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COLOPHON CATALOGUE
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Published by Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen P.O. Box 1449 6501 BK Nijmegen The Netherlands
Editorial Team Arne Broekhoven Wouter Jansen Anke Koenraadt Kirsten Ruber Laura van der Sman Creative Europe Desk NL
Translation & Editing Maarten Wagemakers Graphic design & Concept www.teunis.nu Circulation 500 Price € 5 incl. VAT
Selection & Programming European & Dutch Competition Floor Adams Manon Bovenkerk Erik van Drunen Bart Jansen Wouter Jansen Information and contact Marlijn Klerk www.goshort.nl Tanja Koning info@goshort.nl Hasse van Nunen @goshortfilmfest Wiepko Oosterhuis Kirsten Ruber Board Prof. Dr. Anneke Smelik (chair) Viktor van der Valk Caro Delsing Breaking Shorts Piet Rutten Jotte den Dulk Marina Blok Marinka de Jongh Frank Hoeve Wytze Koppelman Carolien Croon Camiel Smits Dick Smits Retrospectives & Specials Advisory Council Kirsten Ruber Mieke Bernink Wouter Jansen Hans Esmeijer Wiendelt Hooijer Homegrown & Go Ahead Pien Houthoff Anke Koenraadt Pepijn Kuyper Go Shorty! Sydney Neter Anke Koenraadt Waldemar Torenstra Amber Nefkens Connie Verberne Anne van der Veer Willemijn de Vries
Guest Programming & Advice Shorts TV (Oscar Shorts) Egbert de Ruiter (HKU Presents) European Film Academy (Short Matters) Vienna Independent Shorts (Cat Shorts) Solar Cinema (Green Shorts) Deep End Film (Off the Walls) Program Department Wouter Jansen Anke Koenraadt Production Jolien Merks Erik van Vliet Industry Coordinator Fay Breeman Amber Nefkens
Interns Jozan Drost Milja Feije Lieneke Grollé Troy Hurkens Rachel Rinia Film Operation Filmtechniek Polona Kuzman Design & Campaign www.teunis.nu Webdesign 03webdesign Webdevelopment E-turn Webhosting YourName
PR & Communications Arne Broekhoven Laura van der Sman Team & Management Assistant Anne van der Veer Volunteer Coordinator Myra Brauer Ruben de Groot
Festival Directors Kirsten Ruber Lisa ter Berg GOSHORT 139
CONTENT Timetable – 4 Map & Locations – 9 Welcome – 11 Acknowledgements – 12 Practical Information – 13 Delegate Information – 14 Industry Events – 15 Industry Day – 16 Local Makers Platform – 19 Go Short Campus – 20 Talks & Expo – 21 Film Index by Title – 134 Film Index by Country – 136 Colophon – 139
COMPETITION PROGRAM
FOCUS PROGRAM
SHORT FILM SPECIALS
European Competition Jury – 24 Dutch Competition & Breaking Shorts Jury – 26 Youth Competition Jury – 28 Awards – 29 European Competition – 31 Dutch Competition – 54 Youth Competition – 62 Breaking Shorts – 64
Gunhild Enger – 75 Baltic Shorts – 82 Generation I – 90
Yann Gonzalez – 98 Summer in the Balkans – 102 Film concert – 103 Go Green – 104 Off the Walls – 106 Cat Shorts – 107 International Highlights – 108 Comedy Shorts – 109 Homegrown – 110 HKU Presents – 111 Go Ahead – 112 Oscar Shorts – 114 Short Matters – 115 48 Hour Film Project – 116 Meet the Jury – 117 Dutch Platform – 118 Supporting Film – 120 Go Shorty! – 122
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22:00 NL-1 COMPETITION
LUX 7
LUX 5
PAVILION
22:00 TALK SHOW
LEGENDA PAVILION
COMPETITION PROGRAM:
OTHER PROGRAMS: FOCUS PROGRAM
PARTY + AWARDS
NL: DUTCH COMPETITION
SHORT FILM SPECIAL
WINNERS + FAVORITES
BS: BREAKING SHORTS
TALKS + LECTURES
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17:00 EU-7 COMPETITION
16:00 BS-2 COMPETITION 12:00 SENSELF 6D-CINEMA
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15:00 BALTIC DAYS
10:00-13:30 PRIMARY SCHOOL SCREENINGS
MERLEYN PAVILION
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LUX 2
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17:30 EU-8 COMPETITION 18:00 BS-3 COMPETITION
20:30 NL-1 COMPETITION
19:30 EU-5 COMPETITION 20:00 EU-4 COMPETITION
21:30 CAT
22:30 BS-4 COMPETITION 22:15 YOUTUBE
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22:00 TALK SHOW 23:00 - 04:00 SHAKE YOUR BALTIC RUMP - MERLEYN
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15:30 GUNHILD ENGER’S CHOICE
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18:30 EU-10 COMPETITION 18:00 EU-6 COMPETITION
17:00 BS-2 COMPETITION 17:30 48 HOUR A
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19:30 GUNHILD ENGER’S SHORTS
17:30 GENERATION COMMUNITY 16:30 EU-4 COMPETITION
15:00 HKU PRESENTS 2
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18:00 NL-2 COMPETITION
16:00 GENERATION OFFLINE
14:30 EU-5 COMPETITION
13:00 HKU PRESENTS 1
20:30 COMEDY SHORTS 20:00 INTERNAT. HIGHLIGHTS
19:00 SUMMER OF THE BALKANS 19:45 48 HOUR B
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15:00 BS-5 COMPETITION
11:00 EU-9 COMPETITION
13:00 GO AHEAD
15:00 DZIGA MASTERCLASS
LUX 5 PAVILION
14:30 EU-2 COMPETITION
11:30 SHORT FILM PITCH
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18:00 OSCAR SHORTS ANI
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19:00 HOMEGROWN
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20:30 COMEDY SHORTS 22:00 TALK SHOW 22:00 OFF THE WALLS
15:00 GO SHORTY! PLAYGROUND PAVILION 14:30
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20:00 AWARDS
16:30 SHORT MATTERS 1
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21:30 YANN GONZALEZ’S SHORTS + TALK
19:30 EU-4 COMPETITIE
16:30 LOCAL MAKERS DRINKS
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17:30 BALTIC REBELS
15:30 EU-10 COMPETITIE
11:00 BS-1 COMPETITION
12:30 BALTIC FAMILY
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16:00 YANN GONZALEZ’S CHOICE
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23:00-04:00 GO SHORT X DAGSCHOTEL PARTY, POWERED BY WARSTEINER BREBL, HONIG AREA GOSHORT
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14:45 MIX: ANIMATION
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LUX 5
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13:00 JURY WINNERS 2
15:00 JURY WINNERS 1
13:00 HOMEGROWN
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WELCOME...
endless possibilities of digitalization make the field of the short film very exciting, but it also presents the organisation with a challenge how to deal with ... to the oldest city in the Netherlands for the 7th edition of Go Short, the annual the abundance of thousands of films. We have made our choice and we are happy meeting for everyone who has a heart to present our version of the best in for independent short film! short film, although we are fully aware there are many more films out there that As short film programmers we had the deserve to be watched. privilege to search for the best and boldest in short film so as to offer the Go Short is proud to present Norwegian audience a fresh experience. Out of an filmmaker Gunhild Enger as special unbelievable amount of almost 3,000 guest of this year’s festival. Gunhild’s entries from all over Europe we have excellent eye for detail has created chosen the films that were the most straightforward films depicting everyday touching, elevating, urgent, innovative, life in all its honesty and silly awkwardpersonal, extraordinary and beautiful. ness. Her wonderful film Premature was Many of those are made by new talent and filmmakers, who deserve to become in competition in 2013 and we are thrilled to welcome her as our special guest better known. Go Short is happy to give them a platform, beyond the traditional this year. She will host the New Arrivals red carpet into new areas of filmmaking. Campus program together with Yann Gonzalez. Both filmmakers will present their own work as well as films that were The change from an analogue to digital an inspiration to them. era has introduced new technologies that make the tools for filmmaking Another filmmaker close to our hearts is accessible to everyone. This means that the young filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. the future is full of new opportunities Go Short has invited him to make the and possibly also a new aesthetics. The
first short film in-house. For Go Short this is the first foray into production. Douwe bravely took up the challenge and made a six minute short film to be presented as a pre-film in Dutch cinemas in our distribution network. Not only will we screen the six minute short film at Go Short, but a longer ten minute version made it to the Dutch competition as well. It’s a great kick-off to our short film catalogue that we hope to expand in the future. The program of 2015 is as rich as you may expect from us. We offer you everything from astonishing narratives to emotional documentaries; from experimental crossovers to hand-made animations; and from Youtube hits to 16mm classics. It’s all there! Go and explore. Challenge yourself and feel free to share your experience with us. Just make sure to start right away, as there are many beautiful and exciting films to see and Life is Short! On behalf of co-director Lisa ter Berg and the festival team, Kirsten Ruber, Director Go Short GOSHORT
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THANK YOU! The Go Short festival team, Pien Houthoff, Pepijn Kuijper and all the people at LUX, Frank Boeijen, Martine Boot, Martine Eelman, Dennis Pasveer, Gunhild Enger, Yann Gonzalez, Douwe Dijkstra, Bart Jansen, Stephen Irwin, Johan Rijpma, Mathieu Janssen, Bianca Bolwerk, Sietse Abbink, Gema Perez, Gugeli, Maaike Hidding, Ellen Kocken, Nienke van der Fange, Roddia Rumahloine, Kyra Schiffers, Kim Paddington, Martijn van Boven, Neeltje van Camp, Wilco Gersen, Warsteiner, De Gelderlander, Egbert de Ruiter, Arthur Schuitemaker, Monique Winkelman, Bert Veldhuis, Betty Bergman, Nathalie van den Dobbelsteen, Floor Viveen, Milja Bos, Mariken Nieuwenhuis, Claudia Lansberger, Sylvia Brandsteder, Doreen Boonekamp, Dany Delvoie, Gitta Kruisbrink, Michaela van Wassenaer, Marieke van der Kruijs, Myra Groenink, Romy Jochems, Andrea Posthuma, Dennis Molendijk, Carolien van der Schoot, Anouta de Groot, Lisa Doeland, Dorien van de Pas.
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Theo Tsappos (Swedish Film Institute), Marta Swiatek & Katarzyna Wilk (Krakow Film Foundation), Otto Suuronen (Finnish Film Foundation), Ainhoa Jauregui (Unifrance), Arna Marie Bersaas (Norwegian Film Institute), Salette Ramalho (Agencia – Portugese Short Film Agency), Lisa Linde Nieveld (EYE International), Marion Slewe (Nederlandse Filmacademie)
De Balie, Filmhuis Den Haag, Focus Filmtheater, Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt, Lumière Cinema, Rialto, Chassé Theater, De Lieve Vrouw, Verkadefabriek, Filmhuis de Keizer, Filmtheater Hilversum, Concordia, Heerenstraat Theater, Filmschuur, Forum Images, Filmhuis Den Haag, ECI Cultuurfabriek, Cacaofabriek, Cinema Oostereiland, Slieker Film, Filmhuis Lumen
International Short Film Festival Leuven, Netherlands Film Festival, Festival del Film Locarno, International Short Film Festival Winterthur, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Tampere Short Film Festival, Brest European Short Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Curtas Festival Internacional de Cinema Vila do Conde, Dokufest, Mecal – Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama, Encounters Short Film and Animation Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, International Short Film Festival Rotterdam, Beeldbuis Festival, Krakow Film Festival, Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival, 2ANNAS, Vilnius Film Shorts, The International Short Film Conference.
Amrâth Hotel Belvoir, B&B De Prince, Gastenschip de Orca, Credible, and many more! We also want to say thanks to all the directors and producers who sent us their films. Thank you to our members of the jury, selectors and pre-selectors, our partners, advisors, and all friends of the festival! Above all, we thank all of our volunteers. Without you there would be no Go Short!
PRACTICAL INFORMATION TICKETS
LUX
Tickets are available at the LUX box office or online at goshort.nl. Tickets for parties and activities not taking place at LUX are sold at the door or online. There is no difference between prices at the box office and tickets sold online. The LUX box office opens fifteen minutes before the first film screening. Terms and conditions can be found at goshort.nl.
Ever since the first edition, LUX has been our main location. All regular film screenings will take place here. The central box office is also located in LUX, on the other side of the arch from the bar and the screening rooms. Free wireless internet is available.
Ticket Prices Film Film Thu + Fri before 18:00 Student / CJP Strippenkaart (5–in–1) * Day Pass Saturday Day Pass Sunday Weekend Pass (Sat & Sun)
€9 €7 €7 € 40 € 40 € 35 € 55
* only available at the LUX Box Office
FESTIVAL PAVILION Our festival pavilion, which is the hotspot for professional visitors, is located on the square outside LUX. This is where the Industry Desk can be found as well as the Festival Café and bar supported by Warsteiner. The festival pavilions will be the central location for several lectures, talk shows and informal gatherings.
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DELEGATE INFORMATION ACCREDITATION
INDUSTRY & PRESS DESK
VIDEO LIBRARY
Film professionals, film students and press are able to request a delegate or press pass. This accreditation identifies you as a professional visitor and is strictly personal. A delegate or press pass provides you with access to all festival screenings, industry events and the video library including the Dutch Platform. The accreditation includes an unique tote bag with a design by Stephen Irwin. Please note that tickets to screenings and events are free of charge for pass holders, but it is necessary to pick up a ticket in advance at the box office.
The Go Short Industry Desk is located at the Festival Pavilion. Our staff will be there to welcome you and provide you with all the information you need about your stay at the festival. Feel free to stop by at the desk if you have any further questions throughout the festival.
The video library is open to all delegate and press visitors. The library holds all films in this year's festival program, including all competition and out-of-competition titles. Technical data, synopsis, and contact information are available in a digital database. The video library is located at Vlaams Arsenaal, Arsenaalpoort 18.
Opening Hours Industry & Press Desk Festival Pavilion Wed 8/4 > 14:00 – 22:00 Thu 9/4 > 10:00 – 21:00 Fri 10/4 > 09:00 – 21:00 Sat 11/4 > 10:00 – 21:00 Sun 12/4 > 09:30 – 20:00 Industry Desk Contact Details Fay Breeman (coordinator) industry@goshort.nl +31 (0)24–6636789 +31 (0)6–22392822 (mobile) Press Desk Contact Details Laura van der Sman pr@goshort.nl +31 (0)24–6636789 +31 (0)6–51216085 (mobile)
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Dutch Platform Our video library includes both the complete Go Short collection and the Dutch Platform, which holds an extensive collection of recent Dutch shorts from different Dutch academies, institutes, distributors and production companies. This year the Dutch Platform is extended with Market Screenings and the Short Film Pitch. More information at p. 118. The Industry Desk is happy to inform you about all activities. Opening Hours Video Library Vlaams Arsenaal, Arsenaalpoort 18 Thu 9/4 – Sat 11/4 > 10:00 - 20:00* Sun 12/4 > 10:00 - 15:00 * on request until 22:00
INDUSTRY EVENTS There are several social events, professional activities and parties during the festival. These offer great opportunities to meet new people and acquire new contacts. Sometimes they will require you to sign up in advance at the Industry Desk. Detailed information, locations and times are available at the Industry Desk. Friday 10 April will feature a large number of industry activities during our annual Industry Day. In collaboration with EYE, NBF, the Netherlands Film Fund and Creative Europe Desk NL we present a full day’s program, including panel discussions, workshops and oneon-one meetings with the film industry. An accreditation provides access to all industry events during the Industry Day. If you are interested in only attending our Industry Day, please contact our Industry Desk. We would like to thank DZIGA for sponsoring our technical equipment.
TUESDAY 7/4 19:00 Happy Hour Student Campus introduction & drinks (invitation only)
WEDNESDAY 8/4 19:30 Opening Reception – Pavilion (invitation only) 20:15 Opening Film Program (invitation only)
THURSDAY 9/4 18:00 Baltic Drinks – Pavilion 22:00 Short Live Talkshow – Pavilion 23:00 Afterparty – Merleyn
FRIDAY 10/4 10:00 – 17:30 Industry Day (registration required) 12:45 One-on-one meetings – Pavilion 16:30 Industry Day Drinks – Pavilion 19:30 Gunhild Enger: screening + interview 20:00 Filmquiz – Pavilion 22:00 Short Live Talkshow – Pavilion 22:30 Filmconcert 23:00 Afterparty – Merleyn
SATURDAY 11/4 11:30 Short Film Pitch: new Dutch productions – Pavilion 13:00 Go Ahead 14:30 Filmchief festival database presentation – Vlaams Arsenaal 15:00 DZIGA Masterclass (Dutch spoken) 16:30 Local Makers Platform drinks 17:00 Meet the Jury 20:00 Go Short Awards 21:30 Yann Gonzalez: screening + interview 22:00 Short Live Talkshow – Pavilion 22:00 Off the Walls II – Honigcomplex 23:00 Afterparty – Brebl / Honigcomplex
SUNDAY 12/4 12:00 Film Brunch (voucher required) 13:15 Audience Award announcement + Screening Audience Favourites. During the day: Screenings of Audience Favorites, Jury Winners, Mix programs and Family Shorts
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INDUSTRY DAY INDUSTRY DAY: LIFE IS SHORT. MAKE YOUR SHORT FILM COUNT!
POSSIBILITIES TO MAKE A SHORT FILM IN THE NETHERLANDS 10:30 – 11:30 / LUX 7 / Dutch spoken
BEST PRACTICES: TWO INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES 11:30 – 12:30 / LUX 7 / English spoken
What possible options are available for financing a short film in the Netherlands? We will present the survey we held among our Dutch entries for this year, in which we asked them how they funded their film and with what kind of budget they worked. We will talk about the results of this research and present the different options that are available. We will try to broaden the view. You don’t have to be dependent on traditional fundings; there are other options out there. We will talk with, among others, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Dutch Cultural Media Fund and producer Gijs Kerbosch from Dutch production company 100% Halal. This talk is moderated by Carolien Croon.
Two successful international short film projects will be presented as a case study. The directors will talk about how they made their film, touching upon all the different stages that include everything from funding to festival strategy. They will share tips and tricks on how to make your next project a successful one. Sahim Omar Kalifa will talk about his successful short film Baghdad Messi, which was shortlisted for the Oscars. Kalifa has won over 70 international awards for his short films. Gabriel Gauchet will talk about his short film The Mass of Men, a film that has won over 60 international awards at prestigious film festivals.
Friday 10/4, 10:00 – 17:30 You want your next short film to be selected for all the main European festivals.Where do you get the funding? How do you write a successful script? What options are available in Europe? How do you make your project attractive to an international market? What are programmers of the European film festivals looking for? These questions will be central to the fifth edition of the Go Short Industry Day, which is organised in collaboration with the NBF (Dutch Association of Film and television professionals), EYE International, Creative Europe Desk NL and the Netherlands Film Fund.
Baghdad Messi / Sahim Omar Kalifa / fiction / Belgium, UAE / 2013 / 19' The Mass of Men / Gabriel Gauchet / fiction / United Kingdom / 2012 / 17'
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ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS 12:45 – 13:45 / Pavilion We will set up one-on-one meetings with guests from the film industry that take place during lunch. You can join them at their table for a short and private conversation and ask them all of your questions. Among others, Dorien van de Pas (the Netherlands Film Fund), Andrea Posthuma (Creative Europe Desk NL), sales agents Cinzia Spironello (Other Voices) and Sydney Neter (SND Films), José van Doorn (Netherlands Film Production Incentive), Miryam van Lier (Dutch Cultural Media Fund), Ben Vandendaele (Bekke Films – coproduction with Belgium) and different festival programmers will be available for your questions.
PARALLEL SESSIONS 14:00 – 16:15 / Seminars: LUX 7 / Workshops: ask for the location at the Industry Desk In the afternoon you can choose to participate in two workshops or seminars. Workshop: Digital Formats 14:00 – 15:00 / Dutch spoken What different digital formats are currently available? Which formats are convenient for which goals? What are the differences? Which ones do festivals prefer? A workshop by Joop van Langen (FilmTechniek) and Polona Kuzman (Green DCP). Workshop: Script writing for short film hosted by Netwerk Scenarioschrijvers 14:00-15:00 / Dutch spoken How do you write a successful script for a short film? What are the do’s and
don’ts? What are things that will make your short film script stand out? What is the difference with a feature film script? Seminar: How to go cross-border? 14:00 – 15:00 / LUX 7 / English spoken How can you step across your borders and make your project internationally interesting? What steps do you have to take to make your film project interesting for European festivals, sales agents and buyers? What trainings are must-go places to learn? How do you find a co producing partner? With Lisa Linde Nieveld (EYE International), Andrea Posthuma (Creative Europe Desk NL), Gabriel Gauchet (The Mass of Men) and Floor Onrust (Family Affair). This talk is moderated by Marten Rabarts (EYE International).
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Workshop: Funding 15:15 – 16:15 / Dutch spoken How to write an excellent application? What possibilities are out there for short film at the Netherlands Film Fund? Dorien van de Pas and Karlijn Landman from the Netherlands Film Fund will give you tips and tricks. Workshop: Pitching 15:15 – 16:15 / English spoken What are things to pay attention to when pitching your project? What are good places in Europe to train your pitch and enlarge your international network? Get tips from pitching professional Wim Vanacker (European Short Pitch / NISI MASA). 18
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Seminar: The Ideal Short Film 15:15 – 16:15 / LUX 7 / English spoken International festival programmers and sales agents will discuss the ideal short film. What works for them? Which genres are best to work with? What are the do’s and don’ts? What do programmers pay attention to when selecting a film? The panel includes Daniel Ebner (Vienna Independent Shorts), Kirsten Ruber (Go Short), Alessandro Marcionni (Locarno International Film Festival) and Cinzia Spironello (Other Voices).
DRINKS & NETWORK OPPORTUNITY 16:30 – 17:30 / Pavilion More information can be found on goshort.nl
More information can be found on www.goshort.nl and www.nbf.nl.
Creative Europe Desk NL
LOCAL MAKERS PLATFORM DZIGA’S KINOLAB AND GO SHORT PRESENT: MASTER CLASS DOCUMENTARY ONE // ONE
MASTER CLASS
Sat 11/4, 13:00 – 14:30 / Pavilion / € 30 (including
Sat 11/4 / 15:00 – 16:30 / LUX 4 / Dutch spoken only
masterclass, drinks and discount on DZIGA Community),
Registration required Up until 27 March filmmakers will have the opportunity to send DZIGA their synopsis for a short film, CV and motivation. From these entries we will select filmmakers for 30-minute one-on-one sessions with the masters in documentary. Filmmakers can ask them for tips and guidance. Sign up by sending an email to info@dziga.nl.
In this master class Ingrid van Tol (Mediafund) and directors Martijn Veldhoen, (Time and Place, a talk with my mom) and Astrid Bussink (Giovanni en het Waterballet) will talk about the documentary format. The talks will be illustrated by showing film fragments that were chosen by these masters of the genre. During this master class we will talk about current developments in documentary and the aspects that are of interest when you’re developing your own documentary.
LOCAL MAKERS PLATFORM DRINKS Sat 11/4 / 16:30 / Pavilion Have some drinks with filmmakers from the Nijmegen area. Ingrid van Tol
Martijn Veldhoen
Astrid Bussink
DZIGA is a non-profit platform and meeting place for filmmakers and video artists in Nijmegen. DZIGA supports and facilitates the production of video and film, and presents a program of screenings, workshops and multimedia projects. They recently launched their DZIGA Community, where you can become a member and get a discount on their workshops, events and consultation. www.dziga.nl
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NEW ARRIVALS – GO SHORT CAMPUS Since the very first edition of the festival, the Go Short Campus has been a meeting point for filmmakers who are about to make the leap from the academy to the professional world. The New Arrivals - Go Short Campus brings emerging filmmakers and seasoned film professionals together and offers 20 young film professionals from all over Europe an unique and intensive program. The campus focuses on giving hands-on knowledge about everything that becomes important once you leave the academy. Matters that are hardly dealt with in school will now be foremost on your mind. How do I finance my (short) film? Where can I find an audience? How do I distribute my film? We offer master classes, lectures, workshops and panel discussions by the industry's top experts. For this year we will offer masterclasses by Yann Gonzalez (France) and Gunhild Enger (Norway), both of whom are filmmakers who made a name for themselves at a young age. 20
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Next to these masterclasses we offer workshops on a number of subjects, like: – Workshops on distribution: platforms and do-it-yourself – Workshop on the positioning and marketing of your film – Workshop on pitching your film idea to an audience or market – Panel talk with festival programmers – Round table sessions with producers The participants will receive assignments and challenges throughout the week, prompting them to mingle with other festival guests and expand their network. You might very well be part of their learning experience! When our 20 participants leave Nijmegen their portfolios will be filled with business plans, their address books with new contacts, and their suitcases with tools of the trade. The campus workshops are located in Vlaams Arsenaal, Arsenaalpoort 18.
CAMPUS PARTICIPANTS Tue 7/4 / 20:00 – 22:00 / closed setting Every student presents a film plan at the beginning of the campus and is then challenged to finance, promote, produce or distribute this film. As an introduction to the participants, we present their previous films at this session. All these films will also be available in our video library. Alice von Gwinner (DE) Last Will: Idyll Johan Florez (IT) Under the Sheets Tasos Giapoutzis (UK) Killing My Girl Yassen Geandiev (IT) Little Talks Murad Han Karaayvaz (UK) The Aquarium Oscar Guglielmone (UK) Mob Mentality Simone Pizzi (IT) Sweet Memory Will Die Georgina Hegedus (HU) Thirteen and a Half Minutes ˇ ´ (HR) Shame on You (directed by Daria Blaževic) ´ Sara Juricic Joanne van der Weg (NL) Blindly Mathilde Borcard (BE) Morella Bianca Sescu (FR) Deadline Anna Rok (PO) Feel Free to Go Down . ˇ – (LT) Ferryman Justina Petkeviciute Alexandru Mironescu (RO) IULIAN Valentina Cala (BE) Parada (co-directed with Paula Onet) Olga Koleva (BG) Lake Boy Jack Faber (NL) Drone Drive By Alizée Musson (UK) Menarche (directed by Myriam Raja) Christina Ruloff (CH) Variatons on Charlotte's Afternoon
TALKS & EXPO
SHORT LIVE
ARTEZ
Talk show in collaboration with Soeterbeeck Program
Robin Jaspers and Jip Warmerdam are graduate students from the study Interaction Design from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. Robin and Jip have researched the visibility of Go Short in the city of Nijmegen and will try to improve the visibility by a public installation that will trigger, excite and stimulate the citizens of Nijmegen. Curious what the result is? Come see for yourselves at the festival!
