10TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN
GO SHORT FOR BIG IDEAS
11–15 APRIL 2018
PARTNERS OF GO SHORT 2018
CONTENT Welcome – 5 Acknowledgements – 6 Timetable – 7 Delegrate Information – 12 Industry Events – 13 Map & Locations – 14
SHORT FILM SPECIALS GS X Best of Ten Years – 98 Vimeo Staff Picks: Music Videos – 99 Cats Just Wanna Have Fun! – 100 Who Let the Dog Out?! – 101
GO SHORTY! & EDUCATION Family Shorts – 121 Go Shorty! School Programs – 123 Workshops – 125
TALENT Go Ahead – 129 Homegrown – 130 DZIGA Masterclass – 131 The 48 Hour Film Project – 132 Gelders DOEK – 132 MovieZone Talent Day – 133 New Arrivals: Go Short Campus – 134 Nisimazine: Film Journalism Workshop – 135
EEN SERVICE DIE HET VERSCHIL MAAKT COMPETITION PROGRAM
European Competition Jury – 16 Dutch & Student Competition Jury – 18 Youth Competition : Moviezone Jury – 20 Awards – 21 European Competition – 23 Dutch Competition – 46 Youth Competition – 56 Student Competition – 58
FOCUS PROGRAM
Patrik Eklund – 68 Eva Weber – 74 Ireland – 82 Expanded Cinema – 90
LATE NIGHT 100 Films in 100 Minutes – 102 Klik: Weird, Out There and Over the Top Animation – 106 Friday the 13th– 107 When I Say Vagina... – 108 FAVORITES Go Short vs Wintertuin – 109 International Highlights – 110 Comedy Shorts – 111 Kill Your Darlings – 112 Go Green – 113 Movies That Matter Presents – 114 Go Shorty for Grown–Ups – 115 Off the Walls – 116 All Along the Watchtower – 116
INDUSTRY
Industry Day – 138 Industry Events – 141 Dutch Short Film Preview – 142 Film Index by Title – 150 Film Index by Country – 152 Colophon – 154
SPOTLIGHT Oscar Shorts – 117 European Film Awards: Short Matters! – 118
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GO SHORT FOR BIG IDEAS Exactly 10 years ago we presented our first festival program to the world. And every year it is still one of the most exciting moments of the year. Will it fit together? Will it inspire those who are watching, maybe even affect the way they see the world? People still ask me why we focus on short film. The answer never changes: it is because of the richness, the passion and the ambition the format shows. It is because of voices that need to be heard, images that need to be seen and bold choices that need to be recognized. The short format goes beyond all. It stands out in the cinema, just as it does online or in any new format.
program and our audience have grown massively. The short format has never let us down. The same goes for the filmmakers and the industry around them. They recognised our ambition, took us in and supported us from the beginning. It makes us happy and satisfied to see that Dutch directors seem to understand and appreciate the short format better and better. We see a new generation with a distinctive style emerging. They are successful at festivals worldwide and are able to follow their passion. I hope that Go Short has given their careers as big a boost as possible and will do so for the next generation as well. Kirsten Ruber, Festival Director
After having received up to 22,000 shorts from directors and producers from all over Europe, watching and debating these and finally screening almost 3,000 of them, hosting 939 QA’s with filmmakers, training exactly 200 talents in our campus program and receiving qualifications from the Academy last year, Go Short has come of age. Although the set-up and idea behind the festival is still the same, both the 4
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THANK YOU!
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Big shout out to our main distribution partners that put shorts on their screens on a regular basis; De Balie Amsterdam, Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt Utrecht, Rialto Amsterdam, Chassé Theater Breda, Concordia Enschede, Filmschuur Haarlem, Filmhuis Den Haag, ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond, Slieker Film Leeuwarden, Filmhuis Emmen.
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Above all, we thank all the directors, producers, distributors and film institutes who sent us their films, all of our volunteers, festival friends and shortloving audience. Without you there would be no Go Short!
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Thanks to all the people of Nijmegen who welcome our guests at their homes, to our partner hotels Hotel Credible, Amrâth Hotel Belvoir, B&B De Prince, Guesthouse Vertoef, Hotel Nimma, Hostel Barbarossa and to restaurants Bistro Flores and De Portier. Thank you embassies and institutes that make it possible for filmmakers to visit Go Short.
The Short Film Conference, NISI MASA and all our befriended festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, thank you for your everlasting support.
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Thanks to our selection team and main programming partners; Dirk van der Straaten (Movies That Matter) Sanne Jehoul (Glasgow Short Film Festival), Bram Kranendonk (KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival), Alika Kharchenko
(Kyiv International Short Film Festival), Marija Milovanovic (VIS Vienna Shorts), Derry O’Brien (Network Ireland Television), Christoph Bovermann (European Film Awards), Jesse Bergsma (ShortsTV), Meghan Oretsky (Vimeo), Christoffer Olofsson (Uppsala International Short Film Festival), Mathieu Janssen (Deep End Film), Kim van Kaam (De Nieuwe Oost | Wintertuin), Ellen Kocken (DZIGA), Klaas-Arie Westland (Gelders DOEK), Alphons ter Avest (MIR project), Dave Willems (Radboud Reflects), Marjolein Hordijk (Bibliotheek Gelderland Zuid), Pierre van Megen (48 HFP) Mike Klaassen (NHTV), Martijn van Boven (ArtEZ).
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Thanks to the Go Short festival team and board and advisory board, members of the jury, our partners, sponsors and suppliers. Thank you Pien Houthoff and all the people at LUX for supporting Go Short 10 years, Patrik Eklund, Eva Weber, Eoin Duffy, Bert Velthuis. Betty Bergman, Natalie van den Dobbelsteen, Ben van Hees, Andrea Voskens, Josan Meijers, Liesbet Hoek, Els van Koolwijk, Doreen Boonekamp, Gitta Kruisbrink, Michaela van Wassenaer, Joke Ballintijn, Myra Groenink, Sylvia Brandsteder, Hans Bosscher, Romy Jochems, Marina Blok, Marnieke Klarus, Beri Shalmashi, Polona Kuzman, Joop van Langen, Sanne Grijsen, Martine Eelman and Dennis Pasveer.
LEGENDA COMPETITION PROGRAM:
OTHER PROGRAMS:
EU: EUROPEAN COMPETITION
FOCUS PROGRAM
VIRTUAL REALITY PROGRAM
NL: DUTCH COMPETITION
TALENT PROGRAM
GO SHORTY! / EDUCATION
ST: STUDENT COMPETITION
SHORT FILM SPECIALS
TALKS / LECTURES / INDUSTRY EVENTS
WINNERS / FAVORITES
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THURSDAY 12 APRIL SCHOOL WORKSHOP
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DELEGATE INFORMATION ACCREDITATION
INDUSTRY & PRESS DESK
Film professionals, film students and press are able to request an accreditation that identifies you as a professional visitor and is strictly personal. There are three types of accreditation: a Professionals Badge, a Press Badge and a Professionals Discount Badge.
The Go Short Industry Desk is located at the box office of LUX. Our staff will be there to welcome you and provide you with all the information you need regarding your attendance at the festival. Please feel free to stop by if you have any questions.
The Professionals and Press Badge provide you with free access to the entire festival program*/**, the Industry Day and the Video Library including Dutch Platform. The Professionals Discount Badge provides you with discounted tickets to the entire festival program*/**. The Industry Day and Video Library are not accessible. All registered professionals will be included in the Delegates List and will receive this festival catalogue and a unique tote bag designed by Eoin Duffy. * Except for 48 Hour Film Project, Off the Walls, MovieZone Talent Day and Radboud Reflects: How real is Virtual Reality? In addition the Professionals Discount Badge does not give access to afterparty Go Fever and Go Go Silent Disco.
Opening Hours Industry Desk Wed 11/4 > 14:00 – 22:00 Thu 12/4 > 10:00 – 20:00* Fri 13/4 > 09:00 – 20:00 Sat 14/4 > 10:00 – 20:00* Sun 15/4 > 10:00 – 17:00* *Closed between 13:00 and 13:30 Industry Desk Contact Details Rachel Rinia, Milica Stojanovic, Romy Smink industry@goshort.nl +31 (0)6 23986595 Industry Coordinator Lisanne Heiligers +31 (0)6 12423588
INDUSTRY EVENTS Press Coordinator Jindra Span +31 (0)6 46273549
VIDEO LIBRARY The Video Library is located at Studio LUX next to the Industry Desk and is open to everyone with a Professionals or Press Badge. The Library holds all films in this year’s festival program, including all competition and out-of-competition titles.
Dutch Platform Besides the complete Go Short selection, our Video Library includes the Dutch Platform, which holds an extensive collection of recent Dutch shorts from different Dutch academies, institutes, distributors and production companies. For more information see page 142. Opening Hours Video Library Thu 12/4 > 10:00 – 20:00 Fri 13/4 > 10:00 – 20:00 Sat 14/4 > 10:00 – 20:00 Sun 15/4 > 10:00 – 15:00
TUESDAY 10/4
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Festival Kick Off – MIR
WEDNESDAY 11/4 19:15
Opening Night (invitation only) 19:15 Welcome Drinks – Pavilion 20:00 Opening film program – LUX 21:30 Opening Drinks – Pavilion
Dutch Short Film Preview (invitation only) Meet the Industry Lunch (invitation only) Industry Drinks: Talents – Pavilion DZIGA Masterclass – LUX Go Short Awards (invitation only) Patrik's Abracadabra + Interview – LUX Go Go Silent Disco – LUX
THURSDAY 12/4
SUNDAY 15/4
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Nijmegen Guided Tour – Start at Industry Desk Industry Drinks: Ireland – Pavilion (hosted by the Embassy of Ireland) Go Riley’s Pub – Riley’s Pub
Farewell Brunch (invitation only) Audience Awards + Screening Winners – LUX
FRIDAY 13/4 10:30 10:30 16:30 17:30 21:00 23:00 23:00
Nijmegen Guided Tour – Start at Industry Desk Industry Day (registration required) – See page 138 Industry Drinks – Pavilion (hosted by Creative Europe Desk NL) Industry Dinner (ticket required) Eva's Visual Poetry + Interview – LUX Shorty Sing-a-long – De Wit Wasserij Go Fever – Merleyn
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EUROPEAN COMPETITION JURY
MEGHAN ORETSKY (US)
EOIN DUFFY (IE)
DOUWE DIJKSTRA (NL)
ÚNA FEELY (IE)
TIM DEN BESTEN (NL)
Before joining Vimeo in 2014, you could find Meghan cheering on filmmakers in the comments section of the countless videos on their site. Today she serves as a member of the Vimeo curation team, for which she watches thousands of videos a year. She is especially proud to support women in film via her channel ‘Ladies With Lenses’ and features their work in a monthly screening series in New York City.
Eoin Duffy is an Irish filmmaker living and working in Vancouver, Canada. Eoin has created a body of independent work that has gone on to secure multiple awards – with festival wins at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Savannah Film Festival, the Dallas International Film Festival and many others. In addition, Eoin's work has been nominated at the European Film Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards and shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
Douwe Dijkstra is a filmmaker and video artist from the Netherlands. He studied Illustration Design at ArtEZ. His work is a mixture of film, animation and VFX, and can be described as humorous and socially engaged. He created the video installation and short film Démontable (2014) and the documentary shorts Voor Film (2015) and Green Screen Gringo (2016). As a co-founder of the ‘33 1/3’ collective, he intertwines theatre productions and video projections.
Úna Feely is co-founder and co-director of the IndieCork Festival of independent film in Cork, Ireland. She has worked as a film programmer for many years, with festivals and with Ireland’s independent arthouse cinema, the Kino. Úna has programmed Irish focused programmes for many international festivals and events, from Liverpool to Ghardaia. IndieCork is Ireland’s festival of independent cinema, focusing on shorts but including features and documentaries. IndieCork takes place October 7th to 14th 2018.
Tim den Besten (Rotterdam, 1987) is a presenter and documentary maker for the VPRO. He doesn’t shy away from controversy in his work: for one of his projects, documentary Gay Meets Girl, he investigated the fluidity of sex by having his first sexual experience with a girl. He also lived for six weeks in a retirement home for documentary series Oudtopia and streamed his life for Super Stream Me to investigate the impact of social media. He is currently the presenter of interview series Tims Tent. His first book Zou er wifi in de hemel zijn? came out in October.
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DUTCH + STUDENT COMPETITION JURY
SEBASTIAN MULDER (NL)
ANETA OZOREK (PL)
RUBY DEELEN (NL)
GABE VAN AMBURGH (US)
REBER DOSKY (NL)
Sebastian Mulder graduated as a filmmaker at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in 2016. His graduation film Nature: All Rights Reserved is a documentary which investigates the role of nature simulations in our modern urban society and won the Encouragement Award for Best Student Film at Go Short 2017. In that year he also participated in a talent development program at the Dutch TV broadcaster VPRO. His work, mainly documentaries but also more experimental video work, comes from an intuitive and playful curiosity and can be described as essayistic, humorous or philosophical. In his films he often reflects on the dualism and correlations between men, nature and technology.
Aneta Ozorek is Artistic Director of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival, film curator and education expert. She has 15 years of industry experience in production of film events, educational workshops, exhibitions and festivals on the Polish and European market. She is Head of the Shorts Section at Visegrad Animation Forum in Czech Republic, programmer of Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival in Warsaw and curator of the film section of Street Art festival in Katowice. She is also Polish Ambassador to the European Animation Awards, a Member of the European Children Film Association and an illustrator of seven books for children.
For eighteen months now Ruby (26) has been an editor-in-chief for VPRO Dorst, which is the hotspot for young talent within the VPRO. She studied Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and did a master Television and CrossMedia Culture there. She joined the research team at the Submarine Channel for the interactive documentary De Industrie, which deals with Dutch drug networks. She also worked as an assistant producer for the Virtual Reality film Ashes to Ashes. For VPRO Dorst she created House of Politics, a program which offered famous politicians like Emile Roemer and Thierry Baudet a chance to show how they live. She is currently helping youngsters to make their first documentary, film or program.
With 20 years experience in film exhibition, Gabe Van Amburgh began working at the age of 17 as a projectionist at a 12 screen cinema in his home town of Odessa, TX. In 2004 he moved to Austin, TX accepting an offer to work at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema as a projection A/V manager, and continued to work for over 7 years in many different technical aspects at the Alamo, SXSW and Fantastic Film Fest. Since coming on full time as Film Exhibition Manager for SXSW in 2011 he has overseen all aspects of film print traffic, theatre build outs, transition to 100% digital DCP exhibition as well as contributing to the SXSW Film Programming as a Shorts Film Programmer since 2016.
Reber Dosky (1975) came from Kurdistan to the Netherlands more than twenty years ago. He studied at the Netherlands Film Academy. In his third year he made the internationally acclaimed documentary short My Good Fortune in Auschwitz (2012). After his graduation in 2013 Reber Dosky made several films, including The Sniper of Kobani – that won a Go Short Award in 2015 - , the multiple award winning Radio Kobani (2016) and his latest film Letters from Kurdistan (2018).
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YOUTH COMPETITION: MOVIEZONE JURY
THE AWARDS NTR GO SHORT AWARDS
EMMA VAN ZETTEN (17 YEARS, NIJMEGEN)
JONATHAN TEN BROEKE (18 YEARS, HEEMSTEDE)
SVASTI SEWNATH (17 YEARS, SPIJKENISSE)
JOP VAN BUTSELAAR (18 YEARS, OOSTERBEEK)
ARON BOCKTING (17 YEARS, ARNHEM)
“I’m looking forward to meet all these talented people and I think I will learn a lot from everyone I am going to meet and all the movies I am going to see. When judging, I especially will be paying attention to whether the message of the short films affects me in a way.”
“Hi there, I am Jonathan ten Broeke (18 years old). I expect to have a great time at Go Short Nijmegen! I am really looking forward to learn more about filmmaking by meeting other filmmakers and by seeing inspiring short films. As a jury member I will mostly be paying attention to the cinematography.”
“Hey! I'm Svasti, 17 years old. It feels so special that I get to binge-watch short films all week! Wished I could do this for a living. I'm excited to study the art that the directors put in their projects by writing, recording and editing a certain way. With some good snacks hopefully. :)”
"I am very excited for this year’s Go Short! I like short films a lot (quite a lot, to be honest) and together with my best friend Aron I am really, really looking forward to be a part of this year’s jury. I am sure there will be a lot of great movies and Go Short will be awesome!"
“I am really looking forward to the festival. It’s a nice opportunity to watch some amazing short films and discover upcoming talent. Me and my best friend Jop are very excited to be part of the jury and we're absolutely going to enjoy Go Short!”
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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 a NTR Go Short Award. NTR has been our partner for ten years. 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 sixth year VEVAM, the Dutch copyright society for film and television directors, partners with us for this award. The VEVAM Go Short Award, consisting of € 2.500,-, is intended to stimulate Dutch directors to experiment and expand the genre of short film.
GO SHORT ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD Go Short hands out an Encouragement Award for the Best Student Film in the Student Competition. This award,
The MovieZone Jury choses one film that will receive the MovieZone Award. Five teenagers with a sharp eye for quality in short film, team up in this jury. The handed out MovieZone Award is a special sculpture designed by the winner of the expo part of the Kunstbende, a Dutch context for youngsters involved in art. Made available by the city of Nijmegen, the winner will also recieve the Nijmegen Youth Award, a cash prize of € 750,-.
The award winners for best animation, best fiction and best documentary film in the Dutch and European competition will become eligible for the Academy Awards.
GO SHORT AUDIENCE AWARD
GO SHORT AWARDS
amounting to € 1.500, serves as an encouragement to a young artist at the start of a promising career in filmmaking. This prize corresponds to the vision of Go Short: to discover, stimulate and inspire young talents.
MOVIEZONE AWARD
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 € 1.000,- prize which is presented in collaboration with Omroep Gelderland.
SAT 14 – 20:00 – LUX 1
GO SHORT AUDIENCE AWARD SUN 15 – 13:00 – LUX 4
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THIS FESTIVAL’S WINNING SHORT FILMS MAY QUALIFY FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE
EUROPEAN COMPETITION Every year it takes us around eight months to select the 60 films that form our European Competition. We open our call for entry in May, while final discussions about the biggest program of our festival won’t take place until February. This year we decided to work with a more compact selection committee. This allowed us to discuss the competition as a whole and to get a more consistent program as a result. Although the number of entries was still quite overwhelming we are happy to present our strong selection for this year’s edition on the big screen.
GO SHOR T – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN
While watching the films we noticed that more and more filmmakers are fading the boundaries between genres. This leads to many interesting results, but also plays nicely with the expectations of audiences as well as our need to try and put films in boxes. A large number of the documentaries incorporate strong fiction elements and are not afraid to show these off, while
the fiction films are leaning to a documentary approach to create a more life-like mood. As always you can find some of this year’s heavy-hitters in these 13 programs, like the amazing Swedish The Burden or the Portuguese Flores, both of which have been receiving high acclaim in the short film world. But we are also happy to present a number of brand new films that are just starting to leave their marks at the festivals, like the animations Coyote and Marfa and the documentary As We’re Told. More than enough short film gems to discover. For the second year we are proud to be able to present the winners of our Go Short Best Fiction and Best Animation award – as well as our Best Documentary award, for the first time – with a qualifier for the Oscars.
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INDEX EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU.1: TAKE CONTROL P. 26
EU.3: ON A MISSION P. 29
EU.5: YOURS TRULY, DOC P. 32
EU.8: HANG IN THERE P. 36
EU.10: WATCH ME P. 39
EU.12: ART FACTS P. 43
Coyote / Lorenz Wunderle / animation / Switzerland / 10’ Ivy / Sarra Tsorakidis / fiction / Romania / 27’ City of Tales / Arash Nassiri / art film / France / 21’ JUCK [THRUST] / Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira / documentary / Sweden / 17’
Ugly / Nikita Diakur / animation / Germany / 11’ Manila High – Life In Company With Death / Simone Andrea Gottschau, Anders Palm Olesen / documentary / Denmark / 12’ After School Knife Fight / Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel / fiction / France / 21’ Shadow Animals / Jerry Carlsson / fiction / Sweden / 21’ The Burden / Niki Lindroth von Bahr / animation / Sweden / 14’
Walk With Me / Anita Beikpour / documentary / Denmark / 28’ Lembri Uudu / Eeva Mägi / documentary / Estonia / 24’ Rewind Forward / Justin Stoneham / documentary / Switzerland / 23’
The Disinherited / Laura Ferrés / documentary / Spain / 18’ Grandpa Walrus / Lucrèce Andreae / animation / France / 14’ Manivald / Chintis Lundgren / animation / Estonia, Croatia, Canada / 13’ Stay Ups / Joanna Rytel / art film / Sweden / 11’ Olga / Maxime Bruneel / fiction / France / 19’ Negative Space / Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata / animation / France / 5’
Camera Threat / Bernd Lützeler / art film / Germany, India / 29’ AAA (Mein Herz) / Katarina Zdjelar / art film / The Netherlands / 5’ Anthony, the Invisible One / Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa / documentary / Portugal, Switzerland / 16’ Gaze / Farnoosh Samadi / fiction / Italy, Iran / 14’ Nothing Happens / Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot / animation / Denmark, France / 11’
Violence Is to Charge 600 Euros – Public Land II / Elena Friedrich / art film / Greece, Germany, Spain / 27’ Orogenesis / Boris Labbé / art film / France / 7’ UBI SUNT / Salomé Lamas / art film / Portugal / 23’ La Bouche / Camilo Restrepo / art film / France / 19’
EU.2: REWRITING HISTORY P. 27 The Shadow of Utopia / Antoinette Zwirchmayr / art film / Austria / 23’ The Battle of San Romano / Georges Schwizgebel / animation / Switzerland / 2’ The Fall of Lenin / Svitlana Shymko / documentary / Ukraine / 11’ Lupus / Carlos Gomez Salamanca / animation / France, Colombia / 9’ Road 13 / Paolo Iskra, Kim Sundbeck / fiction / Sweden / 6’ Miss Holocaust / Michalina Musielak / documentary / Poland / 22’
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EU.4: DAMAGE CONTROL P. 31 8th Continent / Yorgos Zois / documentary / Greece / 11’ Waste no.1 Money / Jan Ijäs / documentary / Finland, Zimbabwe / 17’ The Walker / Frédéric Hainaut / animation / Belgium / 11’ The Hunger / Kenneth Karlstad / fiction / Norway / 21’ Merry-Go-Round / Ruslan Bratov / fiction / Russia / 12’
EU.6: RUN FREE P. 33 Solar Walk / Réka Bucsi / animation / Denmark / 20’ Nocturne / Anne Breymann / animation / Germany / 5’ ISLANDS / Yann Gonzalez / art film / France / 23’ Wild Mane Crop / Jaione Camborda Coll / art film / Spain / 9’ Strange Says the Angel / Shalimar Preuss / fiction / France / 18’
EU.7: WORK IT P. 35 The Everlasting Man / Luís Costa / documentary / Portugal / 15’ As We’re Told / Fredrik Wenzel, Erik Holmström / documentary / Sweden / 28’ May Day / Oliver Magis, Fedrik De Beul / fiction / Belgium / 22’
EU.9: LET’S PLAY P. 38
EU.11: IN MOTION P. 41
Mirage My Bros / Diogo Baldaia / art film / Portugal / 24’ Mountain Plain Mountain / Daniel Jacoby, Araki Yu / art film / Spain, The Netherlands, Japan / 21’ Woods & Water / Antoine Parouty / art film / France / 15’ (Fool Time) JOB / Gilles Cuvelier / animation / France / 16’
Coupe de Grâce / Salomé Lamas / fiction / Portugal / 25’ Marfa / Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod / animation / United Kingdom / 8’ Everything Is Far Away / Emanuel Pârvu / fiction / Romania / 14’ Black Line / Francesca Scalisi, Mark Olexa / documentary / Switzerland / 10’ I’ll Probably Never See You Again / Mitja Mlakar / fiction / Slovenia / 15’
EU.13: A BEAUTIFUL PLACE P. 44 Flores / Jorge Jácome / fiction / Portugal / 25’ Wishing Well / Sylvia Schedelbauer / art film / Germany / 13’ Silica / Pia Borg / documentary / United Kingdom, Australia / 23’ Drop by Drop / Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves / animation / Portugal / 9’ Copa-Loca / Christos Massalas / fiction / Greece / 14’
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EU.1 TAKE CONTROL
EU.2 REWRITING HISTORY
THU 12 – 15:45 – LUX 1
Coyote
THU 12 – 17:45 – LUX 1
Ivy
City of Tales
JUCK [THRUST]
The Shadow of Utopia
Iedera
La Bataille de San Romano
Director: Lorenz Wunderle animation / Switzerland / 2018 / 10’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Sarra Tsorakidis fiction / Romania / 2018 / 27’ / world premiere
Director: Arash Nassiri art film / France / 2017 / 21’ / Dutch premiere
A coyote loses his wife and children from an attack of wolfs. Anguished from human emotions he‘s trying to process the experience. Besides grief and delusion, evil takes up more and more space.
Zoe finally met someone (Duncan) that she really cares about enough to introduce to her friends. Everybody seems to be excited for her and they’re trying their best to make Duncan feel at home, but Zoe has a secret. Her mood transforms the evening into the perfect opportunity for scandal and all the characters will get the chance to express how they really feel.
At night, during the Persian new year celebrations in Spring, the inhabitants of Los Angeles become the hosts to memories of Tehran. They no longer speak English, but a Persian idiom. Neon lights fill the streets with psychedelic colors.
Production: YK Animation Studio GmbH / Script, Cinematography, Editing: Lorenz Wunderle / Music: Rahel Zimmermann / Sound: Moritz Flachsmann, Thomas Gassmann / Animation: Aira Joana, Etienne Mory, Fela Bellotto, Julia Munz, Lorenz Wunderle Filmography: Coyote (2018), Hope (2013) Contact: YK Animation Studio GmbH: Ramon Schoch, +41 792864012, ramon@yk-animation.ch
Production: Sarra Tsorakidis, Paul Negoescu / Script, Editing: Sarra Tsorakidis / Cinematography: Radu Voinea / Sound: Mihnea Bogos / Cast: Ilinca Harnut, Rolando Matsangos Filmography: Ivy (2018), Smoke (2013), Cosmopolitan (2012), Aera, Mare, Terra, Tempus (2012), Father’s Asleep in the Bathroom (2012), A Thousand Things in Common (2011), Vic & Ema (2010), Against the Wall (2009) Contact: Sarra Tsorakidis, +40 724331470, s.tsorakidis@gmail.com
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The Battle of San Romano
Production: Jonas Films / Cinematography: Jordane Chouzenoux / Editing: Pierre Deschamps / Music: Raphaël Hénard / Sound: Jérémy Emery, Raphaël Hénard Filmography: City of Tales (2017), Tehran-Geles (2014) (Go Short 2015), Palais (2013), Masters (2012), Lovelock (2011), Tunetracks (2010), Voyage/Voyage (2009) Contact: Fanny Béguély, +33 617909561, fanny.beguely@gmail.com
Director: Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira documentary / Sweden / 2017 / 17’ / Dutch premiere JUCK is a 17-minute film which is a hybrid between documentary, dance and fiction. The film depicts the all female dance group JUCK who made a name for themselves in 2013 with a video that became a viral hit all over the world. The word “JUCK” is Swedish for “HUMP” and their groundbreaking appearance pushed the boundaries for how we are used to seeing the female body. JUCK questions the positions of object and subject. Production: Dea Saracevic / Script: Julia Gumpert, Olivia Kastebring, Ulrika Bandeira / Cinematography: Josephine Owe / Editing: Therese Elfström / Music: Maya Lourenco
Director: Antoinette Zwirchmayr art film / Austria / 2017 / 23’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Georges Schwizgebel animation / Switzerland / 2017 / 2’ / Dutch premiere
The Shadow of Utopia is the third part of Antoinette Zwirchmayr’s trilogy, which represents the spectacular events of a family history in a fascinatingly fragmentary and reduced form involving images and voices.
