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CBKN Klein Mariënburg 24 6511 PL Nijmegen EXTRAPOOL Tweede Walstraat 5 6511 LN Nijmegen VCK Vlaams Cultureel Kwartier Arsenaalpoort 6 6511 PN Nijmegen De Klinker Van Broeckhuysenstraat 46 6511 PK Nijmegen Muziekcafé Merleyn Hertogstraat 13 6511 RV Nijmegen

FESTIVAL OFFICE | CONTACT P.O. box 1449 6501 BK Nijmegen Arsenaalpoort 5 6511 PN Nijmegen T. 0031 (0)24 663 6789 E. info@goshort.nl www.goshort.nl

FILM INDEX BY TITLE 4 – 25 10 Again – 43 Acasa – 45 After The Empire – 31 Alberts Vinter – 34 Albert’s Winter – 34 Alive in Joburg – 47 Alle Fugler – 48 Altijd 19 – 36 Amor – 18 Amsterdam Reconstruction – 30 Anders & Harri – 20 Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 1 – 48 Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 2 – 48 Anna – 35 Archaic Smile – 31 Ariadné Fonala – 45 Ariadne’s Thread – 45 August – 36 August 2008 – 29 Bak Lukkede Dorer – 17 Bal de la Gare, Le – 34 Ballad of Marie Nord and Her Clients, The – 19 Balladen om Marie Nord och Hennes klienter – 19 Barren – 39 Bass Invaders – 43 Bedtime Story – 46 Believe – 16 Black Dog’s Progress, The – 27 Black Heart – 21 Blue Dolphin, A – 18 Borders – 36 Bye Bye C’est Fini – 23 Calatorie la Oras – 45 Cartus de Kent si un Pachet De Cafea, Un – 46 Catharsis – 37 C’est Gratuit pour Les Filles – 17 Chantier – 35 Chicory ‘n’ Coffee – 25 Cigarettes and Coffee – 46 Cikorja an’ Kafe – 25 Corners – 29 Das Paket – 35 Dauw – 38 Den Helder – 38 Dew – 38 Diagnosis – 19 Different Ending, A – 43 Display – 39 Doffer – 39 Doing Really Well – 43

Dolor – 18 Donde esta Kim Basinger? – 17 Drop Dead – 39 Dusk – 28 Dying Backwards – 43 Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB – 48 English Lessons – 27 Fabulosul destin al lui Toma Cuzin – 46 Fabulous Destiny of Toma Cuzin, The –46 Familia 068 – 21 Family 068 – 21 Film for above the Sofa – 29 Film für ubres Sofa – 29 Flirt – 37 For Him – 45 Forever for a While – 29 Freya – 43 Full On – 18 Gang of Lidingö, The – 27 Ghost of Icarus – 34 Give Me Back the Propeller – 28 Goda Råd – 16 Good Advice – 16 Good Day for a Swim, A – 45 Good Stuff – 30 Guliver – 26 Hanoi – Warsaw – 16 Hanoi – Warszawa – 16 Harmsaga – 18 Herd, The – 22 Herspace – 30 Heute Ist Gestern und Morgen – 20 Hombres de Sal – 21 Home – 45 Homme à la Gordini, L’ – 26 Homme Qui Dort, L’ – 25 Hranice – 36 Hyvä Meininki – 30 I Surrender – 43 Immerse – 45 Immerse – 45 In Chambers – 17 In een Vergeten moment – 34 Interstices – 28 It’s Free for Girls – 17 Jacco’s Film – 35 Jade – 17 Janna & Liv – 36 Jétee, La – 48 Katzleben – 37 Ketamin - Hinter dem Licht – 31 Ketamine - Behind The Light – 31 Kiss – 19

Krantsid – 37 Kus – 19 Lampa cu Caciula – 45 Lazarus Taxon – 48 Left Behind – 22 Legacy – 48 LETSMAKEADEAL – 28 Life of a Cat – 37 Liminal Introspect – 46 Lindingöligan – 27 Little Red Hoodie – 19 Logorama – 25 Los – 23 Lost and Found – 26 Lost Cargo – 47 Lost Paradise – 18 Madagascar, a Journey Diary – 24 Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage – 24 Mam – 22 Man in the blue Gordini, The – 26 Man Who Slept, The – 25 Megatron – 46 Mei Ling – 24 Mesecina – 18 Milky Way – 46 Missen – 16 Missing – 16 Mum – 22 My Name Is... – 46 Myth Labs – 38 n.n. (I don’t want to live like a dove in your kind of europe ) – 30 Nagelaten – 39 Narben im Beton – 35 Noesis – 36 Nog Eens–48 Notes on the Other – 20 Numele Meu Este... – 46 Nunta Lui Oli – 19, 46 Nyarma – 23 Oli’s Wedding – 19, 46 Once Again – 48 Package, The – 35 Passeio De Domingo – 27 Pentru El – 45 Percorso #0008–0209 – 26 Photograph of Jesus – 22 Pivot – 26 Please Say Something – 27 Plein d’Aventure, Le – 18 Pollphail – 22 Realm 1 Part 1 – 31 RE–constructions – 31