Wed 8/4, Thu 9/4, Fri 10/4, Sat 11/4, 22:00, Pavilion, free entrance At the end of each Go Short day filmmakers, philosophers and other festival guests will be invited for an in-depth talk at the Short Live talk show. They will discuss films in the program and have a look at what’s happening in the following festival days. Lisa Doeland hosts the show and her sidekicks are philosophers Sanne Stuur and Arjen Kleinherenbrink. Each talk show will be concluded by a columnist, like Hanneke Hendrix or Wouter Waanders.
SENSELF 6D CINEMA How would George Clooney taste and what aroma does a science-fiction film have? The Senself 6D Cinema let’s
you experience films that will even tease your sixth sense. Your chair let’s you experience vibrations while the AromaJockey spreads extraordinary fragrances. Senself stands for the exposure and development of talents from people with (mental) limitations. With trainings and events they stimulate people to do the most with their talents. The Senself Cinema is placed at the festival pavilion on Thursday.
OCULUS RIFT Last year at Go Short you could try out the first short film for the Oculus Rift and since that moment you see these virtual-reality-headsets
everywhere around you. Go Short and NHTV have developed the filmmaking for Oculus Rift to the next level. With three short films we take you to a crime scene from the perspective of three characters. Do you know who speaks the truth? Find the crime scene at the festival area and go on a examination. This project is made by the Creative Lab of the Academy for Digital Entertainment (NHTV), which is a place for students, alumni, researchers and professionals from the games and media world to work on their own experimental projects. GOSHORT
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YOUTH
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION JURY
CLAIRE VAN DAAL (NLD)
EDMUNDS JANSONS (LVA)
CARMEN GREY (NZL)
Claire is programmer at the Netherlands Film Festival. After her studies at Utrecht University (Modern Literature and Film Studies) she began her career at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her main tasks concerned student counselling and curriculum development for almost twenty years. After four years at the Theatre Faculty of the Utrecht School of Arts, she started at the Netherlands Film Festival. During her career she was also member of the film department of the Council for Art (which became the Council for Culture) and advisor for Dutch Cultural Media Fund and Netherlands Film Fund.
Edmunds (1972) is an animation film director and graphic designer. He cofounded the independent animation film studio Atom Art in 2001 in Riga, Latvia. Over the last few years Atom Art has premiered more than ten award winning short films that are shown at festivals all around the world. Edmunds received his Master’s degree in animation in 2012. His animation films Springtime in ‘Crow Street' (2009), International Father's Day (2012), Choir Tour (2012), Isle of Seals (2014) and project Shammies have been selected for many film festivals all over the world. Next to his work as a filmmaker Edmunds is a recognized and beloved children’s book illustrator.
Born in New Zealand and now based in London and Berlin, Carmen is a film journalist and critic for publications like Dazed, Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Screen International, The Calvert Journal and Estonian culture weekly Sirp, among others. She also works as a freelance consultant for European production companies, and is part of an organization helping to bring Wolf cinema – a new platform and meeting place for community connection through daring film – to life in Berlin.
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DANIEL EBNER (AUT)
PHILIP ILSON (GBR)
Daniel (1981) is co-founder and artistic director of the Austrian short film festival VIS Vienna Independent Shorts. He majored in Political Science and studied Film and Cultural Theory in Vienna and Berlin. For several years he worked as a cultural journalist and film critic for APA and still freelances for a couple of magazines. In 2008 he co-produced four short films for the occasion of the European Football Championships. He was selected as one of the Young European Talents of the EU Committee of the Regions in 2009. He is a co-founder of the Association of Austrian Film Festivals in 2012, and since 2014 he is also a member of Vienna's short film funding committee.
Philip Ilson is the Director of the London Short Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2004. He is also the short film programmer for the BFI London Film Festival, and has worked as a freelance programmer, including at the East End Film Festival (London), Cork Film Festival (Ireland), Branchage Festival (Jersey), Latitude music festival, and at Curzon Soho Cinema.
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DUTCH COMPETITION / BREAKING SHORTS JURY
MICHIEL SNIJDERS (NLD)
ADELA DEMETJA (ALB)
DEBEN VAN DAM (BEL)
After studying Film and Television sciences at the Utrecht University and working as a script reader, Michiel (1972) joined il Luster Productions in 1997 as a producer - script editor and became partner and co-owner of the company. il Luster soon became the biggest producer of animated short films in the Netherlands, winning many awards on international filmfestivals. As a producer Michiel is responsible for all creative development and the production of all animation projects, independent shorts, commissioned and network productions. Michiel is the co-author of the recent animated feature Triple Trouble and series like The Tumblies and Woozle and Pip.
Adela (1984) is a curator and writer from Tirana, Albania. She holds a Master’s Degree in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Städelschule and Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is one of the founders and the director of Tirana Art Lab – Centre for Contemporary Art based in Tirana, as well as the artistic director of the Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival. She curated a number of international exhibitions and events in different European countries. She has been appointed co-curator of the third edition of the international contemporary Project Biennal D-0 Ark Underground, which takes place in 2015 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lives and works in both Germany and Albania.
With his film The Way of All Flesh Deben has just about won every national film award there is to win in Belgium. The short film was also awarded the world's foremost student award at the International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv. Since then he has directed several commercials and co-wrote the second season of the Belgian tv-series Connie & Clyde. Meanwhile he is developing his new film with the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.
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TUNA KAPTAN (DEU)
IEVA VEIVERYTE (LTU)
Tuna Kaptan was born of Turkish parentage in Munich. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Media, Theatre and Romance Studies, and since then gained experience in numerous film and theatre projects in Germany, Argentina, Burkina Faso, Tunisia and Turkey. Since 2010 he’s studying film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. His last film Two at the Border received the Encouragement Award at Go Short 2014 for best student film, and went on to win several more awards. Currently he's a scholar at ENERC Film School in Buenos Aires.
Ieva graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre with a bachelor in TV and Film Directing. In 2013 she graduated from the same academy with a master’s degree in Editing. Her short film Dog’s Life successfully participated in several international film festivals and was acknowledged with a Silver Crane at the Lithuanian cinema awards in 2014. At the moment Ieva is a lecturer at “Skalvija” cinema academy, and she works as a freelance director and editor for commercials, movies, and TV-projects.
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MOVIEZONE GO SHORT YOUTH JURY
YU LIA LEJEUNE (2000) NIJMEGEN
TIJMEN MOORE (1999) NIJMEGEN
BRAM ARTS (2000) NIJMEGEN
ANNA VAN MAMEREN (2001) NIJMEGEN
AFIYA SHAFIQ (2000) NIJMEGEN
“In my free time I like to watch a lot of films, at least three a week! I have never been to Go Short, but I expect to see surprising, beautiful and exciting new films. As a jury member I’ll focus on whether a film makes a good first impression; is it funny or thrilling?”
“I watch a lot more short films than feature films, for example on Youtube. I think there are going to be many good films at the festival and we will have lots of fun watching them. I will be paying most of my attention to the use of nice shots, but also to the content. Is there enough humor in it?”
“I live to tell stories, and preferably with film. Because with film you can introduce people to your fantasy, you can create a window to your world. And in that world, you are the boss! My focus as a jury member will be on the (powerful) way the story is being told.”
“I have never been to a film festival before and I expect to see films that won’t be available in normal cinemas. I also think we will have a great time! I think it’s very important in a film that everything is believable, including the acting.”
“When a film is too long, I can’t concentrate. So short films are perfect for me to watch! I think I see about four shorts every week. Being a jury member will be a great experience. A good film should have a nice build-up and music that fits the mood.”
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AWARDS Go Short hands out no less than nine awards. Seven of these are chosen by our three juries. The audience vote is just as important, since all shorts in competition are eligible for the audience award.
NTR GO SHORT AWARDS Go Short and Dutch public broadcaster NTR proudly present the NTR Go Short Awards for Best European Short Film in four categories: Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Art Film. All films in the European competition are eligible to receive an NTR Go Short award. It’s the seventh time NTR joins us for the award ceremony, as they have been our partner from the very first edition. The winners of each category receive a € 1.250 prize.
VEVAM GO SHORT AWARD All films in the Dutch competition are eligible to receive the VEVAM Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short Film. It’s the third year VEVAM, the Dutch copyright society for film and television directors, partners with us for this award. A segment of the income of VEVAM is transferred into Stichting VEVAM Fonds (VEVAM
Fund for social and cultural purposes). The VEVAM Go Short Award, consisting of € 2.500, is intended to stimulate Dutch directors to experiment and expand the genre of short film. This year all films in the Dutch competition are also eligible to win the Format Court Award, which includes a special feature on the winning film on FormatCourt.com, a website dedicated to short film, a screening of the film during a monthly screenings at the Studio des Ursulines (Paris), as well as the creation of a DCP (offered by the post production company Media Solution).
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD supported by the Dioraphte Foundation Together with the Diorapthe Foundation, Go Short hands out an encouragement award for the Best Student Film in the Breaking Shorts Student Competition. This € 5.000 prize serves as an encouragement to a young artist at the start of a promising career in filmmaking. The Dioraphte Foundation promotes national and international projects of quality that make culture available to a broad audience.
GO SHORT YOUTH AWARD The youngest jury of Go Short is now in its fourth year. Five teenagers with a sharp eye for quality in short film team up in the Youth Jury. These youngsters, all aged between 14 and 15 years, provide a fresh view on a selection of films from the competition programs. They will decide who will receive the Go Short Youth Award worth of € 750.
GO SHORT AUDIENCE AWARD in collaboration with the European Commission The winner of the Go Short Audience Award will be selected by using the greatest wisdom of all: the wisdom of the crowd. All shorts in competition are eligible for this € 1.500 prize which is presented in collaboration with the European Commission. GO SHORT AWARDS SATURDAY 11/04 - 20:00 - LUX 4 GO SHORT AUDIENCE AWARD SUN 12/04 - 13:15 - LUX 1
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The Dioraphte Foundation supports cultural projects with a national and international reach. Go Short can count on our support in their mission to bring European short films to a wider audience. Not later, but now, because culture is the wealth you share.
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION Never before did we receive this many films. From 43 European countries and 1 independent territory we received more than 2900 submissions. Our selection commitee chose 60 films for the European competition that showcases what we consider to be the best short films made in the past year.
Most of these are by filmmakers who are new to the festival. There are certainly some diamonds in the rough here, as we are not necessarily looking for filmmakers who can merely show that they are good at getting their funds and a professional crew together. We are looking for films that simply needed to be made, and for filmmakers who won't let anything get in the way of making them. We love to lend our ear to the voices that stand out in the crowd.
We would like to thank our selection committee for their efforts in selecting a strong program. This year’s shorts were selected by Go Short’s director Kirsten Ruber, head of the program department Wouter Jansen, Floor Adams (independent animator), Manon Bovenkerk (visual artist), Erik van Drunen (animation and film consultant), Bart Jansen (Beeldbuis Festival), Marlijn Klerk (documentary professional), Hasse van Nunen (documentary producer, Een van de Jongens), Tanja Koning (Discovery Festival Amsterdam), Wiepko Oosterhuis (distributor special films Submarine, art film & science curator) and Viktor van der Valk (director).
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INDEX EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-1: BROTHERS & SISTERS P.34 Milky Brother – Vahram Mkhitaryan fiction / Poland, Armenia / 30' Nothing Left Unsaid – Anne-Marieke Graafmans documentary / the Netherlands / 24' Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove animation / Norway, Canada / 13' reCuiem – Valentina Carnelutti fiction / Italy / 20'
EU-2: FREE RADICALS P.35 Earth over Wind – Joern Utkilen fiction / Norway / 40' Forest – Just One Day – Johnny Kelly art film / United Kingdom / ' Material Conditions of Inner Spaces – Erkka Nissinen art film / Finland, Hong Kong, United States / 15' Storm Hits Jacket – Paul Cabon animation / France / 13'
EU-3: MOMENTS OF DECISION P.36 Wild Dog – Mees Peijnenburg fiction / the Netherlands / 8' Bath House – Niki Lindroth von Bahr animation / Sweden / 15' 32
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Drive With Care – Pilvi Takala documentary / Finland, United States / 13' Patch – Gerd Gockell animation / Switzerland, Germany / 3' Musik – Stefan Bohun fiction / Austria / 40'
EU-4: TO THE MOON P.38 A Weekend Getaway – Metehan Yilmaz fiction / Turkey / 28' Planet ∑ – Momoko Seto art film / France / 12' Soot – Vasco Sá, David Doutel animation / Portugal / 14' We Can't Live without Cosmos – Konstantin Bronzit animation / Russia / 15' Forever Over – Erik Schmitt fiction / Germany / 14'
EU-5: TIMES OF CHANGE P.40 The Motordrome Dream – Adam Kåberg, Catharina Kåberg, Andrea Kåberg documentary / Sweden / 28' Dinner for Few – Nassos Vakalis animation / Greece / 10' A Girl's Day – Ziegler Rosa Hannah documentary / Germany / 15'
Tehran-Geles – Arash Nassiri art film / France / 18' The Noisemaker – Karolis Kaupinis fiction / Lithuania, Sweden / 15'
EU-6: IT’S PHYSICAL P.41 Shepherd's Song – Vahram Mkhitaryan documentary / Poland / 30' Self – Slawomir Milewski art film / Poland / 5' Haircut – Virginia Mori animation / France, Italy / 9' W. Sisters Beauty Salon – Jakub Stozek documentary / Poland / 30' Aïssa – Clément Tréhin-Lalanne fiction / France / 8'
EU-7: GONE WILD P.43 As Long as Shotguns Remain – Jonathan Vinel, Caroline Poggi fiction / France / 30' Leftover – Szabo Sarolta, Banoczki Tibor animation / France / 15' Cams – Carl-Johan Westregård art film / Sweden / 13' The Salt of the Earth – Jonathan Desoindre fiction / France / 18'
EU-8: THE HEART DESIRES P.44
EU-10: YES WE LOVE P.48
EU-12: ANIMATED MATTERS P.51
165/60 – Anton Brutski documentary / Belarus / 17' Memorandum – Juan Millares documentary / Spain / 21' Man on the Chair – Dahee Jeong animation / France / 7' Three Stones for Jean Genet – Frieder Schlaich art film / Germany / 7' Still Born – Åsa Sandzén documentary / Sweden / 9' Chat With Me – Tia Kouvo fiction / Sweden / 9'
It Can Pass Through the Wall – Radu Jude fiction / Romania / 17' Fallen Leaves – Masha Kondakova fiction / Ukraine / 21' Schoolyard – Rinio Dragasaki art film / Greece / 10' Free Now – Pierre Liebaert documentary / Belgium / 11' Yes We Love – Hallvar Witzø fiction / Norway / 15'
Man Meets Woman – Dmitry Geller animation / Russia / 17' Mimma – Calvin Antoine Blandin animation / France / 13' House of Unconciousness – Priit Tender animation / Estonia / 11' Dead Air – Robert Bradbrook animation / United Kingdom / 17' 1+1 – Gil Alkabetz animation / Germany / 11'
EU-9: IN DREAMS P.46 Implausible Things – Rita Macedo art film / Germany / 29' Super Unit – Teresa Czepiec documentary / Poland / 20' Don's Dream – Amos Mulder art film / the Netherlands / 5' Ancha es Castilla/N'Importe Quoi – Sergio Caballero art film / Spain / 25'
EU-11: DOCS OF THE HEART P.49
EU-13: CROSS OVER ART P.52
Spring – Jérôme Clément–Wilz documentary / France / 27' Daphné or the Lovely Specimen – Derosne Sylvain, Laudenbach Sébastien documentary / France / 15' Hotel Straussberg – Jan Soldat documentary / Germany / 27' My Honeymoon – Eileen Hofer documentary / Switzerland / 4'
Working to Beat the Devil – Adam Gutch, Chu–Li Shewring art film / United Kingdom / 27' Cut Out – Guli Silberstein art film / United Kingdom / 4' 8 Bullets – Frank Ternier art film / France / 12' T's World: The Over-Identification of Terry Thompson – Ramon Bloomberg art film / United Kingdom, France, United States / 30'
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Milky Brother Mleczny Brat
Alles Is Gezegd
Nothing Left Unsaid
Me and My Moulton
Director: Vahram Mkhitaryan fiction / Poland, Armenia / 2014 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Anne-Marieke Graafmans documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 24’
Director: Torill Kove animation / Norway, Canada / 2014 / 13’
Eighteen years ago Wim suffered a cerebral infarction. Since then he suffers from what is called ‘locked-in syndrome’, which means that he is not able to talk or move. For the last couple of years he has been living at home, taken care of by his wife. To allow their mother a weekend off, the three sons, Will, Edwin and Bram, take over care by themselves. For the first time the four men are totally reliant on each other for days.
One summer in 1960s Norway, a seven-year-old girl asks her hopelessly out-of-touch parents for a bicycle, but the unconventional ways of these modernist architects soon prove to be a source of quiet embarrassment and anxiety for the young girl.
A story of a little boy named Seto who lives in a small village in Armenia. Soon, a new member of his family is to be born. Seto is hoping for a brother, yet the infant dies. Instead of a little brother, a lamb appears in Seto’s life. Initial dislike turns quickly into liking – friendship evolves between Seto and the lamb. Unfortunately, not for long. Production: Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Wajda School / Script: Vahram Mkhitaryan / Photography: Marcin Sauter / Editing: Ziemowit Jaworski Filmography: Shepherd’s Song (2014), Milky Brother (2014) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Marta Swiatek, +48 122946945, marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl
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Moulton og Meg
Production: Lise Fearnley / Script: Torill Kove / Editing: Alison Burns / Music: Kevin Dean / Sound: Håkon Lammetun
Production: Renko Douze, Hasse van Nunen / Photography: Joost van Herwijnen / Editing: Leonie Hoever / Music: Mihkel Zilmer / Sound: Hens van Rooij, Dennis Kersten
Filmography: Me and My Moulton (2014), Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins (2013), The Danish Poet (2006), My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (1999)
Filmography: Nothing Left Unsaid (2014), If It Weren’t for You (2011), Dear Anne-Marieke (2010)
Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 92813088, amb@nfi.no
Contact: Julia Schellekens, +31 628258692, julia@eenvandejongens.nl
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reCuiem
Earth Over Wind
Forest - Just One Day
Director: Valentina Carnelutti fiction / Italy / 2013 / 20’
Director: Joern Utkilen fiction / Norway / 2014 / 40’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Johnny Kelly art film / United Kingdom / 2014 / 5’ / Dutch premiere
When 7 year old Leo and his little sister Annetta wake up in the morning, their mom Emma is sleeping. Or dead? Alone they have breakfast, they mess about, they play. They wait, they try their life without mommy. Until Gabriele arrives, her boyfriend, until grandma arrives. Until with adults and words, ambiguity loosens up, and each one finds his way towards the night.
A newly separated couple fight about who should take care of their 10-year-old son. A man desperately hunts for someone to share his life with. A young woman fights for her mother’s attention. Earth Over Wind was made through intuition, association and confidence - confidence in the intuitive process, that it would lead to an entertaining and meaningful project.
Production: Fiore Leone, Valentina Carnelutti / Script: Valentina Carnelutti / Photography: Massimo Schiavon / Editing: Sara Zavarise / Music: Francesco Tricarico / Sound: Mirco Mencacci
Production: Ruben Thorkildsen / Script: Joern Utkilen / Photography: Julian Schwanitz, Martin Radich / Editing: Mirja Melberg / Music: John Lemke / Sound: Rob Walker, RJ McConnell
Filmography: reCuiem (2013)
Filmography: Earth Over Wind (2014), Asylum (2011), Wind Over Lake (2011), Little Red Hoodie (2008) (Go Short 2010), No Coke (2007), My New Job (2007), Size 5 (2005), Paper Anniversary (2004), Terrorist (2003), Paperclipmaker (2000), My Job (2000)
Contact: I Film Good: Claudia Mignosi, +32 83848593, claudia@ifilmgood.com
Jord over Vind
Music video for Swedish band Forest. Production, Animation: Johnny Kelly / Music: Forest Filmography: Forest - Just One Day (2014), Back to the Start (2011), Procrastination (2007) (Go Short 2009) Contact: Johnny Kelly, +44 7930436653, johnny@mickeyandjohnny.com
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Material Conditions of Inner Spaces
Storm Hits Jacket
Wild Dog
Director: Erkka Nissinen art film / Hong Kong, United States, Finland / 2014 / 15’
Director: Paul Cabon animation / France / 2014 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Mees Peijnenburg fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 8’
A storm reaches the shores of brittany. Natures drives crazy, two young scientists get caught up in the chaos. Espionage, romantic tensions and mysterious events clash with enthousiasm and randomness.
Gijs’ aggression is becoming more and more of a problem. If he doesn’t take action now his explosive temper will cause irreversible damage.
Three men are trying to change the material conditions by social action. The lead characters of this absurdist slapstick musical are on a quest to find their inner spaces. Production, Script, Photograpy, Editing : Erkka Nissinen Filmography: Material Conditions of Inner Spaces (2014), Rigid Regime (2012) (Go Short 2012), Polis X (2012), Name Me Me Man, Red Negative Evita Gender (2011), West Project (2010), Vantaa (2008), Night School (2007), The Social Construction of Reality (2005) Contact: AV-arkki, The Distribution Centre of Finnish Media Art: Hanna Joensuu, +35 8504356092, programme@av-arkki.fi
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Tempête sur Anorak
Production: Jean François Le Corre / Script, Editing, Animation: Paul Cabon / Sound: Kévin Feildel, Herva Jukka / Cast: Paul Cabon, Célia Asensio, Tristan le Doze, Christophe Seugnet, Thierry Barbet Filmography: Storm Hits Jacket (2014), Savage (2009) Contact: Carolina Cascajares, +33 299650074, contact@vivement-lundi.com
Bloedhond
Production: Sander van Meurs, Pieter Kuijpers, Iris Otten / Script: Jolein Laarman / Photography: Stephan Polman / Editing: Imre Reutelingsperger / Music: Ella van der Woude / Sound: Taco Drijfhout / Cast: Tycho Posthumus Filmography: A Hole in My Heart (2015), Wild Dog (2014), Even Cowboys Get to Cry (2013) (Go Short 2014), We Were Wolves (2012) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, wouter@someshorts.com
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Bath House
Drive with Care
Patch
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr animation / Sweden / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Pilvi Takala documentary / United States, Finland / 2014 / 13’
Director: Gerd Gockell animation / Switzerland, Germany / 2014 / 3’ / Dutch premiere
Six animals meet at the swimming pool. The horse, the pool’s manager, is a dedicated, conscientious friend of order. Over the years the premises have become her whole world. Two wolves come to the pool to bathe. Their relationship is hard to define, but one wolf constantly wields power over the other. Three mice also visit the pool, but they have a different agenda altogether.
Drive With Care investigates the life of a teacher at an elite boarding school in the US. Utilising dry-humoured post-documentation of staged activity, Takala examines the boundaries within this particular community. The film explores faculty members’ strategies for survival as they negotiate their own space within the institution, finding loopholes while being careful not to violate shared rules.
Production: Kalle Wettre / Script: Jerker Virdborg / Animation: Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Schubert Animation / Sound: Hans Appelqvist
Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Sound, Cast: Pilvi Takala
Simhall
Filmography: Bath House (2014), Tord och Tord (2010) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Theo Tsappos, +46 767791133, theo.tsappos@sfi.se
Filmography: Drive with Care (2014), Broad Sense (2012), Players (2010), Real Snow White (2009), The Angels (2008), The Announcer (2007), The Shining Shining (2007), Easy Rider (2006), Wallflower (2006), The Switch (2005), Women in Kahves (2005), Amusement park (2001)
An experimental animated short film using abstract painting to explore the tension field between abstraction and recognisability. Production: Gerd Gockell / Script: Ute Heuer / Music: Phil McCammon / Sound: Thomas Gassmann / Animation: Gerd Gockell, Ute Heuer Filmography: Patch (2014), Optical Percussion (2008), Restored Weekend (2004), Kampf dem Kino (2002), Muratti & Sarotti (2000), Miles, so What! (1993), Crofton Road (1990) Contact: Gerd Gockell, +41 774868616, gerd.gockell@anigraf.org
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Musik
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A Weekend Getaway
PLANET ∑
Director: Stefan Bohun fiction / Austria / 2014 / 38’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Metehan Yilmaz fiction / Turkey / 2014 / 28’ / international premiere
Director: Momoko Seto art film / France / 2014 / 12’ / Dutch premiere
A lonely middle-aged man who is unable to do his job well and who has a bad relationship with his daughter is looking for distraction in music.
Teoman and Ayse, a couple from Istanbul, who have been living together for almost three years are struggling to continue their relationship. Both have become cynical, selfish and bitter towards each other and haven’t failed to show this silently through their actions. They decide to take a weekend getaway to save their relationship to the abandoned cabin of Teoman’s grandmother.
In PLANET ∑, giant creatures are trapped inside the ice. Submarine explosions provoke a global warming, and a new life begins for animals. Third piece from the PLANET series, after PLANET A and PLANET Z.
Production: David Bohun / Script: Stefan Bohun / Photography: Klemens Hufnagl / Editing: Christoph Loidl / Sound: Martin Lang / Cast: Pia Sekerlioglu, Lilo Hohenberger, David Oberkogler, Anna Suk Filmography: Musik (2014) Contact: Sixpackfilm: Gerald Weber, +43 15260990, gerald@sixpackfilm.com
Hafta Sonu Tatili
Production: Zoe Johanna Horn / Script, Editing: Metehan Yilmaz / Sound: Suat Onur Ayas / Cast: Kutay Sandıkçı, Izlem Genç
Filmography: Planet ∑ (2014), Prawn Red Hot Love (2012), Prawns Orgy (2012), Jennifer and Tiffany (2011), Octopus Love Affair (2011), Planet Z (2011) (Go Short 2012), Planet A (2008)
Filmography: A Weekend Getaway (2014), Picnic (2012)
Contact: Les Films De L’arlequin: Carole Leichtmann, +33 142772055, carole.arlequin@gmail.com
Contact: Metehan Yilmaz, +90 5414230574, mmetehanyilmaz@gmail.com
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION
Soot
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
Forever Over
Director: David Doutel, Vasco Sá animation / Portugal / 2014 / 14’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Konstantin Bronzit animation / Russia / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Erik Schmitt fiction / Germany / 2014 / 14’ / Dutch premiere
It’s like soot that rests on the walls of our head. We can’t see it. It belongs there already. After all the time that was left behind one question remained: “Why didn’t the trains stop there?”
Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.
Mia and Tim have been together forever ... at least it feels like that. In search for what has gone lost over the years, they invent a game - one has to help the other fulfilling each one‘s dearest desires. No matter what it is.
Production: Rodrigo Areias / Script: David Doutel, Pedro Bastos / Editing: David Doutel, Vasco Sá / Music: The Legendary Tigerman, Rita Red Shoes / Sound: Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Marinho / Animation: David Doutel, André English, Paulo D’Alva, Vitor Hugo Rocha, Laura Gonçalves, Diana Peixoto, Alexandra Ramires
Production: Alexander Boyarsky / Script: Konstantin Bronzit / Music: Valentin Vasenkov / Sound: Vladimir Golounin / Animation: Vera Shiganova
Fuligem
Mi ne Mozhem zhit bez Kosmosa
Filmography: Soot (2014), The Shoemaker (2011)
Filmography: We Can’t Live without Cosmos (2014), Lavatory – Lovestory (2007), The God (2003), At the Ends of the Earth (1999), Die Hard (1997), Switchcraft (1994), Memento Mori (1991), The Round-about (1988)
Contact: Agencia – Portuguese Short Film Agency: Salette Ramalho, +35 1252646683, agencia@curtas.pt
Contact: Konstantin Bronzit, +7 9215974222, bronzit.k@gmail.com
fOreVER
Production: Fabian Gasmia / Script, Editing: Erik Schmitt / Music: Johannes Repka / Sound: Stephan Bruns, Ron Klober / Cast: Maxim Mehmet, Marleen Lohse Filmography: Telekommando (2014), Forever (2014), Rhino Full Throttle (2013) (Go Short 2014), Now Follows (2010), Solartaxi Aroud the World with the Sun (2010), How to Fly High (2009), Videokind (2007) Contact: Detailfilm: Loïc Le Gros, +49 3060981258, loic.legros91@gmail.com
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-5: TIMES OF CHANGE THU 9 - 19:30 - LUX 4 / FRI 10 - 14:30 - LUX 3
The Motordrome Dream
Dinner For Few
A Girl’s Day
Director: Andrea Kåberg, Adam Kåberg, Catharina Kåberg documentary / Sweden / 2014 / 28’ / international premiere
Director: Nassos Vakalis animation / Greece / 2014 / 10’
Director: Ziegler Rosa Hannah documentary / Germany / 2014 / 15’
Dinner For Few is an allegorical depiction of our society. During dinner, “the system” feeds the select few who consume all the resources while the rest survive on scraps. Inevitably, when the supply is depleted, the struggle for what remains leads to catastrophic change. Sadly, the offspring of this profound transition turns out not to be a sign of hope, but the spitting image of the parents.
An emotional and strongly subjective movie about the question of what “happiness” is. At 19, Yasmin is in search of her own happiness and trying to understand her life, as well as the difficult relationship with her mother, a former heroin addict. The film takes us into Yasmin’s everyday life, shows her clubbing the night away, and traces the steps of her effort to build a life for herself. . Production, Script: Rosa Hannah Ziegler / Photography: Matteo Cocco / Editing: Rosa Hannah Ziegler, Gerhard Ziegler / Music: Max Richter / Sound: Claas-Benjamin Berger
Dödsryttarens Dröm
Leif Lilja built his own motordrome and toured with it as motorcycle artist Berne Kenton in the 60s and early 70s. Back then a motorcycle show was a natural part of the markets right next to the fakir and the snake charmers. When he after a last season sold it, he almost immediately regretted it. Now, 40 years later, he finally got it back through a chance of luck and is determined to revive it! Production: Andrea Kåberg / Photography, Editing: Andrea Kåberg, Adam Kåberg, Catharina Kåberg / Music: Volker Gehring / Sound: Christian Odeholm
Production: Nassos Vakalis, Katerina Stergiopoulou / Music, Sound: Kostas Christides / Animation: Eva Vomhoff
Filmography: The Motordrome Dream (2014)
Filmography: Dinner For Few (2014), Human Nature (2010), Crime Time (2006-2008), That Darn Jesus (2006), Fruitless (2006)
Contact: Andrea Kåberg, +46 739653441, andreakaberg@gmail.com
Contact: Nassos Vakalis, +1 8185995161, nassosvakalis@yahoo.com
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Filmography: A Girl’s Day (2014), Escape (2011), Cigaretta Mon Amour – The Portrait Of My Father (2006) Contact: Rosa Hannah Ziegler, +49 17632094640, rh.ziegler@googlemail.com
EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-6: IT’S PHYSICAL THU 9 - 14:30 - LUX 3 / FRI 10 - 18:00 - LUX 4
Tehran-geles
The Noisemaker
Shepherd’s Song
Director: Arash Nassiri art film / France / 2014 / 18’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Karolis Kaupinis fiction / Lithuania, Sweden / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Vahram Mkhitaryan documentary / Poland / 2014 / 30’ / international premiere
A distant provincial school is waiting for an official delegation from the Ministry. They’re about to bring a new school bell. This is not what the school needs though. Having shrunk throughout the years, it lacks two pupils to satisfy the governmental quota established for any school in the country to exist. The gift from the capital is a threat for the survival of the school.
Somewhere in the high mountains of Armenia, there lives a blind shepherd Khachik. In spite of all the adversities, he has set up a family and leads a quiet life, single-handedly herding his goats on the steep slopes. However, when it turns out that his only son is losing his sight too and has to move to Yerevan to attend a school for the blind, Khachik faces a dilemma.
Production: Marija Razgute / Script: Karolis Kaupinis / Photography: Narvydas Naujalis / Editing: Ieva Veiveryte / Sound: Sigita Visockaite / Cast: Šarunas Puidokas, Valentinas Masalskis
Production: Wajda Studio / Script: Vahram Mkhitaryan / Editing: Daniel Gasiorowski / Music: Arsen Babajanyan
Tehran-geles is a fictional vision of Tehran, set within the urban landscape of Los Angeles. Parallel to the science fictional genre – where the present is projected into the future – this short film projects the past of Tehran into the Western present. Production: Eric Prigent / Photography: François Engrand, Axiom Images, Yald-Fazel / Editing: Arash Nassiri / Music: Flavien Berger / Sound: Raphael Henard, Margaux Priem / Animation: Sebastien Van, Pierre-Yves Boisramé Filmography: Tehran-Geles (2014), Palais (2013), Masters (2012), Lovelock (2011), Tunetracks (2010), Voyage (2009) Contact: Arash Nassiri, +33 69522747, arash.nassiri@gmail.com
Triukšmadarys
Filmography: The Noisemaker (2014), Idea for Corcovado Borealis (2013), Mission Siberia (2012), The Willow Tree (2011), Waiting for freedom or Smile to us, Mr. Berlin (2010)
Piesn Pasterza
Filmography: Shepherd’s Song (2014), Milky Brother (2014) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Marta Swiatek, +48 122946945, marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl
Contact: CIOBRELIAI: Marija Razgute, +370 60107802, marija@ciobreliai.lt GOSHORT
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-6: IT’S PHYSICAL THU 9 - 14:30 - LUX 3 / FRI 10 - 18:00 - LUX 4
Self Director: Slawomir Milewski art film / Poland / 2014 / 5’ / Dutch premiere Self is an intrinsic dimension of the fact of experiencing phenomena. Production: Slawomir Milewski Filmography: Self (2014) Contact: Slawomir Milewski, +44 7922248782, suavek@live.co.uk
Haircut
W. Sisters Beauty Salon
Director: Virginia Mori animation / Italy, France / 2014 / 9’ / European premiere
Director: Jakub Stozek documentary / Poland / 2014 / 30’ / international premiere
A teacher and her pupil linger in an empty classroom. Through their looks and gestures, a strange confrontation begins.
In 2012, a peculiar beauty salon was opened in Szczecin. It is the only beauty parlour for women with cancer. It is run by two sisters, Joanna Wiszniewska and Jolanta Wiewióra, who know from their own experience how troublesome it may be for patients to visit to a hairdresser or a beautician. Their establishment is different. Clients have an opportunity to talk freely about their dreams and fears.
Tagli di Capelli
Production: Pascaline Saillant / Script: Virginia Mori / Editing: Lola Capote / Music, Sound: Andrea Martignoni Filmography: Haircut (2014), Rachele (2011), The Play of Silence (2009), Punto a Capo (2006), Pagina 16 (2003) Contact: 25 Films: Izumi Gautier, +33 683704409, distribution@25films.fr
Salon Siostr W.
Production: Afilm Anna Zajaczkowska / Script: Jakub Stozek / Photography: Aleksander Duraj, Michal Pakulski Filmography: W. Sisters Beauty Salon (2014), Out of Reach (2010) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Marta Swiatek, +48 122946945, marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-7: GONE WILD THU 9 - 17:00 - LUX 2 / FRI 10 - 22:00 - LUX 1
Aïssa
As Long as Shotguns Remain
Leftover
Director: Clément Tréhin-Lalanne fiction / France / 2014 / 8’
Director: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel fiction / France / 2014 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Szabo Sarolta, Banoczki Tibor animation / France / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Aïssa is Congolese and is presently residing illegally on French territory. She claims to be a minor however the authorities believe she is over 18. In order to establish whether or not she can remain in the country a doctor must give her a physical examination.
It’s damned hot. Streets are oddly empty. Palms are suffering and shot guns crying. Joshua wants to die but doesn’t want to leave his brother Mae alone. Meanwhile he meets with a gang : the Icebergs.
A man sentenced to death, an old lady, a hunter, a window cleaner, a captive cooker and an anorexic young girl. The stories of these people are told trought their relation to food. By sharing with them a moment from their meals, we can understand their relation to other people and their vision of the world. For many reasons, from their own decision or from which they suffer, they all eat alone.
Production: Michel Tavares, Pauline Seigland, Karine Blanc / Script: Clément Tréhin-Lalanne / Photography: Romain le Bonniec / Editing: Mona-Lise Lanfant / Sound: Mathieu Vigouroux, Gérard Mailleau / Cast: Manda Touré, Bernard Campan Filmography: Aïssa (2014), Lucien (2008)
Tant Qu’il nous Reste des Fusils à Pompe
Production: Marcello Cavagna, Anne Luthaud , Lou Chicoteau / Script: Jonathan Vinel , Caroline Poggi / Photography: Raphaël Vandenbussche / Editing: Vincent Tricon / Sound: Maxime Roy, Clément Laforce, Romain Ozanne / Cast: Lucas Doméjean, Naël Malassagne, Nicolas Mias, Benoit Roux Filmography: Caroline Poggi: Dogs (2013); Jonathan Vinel: Prince Power Memories (2012), Play (2010), We (2010), Plastic Boy (2009)
Production: Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin, Laurent Baujard / Script: Tibor Banoczki, Sarolta Szabo / Editing: Camille Guyot / Music: Chris White / Sound: Stephan Smith / Animation: Marie Vieillevie, Hugo Bravo Filmography: Leftover (2014), The Conquerors (2011)
Contact: Takami Productions, Production: Marushka Hullot, +33 142935664, distribution@takami-productions.com
Contact: Caroline Poggi, +33 618918841, poggicaroline01@gmail.com
Contact: Marjorie Bosch, +33 182284183, aproduction@paprikaprod.com
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-8: THE HEART DESIRES THU 9 - 17:30 - LUX 4 / FRI 10 - 16:00 - LUX 4
EU-7: GONE WILD THU 9 - 17:00 - LUX 2 / FRI 10 - 22:00 - LUX 1
Cams
The Salt of the Earth
165/60
Director: Carl-Johan Westregård art film / Sweden / 2014 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Jonathan Desoindre fiction / France / 2014 / 18’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Anton Brutski documentary / Belarus / 2014 / 17’ / Dutch premiere
The image pans slowly around a coastal moor, a neighborhood of silent villas and empty streets, a forest path in fading summer light. There are no witnesses to tell the stories of how it all ended. In this world, which at first seems only to reflect a recent emptying, black things move about, as if dying echoes of a cataclysm too terrifying to narrate.
Vincent and Diane, thirty-something Parisians, have decided to get married. Vincent brings her fiancée back to his home town but his family shows some hostility. Situation escalates when, at a hunting game, Diane is accidentally wounded. .. Production: Damien Lagogué / Script: Jonathan Desoindre / Photography: Benjamin Rufi / Editing: Sacha Basset-Chercot / Music: Mathieu Gauriat / Sound: Gautier Isern
Can one triumph over death as it always comes unexpectedly? It is early to die no matter how old you are, isn’t it? Autumn. An old village in a Belarusian remote place. An elderly man is starting to objectify his fight...
Filmography: The Salt of the Earth (2014), Chômage Partiel (2009)
Filmography: 165/60 (2014)
Production: Carl-Johan Westregård / Sound: Sebastian Cronholm Filmography: Cams (2014), Hacienda (2013), Late (2010) Contact: Carl-Johan Westregård, +46 736728966, westregard@gmail.com
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Le Sel de la Terre
Contact: Les Produits Frais: Clemence Parente, +33 682574900, diffusion@lesproduitsfrais.com
Production: Nikolai Denisyonok / Photography: Svetlana Kolpakova, Anton Brutski / Editing: Anton Brutski / Sound: Anton Brutski, Illya Alekseev, Ksenia Degtyareva
Contact: Anton Brutski, +375 295091305, brutski@outlook.com
EUROPEAN COMPETITION
Memorandum
Man on the Chair
Three Stones for Jean Genet
Director: Juan Millares documentary / Spain / 2014 / 21’ / international premiere
Director: Dahee Jeong animation / France / 2014 / 7’
Director: Frieder Schlaich documentary / Germany / 2014 / 7’ / Dutch premiere
Man on the chair is tormented and constantly doubts his very own existence. It is just merely a picture that I created... Could I also be an image crafted by others?
In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago.
Production: Ron Dyens / Script: Dahee Jeong / Music: Sangwoo Ma / Sound: Lee Jusuk, Kim Won
Production, Photography: Frieder Schlaich / Script: Patti Smith, Frieder Schlaich / Editing: Kathrin Krottenthaler / Sound: Jochen Jezussek
Memorándum
Memorandum that the archivist of a financial research center sends to his principal. So confesses his obsession for an old industrial film which makes him relive his problems with his wife. Production: Mercè Sampietro / Script, Editing: Juan Millares Alonso / Music: Gemma Torrellas Paz / Narration: José Ángel Egido / Sound: Emilio Bustos, Juan Borrell Filmography: Memorandum (2014), El Pabellón Alemán (2009), Cuadernos de Contabilidad de Manolo Millares (2005) Contact: Marvin&Wayne Short Film Distribution: Josep Prim, +34 934863313, fest@marvinwayne.com
Filmography: Man on the Chair (2014), The Hours of Tree (2012), The Black Room (2011) Contact: Sacrebleu Productions: Ron Dyens, +33 142253027, distribution@sacrebleuprod.com
Filmography: Three Stones for Jean Genet (2014), Weil Ich Schöner Bin (2012), Christoph Schlingensief und Seine Filme (2005), Otomo (1999), Paul Bowles – Halbmond (1995), Am Strand von Merkala (1993) Contact: Filmgalerie 451: Frieder Schlaich, +49 3033982800, kino@filmgalerie451.de
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-9: IN DREAMS FRI 10 - 14:00 - LUX 4 / SAT 11 - 11:00 - LUX 4
EU-8: THE HEART DESIRES THU 9 - 17:30 - LUX 4 / FRI 10 - 16:00 - LUX 4
Still Born
Chat with me
Implausible Things
Director: Åsa Sandzén documentary / Sweden / 2014 / 9’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Tia Kouvo fiction / Sweden / 2014 / 9’ / international premiere
Director: Rita Macedo art film / Germany / 2014 / 29’ / Dutch premiere
A mother tries to understand what happened when her child died before birth. She talks about the short time she got with her dead child to relive that memory once again and to try to come to terms with her pain and anger.
Mats is in his seventies and leads a mundane and quiet life with his wife Doris. One day, he enters a chat site on the Internet, and makes a new acquaintance. Maybe can life make a whole new turn?
Built from 16mm found footage, Implausible Things seven sequences create a patchwork of reflective tonality, in which each viewer is subtly invited to leave their conceptions of reason and causality behind.
Production, Sound: Mario Adamson / Script: Åsa Sandzén / Photography: Albin Biblom / Music, Narration: Katharina Nuttall / Animation: Kalle Sandzén
Production, Script: Tia Kouvo / Sound: Kristofer Krook / Cast: Jan de Laval, Ragnar Ericsson
Production, Script, Editing: Rita Macedo / Music: Kevin Macleod, Pedro Augusto, Yair Elazar Glotman, Nigel Farrelly / Narration: Jean-Philippe Villemaire-Quintin, Annie Goh, Nigel Farrelly / Sound: Rita Macedo, Yair Elazar Glotman
Filmography: Still Born (2014), Dildoman (2009)
Contact: Tia Kouvo, +46 760850848, tiakouvo@hotmail.com
Contact: Åsa Sandzén, +46 704927121, info@sandzena.se
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Chatten
Filmography: Chat with Me (2014), Rio Rita (2012)
Filmography: Implausible Things (2014) Contact: Rita Macedo, +49 1623989863, wooden.chucks@gmail.com
EUROPEAN COMPETITION
Super Unit
Don’s Dream
Ancha es Castilla/N’Importe Quoi
Director: Teresa Czepiec documentary / Poland / 2014 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Amos Mulder art film / The Netherlands / 2014 / 5’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Sergio Caballero animation / Spain / 2013 / 25’
Superjednostka
Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a “housing machine”. Up to three thousand people can live on 15 floors of the building. The lifts only stop every three floors so the residents must go through a maze of corridors and stairs in order to get to their flats. The main characters of the documentary are people living in Superjednostka. Production: Wajda Studio / Script: Teresa Czepiec / Photography: Pawel Dyllus / Editing: Jerzy Zawadzki Filmography: Super Unit (2014) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Marta Swiatek, +48 122946945, marta.swiatek@kff.com.pl
A hypnotherapist helps Don to unravel the meaning of his recurring dream. Production: Amos Mulder Filmography: Don’s Dream (2014), Ceci N’est Pas un Reve (2012) (Go Short 2012), Verkeerde Raadhuizen (2011) (Go Short 2011), Ghost of Icarus (2009) (Go Short 2010) Contact: A. Mulder, +31 644898394, info@amosmulder.com
Ancha es Castilla / N’importe quoi is a horror movie and sick comedy which tells the story of a child possesed by the Devil and the exorcisms she practices with her family in order to evict the evil. An explosive mix between The Exorcist, Jaws and God Save the Queen. . Production: Sergio Caballero / Photography: Marc Gómez del Moral, Claudia Mallart / Editing: Martí Roca / Music: Evol / Sound: Pedro Alcalde / Animation: Lolo and Sosaku Filmography: Ancha es Castilla/N’Importe Quoi (2014), La Distancia (2013), Finisterrae (2010) Contact: AM Films SL: Déborah Camañes Gas, +34 933208163, deborah@sonar.es
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-10: YES WE LOVE FRI 10 - 18:30 - LUX 3 / SAT 11 - 15:30 - LUX 2
It Can Pass Through the Wall Trece Si Prin Perete
Lystopad
Fallen leaves
Schoolyard
Director: Radu Jude fiction / Romania / 2013 / 17’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Masha Kondakova fiction / Ukraine / 2014 / 21’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Rinio Dragasaki art film / Greece / 2014 / 10’ / Dutch premiere
I am frightened, Grandpa!… Do you hear? […] The people in the house are crying, he said. They miss the one who died, that’s why they are crying.
It’s autumn in the outskirts of Kyiv. One morning Valya, a lonely 40 year old caretaker, is burning fallen leaves in the forest nearby. Before long she bumps into a charming stranger who soon manages to seduce his way into her flat. Once inside, Valya subtly and gradually becomes a hostage in her own home .
Athens, in the heat of summer. A bunch of schoolkids are hanging out in the yard. The classrooms are empty. The sun is scorching hot. A water bomb falls out of the sky, stirring up a water fight. It’s game on. But in this game, you play till you drop.
“In the Coach House” by A.P. Checkhov. Production: Ada Solomon, Radu Jude / Script: Radu Jude / Photography: Marius Panduru / Editing: Catalin F. Cristutiu / Sound: Dana Bunescu, Mirel Cristea, Florian Stoica / Cast: Sofia Nicolaescu, Ion Arcudeanu, Marcel Horobet, Gabriel Spahiu, Alecu Jude Filmography: Aferim! (2015), It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014), Shadow of a Cloud (2013), Everybody in Our Family (2012), A Film for Friends (2011), The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), In the Morning (2007), Alexandra (2006), The Tube with a Hat (2006) Contact: Sc Hi Film Productions: Robert Mateescu, +40 212524867, robert@hifilm.ro 48
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Production: Igor Savychenko / Script: Masha Kondakova, Masysia Nikitiuk / Photography: Giorgi Beridze / Editing: Sergei Klepach, Masha Kondakova / Music: Anton Baibakov / Sound: KWA Studio
Proavlio
Production: Guanaco, Greek Film Center / Script: Rinio Dragasaki / Photography: Thomas Varvias / Music: Felizol / Editing: Panos Voutsaras / Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Persefoni Milou, Yiannis Veslems, Costas Varibopiotis / Cast: Avra Vordonarak, Giorgos Vordonarakis, Kritonas Doris
Filmography: Fallen Leaves (2014) Contact: Masha Kondakova, +33 782392323, mashakonda@gmail.com
Filmography: Schoolyard (2014), Dad, Lenin and Freddy (2011), Leaving (2005) Contact: Rinio Dragasaki, +30 6949807016, drrinos@yahoo.gr
EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-11: DOCS OF THE HEART FRI 10 - 22:30 - LUX 3 / SAT 11 - 11:30 - LUX 2
Free now
Yes We Love
Director: Pierre Liebaert documentary / Belgium / 2014 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Hallvar Witzø fiction / Norway / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Libre Maintenant
The models who replied to his ad wanted to pose in the intimacy of closed doors, as if this face to face with the photographer whom they knew nothing about was the one thing they had been waiting for. Production: Pierre Liebaert / Music: Emilie Vergauwe / Sound: Pierre Liebaert, Jonathan Vanneste Filmography: Free Now (2014) Contact: Pierre Liebaert, +32 499394139, pierre.liebaert@hotmail.com
Ja Vi Elsker
Four generations, each with a crisis, set in four different parts of Norway on the Norwegian Constitution Day. Production: Elisabeth Kvithyll / Script: Hallvar Witzø / Photography: Audun G. Magnæs / Editing: Elisabeth Kvithyll, Audun G. Magnæs / Sound: Nils Jakob Langvik Filmography: Yes We Love (2014), Tuba Atlantic (2010), Remi (2009), Svigertur (2009), Kosmonaut (2008), Svenske Epler (2008) Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 92813088, amb@nfi.no
Spring
Printemps
Director: Jérôme Clément-Wilz documentary / France / 2014 / 27’ Can a young love, settled on important cultural differences, last over time ? Spring, an instinctive documentary filmed by the director and his love, carries us through a coarse romanticism, open to all in an absolute beauty. Production: Alexandre Perrier, François-Pierre Clavel / Script: Jérôme Clément-Wilz Filmography: Spring (2014) Contact: Kidam: Alexandre Perrier, +33 146285317, alexandre@kidam.net
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-11: DOCS OF THE HEART FRI 10 - 22:30 - LUX 3 / SAT 11 - 11:30 - LUX 2
Daphné or the Lovely Specimen
Hotel Straussberg
My Honeymoon
Director: Sylvain Derosne, Sébastien Laudenbach animation / France / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Jan Soldat documentary / Germany / 2014 / 27’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Eileen Hofer documentary / Switzerland / 2014 / 4’ / international premiere
A three-day-observation of a German military bootcamp.
In 2013, 11600 asylum seeks, most of them Syrians, arrived in Bulgaria, one of the poorest country of the European Union. My friends and family gave me funds so I brought them food and useful items during a trip to Sofia. This is how I briefly meet Berivan and her husband. We improvised this film in less than an hour.
Daphné ou la Belle Plante
As any pretty plant, Daphné buds, opens, fills with fragrance and loses leaves. But is never allowed pick. Combining animation and continuous shooting, Daphné or the Lovely Specimen is a documentary painting the portrait of an unchaste and sensitive woman who speaks to us first about her body then about her heart. Without waffle. Production: Jean-Christophe Soulageon / Script: Sébastien Laudenbach, Sylvain Derosne / Photography: Jérémy Lesquenner, Simon Gesrel, Jean-Louis Padis / Editing: Sylvain Derosne, Sébastien Laudenbach, Santi Minasi / Music: Juliette Armanet, Manuel Peskine / Animation: Sylvain Derosne, Romain Blanc-Tailleur / Sound: Émile Chapon, Alexis Farou, Alexandre Hecker, Xavier Marsais Filmography: Daphné or the Lovely Specimen (2014) Contact: Jean-Christophe Soulageon, +33 142295504, festival@filmsauvages.com 50
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Production, Photography: Jan Soldat Filmography: The Visit (2015), Die Sechste Jahreszeit (2015), Prison System 4614 (2015), Hotel Straussberg (2014), The Incomplete (2013), A Weekend in Germany (2013), Crazy Dennis Tiger (2012), Law and Order (2012), Interim (2011), Be Loved (2010) Contact: Jan Soldat, +49 1768217730, jan.soldat@yahoo.de
Production, Script, Editing: Eileen Hofer / Photography: Kamen Kalev / Music: Lad Agabekov Filmography: My Honeymoon (2014), He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes (2012), Soap Opera in Wonderland (2010), The Mourning of the Merry Stork (2009), Roots (2008) Contact: Eileen Hofer, +41 764325383, info@eileenhofer.ch
EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-12: ANIMATED MATTERS FRI 10 - 13:30 - LUX 2 / SAT 11 - 12:00 - LUX 1
Man Meets Woman
Mimma
House of Unconciousness
Director: Dmitry Geller animation / Russia / 2014 / 17’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Calvin Antoine Blandin animation / France / 2014 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Priit Tender animation / Estonia / 2014 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
A man meets a woman, and the more he learns about her the more barriers arise between them.