With his painting of the Battle of San Romano, Renaissance painter Paolo Uccello helped to develop linear perspective in art. This film focuses on this linear plane with a stream of new changes in perspective, discovers time in the visual space, and places emphasis on the small acts that result in a larger document of the times.
Production: Klara Pollak, Antoinette Zwirchmayr / Script: Angelika Reitzer / Cinematography: Antoinette Zwirchmayr / Editing: Hannes Böck, Antoinette Zwirchmayr / Music: Matthias Peyker / Sound: Nils Kirchhoff / Narration: Sona Macdonald, Julia Gschnitzer, Madeleine Hogg, Alma Juch
Production, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Animation: Georges Schwizgebel / Music, Sound: Judith Gruber-Stitzer
Filmography: JUCK [THRUST] (2017); Olivia Kastebring: Silvana (2017), Seinoba Sey (2015), Vierge Moderne (2015)
Filmography: Jean Luc Nancy (2018), The Shadow of Utopia (2017), Venus Delta (2016), Josef - My Father’s Criminal Record (2015), The Pimp and His Trophies (2014), House and Universe (2014)
Filmography: The Battle of San Romano (2017), Erlking (2015) (Go Short 2016), Romance (2011), Retouches (2008), Jeu (2006), l’Homme Sans Ombre (2004), La Jeune Fille et Les Nuages (2000), Fugue (1998), l’Année du Daim (1995), La Course à l’Abîme (1992), Le Sujet du Tableau (1989), Nakounine (1986), 78 Tours (1985), Perspectives (1975)
Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Contact: Antoinette Zwirchmayr, +676 4703524, contact@antoinettezwirchmayr.com
Contact: Georges Schwizgebel, +41 787564272, schwizgebel@studio-gds.ch
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EU.3 ON A MISSION
THU 12 – 19:45 – LUX 1
Lupus
Road 13
Miss Holocaust
Ugly
Manila High - Life In Company With Death Manila High - Livet I Selskab Med Døden Director: Simone Andrea Gottschau, Anders Palm Olesen documentary / Denmark / 2017 / 12’ / international premiere
Väg 13 Director: Svitlana Shymko documentary / Ukraine / 2017 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Carlos Gomez Salamanca animation / France, Colombia / 2016 / 9’
Director: Paolo Iskra, Kim Sundbeck fiction / Sweden / 2017 / 6’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Michalina Musielak documentary / Poland / 2017 / 22’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Nikita Diakur animation / Germany / 2017 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
An ironic documentary film about the farewell to the phantoms of the USSR in Ukraine. The spiritual session with the ghost of Lenin guides us through our past, present and future. The film presents the dawn and the twilight of idols, and the curious afterlife of history’s ghosts. It is inspired by laws adopted in 2015 by the parliament of Ukraine which condemn the Soviet totalitarian regime and ban the use of Communist symbols.
In December 2011, a night watchman is killed by a pack of more than 20 stray dogs that were roaming the streets of Bosa, an area of Bogota’s suburbs. Around this tragic news item is built an animated short film on notions of body, savagery and territories.
On her way to the vet to have her dog put down, Sonja gets stuck in a traffic jam. In the car next to her sits a mysterious man who seems to know where she is going but has other plans for Sonja and her dog.
Old ladies prepare for an event. They are told how to walk, they wear numbers and try to succeed in the selection process. These women are Holocaust survivors. And the event is a beauty pageant.
An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.
Production: Karolina Galuba, Malgorzata Malysa / Script: Hanna Ferenc-Hilsden, Michalina Musielak, Monika Dembinska / Cinematography: Beata Rakoczy / Editing: Irena Siedlar / Sound: Anna Rok
Production, Script, Editing: Nikita Diakur / Music: Cédric Dekowski, Enrica Sciandrone, Felix Reifenberg / Sound: Bernd Thurig, David Kamp, Nicolas Martigne / Animation: Bastian J. Schiffer, Gerhard Funk, Nicolas Trotognon, Phil Maron / Cast: Redbear Easterman
Production: Svitlana Shymko, Yulia Serdyukova / Script: Svitlana Shymko / Editing: Viktor Onysko / Music: Andor Sperling / Sound: Roman Gomenyuk
Production: Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago / Script, Editing: Carlos Gomez Salamanca / Music: Carlos Arturo Ramírez, Pierre Oberkampf / Sound: Enrique Egurrola Zuleta, François Macé, Michel Adamik / Animation: Carlos Gomez Salamanca, Fabienne Collet, Gilles Coirier / Cast: Juan Pablo Gómez Salamanca
Production: Helene Granqvist / Script: Kim Sundbeck, Paolo Iskra / Cinematography: Majaq Julén / Editing: Kim Sundbeck / Music: Shirley Clamp / Sound: David Gülich / Cast: Anders Mossling, Martin Wallström, Saga Gärde Filmography: Road 13 (2017) Contact: Helene Granqvist, +46 705132141, helene@good.se
Filmography: The Fall of Lenin (2017), Perdus (2016), The Doctor Leaves Last (2014) (Go Short 2015), Here Together (2013) Contact: Svitlana Shymko, +380 971169667, svitlana.shymko@gmail.com
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Filmography: Lupus (2016), Carne (2012) Contact: Miyu Distribution: Luce Grosjean, +33 674232951, festival@miyu.fr
Filmography: Miss Holocaust (2017), City-Common Matter (2015), Three Voices (2014), Ima Polonyia (2012)
Filmography: Ugly (2017), Fly on the Window (2009)
Contact: Furia Film: Malgorzata Malysa, +48 794389337, malgorzata.malysa@furiafilm.pl
Contact: aug&ohr medien: Daniel Butterworth, +49 17662965299, danielbutterworth@augohr.de
A year after Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, more than 7000 people have been killed in Tokhang, the so-called War on Drugs. This short documentary portrays four gravediggers from Pasay City Cemetery and their work constructing “Duterte Compund”, a new government funded grave-complex for the victims of Tokhang. Production, Script: Simone Andrea Gottschau, Anders Palm Olesen / Cinematography, Editing, Sound: Anders Palm Olesen / Music: Apollo Music / Cast: Christopher Espind, Edward Guidal, Jun Santiago, Michael Lagrimas, Rex Guidal Filmography: Manila High - Life in Company with Death (2017) Contact: Simone Andrea Gottschau, +45 25850912, simonegottschau@hotmail.com 29
EU.4 DAMAGE CONTROL
THU 12 – 22:00 – LUX 1
After School Knife Fight
Shadow Animals
The Burden
8th Continent
Min Börda
8h Hpeiros
Director: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel fiction / France / 2017 / 21’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Jerry Carlsson fiction / Sweden / 2017 / 21’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr animation / Sweden / 2017 / 14’
Director: Yorgos Zois documentary / Greece / 2017 / 11’
Laetitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say goodbye.
Marall follows her parents to a party and they want her to behave. As the evening progresses she finds the adults’ behaviour increasingly strange. Everyone at the party is trying to fit in, but not everyone succeeds. Marall also seems to be the only one seeing the shadow circulating the house.
A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues, portrayed as animals, deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
In Lesvos island an old abandoned dump lies on a mountain with two big craters. The craters are overflown by thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves. A worker is the only inhabitant in this place that resembles an alien planet or a new continent.
Production: Emmanuel Chaumet / Script, Editing: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel / Cinematography: Marine Atlan / Sound: Olivier Voisin, Tristan Pontécaille, Victor Praud / Animation: / Cast: Lucas Doméjean, Marylou Mayniel, Nicolas Mias, Pablo Cobo
Production: Frida Mårtensson / Script: Jerry Carlsson / Cinematography: Marcus Dineen / Editing: Jerry Carlsson, Philip Bergström / Cast: Ayla Turin, Cecilia Milocco, Peter Melin, Zana Penjweni
Production: Kalle Wettre / Script, Cinematography, Editing: Niki Lindroth von Bahr / Music, Sound: Hans Appelqvist / Animation: Anna Mantzaris, Dockhus Animation, Eirik Gronmo Bjornsen, Johanna Schubert, Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Production: Yorgos Zois, Antigoni Rota / Script: Yorgos Zois / Cinematography: Stelios Pissas / Editing: Yannis Chalkiadakis / Music: Thaleia Ioannidou / Sound: Alex Sidiropoulos / Cast: Pavlos Lordanopoulos
Filmography: After School Knive Fight (2017), Martin Cries (2017) (Go Short 2017), Notre Heritage (2016) (Go Short 2016), As Long As Shotguns Remain (2014) (Go Short 2015) Contact: Ecce Films: Louise Rinaldi, +33 142583714, rinaldi@eccefilms.fr
Filmography: Shadow Animals (2017), About Sex (2015), All We Share (2014), Along the Road (2011), Coming Out (2011) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Filmography: The Burden (2017), Bath House (2014) (Go Short 2015), Tord and Tord (2010), A Night in Moscow (2006) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Filmography: 8th Continent (2017), Interruption (2015), Out Of Frame (2012), Casus Belli (2010) Contact: Antigoni Rota, antigonirota@gmail.com
Waste no.1 Money
The Walker Le Marcheur
Director: Jan Ijäs documentary / Finland, Zimbabwe / 2017 / 17’ / Dutch premiere Inflation has resulted in the Zimbabwe dollar completely losing its value. Banknotes are literally recyclable goods, turned into tablecloths and lampshades, for example. In the Harare slums, which are rife with crime, valuable US dollar banknotes must be concealed in clothing, which means that the notes quickly become breeding grounds for bacteria. Production: Atlante oy / Script: Jan Ijäs / Cinematography: Arttu Peltomaa / Editing: Okku Nuutilainen / Sound: Svante Colérus / Cast, Narration: Rebecca Clamp
Director: Frédéric Hainaut animation / Belgium / 2017 / 11’ / Dutch premiere The Walker works in a poultry farm. Disgusted by his despicable work, he gives up and follows the Indignant, diluting his anger in theirs. Production: Jean-Luc Slock / Script: Laurence Baud’huin / Editing: Frédéric Hainaut / Music: Mathieu Labaye / Sound: David Nelissen / Animation: Frédéric Hainaut, Ghania Ouali, Mathieu Labaye, Patrick Martial / Narration: Dimitri Merchie Filmography: The Walker (2017), Un Homme Sans (2014) Contact: Camera-etc: Dimitri Kimplaire, +32 42535997, dimitri.kimplaire@camera-etc.be
Filmography: Waste no.1 Money (2017), Time Capsule (2016), Waste no.2 Wreck (2016) (Go Short 2017), Social Connection (2016), One Shot (2015), Two Islands (2013), Solitude in Year Zero (2012), Bodybuilding (2010), Ghosts (2009) Contact: AV-arkki: Tytti Rantanen, +358 504356092, programme@av-arkki.fi
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EU.5 YOURS TRULY, DOC
EU.6 RUN FREE
FRI 13 – 13:15 – LUX 1
The Hunger
Merry-Go-Round
Gutten Er Sulten
Lalay-Balalay
Director: Kenneth Karlstad fiction / Norway / 2017 / 21’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Ruslan Bratov fiction / Russia / 2017 / 12’ / Dutch premiere
A sixteen year old boy with an intense desire for recognition seeks out a vicious criminal to prove his boundless grit. An expressive suburban gothic tale which enters the mindset of a teenager and explores the phenomenon of sensation seeking at a young age.
The restaurant is closing, and Oleg Maratovich wants to celebrate. Taking along three of his employees, who are no longer able to resist his charm, he sets off in search of adventure. The story then has a completely unexpected twist.
Production: Petter Onstad Løkke / Script: Kenneth Karlstad / Cinematography: Pål Ulvik Rokseth / Editing: Karsten Meinich / Music: Magnus Børmark / Sound: Inger Elise Holm, Johannes Dekko, Jorunn Børve Eriksen / Cast: Anders T. Andersen, Henrik Dieter Stenholt, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Odin Waage
Production: Grigory Dobrygin, Pavel Karykhalin, Sergey Yahontov / Script: Grigory Dobrygin, Ilya Nosochenko, Ruslan Bratov / Cinematography: Vladimir Ushakov / Editing: Roman Geygert / Music: Alexander Torkunov / Sound: Filipp Lamshin, Maksim Belovolov / Cast: Alexey Vertkov, Evgeny Sytiy, Pavel Vorozhtsov Filmography: Merry-Go-Around (2017)
Filmography: The Hunger (2017) Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 22474500, amb@nfi.no
Contact: Yulia Travnikova, +7 9175523992, travnikova.yu@gmail.com
Walk With Me
Lembri Uudu
Rewind Forward
Solar Walk
Director: Anita Beikpour documentary / Denmark / 2017 / 28’ / international premiere
Director: Eeva Mägi documentary / Estonia / 2017 / 24’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Justin Stoneham documentary / Switzerland / 2017 / 23’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Réka Bucsi animation / Denmark / 2018 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
Film director Anita Beikpour travels back in time to a life in Iran that she never knew to find out why her grandfather committed suicide when he came to Denmark after the revolution. Through a journey in which she wears his “face” and meets different people who know about grief, she gives life to her grandfather and gets closer to her own history. How do you say goodbye to a person who no longer exists? Production: Nanna Nyboe Tabor / Cinematography: Annika Aschberg / Editing: Mik Stampe / Music: Christian Rohde-Lindinger / Sound: Peter Storm, Catrine Le Dous / Animation: Chris Bjerremose / School: The National Film School of Denmark Filmography: Walk With Me (2017) Contact: The National Film School of Denmark: Elizabeth Rosen, +45 32686400, infoz@filmskolen.dk
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FRI 13 – 15:30 – LUX 1
Lembri Uudu worked in a Pähkla village’s kolkhoz as a tractor driver. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the kolkhoz was disbanded, Uudu died and most of Pähkla’s villagers lost their jobs. But sometimes it takes time for a person to realize that he is actually dead. Production: Liis Nimik, Edina Csüllög / Script: Eeva Mägi / Cinematography: Heiko Sikka / Editing: Jette-Krõõt Keedus / Music: Jaan Jaago, Tanel Kadalipp / Sound: Tanel Kadalipp Filmography: Lembri Uudu (2017), Simply a Man (2015), Dad of the Year (2014), I Do (2013), Potato Picking (2011), Spoilt Fantasy (2009) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
After finding his father’s VHS tapes, Justin is triggered to confront his family’s misfortune. With his father dead, the only person he can turn to for answers is his paralyzed mother who is sharp and witty despite only communicating through a computer. With her help and his inherited box of VHS tapes, Justin learns that sometimes the only way to move forward is to relive the past. Production: Kaleo La Belle, Emma Marxer / Script: Justin Stoneham, Kaleo La Belle / Cinematography: Andi Widmer / Editing: Corina Schwingruber Ilic / Music: Heidi Happy / Sound: Oswald Schwander / Cast: Howard Stoneham, Justin Stoneham, Karin Stoneham, Marlene Bättig, Paul Bättig / Narration: Justin Stoneham Filmography: Rewind Forward (2017), Herzblut (2015), Brüder (2014)
Solar Walk shows the journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space. Any meaning of action is only existent from the perspective of the individual, but never mandatory when looking at it from the perspective of a solar system. It’s about the melancholy of accepting chaos as beautiful and cosmic. Production: Lorène Lescanne, Jane Lyngbye Hvid, Morten Thorning, Frederik Villumsen, Claus Toksvig / Script: Réka Bucsi / Music: Mads Vadsholt / Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács / Animation: Nicole Stafford, Cyrille Chauvin, Pernille Kjaer, Jason Reicher, Réka Bucsi Filmography: Solar Walk (2017), Don’t Know Where We Going (2016), Love (2016) (Go Short 2016), Symphony no.42 (2014) Contact: Zsófi Herczeg, +363 05731686, zsofi@daazo.com
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EU.7 WORK IT
FRI 13 – 17:45 – LUX 1
Nocturne
ISLANDS
Wild Mane Crop
Strange Says the Angel
The Everlasting Man
Nächtstuck
LES ÎLES
Rapa das Bestas
Etrange Dit l’Ange
O Homem Eterno
Director: Anne Breymann animation / Germany / 2017 / 5’
Director: Yann Gonzalez art film / France / 2017 / 23’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Jaione Camborda Coll art film / Spain / 2017 / 9’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Shalimar Preuss fiction / France / 2017 / 18’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Luís Costa documentary / Portugal / 2017 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Fredrik Wenzel, Erik Holmström documentary / Sweden / 2017 / 28’
At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost at stake.
Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and desire.
Tradition and spectacle make us witnesses to the body-to-body relationship between man and animal in a context of struggle.
Production, Script, Animation, Editing: Anne Breymann / Cinematography: Anne Breymann, Björn Ullrich / Music: Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton / Sound: Michal Krajczok
Production: Emmanuel Chaumet / Script: Yann Gonzalez / Cinematography: Simon Beaufils / Editing: Raphaël Lefèvre / Sound: Damien Boitel, Xavier Thieulin / Cast: Alphonse Maitrepierre, Mathilde Mennetrier, Romain Merle, Sarah-Megan Allouch, Simon Thiébaut, Thomas Ducasse
Seven year old Nina cannot be her aunt’s daughter. Nor can she be her father’s lover. In this world threatened by contamination, what then is Nina’s place?
Bernardino Fernandes emigrated to Canada in the sixties. Over two decades he filmed hundreds of super 8 reels, organizing them methodically and obsessively, always in silence. The Everlasting Man ends an old process, transforming Bernardino’s urge of cinema into a film about his life.
What’s it like working inside Sweden’s most hated agency, the Employment Agency? We’re meeting case workers, psychologists, bosses all portrayed by puppets inside a world of corrugated paper. This is a study of what happens when you just do what you’ve been told. Based on the book by author and Professor in Sociology, Roland Paulsen.
Filmography: Nocturne (2017), Sprößling (2006) Contact: Anne Breymann, +49 163 3705142, mail@annebreymann.de
Filmography: ISLANDS (2017), Les Rencontres d’Après Minuit (2013), Land of My Dreams (2012) (Go Short 2013), Nous Ne Serons Plus Jamais Seuls (2012), Je Vous Hais Petites Filles (2008), Entracte (2007), By the Kiss (2006) Contact: Ecce Films: Louise Rinaldi, +33 142583714, rinaldi@eccefilms.fr
Production: Esnatu Zinema / Editing: Diego Santomé / Sound: Juan Carlos Blancas Filmography: Wild Mane Crop (2017), Agility (2015), Nimbos (2015), Lilit (2015) Contact: Jaione Camborda Coll, +34 636571508, jaione@esnatu.com
Production: Emmanuel Chaumet / Script, Cinematography: Shalimar Preuss / Editing: Mauricio Lleras / Sound: Olivier Touche, Dominique Gaborieau / Cast: Hélène Iratchet, Nina Iratchet, Louise Iratchet, Bruno Iratchet, Roselyne Iratchet, Jean-Claude Iratchet Filmography: Strange Says the Angel (2017), Ma Belle Gosse (2012), Rendez-vous à Stella-Plage (2009) Contact: Ecce Films: Louise Rinaldi, +33 142583714, rinaldi@eccefilms.fr
Production: Rodrigo Areias / Script: Eduardo Brito / Editing: Luís Costa, Tiago Carvalho / Music: Danny Norbury / Sound: Dinis Henriques, Pedro Marinho, Tiago Cardoso / Cast: Bernardino Costa, Luís Costa Filmography: The Everlasting Man (2017), Pena Fria (2014), Fontelonga (2013) Contact: AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency: Liliana Costa, +351 252646683, liliana@curtas.pt
As We’re Told
Production: Hedvig Lundgren / Script: Erik Holmström / Cinematography, Editing: Fredrik Wenzel / Cast: Andrea Edwards, Anna Takanen, David Rangborg, Henrik Dorsin, Leif Andrée, Malin Morgan, Märta Lundin, Nils Dernevik, Per Grytt Filmography: Erik Holmström: As We Are Told (2017); Frederik Wenzel: As We Are Told (2017), Broder Daniel Forever (2009),Man Tänker Sitt (2009), Midsund (2002) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
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EU.8 HANG IN THERE
FRI 13 – 19:45 – LUX 1
May Day
The Disinherited
Grandpa Walrus
Los Desheredados
Pépé le Morse
Director: Oliver Magis, Fedrik De Beul fiction / Belgium / 2017 / 22’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Laura Ferrés documentary / Spain / 2017 / 18’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Lucrèce Andreae animation / France / 2017 / 14’
In Thierry’s living room, several people have gathered. None of them know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same dream. They want to find a job… And quickly.
The Disinherited is a portrait of the director’s father facing the end of his family business. Pere Ferrés is 53 years old and owns a small bus company. Lack of money forces him to drive clients who destroy his vehicle to bachelor parties, but he is not prepared to lose his dignity.
On the windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he’s dead.
Production: Marie Besson, Samuel Tilman, Eklektik Productions / Script: Fedrik De Beul, Javier Lopez, Oliver Magis / Cinematography: Jean-François Metz, Joël Godfroid / Editing: Thibaut Verly / Sound: Jean-François Levillain, Simon Jamart / Cast: Bess Limani, Catherine Salée, Chokri Ben Chikha, Javier Lopez, Joren Seldeslachts, Lydia Indjova, Manou Tahon, Mathieu Debaty, Nourredine Zerrad, Simon André, Thierry Hellin, Viktor Biserov Filmography: Olivier Magis: May Day (2017), Les Fleurs de l’Ombre (2014), Ion (2013), Le Secret des Dieux (2004); Fedrik de Beul: May Day (2017), August 1914 (2014), Kong at the Seaside (2006) Contact: Agence Belge du Court Métrage: +32 22417370, info@agenceducourt.be 36
Production: Valérie Delpierre / Script: Laura Ferrés / Cinematography: Agnès Piqué Corbera / Editing: Diana Toucedo / Music: Joe Crepúsculo, Manos de Topo / Sound: Alejandro Castillo / Cast: Mari Álvarez, Pere Ferrés
Production: Jérôme Barthélemy, Daniel Sauvage / Script, Animation: Lucrèce Andreae / Editing: Catherine Aladenise, Guillaume Lauras / Music, Sound: Flavien Van Haezevelde / Cast: Catherine Artigala, Chann Aglal, Charles Albol, Emilie Bion Metzinger, Ilona Bachelier, Roman Garance Filmography: Grandpa Walrus (2017), Les Mots de la Carpe (2012), Trois Petits Points (2010)
Filmography: The Disinherited (2017 ), Perro Flaco (2014) Contact: Marvin&Wayne Short Film Distribution: +34 934863313, fest@marvinwayne.com
Contact: Caïmans Productions: +33 140130341, info@caimans-prod.com
Manivald
Stay Ups
Olga
Director: Chintis Lundgren animation / Estonia, Croatia, Canada / 2017 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Joanna Rytel art film / Sweden / 2017 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Maxime Bruneel fiction / France / 2017 / 19’ / Dutch premiere
A middle-aged woman is about to get nightly visits from a young man. Her child is, as usual, in the way. This comedy is presented with a pang of sadness, as the ambivalence of parenthood is depicted in a rare and truthfully absurd way.
Kicked out roughly by her boyfriend, Olga, exhausted, takes shelter in the gritty flat of her son and his girlfriend. She finds herself trapped in her own torpor, infected by the intimacy of the young couple.
Production, Script, Cinematography, Editing: Joanna Rytel / Music: Simon Norrsveden / Sound: Joanna Rytel, Peter Adolfsson / Cast: Bubba, Joanna Rytel
Production: Nicolas De Rosanbo / Script: Maxime Bruneel / Cinematography: Luis Armando Arteaga / Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger / Music: “Lluvia con nieve” d’Efraim Rivera / Sound: Robin Benisri / Cast: Anais Thomas, Anne Loiret, Johan Libereau
Manivald, a fox, is turning 33. Overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired, he lives with his overbearing, retired mother. It is an easy life, but not a good one. This changes when the washing machine breaks down and Toomas, a sexy wolf repairman, arrives to fix it, and them. Production, Animation: Chintis Lundgren, / Script: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezic / Editing: Chintis Lundgren, Jelena Popovic / Music: Terence Dunn / Sound: Pierre Yves Drapeau / Cast: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezic, France Castel, Trevor Boris, Tyrone Benskin Filmography: Manivald (2017), Life with Herman H. Rott (2015 ), Kingfisher (2014), Mysterious Swamp (2013), Montego (2011), About the Hard Life of the Barn Swallow (2011), Volli Pall (2010), The Great Grey Shrike (2009)
Filmography: Stay Ups (2017), Moms On Fire (2016) (Go Short 2017), Cats Can Swim (2016), On Top of Your Gaze (2013), Once Upon A Time There Was An Unfaithful Mommy (2013), Me Seal, Baby (2013), The Seal (2011), You and Me (2011), Gang Bang Barbie (2010), Flasher Girl On Tour (2010), Unplay (2009), To Think Thing You Don’t Want To (2005), A FIlm Inwards (2003), Then I’ll Take Your Cat (2002), Animalperformance (2002)
Contact: Chintis Lundgren, +37 251930739, chintis.lundgren@gmail.com
Contact: Joanna Rytel, +46 704454955, joanna.rytel@gmail.com
Filmography: Olga (2017) Contact: Nicolas De Rosanbo, +33 182284266, nicolas@eddy.tv
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EU.9 LET’S PLAY
EU.10 WATCH ME
FRI 13 – 18:15 – LUX 4
Negative Space
Mirage My Bros
SAT 14 – 13:15 – LUX 1
Mountain Plain Mountain
Woods & Waters
(Fool Time) JOB
Camera Threat
Director: Bernd Lützeler art film / Germany, India / 2017 / 29’ / Dutch premiere
Miragem Meus Putos Director: Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata animation / France / 2017 / 5’
Director: Diogo Baldaia art film / Portugal / 2017 / 24’
Director: Daniel Jacoby, Araki Yu art film / Spain, The Netherlands, Japan / 2018 / 21’
Director: Antoine Parouty art film / France / 2017 / 15’ / international premiere
Director: Gilles Cuvelier animation / France / 2017 / 16’ / Dutch premiere
My dad taught me how to pack.
An elementary school class without a teacher, a contract signing with a giant football club and a new year’s eve party. Three tales tinged with aspiration and the desire to escape express a look into a youth absorbed by the power of dreams and the harshness of reality. A generation facing growth in tension with the future.
Mountain Plain Mountain was shot it in Obihiro, Japan, at the last standing venue to host a rare kind of draft horse races known as Ban’ei. Putting together a mix of motionless, contemplative shots and hard-edge, rhythmical, gibberish-rich montages, the slowness of these bizarre races is twisted to its limit. The overall timeline, thus, mimics the track’s topography poetically described by a veteran trainer as “a small and a big mountain.”
A rowboat starts to slide, the water slips along the hull. It is at night, around the stretch of water, the landscape gently begins to move, the wooded banks, the fields of long grass, the rocky cliffs. Everything moves, everything lives around us. The shooting team moves slowly and silently. Hunting can then begin...
Pedro has found a new job. A kind of strange one, but these days, he can’t afford to be fussy. It’s a real chance! Anyway, he’s never been the kind of getting cold feet...