Red-End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society – 24 Remains – 39 Roëntgen – 35 Salt Men, The – 21 Scars in Concrete – 35 Seeds of the Fall – 19 Shutdown, The – 23 Side By Side – 22 Sininen Delfiini – 18 Sisäinen Lähiö – 30 Slitage – 19 Soft – 43 Space Alone – 48 Square One – 43 Stardust – 30 Still Birds – 48 Still Waters – 39 Stille Waters – 39 Storm and Some Snow, A – 43 Strays – 37 Strike – 38, 48 Subterranean Scene Filter – 43 Suburb Within, The – 30 Sunday Drive – 27 Sunset from a Rooftop – 39 Suprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother, The – 27 Swim – 47 Telling Lies – 43 Thousand – 43 Today Is Yesterday and Tomorrow – 20 Train of Thought – 36 Trip to the City, A – 45 Trip to the Moon, A – 47 Tube with a Hat, The – 45 Under Construction – 35 Unearthing the Pen – 23 Val Dood – 39 Variété – 24 Variety – 24 Vision – 23 Visiting Day – 21 Voyage dans la Lune, Le – 47 Wagah – 20 Was Übrig Bleibt – 22 What about the Bodies – 43 What The – 43 Where is Kim Basinger? – 17 White Blindness – 31 Wings and Oars – 26 Zapping – 45 Zi Buna de Plaja, O – 45

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION TICKETS

LOCATIONS

Arthouse LUX (main location) LUX Box Office: ticket sales & info desk Mariënburg 38–39 6511 PS Nijmegen T: 0900 589 4636 www.lux–nijmegen.nl

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FESTIVAL OFFICE | CONTACT P.O. box 1449 6501 BK Nijmegen Arsenaalpoort 5 6511 PN Nijmegen T. 0031 (0)24 663 6789 E. info@goshort.nl www.goshort.nl

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FILM INDEX BY COUNTRY Austria Corners – 29 Belgium Archaic Smile – 31 August 2008 – 29 Full On – 18 Stardust – 30 Vision – 23 Canada Stardust – 30 Croatia Guliver – 26 Czech Republic Borders – 36 Denmark Albert’s Winter – 34 Anna – 35 Black Heart – 21 Catharsis – 37 Side By Side – 22 Estonia Strays – 37 Finland Blue Dolphin, A – 18 English Lessons – 27 Good Stuff – 30 Suburb Within, The – 30 France 4 – 25 Amsterdam Reconstruction – 30 Bal de la Gare, Le – 34 It’s Free for Girls – 17 Jétee, La – 48 Logorama – 25 Lost Paradise – 18 Madagascar, a Journey Diary – 24 Man in the blue Gordini, The – 26 Man Who Slept, The – 25 Mei Ling – 24 Trip to the Moon, A – 47 Under Construction – 35 Where is Kim Basinger? – 17 Germany Film for above the Sofa – 29 herspace – 30 Ketamine - Behind The Light – 31 Left Behind – 22 Life of a Cat – 37

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n.n. (I don’t want to live like a dove in your kind of europe) – 30 Package, The – 35 Please Say Something – 27 Roëntgen – 35 Scars in Concrete – 35 Today Is Yesterday and Tomorrow – 20 Wagah – 20 Greece Interstices – 28 Mesecina – 18 Space Alone – 48 Iceland Dolor – 18 India Wagah – 20 Ireland Visiting Day – 21 Herd, The – 22 Italy Percorso #0008–0209 – 26 Latvia Wings and Oars – 26 The Netherlands Altijd 19 – 36 Barren – 39 Den Helder – 38 Dew – 38 Display – 39 Drop Dead – 39 Dusk – 28 Forever for a While – 29 Ghost of Icarus – 34 In een Vergeten moment – 34 Jacco’s Film – 35 Kiss – 19 Los – 23 Lost Cargo – 47 Missing – 16 Mum – 22 Myth Labs – 38 Once Again – 48 Pivot – 26 Realm 1 Part 1 – 31 RE–constructions – 31 Red–End and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society – 24 Remains – 39 Still Waters – 39

Strike – 38, 48 Sunset from a Rooftop – 39 Swim – 47 Variety – 24 White Blindness – 31 Nicaragua Family 068 – 21 Norway Amor – 18 In Chambers – 17 Interstices – 28 Still Birds – 48 Poland Hanoi - Warsaw – 16 Legacy – 48 Portugal Sunday Drive – 27 Romania Ariadne’s Thread – 45 Bedtime Story – 46 Cigarettes and Coffee – 46 Fabulous Destiny of Toma Cuzin, The – 46 Flirt – 37 For Him – 45 Good Day for a Swim, A – 45 Home – 45 Immerse – 45 Liminal Introspect – 46 Megatron – 46 Milky Way – 46 My Name Is... – 46 Oli’s Wedding – 19, 46 Trip to the City, A – 45 Tube with a Hat, The – 45 Zapping – 45 Russia Give Me Back the Propeller – 28 Nyarma – 23 Slovenia Chicory ‘n’ Coffee – 25 Spain Family 068 – 21 Lazarus Taxon – 48 LETSMAKEADEAL – 28 Notes on the Other – 20 Salt Men, The – 21

PARTNERS + FUNDERS Sweden Anders & Harri – 20 Ballad of Marie Nord and Her Clients, The – 19 Bye Bye C’est Fini – 23 Gang of Lidingö, The – 27 Good Advice – 16 Janna & Liv – 36 Seeds of the Fall – 19 Switzerland After The Empire – 31 Ukraine Diagnosis – 19 United Kingdom 10 Again – 43 August – 36 Bass Invaders – 43 Believe – 16 Black Dog’s Progress, The – 27 Different Ending, A – 43 Doing Really Well – 43 Dying Backwards – 43 Freya – 43 I Surrender – 43 Jade – 17 Little Red Hoodie – 19 Lost and Found – 26 Noesis – 36 Photograph of Jesus – 22 Pollphail – 22 Shutdown, The – 23 Soft – 43 Square One – 43 Storm and Some Snow, A – 43 Subterranean Scene Filter – 43 Suprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother, The – 27 Telling Lies – 43 Thousand – 43 Train of Thought – 36 Unearthing the Pen – 23 What about the Bodies – 43 What The – 43 USA Alive in Joburg – 47 Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 1 – 48 Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 2 – 48 Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB – 48

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