After a tragic event, a child takes refuge in an alternative reality, where his mother is still present.
Production: Lyubov Gaidukova / Script: Dmitry Geller, Vladimir Geller / Photography: Anna Karpova / Editing: Dmitry Geller / Music, Sound: Artem Fadeev / Narration: Svetlana Zimina / Animation: Dmitry Geller, Anna Karpova, Ekaterina Bloshkina, Sun Jing, Lu Shengyu, Svetlana Zimina
Production: Marc Jousset, Perrine Capron / Script, Editing, Animation: Calvin Antoine Blandin / Music, Sound: Denis Vautrin / Narration: Denis Vautrin, Sophie Brégiroux, Pauline Vautrin
This film is based on a long-term study of the dreams of chimney sweepers. The most frequently encountered images have been selected from the abundant material available and the script was created on the basis of those images. Statistics support the claim that this film presents one of the dreams that chimney sweepers encounter most frequently.
Muzhchina Vstrechayet Zhenshinu
Filmography: Man Meets Woman (2014), A Little Pond by the Great Wall (2012), I Saw Mice Burying a Cat (2011), The Sparrow Who Kept His Word (2010), Boy (2008), Declaration of Love (2006), Handicraft (2004), The Little Night Symphony (2003), Hello from Kisovodsk (2001) Contact: School-Studio “SHAR”: Anna Ostalskaya, +7 9037481610, sharstudia@gmail.com
La Chair de ma Chère
Filmography: Mimma (2014), I’m Going to Disneyland (2009) Contact: Mikhal Bak, +33 979349902, mikhal.bak@gmail.com
Alateadvuse Maja
Production: Kalev Tamm / Script: Priit Tender / Music: Rainer Jancis / Sound: Horret Kuus / Animation: Jaagup Metsalu, Katrin Vaher, Tarmo Vaarmets, Maiken Silla, Ülle Metsur, Eve Luup Filmography: House of Unconsiousness (2014), Miriam’s Theatre (2007), Message for the Neighbours (2006), Miriam Plays Hide and Seek (2005), Frank ja Wendy (2003-2005), Fox Woman (2002), Mont Blanc (2001), Viola (1999), The Crow and the Mice (1998), Gravitation (1996) Contact: Eesti Joonisfilm OÜ: Rutt Raudkivi, +372 6776367, rutt@joonisfilm.ee GOSHORT
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-12: ANIMATED MATTERS FRI 10 - 13:30 - LUX 2 / SAT 11 - 12:00 - LUX 1
EU-13: CROSS OVER ART THU 9 - 15:00 - LUX 4 / SAT 11 - 13:30 - LUX 2
Dead Air
1+1
Working to Beat the Devil
Director: Robert Bradbrook animation / United Kingdom / 2014 / 17’ / international premiere
Director: Gil Alkabetz animation / Germany / 2014 / 11’
Director: Adam Gutch, Chu-Li Shewring art film / United Kingdom / 2014 / 27’
“I’m walking. There’s somebody else walking in front of me. This has been going on for a while. At some point it might get unpleasant – it might seem as if I’m following him”.
‘Images of all past actions incessantly passing through the brain...’ An ageing scientist, troubled and confused by remembrances from his past, toils night and day to re-discover secrets to the creation of life. The creature, struggling for existence in the natural world, journeys unceasingly to find its creator.
Arriving on a small, tranquil island, DJ Pete causes a stir among the insular locals with his fresh and irreverent radio show. Only one islander, Laura, welcomes the newcomer with open arms. But as the island’s landscape shifts over time, so does Pete’s relationship with Laura and his new home. Production: Casey Herbert / Script: Ian Sellar / Photography: Matthias Pilz / Music: Stuart Hilton / Sound: Sue Harding, Barnaby Templer / Animation: Robert Bradbrook / Cast: Elena Magee, John Biggins, Steve Brody, Pamela Binns, Ryan Saxon, Victoria Bewick, Jonah Russell Filmography: Dead Air (2014), Press Return (2004), Home Road Movies (2001), End of Restriction (1994), The Sleeper (1992) Contact: Festival Formula: Katie McCullough, +44 7540580265, info@festivalformula.com 52
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Script, Animation: Gil Alkabetz / Music, Sound: Michael Dempsey / Narration: Steven Blakeley Filmography: 1+1 (2014), Wollmond (2009), The Da Vinci Time Code (2009), A Sunny Day (2007), Morir de Amor (2004), Travel to China (2002), Trim Time (2002), Rubicon (1997), Yankale (1995), Swamp (1991), Bitzbuts (1984) Contact: Sweet Home Studio: Gil Alkabetz, gil@alkabetz.com
Production, Editing: Chu-Li Shewring / Photography, Sound: Adam Gutch, Chu-Li Shewring Filmography: Tyger, Tiger (2014), Working to Beat the Devil (2014), Hoof, Tooth & Claw (2011), Semangat (2010) Contact: Chu-Li Shewring , +44 7966255741, chuli@flyingant.org.uk
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Cut Out Director: Guli Silberstein art film / United Kingdom / 2014 / 4’ / Dutch premiere A radiant, energetic girl is shouting and punching an unseen enemy in the empty space in front of her. She is roughly cut out from her surroundings by a computer algorithm struggling to contain her. Her enemies are rubbed off the frame, sound is removed and music added, emphasising her anguish and anger. Is she real? Is she a dream? The video-processing highlights the documented scene as image, both of a fight for freedom, and a media event. Production: Guli Silberstein Filmography: Cut Out (2014), System Error (2013), Disturbdance (2012), Reform (2011), Staring into Infinity (2010), Being Shot (2010), Excerpt (2008), Re:Commandments (2007), Beach (2006), Layers of Cognition (2005), Schizophrenic State (2003)
8 Bullets
T’s World: The Over-Identification of Terry Thompson
Director: Frank Ternier animation / France / 2014 / 13’
Director: Ramon Bloomberg documentary / United Kingdom, France, United States / 2014 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
8 Balles
My name is Gabriel and I live in Taipei. I lost my wife during an assault. A red-haired man entered my home, smelling of dried fish. He was carrying a weapon ; he used it on my family. Since then, I’ve been feeling a void ; a hole in my head. Production: Maud Martin / Music: Zed / Animation: Shih han SHAW, Laurent Moulin
The outrageous case of an American who kept wild animals and fed them his own body, with references to epic theatre, Greek tragedies, and Play Station aesthetics. Production, Photography: Ramon Bloomberg / Editing: Stark Haze / Animation: József Szimon, Balázs Őrley
Filmography: 8 Bullets (2014) Contact: Maud Martin, +33 640234330, maudmartin@limagedapres.fr
Filmography: T’s World: The Over-Identification of Terry Thompson (2014), Glacis (2013), Trans-Vector (2013), I have informed them and they have understood (2013) Contact: Ramon Bloomberg, +44 7864050272, ramonbloomberg@gmail.com
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DUTCH COMPETITION This is where we harvest the short films grown on our own soil. We are glad to see that Dutch filmmakers are making headway internationally. The films that were part of this competition last year went on to gather lots of attention and praise at other international film festivals. We hope to contribute to this because we want this competition to be more than a profile of Dutch film making; we want it to be a springboard for filmmakers with a bold voice and a clear-cut identity.
There are some familiar faces here. Aaron Rookus, a previous winner of the Dutch award, presents his new film. Mees Peijnenburg won last year's Youth Award, and is represented by films in both the Dutch and the European competition. Amos Mulder and Job Joris & Marieke made it to the selection for a third time and Bram Schouw for a second time. Christian van Duuren is a newcomer here, although he is already a local household name because of his many distinctions at the 48 Hour Film Project in Nijmegen. Besides the VEVAM Go Short Award, all films in the Dutch competition are eligible for the Format Court Award. The Format Court Jury consists of Agathe Demanneville, Katia Bayer, Marie Bergeret, Adi Chesson, and ZoĂŠ Libault.
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INDEX DUTCH COMPETITION NL-1: OUT OF THE ORDINARY
NL-2: WISH YOU WERE HERE
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P.58
P – Aaron Rookus fiction / the Netherlands / 9' Descent – Johan Rijpma art film / the Netherlands / 2' Supporting Film – Douwe Dijkstra documentary / the Netherlands / 10' The Hornhunter – Noël Loozen fiction / the Netherlands / 15' New – Eefje Blankevoort documentary / the Netherlands / 19' Splintertime – Rosto animation / the Netherlands, France, Belgium / 11' De Smet – Thomas Baerten, Wim Geudens fiction / Belgium, the Netherlands / 15'
A Hole in My Heart – Mees Peijnenburg fiction / the Netherlands / 9' Blindly – Joanne Van Der Weg animation / the Netherlands / 2' All Those Sunflowers – Bram Schouw fiction / the Netherlands / 20' A Single Life – Job, Joris & Marieke animation / the Netherlands / 2' Meantime – Christian van Duuren fiction / the Netherlands / 18' If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy – Mea de Jong documentary / the Netherlands / 25'
SCREENING IN EUROPEAN COMPETITION Nothing Left Unsaid – Anne-Marieke Graafmans / P. 34 documentary / the Netherlands / 24' Don's Dream – Amos Mulder/ P. 47 art film / the Netherlands / 5'
SCREENING IN BREAKING SHORTS STUDENT COMPETITION Drone Drive By – Jack Faber / P. 66 documentary / the Netherlands, Israel / 1' Among Us – Guido Hendrikx / P. 68 documentary / the Netherlands / 24' Onno the Oblivious – Viktor van der Valk / P. 71 fiction / the Netherlands / 29'
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Descent
Supporting Film
Director: Aaron Rookus fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 9’
Director: Johan Rijpma art film / The Netherlands / 2014 / 2’
Director: Douwe Dijkstra documentary / The Netherlands / 2015 / 10’ / world premiere
A family reaches boiling point during a pit stop on their way home from what might be their last holiday together. But the volatile cocktail of sweltering heat, restless hormones and suppressed frustration fails to explode, leading instead to reconciliation.
A cup falls and breaks into pieces. Every frame of this recorded movement is then translated into a ceramic layer. All the layers are then arranged vertically and glued together, forming a new object. As this new form emerges gravity starts to shift pulling the new object into destruction as well. This cycle repeats itself by translating destructive moments into higher dimensional forms.
Production: Maarten van der Ven / Script: Saskia Diesing / Photography: Robbie van Brussel / Editing: Saskia Kievits / Music: Mickey & Peter Smid / Sound: Michael Sauvage / Cast: Koen de Graeve, Rifka Lodeizen, Bas van Prooijen, Yentl Meijer, Fabian Jansen, Marie-Louise Stheins Filmography: P (2014), Balance (2013), The Resistance (2012), Rauwtafel (2012), Wednesdays (2011) (Go Short 2012), I Wish I Could Share the Happiness of Being Alone With Someone Else (2008) Contact: Venfilm: Maarten van der Ven, +31 641878497, venfilm@gmail.com 56
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Production, Script, Editing, Music, Animation, Sound, Cast: Johan Rijpma Filmography: Refreshment (2014), Division (2012), Primary Expansion (2012), Natural Thing (2012), Tape Generations (2011), Fill-in (2011), 8 Frame Grid (2010), Mad on Rocks 2 (2010), Tiles (2009), Grow (2009) Contact: Johan Rijpma, +31 654950704, johan@johanrijpma.nl
Voor Film
From the perspectives from a dozen diverse viewers, this documentary short explores the peculiar ritual of watching film. How is the medium experienced by people with sensory impairments, strong religious beliefs, or lovesickness? A story about moving images and their audience. Production: Bart Jansen / Photography: Douwe Dijkstra / Music, Sound: Rob Peters Filmography: Supporting Film (2015), Démontable (2014) (Go Short 2014), Backpacking Series (2006), The Washing Machine (2005) Contact: Go Short: Anne van der Veer, +31 246636789, info@goshort.nl
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The Hornhunter
New
Splintertime
Director: Noël Loozen fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 15’
Director: Eefje Blankevoort documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 19’
Director: Rosto animation / Belgium, France, The Netherlands / 2014 / 11’
The Hornhunter is about a guy called Noël that is longing for a girlfriend. Online, Noël finds a group of men who put ship horns on trucks. They call themselves the Human Birds; sending out artificial mating calls. Far out, in desolated areas, they blow the horns to create echoes that reach their targets. Noël realizes that he also needs such a horn on his car.
For every child it is scary to be the ‘new kid’ at school, but if you come from another country and don’t speak any Dutch at all, it must be terrifying.
Production: 100% Halal productions / Script: Noël Loozen / Photography: Tim Kerbosch / Editing: Erik Verhulst / Music: Milan Mes / Sound: Thijs van der Vliet, Steven Vanwetswinkel, Michaël Sauvage / Cast: Noël Loozen, Indian Pete, Christopher Stephane
Filmography: New (2014), Bring the Jews home (2014), Love Radio (2013), Hidden Wounds (2013), Joëlla, Best Friends Forever (2013), What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave (2013), Playing for keeps (2011), ANGRY (2011), The Russian War (20092010), Nobody tells me what to believe (2008)
Filmography: Splintertime (2015), Lonely Bones (2013), The Monster of Nix (2011) (Go Short 2012), No Place Like Home (2009), Jona/Tomberry (2005), The Rise and Fall of the Legendary Anglobilly Feverson (2002)
Filmography: The Hornhunter (2014), Obstacle Course 2.0 (2013), Obstacle course 1.0 (2009)
Contact: Witfilm: Jantien Ekkes, +31 206885049, jantien@witfilm.nl
Contact: Autour de Minuit: Pauline Ginot, +33 142811728, festivals@autourdeminuit.com
Nieuw
Production: Boudewijn Koole, Iris Lammertsma / Photography: Ton Peters NSC / Editing: Tim Roza / Music: George Dumitriu, Alex Simu / Sound: Hein Verhoeven
Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass. A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance runs out of road. The third in a series of musical films featuring Thee Wreckers. Production: Rosto, Geert Van Goethem, Nicolas Schmerkin / Script: Rosto / Editing: Rosto & Nicolas Schmerkin / Music: Thee Wreckers
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De Smet
NL-2: WISH YOU WERE HERE THU 9 - 22:00 - LUX 1 / FRI 10 - 18:00 - LUX 1
A Hole in My Heart
Blindly
Director: Thomas Baerten, Wim Geudens fiction / Belgium, The Netherlands / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Mees Peijnenburg fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 9’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Joanne Van Der Weg animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 2’
The brothers ‘De Smet’ are helping each other to make their lives as singles as enjoyable as possible. When a new woman moves into a house in their street, their synergy turns out to be a house of cards.
Sometimes things happen that turn everything to silence. To the point that nothing makes sense anymore. As if everything got stuck.
Un Creux dans Mon Coeur
Blindelings
What does a blind person see that i don’t see?
Production: David Deprez, Ben Vandendaele, Elbe Stevens / Photography: Emanuel Vanderjeugd / Editing: Thijs van Nuffel / Music: Ruben Debusschere / Sound: Arnout Colaert / Cast: Jessica Zeylmaker, Stefaan Degand, Sven de Ridder, Tom Audeneart
Production: Gijs Kerbosch / Script: Mees Peijnenburg / Photography: Stephan Polman / Editing: Imre Reutelingsperger / Music: Juho Nurmela, Ella van der Woude / Sound: Taco Drijfhout / Cast: Rodrigo Vissers, Leyla de Muynck, Henri Leblanc
Filmography: De Smet (2014)
Filmography: A Hole in My Heart (2015), Wild Dog (2014), Even Cowboys Get to Cry (2013) (Go Short 2014), We Were Wolves (2012)
Contact: David Deprez, +31 631640832, david.deprez@lumiere.nl
Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, wouter@someshorts.com
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Production, Photography: Joanne Van Der Weg / Sound: Joanne Van Der Weg, Berend Hesselink Filmography: Blindly (2014), SmsBode (2013) Contact: Joanne van der Weg, +31 613571124, joannevanderweg@hotmail.com
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All Those Sunflowers
A Single Life
Meantime
Director: Bram Schouw fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 20’
Director: Job, Joris & Marieke animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 2’
Director: Christian van Duuren fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 18’
Her friends invite a mourning young woman for a weekend at a beach house in The Hamptons. When her lover suddenly turns up, she realizes that she needs to find closure with her past before she can start living in the present again.
When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.
When Pascal first arrives at a serious accident, he dials the emergency number. In the next minutes he ends up in a situation where his actions determine everything for him and the victim. A fateful coincidence makes different people depend on each other in a special way. Especially when both are involved in a situation where neither of them chose for.
Production: Maarten Kuit / Script: Marcel Rooijaards / Photography: Jasper Wolf / Editing: Annelien van Wijnbergen / Cast: Filmography: All Those Sunflowers (2013), Sevilla (2012) (Go Short 2013), Van God Los - Babyshower (2012), Nina Satana (2011), Impasse (2008), Marriage (2005) Contact: Hazazah Pictures: Charlotte Sarneel, +31 614703935, charlotte@hazazah.com
Production, Script, Animation: Job, Joris & Marieke / Music: Happy Camper / Sound: Job, Joris & Marieke, Bob Kommer Studios, Martijn Groeneveld Filmography: A Single Life (2014), MUTE (2013) (Go Short 2014), The Tumblies (2012), It’s not Funny, It’s Art (2008) (Go Short 2009), Moi (2006), Niet te Geloven (2005), Love Sweet Love (2004), How Snjezhi Tsjelovek Found his Ancestors (2003), Wad (2003) Contact: KLIK!: Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 620689423, ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
Tussentijd
Production: Rob IJpelaar / Script: Christian van Duuren / Editing: Sander van Wijk / Music: Bas Bouma / Cast: Milan Boele van Hensbroek, Anneke Blok Filmography: Meantime (2014) Contact: Wanderlust: Rob IJpelaar, +31 628819463, rob@wehavewanderlust.nl
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If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy Director: Mea de Jong documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 25’ “If you want to make a film about independent women, shouldn’t you make a film about our family?” And so mother and daughter embark on a journey together to make a portrait about the four generations who all managed without a man. A mysterious family tradition slowly emerges. One the mother is proud of, but the daughter has her doubts. Production: Chris Stenger, Juul Op den Kamp / Photography: Nina Badoux / Editing: Jose Van Koppenhagen / Music: Jesper Ankarfeldt / Sound: Laura Solleveld Filmography: If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy (2014), Now It’s Your Turn (2013) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, wouter@someshorts.com
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YOUTH COMPETITION Our Go Short MovieZone Youth Jury is a group of five enthusiastic teens with a keen eye for film form a youthful counterpart to our international juries. They will pay close attention to ten shorts from the competition program and judge these by their own standards and expectations. Their jury tenure starts off with a crash course in judging and deliberating, and ends in the spotlight of the award show where they will present their award to the winner of their choice. The challenge will be to choose a winner from ten preselected films, which represent the wide variety of films screened at Go Short. They will watch EU1 Brothers & Sisters, which features films that show the imaginative point of view of children. Do our jury members recognize themselves in these short films? ReCuiem and Milky Brother are films about loss and grief. Me and My Moulton is an animation film that portrays children with odd parents. The beautiful Dutch documentary Nothing Left Unsaid is about three brothers that have to take care of their handicapped father in the way he used to take care of them. 62
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Our Youth Jury will also view and judge NL2 Wish You Were Here. Mees Peijnenburg, who won the Youth Award during the previous edition of Go Short, is represented again with A Hole In My Heart. He has some tough competition from Blindly, which won an award at the Netherlands Film Festival, and from the Oscar nominated animation film A Single Life, the documentary If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy, Meantime and All Those Sunflowers. This wide variety of films in both genre and country of origin will present a challenge to the jury’s assignment of coming to a joint decision. We look forward to hear how this young jury experiences and judges the shorts in this selection.
INDEX YOUTH COMPETITION EU-1: BROTHERS & SISTERS
NL-2: WISH YOU WERE HERE
P.34
P.58
Milky Brother – Vahram Mkhitaryan fiction / Poland, Armenia / 30' Nothing Left Unsaid – Anne-Marieke Graafmans documentary / the Netherlands / 24' Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove animation / Norway, Canada / 13' reCuiem – Valentina Carnelutti fiction / Italy / 20'
A Hole in My Heart – Mees Peijnenburg fiction / the Netherlands / 9' Blindly – Joanne Van Der Weg animation / the Netherlands / 2' All Those Sunflowers – Bram Schouw fiction / the Netherlands / 20' A Single Life – Job, Joris & Marieke animation / the Netherlands / 2' Meantime – Christian van Duuren fiction / the Netherlands / 18' If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy – Mea de Jong documentary / the Netherlands / 25'
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STUDENT COMPETITION From over hundreds and hundreds of entries, 20 student films have been selected for this competition. It’s not easy telling a story in an engaging manner, let alone being inventive, original and interesting while you’re doing it. Film by film, these young guns manage to do just that. There’s an impressive variety on display here. From thrilling shots going by at a murderous rate in Nocebo, to the determined rhythm of Washingtonia, which is in no hurry to tell its story straight up. Meanwhile Europe gets a thematic examination that touches 64
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on forbidden love, revolution, family, duty, and just being who you are. The Offer shows us that duty to your family isn’t everything; then again My Dad teaches us that you live by what you’ve learned from your family. I Remember gives us a beautiful portrait of what it means to be young and to love, while All the Pain in the World and Among Us show us love that’s even hard to consider as such. As contradictions abound in this world, so they do in films. In making the small big and the big small, these filmmakers show that they have the
talent to weld these contradictions into personal stories that don’t just resonate on a personal level, but go much further than that. Curious? You should be!
The Breaking Shorts Student Competition is selected in co-operation with Breaking Gound, a young and dynamic platform for European film students. www.breakingground.eu
INDEX BREAKING SHORTS BS-1: A BETTER TOMORROW P.66
BS-3: VITAL LIFE P.68
BS-5: PATHFINDERS P.71
The Doctor Leaves Last – Svitlana Shymko documentary / Ukraine / 26' Drone Drive By – Jack Faber documentary / the Netherlands, Israel / 10' All The Pain In The World – Tommaso Pitta fiction / United Kingdom / 12' The Revolution Hunter – Margarida Rêgo art film / Portugal, United Kingdom / 11' With the Joy and Merriness – Boukraa Jeanne animation / Belgium / 6'
Invisible – Zofia Pregowska documentary / Poland / 22' Nocebo – Lennart Ruff fiction / Germany / 38' The Age Of Rust – Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber animation / Italy / 7'
Onno the Oblivious – Viktor van der Valk fiction / the Netherlands / 29' Half Wet – Sophie Koko Gate animation / United Kingdom / 7' Provincia – György Mór Kárpáti fiction / Hungary / 20' Roadtrip – Xaver Xylophon animation / Germany / 20'
BS-2: WHERE THE HEART IS P.67 Washingtonia – Konstantina Kotzamani fiction / Greece / 24' Among Us – Guido Hendrikx documentary / the Netherlands / 24' I Remember – Janna Ji Wonders fiction / Germany / 30'
BS-4: FATHERS, MOTHERS, SONS, DAUGHTERS P.69 The Offer – Moïra Pitteloud fiction / Switzerland / 15' My Dad – Marcus Armitage animation / United Kingdom / 6' Mother Earth – Piotr Zlotorowicz fiction / Poland / 30' The Baby – Ali Asgari fiction / Italy / 16' The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs animation / United Kingdom / 7'
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The Doctor Leaves Last
Drone Drive By
All the Pain in the World
Director: Svitlana Shymko documentary / Ukraine / 2014 / 27’
Director: Jack Faber documentary / The Netherlands, Israel / 2014 / 10’
Director: Tommaso Pitta fiction / United Kingdom / 2014 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
After being a volunteer doctor at the frontline during the bloodiest days in revolutionary Kyiv, Tanya continues curing wounded people on Maidan. Meanwhile unannounced war with the Russian Federation breaks out on the eastern and southern Ukraine. She must go to the war zone again.
Through the usage of military drones we examine the state of mind of their operators and the binary possibility containing only victims and perpetrators. Based on salvaged footage from USAF assault on a Pre-Identified position and extracts from interviews with Israeli Air Force drone operators.
Медик Іде Останньою
Production: Hajnalka Vajay / Photography, Editing: Svitlana Shymko Filmography: The Doctor Leaves Last (2014), Here Together (2013) Contact: Docnomads: Hajnalka Vajay, +367 05717528, hajni.vajay@gmail.com
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Production: Jack Faber / Music, Sound: Yaniv Schonfeld
London. Christmas time. A man is desperately trying to save the life of a minuscule fish, but the situation spirals out of control. Based on the short story ‘All the pain in the world’ by Michele Mari. Production: Tommaso Pitta / Photography: Tristan Chenais / Editing: Daniel Davies / Music: Huw Bunford / Narration: Peter Faulkner / Sound: Marton Kristof / Cast: Philippa George, Cornelius Clark, Peter Faulkner
Filmography: Drone Drive By (2014), A Film About Feedback (2012), Serpentine (2011), Watchmen (2008), Hiding My True Motives (2007), Seeing Art (2006), Substation (2004)
Filmography: How I Didn’t Become a Piano Player (2014), All the Pain in the World (2014), Already Tomorrow (2010)
Contact: Jack Faber, +31 627870984, jackfaber@gmail.com
Contact: Tommaso Pitta, +44 7414685029, tommipitta@tin.it
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The Revolution Hunter
With the Joy and Merriness
Washingtonia
Director: Margarida Rêgo art film / Portugal, United Kingdom / 2014 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Boukraa Jeanne animation / Belgium / 2014 / 6’
Director: Konstantina Kotzamani fiction / Greece / 2014 / 24’ / Dutch premiere
With the Joy and Merriness is a experimental documentary where we observe, through every day scenes, the degeneration of a society where the rise of technology leeds the population to the biggest dream of all men: immortality.
Washingtonia starts when the giraffes heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because it’s heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.