Production: Allison Wheeland, Manuel Cam Studio, Ikki Films / Script: Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata / Cinematography: Max Porter, Nadine Buss, Simon Gesrel, Thibaut Petillon / Editing: Max Porter / Music: Bram Meindersma / Sound: Bram Meindersma, Mathieu Langlet / Animation: Eric Montchaud, Ru Kuwahata, Sylvain Derosne Filmography: Negative Space (2017), Perfect Houseguest (2015), Between Times (2014), Something Left, Something Taken (2010), Electric Car (2009), Davy Crockett in Outer Space (2008); Max Porter: POP! (2011), Red Things (2003)
Production: Diogo Baldaia, Manuel Rocha da Silva, Maura Carneiro / Script, Editing: Diogo Baldaia / Cinematography: Leonardo Simões / Sound: Nuno Henrique / Cast: Duarte Águas, João Marcelo, Luis Maza, Maura Carneiro, Ricardo Alves
Contact: Miyu Distribution: Luce Grosjean, +33 674232951, festival@miyu.fr
Filmography: Mirage My Bros (2017), Vulto (2014), Fúria (2013) Contact: Portugal Film: Filipa Henriques, +351 213466172, portugalfilm@indielisboa.com
Script, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Animation: Araki Yu, Daniel Jacoby / Music: Liisa Hirsch Filmography: Mountain Plain Mountain (2017) Contact: NIMK: Theus Zwakhals, +31 203892030, theus@nimk.nl
Production: Perspective Films, Gaëlle Jones / Script, Cinematography: Antoine Parouty / Editing: Raphaëlle Martin Holger / Sound: Yolande Decarsin Filmography: Woods & Waters (2017), Des Rêves Pour l’Hiver (2010). Jan Voss (2010), Dô Sô KaÏ (2004), La Route des Hêtres (2004), Une Cicatrice Derrière La Tête (2000), Back from Cambrai (1999) Contact: Manifest: Anais Colpin, +33 620542430, anais@manifest.pictures
Production: Richard van den Boom / Script: Gabriel Jacquel, Gilles Cuvelier / Cinematography, Editing, Music: Gilles Cuvelier / Sound: Bertrand Boudaud, Fred Meert / Animation: Gabriel Jacquel, Gilles Cuvelier, Marine Blin, Thomas Machart Filmography: (Fool Time) JOB (2017), Love Patate (2010), Chahut (2005) Contact: Richard van den Boom, +33 603914179, rvdboom@papy3d.com
Set in the rather dreary spheres of Mumbai’s film industry, stuck between star-cult, superstition and the daily gridlock, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent relationship that this film city has with the moving image as such. Production, Editing: Bernd Lützeler / Script: Mansi Multani, Pushpendra Singh, Shai Heredia / Cinematography: Bernd Lützeler, Janantik Shukla, Shakir Shaikh, Shashank Peshawaria / Music: Guido Möbius / Sound: Johannes Hampel / Animation: Satish C Ajgaonkar / Cast: Girish Pardeshi, Mansi Multani, Pushpendra Singh / Narration: Harish Bhimani, Shai Heredia Filmography: Strugglers (2018), Analogue Natives (2018), Camera Threat, (2017), A Soundfilm (2017), Fultu Faltu Filim (2017), Batagur Baska (2016), Traveling with Maxim Gorkiy (2014), The Voice of God (2011), Rapid Eye Love (2005) Contact: Bernd Lützeler, +49 1723947635, filmi@gmx.de
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EU.11 IN MOTION
SAT 14 – 15:30 – LUX 1
AAA (Mein Herz)
Director: Katarina Zdjelar art film / The Netherlands / 2016 / 5’ AAA (Mein Herz) is a single-shot work showing a young woman simultaneously performing four compositions. While preserving the original style, tempo, and rhythm of the individual works, she maintains the key of the different music pieces. Silence, music, sound and words alternate and collide. Production, Script, Editing: Katarina Zdjelar / Cinematography: Laurent Fluttert, Mikolaj Syguda / Sound: Robert Migas, Ting Fung Cheung / Cast: Barbara Kinga Majewska Filmography: AAA (Mein Herz) (2016), Into the Interior (2014), Stimme (2013), My Lifetime (Malaika) (2012), Rise Again (2011), Act II (2010), Shoum (2009), The Perfect Sound(2009), Everything is Gonna Be (2008) Contact: EYE: Edith van der Heijde, +312 7582362, edithvanderheijde@eyefilm.nl
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Anthony, the Invisible One
Gaze
Antão, o Invisível
Negah
Director: Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa documentary / Portugal, Switzerland / 2017 / 16’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Farnoosh Samadi fiction / Italy, Iran / 2017 / 14’ / Dutch premiere
In an art museum, a guide presents a famous pictorial triptych to three audiences: sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man. In a manner that is specific to each audience, the painting is unveiled little by little. The atmosphere is playful as the attentive and enthusiastic visitors decipher the many details and symbols of the work of art. Production, Script: Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa / Cinematography: Sergio da Costa / Editing: Antonio Trullén, Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa / Music: György Kurtág/ Sound: Miguel Martins, Miguel Moraes Cabral Filmography: Anthony, The Invisible One (2017), Rio Corgo (2015), Aux bains de la reine (2012) Contact: Sergio da Costa, +351 926721700, sergiodc@ymail.com
On her way back from work a woman witnesses something happening in the bus and she has to decide if she reveals it or not. Production: Pouria Heidary Oureh / Script: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi / Cinematography: Ashkan Ashkani / Editing: Yalda Jebelli / Music: Navid Fashami / Sound: Davood Gholipour, Hossein Ghorchian / Cast: Amirreza Ranjbaran, Babak Karimi, Gholamreza Rahimi, Kiana Asadi, Marzieh Vafamehr, Mehran Elhamifar, Mehrdad Mohammadi, Pedram Ansari, Safoura Kazempour Filmography: Gaze (2017), The Silence (2016) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
Nothing Happens
Coup de Grâce
Marfa
Director: Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot animation / Denmark, France / 2017 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Salomé Lamas fiction / Portugal / 2017 / 25’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod animation / United Kingdom / 2017 / 8’ / Dutch premiere
It’s freezing cold in the city suburbs. Yet some people are gathering. I watch them form a row across the horizon. We are all waiting for something to happen. But nothing does… Production: MIYU productions, Marie Bro, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal / Script: Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot / Music: Uri Kranot / Sound: Sofie Birch, Thomas Ahlmark / Animation: Juliette Viger, Marine Duchet, Michelle Kranot Filmography: Nothing Happens (2017), How Long, Not Long (2016), Black tape (2014), Hollow Land (2013) (Go Short 2014), White Tape (2010), The Heart of Amos Klein (2008) (Go Short 2009), God on our side (2005), Fallout (2003), Ducks (2002), Avinu Malkenu (2001) Contact: Miyu productions: +33 153729338, emmanuel@miyuproductions.com
Leonor returns from a trip on a day where her dad wasn’t expecting her. In twenty-four hours they will live a crescendoing hallucinated reality, led by Francisco’s unsettling state of apparent normality. Production: Sandro Aguilar, Luís Urbano, O Som e a Furia / Script: Isabel Pettermann, Salomé Lamas / Cinematography: Rui Xavier / Editing: Francisco Moreira, Salomé Lamas / Sound: Miguel Martins, Ricardo Leal / Cast: Álvaro Covelo, Clara Jost, Gabriel Abrantes, João Pedro Bénard, Margarida Lucas, Miguel Borges, Pinto Workers Filmography: UBI SUNT (2017), Extinction (2017), Coupe de Grâce (2017), Eldorado XXI (2016), A Torre (2015), Le Boudin (2014), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (2013), No Man’s Land (2012), The Community (2012) (Go Short 2013), Encounters With Landscape 3X (2012), Golden Dawn (2011), Imperial Girl (2010) Contact: AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency: Liliana Costa, +351 252646683, liliana@curtas.pt
A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon. Production: The Brothers McLeod Limited / Script: Myles McLeod / Editing, Animation: Greg McLeod / Music: Adam Cross, Barolo, Chris Cataleana and the Native Americans, Christian Bland and the Revelators, Tom Angell / Sound: LoPhonics, Tom Angell / Cast: Aase, Alannah Campion, Alex Hannaford, Jon Johnson, Robin Lambaria, Scout Hannaford / Narration: Stephanie Hunt Filmography: Marfa (2017), The Inverted Peak (2016), 365 (2014), Phone Home (2012), The Moonbird (2010), Contact: The Brothers McLeod Limited: +44 7775805999, webcontact@bromc.co.uk
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EU.12 ART FACTS
SAT 14 - 15:15 - LUX 4
Everything Is Far Away
Black Line Ligne Noire
Director: Emanuel Pârvu fiction / Romania / 2018 / 14’
Director: Francesca Scalisi, Mark Olexa documentary / Switzerland / 2017 / 10’
Director: Mitja Mlakar fiction / Slovenia / 2017 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
A loving mother and her youngest son make a long journey to surprise his older brother on his birthday. But he does not show up. A humble story about the problems and dilemmas that unconditional maternal love can bring.
A woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin, all linked by a thin, black line.
Hannah, a young woman in her late twenties is faced with the hardest decision of her life: to give birth to a possibly disabled child or to have an abortion. But is this the only decision she will have to make?
Production, Cinematography: Liviu Marghidan / Script: Emanuel Pârvu / Editing: Stefan Parlog / Sound: Dragos Stirbu / Cast: Mirela Gorea, Radu Gabriel, Vlad Corbeanu Filmography: Everything Is Far Away (2017), Meda or the Not So Bright Side of Things (2017), Meda (2016), Square One (2013), Chicken, Fries and a Coke (2012), A Family (2009) Contact: Emanuel Pârvu, +40 723822432, emanuelparvu@gmail.com
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Production: Francesca Scalisi, Mark Olexa / Cinematography: Mark Olexa / Editing: Francesca Scalisi / Sound: Florian Pittet Filmography: Black Line (2017), Half-life in Fukushima (2016), Moriom (2015) (Go Short 2016) Contact: DOK Mobile: Mark Olexa, +41 797184891, mrkolexa@gmail.com
Production: Mojca Pernat / Script: Anja Bunderla, Mitja Mlakar / Cinematography: Ann Evelin Lawford / Editing: Miha Šubic / Music, Sound: Tim Žibrat / Cast: Andreja Lazar, Igor Samobor, Judita Frankovic, Miha Rodman, Silva Cušin, Sonja Lovrencic Filmography: I’ll Probably Never See You Again (2017), Busker (2014), Missing the Moment (2012) Contact: Film Factory: Mojca Pernat, +386 31828043, mojca@filmfactory.si
Violence Is To Charge 600 Euros Public Land II
Orogenesis
UBI SUNT
Director: Elena Friedrich art film / Greece, Germany, Spain / 2017 / 27’ / international premiere
Director: Boris Labbé art film / France / 2016 / 7’
Director: Salomé Lamas art film / Portugal / 2017 / 23’ / Dutch premiere
A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.
Ubi Sunt. Porto. Cartography of an imaginary place attracted by the margins (social and geographical). Hybrid and eclectic project, it is the outcome of an audio-visual research residency of human and urban exploration of an expanding city.
A grumpy man fully loads his car with oranges and starts his journey from the city to the seaside. The car radio only seems to be playing an endless discussion about media activism and “the society of spectacle“. Every image is only as innocent as its context of reception. But which kind of public and public sphere, which kind of images, language and narrations do we inhabit and use in order to wanting to change the world around us? Production, Script, Editing: Elena Friedrich / Cinematography: Aron Sekelj / Music, Sound: Korhan Erel / Cast: Panagiotis Andronikidis / School: HFBK Hamburg
Production: Boris Labbé / Sound: Daniele Ghisi Filmography: Orogenesis (2016), Any Road (2016) (Go Short 2017), Rhizome (2015), Danse Macabre (2013), Kyrielle (2011) Contact: Boris Labbé, +33 688223093, contact.borislabbe@gmail.com
Production, Editing: Salomé Lamas / Script: Isabel Petternann, Salomé Lamas / Cinematography: Jorge Quintela / Music: Filipe Felizardo / Sound: Bruno Moreira, Miguel Martins / Cast: Ana Moreira, Christoph Both-Asmus, Valdemar Santos
Filmography: Violence Is To Charge 600 Euros – Public Land II (2017), Epoje - Chapter One: Trash Wald (2017), La Reina de Patission 21 (2013)
Filmography: UBI SUNT (2017), Extinction (2017), Coupe de Grâce (2017), Eldorado XXI (2016), A Torre (2015), Le Boudin (2014), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (2013), No Man’s Land (2012), The Community (2012) (Go Short 2013), Encounters With Landscape 3X (2012), Golden Dawn (2011), Imperial Girl (2010)
Contact: Elena Friedrich, +49 1774654214, friedrich.elena@gmx.net
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EU.13 A BEAUTIFUL PLACE
SAT 14 – 17:30 – LUX 4
La Bouche
Flores
Wishing Well
Silica
Drop by Drop
Copa-Loca
Água Mole Director: Camilo Restrepo art film / France / 2017 / 19’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Jorge Jácome fiction / Portugal / 2017 / 25’ / Dutch premiere
A man learns his daughter has been brutally murdered by her husband. Time stands still as he oscillates between the need for solace and his urge for revenge. A musical featuring Guinean percussion master, Mohamed Bangoura (“Red Devil”), loosely based on his own story.
In a natural crisis scenario, the entire population of Azores is forced to evict due to an uncontrolled plague of hydrangeas, a common flower in these islands. Two young soldiers, bound to the beauty of the landscape, guide us to the stories of sadness of those forced to leave and the inherent desire to resist by inhabiting the islands.
Production: Helen Olive, 5a7 Films / Script: Camilo Restrepo, Sophie Zuber / Cinematography: Cecile Plais, Guillaume Mazloum / Editing: Camilo Restrepo / Music, Cast: Issiaga “Ella” Bangoura, Karamoko Daman, Mabinty Kohn, Marie Touré, Mohamed “Diable Rouge” Bangoura, Raymond Camara / Sound: Fred Davo, Mathieu Farnarier
Production: João Figueiras / Script: David Cabecinha, Jorge Jácome / Cinematography: Marta Simões / Editing: Jorge Jácome / Music: Terry Riley / Sound: Marco Leão / Cast: André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome, Pedro Rosa
Filmography: La Bouche (2017), Cilaos (2016) (Go Short 2017), La Impresión de Una Guerra (2015)
Filmography: Flores (2017), Fiesta Forever (2016), A Guest + A Host = A Ghost (2015), Plutão (2013)
Contact: Helen Olive, +33 680326302, heaolive@yahoo.co.uk
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Contact: Portugal Film: Filipa Henriques, +351 213466172, portugalfilm@indielisboa.com
Director: Sylvia Schedelbauer art film / Germany / 2018 / 13’ / international premiere Gushing colors. A time disjointed, yet synchronous. A transcendent turn, a quest for agency, a reunion with currents of the forest. Production, Editing, Sound: Sylvia Schedelbauer / Music: Jeff Surak Filmography: Wishing Well (2018), Sea of Vapors (2014), Sounding Glass (2011), Way Fare (2009), False Friends (2007), Remote Intimacy (2007), Memories (2004) Contact: Sylvia Schedelbauer, +49 16096281195, sylvia.schedelbauer@gmail.com
Director: Pia Borg documentary / United Kingdom, Australia / 2017 / 23’
Director: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves animation / Portugal / 2017 / 9’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Christos Massalas fiction / Greece / 2017 / 14’ / Dutch premiere
An unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semi-deserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history.
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.
This is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.
Production: Rodrigo Areias, Bando à Parte / Script: Alexandra Ramires, Carolina Freitas, Laura Gonçalves / Editing: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves / Music: Nico Tricot, Ricardo Santos Rocha / Sound: Pedro Marinho, Pedro Ribeiro / Animation: Alexandra Ramires, Cátia Vidinhas, Inês Teixeira, Laura Gonçalves, Pedro de Almeida
Production, Script, Editing: Christos Massalas / Cinematography: Konstantinos Koukoulios / Music: Stella / Sound: Dimitris Kanellopoulos, George Ramantanis / Cast: Elsa Lekakou, Jenny Hiloudaki, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Talat Iqbal
Production, Script, Editing: Pia Borg / Cinematography: Helder K. Sun / Music: Henning Christiansen, Pancrace / Sound: Philippe Ciompi / Animation: Alan Warburton / Narration: Nicolette Krebitz Filmography: Silica (2017), Abandoned Goods (2014), Crystal World (2012) Contact: Pia Borg, +32 38612733, pia.borg@gmail.com
Filmography: Alexandra Ramires: Drop by Drop (2017); Laura Gonçalves: Drop by Drop (2017), Nossa Senhora Da Apresentção (2015), Três Semanas Em Dezembro (2013) Contact: Bando à Parte: +351 253094489, bando@bandoaparte.com
Filmography: Copa-Loca (2017), Flowers and Bottoms (2016), Bon-bon (2016), Woman with the Plastic Flower (2012), Make-up (2011) Contact: Heretic Outreach: +30 2106005260, ioanna@heretic.gr
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DUTCH COMPETITION The past year has been a good one for Dutch short films. A number of Dutch directors premiered their films at prestigious festivals, like Stefanie Kolk making her return to Locarno with Harbour, Stijn Bouma playing at Cannes Cinefondation with his Bosnian coproduction Lejla, and newcomer Sarah Veltmeyer’s Kiem Holijanda earning a spot at Berlinale Generation. Dutch directors seem to understand the short format better and better, but still we did not select that many national films in our international competitions this year. In some cases it felt like the directors could have been a bit bolder in their choices and taken more risks in what is possible within this limited timespan. As the overall quality was strong, it was hard to narrow it down to a selection of four programs this year. Some of the films not making the final selection have actually been doing very well 46
internationally. We do believe that the films we selected paint a strong picture of our short film scene and the diversity of films being made. With only three returning directors in this year’s selection, we are happy to welcome a lot of new voices to our competition. Hello Salaam and LISTEN are two of this year’s strongest youth documentaries, approaching their topics in a heartbreaking way. Mentia shows a third year film student with the guts to blend genres and create haunting images in hotel rooms, while the more classically haunting Sweet Tooth already paved the way for its director to Hollywood. We hope that you’ll enjoy our selection of Dutch short film voices. And perhaps we will see many of these shorts show up at other festivals this year as well.
INDEX DUTCH COMPETITION NL.1: ARE WE HUMAN? P. 48
NL.3: STUCK IN HERE P. 51
Harbour / Stefanie Kolk / fiction / The Netherlands / 13’ Flower Found! / Jorn Leeuwerink / animation / The Netherlands / 6’ Homo Ludens / Sanne Rovers / documentary / The Netherlands / 26’ Sand Wanderer / Eric Giessmann / animation / The Netherlands / 6’ The Funural of the Shy / Joost van Hezik / fiction / The Netherlands / 10’
Kiem Holijanda / Sarah Veltmeyer / fiction / The Netherlands / 14’ LISTEN / Astrid Bussink / documentary / The Netherlands / 15’ Tex / Jonas Smulders / fiction / The Netherlands / 18’ #YOLO4REAL / Aiman Hassani / fiction / The Netherlands / 9’ Sweet Tooth / Nico van den Brink / fiction / The Netherlands / 5’
NL.2: SAY SOMETHING P. 49
NL.4: SEEING IS BELIEVING P. 53
Lejla / Stijn Bouma / fiction / Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Netherlands/ 21’ Mentia / Carolien Van Maaswaal / documentary / The Netherlands / 13’ Word! / Amos Mulder / art film / The Netherlands / 7’ Skógafoss / Niels Bourgonje / fiction / The Netherlands / 10’ Hello Salaam / Kim Brand / documentary / Greece, The Netherlands / 15’
Asylum / Jaap van Heusden, Jefta Varwijk / documentary / The Netherlands / 23’ Credo / Maurice de Bruijne / fiction / The Netherlands / 7’ A Man Falls From the Sky / Kurt Platvoet, Jan Verdijk / fiction / The Netherlands / 8’ Hot Tea / Marcel Tigchelaar / animation / The Netherlands / 2’ Botanica / Noël Loozen / fiction / The Netherlands / 13’
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NL.1 ARE WE HUMAN?
NL.2 SAY SOMETHING
THU 12 – 20:15 – LUX 4 | FRI 13 – 14:45 – LUX 3
Harbour
THU 12 – 22:15 – LUX 4 | FRI 13 – 16:45 – LUX 3
Flower Found!
Homo Ludens
Bloem?
De Spelende Mens
Director: Stefanie Kolk fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 13’
Director: Jorn Leeuwerink animation / The Netherlands / 2017 / 6’
Director: Sanne Rovers documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 26’ / world premiere
Director: Eric Giessmann animation / The Netherlands / 2017 / 6’ / Dutch premiere
Two industrial painters are at work in the Rotterdam harbour. The discovery of a dead body in the water forces them to reflect on their situation.
A beautiful red flower stands in the middle of the forest. When it suddenly disappears Mouse is very sad. Bird takes Mouse around the forest to search for the flower and other animals join in too. Then they think they’ve found the flower and things quickly get out of hand.
In Homo Ludens you will meet grown ups who completely immerse themselves in games. While each game is expressed differently, the playing human, in his search for freedom, actually engages in one universal game.
As the world starts moving around him, the young desert dweller decides to follow the footprints of his fellow tribesmen to the origin of natural forces, time.
Production: Sabine Veenendaal, Jeroen Beker / Script: Stefanie Kolk / Cinematography: Roy van Egmond / Editing: Maarten Ernest / Music: Stavros Markonis / Sound: Jacob Oostra / Cast: Rakan Rushaidat, Sergiu Voloc Filmography: Harbour (2017), Clan (2016), HANDEN (2016), Ten Days Before Spring (2012) Contact: Stefanie Kolk, +31 613342985, stefaniekolk@gmail.com
Production, Script, Cinematography, Sound, Animation: Jorn Leeuwerink / Music: Bryan Teoh / School: HKU University of the Arts Utrecht Filmography: Flower Found! (2017), Pedestrian Pastry (2017), Where’s Ronald? (2016), Tekkol (2016), Quacksalver (2015), The Sheep Shop (2014) Contact: Jorn Leeuwerink, +31 637139033, jorn@aapje.net
Production: Eefje Blankevoort, Lara Aerts / Script: Lara Aerts, Sanne Rovers / Cinematography: Diderik Evers / Editing: Albert Markus / Music: Jesse Koolhaas / Sound: Carla van der Meijs, Gerben Kokmeijer, Hein Verhoeven, Jesse Koolhaas Filmography: Homo Ludens (2018), The World of Kim and Bob (2016), A Listening Ear (2016), The Spoiler (2013), Don’t Shoot the Messenger (2013), Wild Lilly (2011), Servicio 2 (2009) Contact: Prospektor: Eefje Blankevoort, +31 624607966, eefje@prospektor.nl
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Sand Wanderer
The Funeral of the Shy
Lejla
De Begrafenis van de Verlegen Mens
Production: Marc Thelosen / Script, Cinematography, Editing, Animation: Eric Giessmann / Music: Michel Banabila / Sound: Wiebe de Boer Filmography: Sand Wanderer (2017), Typewriterhead (2015) (Go Short 2016), Negentropy & Progression (2014), The Hutch (2009), Menschenbeifall (2009), DreamSynphony (2008), Vitrine (2008), Mr. Tophat (2008), Wrong Bet (2008), Veteran (2007) Contact: KLIK! Amsterdam: Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 620689423, ursula@klik.amsterdam
Director: Joost van Hezik fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 10’ One day, all shy people drop dead. At the same time, all of a sudden. The Funeral of the Shy shows how a small town organizes a ceremony for its deceased residents. A large group of people attends the service and is more than happy to say a few words. Production: Iris Otten, Sander van Meurs, Pieter Kuijpers, Layla Meijman / Script: Ellen Parren, Jan-Paul Buijs / Cinematography: Robbie van Brussel, NSC / Editing: Lot Rossmark / Music: Frank van Kasteren, Wilko Sterke / Sound: Job Michel, Tijn Hazen / Cast: Carla Hardy, Dic van Duin, Eelco Smits, Ellen Parren, Imke Smit, Jan-Paul Buijs, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Peter van Rooijen, Rom Elzakkers, Romana Vrede, Thomas Spijkerman Filmography: The Funeral of the Shy (2017)
Director: Stijn Bouma fiction / Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Netherlands/ 2017 / 21’ Lejla is a young woman from Sarajevo who feels stuck in her life, working in a fast food restaurant and taking care of her elderly father. One day she meets Vedad and they fall in love. Vedad offers her the possibility of leaving together with him, but she is unsure about what’s best for her future. Production: Paul Oscar Kanter, Ibrahim Karatay, Emina Ganic, Stijn Bouma / Script: Stijn Bouma / Cinematography: Lorenzo Fabbro / Editing: Fatih Tura / Sound: Jesse Maasdam / Cast: Lejla Hadžic, Slobodan Cabakovic, Vedad Terzic / School: Sarajevo Film Academy Filmography: Lejla (2017), Somewhere Else (2016) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
Contact: Pupkin Film: Julie Hakker, +31 204895088, julie@pupkin.com
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NL.3 STUCK IN HERE
FRI 13 – 20:15 – LUX 4 | SAT 14 – 11:15 – LUX 1
Mentia
Word!
Skógafoss
Hello Salaam
Kiem Holijanda
Hallo Salaam Director: Carolien Van Maaswaal documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 13’ / world premiere During a night in a hotel room, the walls are the only witnesses of the events that occur. These memories about a guest will vanish when her regular visitor, the housekeeper, cleans the room and brings it back to it’s original state. What do these memories, that are left behind, tell us about what happened the night before? Production: Eefje Helmus, Thomas Mataheru / Cinematography: Christiaan Van Leeuwen / Editing: Mischa Lamping / Music: Ernst Spyckerelle / Sound: Koos van der Vaart / School: Nederlandse Filmacademie Filmography: Mentia (2017) Contact: Thomas Mataheru, +31 634822333, thomas@mataheru.nl
LISTEN LUISTER
Director: Amos Mulder art film / The Netherlands / 2017 / 7’
Director: Niels Bourgonje fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 10’
Director: Kim Brand documentary / Greece, The Netherlands / 2017 / 15’
Director: Sarah Veltmeyer fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 14’
Director: Astrid Bussink documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 15’
Word! is a visual exploration of language and is set in a parallel post-factual universe. Quotes in the form of tweets by famous philosophers and writers appear throughout the film. Between the chirping of birds and the evocative urban scenarios that unfold, the viewer is invited on a seven-minute cinematic journey that interrogates our indissoluble relationship with words.
While on vacation with his girlfriend, Gijs receives a phone call from his mother, that reveals her troubled mental state and their complex relationship.
Sil (10) and Merlijn (11) are about to go on a big adventure: they will visit a refugee camp at Lesbos and stay there for a week. Through their mothers, who both work there, they have heard stories about the children that live there. Now they want to see for themselves. What is it like to live in a camp when you are a child?
Andi really wants a phone to watch 5 minutes of free porn, and doesn’t notice his brother is saying goodbye.
Sometimes all you need is a listening ear. The Child Helpline has one for you, but what will you tell a complete stranger?
Production: Jeroen Beker, Sabine Veenendaal / Script: Tom Bakker, Sarah Veltmeyer / Cinematography: Stephan Polman / Editing: Fatih Tura / Music: Arend Bruijn, Hans Nieuwenhuijsen / Sound: Taco Drijfhout / Cast: Andi Bajgora, Florist Bajgora
Production: Hasse van Nunen, Renko Douze / Cinematography: Sander Roeleveld / Editing: Riekje Ziengs/ Music: Bartho Weayen, Yvo van Gemert / Sound: Tim van Peppen
Production: Remco Vlaanderen, Michel Reilhac, Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting / Editing, Animation: Amos Mulder / Music: Maurice Ravel / Sound: Amos Mulder, Sam Huisman Filmography: Word! (2017), Off The Ground (2016), Sun is a Star – Blue Crime (2015), Don’s Dream (2014) (Go Short 2015), This is not a Dream (2012) (Go Short 2012), Verkeerde Raadhuizen (2011), Where the Smog is too Low - Saelors (2011), Soup! (2010), Ghost of Icarus (2009) (Go Short 2010)
Production: Daniël Aiss / Script: Bastiaan Tichler / Cinematography: Joris Bulstra / Editing: Wietse de Zwart / Music: Jesper Ankarfeldt / Sound: Aline Bruijns / Cast: Anneke Blok, Gaite Jansen, Martijn Lakemeier Filmography: Skógafoss (2017), Bridge (2017), Turn It Around (2017), Buddy (2015), Deserted (2015), Neighbours (2015), Peace & Quiet (2014), Order (2012), Burn (2008) Contact: Niels Bourgonje, +31 638746306, nielsbourgonje@gmail.com
Production: Hasse van Nunen, Renko Douze / Cinematography: Reinout Steenhuizen / Editing: Luuk van Stegeren / Music: Harry de Wit / Sound: Alan van Ramshorst, Jillis Schriel, Lennart Kleinen Filmography: A New Dawn (2017), Hello Salaam (2017), Among Women (2013), What the Cat Sees (2011) (Go Short 2012), The Care Factory (2009)
Filmography: Kiem Holijanda (2017), Gotta (2015) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
Filmography: LISTEN (2017), Giovanni and the Water Ballet (2014) (Go Short 2015), Wool Fever (2013), The Hideout (2012), Poem of Death (2012), My Enschede (2010), The Lost Colony (2008), Upside Down (2006), The Angelmakers (2006) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
Contact: Een van de jongens: +31 208943628, info@eenvandejongens.nl
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NL.4 SEEING IS BELIEVING
FRI 13 – 22:15 – LUX 4 | SAT 14 – 16:45 – LUX 3
Tex
#YOLO4REAL
Sweet Tooth
Asylum
Credo
A Man Falls from the Sky Valt een Man uit de Lucht
Director: Jonas Smulders fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 18’ / Dutch premiere When Tex catches her sworn enemy with the boy she loves, she sets out to take revenge. Production: Jonas Smulders, Gijs Blom / Script: Jonas Smulders, Maria Falkena / Cinematography: Sam du Pon / Editing: Wouter Van Luin NCE / Music: Elio Steenbergen, Wisse Barkhof / Sound: Gijs Domen, Taco Drijfhout / Cast: Linda Lugtenborg, Miguel Stigter, Romy Gevers, Samuel Snev Filmography: Tex (2017) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
Director: Aiman Hassani fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 9’
Director: Nico van den Brink fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 5’
Director: Jaap van Heusden, Jefta Varwijk documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 23’
Director: Maurice de Bruijne fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 7’
Director: Kurt Platvoet, Jan Verdijk fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 8’
#YOLO4REAL follows Ahmed, a 21-year old man, who is being told he is terminally ill. After a phase of denial Ahmed starts to take action to escape this horrible truth. It is not until Ahmed can sink no further, that he realizes he needs to make the best of the time he has left. He decides to enjoy life, partly by crossing activities from his bucketlist.