A Caça Revoluções
It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, The Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn’t belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country. Production: Margarida Rêgo / Music: Carlos Paredes / Sound: Mike Wyeld Filmography: The Revolution Hunter (2014) Contact: Joana Galhardas, portugalfilm@indielisboa.com
Dans la Joie et la Bonne Humeur
Production: Adifac / Editing: Jeremy Bocquet / Music: Benoit Charron, Jeremy Bocquet / Sound: Benoit Charron Filmography: With the Joy and Merriness (2014), Satan la Bite (2012), Les Poils Histoire et Bizarreries du Système Pileux (2011)
Production: Artemis Pattakou / Script: Konstantina Kotzamani / Photography: Yannis Kanakis, Giorgos Karvelas / Editing: Leo Papafotiou / Sound: Persefoni Milou
Contact: Boukraa Jeanne, +32 474170207, jeannette50s@gmail.com
Filmography: Washingtonia (2014), Morning Prayers (2013), Arundel (2012), Zodiac (2011), Pigs (2011) Contact: Konstantina Kotzamani, +30 6976430983, kkotzamani@yahoo.com
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BS-3: VITAL LIFE THU 9 - 18:00 - LUX 5 / SAT 11 - 13:00 - LUX 3
Among us
I Remember
Invisible
Director: Guido Hendrikx documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 24’
Director: Janna Ji Wonders fiction / Germany / 2014 / 30’ / international premiere
Director: Zofia Pregowska documentary / Poland / 2014 / 22’
Onder Ons
Three self- conscious, high-educated paedophiles give a mercilessly insight in their experiences. How do you cope with a sexual orientation that’s considered morbid by society and by yourself? Production: Jonne Roos, Erik Glijnis, Zinzy Nimako / Photography: Emo Weemhoff / Editing: Lot Rossmark / Music: Ella van der Woude / Sound: Tijn Hazen, Django Kroon Filmography: Among Us (2014), Escort (2013), Day is Done (2010) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, wouter@someshorts.com
Best friends Josh and Ben (both 18) spend their vacation in a remote hut on the craggy pacific coast. When Elena, a mysterious 30-year-old woman, moves next door, the two boys fall under her spell and get caught up in an emotional turmoil which puts their friendship at stake. The summer ends dramatically, and it is only Josh that is left as the sole witness. Production: Philipp Trauer / Script: Janna Ji Wonders / Photography: Markus Förderer / Editing: Tobias Kavelar / Music: Dirk Brechmann & Janna Ji Wonders / Sound: Renso Landa / Cast: Robyn Miller, Spencer Kennedy, Jude Thomas Filmography: I Remember (2015), Do I Love You (2006), Street Punk Moscow (2005), Waiting For Summer (2003), Bling Bling (2000) Contact: Janna Ji Wonders, +49 1709636428, jannaji@yahoo.com
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90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing pads. That’s remarkable in itself since Krystyna is almost blind, but that doesn’t stop this still vital woman from writing passionate and eloquent poetry that celebrates life. Production: Maciej Slesicki / Script: Zofia Pregowska / Photography, Editing: Tomasz Stankiewicz / Sound: Grzegorz Lindemann Filmography: Invisible (2014), Grzecni Chlopcy Ida Do Nieba... (2010), Rozmowa (2010) Contact: Zofia Pregowska, +48 698242645, zofia.pregowska@pregomedia.com
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Nocebo
The Age of Rust
Director: Lennart Ruff fiction / Germany / 2014 / 38’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber animation / Italy / 2014 / 7’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Moïra Pitteloud fiction / Switzerland / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Christian Lukas, 22, is on the run. He took part in a drug study and together with his girlfriend Anna discovered the death of a fellow participant. The doctors covered up the incident. When Anna also starts showing signs of the deadly side effects Christian breaks out of the test centre to get help. But neither police nor doctors believe his story since Christian suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.
In the beautiful environment of the Alps, an extraordinary documentary about the incredible “Petramosaurus Cavator.” Through fiercest fighting and the miracle of birth, we will know the incredible life cycle of this beautiful species, and in particular its relationship with the man and our planet. . Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Scuola Nazionale di Cinema / Script: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber / Music: Fulvio Chiara / Narration: Guy Watts / Sound: Paolo Armao / Animation: Francesco Aber
Sami is about to accept a job in the Swiss Bureau of Intelligence, at the risk of betraying the values at the heart of his family history.
Production: Thomas Klimmer, Severin Höhne, Tobias M. Huber, Boris Jendreyko / Script: Maggie Peren / Photography: Jan-Marcello Kahl / Editing: Ann-Carolin Biesenbach / Music: Superstrings / Sound: Woepf Lechenmayr, Giesing Team, Peter Kautzsch Filmography: Nocebo (2014), Hope (2012), Life Is Easy (2010), Keine Besonderen Vorkommnisse (2009), Krieslauf (2009), Grenzfall (2007)
The Offer
L’offre
Production: Benjamin Corbat, Dan Wechsler / Script: Moïra Pitteloud / Photography: Leandro Monti / Editing: Félix Sandri Filmography: The Offer (2014), La Part des Choses (2013), La Brèche (2012) Contact: Bord Cadre films: Benjamin Corbat, +41 799150361, bcorbat@bordcadrefilms.com
Filmography: The Age of Rust (2014) Contact: Alessandro Mattei, +39 3333361406, mattei.alessandro@hotmail.it
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My Dad Director: Marcus Armitage animation / United Kingdom / 2014 / 6’ / Dutch premiere A short film depicting a dad’s influence on a young boy’s life. His judgmental character mixed with the boys fondness for his dad prove to be a toxic mix that tears away at a world of opportunity and experiences. Production: Joan Ashworth / Script: Marcus Armitage / Animation: Marcus Armitage, Laura Jane Stacey, Mike Wyled Filmography: My Dad (2014), Over Dinner (2013) Contact: Marcus Armitage, +44 7921259422, mla_animation@hotmail.com
Mother Earth
The Baby
Director: Piotr Zlotorowicz fiction / Poland / 2014 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Ali Asgari fiction / Italy / 2014 / 16’ / Dutch premiere
Maciek is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. As every man before him in the family, he wants to be a butcher and satisfy his father’s ambition. But unfortunately he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. Conflicted, the young man turns to the care of an old and neglected orchard, the only memory left from his mother, and soon discovers his supernatural abilities.
Narges and her friend have just a few hours to find someone to take care of her baby for some days.
Matka Ziemia
Production: Marcin Malatynski / Script: Piotr Zlotorowicz / Photography: Nicolas Villegas / Editing: Anna Dobrowodzka / Music: Stefan Gasieniec / Sound: Ewa Bogusz Filmography: Mother Earth (2014), Spring Summer Fall (2012), Normal People (2011), Charcoal Burners (2010) (Go Short 2011) Contact: Piotr Zlotorowicz, +48 511443002, piotr.zlotorowicz@gmail.com
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La Bambina
Production: Riccardo Romboli / Script: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi / Photography: Iman Tahsin / Sound: Vahid Moghadasi Filmography: The Baby (2014), More Than Two Hours (2013), Barbie (2012), Tonight Is Not a Good Night for Dying (2011) Contact: Taat Films: Riccardo Romboli, +39 3898778337, taatfilms@gmail.com
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The Bigger Picture
Onno the Oblivious
Half Wet
Director: Daisy Jacobs animation / United Kingdom / 2014 / 7’
Director: Viktor van der Valk fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 29’
Director: Sophie Koko Gate animation / United Kingdom / 2014 / 7’ / Dutch premiere
‘You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!’ hisses one brother to the other. But Mother won’t go, and their own lives unravel as she clings on. Life-size animated characters tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly parent.
Onno is stuck. He’s lost. Many questions. Few answers. And on top of that there’s this strange feeling. This feeling that he knows, but doesn’t understand. This feeling that has come to him much earlier, so it didn’t start here. But where? Where did it start? Let me tell you the story of Onno the Oblivious, who has fallen victim to the strange feeling.
Production: Chris Hees / Photography: Max Williams / Editing: Vera Simmonds / Music: Huw Bunford / Sound: Jonnas Jensen / Animation: Christopher Wilder Filmography: The Bigger Picture (2014), Tosh (2012), Don Justino de Neve (2011) Contact: Daisy Jacobs, +44 7720394588, daisyjacobs@btinternet.com
Onno de Onwetende
Production: Hanne Sinninghe, Erik Glijnis / Script: Jeroen Scholten van Aschat, Viktor van der Valk / Photography: Emo Weemhoff / Editing: Lot Rossmark / Music: Eren Önsoy / Sound: Robin Berk, Tijn Hazen / Cast: Krisjan Schellingerhout, Genelva Lo-Kioeng-Shioe, Evelien Bosmans, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Vincent van der Valk
We are all born as wet as a banana. 75% water. By the time we reach adulthood, that amount decreases to 54%. Gus is interrupted by Tiny Eyes at dusk, on the eve of his 25th birthday. Production: Victoria Manifold / Music: Johnny Wildey / Sound: Mike Wyeld, Johnny Wildey / Animation: Sylvia Zubrinic, Joshua Gonzales, Rory Waudby- Tolley, Rachel Sale / Filmography: Half Wet (2014), Marcy’s Tenderloin (2013) Contact: Sophie Gate, +44 7449755553, sophie.gate@yahoo.co.uk
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Provincia
Roadtrip
Director: György Mór Kárpáti fiction / Hungary / 2014 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Xaver Xylophon animation / Germany / 2014 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
Ottó works as a conveyor for a food store in Budapest. When his van breaks down during a countryside delivery, he finds himself on an archaeological excavation site. Ottó spends one day on the excavation.
Julius can’t sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can’t manage to leave. A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the desolateness of Berlin (even in summer) and waterproof socks.
Production: Nándor Lovas, Miklós Bosnyák / Script: György Mór Kárpáti / Photography: Dávid Hartung / Editing: Péter Gábor Duszka / Music: Bálint Szabó, Marci Kristóf / Sound: Mátl Péterffy
Production, Editing, Music, Animation: Xaver Xylophon / Script: Xaver Xylophon, Ariana Berndl / Sound: Max Hechenmeister
Filmography: Provincia (2014), Park (2013), Forest (2011), Metropolitan Archeology (2011), Midnight (2009)
Filmography: Roadtrip (2014), After the Rain (2013), When the Tide Is Out (2011), For Hire! - Bagalore Rickshaw (2011), Joy of Destruction (2010), Kurzschluss (2009)
Contact: Mirage Film Studio: Nándor Lovas, +36 203891528, mirage@miragefilm.hu
Contact: Aug&ohr Medien: Louise Peter, +49 17662965299, louise@augohr.de
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GUNHILD ENGER FILMMAKER IN FOCUS Life is short, and it seems that we are always rushing. But if you pause for a moment and look at what people around you are doing, you might just get the giggles. The silly things people do draw laughter mixed with vicarious shame. Gunhild Enger knows this better than anyone. The films of the Norwegian filmmaker are straightforward, honest and sincere, and that’s why they are comical and touching at the same time. Gunhild proved to be just as honest and open when we asked her some questions about her films. Your films are often comical, but it seems that the humor is coming from just looking at things everyday people are doing. That’s exactly what I am doing. It is also very important that I look at myself in this way. I do all these stupid things myself as well. I see myself reflected in all of my characters; I am not only the nice ones, but the stupid ones as well. In the case of Premature a lot of people think I am the son, but I am probably the mother as well. I definitely have a mother like 76
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this; I think everyone has this mother. Self-insight is a major ingredient in my way of working. It can be a bit painful to admit that you can be that stupid. So far I haven’t dealt as much with fantasies as I have dealt with the ugly truth. Is it because you’re dealing with ‘real life’ that your films often stay close to ‘real time’? There are a lot of films which are slow and with a lot of silence; it is genre in a way. There’s a lot to be said for silence. Often things are dealt with a bit too quickly. That’s when you lose the humor.
The world is so absurd, but in many films it is made to be very logical. I am quite aware that life takes time, and it’s not very often that it is presented to you in a perfect dramatic curve. So what is your reaction when we say: “Life is Short”? It is interesting how the big questions of life are hidden in so many small details. What we are all about is sometimes very easy to see in the small arguments that we make. It doesn’t need to be a big thing, but it can say a lot about me. That’s something that short film does.
GUNHILD ENGER So is short film your weapon of choice? It’s not just the shorter format that leads you into the longer format. I intend to make a feature film, several hopefully, but I want to keep on making shorts. I often think of longer stories in terms of a number of short films patched together. I think it can be difficult to think of a long story that is good and important enough at the same time, so I think in episodes. Premature and Subtotal could very well have been episodes in a longer story. In Subtotal I had an idea that started in the parking lot of a shopping mall. I could have started another story there, and it would have been completely different. There could have been many different stories, all starting at the same point. It has been done before, but the point is that there are so many different stories that could happen in this space, it’s kind of endless. At Go Short we will be screening your films like episodes in a retrospective. Have you ever experienced this? I have never seen my films back to back and I hope it will be interesting. I can kind of see that my four latest films are really linked. You have to be an
exhibitionist to be a filmmaker. Obviously you’re willing to sacrifice a hell of a lot to get your view on society and life shown and viewed on the big screen. There’s an element of selfishness there, so let’s just be honest and assume that I’ll be proud of myself. You will also be here as a coach for the Student Campus. Would you advise them to be a bit selfish? The most important thing, and I know this is a huge cliché, is just do what you want to do. Earlier in my career I thought there was a right way to do things that I didn’t know about yet, but would get the hang of later on. Now I know that I never really knew how to make a film, which proved to be a big advantage. I didn’t go to a traditional film school that simply handed me this knowledge. I had to figure it out myself. I like to think that this is my advantage, although I can’t really say what it is that I do; I have my own logic, and so far this has been good enough. So don’t do what you think is the right way. You should do what is right for you.
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Flora and Mark Director: Gunhild Enger fiction / Norway / 2004 / 1’ / Dutch premiere This is a tribute to all of the English teachers and English lessons of the seventies and eighties. The script is based on a tape from an English course used in the director’s own school. Flora and Mark is in many ways a visualisation of such a tape and living proof how absurd and funny language course tapes can be. Production, Script: Gunhild Enger Contact: Gunhild Enger, hatt.frakk.film@gmail.com
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Passion
Premature
A Simpler Life
Director: Gunhild Enger, Marius Ektvedt fiction / Norway / 2008 / 13’
Director: Gunhild Enger fiction / Norway / 2012 / 17’
Director: Gunhild Enger fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 14’
Passion is a film about a middle-aged, married couple and their search for what used to be.
Premature tells the story of Norwegian Martin and his pregnant Spanish girlfriend, Lucia. We follow the pair during their first 15 minutes on Norwegian soil, observing Lucia’s first encounter with this new culture and her in-laws. The film depicts a car trip full of social tensions, expectations and misunderstandings.
Ing-Marie and Carl are very busy. She with training, he with gardening. They surround themselves with gadgets designed to make their lives simpler, but all they really do is cause more problems. It is summer, the sun is shining, the machines are running while she works out and he mows the lawn. But life isn’t necessarily any easier. A humorous reflection on a hot late summer’s day.
Pasjon
Production: Guro Sætereie / Script, Editing: Gunhild Enger, Marius Ektvedt / Photography: Jon Gaute Espevold / Music: Gunnar Mathiason / Sound: Megaphon, Rune van Deurs / Cast: Arild Svensgam, Unni Rygh Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 92813088, amb@nfi.no
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Production: Gudrun Austli / Script: Gunhild Enger / Photography: Marte Vold / Editing: Vårin Andersen / Sound: Fanny Wadman, Rune Baggerud / Cast: Eilif Hartwig, Aina Huguet Estrada Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 92813088, amb@nfi.no
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Et enklere liv
Production: Cecilia Torquato / Script: Gunhild Enger / Photography: Linda Wassberg / Editing: Vårin Andersen, Gunhild Enger / Sound: Claes Lundberg / Cast: Håkan Olsson, Anna Söderling Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Theo Tsappos, +46 86651133, theo.tsappos@sfi.se
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Inbox
Subtotal
World of Glory
Director: Cecilia Torquato, Gunhild Enger documentary / Norway / 2013 / 8’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Gunhild Enger fiction / Norway / 2014 / 19’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Roy Andersson fiction / Sweden / 1991 / 14’
Inbox is an adaptation of a group email correspondence. A group is talking about visiting Auschwitz, but this will never happen. The email conversation shows the groups fundamental problem with coming to an agreement, as well as realizing the gravity of the situation. How would a conversation like this look if it took place face to face?
What is the true cost of a bargain? Subtotal is a story of an untraditional encounter between a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting at the border between Norway and Sweden.
A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions.
Inbox: Resan Ingen Ville Göra
Script: Cecilia Torquato, Gunhild Enger / Editing: Cecilia Torquato / Cast: Ylva Gallon, Pamela Cortéz Bruna, Anna Mannerheim, Ulrica Flash, Anton Källrot, Ola Heden Contact: Cecilia Turquato, ctorquato@yahoo.com
Production: Agnethe Sophie Buus Jensen, Gudrun Austli / Script: Gunhild Enger / Photography: Peter Ask / Editing: Vårin Andersen / Sound: Andreas Lindberg Svensson, Baard Haugan Ingebretsen / Cast: Kurt Zickfeldt, Hanne Tangen, Leif Edlund Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 92813088, amb@nfi.no
Härlig är Jorden
Production: Freddy Olsson, Göran Lindström / Script: Roy Andersson / Photography: István Borbás / Cast: Christer Christensen, Lennart Björklund, Klas Gösta Olsson Filmography: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), You, the Living (2007), Songs from the Second Floor (2000), World of Glory (1991), Something Happened (1987), A Swedish Love Story (1970) a.o.
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Butter Lamp
The Girl Chewing Gum
Telling Lies
Director: Hu Wei fiction / France / 2013 / 16’
Director: John Smith art film / United Kingdom / 1976 / 12’
Director: Simon Ellis animation / United Kingdom / 2001 / 5’
A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture. Against diverse and more or less exotic backgrounds, families appear to the photographer. Through these shots, the photographer will weave unique links with each of the various villagers.
Who has not - particularly as a child - dreamed now and then of playing God, of sitting for a while in the Great Director’s chair in the sky? The maker of this film plays with this desire using a role-reversal trick. Filmmaker John Smith constantly gives directions over images produced by a static camera: “Now I want the man on the left to cross the street,” etc,. giving the impression that the seemingly random London street scenes have been deliberately created.
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. It’s told entirely in animated captions.
La Lampe au Beurre de Yak
Production: Julien Féret / Script: Hu Wei / Editing: Hu Wei / Sound: Wu Shi, Liu Cheng / Animation: Etienne Salanҫon / Cast: Genden Punstok Filmography: Butter Lamp (2013) (Go Short 2014), Le Proprietor (2012), Sans Toi (2009)
Production, Script, Editing, Narration: John Smith Filmography: Dad’s Stick (2012), Hotel Diaries 2001, (2004, 2005, 2007), Worst Case Scenario (2003), Lost Sound (2001), Regression (2000), The Kiss (2000), The Waste Land (1999), Blight (1996), Home Suite (1994), a.o.
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Production: Jane Hooks / Script, Editing: Simon Ellis / Cast: Juliet Jones, Tim Cunningham Filmography: Jam Today (2011), Dogging: A Love Story (2008), Soft (2006), A Storm and some Snow (2006), What The (2004), What about the Bodies (2002), 10 Again (2002), Bass Invaders (2001), Telling Lies (2001), Spice World (1998), Thousand (1998)
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Passionless Moments
Cigarettes and Coffee
Somebody
Director: Gerard Lee, Jane Campion fiction / Australia / 1983 / 13’
Director: Cristi Puiu fiction / Romania / 2004 / 15’
Director: Miranda July fiction / Italy, United States / 2014 / 10’
The film documents a much neglected aspect of the human condition, known by psychologists as “passionless moments”. . Production, Script: Gerard Lee, Jane Campion / Photography: Jane Campion / Editing: Veronika Jenet / Sound: Ged Boy Lee, Moppo Lee, Tony Vaccher / Cast: David Benton
The father, fired two years before retirement, wants to get rehired, requiring the support of his son. The action takes place in a restaurant in Bucharest. Production: Dan Badea, Cristina Ionescu / Script: Cristi Puiu / Photography: Oleg Mutu / Editing: Dana Bunescu / Sound: Dana Bunescu, Mihai Bogos / Cast: Mihai Bratila, Mimi Branescu
Have you ever found it impossible to say something, face to face, to someone you know, someone you love? The words just won’t come out? A new messaging service, SOMEBODY, by Miranda July could help. SOMEBODY takes our endless hunger for communication, technology, avatars and outsourcing, and blends it into what seems to be a surreal near-future.
Filmography: The Piano (1993), An Angel At My Table (1990), Sweetie (1989), A Girl’s Own Story (1984), Passionless Moments (1983) a.o.
Filmography: Aurora (2010), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Cigarettes and Coffee (2004), Stuff and Dough (2001)
Production: Jett Steiger, Max Brun / Script: Miranda July / Cast: Sophie Mann, Miranda July, Steven Lamprinos, Hope Shapiro
Un Cartus de Kent și un Pachet de Cafea
Filmography: Somebody (2014), The Future (2011), White Light (2009), The Swim Team (2009), Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (2005) You Me and Everyone We Know (2005), The Center of the World (2001), Getting Stronger Every Day (2001), The Amateurist (1998)
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BALTIC SHORTS FOCUS ON THE BALTIC STATES
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Three countries rubbing shoulders, perched between the Baltic Sea and Russia. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have in common that they left the Soviet Union at the same time and joined the European Union together. These three countries also have completely unique cultures, which we know so little about. There's so much to discover here! In Baltic Shorts we have put together some remarkably good fiction and animated films from the past few years.
"We are going to make a difference!" That's what the young people are saying, yet at the same time they still live with their parents. In Baltic Rebels the youthful spirit is not only part of the subject matter; it is also reflected in the smooth style of the new generation and in the humorous tone.
The family unit is still very important in Baltic society. If all else falls apart, family ties grow even stronger. Baltic Family consists of a number of impressive and gripping films about the bonds between fathers and sons, mothers and daughters. Working, travelling and relaxing: these are everyday elements that are the same all over the world, but have a unique cadence wherever you go. Experience everyday life in Baltic Days!
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Mai
Lisa Go Home
Breakfast on the Grass
Director: Maria Reinup fiction / Estonia / 2013 / 16’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Oksana Buraja documentary / Lithuania / 2012 / 27’
Director: Erik Alunurm, Mihkel Reha, Mari-Liis Rebane, Mari Pakkas animation / Estonia / 2011 / 5’
Young Mai finds herself alone in the last bus to the city with 2 drug addicts, one of them in a quickly deteriorating situation. Failing to win the attention of the driver or the fellow passengers, she decides to intervene herself.
Lisa has to smile and be happy on command; she also has to stop crying when necessary. Consequently, she often escapes from her mother’s home, where she doesn’t feel good. Acquaintances gather there for wild parties, where lots of cigarettes are smoked and alcohol is consumed. Little Lisa dreams of disappearing to a place she will feel good.
Production: Evelin Soosaar-Penttilä / Script: Maria Reinup / Photography: Ivar Taim / Editing: Jaak Ollino / Music: Kaspar Kadastik / Sound: Tarvo Schmeimann / Cast: Saara Kadak, Aleksandr Žilenko, Stas Kljutsnik Pääru Oja, Indrek Taalmaa, Aleksander Eeri Laupmaa Filmography: Mann Tanzt (2014), Mai (2013) Contact: Allfilm OÜ: Triinu Keedus, +372 6729070, allfilm@allfilm.ee
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Production: Ülo Pikkov / Script, Animation: Erik Alunurm, Mihkel Reha, Mari-Liis Rebane, Mari Pakkas Filmography: Breakfast on the Grass (2011)
Production: Uljana Kim / Script: Oksana Buraja / Photography: Kristina Sereikaitė / Editing: Oksana Buraja / Music: Giedrius Aleknavičius Filmography: Lisa Go Home (2012), The Confession (2009), Kretos Sala (2007), Sisters and Twins (2004), Diary (2003), Vapna (2002), Mama (2001) Contact: Studio Uljana Kim: Galina Kim, +370 69953109, galina_kim@yahoo.co.uk
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Contact: Estonian Academy of Arts: Ülo Pikkov, ylo.pikkov@artun.ee
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The Noisemaker
Choir Tour
After Rave
Director: Karolis Kaupinis fiction / Lithuania, Sweden / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Edmunds Jansons animation / Latvia / 2013 / 5’
Director: Kamile Milašiute fiction / Lithuania / 2014 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
It’s a wild free-for-all when a famous boys’ choir breaks away from their conductor while on tour in Seoul and causes mayhem in the hotel.
Milda is planning on going out with friends. Her plans should be changed by news of paintful loss.
Triukšmadarys
A distant provincial school is waiting for an official delegation from the Ministry. They’re about to bring a new school bell. This is not what the school needs though. Having shrunk throughout the years, it lacks two pupils to satisfy the governmental quota established for any school in the country to exist. The gift from the capital is a threat for the survival of the school. Production: Marija Razgute / Script: Karolis Kaupinis / Photography: Narvydas Naujalis / Editing: Ieva Veiveryte / Sound: Sigita Visockaite / Cast: Šarunas Puidokas, Valentinas Masalskis Filmography: The Noisemaker (2014), Idea for Corcovado Borealis (2013), Mission Siberia (2012), The Willow Tree (2011), Waiting for freedom or Smile to us, Mr. Berlin (2010)
Production: Sabine Andersone / Music, Sound: Girts Biss Filmography: Isle of Seals (2014), How Shammies Were Getting Married (2014), Choir Tour (2013) (Go Short 2013), International Father’s Day (2012), How Shammies Guessed (2012), How Shammies Teeter-tottered (2011), How Shammies Bathed (2010), Springtime in Crow Street (2009) (Go Short 2011) Contact: Atom Art: Ieva Vaickovska, +371 67612709, ieva@atomart.lv
Production: Kristina Ramanauskaite, Ruta Petronyte / Script: Kamile Milašiute, Marija Kavtaradze / Photography: Vytautas Katkus / Editing: Kamile Milašiute, Armas Rudaitis / Music: Dominykas Digimas, Edmundas Seilius / Cast: Milda Noreikaite, Kestutis Cicenas, Gabija Ryškuviene Filmography: After Rave (2014), Kingas (2013), My Family Is Beautiful (2012) Contact: PI Revoliucijos ideja: Kristina Ramanauskaite, +370 62919897, kristina@ridea.lt
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Shift
Distance
We May Meet, We May Not
Director: Anu Aun fiction / Estonia / 2010 / 15’
Director: Janno Jürgens fiction / Estonia / 2012 / 24’
Director: Skirmanta Jakaite animation / Lithuania / 2011 / 8’
When Miina is caught shoplifting, the female officer truly uses her chance to show off her contempt. Surprisingly, both women meet a few hours later in a situation where the previous rivals become partners in crime.
On a misty sea drifts a lonely boat. While unseen danger lurks in the fog, the boat’s motor is out of order and visiblity is as clear as the relationship between the two men sitting in the boat. Do they get out of the mist? Or is it already too late?
The film tells a story of miscommunication between mother and daughter, where fear to confront reality leads to tragic consequences.
Production: Margo Siimon, Laura Talvet, Anu Aun / Script: Anu Aun / Cinematography: Mart Taniel / Editing: Margo Siimon / Music: Erki Pärnoja, Angelina Lundh / Sound: Horret Kuus / Cast: Mari Abel, Katariina Lauk, Mait Malmsten, Aleksander Eelmaa, Indrek Sammul, Helena Meržin, Andres Puustusmaa, Juhan Ulfsak, Hilje Murel, Mona Pääsuke
Production: Kristjan Pütsep / Script: Janno Jürgens, Anti Naulainen / Cinematography: Mart Raun / Editing: Martin Männik / Music: Kaspar Kadastik / Sound: Matis Rei / Cast: Indrek Ojari, Väino Laes
Filmography: Forbidden Fruit (2011), Shift (2010) (Go Short 2012), Clayhouse (2007), Indigo Room (2007), Story of Ain Lutsepp (2006), Domestic Affairs (2005), Hourglass Fixer (2003)
Contact: Janno Jürgens, +375 5151585, janno.jurgens@gmail.com
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Distants
Filmography: Medic (2014), Distance (2012), Justice (2009), Inimestest (2008), Kuraditõestus (2008), Algolis (2007), Mütomaan (2006), Ting (2006)
Galim Susitikti, Galim Nesusitikti
Production, Script, Photography: Skirmanta Jakaite / Music: Marius Narbutis / Sound: Andrius Kauklys Filmography: Non-Euclidean Geometry (2013), We May Meet, We May Not (2011) Contact: Skirmanta Jakaite, +370 68296568, skirmanta@gmail.com
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Dog’s life
Stones
The Triangle Affair
Director: Ieva Veiverytė fiction / Lithuania / 2013 / 24’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Laila Pakalnina fiction / Latvia / 2008 / 20’
Director: Andres Tenusaar animation / Estonia / 2012 / 10’
Dalia is fifty, she lives in a large detached house with her retired mum. Unexpectedly the retired mum is sent to the hospital for tests and Dalia is stays alone at home. A random idea to release their guard dog for a free run around ends up in disaster – the dog’s run over by a car. A dog burial issue becomes a real challenge for a woman, who has never experienced what the self-suficiency is.
A man in a gray coat roams the city. He is interested in boys and men. Some of them will be good enough for the man and they get a green bag from him. Marija is home alone. Therefore she is the only woman who gets the green bag. But the film does not quite end there.
There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without atriangle. There is no movement without a direction.
Šuns dienos
Production: Marija Razgute / Script: Ieva Veiveryte, Tekle Kavtaradze / Photography: Narvydas Naujalis / Editing: Ieva Veiveryte / Sound: Sigita Visockite / Cast: Žana Goncar, Gintaras Liutkevicius, Laimute Štrimaityte, Vesta Grabštaite
Akmeni
Production: Laila Pakalnina / Photography: Gints Berzins / Editing: Kaspar Kallas / Sound: Anrijs Krenbergs / Cast: Guna Zarina, Leonids Grabovskis Filmography: Short Film About Life (2014), On Rubik’s Road (2010), Silence (2009), Stones (2008), Fire (2007) (Go Short 2009), Water (2006), Anna’s Christmas (1992), a.o.
Filmography: Dog’s Life (2013), Crossword (2009) Contact: ČIOBRELIAI film production company: Marija Razgute, +370 60107802, marija@ciobreliai.lt
Contact: Laila Pakalnina, +371 29235618, laila.pakalnina@inbox.lv
Kolmnurga Afäär
Production: Andrus Raudsalu / Script: Andres Tenusaar / Photography: Robert Linna, Andres Tenusaar / Music: Taavi Kerikmäe / Sound: Tiina Andreas / Animation: Andres Tenusaar, Marili Toome Filmography: Miriam’s Food Processor (2012), The Triangle Affair (2012) (Go Short 2013), Physical Education (2008), The Scarecrow (2007), Nonexistent Status (2006), The Stories of Jippos Happy the Hippo (2002) Contact: OÜ Nukufilm: Maret Reismann, +372 56988258, nukufilm@nukufilm.ee
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Wings and Oars
Ursus
Olga
Director: Vladimir Leschiov animation / Latvia / 2009 / 6’
Director: Reinis Petersons animation / Latvia / 2011 / 11’
Director: Kaur Kokk fiction / Estonia / 2013 / 19’
A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth, the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.
A charcoal on paper animation about a motorcycling circus bear who decides to leave the daily routine and takes off to the forest where his true happiness seems to dwell.
Production: Vladimir Leschiov / Music: Normand roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau / Sound: Pierre Yves Drapeau
Production: Sabine Andersone / Script: Reinis Petersons / Editing: Davis Simanis / Music: Jekabs Nimanis / Sound: Girts Biss / Animation: Martins Dumins
Olga is an elderly guard in a down-town parking-lot who spends her days cleaning the carpark of snow that just won’t stop falling. As the snow piles up, her problems begin to accumulate. In the middle of a personal crisis, the weather takes a turn for the worst and Olga is faced with a choice.
Sparni un Airi
Filmography: Rainy Days (2014), Villa Antropoff (2012) (Go Short 2013), 96 (2010), Wings and Oars (2009) (Go Short 2010), Lost in Snow (2007), Insomnia (2004), The Letter (2002), Grandad’s Honey (2002) Contact: LUNOHOD: Vladimir Leschiov, +371 29141832, vl@lunohod.lv
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Filmography: Ursus (2011)
Production: Esko Rips / Script: Kaur Kokk / Cinematography: Sten-Johan Lill / Editing: Kaur Kokk, Liis Nimik / Music: Filip Sijanec / Sound: Matis Rei / Cast: Svetlana Dorošenko, Raivo Rüütel
Contact: Atom Art: Ieva Vaickovska, +371 67612709, ieva@atomart.lv
Filmography: Olga (2013), Last Call (2012), Teine Pirukröov (2011), Põrgu Jaan (2011) Contact: NAFTA: Kristjan Pütsep, +372 5229120, kristjan@alastikino.ee
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Short Film About Life Isfilma Par Dzivi
Director: Laila Pakalnina documentary / Latvia / 2014 / 2’ / Dutch premiere Life is happening now. Production: Laila Pakalnina, Jurgis Krasons / Photography: Uldis Jancis / Editing: Kaspar Kallas / Sound: Anrijs Krenbergs Filmography: Short Film About Life (2014), On Rubik’s Road (2010), Silence (2009), Stones (2008), Fire (2007) (Go Short 2009), Water (2006), Anna’s Christmas (1992), a.o. Contact: Laila Pakalnina, +371 29235618, laila.pakalnina@inbox.lv
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GENERATION I FOCUS ON OURSELVES Is there anything we can say about our own generation, or are we more diverse, more individualistic and more elusive than ever? Give it a try. How do you describe your generation? How would you describe your own identity? It’s not that easy at all. We have present you a number of filmmakers to see what they find striking about our society. Nothing is as personal as identity, and this is reflected in the very different subjects of these films. Who’s looking at you makes you who you are. The enormous popularity of the selfie and reality shows makes it clear that we want to be seen. At the same time we try hard to distinguish ourselves from the masses. Independence and "doing your own thing" are highly appreciated values. How do you show your level of independence when you still depend on the approval of others for your happiness? These topics are explored in the films of Generation Selfie. 90
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In Generation Community we look at the desire to be part of a group and the rise of individualization. Could they be two sides of the same coin? If individualism increases even further, soon everyone will have a one-person subculture. Is this why we love to lose ourselves in festivals and other mass events? Nowadays we are always connected, and everyone is trying to relate to others. Has the time come for Generation Offline? Will more and more people choose to go off the grid? Are the character traits we’re born with and the way we’re raised enough to form our identity?
GENERATION I TALKS + PEEPBOX
GENERATION I HARD // HOOFD TALKS Generation I will make you put your mind to work, and that’s what they love at hard // hoofd. This online magazine for art and journalism will present three ‘offline’ columns to go with the screenings. The following writers will be at Go Short festival to present their columns: Derk Fangman – Generation Selfie As a little boy Derk Fangman (1986) was able to talk sooner than most of his peers. ‘Meeuwvogel’ was his favorite word, something he scored with multiple times. From that period on he decided to slow down a bit. He is currently researching history. As history takes very long, so does his study period. He writes short stories every now and then to kill some time.
Kasper van Royen – Generation Community Kasper van Royen (1983) studied Philosophy and is active as a freelance philosophy teacher. Besides his teaching job, he writes columns, short stories and poems. Recurring themes are the absurdity of daily life, his paternity and his social awkwardness. He is a regular columnist of the online magazine hard // hoofd and is working on his first novel. Rutger Lemm – Generation Offline After finishing secondary school Rutger Lemm (1985) started writing for several (online) magazines. Besides that he studied History and a bit of Philosophy in Amsterdam and Berlin. In the beginning of this year his first book was published, entitled ‘Een grootse mislukking’ (‘A grand failure’). In the meantime he used to be active as a stand-up comedian, but currently he is mostly working as a freelance journalist. One day he hopes to combine comedy and interviews like his hero Jon Stewart does, but then combined with a touch of Dutch absurdism.
PEEPBOX STORIES BY HARD//HOOFD On Friday and Saturday the two lovely ladies from Peepbox Stories are present at the festival site to interview you about your personal memories. Your personal memories will be viewable for other festival guests in a personal peep box that will walk around the festival area. As a festival guest you can take a peek into this box and see and hear what your fellow festival visitors have to say! Intimate, sneaky and innocent!
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A Million Miles Away
Two Films about Loneliness
Fame
Director: Jennifer Reeder fiction / United States / 2014 / 27’
Director: Christopher Eales, William BishopStephens animation / United Kingdom, Germany / 2014 / 5’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Joep van Osch documentary / The Netherlands / 2012 / 22’
Contemporary relationship drama reaches its apotheosis to the beat of a 1980s heavy metal anthem. A woman (the conductor) is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and opens up to the teen girl (the choir). Teacher and pupil roles are reversed when the woman can’t decipher her lover’s text message. Melancholy as a survival strategy in the American Mid-West. Production: Steven W. Hudosh / Script: Jennifer Reeder / Editing: Mike Olenick / Music: Jenne Lennon / Sound: Paul Dickinson Filmography: Blood Below the Skin (2015), A Million Miles Away (2014), Girls Love Horses (2012), And I Will Rise If Only to Hold You Down (2011), Tears Cannot Restore Her: Therefore, I Weep (2011), Seven Songs About Thunder (2010), Accidents at Home and How They Happen (2008) Contact: Jennifer Reeder, +1 3124989493, thejenniferreeder@gmail.com 92
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A split-screen separates the worlds of Jonathan Smallman, who is recording his online datingprofile, while next door, Phillip Button, the internet chef and hamster, is noisily recording his new cooking video. Both characters have turned to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance and it’s not entirely working. Until something unexpected happens… Editing: Simon Allmark / Music: Clare Bradley Box, Ed Patrick / Narration: Clare Bradley Box / Sound: Joe Sudlow / Cast: Tim Key, Detlef Bierstedt Filmography: Two Films about Loneliness (2014), Five Angry Things (2006), Billy Drummer (2005) Contact: Christopher Eales, +44 5782719014, info@twofilmsaboutloneliness.com
Roem
After a short moment in the spotlights, director Joep van Osch is struck by the power of fame. He likes the attention, and would love some more. But is it ever enough? In this personal documentary, he portrays himself and other fame seekers with subtle irony, from young youtube singers to well-known actresses. Production: Lea Fels, Eefje van der Beele / Cinematography: Myrthe Mosterman / Editing: Matthias den Hartog / Music: Robin Assen / Sound: Thijmen van der Poll Filmography: Fame (2012), Farewell Facebook (2010) Contact: Joep van Osch, +31 642144700, joepvanosch@gmail.com
GENERATION I GI-2: GENERATION COMMUNITY FRI 10 - 17:30 - LUX 2 / SUN 12 - 17:00 - LUX 2
Internet Famous
Noah
Le Processus
Director: Kristoffer Borgli fiction / Norway / 2014 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Patrick Cederberg, Walter Woodman fiction / United States / 2013 / 12’
Director: Xavier de L’Hermuzière, Philippe Grammaticopoulos animation / France / 2000 / 8’
Amir (27) becomes internet famous by his videos where he picks fights with strangers on the street. He tries to justify his success in a portrait interview with a newspaper.
In a story that plays out entirely on a teenager’s computer screen, Noah follows its eponymous protagonist as his relationship takes a rapid turn for the worse in this fascinating study of behaviour (and romance) in the digital age.
Production, Script: Kristoffer Borgli / Editing: Patrick Larsgaard / Sound: Alf Helge Løvstad Iversbakken, Daniel Angyal / Cast: Amir Asgharnejad Filmography: Internet Famous (2014), Whateverest (2012), Molo (2011)
Production, Script: Patrick Cederberg, Walter Woodman / Editing, Animation: Patrick Cederberg / Sound: Aaron Yeung, Patrick Cederberg / Cast: Sam Kantor Filmography: Noah (2013)
Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 92813088, amb@nfi.no
When a soldier loses his cap, his compatriots no longer recognize him. Script, Photography, Editing, Sound: Xavier de L’Hermuzière, Philippe Grammaticopoulos / Music: Parmegiani, Nine Inch Nails, Ivo Malec Filmography: The Bellies (2009), Le Régulateur (2004), Le Processus (2001) Contact: Jean-Jacques Benhamou, +33 153584646, jjb@illum-mg.fr
Contact: Walter Woodman, walter@koalamotion.com
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Black and White Trypps Number Three
Doska Frank
Birth Of A Nation
Director: Ben Russell documentary / United States / 2007 / 12’
Director: Hanna Bergfors art film / Germany, Sweden / 2011 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Daya Cahen documentary / The Netherlands / 2010 / 11’
Shot during a performance by the Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, Black and White Trypps Number Three documents the transformation of a rock audience’s collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order. It is a filmic portrait of secular rapture that harks back to the great annunciation canvases of Titian and Caravaggio. Production, Script: Ben Russell / Music: Lightning Bolt / Sound: Joe Grimm, Ben Russell Filmography: The Twilight State (2015), A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013), River Rites (2011), Trypps #7 (2011), Workers Leaving the Factory (2009), Let Each One Go Where He May (2009), Black and White Trypps Number Four (2008), Trypps #5 (2008), Black and White Trypps Number Three (2007) Contact: Lightcone: Jeanne Vellard, jeanne.vellard@lightcone.org 94
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Doska Frank depicts some days in the life of a young couple in Stockholm, Frida and Oskar. Parallel to the young couple is the real estate agent who provides tours to the people in Stockholm’s up and coming neighbourhood SoFo. Frida desires metal music, and she wants it loud. Oskar needs Frida, but Frida needs music as a symbol of something more. Production: Hanna Bergfors / Script: Jonas Hammarbäck, Hanna Bergfors / Photography: Kornelia Kugler / Editing: Hanna Bergfors, Kornelia Kugler / Music: Jonas Isfält / Cast: Francine Agbodjalou, Joakim Granberg Filmography: Doska Frank (2011) Contact: Hanna Bergfors, +49 17670396551, hannabergfors@gmail.com
At a cadet school in Moscow (the only one in the world), girls from 11 to 17 years are trained to grow as an ideal citizen of the homeland. Here the girls learn how to sew, march, cook, sing, shoot, how to use make up and how to prepare for military action. Even more than being trained as a good patriot, the aim is to become an ideal woman. Script, Photography, Editing: Daya Cahen Filmography: We Lived Our Ordinary Lives (2012), Birth of a Nation (2010) (Go Short 2011), Nashi (2008), The Stalin That Was Played By Me (2006) Contact: EYE Film Institute Netherlands: Gerdien Smit, +31 624938604, experimental@eyefilm.nl
GENERATION I GI-3: GENERATION OFFLINE WED 8 - 21:00 - LUX 2 / FRI 10 - 16:00 - LUX 1
I Love Hooligans
Meaning of Style
Director: Jan-Dirk Bouw animation / The Netherlands / 2013 / 12’
Director: Phil Collins art film / United Kingdom, Malaysia / 2012 / 5’
Director: Susan Koenen documentary / The Netherlands / 2010 / 15’
A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.
A tropical fantasy featuring a cast of anti–fascist skinheads and exotic butterflies. An imaginary cinematic space provides the frame for a poetic meditation on the relationship between British colonial history and pop culture in South–East Asia. Featuring original soundtrack by Gruff Rhys & Y Niwl.
Every 13-year-old girl dreams of that nice, but hardto-get, boy. And Joppe is no different, consulting her friend on how to ask Brian out. But just how should she tell Brian that she was born a boy?
Production: Frederik Nicolai, Marc Thelosen, Koert Davidse / Script: Jan-Dirk Bouw / Photography: Jan-Dirk Bouw, Joost Jansen / Editing: Tim Roza / Music: Het Paleis van Boem / Sound: Bart Jilesen, Max Frick / Animation: Joost Jansen, Cederic Neven, Hanne Dewachter, Priscilla Peeters, Joris Bergmans
Production: Sinisa Mitrovic / Editing: Shantha Kumar / Music: Y Niwl, Gruff Rhys
I Am a Girl!
Ik ben een meisje!
Production: Albert Klein Haneveld / Photography: Reinout Steenhuizen / Editing: Susan Koenen, Denise Janzée / Sound: Bouwe Mulder
Filmography: I Love Hooligans (2013) (Go Short 2014), Always Different (2013), Hurray Pride Again (2011), Believe in Love II (2009)
Filmography: Meaning of Style (2012), Marxism Today (Prologue) (2010), Use! Value! Exchange! (2010), Soy Mi Madre (2008), Zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom) (2008), The World Won’t Listen (2004-2007)
Filmography: Ring a Ring o’Ritalin (2014), Black & White (2014), The Red Apple (2013), Laura & Anne 4 Ever & Ever (2012), All of Me (2012), The Wild West (2010), I Am a Girl! (2010), The Secret of the Queue (2009), Laura & Anne 4 Ever (2008), Going Out Anyway (2001)
Contact: KLIK! Distribution Service, Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 641515974, ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
Contact: Sinisa Mitrovic, +49 15120507764, info@shadylaneproductions.co.uk
Contact: Susan Koenen, +31 624219954, postvoorsusan@xs4all.nl
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Skinningrove
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If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy
Director: Michael Almereyda documentary / United States / 2013 / 15’
Director: Jona Honer documentary / The Netherlands / 2013 / 27’
Director: Mea de Jong documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 25’
In this short film directed by Michael Almereyda, Killip presents a group of mostly unpublished photographs from the 1980s, taken in and around the village of Skinningrove, in North Yorkshire, and recalls his relationships with the subjects. Almereyda, who has known Killip since 1991, interviewed the photographer for Aperture magazine in 2012 to discuss a retrospective of his career that had been organized in Essen, Germany.
Pieter, a 56-year-old writer, suffers from a personality change caused by the brain damage inflicted by a tumour. His wife Annette must learn to live with her new husband. Filmed before, during and after Pieter’s brain surgery I shows us how fragile our personality is and how closely it is connected with our physical brains.
“If you want to make a film about independent women, shouldn’t you make a film about our family?” And so mother and daughter embark on a journey together to make a portrait about the four generations who all managed without a man. A mysterious family tradition slowly emerges. One the mother is proud of, but the daughter has her doubts.
Production: Chris Killip, Michael Almereyda / Cast: Chris Killip Filmography: Experimenter (2015), The Man Who Came Out Only at Night (2013), Skinningrove (2012), The Ogre’s Feathers (2012), The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes (2011), Paradise (2009), Tonight at Noon (2009), New Orleans, Mon Amour (2008), William Eggleston in the Real Contact: Michael Almereyda, +1 6462020223, almereyda@aol.com 96
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Production: Paul Overste / Photography: Koen van Bergen / Editing: Jelle Kuipers / Music: Kristijan Krajncan / Sound: Tom Jansen, Claas Meier, Taco Drijfhout
Production: Chris Stenger, Juul Op den Kamp / Photography: Nina Badoux / Editing: Jose Van Koppenhagen / Music: Jesper Ankarfeldt / Sound: Laura Solleveld
Filmography: I (2013), Be Hard or Go Under (2012) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, wouter@someshorts.com
Filmography: If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy (2014), Now It’s Your Turn (2013) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, wouter@someshorts.com
DO SOMETHING SPECIAL YANN GONZALEZ SUMMER IN THE BALKANS FILM CONCERT GO GREEN OFF THE WALLS CATS INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS COMEDY SHORTS HOMEGROWN HKU PRESENTS GO AHEAD OSCAR SHORTS SHORT MATTERS 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT MEET THE JURY DUTCH PLATFORM GOSHORT
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YANN GONZALEZ RETROSPECTIVE Obsessions; every filmmaker needs them. It is the driving force of creativity, a force greater than yourself. Yann Gonzalez is happy to be a slave to his obsessions. He is a fan of sleazy pulp movies and great music and is a self-proclaimed sex maniac. You can see, hear and feel this in all his films. So we asked him, isn’t life too short for all the things you love to do?
I have such an appetite for everything, for films, for books, for music. So yeah, I think life is too short to embrace everything. I want to make as many films as possible and I think my life is too short for all the films I want to make. Especially because I am kind of lazy, I like to take my time. I wish I could live for 200 years, but I guess I just have to speed up. So could you say there’s a distinguishable Gonzalez style of films? I am trying to do something different every time. The screenplay I am writing now is for a horror film set in the 70’s gay porn industry. It’s about
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a female producer who’s crazy and alcoholic and in love with her editor. All her actors are being murdered by a serial killer. It’s the first time I am working on a horror film, and it’s important for me to be faithful to the genre. I really want it to be scary, and this is the main challenge; for it to be scary and emotional at the same time. Making a feature film is a long process and sometimes you lose energy when writing the screenplay and getting the funds. That’s why I am going to make another short film after I finish my screenplay. I really need to shoot something before the end of the year!
SHORT FILM SPECIALS You seem to be very close to actors and other people you collaborate with.
From that first film to your last, kissing seems to be an obsession to you.
I feel quite fragile on the set. When I am working I am always full of doubt about everything, so it is very important to have some people there that I know. It’s like building a family. We understand each other, we don’t have to talk for two hours before shooting a sequence. Especially with Kate Moran, it’s like telepathy – she really understands what I am looking for and she does it perfectly. Although I have worked with her a lot, I keep fantasizing about her in different characters, different moods, different outfits. But she’s not like a doll, she’s a muse.
Kissing is a way to get to know somebody. Sometimes you know more about someone when you kiss him then when you talk to him, because there’s truth in a kiss. It can be a violent kiss, it can be an awkward kiss, it can be a funny kiss. It tells a lot about my characters. I try to shoot as many kisses as I can, and I want every kiss to be different. I think it’s very cinematic to shoot a kiss; it’s beautiful. I want my kisses to be powerful and meaningful. To me it’s like talking, I don’t have to think about different kinds of kisses; it’s natural.
So what’s your current obsession? Now I am really obsessed with Grand Guignol. It’s an old theater from Paris in the 20s with stage plays full of special effects. It is very grotesque and very funny at the same time. I would really like to make a short film about one of these stage plays. Yann Gonzalez will be present at Go Short as a special guest and will coach the participants of the New Arrivals Go Short Campus with Gunhild Enger.
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YANN GONZALEZ’S SHORTS
By the Kiss Director: Yann Gonzalez art film / France / 2006 / 5’ / 35mm Night. Kisses. A raging heart.
We Will Never Be Alone Again Nous ne Serons Plus Jamais Seuls
Director: Yann Gonzalez fiction / France / 2012 / 10’ / DCP A party, at night. Some teenagers are dancing and loving each other as if it was the first and last time.
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Intermission
Three Celestial Bodies
Director: Yann Gonzalez art film / France / 2007 / 15’ / 35mm A girl, a boy, a ghost. Some pop music and noisy rock. Meanwhile, youth keeps fading away.
Director: Yann Gonzalez fiction / France / 2009 / 15’ / 35mm Macha, Nathan, and Walter leave their high school for the day. A young man is waiting for them, ready to take them out of the city, to the sea, into a night from which they may never return.
Les Vacances Continuent
Land of My Dreams
Director: Yann Gonzalez fiction / France / 2015 / 3’ / HD A revengeful, gore and grotesque music video for the French singer PEREZ.
Director: Yann Gonzalez fiction / France, Portugal / 2012 / 20’ / DCP Bianca and her Mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies.
Entracte
Les Astres Noirs
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YANN GONZALEZ’S CHOICE
Les Mains Négatives Director: Marguerite Duras fiction / France / 1979 / 14’ /16mm Les Mains Négatives traces a slow advance through Paris in the early hours of the morning.
Bouquet 1 Director: Rose Lowder art film / France / 1995 / 1’ / 16mm In Bouquet 1, a day of leisure at Mount Ventoux, Vaucluse juxtaposes the vibrant image of indigenous flowers with the equally colorful bins of candy.
Autumn Mists Brumes d’automne
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff art film / France / 1928 / 12’ / 35mm Brumes d’automne is a cinematic poem that captures the melancholy, nostalgia, hope and hopelessness of human inner sentiments.
Palmbomen II – Carina Sayles Director: Kai Hugo art film / The Netherlands, United States / 2015 / 7’ / HD “My name is Carina Sayles. Every Sunday my sister drives me to the ocean. It´s something that brings me inner peace.”
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Sofia and skype
Asparagus
Director: Alain Garcia art film / France / 2015 / 9 / HD / international premiere The impossible love between two images travelling through liquid and infinite landscapes.
Director: Suzan Pitt animation / United States / 1979 / 20’ / 35mm A moving meditation on art and the cost of reproduction.
Athanor
Allures
Director: Philippe Garrel art film / France / 1972 / 20’ / 35mm Athanor is looking for fire. There’s always a flame on the foreground. There’s a need for heating.
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SUMMER IN THE BALKANS
FRI 10 – 19:00 – LUX 5 / SAT 11 – 18:30 – LUX 5
Sweltering heat, languid nights, and carefree days in the Balkans.