Elin’s upstairs neighbours are getting on her nerves.
A voice in David Brown’s head left him with an ultimatum: kill his brother or jump from the fourth floor. David chose to plummet and, consequently, spends his life between countless psychiatric facilities. From an ultra-subjective perspective, Asylum depicts David’s hospitalisation and his attempts to climb out of his depression, with him using his musicality and enduring humor.
The old, lonely Otto prayed and waited for an answer his whole life. When a heavenly light flashes past his house, he uses what little energy he has left to find some peace.
Ton and Ineke Korrel enjoy their warm afternoon soup when a man crashes down from the sky, in their garden. Ton sees a dangerous species lying in his garden, Ineke wants to help. The situation escalates. The couple will soon find out who their other half really is. Hopefully before it’s too late.
Production: Mira Mendel / Script: Aiman Hassani / Cinematography: Maarten van Rossem / Editing: Michiel Boesveldt / Sound: Marco Vermaas, Ravian de Vries / Cast: Ahmed Salah Abdelfatah, Armand Rosbak, Kendrick Etmon, Lisa Zweerman, Rachida Laallala, Sabri Saddik Filmography: #YOLO4REAL (2017), 12 Angry Arabs (2016), Breathe (2016), Undercover (2015) Contact: Aiman Hassani, +31 659064049, aimhassani@gmail.com
Production: Nico van den Brink, Rianne Ebeling, Ingrid Sanchez / Script: Nico van den Brink / Cinematography: Ingrid Sanchez / Editing: Xander Nijsten / Music: Ella van der Woude / Sound: Vincen Sinceretti / Cast: Ilke Paddenburg Filmography: Avondland (2017), Sweet Tooth (2017), Anton (2014), Spiegeltje (2013), Homunculus (2013), Gesustere (2012) Contact: Nico van den Brink, +31 640851979, nhvandenbrink@gmail.com
Production: Katja Draaijer, Frank Hoeve / Script: Jaap van Heusden, Jefta Varwijk / Cinematography: Jefta Varwijk / Editing: Xander Nijsten, Menno Otten / Sound: Tijn Hazen, Jaap van Heusden / Cast: David Brown Filmography: Jaap van Heusden: Asylum (2017), In Blue (2017), De Verloren Zoon (2014), De Nieuwe Wereld (2013), Drone (2011), Win/Win (2010), I love het Leger (2009), Ooit (2008), Anderman (2006); Jefta Varwijk: Asylum (2017) Contact: BALDR Film: Nikki Habraken, +31 203032670, festivals@baldrfilm.nl
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Production: Mink Pinster, Lisa Lente / Script, Editing: Maurice de Bruijne / Cinematography: Mink Pinster, Rik Komaromi / Music: Kamerkoor Kwintessens / Sound: Michiel de Boer / Cast: Joop Keesmaat, Bram Van Der Kelen Filmography: Credo (2017), Venturi (2016), KOP (2016) Contact: Maurice de Bruijne, +31 643604421, info@mauricedebruijne.com
Production: Matthijs van de Laar / Script: Jan Verdijk, Kurt Platvoet / Cinematography: Thijmen Doornik / Editing: Luuk van Stegeren / Music: Toon Habraken / Sound: Sam Huisman / Cast: Jacqueline Blom, Matin Dadfar, Raymond Tiry Filmography: Kurt Platvoet: Pizzamonster (2018), A Man Falls from the Sky (2017), Bath Bread (2016), A Journey Far Away (2013) (Go Short 2014); Jan Verdijk: A Man Falls from the Sky (2017), Encore (2012) Contact: Kurt Platvoet, +31 618542585, platvoetkurt@hotmail.com
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Happy Hannah - Topkapi
Hot Tea
Botanica
Director: Marcel Tigchelaar animation / The Netherlands / 2017 / 2’
Director: Noël Loozen fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 13’
Some beverages are refreshing in more ways than one…
A garden-center employee fears his possible infertility. While the pregnancy wish of the love of his life is growing, shame starts to take a hold on him. He senses them growing apart. Nourished by the artificial arena he makes a very unusual decision and swallows his pride in order to let their love overcome.
Script, Cinematography: Marcel Tigchelaar / Editing: Albert ‘t Hooft / Music: Han Otten / Sound: Max Frick, Bob Kommer Studios/ Animation: Marcel Tigchelaar, Ruben Zaalberg, Susanne Seidel, Kaylee Bruine de Bruin Filmography: Hot Tea (2017), A Square Peg in a Round Hole (2006) Contact: Anikey Studios: Janneke Meekes, +31 681418091, janneke@anikey.nl
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Production: Gijs Kerbosch / Script: Joeri Kloppert, Noël Loozen / Cinematography: Tim Kerbosch / Editing: Mieneke Kramer / Music: Sjam Sjamsoedin / Sound: Jaap Sijben / Cast: Guido Pollemans, Jiri Loozen, Olivia Lonsdale, Sytske van der Ster, Victor Peeters Filmography: Limburgia (2017), Botanica (2017), Spoetnik (2015) (Go Short 2016), The Hornhunter (2014) (Go Short 2015), Obstacle Course 2.0 (2014), Obstacle Course 1.0 (2009) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com
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YOUTH COMPETITION To give a voice to young people out there Go Short welcomes the MovieZone Jury. This jury is hosted in collaboration with MovieZone, which is the youth platform of EYE, the Dutch Film Institute in Amsterdam. They get to see a special selection of competition films of very different genres and styles. Youngsters aged 16 to 19 are paired up in this jury to voice their opinion about the films and ultimately pick a winner.
The jury hands out two awards: the MovieZone Award and the Nijmegen Youth Award, which is a cash prize supported by the city of Nijmegen. The MovieZone Award is an award created by the young winner of the expo part of Kunstbende, an art competition for youngsters in the Netherlands. The city of Nijmegen thinks it’s important to stimulate young people in their creativity and is proud to sponsor the cash prize.
It is the seventh year Go Short hosts a Youth jury and it always is inspiring to see the connection between the young filmmakers and the jury members. The winner of the MovieZone Award 2017 had been a jury member once himself, so he was a great example for the jury. It was wonderful to see the different generations interact with one another.
During their stay at Go Short the jury members get special workshops and Meet and Greets and watch the specially selected competition films. For the jury it’s a unique opportunity to get to know a film festival from the inside and take their first step into the film business. There is a lot of interest among jury members to go and work in the film industry when they grow up, so it’s a great way for them to get acquainted with this world.
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INDEX YOUTH COMPETITION
You can recognize the jury by their vests, so don’t be afraid to talk to them or give them useful advice for the future! Hopefully, in 5 years, they will be the ones making the films in competition at Go Short.
#YOLO4REAL / Aiman Hassani / fiction / The Netherlands / 9’ After School Knife Fight / Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel / fiction / France / 21’ Diliman / Timothy Collanto / fiction / United Kingdom / 13’ Dust / Jakub Radej / documentary / Poland / 25’ Hello Salaam / Kim Brand / documentary / Greece, The Netherlands / 15’ Kiem Holijanda / Sarah Veltmeyer / fiction / The Netherlands / 14’ Lejla / Stijn Bouma / fiction / Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Netherlands / 21’ Lembri Uudu / Eeva Mägi / documentary / Estonia / 24’ LISTEN / Astrid Bussink / documentary / The Netherlands / 15’ Living Like Heta / Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp / animation / Switzerland / 6’ Manila High – Life In Company With Death / Simone Andrea Gottschau, Anders Palm Olesen / documentary / Denmark / 12’ Mentia / Carolien Van Maaswaal / documentary / The Netherlands / 13’
Rewind Forward / Justin Stoneham / documentary / Switzerland / 23’ Shadow Animals / Jerry Carlsson / fiction / Sweden / 21’ Skógafoss / Niels Bourgonje / fiction / The Netherlands / 10’ Sweet Tooth / Nico van den Brink / fiction / The Netherlands / 5’ Tex / Jonas Smulders / fiction / The Netherlands / 18’ The Burden / Niki Lindroth von Bahr / animation / Sweden / 14’ The Departure / Milan Bath / fiction / Germany / 14’ Ugly / Nikita Diakur / animation / Germany / 11’ Walk With Me / Anita Beikpour / documentary / Denmark / 28’ Wild Horses / Rory Alexander Stewart / fiction / United Kingdom / 26’ Word! / Amos Mulder / art film / The Netherlands / 7’
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STUDENT COMPETITION The future of filmmaking? The 21 films of our student competition are some of the best short films made in the past year. The label “student” always feels as if these films are not there yet, as if the directors are still perfecting their craft, but that’s something that this competition will definitely not show. Experiments are embraced and risks are taken. Some of them may still be working on their skills, but through rough editing you can already see the clear signs of directors that know what they want to tell. As a member of a selection committee, if you delve into the world of student films, you can eventually spot similarities between films from the same school. This helps us recognize both the cream of the crop and the directors that go against the grain. Every year we hope to discover some of these, so we can present them to our audience and give the filmmakers a platform to present themselves. 58
We are happy to present four world premieres in the program this year. In The Sisters we are taken behind the walls of a monastery and get a glimpse in the surprisingly funny life of nuns. The German Islands manages to tell a small coming-of-age story through very naturalistic long takes of a family visiting an island. Gibraltars shows a young woman who searches for a lost love while getting regular visits from a mysterious drone. In Letters To Adja we experience the story through the letters a girl writes to her sister accompanied by beautiful summer images of a beach town. Four great films that will already bring you in a summer mood in April!
INDEX STUDENT COMPETITION ST.1: OFF THE GRID P. 60
ST.3: PLEASED TO MEET YOU? P. 62
ST.5: YOU&I P. 65
Dark Waves / Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis / documentary / France / 21’ The Station / Leart Rama / documentary / Republic of Kosovo, Albania / 11’ Nobody Here / Jelena Gavrilovic / fiction / Serbia / 20’ The Sisters / Michal Hytros / documentary / Poland / 20’
Diliman / Timothy Collanto / fiction / United Kingdom / 13’ Wild Horses / Rory Alexander Stewart / fiction / United Kingdom / 26’ Living Like Heta / Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp / animation / Switzerland / 6’ The Departure / Milan Bath / fiction / Germany / 14’ Dust / Jakub Radej / documentary / Poland / 25’
And I Roam in Search of Brothers / Hannah Bailliu / documentary / Belgium / 17’ Paul is Here / Valentina Maurel / fiction / Belgium / 25’ Letters to Adja / Marie-Stéphane Imbert / art film / France / 17’ Where the Summer Goes / David Pinheiro Vicente / fiction / Portugal / 21’
ST.2: SUMMER HEAT P. 61 At Dawn / Inês de Lima Torres / fiction / Portugal / 30’ Travelogue Tel Aviv / Samuel Patthey / animation / Switzerland / 6’ Islands / Julia Tielke / fiction / Germany / 20’ Gibraltar / Juliette Barrat / fiction / France / 24’
ST.4: FADE AWAY P. 64 Find Fix Finish / Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat / documentary / Germany / 19’ True North / George Bowler / animation / United Kingdom / 7’ Sog / Jonatan Schwenk / animation / Germany / 10’ Turtle Shells / Tuna Kaptan / documentary / Germany / 30’
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ST.1 OFF THE GRID
ST.2 SUMMER HEAT
THU 12 – 19:45 – LUX 5
THU 12 – 21:45 – LUX 5
Dark Waves
The Station
Nobody Here
The Sisters
At Dawn
Ondes Noires
Stacioni
Nikog Nema
Siostry
De Madrugada
Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis documentary / France / 2017 / 21’
Director: Leart Rama documentary / Republic of Kosovo, Albania / 2017 / 11’ / international premiere
Director: Jelena Gavrilovic fiction / Serbia / 2017 / 20’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Michal Hytros documentary / Poland / 2017 / 20’ / world premiere
Director: Inês de Lima Torres fiction / Portugal / 2017 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Samuel Patthey animation / Switzerland / 2017 / 6’ / Dutch premiere
Sara is a 17 year old girl still obsessed with her ex boyfriend Sergej. In the absence of a father figure, she finds comfort in her bodyguard Dushan.
Behind the mighty eighteenth-century wall of the oldest enclosed convent in Poland - Benedictine convent in Staniatki, near Krakow - the life of twelve nuns in their 70s goes on. Despite their age and the world of rapid change, they try to comply with the rule set over ten centuries ago ‘ORA et LABORA’ each day.
In the hot month of August, Alice and her siblings go to their grandmother’s summer house. As the days go by, the house becomes a hive of slow straying bodies, as Alice becomes more and more engrained in her grandmother’s colonial past.
A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself to this contrasted environnement.
In an ultra-connected society where waves have almost invaded every space, three electromagnetic intolerant people bear witness of survival in a world that seems more and more difficult to them. Production: Guylaine Huet / Script: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis / Cinematography: Nikos Dalton Appelquist / Editing: Céline Perreard / Music: Ellen Fullman / Sound: Alban Cayrol, Lucas Lebart / Animation: Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis, Maël Delorme / Cast, Narration: Paul Zadkine, Slimane Dazi, Valérie Gimenez / School: Le Fresnoy Filmography: Dark Waves (2017), Sous Couleur de l’Oubli (2015) Contact: Natalia Trebik, +33 320283800, ntrebik@lefresnoy.net
High mountains on both of its sides and a small boat breaking the silence of this small part of the world. Some movements can be seen. From a distance, boat gazes people descending from top of the mountains and patiently waiting the only transport connecting them with the rest of the world, almost unknown to them. Production, Cinematography, Editing: Leart Rama / Sound: Laured Isufaj / School: University of Arts-Tirana Filmography: Stacioni (2017), “2” (2017), Anomaly (2016), Scream (2016), For the Missing One (2016), HU (2016), Silent Words (2015), It’s Not All About the Movie (2015), Ivana (2015), “5” (2014), The Last Breath (2013)
Production: Nada Savic / Script: Dimitrije Kokanov, Jelena Gavrilovic / Cinematography: Igor Ðordevic / Editing: Ana Žugic / Cast: Igor Bencina, Miodrag Dragicevic, Nina Popovic, Teodora Jankovic / School: Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade Filmography: Nobody Here (2017), With Many Things to Come (2015) , I’m Not Your Friend (2013), Something Sweet (2012) Contact: Nada Savic, +381 113130622, nada.savic@fdu.bg.ac.rs
Production: Polish National Film School in Lodz / Cinematography: Janusz Szymanski / Editing: Marcin Wojciechowski / Sound: Bogdan Klat / School: Polish National Film School in Lodz
Production: Frederico Mesquita / Script: Inês de Lima Torres / Cinematography: Diogo Salgado / Editing: Diogo Salgado, Tiago Freitas / Sound: Bernardo Theriaga, Francisco Costa, João Estrada / Cast: Beatriz Praça, Cristina Gonçalves, Duarte Almeida, Guilherme Moura, Teresa Mello Sampayo / School: Lisbon Theatre and Film School
Filmography: The Sisters (2017)
Filmography: At Dawn (2017), Esta Terra Não É Minha (2015)
Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Katarzyna Wilk, +48 122946945, industry@kff.com.pl
Contact: Tiago Freitas, jtiago7@gmail.com
Travelogue Tel Aviv
Production: Jürgen Haas / Script, Cinematography: Samuel Patthey / Editing: Hannes Oehen, Samuel Patthey / Music: Julien Gobet, Patrick Overney / Sound: Christof Steinmann, Nina Winiger / Animation: Alice Müller, Claudia Wirth, Estelle Gattlen, Hannes Oehen, Samuel Patthey, Valentine Moser / School: HSLU Design und Kunst Filmography: Travelogue Tel Aviv (2017), Gueule de Carton & Chacha (2016) Contact: Samuel Patthey, +41 765049642, samuel.patthey@gmail.com
Contact: Leart Rama, +38 649436244, leartrama@icloud.com
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FRI 13 – 17:45 – LUX 5
Islands
Gibraltar
Diliman
Wild Horses
Living Like Heta
Inseln Director: Julia Tielke fiction / Germany / 2018 / 20’ / world premiere
Director: Juliette Barrat fiction / France / 2017 / 24’ / world premiere
A thirteen year old girl is on vacation with her parents. She experiences changes of her body and is confronted with growing up. The film looks into the changing gaze on oneself.
It’s the end of summer. Alice decides to stay on the coast, looking for a sailor she loved and who has disappeared.
Production: Julia Tielke, Filomena Krause / Script, Editing: Julia Tielke / Cinematography: Marianne Andrea Borowiec / Sound: Almuth Anders, David Huss, Filomena Krause / Cast: Annika Horsch, Malte Urbschat, Stephanie Stremler / School: Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg Filmography: Islands (2018), First till Seventh March, Arrival in Mexico City (2017), Stolpe Nord (2015) Contact: Julia Tielke, +49 17678646634, julia@tielke.net
Production: Margaux Béhague / Script: Juliette Barrat / Cinematography: Vadim Alsayed / Editing: Marine Chiu / Music: Pierre Desprats / Sound: Clément Laforce, Louise Abbou, Maxime Roy / Cast: Bertrand Poiraud, Clara Augarde, Freddy Fradet, Julie Sokolowski, Julien Moriceau, Louison Dequesnes, Pierrot Fradet, Yoann Besseau / School: La Fémis
Director: Timothy Collanto fiction / United Kingdom / 2017 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Rory Alexander Stewart fiction / United Kingdom / 2017 / 26’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp animation / Switzerland / 2017 / 6’ / Dutch premiere
Maria tries to sort out a last minute money problem with the catering for her niece’s wedding reception which seems to draw her farther and farther from the celebration itself.
Joan has been housebound with M.E. for most of her teenage years but now in slow recovery an urge for independence is causing friction with her mother. So when Joan’s tutor encourages her to push herself more, she throws caution to the wind and, risking a relapse, leaves the house in search of new experiences. And a horse.
Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines.
Production: Michael Graf, Remi Itani, Alexandra Tyler / Script: Timothy Collanto / Cinematography: Nicholas Nazari / Editing: Marizan Lumico / Sound: Kinsey Zhang / Cast: Andrea Colquhoun, Maria Elena Liwag, Marlon Ruamero Feria, Raman Farahani, Sofronia Gallanongo, Summer Velle Monterola / School: London Film School Filmography: Diliman (2017), Courier (2015), Amnesia (2015), This Morning I (2014), Control Room (2012)
Production: Rebecca Smith / Script: Rory Alexander Stewart / Cinematography: Samira Oberberg / Editing: Fiona Brands / Music: Segun Akinola / Sound: Michael Roy Johnson / Animation: Kelvin Chim / Cast: Ainslie Henderson, Emma Cater, Emma Curtis, Stephanie Compton / School: National Film and Television School
Contact: Alexandra Tyler, +44 2078369642, festivals@lfs.org.uk,
Filmography: Wild Horses (2017), In the Grass (2016), Misery Guts (2014), Good Girl (2014), Wyld (2014), The Port (2013)
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The Departure Die Abreise
Production: Gerd Gockell / Music: Moritz Widrig / Sound: Bill Bühler, Giulia Schlüchter, Thomas Gassmann / Animation: Amélie Cochet, Arnold Wagner, Bianca Caderas, Bronte Kolster, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp, Lalita Brunner, Matthew Grässlin, Robert-Jonathan Koeyers / School: Hochschule Luzern Filmography: Bianca Caderas: Living Like Heta (2017), I hope you step on a lego (2016), When You Die Can I Have Your Stuff? (2015); Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp: Living Like Heta (2017)
Director: Milan Bath fiction / Germany / 2017 / 14’ / Dutch premiere A woman is preparing her flat for departure. Step by step she seems to be following a strict plan. When she realizes that she is missing money for the train she asks her neighbour for help. Production, Script: Milan Bath / Cinematography: Andre Stahlmann / Editing: Rebecca Weltner / Music: Lukas Reichert / Sound: Lukas Reichert, Thomas Dahm / Cast: Beate Malkus, Lukas Reichert, Roman Schomburg, Veronika Nowag-Jones / School: Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Audiovisuelle Medien Filmography: Third Place (2018), The Departure(2017), Der Präperator (2016) Contact: Milan Bath, +49 17670301384, milancbath@gmail.com
Contact: Bianca Caderas, +41 763888227, biancacaderas@hotmail.de
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ST.4 FADE AWAY
ST.5 YOU&I
FRI 13 – 20:00 – LUX 5
Dust
Find Fix Finish
SAT 14 – 17:00 – LUX 5
True North
Sog
Proch Director: Jakub Radej documentary / Poland / 2017 / 25’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat documentary / Germany / 2017 / 19’
Dust is a study of the way that every human body must go through from the moment of death to the funeral. In Jakub Radej’s film, the consecutive stages of the way (mortuary, morgue, cemetery) are juxtaposed with a bureaucratic approach to the property of the deceased.
Find Fix Finish delves into the accounts of three military drone pilots as they tell the intimate story of the lives they observe on a day-to-day basis. The voyeuristic ocular perspective from a military drone can reduce people to pixels on a screen and a certain decontextualisation is almost necessary to deal with the fact that people can be killed on a push of a button.
Production: Krzysztof Kieslowski / Script, Editing: Jakub Radej / Cinematography: Jozefina Gocman / Sound: Jan Chojnacki, Maciej Krakowka, Tomasz Dukszta / School: Krzysztof Kieslowski Filmography: Dust (2017), Ghetto Gospel (2011) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Katarzyna Wilk, +48 122946945, industry@kff.com.pl
Production: Mariella Santibanez, Veronika Faistbauer / Script: Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat / Cinematography: Nikolai Huber / Editing: Sophie Oldenbourg / Music: Ina Meredi Arakelian / Sound: Philip Hutter / Narration: Mona Vojacek Koper, Nathan Carruthers, Paul Osswald / School: HFF München Filmography: Find Fix Finish (2017) Contact: Mila Zhluktenko, +49 17624714768, mila@fff-film.com
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Director: George Bowler animation / United Kingdom / 2017 / 7’ / Dutch premiere On the long journey home, a fisherman comes upon the wreckage of a ship and rescues a small boy that he finds asleep in a barrel. As a mysterious storm descends he senses the arrival of a sinister presence. Production: Nathan Craig / Script: Shane Crowley / Cinematography: Adam Barnett / Editing: Martín Amezaga / Music: Louis Dodd / Sound: Pete Gummerson / Animation: Daniel Quirke, Susete Furtado / School: National Film and Television School Filmography: True North (2017), Blakes Hitch (2016), Revolve (2005) Contact: George Bowler, +44 7977538332, contact@truenorththeanimation.co.uk
Director: Jonatan Schwenk animation / Germany / 2017 / 10’ After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don’t feel happy about the unintended gathering. Production: Jonatan Schwenk / Script: Jonatan Schwenk, Merlin Flügel / Cinematography: Iván Robles Mendoza / Animation: Florian Maubach, Jonatan Schwenk, Marc Rühl / School: Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach Filmography: Sog (2017), Neunundachtzig (2012), Maison Sonore (2011), Sisyphos Blues (2009) Contact: aug&ohr medien: Daniel Butterworth, +49 17662965299, danielbutterworth@augohr.de
Turtle Shells
And I Roam in Search of Brothers
Schildkröten Panzer
En Ik Ren Rond op Zoek naar Broers
Director: Tuna Kaptan documentary / Germany / 2017 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Hannah Bailliu documentary / Belgium / 2016 / 17’ / Dutch premiere
European animal protection laws, German Armed Forces foreign operations and a seized turtle, whose shell was painted with the flag of the Syrian rebels. All converge at a reptile rescue centre in Munich. A film about animals, mankind and war. Production: Tuna Kaptan, Donaukapitän / Script: Tuna Kaptan / Cinematography: Rebecca Meining / Editing: Sophie Oldenbourg / Music: Masha Yulin, Aleksandra Koziol, Constance Maestranzi / Sound: Viki Aleksander / Narration: Michael Kranz / School: HFF München Filmography: Turtle Shells (2017), Subsuelo (2016) (Go Short 2017), Armada Bizerta (2014), Two at the Border (2013) (Go Short 2014), Mr. Siebzehnrübl (2012), Bordo Mavi (2011) Contact: Donaukapitän: Tuna Kaptan, +49 1636338067, argentuna@gmx.de
A couple of young boys hang around in a neighbourhood marked by public housing, looking for a way to be part of this money-based society. Through endless reiteration of Dutch rap lyrics they shape an image of themselves and of their world. Their restless quest of an identity blends in with a quest for words. Production, Cinematography, Editing: Hannah Bailliu / Sound: Charles Dhondt, Cyril Beerten, Louisiana Mees, Manon de Sutter, Michel Coquette / School: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ghent Filmography: And I Roam in Search of Brothers (2016), Big People Big Data (2016), EZRAZENO (2015) Contact: Hannah Bailliu, +32 497507118, hannah.bailliu@gmail.com
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Paul is Here
Letters to Adja
Where the Summer Goes
Paul est là
Lettres à Adja
Onde o Verão Vai (Episódios da Juventude)
Director: Valentina Maurel fiction / Belgium / 2016 / 25’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Marie-Stéphane Imbert art film / France / 2017 / 17’ / world premiere
Director: David Pinheiro Vicente fiction / Portugal / 2018 / 21’ / Dutch premiere
Paul is here. Like a step backwards, like an old memory that resurfaces and knocks at the door. Paul is here, and his annoying presence will disrupt Jeanne’s everyday life.
Summertime. A girl writes to her sister awaiting for her return.
It’s summer, a boy and his friends go to the river. On the ride there, a story is told about a man and his pet snake that tried to eat him. The boy falls from a tree trunk and gets hurt. A girl follows him. A couple kiss each other, another boy explores the woods and a third one just lays by a tree eating a peach. In four chapters, the heat and the humidity of the forest unravel desires among them.
Production: Vincent Canart / Script: Valentina Maurel / Editing: Bertrand Conard / Sound: Hélène Clerc Denizot / Cast: Bart Cambier, Sarah Lefèvre / School: INSAS - Institut National Supérieur des Arts
Production: Edouard Lalanne de Saint-Quentin / Script: Marie-Stéphane Imbert / Cinematography: Manon Blanc / Music: Mikhaël Kurc / Sound: Clovis Tisserand, Mikhaël Kurc, Saoussen Tatah / School: La Fémis Filmography: Letters to Adja (2017), Je Marche Beaucoup (2016)
Filmography: Paul is Here (2017) Contact: Agence Belge du Court Métrage: +32 22417370, info@agenceducourt.be
Contact: Géraldine Amgar, +33 153412116, festival@femis.fr
FOCUS ON
PATRIK EKLUND / EVA WEBER / IRELAND / EXPANDED CINEMA
Production: Raquel Rolim Batista / Script: David Pinheiro Vicente, Rita Jorge / Cinematography: Joana Silva Fernandes / Editing: Laura Gama Martins / Sound: Miguel Coelho / Cast: André Simões, Joana Peres, Joana Petiz, Miguel Amorim, Rodolfo Major, Rodrigo Tomás / School: Lisbon Theatre and Film Filmography: Where the Summer Goes (2017), Simão (2016) Contact: Portugal Film: Filipa Henriques, +351 213158399, portugalfilm@indielisboa.com
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FOCUS ON PATRIK EKLUND Patrik Eklund made his directional debut in 2002 with his short film One Christmas Morning. It was an instant success. The shorts that followed took it even further, as far as an Oscar nomination. Needless to say, we are very excited that this Swedish filmmaker is our guest in focus. One Christmas Morning won several awards including The Tromsö Palm for best Nordic short. Eklund’s short Situation Frank (2007) was selected for Critic’s Week in Cannes, Instead of Abracadabra (2008) won among others the award for Best Swedish Short at Göteborg International Film Festival and received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film Live Action in 2009. His next short, Seeds of the Fall (2009), won the prize for Best Short Film at Cannes’ Critic’s Week. What could be the reason for all these awards? Maybe it is the dark sense of humour that characterizes Eklund’s work. 68
“My work is often very dialogue-driven with eccentric characters and set in a world where things are a little bit off.” Take Instead of Abracadabra, a film in which the protagonist wants to be a magician but where things do not always run according to plan. That the film was nominated for an Oscar took the filmmaker by surprise: “It was very unexpected being nominated for an Oscar. And besides that very fun and exciting, of course. I think it’s a good thing to have on your resume in the future when presenting new ideas to someone with money, as a reassurance of sorts. And it’s a great icebreaker at parties.” In 2011 Eklund made his first feature film Flicker, about people trying to find their place within modern society. However, as a short film festival we do not have to worry too much. The fact that he made a feature film does not mean that he stopped making shorts. In fact, his new short film The Infection will be released this year.
“It’s a very liberating playground where you can try new things and perfect your own voice as a filmmaker, without losing anyone’s money.” “My Oscar nomination is a great icebreaker at parties.”
According to Eklund, short films are equal to freedom: “It’s a very liberating playground where you can try new things and perfect your own voice as a filmmaker, without losing anyone’s money.” Inspiration for his films comes from different things. Ideas could flow from his writing process, but just as easily from photography or an overheard
conversation. Eklund rarely thinks of a specific topic when he starts writing: “I think the topic or your theme has a tendency to change over the period of writing, if you’re not basing it on a true story of course.” When we ask Eklund if he ever thinks about making a film in a completely
different genre, he reveals that if he had to try a new genre it would definitely be science fiction: “No aliens or lasers, just two characters alone on a spaceship going through an existential crisis and arguing about laundry.” Again: eccentric characters set in a world where things are a little bit off… 69
PATRIK’S ABRACADABRA
PATRIK’S ESCAPE OF REALITY
SAT 14 – 20:00 – LUX 6
Situation Frank
THU 12 – 13:45 – LUX 1
Anatomy
Instead of Abracadabra
Seeds of the Fall
Anatomi
Istället för Abrakadabra
Slitage
Director: Patrik Eklund fiction / Sweden / 2007 / 26’
Director: Patrik Eklund animation / Sweden / 2016 / 8’
Director: Patrik Eklund fiction / Sweden / 2008 / 22’
Frank finds his wife dead in the bathtub. He can’t handle the sudden loss and nearly implodes. Frank’s best friend Lars tries his best to cheer him up but without any success.
An anatomical PowerPoint presentation about why a man turned out the way he did. Categorically, from top to toe, the sensitive spots are revealed against their background and explanation in a liberatingly dark and highly humorous film about life and it’s conditions.
Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option. Bengt, his father, just wants him to grow up and get a proper job. At dad’s birthday party Tomas gives his parents, the birthday guests and first and foremost the beautiful new neighbour Monica a bizarre magic show.
Production: Mathias Fjellström / Script, Editing: Patrik Eklund / Cinematography: David Grehn / Music: Jimmy Ågren / Sound: Torsten Rundkvist / Cast: Göran Forsmark, Jacob Nordenson Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
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Production, Script, Editing: Patrik Eklund / Music: Björn Baummann Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Of Biblical Proportions
Syndromeda
Director: Patrik Eklund fiction / Sweden / 2009 / 17’
Director: Patrik Eklund fiction / Sweden / 2015 / 29’
Director: Patrik Eklund fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 18’
Rolf and Eva is a middle-aged couple who lives in a relationship with a lack of passion. They wear and tear each other out and Eva starts to feel sexually frustrated. One night when they’re lying in bed she tries to seduce Rolf . Rolf dismisses Eva’s attempt to get him on, but then suddenly something happen that’ll change their relationship.
A group of scientists from around the world meets in a conference room in an unknown location in America. They are secretly discussing the origins of a mysterious cranium discovered 300 metres below the ice of Antarctica.
Leif wakes up on the road, naked and bloody, with no memory of what has happened. No one believes him when he claims to have been abducted by aliens. With this film, sporting lots of humour, good acting and good-looking special effects, Patrik Eklund has virtually created a new genre.
Production: Mathias Fjellström / Script, Editing: Patrik Eklund / Cinematography: David Grehn / Sound: Linda Brännström / Cast: Simon J. Berger, Jacob Nordenson, Anki Larsson, Saga Gärde, Göran Forsmark
Production: Mathias Fjellström / Script, Editing: Patrik Eklund / Cinematography: David Grehn / Music: Anders Lennartsson, Jesper Hörberg / Cast: Anki Larsson, Camilla Larsson, Daniel Rudstedt, Jacob Nordenson, Svante Grundberg
Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Production, Script, Editing: Patrik Eklund / Cinematography: Simon Olsson / Music: Björn Baummann / Cast: Anki Larrson, Olle Sarri, Schiaffino Musarra, Stephen Rappaport Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
Production: Mathias Fjellström / Script, Editing: Patrik Eklund / Cinematography: David Grehn / Music: Elk Skull & Örnbjörn / Sound: Carl Svensson Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se
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PATRIK’S FLICKER
PATRIK’S CHOICE
FRI 13 – 16:00 – LUX 4 | SUN 15 – 12:30 – LUX 2
SAT 14 – 17:30 – LUX 2
Flicker
Un Chien Andalou
Flimmer
2 Birds
The External World
Små Fuglar
World of Glory
Garden Party
Härlig är Jorden
Director: Patrik Eklund fiction / Sweden / 2012 / 96’
Director: Luis Buñuel art film / France / 1929 / 16’
Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson fiction / Iceland / 2008 / 15’
Director: David O’Reilly animation / Germany / 2010 / 17’
Director: Roy Andersson fiction / Sweden / 1991 / 16’
Director: Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon animation / France / 2016 / 7’
There’s something going on in the small town of Backberga. The town’s proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there’s something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events, mishaps and love stories.
A surrealistic film with input from Salvador Dalí. Director Luis Buñuel presents stark, surrealistic images including the slitting open of a woman’s eye and a dead horse being pulled along on top of a piano. A mysterious film open to interpretations ranging from deep to it all meaning absolutely nothing. It is certain that this short film presented something new in the cinema of its day.
2 Birds takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his age, who happens to be a friend of his mate.
In a funny looking yet very bleak world, a boy learns to play piano while a cat and various other animal characters encounter all sorts of drugs, sex, violence and profanity, with numerous references to pop culture phenomena.
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.
A luxurious villa and its grounds have become home to amorous, hungry and accident-prone frogs and toads. While they enjoy the bounties on offer, including caviar and macaroons, the amphibians uncover the whereabouts of the villa’s owner.
Production: Jan Blomgren, Mathias Fjellström / Script: Patrik Eklund / Cinematography: David Grehn / Editing: Patrik Eklund, Stefan Sundlöf / Music: John Erik Kaada / Sound: Carl Svensson / Cast: Allan Svensson, Kjell Bergqvist, Lotti Törnros, Olle Sarri
Production, Editing, Music: Luis Buñuel / Script: Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel / Cinematography: Albert Duverger, Jimmy Berliet / Cast: Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil
Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Petter Mattsson, +46 86651134, petter.mattsson@filminstitutet.se
Filmography: El Vaticano de Pio XII (1940), Las Hurdes (1933), Un Chien Andalou (1929) Contact: Theatre du Temple: Vincent Dupré, +33 143388788, theatredutemplevincent@hotmail.fr
Production: Skuli Malmquist, Thor S. Sigurjonsson / Script: Rúnar Rúnarsson / Cinematography: Sophia Olsson / Editing: Jacob Schulsinger / Music: Kjartan Sveinsson / Sound: Sylvester Holm / Cast: Hera Hilmarsdottir, Oskar Fjalarsson, Sigurdur Jakob Helgason, Thorunn Jokobsdottir Filmography: Sparrows (2015), Volcano (2011), Anna (2009), 2 Birds (2008) (Go Short 2009), The Last Farm (2004) Contact: Rúnar Rúnarsson, +4520738177 runarrunarsson@yahoo.com
Production: Henning Kamm / Script: Vernon Chatman / Music: Bram Meindersma / Animation: David O’Reilly / Narration: Adam Buxton, Julian Barratt, Pearl Brilmyer Filmography: Everything (2017), Children’s Song (2015), The Horse Raised by Spheres (2014), Unlucky Little Man (2013), The External World (2010) (Go Short 2011) Contact: DETAiLFILM: Ines Schiller, schiller@detailfilm.de
Production: Göran Lindström, Freddy Olsson / Script: Roy Andersson / Cinematography: István Borbás / Editing: Marianne Andersson / Music: Antal Doráti / Sound: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Lennart Björklund, Christer Christensen, Bernard Egier, Rolf Engström, Gun Fors, / Cast: Christer Christensen, Klas Gösta Olsson
Production, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Animation: Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon, Lucas Navarro / Sound: Victor Caire / School: MOPA: Computer Graphics Animation School Filmography: Garden Party (2016)
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), Safer, No One Can Be (1980), So Terribly Unnecessary (1979), A Love Story (1970), Saturday, 5-10 (1969), The White Port (1968), Visiting His Son (1967)
Contact: Miyu Distribution: Luce Grosjean, +33 674232951, festival@miyu.fr
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FOCUS ON EVA WEBER We are very proud to welcome Eva Weber as our guest in focus for the 10th edition of Go Short. Originally from Germany, Weber is a London-based director working in both documentary and fiction. Her multiaward winning film The Solitary Life of Cranes screened at the very first edition of Go Short in 2009; this year Eva Weber is back to present more of her short films. Weber started her career making several short fiction films before joining the BBC in 1998. While working as a director for BBC Broadcast, she directed numerous promotional videos, commercials and branded films for the BBC and other television and advertising companies. Although she loved her time at the BBC, after five years she felt the need to leave and pursue her own filmmaking again: “I missed the freedom of creating something that wasn’t restrained by marketing briefs and client restrictions; of taking risks and challenging myself to grow as an artist.” 74
Leaving the BBC seemed to be a good decision, since Weber has directed several award-winning short documentaries produced by Odd Girl Out Productions. According to her, short films can - at their best - be more challenging, refreshing and invigorating than feature films. They can give a platform to voices that are absent in the world of big-budget blockbusters. This is why she wants to use her films to transport people to places that they have never been to, both emotionally and geographically. “Whether you see the world through the eyes of crane drivers (The Solitary Life of Cranes) or eavesdrop on the intimate phone conversations of random strangers (The Intimacy of Strangers), each film will give you a unique insight into the world and the way we connect with each other.” Weber’s inspiration for films and themes come from very different sources. It can be an image, a couple of lines in a newspaper,
the paintings of Edward Hopper, the films of Werner Herzog or her hometown London. She is especially interested in exploring the conflict between intimacy and distance, of being removed but close, and in how we are shaped by the environments we live in.
“My films will take you on an immersive journey travelling from behind locked doors to high up in the sky.”
Weber has conducted a lot of long interviews and had to deal with huge logistical challenges in the process of making her films. Although this method is often lengthy and time-consuming, it is not why she prefers the short film format. “I believe that each film has the proper length; sometimes even a 10 minute film can be too long or too short. I have been privileged that I’ve had the opportunity and freedom to find the right duration for most of my films while making them, in particularly in the edit. I don’t want my films to overstay their welcome. So, it’s less about the ways these films were made, and the effort or logistical challenge they required, but more about whether the material lent itself to being feature-length.” Weber is currently developing a number of feature length projects, both through Odd Girl Out Productions and through other companies. One of these projects is
“I believe that each film has the proper length; sometimes even a 10 minute film can be too long or too short.” the fiction feature Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, based on the novel by Vendela Vida. While she spent most of the last ten years making documentaries, Weber actually started making fiction films. “Nowadays, I split my time between
both. I have no preference – or, to be more honest, whenever I make a documentary I wish I was working on a fiction film and vice versa. As the saying goes, the grass is always greener…” 75
EVA’S VISUAL POETRY
EVA’S OBSERVATIONS
WED 11 – 21:00 – LUX 2 | FRI 13 - 21:00 - LUX 2
SAT 14 – 13:15 – LUX 4
The Intimacy of Strangers
The Solitary Life of Cranes
Reindeer
Steel Homes
Skywards
Black Out
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2005 / 20’
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2008 / 27’
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2011 / 3’
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2008 / 10’
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2017 / 5’
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2012 / 47’
You used to have to make an effort to overhear other people’s conversations, now you have to make an effort not to. The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations of random strangers.
Part city symphony, part visual poem, the film explores the invisible life of a city, seen through the eyes of crane drivers.
A poetic study in movement and sound, this film takes you on a journey to the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness to experience the ancient practice of reindeer herding or ‘husbandry’.
A poetic portrait of life at a self storage warehouse, the film explores the fragmented nature of memories, set in the darkly beautiful aesthetic of our modern industrial world.
A poetic and evocative visual study, Skywards takes the viewer on a journey into the world of pigeon flying high above the bustling and crowded streets of Old Delhi.
Production: Gareth Rhys Thomas / Cinematography: Alex Reid / Editing: Fiona DeSouza / Sound: John Currie
Production: Anna Higgs, Gavin Humphries / Cinematography: Eduard Grau / Editing: Carol Salter / Music: Chris White / Sound: Barnaby Templer, Jake Roberts
Production: Harriet Harper-Jones, Eva Weber / Cinematography: Chloë Thomson / Editing: Eva Weber, Tracy Granger / Music: Gingger Shankar / Sound: Raoul Brand
Every day during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol stations and wealthy parts of the city, searching for light. This evocative documentary tells the story of these children’s inspiring struggle for education in the face of the country’s own fight for change.
Production: Samantha Zarzosa, Danielle Green, Katherine Armfelt / Cinematography: Catherine Derry, Per Tingleff / Editing: Emiliano Battista / Music: David Schweitzer / Sound: Dan Johnson
Production: Samantha Zarzosa / Cinematography: Catherine Derry, Marcus Waterloo / Editing: Emiliano Battista / Sound: Matthew Davidson Contact: Eva Weber, +44 7980809911, eva@oddgirlout.co.uk
Contact: HSI London: Abby Walklett, +44 2076373377, abby@hsilondon.co.uk
Contact: Eva Weber, +44 7980809911 , eva@oddgirlout.co.uk Contact: Eva Weber, +44 7980809911, eva@oddgirlout.co.uk
Production: Claire Neate James, Kat Mansoor, Nicola Doring / Cinematography: Mattias Nyberg / Editing: Emiliano Battista, Eva Weber / Music: Florencia di Concilio / Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann
Contact: Eva Weber, +44 7980809911, eva@oddgirlout.co.uk Contact: Eva Weber, +44 7980809911, eva@oddgirlout.co.uk
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FRI 13 – 19:00 – LUX 2
Of the Unknown
Field Study
New York is Killing Me
Gasman
My Bodies
Director: Eva Weber documentary / United Kingdom / 2012 / 47’
Director: Eva Weber fiction / United Kingdom / 2013 / 21’
Director: Chris Cunningham art film / United Kingdom / 2010 / 10’
Director: Lynne Ramsay fiction / United Kingdom / 1998 / 15’
Director: Hannah Black art film / United States / 2014 / 3’
Every day during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol stations and wealthy parts of the city, searching for light. This evocative documentary tells the story of these children’s inspiring struggle for education in the face of the country’s own fight for change.
A young, shy student on a field trip to postcommunist Poland who very abruptly comes of age when he makes the choice to withhold a truth.
Chris Cunningham’s audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s New York is Killing Me.
It’s the Christmas season. The children leave with their dad, who’s affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They’re all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What’s going on?
Bodies as original accumulation, bodies as free inputs, bodies as corpses, bodies as love, bodies as yearning, bodies as registers of world.
Production: Claire Neate James, Kat Mansoor, Nicola Doring / Cinematography: Mattias Nyberg / Editing: Emiliano Battista, Eva Weber / Music: Florencia di Concilio / Sound: Gernot Fuhrmann Contact: Eva Weber, +44 7980809911, eva@oddgirlout.co.uk
Production: Lia Mayer-Sommer / Cinematography: Ofer Bar Production: Sophie Vickers, Julia Godzinskaya / Script: Line Langebek / Cinematography: Chloe Thomson / Editing: Tracy Granger A.C.E. / Music: Stuart Earl / Cast: Bradley Hall, Magdalena Rozanska, Olad Marchwicki, Slawomir Holland Contact: Julia Godzinskaya, +44 7595458383, julia@rooksnestent.com
Filmography: New York is Killing Me (2010), Madonna: Celebration – The Video Collection (2009), The Horrors: Sheena Is A Parasite (2006), Rubber Johnny (2005), Björk: Volumen Plus (2002), Monkey Drummer (2000), Flex (2000), Madonna: Frozen (1998), Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy (1997), The Auteurs: Back with The Killer Again (1996) Contact: Walter Pictures: Lia Mayer-Sommer, +212 8422002, lia@walterpictures.com
Production: Gavin Emerson / Script: Lynne Ramsay / Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler / Editing: Lucia Zucchetti / Sound: Stuart Bruce / Cast: Denise Flannagan, James Ramsay, Lynne Ramsay, Martin Anderson
Production, Editing: Hannah Black Filmography: Credits (2016), All My Love My Love (2015), Bodybuilding (2015), My Bodies (2014), The Fall of Communism (2014) Contact: Hannah Black, hannahfb@gmail.com
Filmography: You Were Never Really Here (2017), Swimmer (2012), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Morvern Callar (2002), Ratcatcher (1999), Gasman (1998), Kill the Day (1996), Small Deaths (1996) Contact: Holy Cow Productions: Gavin Emerson, ge@holycowuk.com 78
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Your Views
The Angelmakers
Härlig är Jorden Director: Roy Andersson fiction / Sweden / 1991 / 16’
Director: Gillian Wearing art film / United Kingdom / 2016 / 4’
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.
British artist Gillian Wearing unveils her latest creative undertaking— a global film project that encourages people to upload videos of what they see outside their window, featuring the vistas of artists and filmmakers including Margot Bowman, Aric Chen, Mary McCartney and Rad Hourani.
Production: Göran Lindström, Freddy Olsson / Script: Roy Andersson / Cinematography: István Borbás / Editing: Marianne Andersson / Music: Antal Doráti / Sound: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Lennart Björklund, Christer Christensen, Bernard Egier, Rolf Engström, Gun Fors, / Cast: Christer Christensen, 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), Safer, No One Can Be (1980), So Terribly Unnecessary (1979), A Love Story (1970), Saturday, 5-10 (1969), The White Port (1968), Visiting His Son (1967) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Jing Haase, +46 86651143, jing.haase@filminstitutet.se 80
Director: Astrid Bussink documentary / Hungary, United Kingdom, The Netherlands / 2005 / 33’ The forgotten story of the women who killed their husbands. The Angelmakers is an observational portrait of the sleepy village of Nagyrev in rural Hungary. We meet its inhabitants, who share with us their daily life as well as their memories of the village’s tainted past.
Production: Lisa James / Editing: John McMullin Filmography: Family History (2006), Trauma (2000), Sacha and Mum (1996) Contact: Lisa James, yourviews@gmail.com
Production: Astrid Bussink / Cinematography: Klara Trenscenyi / Editing: Astrid Bussink, Brigitta Peszler / Music: Jan Schaten / Sound: Tamas Faix Filmography: LISTEN (2017), Giovanni and the Water Ballet (2014) (Go Short 2015), Wool Fever (2013) (Go Short 2014), The Hideout (2012), Poem of Death (2012), My Enschede (2010), The Lost Colony (2008), Upside Down (2006), The Angelmakers (2006)
Go Short is constantly looking for new ways to enlarge the audience for short films. Besides the annual festival Go Short has several side projects, which vary from long term projects, like De Voorfilm Moet Terug, to single screenings that take place inside theatres or in the open air. We are happy to curate or make any theme-based program on request.
OUR WAYS TO GO — DE VOORFILM MOET TERUG — BEST OF GO SHORT TOUR — BEST DUTCH SHORTS — SHORT SHOT BLOG — SHORTEST DAY OF THE YEAR — OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS — EDUCATION PROGRAM — TV PROGRAMMING — COOPERATION WITH OTHER
FESTIVALS (A.O. ZWARTE CROSS,
KUNSTNACHT, NORDIC DELIGHT
FESTIVAL, LA NOTTE)
Contact: Scottish Documentary Institute: +44 1316515761, scottishdocumentaryinstitute@eca.co.uk
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FOCUS ON IRELAND The 2016 Academy Awards were proof of the recent rise of Ireland as a filmmaking nation with worldwide recognition. John Crowley’s Brooklyn and Lenny Abrahamson’s Room received a total of seven nominations and the Oscar for best live action short film went to Benjamin Cleary for his short film Stutterer, which is an admirable achievement for a country with less than 5 million inhabitants. It shows how creativity and ambition run in the blood of the Irish and that it's a country with high quality output and great artistic potential. Over the past decade we've seen many Irish shorts, many of which made it to our film selections. Irish shorts are characterised by their high artistic value and these are often widely appreciated (and awarded) audience favourites. That is why, this year, we present a retrospective of the wide range of films from the 'Emerald Isle' in this focus program on Irish shorts. 82
To emphasise the different characteristics of Irish shorts, we have curated three programs. Each of these programs focuses on a segment in the Irish short film industry at which it excels. These programs include a selection on home and heritage as its main theme, one that highlights the outstanding animation industry in Ireland, and a selection to celebrate the impressive amount of Oscar-nominated and award-winning shorts.
HOME SWEET HOME Some big and heavy topics dealt with in the public debate in Ireland - like religion and (mental) health issues - are reflected in many Irish short films. However, some of the most powerful and moving films we found are telling smaller stories that deal with family values and the sacredness of home. All films somehow evoke a feeling of identity or a strong bond with one’s heritage, whether it is coming back to life or slowly fading away.
a worldwide audience. In this program we aim to present the wide variety of animation styles mastered by the Irish, from hand-drawn craftsmanship to digital 3D animations.
GOING FOR GOLD As Irish filmmakers are so active on the international stage and have state funds available to assist them, this program is dedicated to those Irish short films that have gained recognition internationally and was nominated or even won an Oscar in the past. There were more films that fit this profile than we could squeeze into this program, so we made a selection of our favourite ones. These films are curated together with Derry O'Brien from Network Ireland Television.
Coda
The Missing Scarf
We, the Masses
Director: Alan Holly animation / Ireland / 2013 / 9’
Director: Eoin Duffy animation / Ireland / 2013 / 6’
Director: Eoghan Kidney animation / Ireland / 2011 / 13’
A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
A black comedy exploring some of life’s common fears: fear of the unknown, of failure, rejection and finally the fear of death. Narrated by George Takei.
In a barren snowy landscape a man falls to the ground. Searching to continue his fall, he discovers other men. He joins them, hoping they will lead him to his destination. What he is led to, is incomprehensible.
Production: Ciarán Deeney / Cinematography: Ronan McMeel / Script: Alan Holly, Rory Byrne / Animation: Alan Holly, Rory Byrne, Eoghan Dalton / Editing: Alan Holly / Music: Shane Holly, Aoife Dowdall, Katie O’Connor, Larissa O’Grady, Jenny Dowdall / Sound: Michelle Fingleton, Andy Kirwan, Garret Farrell / Narration: Tony Kiernan / Cast: Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitzgerald, Donie Ryan, Joseph Dermody Filmography: Memory Window (2016), Coda (2014), Old Fangs (2009), The Red Ball (2007), Tógtha (2004)
ANIMATION NATION Ireland has a thriving animation industry that has not gone unnoticed abroad. A fast-growing number of animators and animation studios create award winning shorts, features and television series for
IRELAND: ANIMATION NATION
THU 12 – 16:15 – LUX 4 | SAT 14 – 11:15 – LUX 4
For this program section of the festival, Go Short has received support from Culture Ireland.
Production: Jamie Hogan / Script, Animation: Eoin Duffy / Editing: Richard Duffy / Music: Echolab, Tobias Norberg / Sound: Gavin Little, Joe McHugh / Narration: George Takei Filmography: The Missing Scarf (2013) (Go Short 2014), On Departure (2012)
Production: Nicky Gogan / Script: Eoghan Kidney, Robin O’Neil / Editing: Eoghan Kidney / Music: Adem Ilhan / Animation: Ciaran Crowley, Eoghan Kidney, Mark Flood, Robin O’Neil
Contact: Eoin Duffy, +16 47282441, eoin@eoinduffy.me
Filmography: We, the Masses (2011), Stars (2005) Contact: Nicky Gogan, +353 831727808, nicky@stillfilms.org
Contact: And Maps and Plans: Ciarán Deeney, ciaran@elzorrerofilms.ie
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THU 12 – 20:15 – LUX 2 | SAT 14 – 19:45 – LUX 4
Geist
Meanwhile
A Coat Made Dark
Fear of Flying
Irish Folk Furniture
Rats Island
Director: Ben Harper, Alex Sherwood, Sean Mullen animation / Ireland / 2015 / 10’
Director: Stephen McNally animation / Ireland, United Kingdom / 2014 / 5’
Director: Jack O’Shea animation / Ireland / 2015 / 10’
Director: Conor Finnegan animation / Ireland / 2013 / 9’
Director: Tony Donoghue documentary / Ireland / 2013 / 8’
Director: Mike Hannon documentary / Ireland / 2010 / 12’
A shipwrecked fisherman is led to a dark secret within this short thriller.
Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in their own separate worlds, trapped in their memories, regrets and frustrations. Meanwhile uses bold colour schemes and fragments of narratives to examine empathy in urban insularity.
A man follows the orders of a dog to wear a coat with impossible pockets.
Dougal is a small bird with a fear of flying. At night his dreams are plagued with a recurring nightmare of falling towards earth and by day he walks wherever he needs to go rather than face this fear. When a harsh winter rolls around, Dougal must head South, but how?
In rural Ireland old hand painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty and with a time many would rather forget. Because of this association much of the country’s furniture heritage lies abandoned in barns and sheds.
Rats Island is spare and measured. It offers an observational account of how, in the face of personal and economic adversity, a father has made a home for himself and his son. It documents his efforts to survive in a social and geographic margin, as he tries to hold on to his family.