Morning Prayers
Shelters Zakloni
Director: Konstantina Kotzamani, Katarina Stankovich fiction / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2014 / 18’ / Dutch premiere An evening of flirting with the idea of sex and an unforeseen event that will change lives forever. Contact: Konstantina Kotzamani, +30 6976430983, kkotzamani@yahoo.com
Director: Ivan Salatic fiction / Montenegro / 2014 / 24’ / Dutch premiere It’s a lazy end of the summer. When you are a kid, you never know that childhood ends. Contact: Ivan Salatic, +381 644567568, ivan.salatic@gmail.com
Quiet Mujo Tišina Mujo
Springtime Suns Soles de Primavera
Director: Ursula Meier fiction / France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Portugal / 2014 / 11’ / Dutch premiere Mujo misses his penalty kick. While searching for the ball, Mujo wanders in the kingdom of the dead… Contact: Bande à part Films, Production: Caroline Gudinchet, +41 786618825, info@bandeapartfilms.com
Director: Stefan Ivancic fiction / Serbia / 2013 / 23’ Four boys, friends and cousins, in between adolescence and adulthood, make the most of a summer evening. Contact: Stefan Ivancic, +381 637106633, sivancic@gmail.com
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The European Commission is present at Go Short as part of its information campaign on enlargement of the European Union (EU). To find out more about the enlargement of the European Union please visit: ec.europa.eu/enlargement
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FILM CONCERT
FRI 10 – 22:30 – LUX 5
The combination of live music and short film visuals has become a recurring part of the Go Short program. This year Frank Boeijen (Grimm Limbo) & Peter Johan Nÿland (Distel/ Hadewych), two successful music producers from Nijmegen and guitarist Rense Slings (Automatic Sam) play a live score for a selection of short films. The vibe of the short films is dreamy and imaginative and fits well with the style of the musicians. Both the producers draw their inspiration from 80’s electronic pioneers and new wave music; they also have a predilection for gloomy atmospheres. Their respective output is very different from one another however. While Grimm Limbo heads for the electro dance floor, Hadewych goes for an industrial ambient vibe. Add some guitar to the mix and this can only result in a very dynamic musical dialogue when these three musicians are confronted with our short films.
FILM CONCERT Fri 10 – 22:30 – LUX 5 Das Gespensst des Glücks Max Philipp Schmid art film / 2011 / Switzerland / 11' At Land Maya Deren art film / 1944 / United States / 14' Kitchen Sink Alison Maclean fiction / 1989 / New Zealand / 14' Krakatau Mariusz Grzegorzek art film / 1986 / Poland / 10'
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GO GREEN Go Short and Solar World Cinema, the founder of the international network of solar powered mobile cinemas, have joined forces to strive for a greener world. This special program is a selection of fresh, quirky and inspiring short films on issues of ecological and social sustainability. Films powered by the sun The solar powered mobile cinema is a van equipped with solar panels on the roof. These panels collect solar energy that powers all audiovisual equipment needed for outdoor cinema screenings. The mobile cinemas travel everywhere to bring unseen films to unusual places. A local square, a park or even a beach can be turned into an open-air, self-sustainable cinema that’s accessible to all. Solar World Cinema was founded in 2006 in the Netherlands and has now grown into an international network of solar powered cinemas operating in The Netherlands, Chile, Uruguay, Brasil, Mexico, and Ecuador and soon also in Bali, Spain and Portugal.
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THU 9 - 18:30 - LUX 3
Outdoor screening The Dutch solar powered cinema will be present at the festival and will be hosting a selection of Go Short films outside the festival venue. Prize From the films selected for Go Green a winner will be chosen, which will get worldwide screenings in the Solar World Cinema network. www.solarcinema.org
Timber Director: Nils Hedinger animation / Switzerland / 2014 / 6’ A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert until they realize how their own bodies can be the solution. Contact: Hedinger Nils, +41 797220262, info@nilshedinger.ch
The Age of Rust
Tracks
Director: Alessandro Mattei, Francesco Aber animation / Italy / 2014 / 7’ / Dutch premiere In the beautiful environment of the Alps, an extraordinary documentary about the incredible “Petramosaurus Cavator.” Contact: Alessandro Mattei, +39 3333361406, mattei.alessandro@hotmail.it
Director: Claire Oakley fiction / United Kingdom / 2014 / 13’ / Dutch premiere In the tradition of generations before him, Ed is taken stalking by his father to make his first kill. Contact: Claire Oakley, +44 7867782657, cnoakley@gmail.com
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Faded Finery Oripeaux
Graminoids
The Black Island L’Île Noire
Director: Mathias de Panafieu, Sonia Gerbeaud animation / France / 2014 / 10’ / Dutch premiere In a remote village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. Contact: 25 Films: Izumi Gautier, +33 683704409, stagiaire25films@gmail.com
Director: Lars Koens, Demelza Kooij art film / United Kingdom / 2014 / 6’ / Dutch premiere People and birds enter the screen, but remain in the background of a ballet performed on the wind. Contact: Scottish Documentary Institute: Agata Jagodzinska, +44 01316515761, agata@scottishdocinstitute.com
Director: Nino Christen animation / Switzerland / 2014 / 7’ On an island, at the edge of the woods, a watchman and his bird live a miserable and isolated life. Contact: Nino Christen, +41 792426599, noire@ninochristen.ch
Epsilon
Off the Highway Abseits der Autobahn
Leftover
Director: Noa Verhofstad, Daniela Uribe animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 1’ A short animation about four seasons in one room. In a digital world everything is possible. Contact: Noa Verhofstad, +31 618268296, info@noaverhofstad.nl
Director: Rhona Mühlebach fiction / Switzerland / 2014 / 21’ / Dutch premiere A couple that should no longer be a couple. Two people that have fallen out of love, who would like their partner to be different. Contact: Rhona Mühlebach, +41 766937147, rhona.muehlebach@gmx.ch
Director: Szabo Sarolta, Banoczki Tibor animation / France / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere The stories of different people are told through their relation to food, their relation to other people and their vision of the world. Contact: Marjorie Bosch, +33 182284183, aproduction@paprikaprod.com GOSHORT 105
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OFF THE WALLS
SAT 11 - 22:00 - HONIG COMPLEX
Wander through dark corners of the Honig Complex
Deep End Film and Go Short join hands for this unusual Off The Walls screening. We will take you on a tour through the dark corners of the Honig Complex, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Nijmegen, and the surrounding area that includes the brand new bridge over the river Waal. The walls of the old soup factory and other buildings will be transformed into screens for short films. The theme of this program is 'urban jungle'; short films about exotic animals will turn the urban environment into an industrial rainforest. 106 GOSHORT
Honig Complex - â‚Ź 5 tickets only available online through goshort.nl - ask our Industry Desk for a printed route
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CAT SHORTS
THU 9 - 21:30 - LUX 4
It's all about the cats From viral hits to works of art, these are some of the finest feline films. We bring you this special in co-operation with the Walker Art Center Minneapolis and Vienna Independent Shorts, organizer of the Cat Video Festival Vienna. What do art and cats have in common? Henri, le chat noir, has answered this question already: “A cat is a work of art on its own.” Not only cat lovers are inspired by our fluffy friends, filmmakers like David OReilly and musicians like Björk are stimulated as well. We are going to present a selection of short films and music videos with cats in the leading parts. The second part of the program deals with one of the most popular pop culture phenomena: cat videos (they are everywhere!). No other kind of home video gets posted as often on Facebook and YouTube as cute kittens doing funny things. And we all know, they deserve nothing less than a leading part because no human can ever break the iron will of
a cat. They defy gravity, ignore the rules of decent behavior and make the world their own and special playground.
CAT SHORTS THU – 21:30 – LUX 4 Sueño Lumínico Fernando Madedo Argentina / 2005 / 2’ Noia Mauro Folci Italy / 2009 / 4’ Ginger Cat vs. Paper Army Adam Cox United States / 2013 / 3’ ????? David OReilly Ireland / 2009 / 1’ Björk - Triumph of a Heart Spike Jonze United States / 2005 / 6’ Midnight Juggernauts - Systematic Mrzyk & Moriceau France / 2013 / 3’ Garnier - Revenge of the LOL Cat Émile Sacré France / 2014 / 3’ Play Miley Cyrus Off, Keyboard Cat Charlie Schmidt United States / 2014 / 2’
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INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
FRI 10 - 20:00 - LUX 4 / SAT 11 - 21:00 - LUX 3
Our favorite films on the international circuit condensed into one program.
Off the Highway
The Chicken
Symphony no. 42
Listen
Director: Rhona Mühlebach fiction / Switzerland / 2014 / 21’ Two people that have fallen out of love, who would like their partner to be different. Contact: Rhona Mühlebach, +41 766937147, rhona.muehlebach@gmx.ch
Director: Una Gunjak fiction / Croatia, Germany / 2014 / 15’ / Dutch premiere As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. Contact: Francois Morisset, +49 15225192336, festival@salaudmorisset.com
Director: Réka Bucsi animation / Hungary / 2014 / 10’ Small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. Contact: Daazo: Diana Nagy, +36 205234625, diananagy@daazo.com
Director: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan fiction / Finland, Denmark / 2014 / 13’ / Dutch premiere A foreign woman is filing a complaint. Contact: The Finnish Film Foundation: Maria Leskinen, +358 962203021, maria.leskinen@ses.fi
A Single Life
Void
In August En Août
Director: Job, Joris & Marieke animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 2’ When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life. Contact: KLIK! Distribution Service: Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 620689423, ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
Director: Milad Alami, Aygul Bakanova fiction / Denmark, Finland / 2014 / 17’ / Dutch premiere During a night trip on the ferry to Bornholm. Daniel, 50, starts a conversation with Amir, a handsome guy. Contact: DFI: Dorthe Skriver Vestergaard, + 45 33743573, festivalkd@dfi.dk
Director: Jenna Hasse fiction / Switzerland / 2014 / 10’ Margaux, six years old, awakens early on this August morning. Contact: Jenna Hasse, +41 797221126, hasse.jenna@gmail.com
Abseits der Autobahn
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COMEDY SHORTS
FRI 10 - 20:30 - LUX 3 / SAT 11 - 20:30 - LUX 5
The ultimate funny bone workout. Train your grin, your chuckle, and your guffaw!
De Smet
In God We Trash
Countryphille
Das Wad
Director: Thijs De Block fiction / Belgium / 2014 / 20’ / international premiere Abraham arrives in a sleepy rural village with a sheep and a huge hangover. Contact: Bekke Films: Ben Vandendaele, +32 477632746, bekkefilms@gmail.com
Director: Ruth Sewell fiction / United Kingdom / 2014 / 3’ / Dutch premiere A country and western singing gynecologist gets considerably more than he bargained for. Contact: Ruth Sewell, +44 7946049649, ruth.a.sewell@gmail.com
Director: Rob Lücker fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 11’ Gold seeker Salomon cheerfully wanders the sands when he discovers a giant submarine. Contact: Hazazah Pictures: Charlotte Sarneel, +31 614703935, charlotte@hazazah.com
By Accident Nechayanno
Delay
Timber
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov fiction / Russia / 2014 / 19’ / Dutch premiere A neighbor comes to an old lady for some salt. Quite suddenly he kills her. Contact: Ivan Lopatin, +74 959988609, mir.festivals@gmail.com
Director: Tomas Leach documentary / United Kingdom / 2014 / 7’ / Dutch premiere One of the last remaining secrets that men still hold on to. Delaying that magic moment. Contact: DETAiLFILM: Rosie Marks, +44 7946705176, rosiemarks93@gmail.com
Director: Nils Hedinger animation / Switzerland / 2014 / 6’ A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert until they realize how their own bodies can be the solution. Contact: Hedinger Nils, +41 797220262, info@nilshedinger.ch
Director: Thomas Baerten, Wim Geudens fiction / Belgium, The Netherlands / 2014 / 15’ The brothers are helping each other to make their lives as singles enjoyable, until a new woman arrives. Contact: David Deprez, +31 631640832, david.deprez@lumiere.nl
In de Naam van de Kater
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HOMEGROWN
SAT 11 - 19:00 - LUX 3 / SUN 12 - 13:00 - LUX 5
We nourish the local scene and are always on the look-out for blossoming talents in our surrounding area.
Trailer
Life Leven
Ways Wegen
Director: Mascha Halberstad animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 2’ It’s wartime. The enemy is everywhere. Attacks and explosions destroy everything. Luckily there is one man coming to the rescue! Contact: Viking Film: Esther Schmidt, +31 206254478, esther@vikingfilm.nl
Director: Paul Haans fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 17’ Three people, who don’t know each other, have something in common. Contact: Paul Haans, +31 612521333, paul@eyevision.nl
Director: Harko Wubs documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 18’ As people in a city are moving within their own well-known living spaces, which are widely varied, a citymap and a musical score arises Contact: Zaaigrond Filmproductions: Harko Wubs, +31 6 19838610, mail@harkoh.nl
My Dearest F#cking Phone
Lights Crossing
Meantime Tussentijd
Director: Eef Hilgers documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 15’ Claudia (14) has, like many teenage girls, an intense love-hate relationship with her smartphone. Contact: Een van de jongens: Hasse van Nunen, +31 619794992, info@eenvandejongens.nl
Director: Martijn Schinkel art film / The Netherlands / 2014 / 8’ Every single day when darkness falls 48 pairs of lights repeat the meaningful crossing of 48 American soldiers during the Second World War. Contact: Martijn Schinkel, +31 630757266, martijn@fishionfilm.nl
Director: Christian van Duuren fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 18’ When Pascal first arrives at a serious accident, he dials the emergency number. In the next minutes he ends up in a situation where his actions determine everything for him and the victim. Contact: Wanderlust: Rob IJpelaar, +31 628819463, rob@wehavewanderlust.nl
Lieve K#ttelefoon
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HKU PRESENTS
FRI: 13:00, LUX 5 / FRI: 15:00, LUX 5
A compilation of the most striking productions of the past year. Creativity won’t wait for a diploma! Students of the Utrecht School of the Arts make good use of their school’s facilities to experiment with new film techniques and various forms of animation. Every year we comb through the harvest of student productions to put together a compilation of striking shorts. The students will be present to tell us more about their films and future plans.
HKU PRESENTS 1
HKU PRESENTS 2
FRI: 13:00, LUX 5 And Then It Hits You Hugo de Kok fiction / the Netherlands / 2014 / 3' Between You and Me Quentin Haberham, Rutgher Jousma, Henry Brummelman animation / the Netherlands / 2014 / 5' Happily I'm Happy Victoria Warmerdam fiction / the Netherlands / 2014 / 24' La Commedia Jan-Willem de Kraaij / art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 9' Tommy Stein Louisse / animation / the Netherlands / 2014 / 4' Letting You Go Kim Faber / documentary / the Netherlands / 2014 / 18'
FRI: 15:00, LUX 5 Ricochet Wout Malestein / fiction/Liveaction / the Netherlands / 2014 / 14' Wood Joost Jordens, Bob Los, Mike von Rotz, Wilbert van Veldhuizen, Bram Meulman, Rosalia Black / animation / the Netherlands / 2014 / 4' Bodily Dysfunctions Aisha Madu / animation / the Netherlands / 2014 / 3' Out There Robbert Groenendijk / documentary / the Netherlands, Denmark / 2014 / 14' COAT Thijs Koole / animation / the Netherlands / 2014 / ' What About a Man? Florian Walraven / animation / the Netherlands / 2014 / 3' The Last Hour in the Sun Suzanne Jansen Documentary / the Netherlands / 2014 / 22' GOSHORT 111
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GO AHEAD Meet the Dutch filmmakers of tomorrow.
Go Ahead features the works of Dutch film students in the first, second and third year of Dutch academies and film schools. We’ve scouted films at Dutch film schools and selected the best six films. Many short films are produced here as assignments and then soon forgotten, as new projects take up the students’ time and screening opportunities are scarce. It would be a shame for some of these films if they never go beyond the classroom beamer, since they have a lot of international potential. Go Short offers 112 GOSHORT
these students the opportunity to screen their films at an international festival. This is an opportunity that they usually don’t get until they have made their graduation film. The creative process of the students will be discussed in short interviews after the films are screened; these will also offer an interesting peek into what goes on behind closed doors of Dutch academies.
Six films offer a first glimpse of tomorrow’s talented filmmakers. The films are by students at the School of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), the Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) and the School of Fine Art and Design St. Joost. Different genres like documentary, art and fiction are all represented. Though their talents may take different forms, they have all been selected because of a distinct approach or well developed style. All we can say to them is to go full steam ahead!
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GO AHEAD
SAT 11 - 13:00 - LUX 4
Blindrunners
Practical Affairs Praktiese Zaken
Still Life Stilleven
Director: David-Jan Bronsgeest fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 13’ Two Polish workers get fired in Holland and want to return home to their sick child. Can they resist temptation of earning a lot of money in a dark underworld. Contact: Tim Koomen, +31 658815367, tim@bizarrezaken.nl
Director: Jasmijn Schrofer documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 14’ Warmolt wants to decide for himself when his life is going to end. Why wait for death if you’re done living? Contact: Olya van Poppel, +31 614819074, olyavanpoppel@gmail.com
Director: Michael Creutzburg fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 14’ / world premiere Vincent and Vera are a couple who live together in a house isolated from society. Time moves forward, while in the rest of the world, time stands still. Contact: Michael Creutzburg, +31 621516816, crossfort@gmail.com
Pitstop
Direction : Home
Moving Forward Mergem Inainte
Director: Jim Süter fiction / The Netherlands / 2013 / 7’ During a stopover on the toilet at a gas station a tourist has a confusing encounter with a stranger. Contact: Netherlands Film Academy: Jessie Mentjox, +31 641561765, jessiementjox@gmail.com
Director: Jeroen van ‘t Hullenaar art film / The Netherlands / 2014 / 6’ / world premiere Short experimental film about the effects of living with divorced parents and thus having two ‘homes’. Contact: Jeroen van ‘t Hullenaar, +31 616095146, jeroen_hullenaar@hotmail.com
Director: Andreea Dumitriu documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 14’ / world premiere Talking on the phone is the only way Lavinia, an young Romanian immigrant in the Netherlands, can bridge the thousands kilometers distance with her sick mom. Contact: Andreea Dumitriu, +31 646282964, aa.dumitriu@gmail.com GOSHORT 113
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OSCAR SHORTS
This program is presented by ShortsTV.
Academy Award Short Film Nominees for Live-Action and Animation.
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OSCAR SHORTS ANIMATION
OSCAR SHORTS LIVE ACTION
SAT 11 / 18:00 / LUX 1 Me and My Moulton Torill Kove Norway / 2014 / 14' Feast Patrick Osborne United States / 2014 / 6' The Bigger Picture Daisy Jacobs United States / 2014 / 8' A Single Life Job, Joris & Marieke the Netherlands / 2014 / 2' The Dam Keeper Robert Kondo, Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi United States / 2014 / 18' Sweet Cocoon Mateo Bernard, Matthias Bruget, Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco & Quentin Puiraveu France / 2014 / 6' Footprints Bill Plympton United States / 2014 / 4' Duet Glen Keane United States / 2014 / 4' Bus Story Tali Canada / 2014 / 11'
SAT 11 / 19:45 / LUX1 AYA Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun Israel, France / 2012 / 39’ Boogaloo and Graham Michael Lennox United Kingdom / 2014/ 14' Butter Lamp Hu Wei France / 2013 / 15’ Parvaneh Talkhon Hamzavi Switzerland / 2012 / 25' The Phone Call Mat Kirkby United Kingdom / 2013/ 21'
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SHORT MATTERS All nominees for the European Film Awards 2014 for best short film. Short Matters is the European Film Academy’s short film tour which brings the films nominated for the European Film Awards to a number of film festivals and institutions across Europe and beyond. Coming from various regions of Europe the program features the short films nominated for the European Film Awards 2014 in a manifold panorama of young contemporary European filmmaking. The 2,900 members of the European Film Academy selected The Chicken as the overall winner. The short film initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in cooperation with a series of film festivals throughout the continent. At each of these festivals, an independent jury presents one of the European short films in competition with a nomination in the short film category of the European Film Awards. In order to be considered for the short film initiative, short films have to be selected for the competition section of any of these partner festivals.
SHORT MATTERS 1 SAT 11 / 16:30 / LUX 5 The Chimera of M. Sebastian Buerkner Animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 25’ Wall Simon Szabó fiction / Hungary / 2013 / 11’ Taprobana Gabriel Abrantes fiction / Portugal, Sri Lanka, Denmark / 2014 / 24’ Emergency calls Pekka Veikkolainen, Hannes Vartiainen documentary / Finland / 2013 / 15’
SHORT MATTERS 2 SUN 12 / 12:45 / LUX 2 Dinola Mariam Khatchvani fiction / Georgia / 2013 / 15’ The Missing Scarf Eoin Duffy animation / Ireland / 2013 / 7’ Shipwreck Morgan Knibbe documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 15’
Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea Jorge Lopez Navarrete fiction / Spain / 2013 / 16’ Still Got Lives Jan-Gerrit Seyler fiction / Germany / 2013 / 23’
SHORT MATTERS 3 SUN 12 / 19:00 / LUX 2 Daily Bread Idan Hubel fiction / Israel / 2014 / 18’ Pride Pavel Vesnakov fiction / Bulgaria, Germany / 2013 / 30’ Summer 2014 Wojciech Sobczyk animation / Poland / 2014 / 12’ Whale Valley Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson fiction / Iceland, Denmark / 2013 / 15’
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48 HOUR FILM PROJECT Mission impossible: producing a film in 48 hours Sometimes people really excel under time pressure. That’s the reason that many filmmakers are eager to participate in the 48 Hour Film Project. On 27 March the 48 hours start in which people are challenged to surpass their personal expectations. In this limited timeframe they have to make a film, from its first concept to the final render. The completed films will premiere during Go Short, and the winner of 48 Hour Nijmegen will advance to the global finals.
SCREENING TIMES: 48 HOUR A: Fri 10 / 17:30 / LUX 7 48 HOUR B: Fri 10 / 19:45 / LUX 7 48 HOUR C: Fri 10 / 22:00 / LUX 7
AWARD CEREMONY Sat 11 / 20:30 / Brebl
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MEET THE JURY
SAT 11 - 17:00 - LUX 3
The members of our juries have some impressive notches to their belts.
Two at the Border Nacht Grenze Morgen
Director: Tuna Kaptan, Felicitas Sonvilla documentary / Turkey, Germany / 2013 / 30’ Two yough men smuggle refugees to European ground. Contact: University of Television and Film Munich: Tuna Kaptan: +49 89689574032, info@thoseattheborder.com
Isle of Seals Roņu sala Director: Edmunds Jansons animation / Latvia / 2014 / 6’ / Dutch premiere In the middle of a grey sea there is a grey isle. On this grey island seals and hunters live together in a cruel balance. Contact: Atom Art: Ieva Vaickovska, +371 67612709, ieva@atomart.lv
Forever Mime
Dog’s Life Šuns dienos
Director: Michael Visser animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 7’ Two mimes fight over the romantic affection of the girl who runs the house of horror. They get caught up in their act so much it comes to an epic battle. Contact: Il Luster Films, Distribution: Thierry Paalman, +31 302400768, distribustion@illuster.nl
Director: Ieva Veiverytė fiction / Lithuania / 2013 / 24’ A dog burial issue becomes a real challenge for a woman, who has never experienced what the self-suficiency is. Contact: ČIOBRELIAI film production company: Marija Razgute, +370 60107802, marija@ciobreliai.lt
The Way of All Flesh De Weg van Alle Vlees
Director: Deben van Dam fiction / Belgium / 2013 / 27’ Tibo works as a nurse on a palliative care floor, and all he can think of lately is money. He places bets with his co-workers on the last breath of dying patients. Contact: Bekke Films: Ben Vandendaele, +32 477632746, bekkefilms@gmail.com GOSHORT 117
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DUTCH PLATFORM Let's go Dutch! At Go Short we strive to present an extensive collection of recent Dutch short films. The Dutch Platform has been a regular feature of our video library, offering easy access to shorts from different academies, institutes, and distributor and production companies in the Netherlands. This year the Dutch Platform is extended with market screenings and film pitches.
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DUTCH PLATFORM − MARKET SCREENINGS
DUTCH PLATFORM − SHORT FILM PITCH
Location: Vlaams Arsenaal, Arsenaalpoort 18 A selection of films from the Dutch Platform collection will be screened for accredited guests only. For more information on times, check with the Industry Desk.
11 April 2015 / 11:30 / Pavilion / For accredited guests only Dutch films in the final stages of production will be pitched to programmers, distributors and sales agents. A great opportunity for makers to present both their new films and themselves to the European industry, but also for the international guests to scout for talent and possible world premieres. You can see pitches from amongst others Jordy Tempelman (MAGASIN), Jeroen Houben (production company Habbekrats) and Noël Loozen (production company 100%Halal). All these filmmakers are true Dutch talents, that we think will become big names in the near future!
SHORT FILM SPECIALS VLAAMS ARSENAAL, ARSENAALPOORT 18 - For accredited guest only - Ask the Industry Desk for screening times
DUTCH ART
DUTCH STUDENTS #1
Refreshment Johan Rijpma art film / 2014 / 3' Metamorfoza Martha Colburn art film / 2014 / 7' #47 José Miguel Biscaya art film / 2014 / 11' One Hand Clapping Peter Delpeut art film / 2014 / 10' Dark Matter Karel Doing art film / 2014 / 20' Hybris Arjan Brentjes art film / 2014 / 7' The Mirror Guy Weizman, Gijs Kerbosch art film / 2014 / 15'
Fernweh Ena Sendijarevi fiction / 2014 / 14' Goodnight Jasper Bruijns documentary / 2014 / 13' Celery Pedro Collantes fiction / 2014 / 15' Homeland Nathalie Crum documentary / 2014 / 17' Before You Hit the Ground Sophie van de Pol fiction / 2014 / 12'
DUTCH STUDENTS #2 Nature 2.0 Maren Gedenk documentary / 2014 / 11'
Lieuwe Bobbie Koek fiction / 2014 / 12' Nowhere Place Susanne Opstal documentary / 2014 / 27' North East Hard West Bart van den Aardweg documentary / 2014 / 24' Gameboy Giancarlo Sánchez fiction / 2014 / 20' Panopticon Jim Süter fiction / 2014 / 12´
DUTCH FICTION Rotor Maarten Groen fiction / 2014 / 7' Malaguti Phantom Sam de Jong
fiction / 2014 / 9' Der Kaiser Eché Janga fiction / 2014 / 11' Empty Flynn von Kleist fiction / 2014 / 10' Forever After Charlotte Scott-Wilson fiction / 2014 / 15'
DUTCH DOCUMENTARIES Face to Face Menno Otten documentary / 2014 / 26' Welcome to Charleroi Jelle Dijkstra documentary / 2014 / 18' 10 Marta Jurkiewicz documentary / 2014 / 30' GOSHORT 119
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SUPPORTING FILM: VOOR FILM When our festival ends, our mission doesn’t stop! We really want short film to be seen on the big screen more often. That’s why we started a project a few years back to bring back the tradition of the supporting film, a short film screened before a feature. The supporting films we select are screened year round in 14 Dutch cinemas and last year reached an audience of over 150,000 visitors. Because of the success we decided to take it to the next level and ask a producer to make a film specifically for the project. Douwe Dijkstra, who received a special mention for Démontable last year, produced Supporting Film. We loved working with him, and asked him how he loves to work.