Production: Daniel Spencer / Script, Animation: Alex Sherwood, Ben Harper, Sean Mullen / Sound: Mutiny Post Filmography: Alex Sherwood: Geist (2016), The Duel (2014), The Last Train (2012), The Apple Tree (2011), The Old Guys (2010); Ben Harper: Geist (2016), The Duel (2014), The Last Train (2012), Blip (2008); Sean Mullen: Geist (2016), The Duel (2014), The Artists (2009), Blip (2008) Contact: Jonathan Clarke, +353 14265418, jonathan@giant.ie
Production, Script, Cinematography, Editing, Animation: Stephen McNally / Music: Adam Cullen / Sound: Dan Larkin, Mike Wyeld / Cast: Dan Armour, Phil Deguara, Sara Haughton / School: Royal College of Art Filmography: Meanwhile (2014) Contact: Stephen McNally, +44 7742120699, stevmcnally@gmail.com
Production: Caroline Campbell, Damien Byrne / Script, Editing, Sound: Jack O’Shea / Music: Neil O’Connor / Animation: Jack O’Shea, Joe Loftus, Paul Ruttledge, Tom Young / Cast: Antonia Campbell Hughes, Declan Conlin, Hugh O’Connor Filmography: A Coat Made Dark (2015) (Go Short 2016), Eat the Danger (2012) Contact: Damien Byrne, +353 862245671, damiencbyrne@gmail.com
Production: Brunella Cocchiglia / Editing: Conor Finnegan/ Music: Tobias Norberg, Gavin Little / Sound: Joe McHugh, Gavin Little / Cast: Aoife Duffin, Mark Doherty, Steven Courtney Filmography: Rock Paper Scissors (2016), The Heart’s Desire (2014), Dorset Cereals: Life Begins at Breakfast (2014), Sound of Horns (2014), Fear of Flying (2013), Fluffy Mc Cloud (2010), The Death of Wormboy (2009), Plastesex (2008), Cupid’s Love (2007)
Production: Cathal Black / Editing: Ed Smith / Music: David Kitt / Sound: Fionan Higgins / Cast: Eddie Coen, Mary Brannigan, Mikey Cahalan, Patrick Cahalan, Sean Gleeson
Production: Sinéad Ní Bhroin / Editing: Mike Hannon
Filmography: Irish Folk Furniture (2012), A Film from My Parish -6 Farms (2008)
Filmography: The Cloud of Unknowing (2017), An Illustrated Guide to Lighthouse Spotting (2015), Terminal Convention (2011), Rats Island (2010), My Beamish Boy (2009), Evolution of Close Double Stars (2008)
Contact: Mayfly Films: Tony Donoghue, +353 6722984, tonydonoghue@gmail.com
Contact: Mike Hannon, +353 876782962, mikeisnice@gmail.com
Contact: Lovely Productions: brunella@lovelyproductions.com
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THU 12 – 22:15 – LUX 2 | SUN 15 – 17:15 – LUX 3
Old Fangs
Just Saying
Home
Atrophy
Undressing My Mother
Pentecost
Director: Adrien Merigeau, Alan Holly, Nora Twomey animation / Ireland / 2009 / 11’
Director: Dave Tynan fiction / Ireland / 2012 / 5’
Director: Aoife Kelleher documentary / Ireland / 2012 / 15’
Director: Mairtin de Barra fiction / Ireland / 2012 / 13’
Director: Ken Wardrop documentary / Ireland / 2004 / 5’
Director: Peter McDonald fiction / Ireland / 2011 / 11’
Just Saying is about loving Dublin, even when you don’t alway like it.
A film about how our lives are shaped by the homes in which we grow up.
Production: Kathryn Kennedy / Script: Dave Tynan / Cinematography: Gareth Averill, JJ Rolfe Score / Editing: Michael Donnelly / Sound: Fiachra O’Hanlon / Cast: Emmet Kirwan
Production: Rachel Lysaght / Script: Aoife Kelleher, Hugh Rodgers / Cinematography: Aidan Maguire, Kate McCullough / Editing: Martha Meyler / Music: Hugh Rodgers / Sound: Christian Byrne, Ken Galvin, Susan Downey / Cast: Clíona Conneely, Derek Linster, John Norman Ide Leslie, Margaret Collins, Mick O’Dea, Panashe McGuckin
An elderly farmer’s life is devastated by the building of a motorway through his land. When his only remaining friend, his dog Shep, disappears, he exacts his revenge.
Having recently turned sixty, Ethel continues to be self-assured and happy with the way she looks. Her big bottom and round tummy are exposed to reveal a confidence that derives from her husband’s love and attention. Undressing My Mother is a story that is funny in nature but sad in reality.
When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo or serve an extended ban from his passion in life, football.
Old Fangs is a story about a young man in the shape of a small wolf (referred to as Wolf), being confused and frustrated about his childhood. He has very fond memories of his father and his very early life living isolated in the forest, with his whole family. Editing: Alan Slattery / Music: Le Quan Ninh, Martine Altenbuger / Sound: Laurent Sassi / Animation: Nora Twomey / Cast: Alan Holly, John Morton, Paul Young, Rhob Cunningham / Narration: Adrien Merigeau
Filmography: A Concrete Song (2017), Heartbreak (2017), See You (2016), The Cherishing (2016), The Red Line (2014), Poxy (2014), Rockmount (2014), Just Saying (2012), Minim Rest (2010)
Filmography: Song of the Sea (2014), Sarah & Duck (2013), Coda (2013), Old Fangs (2009)
Contact: Kathryn Kennedy, +353 871219825, kkennedyfilms@gmail.com
Contact: Cartoon Saloon: +353 567764481, info@cartoonsaloon.ie
Filmography: Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village (2016), One Million Dubliners (2014), Home (2012), Stand Up (2011) Contact: Underground Films: +353 15161178, info@undergroundfilms.ie
Production: Fearghal Duffy / Script: Matthew Roche / Cinematography: Eleanor Bowman / Editing: Eamon Cleary / Music: James O’Connel / Sound: Derek Hehir, Patrick Downey / Cast: Brian Fortune, Pat Deery Filmography: Beat Girl (2013), Atrophy (2012), Song for a Future Love (2012), The Owner (2012), 140 (2009), Tart (2008) Contact: Mairtin de Barra, Mairtin@smilingsadly.com
Production: Kristin Brook Larsen, Andrew Freedman / Cinematography: Michael Lavelle / Editing: Andrew Freedman / Music: Denis Clohessy / Sound: Ardmore Sound
Production: Eimear O’ Kane / Script: Peter McDonald / Cinematography: Patrick Jordan / Editing: John O’Connor / Music: John McPhilips / Sound: Nikki Moss / Cast: Michael McElhatton, Scott Graham Filmography: Pentecost (2011)
Filmography: Making the Grade (2017), Mom & Me (2015), Return to Roscoff (2010), His & Hers (2009), The Herd (2008) (Go Short 2010), Contagious (2007), Tongue Tied (2007), Farewell Packets of Ten (2007), Scoring (2007), Bongo Bong (2006), Ouch! (2004), Useless Dog (2004), Love is Like a Butterfly (2004), Undressing My Mother (2004)
Contact: Network Ireland Television: Derry O’Brien, +353 16797309, info@network-irl-tv.com
Contact: Venom Film: +353 14975980 ,wallace@venom.ie
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The Door
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Frankie
Boogaloo and Graham
Stutterer
Director: Juanita Wilson fiction / Ireland / 2008 / 16’
Director: Nicky Phelan animation / Ireland / 2008 / 6’
Director: Darren Thornton fiction / Ireland / 2007 / 12’
Director: Michael Lennox fiction / United Kingdom / 2014 / 14’
Director: Benjamin Cleary fiction / United Kingdom / 2015 / 12’
After stealing an old door, a man reflects on the desperate circumstances that led him to do so.
Granny O’Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, terrifies her little granddaughter at bedtime with her version of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. In Granny’s retelling, the Elderly Fairy exacts her revenge on a society obsessed with youth and beauty when she is not invited to Beauty’s christening.
Frankie is fifteen and preparing for fatherhood. He’s determined he’s going to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realise how impossible this will be for him.
Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted Dad presents them with two baby chicks to care for, but the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.
A man whose lush inner thoughts are rendered mute by a crippling stutter feels isolated from the world despite a flourishing online relationship. A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment, but an eloquent inner voice, must face his greatest fear.
Production: Louise Curran, James Flynn / Script: Nathan Nugent / Editing: Tim Fleming / Sound: Niall Brady / Cast: Dzhuletta Gering, Igor Sigov, Liliyn Grechk Filmography: Tomato Red (2017), As If I Am Not There (2010), The Door (2008) Contact: Network Ireland Television: Derry O’Brien, +353 16797309, info@network-irl-tv.com
Production: Darragh O’Connell / Script, Cast: Kathleen O’Rourke / Editing: Alan Moran, Seamus O’Toole / Music: Gregory Magee / Sound: Dominic Lawrence, The Sound Butlers / Animation: Andrew Crotty, Shane Collins Filmography: Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (2008), It’s Some Kind of Voodoo (2006) Contact: Network Ireland Television: Derry O’Brien, +353 16797309, info@network-irl-tv.com
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Production: Collette Farrell / Script: Darren Thornton / Cinematography: Ivan McCullough / Editing: Anna Maria O’Flanagan / Music: Ray Harman / Sound: Dan Birch, Fionan Higgins, John O Hanlon / Cast: Ryan Andrews Filmography: A Date for Mad Mary (2016), Two Hearts (2011), Frankie (2007) (Go Short 2009) Contact: Network Ireland Television: Derry O’Brien, +353 16797309, info@network-irl-tv.com
Production: Brian J. Falconer / Script: Ronan Blaney / Cinematography: Mark Garrett / Editing: Lívia Serpa / Music: Jered Sorkin / Sound: Chris Woodcock / Cast: Aaron Lynch, Charlene McKenna, Martin McCann, Riley Hamilton Filmography: Awaydays (2015), A Patch of Fog (2015), Boogaloo and Graham (2014), 9 Lives (2012), The Back of Beyond (2011), Absence (2010), Edward (2010), Dinner Party (2010), Rip and the Preacher (2008)
Production: Serena Armitage / Script, Editing: Benjamin Cleary / Cinematography: Michael Paleodimos / Music: Nico Casal / Sound: Gustaf Jackson / Cast: Chloe Pirrie, Matthew Needham Filmography: Wave (2017), Stutterer (2015) Contact: Network Ireland Television: Derry O’Brien, +353 16797309, info@network-irl-tv.com
Contact: Network Ireland Television: Derry O’Brien, +353 16797309, info@network-irl-tv.com
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EXPANDED CINEMA Virtual Reality is gaining more and more ground in the world of visual media. Headsets are becoming more easily available for consumers as they are improving in quality while also getting cheaper. Consecutively the number of high value VR and AR experiences is growing fast. The forms in which they appear range from apps on mobile phones for stand-alone headsets to more interactive devices, which are used for gaming and other room-scale experiences. Filmmakers of all sorts try out the new medium with great curiosity and ingenuity. One of the most famous experiences so far might well be Carne y Arena by acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu. This immersive VR experience premiered in Cannes as the first VR project ever programmed at the festival. Apart from Cannes also Sundance, Venice and Tribeca now all have extensive VR selections in their programming. 90
CINEMATIC VR: FIRST LOOK
WED 11 - SUN 15 | MIR
This shows how VR has claimed its spot in the international festival circuit. The rules and conventions of telling stories on all the different extended reality platforms are still being explored, yet have already resulted in some very progressive films over the past few years. Go Short focuses on VR to show these recent innovative steps. These have been most interesting for film in the 360 video format, both narrative-wise and cinematically. Together with our equipment partners Samsung and VR House we present a VR Cinema in which we show two different programs with 360 films. This cinema is housed in the MIR, a pop-up exhibition space in the form of a big white dome placed on our festival ground. First Look presents a selection of four of the most eye-catching 360 films of the past year. It offers a diverse picture of how 360 film can be put to use to tell a story when
The rules and conventions of telling stories on all the different extended reality platforms are being explored... the action is all around you. World Views explores the ways in which VR can teleport you in space and time, immersing the viewer in experiences of fellow humans in several corners of the world. Next to cinematic VR we also present a program, curated by Manon Bovenkerk and Christoffer Olofsson (Uppsala International Short Film Festival), with "flat" films that trace the concept of Virtual Reality from the analog to the digital age. Together with Radboud Reflects we offer a philosophical approach to the perception of VR in a lecture on this theme.
Potato Dreams
Heal Tomorrow
Alteration
Director: Wes Hurley documentary / United States / 2017 / 5’
Director: Romain Chassaing fiction / France / 2016 / 4’
Director: Jérôme Blanquet fiction / France / 2017 / 17’
In Potato Dreams, the mother and son discuss homophobia and Russian prisons, while we are free to explore the surrounding images. Turn around and you see four different tableaus, each with depictions of the prevailing melancholy, fear and pain. Or look up to discover that you’re in a box that’s being closed by a malevolent figure.
Heal Tomorrow is a VR experience which lets us follow the story of Naive New Beaters’ singer through his spectacular rise and unfortunate demise while debuting co-star Izia literally upstages him. A wacky VR music video featuring French pop band Naive New Beaters performing a song with debuting co-star Izia.
Alexandro volunteers for an experiment carried out to study dreams in this poetic trip into the future. He can’t imagine that he will be subjected to the intrusion of Elsa, a form of Artificial Intelligence who aims to digitize his subconscious in order to feed off of it.
Production: Mischa Jakupcak, Mara Auster, Jonathan Caso, Mel Eslyn, Lacey Leavitt / Cinematography: Chris Mosson / Editing: Joe Jacobs, Wes Hurley / Sound: Joshua Kohl / Cast: Ben Jakupcak, Cian Fitzgerald, Kaleb Kerr, Marya Sea Kaminski / Narration: Elena Bridges, Wes Hurley
Production: Nicolas Tiry, Edouard Chassaing / Cinematography: Arnaud Potier / Editing: Simon Lyobard / Sound: Benzene / Music, Cast: Izia, Naive New Beaters
Filmography: Rusulka (2017), Potato Dreams (2017), Little Potato (2017), Fallen Jewel (2015), Zolushka (2014), Handlet (2010), The Unlikely Career of Waxie Moon (2010), Waxie Moon (2009), In the Arms of Mama (2008) Contact: Cargo Film & Releasing: Cailin McFadden, +212 9958139, cailin.cargoreleasing@gmail.com
Filmography: Dizzee Rascal ‘Bop N Keep It Dippin’ (2017), Heal Tomorrow (2016), Vitalic: Fade Away (2013), Wax Tailor: I Own You (2010) Contact: Solab: Benjamin Tormo, +33 618222657, benjamin.tormo@solab.fr
Production: Antoine Cayrol, Pierre Zandrowicz, Maxime Gallet, Jérémy Rochigneux / Script: Jérôme Blanquet, Yann Appery / Cinematography: Baptiste Chesnais / Editing: Alice Moine / Music: Jean-François Blanquet / Sound: Schmooze / Animation: Johann Roche, Geoffrey Pons, Bruno Lardé / Cast: Amira Casar, Bill Skarsgard, Coco Lee-Bolis, Jonah Daniels, Lizzie Brocheré, Pom Klementieff Filmography: Alteration (2017), Mort ou Fisc (2013), Accouchement Sonique (2010), Monky_Party (2007), Electronic Performers (2003) Contact: MK2: Sarah Fontaine, +33 144673256, intlfest@mk2.com 91
CINEMATIC VR: WORLD VIEWS WED 11 - SUN 15 | MIR
Extravaganza
Notes to My Father
Limbo
The Sun Ladies VR
The Other Dakar
Director: Ethan Shaftel animation / United States / 2017 / 5’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Jayisha Patel documentary / United Kingdom, India, United States / 2017 / 11’
Director: Shehani Fernando documentary / United Kingdom / 2017 / 8’
Director: Maria Bello, Celine Tricart, Christian Stephen documentary / United States / 2017 / 7’ / Dutch premiere
Director: Selly Raby Kane art film / Senegal / 2017 / 7’
Extravaganza mixes 3D animation and live-action footage in a bitingly funny satire. You are a puppet trapped in a stunningly offensive puppet show, performing for a clueless executive (Paul Scheer). Confronted with his obvious blind spots and prejudices, Extravaganza asks: can technology change society for the better, or does it just magnify our worst traits in new ways?
Inspired by conversations with real survivors of trafficking, the lead protagonists are played by a survivor and her father. The film touches on memory and trauma and how these can shape rather than define our lives. It is ultimately a story of survival and an ode toresilience and hope.
Production: Ethan Shaftel, Frank Stringini / Script: Ethan Shaftel / Cinematography: Hanuman Brown-Eagle / Music: David Olson, Scott Radke / Sound: Michael Anctil, Patrick Joyner / Animation: Frank Stringini / Cast: Annie Tedesco, John Gemberling, Paul Scheer, Will Greenberg Filmography: Extravaganza (2017), Memory Serves (2016), Flesh Computer (2014), Suspension (2008) Contact: Ethan Shaftel, eshaftel@gmail.com
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Production: Jayisha Patel, Lauren Burmaster, Gabo Arora, Paula Cuneo, Joanne Sprague, Tiffany Kieran / Editing: Quan Tran / Music: Jo Paterson / Sound: Adam Woodhams / Cast: Kullayappa Kotlamari, Ramadevi Kotlamari Filmography: Notes to My Father (2017), India’s Wushu Warriors (2016), Power Girls (2015), Circle (2015), Inside (2014), A Paradise (2014) Contact: WIDE VR: Maxime Montagne, +33 153950464, mm@widemanagement.com
The refugee crisis has challenged Europe. Media coverage has been extensive but despite the many heart wrenching accounts there seems to be no broad social understanding of their plight. No talking heads or footage of wandering Africans, but a piece which places you in the position of a newly arrived asylum seeker cast a drift in a new world, not allowed to work, unsure if you will be allowed to stay.
The Sun Ladies VR experience is an in-depth look at the personal journey of the captain of the Sun Ladies, Xate Singali: from her roots as a famous singer in Kurdistan, through ISIS sex slavery, and to her new life as a soldier on the front lines as she starts a female-only Iraqi fighting unit called the Sun Ladies.
Production: Ivor Sims, Shehani Fernando, Francesca Panetta, Nicole Jackson / Script: Joe Dunthorne / Music, Sound: Pascal Wyse / Animation: ScanLAB Projects / Cast: Andy McSorley / Narration: Juliet Stevenson
Production: Maria Bello, Celine Tricart / Cinematography: Celine Tricart / Editing: Mark Simpson / Music: Ed Harcourt / Sound: Tim Gedemer / Animation: Wesley Allsbrook
Filmography: Limbo (2017), The Party (2017), Night in Hackney (2011)
Filmography: The Sun Ladies VR (2017)
Contact: The Guardian: Lisa Golden, +44 2033532000, lisa.golden.casual@theguardian.com
A little girl is chosen to discover the invisible Dakar. An homage to Senegalese mythology and a stunning visual debut from Dakar-based artist and designer, Selly Raby Kane, this magical 360° film transports viewers to a place where past and future meet and where artists are the beating heart of the city. Production: Ingrid Kopp, Steven Markovitz, Selly Raby Kane / Cinematography: Selly Raby Kane / Editing: Stephen Abbott / Music: Alioune Kébé / Sound: Carl Roberts / Cast: Mammy Bengelloun, Omar Sall, Chérif Sarr, Ken Aicha Sy, Mor Lenoir, Elimane Habib Kane, Eric, Sadio Sall, Moussa Sall, Lucette Badiane, Mame Salla Ba, Demba, Ndeye Fatou Filmography: The Other Dakar (2017)
Contact: Lucid Dreams Productions: Celine Tricart, +323 7958243, contact@luciddreamsprod.com
Contact: Electric South: Stanford Gibson, stanford@electricsouth.org
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THE GHOST OF VIRTUAL REALITIES PAST
RADBOUD REFLECTS: HOW REAL IS VIRTUAL REALITY? VR FILM AND LECTURE WITH COGNITION PHILOSOPHER MARC SLORS
THU 12 – 17:30 – LUX 5
Inertia
Long before VR headgear provided us with immersive, three-dimensional environments, virtual realities existed in our imagination. Worlds made up by the brain and technology so convincing, it becomes impossible to distinguish emulation from reality. This program traces the concept of virtual reality from the analogue to the digital age. The focus lies not on the most technologically advanced VR experiences, but on the psychological bond between mind and machine, between what we can imagine and what we can make.
Inertia
This program was part of a series of four
The Mirror System
programs under the name of Science Friction.
Eva Zornio / documentary / Switzerland / 2015 / 17'
Alexandra Crouwers / art film / The Netherlands, Belgium / 2014 / 10'
Day-Glo Saskia Olde Wolbers / art film / The Netherlands, United Kingdom / 1999 / 6'
5000 Feet is the Best Omer Fast / fiction / Germany, United States / 2011 / 32'
RIP Geocities Faith Holland / animation / United States / 2011 / 3'
This series was presented by Uppsala Inter5000 Feet is the Best
national Short Film Festival 2017, curated by
World of Tomorrow
Manon Bovenkerk and Christoffer Olofsson.
Don Hertzfeldt / animation / United States / 2015 / 17'
In the near future, can we still distinguish Virtual Reality from reality? In a clever way all of our senses cooperate with our brain to form a total image of our surroundings, something which, according to cognition philosopher Marc Slors, can’t be simulated in a virtual world. Listen to his lecture, immerse yourself in the VR film Alteration, and think about how real the virtual can feel.
He is not aware that the scientists will inject him with Elsa, an Artificial Intelligence which will digitize and take over his subconscious to help her turn into a human being.
ROLLERCOASTER RIDE
Marc Slors is cognition philosopher at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. He specialises in philosophy of neuro science, free will and our brain, social cognition and the relation between cognition and culture.
According to Slors perceiving is always an active state of body and mind. We generate a full image of reality by being conscious of our own body in its surroundings, and by simultaneously seeing, hearing and feeling. Our brain constantly interprets this information. A virtual rollercoaster ride may fool your eyes: it misses out on some crucial sensory and bodily experiences to be mistaken for the real. It is no more than the rollercoaster ride of a passive onlooker.
Immerse yourself in a virtual world and form an opinion about the real in virtual reality.
Alteration
ABOUT THE LECTURER
RADBOUD REFLECTS: HOW REAL IS VIRTUAL REALITY?
Marc Slors
THU 12 / 18.15 - 19.00 & 19.15 - 20.00 / MIR - 360˚ VR CINEMA / DUTCH SPOKEN / TICKET: € 5,-
ALTERATION
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After the lecture you will watch the VR film Alteration. In this film you see Alexandro, a volunteer for a dream experiment.
This program is hosted in collaboration with Radboud Reflects 95
MIR: 360˚ VR CINEMA MIR PROJECT
candles this installation produces changing tones
CINEMATIC VR – 11-15 APRIL – TICKET: € 8,-
on giant organ pipes. The change happens gradu-
Our Expanded Cinema focus contains two VR pro-
ally, creating a very low, pulsating bass tone. The
grams which we present in a 360 degree cinema
work refers to the changing attitude of people in
setting. For this we wanted a location that fits the
modern societies towards religion.
needs and the vibe of VR. We are very happy we found this in MIR Project: a energy-neutral white dome that functions as a pop-up exhibition space Ronald van der Meijs
NHTV PRESENTS: LAB5 – VR SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
with a focus on artists that have a connection
MIR CONTAINER
with technical engineering and science.
Go Short and NHTV would like to invite you to join
www.mirproject.nl
our social experiment, in Virtual Reality. Become a part of our research team as we discover the be-
GREENHOUSE
havior of people that are put in intense situations.
POTATO INSTALLATION – 7-15 APRIL –
With your help we will gain insight on emotions
CONTINUOUS SHOW
and human behavior. We’re looking forward to
Next to the MIR, a small greenhouse will contain
start working with you.
SPECIALS
GS X / LATE NIGHT / FAVORITES / SPOTLIGHT
an installation of copper wires, nails and two cubic meters of potatoes, which together will power up an LCD screen. A chemical process
ARTEZ: ARTHUR DUINDAM – SCREEN REALITY
enables the potatoes to generate power, basically
MIR CONTAINER
turning them into batteries.
Arthur Duindam, student Interaction Design at the ArtEZ University of the Arts, designed an
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EXPLORING EARTHLY SOUNDS FOR NINE CANDLES
installation especially for Go Short. Starting from
MIR - 7-8 APRIL - 13.00-20.00
Virtual Reality, using an interactive art installati-
In the weekend prior to Go Short, the MIR will
on?' Arthur played with the merging of traditional,
already be placed on the Mariënburg square and
flat film forms to more immersive 360 degree
it will house a sound installation by artist Ronald
and sphere imagery. The result of his research is
van der Meijs. With the use of burning church
exhibited at Go Short.
the question 'how can audiences be introduced to
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BEST OF 10 YEARS
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VIMEO STAFF PICKS: MUSIC VIDEOS
THU 12 – 20.30 - LUX 3
With ten years worth of competition films, we thought it could be interesting to look back with the people who are at the base of all this: our selection committee. What are the films that never left their minds after all these years? From festival winners to more hidden gems that won a place in our hearts. The Girl With the Yellow Stockings
In the past ten years Go Short has screened many
Andy Mineo & Wordsplayed - DANCE (You See It) /
music videos with great pleasure. These can be
Marcus Tortorici, Henry Busby / fiction /
Belly
a great showcase for young talented filmmakers
United States / 2017 / 3’
Julia Pott / animation / United Kingdom / 2011 / 8’
and are often powerful little pieces of pure film
Washed Out - Floating By / Drew Tyndell /
Among Us
art. We celebrate our first decade of existence by
animation / United States / 2017 / 3’
Guido Hendrikx / documentary /
teaming up with Vimeo Staff Picks to present an
Supernative - Opal Waltz / Vincent Tsui /
The Netherlands / 2014 / 23’
ode to this extraordinary short film form.
animation / France / 2017 / 3’
Depart at 22
Liars - Cred Woes / Yoonha Park / fiction /
Wiep Teeuwisse / animation / The Netherlands /
Every day, the five curators behind the Vimeo
United States / 2017 / 3’
BEST OF 10 YEARS 1
2015 / 3’
Staff Picks Channel scour the internet to find the
Julien Dyne - Hours / Frances Haszard /
THU 12 – 16:30 – LUX 3 | SAT 14 – 19:30 – LUX 2
2 Birds
crème de la crème of online video. We’re excited
animation / United States / 2017 / 3’
The Girl With the Yellow Stockings
Rúnar Rúnarsson / fiction / Iceland / 2008 / 15’
and honored to present a handful of the latest
Novo Amor & Ed Tullett - Terraform / Sil & Jorik /
Grzegorz Muskala / fiction / Germany / 2008 / 6’
4
and greatest music vids to earn a badge to the Go
fiction / The Netherlands, Singapore / 2017 / 5’
Tram
Edouard Salier / animation / France / 2009 / 17’
Short audience, from old classics to new favorites.
TREE9 - Ma Ydoum Hal / Hugo de Faucompret /
Michaela Pavlatova / animation / France / 2012 / 7’
Sugar
During this hour-long visual mixtape you can
animation / France / 2017 / 3’
Silent River
Jeroen Annokokkeé / fiction / The Netherlands /
expect sweet beats accompanied by awe-inspiring
Nadia Schilling - Kite / João Pombeiro Pombeiro /
Anca Miruna Lazarescu / fiction / Romania,
2010 / 8’
eye candy from creators around the world, as
animation / Portugal / 2017 / 4’
presented by Vimeo curator Meghan Oretsky.
So Much Light - Full Body Mirror / Jane Qian /
Germany / 2011 / 30’ Belly
BEST OF 10 YEARS 2 SUN 15 – 16:30 – LUX 5
Rogalik
fiction / United States / 2017 / 3’
Pawel Ziemilski / documentary / Poland / 2012 / 17’
5'nizza - SAMOLIOT / Maxim Ksjonda / fiction /
Toto Bona Lokua - Ma Mama / Katy Wang /
The Eagleman Stag
Ukraine / 2017 / 3’
animation / United Kingdom / 2017 / 3’
Mikey Please / animation / United Kingdom /
Renata Zeiguer - Wayside / Angela Stempel /
Tom Rosenthal - Fenn / Sarina Nihei / animation /
2010 / 9’
animation / United States / 2018 / 3’
Japan / 2017 / 2’
People Who Fall
J. Bernardt - Fear and Loving Berlin /
Alt J - Pleader / Isaiah Seret / fiction /
Bobbie Peers / fiction / Norway / 2013 / 11’
Patrick Pichler / fiction / Austria / 2017 / 2’
United States / 2017 / 6’
5'nizza - SAMOLIOT
James - Moving on
James - Moving On / Ainslie Henderson / animation / United Kingdom / 2014 / 3’ 4 98
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CATS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN!
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FRI 13 - 20:45 - LUX 3
De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig
Henri Le Chat Noir 10 – Reigning Cat & Dog
WHO LET THE DOG OUT?!