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Interview with filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra I'm a bit of everything. An animator, a filmmaker, a bricoleur. I always use a combination of filmed images and computer post processing. I use the computer mainly for collaging. I cut things out and put them back together in a different manner, using a lot of green screens in the process. I'm not someone who works with a big set and a large number of actors, nor someone who just shoots it and bags it. When I film something I intend to do something different with the parts. In the film industry it is common to work in a very methodical manner: think of a story, script it, make a storyboard for every shot. This is for a practical reason: filmmaking is usually teamwork so a clear plan is necessary. But another reason is that there is a lot of money involved, so funders want to know what you're going to do on a shot to shot basis. I prefer to work independently and in a more exploratory way. If you want to work independently, you just have to do everything yourself, in your own environment, with your own resources. I don't need a big studio and an expensive camera. Other filmmakers will start with
a brilliant idea and then work on it until there's nothing left. I prefer to act immediately when I have a bad idea, and then mess around until it results in something that works or fascinates me. That's just what I did with Démontable. I locked myself in my studio for two months with a small green screen and film equipment. In there I worked with the things that were on my mind at the time. Especially prevalent were the images of war; something which contrasts so sharply with your daily life yet is ever present in the news, in movies and on television. Démontable was initially created as a museum installation, where visitors could stand between the screens and helicopters and bullets would fly around you. When I adapted it to a short film it gained a much wider audience through its successful film festival run. Because the film was well received, you stand out and new assignments follow. I accept some assignments to be able to invest in making independent films. That’s how I increase my possibilities to do projects from which I draw fun and inspiration.
Go Short invited several filmmakers to submit a plan for a supporting film, and my pitch was chosen. My idea was to ask people with very different backgrounds and opinions about the ways in which they experience films. I used the resulting audio and then worked on accompanying images. This approach allowed me to work in a very inquisitive manner. The framework is clear, but the outcome of the interviews is always a surprise. I went to visit film buffs from 6 to 60 years of age, including religious people who don’t want to watch films, and a blind woman who only listens to films. This produced such a wealth of material that the biggest challenge was to reduce the hours of interviews into a film of six minutes. There were still a lot of great quotes left I just didn’t want to shelve, so I have also created a longer version which will premiere at Go Short. The long version of Supporting Film is part of NL1: Out of the Ordinary and the short version of the opening Program. The short version is also screened in 14 Dutch cinemas during the month of April. GOSHORT 121
GO SHORTY! Go Shorty! organises several extracurricular film and new media projects for children of various ages. By offering film programs, workshops and educational school programs, we show them how much fun it can be not only to watch films, but to make them yourself as well. Go Shorty inspires creativity, talent and passion for film in everyone!
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Kids today‌ Before you know it they are little filmmakers! With mobile phones, cheap handheld cameras, editing software and apps, all the tools are now as easily accessible as a box of crayons. At the Go Shorty Playground we love to stimulate the creativity of kids. We offer workshops for children of all ages, where they work with stop motion, folioscope or documentary filming.
Go Short offers film education for primary and secondary schools throughout the year. In co-operation with Grote Broer Kunsteducatie, Go Short organises Go Docu and Go Lipdub: projects that take place in class rooms and at the local art house. Primary schools visit us in the early morning of the festival days for special school screenings, complete with hand-outs and meet-and-greets with filmmakers or actors. Short in the Box is Go Short’s newest project, where we co create with 5 youngsters a box full of shorts and practical assignment, which youngster can use themselves to create their own film project. Interested in bringing Go Short to your school? Contact us at: educatie@goshort.nl
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Shorts for shorties from 6 years and older.
The Elephant and The Bicycle
A Home for Lydia
The Tie
Director: Olesya Shchukina animation / France, Belgium / 2014 / 9’ An elephant lives in a town among people and works as a street cleaner. His only wish is to get a bycicle. Contact: Folimafge Studio, animation studio: Jeremy Mourlam, +33 475784868, j.mourlam@folimage.fr
Director: Eline Helena Schellekens documentary / The Netherlands / 2013 / 17’ Lydia’s made up songs tell the true: she is tired moving from school to school, leaving her friends behind. Contact: Kro, Jeugd: Frauke van Beusekom, +31 618339552, frauke.vanbeusekom@kro-ncrv.nl
Director: An Vrombaut animation / Belgium / 2014 / 9’ / Dutch premiere A small giraffe and a tall giraffe have a chance meeting. Contact: Lunanime bvba: Katrien De Hauwere, +32 92770540, katrien@lumiere.be
Johnny Bakru
Lambs Lämmer
Director: Ineke Houtman fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 26’ Nine year old Rose is living happily with her family, until the charming folk singer Johnny Ster walks into their lives. Contact: Revolver Amsterdam: Sophie van Eijck, +31 637157245, sophie@revolver.nl
Director: Gottfried Mentor animation / Germany / 2013 / 4’ The lamb’s parents are shocked, because their little lamb doesn’t sound like the other sheep: It’s making „moo“ instead of „baa“. Contact: Studio FILM BILDER: Just Bianca, +49 711481027, studio@filmbilder.de
Le Vélo de l’Éléphant
Lydia Blijft
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Go Daan Go! Daan Durft
Snowflake снежинка
Director: Mari Sanders fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 16’ When Daan discovers his mothers old swimming medals, it inspires him to follow his passion. Contact: IJswater Films: Nynke Scheltema, +31 204421760, nynke@ijswater.nl
Director: Natalia Chernysheva animation / Russia / 2013 / 6’ / Dutch premiere Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper. Contact: studio Pchela: Natalia Chernysheva, +31 695313928, cher_nata@yahoo.com
Munya in Me Munya in Mij
Balloon Birds
Director: Mascha Halberstad animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 25’ Heavy ten-year-old Munya tries to avoid her bullies on her daily trip to the Turkish supermarket. Contact: Viking Film: Esther Schmidt, +31 206254478, esther@vikingfilm.nl
Director: Marjolaine Perreten animation / Switzerland / 2014 / 1’ The (very) short story of two ballon birds, meeting each other for the first time, until another comes... Contact: Nadasdy Film: Nicolas Burlet, +41 223002054, nburlet@nadasdyfilm.ch
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Giovanni and the Water Ballet Giovanni en het Waterballet
Director: Astrid Bussink documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 17’ Ten-year old Giovanni has a dream: he wants to compete in the Dutch Synchronized Swimming Championships. Contact: Een van de jongens: Hasse van Nunen, +31 208943628, info@eenvandejongens.nl
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School Full of Fish School vol Vissen
Happy Camper: The Daily Drumbeat
Director: Margot Schaap documentary / The Netherlands / 2014 / 15’ 13-year-old Hugo has a fascination for deep-sea fish and a talent for diving. Contact: BALDR Film: Katja Draaijer, +31 203032670, katja@baldrfilm.nl
Director: Job, Joris & Marieke animation / The Netherlands / 2014 / 3’ On the rooftops of a big city a group of innocent creatures is trying to keep up the pace of a fatal game. Contact: KLIK! Distribution Service: Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 620689423, ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
Director: Anna van Keimpema fiction / The Netherlands / 2014 / 13’ Donnie and Casper launch an exploration to get closer to Swedish Maria. Or is playing war actually much more fun? Contact: Anna van Keimpema, +31 614327888, anna@vankeimpema.nl
The Little Cousteau
Louis the Ferris Wheel Kid
Balloon Birds
Director: Jakub animation / Czech Republic / 2013 / 8’ / Dutch premiere This short animated film about a little boy who longs for deep-sea adventures in a snow-covered city is a homage to Jacques Cousteau. Contact: Jakub Kouril, Jakub Kouril, +420 732173003, kouril.kuba@gmail.com
Director: Tara Fallaux documentary / The Netherlands / 2013 / 17’ After the summer break, Louis goes to high school and says goodbye to his life as a traveling fun fair-kid. Contact: 100% Halal Productions: Hedy Tjin, +31 615343373, hedy@100procenthalal.nl
Director: Marjolaine Perreten animation / Switzerland / 2014 / 1’ The (very) short story of two ballon birds, meeting each other for the first time, until another comes... Contact: Nadasdy Film: Nicolas Burlet, +41 223002054, nburlet@nadasdyfilm.ch
Maly Cousteau
Louis van het Reuzenrad
Commando Maria
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FILM INDEX TITLE # 1+1 – 52 165/60 – 44 8 Balles – 53 8 Bullets – 53 A A Caça Revoluções – 67 A Girl`s Day – 40 A Hole in My Heart – 58 A Home for Lydia – 123 A Million Miles Away – 92 A Simpler Life – 78 A Single Life – 59, 108, 114 A Weekend Getaway – 38 Abseits der Autobahn – 105, 108 After Rave – 85 Aïssa – 43 Akmeni – 87 Alateadvuse Maja – 51 All the Pain in the World – 66 All Those Sunflowers – 59 Alles Is Gezegd – 34 Allures – 101 Among us – 68 Ancha es Castilla/N’Importe Quoi – 47 And Then It Hits You – 111 As Long as Shotguns Remain – 43 Asparagus – 101 At Land – 103 Athanor – 101 Autumn Mists – 101 AYA – 114 B Balloon Birds – 124, 125 Bath House – 37 Between You and Me – 111 Birth Of A Nation – 94 Black and White Trypps Number Three – 94 134 GOSHORT
Blindelings – 58 Blindly – 58 Blindrunners – 113 Bloedhond – 36 Bodily Dysfunctions – 111 Boogaloo and Graham – 114 Bouquet 1 – 101 Breakfast on the Grass – 84 Brumes d’automne – 101 Bus Story – 114 Butter Lamp – 80, 114 By Accident – 109 By the Kiss – 100 C Cams – 44 Chat with me – 46 Chatten – 46 снежинка – 124 Choir Tour – 85 Cigarettes and Coffee – 81 COAT – 111 Commando Maria – 125 Countryphille – 109 Cut Out – 53
Direction : Home – 113 Distance – 86 Distants – 86 Dödsryttarens Dröm – 40 Dog’s Life – 87, 117 Don’s Dream – 47 Doska Frank – 94 Drive With Care – 37 Drone Drive By – 66 Duet – 114 E Earth over Wind – 35 Emergency calls – 115 En Août – 108 Entracte – 100 Epsilon – 105 Et enklere liv – 78
H Hafta Sonu Tatili – 38 Haircut – 42 Half Wet – 71 Happily I’m Happy – 111 Happy Camper: The Daily Drumbeat – 125 Härlig är Jorden – 79 Hätäkutsu – 115 Het Laatste Uur in de Zon – 111 Hotel Straussberg – 50 House of Unconciousness – 51 Hout – 111 Hvalfjord – 115 I I – 96 I Am a Girl! – 95 I Love Hooligans – 95 I Remember – 68 Ich hab noch Auferstehung_ – 115 If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy – 60, 96 Ik – 96 Ik ben een meisje! – 95 Ik Laat Je Gaan – 111 Implausible Things – 46 In August – 108 In de Naam van de Kater – 109 In God We Trash – 109 Inbox – 79 Inbox: Resan Ingen Ville Göra – 79 Intermission – 100 Internet Famous – 93 Invisible – 68 Isfilma Par Dzivi – 89 Isle of Seals – 117 It Can Pass Through the Wall – 48
F Faded Finery – 105 Fal – 115 Fallen leaves – 48 Fame – 92 Feast – 114 Flora and Mark – 77 Footprints – 114 D Forest – Just One Day – 35 Daan Durft – 124 fOreVER – 39 Daily Bread – 115 Forever Mime – 117 Dans la Joie et la Bonne Humeur Forever Over – 39 – 67 Daphné or the Lovely Specimen – 50 Free now – 49 Fuligem – 39 Daphné ou la Belle Plante – 50 Das Gespensst des Glücks – 103 G Das Wad – 109 Galim Susitikti, Galim NesusitikDe Smet – 58, 109 ti – 86 De Weg van alle Vlees – 117 Gelukkig Ben Ik Gelukkig – 111 Dead Air – 52 Giovanni and the Water Ballet – 124 Delay – 109 J Giovanni en het Waterballet – 124 Descent – 56 Ja Vi Elsker – 49 Go Daan Go! – 124 Dinner For Few – 40 Johnny Bakru – 123 Graminoids – 105 Dinola – 115
Jord over Vind – 35 K Kitchen Sink – 103 Kolmnurga Afäär – 87 Krakatau – 103 L La Bambina – 70 La Chair de ma Chère – 51 La Commedia – 111 La Lampe au Beurre de Yak – 80 Lambs – 123 Lämmer – 123 Land of My Dreams – 100 Lato 2014 – 115 Le Processus – 93 Le Sel de la Terre – 44 Le Vélo de l’Éléphant – 123 Leftover – 44, 105 Les Astres Noirs – 100 Les Mains Négatives – 101 Les Vacances Continuent – 100 Letting You Go – 111 Leven – 110 Libre Maintenant – 49 Lieve K#ttelefoon – 110 Life – 110 Lights Crossing – 110 L’Île Noire – 105 Lisa Go Home – 84 Listen – 108 Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea – 115 L’offre – 69 Louis the Ferris Wheel Kid – 125 Louis van het Reuzenrad – 125 Lydia Blijft – 123 Lystopad – 48 M Mai – 84
Maly Cousteau – 125 Man Meets Woman – 51 Man on the Chair – 45 Material Conditions of Inner Spaces – 36 Matka Ziemia – 70 Me and My Moulton – 34, 114 Meaning of Style – 95 Медик Іде Останньою – 66 Meantime – 59, 110 Memorandum – 45 Memorándum – 45 Mergem Inainte – 113 Mi ne Mozhem zhit bez Kosmosa – 39 Milky Brother – 34 Mimma – 51 Mleczny Brat – 34 Morning Prayers – 102 Mother Earth – 70 Moulton og Meg – 34, 114 Moving Forward – 113 Munya in Me – 124 Munya in Mij – 124 Musik – 38 Muzhchina Vstrechayet Zhenshinu – 51 My Dad – 70 My Dearest F#cking Phone – 110 My Honeymoon – 50 N Nacht Grenze Morgen – 117 Nechayanno – 109 New – 57 Nieuw – 57 Niewidzialne – 68 Noah – 93 Nocebo – 69 Nothing Left Unsaid – 34 Nous ne Serons Plus Jamais Seuls – 100
O Off the Highway – 105, 108 Olga – 88 Onder Ons – 68 Onno de Onwetende – 71 Onno the Oblivious – 71 Oripeaux – 105 Out There – 111 P P – 56 Palmbomen II - Carina Sayles – 101 Parvaneh – 114 Pasjon – 78 Passion – 78 Passionless Moments – 81 Patch – 37 Pat–Lehem – 115 Pequeño Bloque de Cemento con Pelo Alborotado conteniendo el Mar – 115 Piesn Pasterza – 41 Pitstop – 113 PLANET ∑ – 38 Practical Affairs – 113 Praktiese Zaken – 113 Prematur – 78 Premature – 78 Pride – 115 Printemps – 49 Proavlio – 48 Provincia – 72 Q Quiet Mujo – 102 R reCuiem – 35 Ricochet – 111 Roadtrip – 72 Roem – 92 Roņu sala – 117
S Salon Siostr W. – 42 School Full of Fish – 125 School vol Vissen – 125 Schoolyard – 48 Self – 42 Shelters – 102 Shepherd’s Song – 41 Shift – 86 Shipwreck – 115 Short Film About Life – 89 Simhall – 37 Skinningrove – 96 Snowflake – 124 Sofia and Skype – 101 Soles de Primavera – 102 Somebody – 81 Soot – 39 Sparni un Airi – 88 Splintertime – 57 Spring – 49 Springtime Suns – 102 Still Born – 46 Still Got Lives – 115 Still Life – 113 Stilleven – 113 Stones – 87 Storm Hits Jacket – 36 Subtotal – 79 Summer 2014 – 115 Šuns dienos – 87, 117 Super Unit – 47 Superjednostka – 47 Supporting Film – 56, 120 Sweet Cocoon – 114 Symphony no. 42 – 108 T Tagli di Capelli – 42 Tant Qu’il nous Reste des Fusils à Pompe – 43 Taprobana – 115
Tehran–geles – 41 Telling Lies – 80 Tempête sur Anorak – 36 The Age of Rust – 69, 104 The Baby – 70 The Bigger Picture – 71, 114 The Black Island – 105 The Chicken – 108 The Chimera of M. – 115 The Dam – 114 The Doctor Leaves Last – 66 The Elephant and the Bicycle – 123 The Ghost of Happiness – 103 The Girl Chewing Gum – 80 The Hornhunter – 57 The Last Hour in the Sun – 111 The Little Cousteau – 125 The Missing Scarf – 115 The Motordrome Dream – 40 The Noisemaker – 41, 85 The Offer – 69 The Phone Call – 114 The Revolution Hunter – 67 The Salt of the Earth – 44 The Tie – 123 The Triangle Affair – 87 The Way of all Flesh – 117 Three Celestial Bodies – 100 Three Stones for Jean Genet – 45 Timber – 104, 109 Tišina Mujo – 102 Tommy – 111 Tracks – 104 Trailer – 110 Trece Si Prin Perete – 48 Triukšmadarys – 41, 85 T’s World: The Over-Identification of Terry Thompson – 53 Tussentijd – 59, 110 Two at the Border – 117 Two Films about Loneliness – 92
U Un Cartus de Kent și un Pachet de Cafea – 81 Un Creux dans Mon Coeur – 58 Ursus – 88 V Void – 108 Voor Film – 56, 120 W W. Sisters Beauty Salon – 42 Wall – 115 Washingtonia – 67 Ways – 110 We Can’t Live without Cosmos – 39 We May Meet, We May Not – 86 We Will Never Be Alone Again – 100 Wegen – 110 Whale Valley – 115 What About a Man? – 111 Wild Dog – 36 Wings and Oars – 88 With the Joy and Merriness – 67 Wood – 111 Working to Beat the Devil – 52 World of Glory – 79 Y Yes We Love – 49 Z Zakloni – 102
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FILM INDEX COUNTRY Armenia Milky Brother – 34 Australia Passionless Moments – 81 Austria Musik – 38 Belarus 165/60 – 44 Belgium De Smet – 58, 109 Free now – 49 In God We Trash – 109 Splintertime – 57 The Elephant and the Bicycle – 123 The Tie – 123 The Way of all Flesh – 117 With the Joy and Merriness – 67 Bosnia and Herzegovina Morning Prayers – 102 Quiet Mujo – 102 Bulgaria Pride – 115 Canada Bus Story – 114 Me and My Moulton – 34, 114 Croatia The Chicken – 108 Czech Republic The Little Cousteau – 125
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Denmark Listen – 108 Out There – 111 Taprobana – 115 Void – 108 Whale Valley – 115 Estonia Breakfast on the Grass – 84 Distance – 86 House of Unconciousness – 51 Mai – 84 Olga – 88 Shift – 86 The Triangle Affair – 87 Finland Drive With Care – 37 Emergency calls – 115 Listen – 108 Material Conditions of Inner Spaces – 36 France 8 Bullets – 53 Aïssa – 43 As Long as Shotguns Remain – 43 Athanor – 101 Autumn Mists – 101 AYA – 114 Bouquet 1 – 101 Butter Lamp – 80 Butter Lamp – 114 By the Kiss – 100 Daphné or the Lovely Specimen – 50 Faded Finery – 105 Haircut – 42 Intermission – 100 Land of My Dreams – 100 Le Processus – 93 Leftover – 44, 105
Les Mains Négatives – 101 Les Vacances Continuent – 100 Man on the Chair – 45 Mimma – 51 PLANET ∑ – 38 Quiet Mujo – 102 Sofia and Skype – 101 Splintertime – 57 Spring – 49 Storm Hits Jacket – 36 Sweet Cocoon – 114 Tehran–geles – 41 The Elephant and the Bicycle – 123 The Salt of the Earth – 44 Three Celestial Bodies – 100 T’s World: The Over–Identification of Terry Thompson – 53 We Will Never Be Alone Again – 100 Georgia Dinola – 115 Germany 1+1 – 52 A Girl`s Day – 40 Doska Frank – 94 Forever Over – 39 Hotel Straussberg – 50 I Remember – 68 Implausible Things – 46 Lambs – 123 Nocebo – 69 Patch – 37 Pride – 115 Quiet Mujo – 102 Roadtrip – 72 Still Got Lives_ – 115 The Chicken – 108 Three Stones for Jean Genet – 45 Two at the Border – 117 Two Films about Loneliness – 92
Greece Dinner For Few – 40 Schoolyard – 48 Washingtonia – 67 Hong Kong Material Conditions of Inner Spaces – 36 Hungary Provincia – 72 Symphony no. 42 – 108 Wall – 115 Iceland Whale Valley – 115 The Missing Scarf – 115 Israel AYA – 114 Daily Bread – 115 Drone Drive By – 66 Italy Haircut – 42 Quiet Mujo – 102 reCuiem – 35 Somebody – 81 The Age of Rust – 69, 104 The Baby – 70 Latvia Choir Tour – 85 Isle of Seals – 117 Short Film About Life – 89 Stones – 87 Ursus – 88 Wings and Oars – 88 Lithuania After Rave – 85 Dog’s Life – 87, 117
Lisa Go Home – 84 The Noisemaker – 41, 85 We May Meet, We May Not – 86 Malaysia Meaning of Style – 95 Montenegro Shelters – 102 New Zealand Kitchen Sink – 103 Norway Earth over Wind – 35 Flora and Mark – 77 Inbox – 79 Internet Famous – 93 Me and My Moulton – 34, 114 Passion – 78 Premature – 78 Subtotal – 79 Yes We Love – 49 Poland Invisible – 68 Krakatau – 103 Milky Brother – 34 Mother Earth – 70 Self – 42 Shepherd’s Song – 41 Summer 2014 – 115 Super Unit – 47 W. Sisters Beauty Salon – 42 Portugal Land of My Dreams – 100 Quiet Mujo – 102 Soot – 39 Taprobana – 115 The Revolution Hunter – 67
Romania Cigarettes and Coffee – 81 It Can Pass Through the Wall – 48 Russia By Accident – 109 Man Meets Woman – 51 Snowflake – 124 We Can’t Live without Cosmos – 39 Serbia Springtime Suns – 102 Spain Ancha es Castilla/N’Importe Quoi – 47 Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing the Sea – 115 Memorandum – 45 Sri Lanka Taprobana – 115 Sweden A Simpler Life – 78 Bath House – 37 Cams – 44 Chat with me – 46 Doska Frank – 94 Still Born – 46 The Motordrome Dream – 40 The Noisemaker – 41, 85 World of Glory – 79 Switzerland Balloon Birds – 124, 125 In August – 108 My Honeymoon – 50 Off the Highway – 105, 108 Parvaneh – 114 Patch – 37
Quiet Mujo – 102 The Black Island – 105 The Ghost of Happiness – 103 The Offer – 69 Timber – 104, 109
Letting You Go – 111 Life – 110 Lights Crossing – 110 Louis the Ferris Wheel Kid – 125 Meantime – 59, 110 Moving Forward – 113 The Netherlands Munya in Me – 124 A Hole in My Heart – 58 My Dearest F#cking Phone – 110 A Home for Lydia – 123 New – 57 A Single Life – 59, 108, 114 Nothing Left Unsaid – 34 All Those Sunflowers – 59 Onno the Oblivious – 71 Among us – 68 Out There – 111 And Then It Hits You – 111 P – 56 Between You and Me – 111 Palmbomen II - Carina Sayles – 101 Birth Of A Nation – 94 Pitstop – 113 Blindly – 58 Practical Affairs – 113 Blindrunners – 113 Ricochet – 111 Bodily Dysfunctions – 111 School Full of Fish – 125 COAT – 111 Shipwreck – 115 Commando Maria – 125 Splintertime – 57 Das Wad – 109 Still Life – 113 De Smet – 58, 109 Supporting Film – 56, 120 Descent – 56 The Hornhunter – 57 Direction : Home – 113 The Last Hour in the Sun – 111 Don’s Dream – 47 Tommy – 111 Drone Drive By – 66 Trailer – 110 Epsilon – 105 Ways – 110 Fame – 92 What About a Man? – 111 Forever Mime – 117 Wild Dog – 36 Giovanni and the Water Ballet – 124 Wood – 111 Go Daan Go! – 124 Happily I’m Happy – 111 Turkey Happy Camper: The Daily Drumbeat A Weekend Getaway – 38 – 125 Two at the Border – 117 I – 96 I Am a Girl! – 95 Ukraine I Love Hooligans – 95 Fallen leaves – 48 If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s The Doctor Leaves Last – 66 Happy – 60, 96 Johnny Bakru – 123 United Kingdom La Commedia – 111 All the Pain in the World – 66
Boogaloo and Graham – 114 Countryphille – 109 Cut Out – 53 Dead Air – 52 Delay – 109 Forest – Just One Day – 35 Graminoids – 105 Half Wet – 71 My Dad – 70 Telling Lies – 80 The Bigger Picture – 71, 114 The Chimera of M. – 115 The Girl Chewing Gum – 80 The Phone Call – 114 The Revolution Hunter – 67 Tracks – 104 T’s World: The Over–Identification of Terry Thompson – 53 Two Films about Loneliness – 92 Working to Beat the Devil – 52 United States A Million Miles Away – 92 Allures – 101 Asparagus – 101 At Land – 103 Black and White Trypps Number Three – 94 Drive With Care – 37 Duet – 114 Feast – 114 Footprints – 114 Material Conditions of Inner Palmbomen II - Carina Sayles – 101 Spaces – 36 Noah – 93 Skinningrove – 96 Somebody – 81 The Dam – 114 T’s World: The Over-Identification of Terry Thompson – 53 GOSHORT 137
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