FRI 13 – 18.45 – LUX 3
A dreamy glance into the camera, a daring jump out of the window, a paw running smoothly over the whiskers: often small things are enough to make a Youtube hit out of a cat video. Cats took over the internet but also our hearts. This program features the funniest and coolest feline celebrities as well as some of the hottest Dutch beats and bands. With Cats Just Wanna Have Fun! we’re not only dedicating a program to our fluffy and crazy friends, we’re also celebrating five years Cat Video Festival Vienna and 10 years Go Short. This is a program of the Vienna Shorts Agency in collaboration with Catvideofest. Curated by Marija Milovanovic and Will Braden.
THIS PROGRAM INCLUDES 90 MINUTES OF CAT VIDEOS, INCLUDING: Henri Le Chat Noir 10 – Reigning Cat & Dog William Braden / USA / 2014 / 2’ (Catvideofest)
Natural Thing – Nobody Beats the Drum Johan Rijpma / Netherlands / 2012 / 3’
Cole & Marmelade Cat Logic 2 / USA / 2015 / 2’ (Catvideofest)
De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - Manon Lernert & Sander / Netherlands / 2016 / 3’
Let’s make one thing clear: you are either a dog or a cat person, right? So besides all those weird cats with their alien moves, we want to draw attention to our most reliable, loyal, furry family friends: dogs! We present them in all kind of types and sizes; from perfected poodles to stray dogs... You name it, we screen it! WOOF! Curated by Kirsten Ruber.
Dog Suzie Templeton / animation / United Kingdom / 2001 / 6’
Useless Dog Ken Wardrop / documentary / Ireland / 2004 / 5’
Dog Duet William Wegman / art film / United States / 1975 / 2’
Lord
Lord Adrian Sitaru / fiction / Romania / 2011 / 25’
The Black Dog’s Progress Stephen Irwin / animation / United Kingdom / 2008 / 3’
Well Groomed Rebecca Stern / documentary / United States / 2015 / 9’
Well Groomed
My Happy End Milen Vitanov / animation / Germany / 2007 / 5’
Including the best dog music videos.
Natural Thing – Nobody Beats the Drum 100
This program is dedicated to our dear colleague Wouter. Coming in as an intern in 2009 and growing into a spot-on programmer and a succesful festival distributor. For 10 years Wouter Jansen was our swift wind dog, our cuddly labradoodle and our trendy teckel. We’re going to miss him and wish him the best of luck for the future!
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LATE NIGHT
100 FILMS IN 100 MINUTES
WED 11 - 22:00 - LUX 3
Just as you opened this tab someone liked your photo. And there’s cheesecake in the kitchen. And a rainbow in the window. You should post a rainbow. And Beyonce got a new haircut. And a cat’s playing cards in the video. And there are cheap flights for April. Oh but there are dogs in the shelter. And backpacks on sale. And let’s check Instagram. And new manicure trends. What an interesting article. Oh Tom Yorke young pics. Oh you’re 30 soon. You should start working out. Oh let’s sign a petition. Oh what an interesting lecture. You should give lectures too. But which Game of Thrones character are you? And which sort of grapes are you? And it’s mom’s birthday soon. Oh someone liked a rainbow. Oh it’s bed time already… Raoul
If all this is happening to you, 100 films in 100 minutes is your kind of cinema! One hundred of extremely short films from all corners of the globe in collaboration with Kyiv International Short Film Festival.
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Voltige / Léo Brunel / animation / France / 2016
I Hate Air Travel / Kiernan Sjursen-Lien /
Sea / Hristina Belousova / fiction / Russia / 2017
A Single Life / Job, Joris & Marieke / animation /
animation / United States / 2016
Mesh / Gunner / animation / United States / 2016
The Netherlands / 2014
Memoria / Jurriaan Kamps / fiction /
Keneged (Against) / Gal Efodi / animation / Israel /
How to be a Badass / Paulius Norvaisa / animation /
The Netherlands / 2016
2015
Scotland / 2014
To Ring or Not To Ring / Razvan Dü / fiction /
Kite / Eiraj Afkar / fiction / Iran / 2016
La Légende de La Chèvre Qui Connaissait le Vrai
Romania / 2016
Crème Caramel / Lana Bregar / animation /
Sens de La Montagne / JALABERT Camille /
Trash Cat / Kelsey Goldych / animation /
Slovenia / 2016
animation / France / 2017
United Kingdom / 2015
Fears / Nata Metlukh / animation / Canada / 2015
If Pigs Could Fly / Hannah Jacobs / animation /
Distractions / Isaac Williams / fiction /
Smile / Brad Hasse / fiction / United States / 2016
United Kingdom / 2017
United Kingdom / 2017
Twelve Seconds in One Minute / Mantas Bačiuška /
Spirit Mountain / Ines Christine Geisser /
Deuspimature / JALABERT Camille / animation /
animation / Lithuania / 2016
animation / Germany / 2016
France / 2017
Pandas in the Mist / Izumi Gautier / animation /
Dress Code / Andy Lambert / fiction /
BYE / Thinh Nguyen / animation / Denmark / 2017
France, Belgium / 2016
United Kingdom / 2016
State of the Nation - animation #2 / Lior Shkedi /
Bone structure / Danski TangPL / animation /
Find True Love / Victoria Vincent / animation /
animation / Israel / 2015
United States / 2016
United States / 2016
Instructions for Singing by Julio Cortázar /
Shunga / Roberto Biadi / animation / Italy / 2016
Tinder Fail / Justine Nelson / fiction / Canada /
Adrián Suárez / fiction / Colombia / 2015
Sleepy Remi / JALABERT Camille / animation /
2017
Drawn Maze / Dave Merson Hess / animation /
France / 2017
Human Postcards / Nora Jaccaud, Arie van der Poel /
United States / 2017
No Back Dan / Grant Kolton / animation /
documentary / France, New Zealand / 2016
Fall Campfire / Ynon Lan / animation /
United States / 2017
Love In Public / Noah Malone / animation /
United States / 2016
Slice 55 / Josep Bernaus / animation /
United States / 2017
#slice14 / Josep Bernaus / animation /
United Kingdom / 2015
Raoul / Geoffrey Godet / animation / France / 2015
United Kingdom / 2015
Only Love / Veronica Chen / fiction /
Player Two / John Wikstrom / documentary /
Imara / Samuel Wanjohi / documentary / Kenya,
United States / 2017
United States / 2016
Rwanda / 2017
Ritual / Lili Korcsok / animation / Hungary / 2015
Pollyanna / Roman Gubin / fiction / Canada / 2017
Dead Bird Pocket / Holomax / fiction /
Confession / Noel Rainbow / fiction / Russia / 2017
Preposterous - A Short About Absurdity /
United States / 2017
Floppy Disk / Markus Magnusson / animation /
Florent Porta / animation / The Netherlands / 2016
Pee Trick / Kamil Chajder / animation / Canada /
Sweden / 2017
2016
Deuspimature
#slice14
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Play-Off
Changeover
Le Corbeau Voulant Imiter l'Aigle /
Capacities / Kuesti Fraun / fiction / Germany /
“When You Say You’re a Swimmer” /
Clémentine Dudreuilh / animation / France / 2016
2011
Chris Shimojima / documentary / United States /
69SEC / Laura Nicolas / animation / Belgium / 2016
Paijana / Rohin Raveendran Nair / fiction / India /
2014
Nanna’s House / Niall Glynn / animation /
2016
As Long as It Takes / Wiep Teeuwisse, Lotte van
Ireland / 2017
P R O P E R T Y / Simon Landrein / animation /
Galen / animation / The Netherlands / 2016
Bananas / Julian Frost / animation / Australia /
United Kingdom / 2016
Stuck / Benoit Mannequin / fiction /
2016
Disillusionment of 10 Point Font / Greg Condon /
United States / 2015
Play-Off / JALABERT Camille / animation /
animation / United States / 2017
Mr. Night Has a Day Off / Ignas Meilūnas /
United Kingdom / 2017
How To Be Rad / Adam Black / animation /
animation / Lithuania / 2016
The Painter / Giang Do / animation / Singapore /
South Africa / 2017
For Approval / Mainframe / animation /
2017
More / Ben Meinhardt / animation / Canada / 2017
United Kingdom / 2017
Baharat Girl / Javier Sobrmazas / documentary /
Strangers in the Night / Eoin Duffy / animation /
The Passer Through Walls / Ana Maria Gomes,
Greece / 2016
Canada / 2016
Alice de Sagazan, Stéphanie Cazaentre / fiction /
By The Name of Boston / Grant Kolton / animation /
What’s So Bad About the Bird? / Nate Milton /
France / 2012
United States / 2015
animation / United States / 2017
Fric Frac / Oscar Malet / animation / France / 2016
Worm / Nikita Liskov / animation / Ukraine / 2016
Ojalá / Marie-Stéphane Cattaneo / fiction /
Food / Michaela Mihalyiová / animation /
Changeover / Jr.canest / animation / Iran / 2014
France / 2017
Czech Republic / 2017
Deskercise / Foreign Fauna / animation /
NOV.ELA / Facundo Sosa / fiction / Uruguay / 2016
Overpass / Marcos Fantu / documentary /
United States / 2017
Keep it Together / Quentin Haberham / animation /
Canada / 2017
The pencil / Basile Vuillemin / fiction /
United Kingdom / 2017
Spank Shot / Gina Kaminsky / animation /
Switzerland / 2017
Unsatisfying / Parallel Studio / animation /
United States / 2016
We Are Watching You While You’re Watching
France / 2016
Living / Ben Mankin / fiction / United Kingdom /
Our Midnight Movie / Ivica Dimitrijevic / fiction /
A Weekend With Harry / Bauke Brouwer / fiction /
BluBlök / Eustace Ng / animation / Canada / 2015
Macedonia / 2017
South Africa / 2016
The Step / Nikita Gavrilovs, Ako Kurnosenko /
Game Over / Josep Bernaus / animation /
The Moment / Karis Oh / animation /
fiction / Denmark / 2017
United Kingdom / 2017
United States / 2016
Runner's High / Joshua Van Horn / fiction /
Daddycool / JALABERT Camille / animation /
United States / 2016
France / 2017
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LATE NIGHT
KLIK: WEIRD, OUT THERE AND OVER THE TOP ANIMATION
THU 12 – 22:45 – LUX 3
NSFWhale
If you’re into edgy, crude humor (think South Park), then Weird, Out There and Over the Top Animation is your kind of show. No highbrow wit or über artsy shorts here, but a whole lot of old-fashioned thigh-slappery and belly laughs jam-packed in an endlessly entertaining collection of films that make your funny bone tingle (or scratch your head in puzzlement). So come on, treat yourself to this crazy, fun-filled ride — those thighs won’t slap themselves!
Darrel / Marc Briones, Alan Carabantes / Spain / 2016 / 3’ Sirocco / Romain Garcia / France / 2016 / 5’ Wrestler / Kwak Ki Hyuk / South Korea / 2016 / 8’ Cuddle Sticks 2 / Mike Geiger / Canada / 2017 / 2’ One Take Stories - Painful Truth / Florian Walraven / The Netherlands / 2016 / 1’ Ghost in the Boobs / Tommy Robin / United Kingdom / 2017 / 1’ Pencilless Case / Magdalena Pilecka / Poland / 2016 / 7’ Garden Party / Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon / France / 2016 / 7’
How To Have A Romantic Date / Joost Lieuwma /
FRIDAY THE 13TH
Résistance / Alex Chauvet / France / 2016 / 7’
What is better than to spend your Friday the 13th trying to escape the movie screen? For this night we compiled some of the best horror films from the past year. We will take you from jump scare to jump scare, past creepy rooms and desolate gas stations and throw in some frightening children while we're at it. Be prepared for some sleepless nights.
16.03 Natalia Siwicka / fiction / Poland / 2016 / 16’ / Dutch premiere
Sweet Tooth Nico van den Brink / fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 5’
Netflix & Chill Michael Middelkoop / fiction / The Netherlands /
Cream Lena Ólafsdóttir / animation / Denmark / 2017 / 5’
Paralys John Boisen, Björn Fävremark / fiction / Sweden /
Steven Goes To the Park / Claudia Cortés Espejo /
2016 / 7’
Fowl Play / Haiting Fu / United States / 2016 / 2’ NSFWhale / Nathan Campbell, Alec Cummings / United States / 2016 / 1’
Cream
2017 / 6’
The Netherlands / 2016 / 1’ Belgium / 2016 / 5’ Running Sushi
LATE NIGHT FRI 13 - 22:45 - LUX 3
The Station Patrick Ridremont / fiction / Belgium, France /
The Station
2017 / 14’
Hermetic Dating Rituals / Brent Sievers /
OOZE
United States / 2017 / 2’
Kilian Vilim / animation / Switzerland / 2017 / 5’
Party Off The Pounds / Jake Andonian / United States / 2016 / 2’ Running Sushi / Stepan Etrych / Czech Republic / 2017 / 1’ The Stunt Manual / Ben Fernandez / Spain / 2017 / 9’ Pencilles Case 106
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LATE NIGHT
WHEN I SAY VAGINA...
FAVORITES
GO SHORT X WINTERTUIN
SAT 14 – 22:00 - LUX 1
Private Parts
When I Say Vagina... is a short film programme exploring female body image, masturbation, sexual oppression, social expectations, empowerment, friendship, and talking vaginas. We talk lady bits, muffins, beavers, flowers, tacos, cooches, bearded clams, honeypots, pussies, love boxes, cherries, and pink canoes. This program is a collaboration between Sanne Jehoul, programmer at Glasgow Short Film Festival (Scotland) and Go Short. Private Parts
GO SHORT VS WINTERTUIN
TALKSHOW
Gabriel Abrantes / fiction / Portugal, United
THU 12 - 14:30 - LUX 3 - DUTCH SPOKEN
THU 12 - 12:30 - PAVILION - DUTCH SPOKEN
Kingdom, France, / 2016 / 7’
What happens if you combine short films and short stories? We picked three short films and resumed the films in one sentence. We gave this logline to three students Creative Writing at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. These emerging writers wrote a short story based on this logline (without seeing the film). During Go Short vs Wintertuin, both the stories and the films will be presented. Which road did each maker choose?
On Thursday and Saturday, De Nieuwe Oost | Wintertuin will give you a peek behind the scenes of Go Short. Two Nijmegenbased writers host a talkshow and discuss the theme of the day, interview one of our visiting filmmakers and give an overview of the upcoming festival days. Grab a coffee and join them for your teaser on Go Short!
The Clitoris Lori Malépart-Traversy / animation / Canada / 2016 / 3’
Kaleidogasm 3 Ms Naughty / animation / Australia / 2013 / 3’
JUCK [THRUST] Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira / documentary / Sweden / 2017 / 17’
Anna Ginsburg / animation / United Kingdom /
Glazin’
2015 / 4’
Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer / art film /
Pussy Renata Gasiorowska / animation / Poland / I Was Five When I Became A Woman
A Brief History of Princess X
2016 / 8’
Pussy Have the Power Lova Sirén / fiction / Sweden / 2014 / 15’
United States / 2011 / 4’
This program is based on an idea of Stichting Literaire Activiteit Amsterdam (SLAA).
SAT 14 - 11:00 - PAVILION - DUTCH SPOKEN
De Nieuwe Oost | Wintertuin is a platform for makers: theatre makers, choreographers, writers and musicians. De Nieuwe Oost provides them a stage for coaching, experiment and performance. We are very happy to work with De Nieuwe Oost | Wintertuin and their makers in these two programmes.
ISLANDS
The Burden
I Was Five When I Became a Woman Maryam Tafakory / fiction / United Kingdom / 2014 / 5’
Borders Elizabeth Mizon / documentary / United Kingdom / 2015 / 5’ The Clitoris 108
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FAVORITES
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
FAVORITES
SAT 14 – 20:45 – LUX 3 | SUN 15 – 13:15 – LUX 3
En La Boca
COMEDY SHORTS
FRI 13 - 22:00 - LUX 1 | SAT 14 – 22:30 – LUX 6
Some films are hard to miss at festivals, as it feels like they were just everywhere. Winning prestigious awards and playing at the best festivals, then it has to be a great film, right? Right! For this program we curated four of these films, ranging from small personal stories to even a video game that's literally about everything! Films we didn't want our audience to miss out on.
A Gentle Night Qiu Yang / fiction / France, China / 2017 / 15’
En La Boca Matteo Gariglio / documentary / Switzerland, Argentina / 2016 / 25’ / Dutch premiere
Everything David O’Reilly / art film / Ireland, United States / 2017 / 10’
The Summer Movie Emmanuel Marre / fiction / Belgium, France / 2016 / 30’
Making a good comedy is one of the hardest things to achieve, curating a complete program with them maybe even more so. But we are again confident that we collected some of the funniest films from the past year, that will crack up our audiences. From seeing the humor in "serious" political discussions or in relationships that lost their spark to a fairytale on steroids and a bird on the loose. It will be hard not to laugh during these 70 minutes.
Kapitalistis Pablo Munoz Gomez / fiction / Belgium, France / 2017 / 14’ / Dutch premiere
Bogdan and Rose Milena Dutkowska / fiction / Poland / 2017 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Catastrophe Jamille van Wijngaarden / animation /
Kapitalists
The Netherlands / 2017 / 2’
Taking the Floor Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen / documentary / Finland / 2017 / 9’ / Dutch premiere
Labor Nils Vleugels / fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 14’
Short but Sweet Everything
Junaid Chundrigar / animation / The Netherlands /
Catastrophe
2017 / 2’
Make a Wish Jonatan Etzler / fiction / Sweden / 2016 / 12’
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FAVORITES
KILL YOUR DARLINGS
FAVORITES
SUN 15 – 15:15 – LUX 3
Take Rabbit
GO GREEN
THU 12 – 18:15 – LUX 4 | SAT 14 – 21:30 – LUX 2
Selecting the films for our competition programs is a process of giving and taking. And with only a few spots to fill, this means that somewhere down the road, we all have to kill a few darlings. Each year some of our most cherished films don't make it to the program, so that's why we decided to make a special program for these loved ones.
Salvation Thora Hilmarsdottir / fiction / Iceland, Sweden / 2017 / 24’ / Dutch premiere
The Delivery Suranga Katugampala / fiction / Italy / 2017 / 17’ / Dutch premiere
Take Rabbit Peter Peake / animation / United Kingdom / 2017 / 15’ / world premiere
Cows, bulls, a rabbit, a fox and a person that just eats like an animal are some of the main subjects in these darlings that we didn't want you to miss out on.
Facing the Beast Emma Benestan, Adrien Lecouturier / documentary / France / 2017 / 26’ / Dutch premiere
The Ogre Laurène Braibant / animation / France / 2017 / 9’
How do we relate to our environment and how do we live together in it? How do we deal with our environment and what is the price we pay for it? How do we deal with change? Do we work together or are we capable of offering a solution on our own? Inspired by Nijmegen being chosen as European Green Capital of 2018, we take you into the green world of short film and young talented filmmakers from all over Europe.
Future Thoughts Loek Vugs / animation / The Netherlands / 2017 / 3’
Nature: All Rights Reserved Sebastian Mulder / documentary / The Netherlands / 2016 / 21’
Plague Koldo Almandoz / documentary / Spain / 2017 / 10’
Everything
Future Thoughts
David O’Reilly / art film / Ireland, United States / 2017 / 10’
Big Booom Marat Narimanov / animation / Russia / 2016 / 4’
The Art of Flying Jan van Ijken / art film / The Netherlands / 2015 / 7’
Greeting From Kropsdam Facing The Beast
Joren Molter / fiction / The Netherlands / 2016 / 24’
Nature: All Rights Reserved
Wind Robert Löbel / animation / Germany / 2012 / 4’
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FAVORITES
MOVIES THAT MATTER PRESENTS
FAVORITES
Absent Wound
GO SHORTY FOR GROWN-UPS
THU 12 – 18:30 – LUX 3
SAT 14 – 18:45 - LUX 3
Filmmaker Beri Shalmashi curated a program with short films to be presented at Go Short and Movies That Matter. Shalmashi: ‘The short film format is an excellent form to point at problems in the world, where things don’t go as we wish, where the one life seems to worth more than the other, with no specific reason. The films in this program will carry you far away from here, without you needing to make a long journey. They proof how something could be told efficient, careful and accurate, and that even then the urgency of what is shown could be prominent.’
Find Fix Finish Mila Zhluktenko, Sylvain Cruiziat / documentary / Germany / 2017 / 19’
White Riot: London Ed Gibbs / documentary / United Kingdom / 2017 / 9’ / Dutch premiere
Absent Wound Maryam Tafakory / art film / United Kingdom / 2017 / 10’
Every year the programmers of Go Short watch the most wonderful short films suitable for educational programs. They might end up in one of the school programs. But actually, even adults might learn a lot from these films and their narratives. About the world in general as well as about how children experience that world. In short, in this program you’ll find educational children’s films suitable for adults.
Hello Salaam Kim Brand / documentary / Greece, The Netherlands / 2017 / 15’
Morning Cowboy Fernando Pomares / animation / Spain / 2017 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
Polska Warrior Camiel Schouwenaar / animation /
Morning Cowboy
The Netherlands / 2017 / 25’
The Award
My Body, My Life
Lidija Mojsovska / fiction / Republic of Macedonia /
Els van Driel / documentary / The Netherlands /
2017 / 16’ / Dutch premiere
2017 / 16’
A Man Falls From The Sky Kurt Platvoet, Jan Verdijk / fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 8’ The Award
Polska Warrior
A Man Falls From The Sky
My Body, My Life
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OFF THE WALLS
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
SPOTLIGHT
OSCAR SHORTS
SAT 14 - 22:00
During the Academy Awards ceremony the blockbusters and famous actresses and actors are at the centre of all the attention. But do you know that short films can also win an Academy Award? And we will give them the attention they deserve. During Go Short two programs are being screened: all the nominees for an Oscar for Best Live Action and all the nominees for an Oscar for Best Animation 2018. The 2018 Oscar winners are: Dear Basketball for Best Animation short and The Silent Child for Best Live Action.
Revolting Rhymes / Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer / United Kingdom / 2016 / 29’ Garden Party / Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon / France / 2016 / 7’ Lost Property Office / Daniel Agdag / Australia / 2017 / 10’ Weeds / Kevin Hudson / United States / 2017 / 3’ Achoo / Lucas Boutrot, Élise Carret, Maoris Creantor, Pierre Hubert, Camille Lacroix,
Revolting Rhymes
Charlotte Perroux / France / 2017 / 6’
OSCAR SHORTS LIVE ACTION SAT 14 - 21:15 - LUX 5 DeKalb Elementary / Reed Van Dyk / France /
Deep End Film and Go Short once again join hands for an unusual screening. The walls of the city of Nijmegen will transform into mini cinema’s for short films. Join this mysterious, dark and original walk through the city and let yourself be surprised by the unique experience.
Meeting Point: Molenpoort Entrance: Ziekerstraat Ticket: € 10,-
During Go Short and until 22 April a special video installation will be presented at Galerie Bart (Honigcomplex, Nijmegen). For this installation the maker, Margo Onnes, was inspired by the famous song All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan. Dylan presents an apocalyptic vision of chaos and threat. Without being very explicit, he reflects upon the social unrest of his time in the song. Onnes translates Dylan’s vision to our time. The viewer will submerge in a flow of images with surreal logics and the intensity of a dream. Take a bike or go for a little walk and check it out! We would like to thank the following parties for making the installation available: Michael van Rosmalen, MTS Audiovisueel, TENT Rotterdam and Galerie Bart.
Something we are very proud of: Go Short Award winners in the categories Animation, Fiction and Documentary in the Dutch and European competition will become eligible for the Academy Awards.
2017 / 21’ The Silent Child / Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton / United States / 2017 / 20’ My Nephew Emmett / Kevin Wilson, Jr. / United States / 2017 / 20’
The Silent Child
The Eleven O’Clock / Derin Seale, Josh Lawson /
OSCAR SHORTS ANIMATION
United States / 2016 / 13’
FRI 13 - 22:00 - LUX 5
Watu Wote / Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen /
Dear Basketball / Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant /
Germany / 2017 / 22’
United States / 2017 / 6’ Negative Space / Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata / France / 2017 / 6’ Lou / Dave Mullins, Dana Murray / United States / 2017 / 7’ Watu Wote
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Information Skies
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: SHORT MATTERS! Short Matters! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour. In three different programs the fifteen nominations for the Short Film Award 2017 are presented at film festivals and institutions across Europe and beyond. The selection of films gives you a peek into the flourishing world of European cinema, represented by mainly young film makers. The members of the European Film Academy have chosen Timecode by Juanjo Giménez as the overall winner.
Love / Reka Bucsi / animation / Hungary, France /
This initiative is organised by the European Film Academy in cooperation with a series of film festivals throughout the continent. At these festvivals, an independent jury nominates one short from the competition for this prestigious award.
You Will Be Fine / Céline Devaux / animation /
SHORT MATTERS! 1
SUN 15 - 18:45 - LUX 2
2016 / 14’
SHORT MATTERS! 2 SUN 15 - 16:45 - LUX 2 En La Boca / Matteo Gariglio / documentary / Switzerland, Argentina / 2016 / 25’ / Dutch premiere The Circle / Rûken Tekes / fiction / Turkey / 2016 / 14’ / Dutch premiere Timecode / Juanjo Giménez / fiction / Spain / 2016 / 15’ France / 2017 / 14’ / Dutch premiere Information Skies / Daniel van der Velden, Vinca Kruk / fiction / The Netherlands, South Korea / 2017 / 24’
SHORT MATTERS! 3
SUN 15 - 14:45 - LUX 2
The Party / Andrea Harkin / fiction / Ireland /
Wannabe / Jannis Lenz / fiction / Austria,
2016 / 13’ / Dutch premiere
Germany / 2017 / 30’ / Dutch premiere
Ugly / Nikita Diakur / animation / Germany /
Young Men at their Window /
2017 / 11’ / Dutch premiere
Loukianos Moshonas / fiction / France / 2017 / 18’ /
The Artificial Humors / Gabriel Abrantes / fiction /
Dutch premiere
Portugal / 2017 / 29’ / Dutch premiere
The Disinherited / Laure Ferrés / documentary /
Fight on a Swedish Beach / Simone Vahlne /
Spain / 2017 / 18’ / Dutch premiere
fiction / Sweden / 2016 / 14’
Copa-Loca / Christos Massalas / fiction / Greece /
Written/Unwritten / Adrian Silisteanu / fiction /
2017 / 14’ / Dutch premiere
Romania / 2017 / 20’
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GO SHORTY! & EDUCATION Go Short supports passion for film, also for the youngest film lovers among us. That's why we offer special programs for kids aged 4 and up to visit with their family or school. Go Shorty! is the kids department of Go Short. We already started in March with a local library tour. Here we show some of our favorite films from last year and offer insight in how film is made through a hands-on workshop. During the festival there are special activities for the whole family. On Saturday there will be a workshop in the library about telling stories in short film. On Sunday kids can visit the Family Shorts screenings for ages 4 and up and ages 10 and up. In these Family Shorts screenings families get a chance to see high-quality films, which are fun, moving and lovely and will give enough inspiration to talk about after their visit.
As part of the education program Go Short screens special programs for school classes. With these programs Go Short contributes to media literacy of youngsters out there and gives some reflection on this visually impressive world. Divided in different categories, for ages 6 to 9, ages 10 to 12 and ages 13 and up, the film programs are challenging, diverse, funny and touching. With the help of teaching materials, teachers can reflect on the films and their subjects at school and do a productive assignment with their pupils about these. The films are not only discussed because of their art value, but also act as a conversation starter. The subjects of the films provide teachers with enough material to have interesting discussions in the classroom.
FAMILY SHORTS 4+ SUN 15 – 14:45 – LUX 5
At every screening there is a filmmaker present to answer all the questions the curious kids may have. The young visitors of the school screenings get a chance to vote for the Kids Audience Award that is handed out on Sunday during the Family Shorts 10+ screening. Go Short also collaborates with schools in educational projects and offers teens the chance to organize their own film festival at LUX. These teens will get a unique look behind the scenes of the festival and get some firsthand work experience to help them discover what their talents are.
We offer a program for the youngest film lovers among us! In this program we’ve selected the best animations for them. It’s a program full of lovely, high quality films that will bring smiles on the faces of the youngest and their parents.
Autumn Helene Letourneur / animation / France / 2016 / 3’
Awaker Filip Diviak / animation / Czech Republic / 2017 / 10’ / Dutch premiere
ANT Julia Ocker / animation / Germany / 2017 / 3’
Spindrift
Autumn
Selina Wagner / animation / United Kingdom / 2016 / 11’
The Little Bird and the Caterpillar Lena von Döhren / animation / Switzerland / 2018 / 4’
The Fruits of Clouds Kateřina Karhánková / animation / Czech Republic / 2017 / 10’
Spindrift
Dark, Dark Woods Emile Gignoux / animation / Denmark / 2017 / 6’
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SCHOOL PROGRAM 6-9 YEARS
SUN 15 - 12:45 - LUX 5
Go Short combined the best short films for kids aged 10 and up. How about a laugh about a recalcitrant cat, a cuddly Rubik’s Cube and two passionate bullets? It’s all there in this wonderful program especially made for families with children from the age of 10.
Bei Mir Bist Du Schön Bouwine Pool / animation / The Netherlands / 2017 / 12’
Catastrophe Jamille van Wijngaarden / animation / The Netherlands / 2017 / 2’
Sing Bei Mir Bist Du Shön
Kirstof Deák / fiction / Hungary / 2016 / 25’
Scrambled
Go Short offers several programs for schools to visit. The films in this screening are suitable for kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades (ages 6-9). All films have their own perspective on family life, living together and how to deal with family dilemma’s. With the online material Go Short offers, teachers can discuss the theme in the classroom and children can do activities linked to the film.
The House Veronika Zacharová / animation / Czech Republic / 2016 / 6’
Seven Things I Learned About Time Travel Jonathan Herzberg / fiction / The Netherlands / 2016 / 9’
My Happy Complicated Family Tessa Louise Pope / documentary /
The House
The Netherlands / 2017 / 16’
Bastiaan Schravendeel / animation /
Dark, Dark Woods
The Netherlands / 2017 / 6’
Emile Gignoux / animation / Denmark / 2017 / 6’
Hello Salaam
Polska Warrior
Kim Brand / documentary / Greece,
Camiel Schouwenaar / animation /
The Netherlands / 2017 / 15’
The Netherlands / 2017 / 25’
Bullet Time Sing
Frodo Kuipers / animation / The Netherlands /
Seven Things I Learned About Time Travel
2016 / 5’
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SCHOOL PROGRAM 10-12 YEARS
Awaker
Go Short offers several programs for school to visit. The films in this screening are suitable for kids in 6th, 7th and 8th grades (ages 10-12). The films are about entrepreneurship, doing (your own) business and the upcoming working life. They encourage to reflect upon these themes. With the online material Go Short offers, teachers can discuss the theme in the classroom and children can do activities linked to the film.
WORKSHOPS Hello Salaam
NSG – REGENBOOGWEEK
Kim Brand / documentary / Greece,
WED 11 - 14:45 - LUX 1
The Netherlands / 2017 / 15’
During the full week of Go Short students of the high school Nijmeegse Scholengemeenschap Groenewoud (NSG) are taught and made aware of LGBTQtopics, sexuality and diversity during the ‘Regenboogweek’ (Rainbow Week). Part of this week and the included curriculum is a visit to Go Short, for which a special program is curated with these topics. In preparation a selection of the organizing students are involved in making the program and selecting the films. Go Short made and provided teaching materials for using at school before the visit. During the screening on Wednesday 11 April a film maker will be present for an in-depth Q&A.
Awaker Filip Diviak / animation / Czech Republic / 2017 / 10’
Cavy World Cup Maria Philips / fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 10’
ANT Julia Ocker / animation / Germany / 2017 / 3’
Morning Cowboy Fernando Pomares / animation / Spain / 2017 / 15’ / Dutch premiere
A Butcher’s Heart Marijn Frank / documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 15’ Cavy World Cup
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For the third year in a row Go Short teams up with regional college Rijn Ijssel. Students ‘Marketing & Communication’ will visit Go Short Thursday 12 April for a special workshop on preparing and executing a promotional campaign for film festivals. After that they will do an A Butcher's Heart 124
assignment at the festival locations and the city centre of Nijmegen, trying to chart Go Short’s promotional plan. After that they will go to a specially made film screening.
MONTESSORI COLLEGE Go Short developed a module for high school students through which they have to organize a film festival. Every part of organizing a film festival they will do themselves in separate departments: program, production and communication. Their film festival took place Tuesday 27 March.
Rijn IJssel
TEASERS LOCAL LIBRARIES – GO SHORT ON LOCATION In March Go Shorty! already started with a tour to local libraries. Here we showed some of our favorite films from last year and offered insight in how film is made through a hands-on stop-motion workshop. Not only a lot of fun, but also very informative for the youngest film lovers.
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TALENT
GO AHEAD / HOMEGROWN / DZIGA MASTERCLASS / GELDERS DOEK / MOVIEZONE TALENT DAY / NEW ARRIVALS: CAMPUS / NISIMAZINE: FILM JOURNALISM WORKSHOP
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TALENT Finding talented young filmmakers and giving them the stage they deserve: that is what Go Short is all about. The programs and activities in this section of the festival are particularly geared towards that goal. We create networking opportunities for these talents, showcase their work, and give them inspiration and knowledge. By nurturing their talent we hope to see them grow in their profession, perhaps even giving them the means to return with work on future festivals.
GO AHEAD Most of the time only graduation films from students get to see the light of the film projector. Go Short is committed to change this however. During their studies, students get the assignment to make a lot of films so that they can discover their own signature in the process of filmmaking. Most of these never make it outside of the classrooms. That’s a shame, because some of these films made in the first, second or third year have a lot of international potential. 128
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We at Go Short think that presenting your film to an international public is a big part of being a filmmaker. A film festival is a good opportunity to do so. In addition, it is a way to connect with other filmmakers who are a few steps further ahead in their career. That is why the student filmmakers of several Dutch academies will be present to tell you all about their process and give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of their film schools.
HOMEGROWN Talented filmmakers are everywhere, even in our hometown. We scout and cherish local talent and find it important to show their work in the context of an international film festival. For Homegrown we select films made by talents from the Nijmegen area and the province of Gelderland. In collaboration with film platform DZIGA and Gelders DOEK we invite these filmmakers for a platform meet-up with drinks, offering them an opportunity to share experiences and getting to know one another. With Gelders DOEK, a regional network of
filmmakers that hosts monthly screenings in the neighboring city of Arnhem, we also host an open screen event on Saturday.
AND MORE To students looking to bridge the gap between the film academy and a professional career, we offer the New Arrivals: Go Short Campus. A five day program of masterclasses and workshops by short film professionals for twenty students from all over Europe. Next to that, we are working together with NISI MASA offering young film lovers professional tutoring in writing film reviews, doing interviews and making festival reports. And for the first time this year, we have a MovieZone Talent Day: a day full of learning activities for the youngsters among us.
Femme
creates a chaotic situation in which he loses
Director: Emma Branderhorst
control.
fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 11’
Contact: Dominique Hoogendorn, +31 612621100,
The sexual development in your puberty changes
dnchoogendoorn@gmail.com
your whole life from that moment. Do you have any control on all those feelings?
Mentia
Contact: Annerose van Strijen, +31 639306303,
Director: Carolien Van Maaswaal
ann59@live.nl
documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 13’ / world premiere
The Art of Life
During a night in a hotel room, the walls are the
Director: Meggy Gerritsen, Sophie van Bree,
only witnesses of the events that occur. These
Mark Schonagen
memories about a guest will vanish when the
documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 17’ /
housekeeper brings it back to its original state.
world premiere
What do these lost memories tell us about what
In this short documentary we get a look inside the
happened the night before?
minds of four energetic seniors who, despite their
Contact: Thomas Mataheru, +31 634822333,
backpacks of hurt and pain, each still feel the joy
thomas@mataheru.nl
Femme
life gives them. Contact: Meggy Gerritsen, +31 657625315,
To Ourselves
meggygerritsen@gmail.com
Director: Daan Groot
JUNKSKE
fiction / The Netherlands / 2016 / 12’
JUNKSKE
To Ourselves is an encounter of three young
Director: Vincent Tilanus
adults, who are leading a life with a high degree of
fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 12’ /
self-determination and lots of fleeting encounters.
world premiere
Contact: Maaike Gronheid, +31 650620320,
Teenager Raf would like to follow in the footsteps
m.gronheid@gmail.com
of his brother Boas. However, he is being thwarted by aggressive bullies from school and his older brother himself. In his effort to gain respect he
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HOMEGROWN
DZIGA MASTERCLASS
WED 11 - 22:00 - LUX 1
SAT 14 – 18.00 – LUX 6 – DUTCH SPOKEN
If Everyone Thinks Like That
If Everyone Thinks Like That
Uit de Tijd
Director: Marie-Anne Faustinelli
Director: Coen van Beek
art film / The Netherlands / 2017 / 20’
fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 23’ /
A monologue made into a music video shows the
world premiere
thoughts of an average millennial in the year 2017:
Due to his advancing alzheimer, Henk is losing
busy, chaotic, and overstrung. There's too much to
more and more of his personality. At the same
process: notifications, the news, advertisements
time a black hole is forming on the wall of his
and the confrontation with the harsh reality of
room.
climate change.
Contact: Coen van Beek, +31 623652526,
Contact: Marie-Anne Faustinelli, +31 629736755,
info@coenvanbeek.nl
Keynote by producer, director and writer Paul Ruven, followed by a talk with directors Nico van den Brink and Tim Smit about the possibilities and obstacles on the road to Hollywood. These three filmmakers have one thing in common: all of them made it to Hollywood the adventurous way. For one of them it’s already led to feature film successes, for another it’s just getting started.
marieannefausti@yahoo.com
JUNKSKE
Tifa
Tifa
Director: Vincent Tilanus
Director: Jeftha Pattikawa
fiction / The Netherlands / 2017 / 12’ /
documentary / The Netherlands / 2017 / 9’
world premiere
Tifa is a film about identity, the transfer of cultural
Teenager Raf would like to follow in the footsteps
heritage and the uniting power over rhythms and
of his brother Boas. However, he is being thwarted
free sounds. From origin the Tifa is used to bridge
by aggressive bullies from school and his older
to the world of spirits and to warn the inhabi-
brother himself. In his effort to gain respect he
tants of the Moluccan Islands of the arrival of the
creates a chaotic situation in which he loses
‘Marinjo’, a messenger. Through time the Tifa got a
control.
symbolic significance. Moluccans say: ‘as long as
Contact: Dominique Hoogendorn, +31 612621100,
the tifa sounds, our people lives.’
dnchoogendoorn@gmail.com
Contact: Jeftha Pattikawa, +31 652088100, jeftha@gmail.com
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Paul Ruven and Tim Smit already had a discussion on this subject at the very first edition of Go Short. The short film What’s in the Box (2009) had just gone viral and Tim was suddenly in Hollywood negotiating a contract. The same thing is happening to Nico van den Brink, who is currently in talks to turn his short horror movie Sweet Tooth (2017) into a feature film. It’s a good occasion to invite them back for the 10th edition of Go Short. It is time for them to give advice to filmmakers who are on the same path. Paul Ruven addresses the 10 things you need to know when making a film, with all the successes and failures that come with it. Directly after we host an interview with Tim Smit
and Nico van den Brink about not just their experiences and ambitions, but also about the ups and downs of Hollywood. All three of them also have their roots in the Nijmegen region, which makes their background story, in the context of our Talents program, especially interesting for local filmmakers. Paul Ruven won a Gouden Kalf for his graduation film De Tranen van Maria Machita (1991) and has been a director and producer of numerous movies and documentaries ever since. He also wrote a number of books about the process of filming, including Het Geheim van Hollywood. Tim Smit debuted with viral hit What’s in the Box, a 9-minute post-apocalyptic VFX film. Its success led to him getting a contract to turn it into a feature film called Kill Switch (2017), which was in Dutch cinemas last year. Nico van den Brink’s short film Sweet Tooth (2017) has been selected for the Dutch Competition this year at Go Short; it is also part of horror program Friday the 13th. He is currently in talks with production company New Line to turn his short into a feature film.
Creative Film Centre DZIGA is a platform and workspace based in Nijmegen for filmmakers and video artists. DZIGA’s main goal is to support and facilitate the production of artistic films and documentaries from experienced filmmakers and young artists. We offer a diverse program of screenings, workshops and realize filmand multimedia projects: www.dziga.nl facebook.com/DZIGA Nijmegen
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THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT
GELDERS DOEK
MOVIEZONE TALENT DAY
SAT 14 - 11:00 - LUX 6 / SAT 14 - 13:15 - LUX 6 / SAT 14 - 15:30 - LUX 6
SAT 14 – 14:45 – LUX 3
SAT 14 - 10:00 - LUX 5
A new addition to our Talent program this year is the MovieZone Talent Day on the 14th of April. This event focuses on young talent with big ideas and ambitions in the film industry. During the Talent Day these young talents will have the opportunity to network and get a chance to discuss their film ideas with professionals. On top of that, they can get inspiration and know-how about the film industry through workshops and masterclasses. Making a film, from writing the script to editing the footage in only 48 hours, sounds like something impossible. Yet this is exactly the mission of the filmmakers who enter the 48 Hour Film Project. From April 6 to 8, the teams of scriptwriters, directors, actors and editors embark on this exciting challenge. How do they perform under pressure? Will the time pressure drive them to excellence? Find out during the premiere at Go Short. The winner of 48 Hour Film Project Nijmegen will advance to the global finals. In the light of Nijmegen European Green Capital 2018 the 48 Hour Film Project will be given a special green touch. The city of Nijmegen is hosting the award ceremony and will give out the award for the most sustainable produced film, a unique award special to this edition.
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Gelders DOEK is thé place for local cinema. This initiative is carried out by the filmmakers themselves, mainly aiming to open people’s eyes to their direct environment. Each month they show their work in cinema and love to get the audience involved into making new productions. This leads to new collaborations and can contribute to connecting people from different backgrounds. At Go Short the works of regional film talents will be shown in a special program. All makers will be present to answer questions.
The MovieZone Talent Day is hosted in collaboration with the youth department of Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam. MovieZone was founded to give in-depth information about film for teens ages 12 to 21. They have an extensive online film platform and organize youth juries at film festivals, including Go Short. Their goal is to make sure young talents discover and develop their film ambitions. This coincides with the ambition of Go Short to support young talent.
talent in Nijmegen. During this day teens will meet other young aspiring filmmakers and get the chance to talk to professional filmmakers. One of the activities will be a meet-and-greet with Eva Weber, one of our two special guests. She will tell everything about her first steps in the film industry, share her do’s and don’ts and answer any questions participants may have about her work after a short viewing session. Special attention will be given to VR cinema. The youngsters can also make their own movies and get more hands-on practise during workshops. The day will end with a moment of feedback on their work and a chance to expand their network and make connections for new film projects. JUNKSKE
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NISIMAZINE: FILM JOURNALISM WORKSHOP
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.
Next to that we will offer workshops on different subjects, such as: festival strategy and distribution international co-producing and pitching a film plan to an audience of producers and buyers.
The New Arrivals: Go Short Campus brings emerging filmmakers and seasoned film professionals together. It offers a unique and intensive program to 20 young film professionals from all over Europe. The campus focuses on giving hands-on knowledge about everything that becomes urgent as soon as students leave the academy. How do I pitch my (short) film? Where can I find an audience? How can I distribute my film? Questions that are hardly dealt with at the academy will now be foremost.
The participants are also asked to prepare and bring a film plan to work on during their days on the campus. Peer-to-peer and professional feedback will act as stepping stones towards their next short film. During the week the 20 participants will receive assignments and challenges, prompting them to mingle with other festival guests and expand their network. You might very well be part of their learning experience!
We offer masterclasses, lectures, workshops and panel discussions by the industry's top experts. This year masterclasses are given by our special guests Patrik Eklund (Sweden) and Eva Weber (Germany/UK).
When these campus students leave Nijmegen their portfolios will be filled with business plans, their address books with new contacts and their suitcases with the tools of the trade.
CAMPUS PARTICIPANTS Daniel Boocock – GB Ana Vidovic – HR Ana Jakimska – MK Lina Erzen – SI Tatiana Plevak – RU Dagmara Kucinska – PL Esmee van Loon – NL Hussen Ibraheem – LB Olga Medennikova – RU Sarah Vasen – NL Stefka Mancheva – BG Ivan Milosavljevic – RS Annabel Huijboom – NL Kevin Janssen – NL Bernadro Lopes – PT Joanne Rakotoarisoa – FR Eleni Molfeta – GR Matteo Palmas – IT Henry Disotuar – BE, CU Vincent van den Ouden – NL
makers and other industry professionals, and will be encouraged to contribute to the exciting atmosphere of an international event.
WORKSHOP TEACHER: MICHAEL PATTISON
For over a decade now NISI MASA has developed a considerable experience in publishing a free daily gazette during some of the major film festivals in the world. The magazine is made in the frame of a film journalism workshop for young aspiring film journalists. Nisimazine film journalism workshops have taken place during many international events, including: Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, only to name a few. The workshop is designed for early-career film critics and journalists seeking to enhance their critical skills as well as their
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knowledge of the day-to-day practicalities of writing at a film festival. During the workshop, participants will be expected to write a daily assignment, including reviews, interviews and festival reports. They will meet regularly as a group to discuss and think about the different ways of approaching film criticism as both a profession and as a creative practice.
Michael Pattison’s film criticism has been published by Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, Indiewire, RogerEbert.com and many other international publications. He is a regular attendee of film festivals and has tutored the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project since 2015. He is a graduate of the Locarno Critics Academy and is part of the programming team at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival. He is also a current PhD candidate in film practice at Newcastle University. In collaboration with NISI MASA and Bibliotheek Gelderland Zuid.
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PROGRAM / EVENTS / DUTCH SHORT FILM PREVIEW DE VOORFILM IS NU TE ZIEN BIJ: LUX – Nijmegen RIALTO – Amsterdam DE BALIE – Amsterdam ‘T HOOGT – Utrecht FILMHUIS EMMEN – Emmen FILMSCHUUR – Haarlem ECI CULTUURFABRIEK – Roermond SLIEKER FILM – Leeuwarden FILMHUIS DEN HAAG – Den Haag CHASSÉ THEATER – Breda CONCORDIA FILM, THEATER, EXPOSITIE – Enschede
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INDUSTRY DAY: FRIDAY 13 / 10:30-17:00 Since it’s very beginning, Go Short has had a focus on the industry side of short films. This soon became the Industry Day: a day full of workshops, masterclasses, case studies and panel discussions on hot topics from the world of short film. This year the day touches subjects such as possibilities for short films online, production and distribution of VR films and the role of short film festivals.
DUTCH FUNDS 10.30-11.00 – LUX 7 – DUTCH SPOKEN
For the Dutch guests we offer a morning session where two different funds give a presentation on their work, the projects they support and the ideas they are looking for. Jolijn van Rees and Mirjam Bal of The Netherlands Film Fund will come to talk about the possibilities they offer for funding short films, especially about their support for finished short films. Willem Lenders of the Democracy and Media Foundation will talk about their objectives and the ways in which they support film and media projects that match their mission.
CASE STUDY: SHORT FILM ONLINE 11.00-11.30 – LUX 7 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
In this case study we invite a filmmaker who has had a successful or remarkable online run with a short film. We talk about the production and reception of the film and the set out strategy for online release. How did it manage to attract attention? To what extend was it intended? And what is the effect in the aftermath or in what way did it influence the filmmakers career? 138
PANEL TALK: ONLINE STRATEGY AND EFFECT 11.30-12.30 – LUX 7 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
Continuing the case study we ask a panel of different film professionals to discuss the strategy and effect of online short film. When is the best time to drop your film on the world wide web? How do you gain attention in the overwhelming abundance of online video content? And what platforms can best help you in doing so? We will talk to, among others, Meghan Oretsky, one of the five curators of Vimeo Staff Picks, and Derry O’Brien, sales agent at Network Ireland Television.
PROFESSIONAL SPEED DATES 12.45-13.45 – MIR
During lunch you will have the possibility to sit down with one of the ten professionals from the short film industry. Prepare your questions, because you will get only a few minutes to ask all you want to know to festival programmers, sales agents, producers, and staff members of several funding organisations.
PARALLEL SESSIONS In the afternoon you can choose to participate in two different sessions.
MASTERCLASS SCRIPTWRITING BY PATRIK EKLUND 14.00-15.00 – LUX 7 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
Patrik Eklund, special guest of Go Short 2018, will give a masterclass scriptwriting. Drawing from his own extensive experience of writing successful short films he will address some very im-
portant do’s and don’t’s of the scriptwriting process. This session kicks off with a short introduction by a few Dutch script coaches and a presentation on what a script coach can do for you. During the festival they will be available for private consultations on your script. This masterclass opens with a short presentation on what a script coach can do for young scriptwriters.
MASTERCLASS: ACADEMY AWARDS 14.00-15.00 – LUX 2 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
Since last year Go Short is officially an Oscar Qualifying festival. This means that Go Short winners in the categories fiction, documentary and animation in both the European and the Dutch competition are automatically running for the prestigious awards. A great stepping stone to fame and maybe even fortune, but it is not the only way to get in to the Academy Awards. Tom Oyer is awards manager for short film and documentary at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He will talk about the different routes films and their makers can take to get qualified or nominated for the Oscars.
PANEL TALK: DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION OF VR 14.00-15.00 – LUX 5 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
Virtual Reality has gained the interest of a wide variety of markets, and film festivals are no exception. VR is a lot, and film is one of them. The way ‘traditional’ film is being distributed and exhibited is quite institutionalized. But this is not the case for VR, yet. Therefore many film festivals experiment with incorporating VR in their programming. In this panel we talk with distributors, festival programmers, exhibitors and VR filmmakers.
PANEL TALK: FESTIVALS AS TALENT BUILDING – PLATFORMS 15.15-16.15 – LUX 7 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
Since Go Short celebrates its tenth birthday this year, it's a good time to reflect on what the past decade has brought us. And, more importantly, to what extend Go Short has helped those filmmakers we have seen emerge. In this panel with filmmakers for whom Go Short has been an important stepping stone in their career, we talk about the significance of short film festivals in general and how young filmmakers can benefit the most from selection, winning or just visiting. 139
PANEL TALK: NBF PRESENTS – CREATING WEB SERIES 15.15-16.15 – LUX 2 – ENGLISH SPOKEN
New distribution and technology has no effect on the core of any great film: great storytelling. The rules for well-told stories with great characters haven’t changed for thousands of years and won’t now. In an interactive panel discussion successful web series creators discuss their experiences and the lessons they learned. Using an overview of recent web series worldwide you get an idea where to start and develop your own series to stand a chance in this new and soon competitive market. Dutch actor Pepijn Schoneveld will be one of the panellists.
SHORT SCRIPT SESSIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LIRA
16.30-17.30 – PAVILION
This is the chance to meet the speakers of the Industry Day and ask them all the questions you still have, or get to know your fellow filmmakers. It all happens during the networking drinks at the end of the day.
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INDUSTRY DINNER
INDUSTRY DRINKS: TALENTS
FRI 13 – 17.30 – PAVILION
SAT 14 – 17.00 – PAVILION
ticket required
On Saturday we toast with talents and local filmmakers that flock Go Short on this day.
INDUSTRY DRINKS: IRELAND
SHORTY SING-A-LONG
Make sure to stop by on Thursday on our Irish themed drinks, hosted by the Embassy of Ireland.
Friday night is karaoke night! Request your favorite songs and sing loud and proud. After the karaoke night it is possible to continue the party at Go Fever, the Go Short afterparty at Merleyn.
NIJMEGEN GUIDED TOUR
MEET THE INDUSTRY LUNCH
THU 12 – 10:30 – INDUSTRY DESK
SAT 14 – 14:00 – MARIKENSTRAAT 40 –
THU 12 – 18:00 – PAVILION
15.15-16.15 – MIR – ENGLISH SPOKEN
INDUSTRY DRINKS: HOSTED BY CREATIVE EUROPE DESK NL
INDUSTRY DRINKS Go Short hosts daily Industry Drinks at the pavilion. Here you can meet up with your fellow filmmakers and film professionals to expand and deepen your network.
FRI 13 – 23:00 – DE WIT WASSERIJ
WORKSHOP: VERS PRESENTS – PRODUCING VR For the Go Short industry day VERS organizes a VR session dedicated to young and new filmmakers. Together we will look at a recently finished VR film and discuss the process of making it. How does creating a VR film differ from other films and where do you start? Get your VR questions answered!
INDUSTRY EVENTS
INDUSTRY DRINKS: AWARDS SAT 14 – 21.00 – PAVILION
FAREWELL BRUNCH SUN 15 – 11:00 – PAVILION INVITATION ONLY
With the support of the LIRA foundation we offer young scriptwriters the opportunity to enhance their skills and improve the scripts they are currently working on. Through intensive one-onone sessions with professional script coaches they will get tips and guidance on their work. The script coaches are Ena Sendijarevic, Shariff Korver and Joost van Ginkel. LIRA is a Dutch collective management organization (CMO) for (screen)writers, translators and freelance journalists. Lira represents about 12,000 affiliated Dutch writers. Lira collects and distributes remunerations for the exploitation and (re)use of literary and audio-visual works of writers, among other things for public lending rights, private copying, the distribution of audio-visual works on television and radio and reprographic rights.
FRI 13 – 10:30 – INDUSTRY DESK
INVITATION ONLY
Tired of walking the same road from your hotel/homestay to the Go Short festival site? Always wanted to wonder the historic streets of Nijmegen but have no idea where to start? Tag along our Nijmegen Guided Tour to discover our city’s gems and enjoy the beauty of the eldest city in the Netherlands. Registration at the Industry Desk.
Go Short is extremely proud of the many Dutch Directors whose talents are being showcased in our competition. We are all about propelling them – and their short films – into the world. At the lunch we place our talents across from key figures of the international short film. Attendees get to know one another, talk about their recent productions and exciting upcoming projects while the international industry gets a taste of our Go Short’s finest.
INDUSTRY DRINKS FRI 13 – 16.30 – PAVILION
When the festival comes at its end it is time to say goodbye to your new found or longtime shorties. Come join us for the Farewell Brunch at the pavilion to reminisce about the amazing time we’ve had at Go Short before we all go back home after the Audience Awards.
Hosted by Creative Europe Desk NL.
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DUTCH SHORT FILM PREVIEW SAT 14 - 12:30 - LUX 2
At Go Short we aim to be the go-to platform for young and promising Dutch filmmakers. We show the best films from the past year in our competitions, focus on Dutch film students, and screen films of local talents. But we want to do more. That's why, during Go Short, we host the Dutch Short Film Preview. During this session a selection of both upcoming and celebrated Dutch filmmakers will give a preview of their latest short film - before these films have their official international premiere. Festival programmers, distributors and buyers will receive an exclusive invite to attend this preview and get a unique opportunity to be among the very first to see these films and chat with the filmmakers afterwards, during a special lunch. With this preview program we aim to strengthen the position of Dutch short films and enhance the chances of these particular projects to get selected on international film festivals.
DUTCH PLATFORM Another way in which we promote Dutch short filmmaking is through the Dutch Platform. This has become a regular feature in our video library over the past few years. Here you can see all the Dutch film submissions that Go Short received for the current edition, a total of 300 films. For a better overview we divided these films in different categories, so you can easily find what you are looking for. This way Go Short functions as a gateway to all recent Dutch shorts for our visiting film professionals.
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FILM INDEX TITLE Л
Ленінопад – 28 # 4 – 98 16,03 – 107 #YOLO4REAL – 52 (Fool Time) JOB – 39 2 Birds – 72, 98 5000 Feet is the Best – 94 5'nizza - SAMOLIOT – 99 8TH CONTINENT – 31 A A Brief History of Princess X – 108 A Butcher’s Heart – 124 A Coat Made Dark – 84 A Gentle Night – 110 A Man Falls from the Sky – 53, 114 AAA (Mein Herz) – 40 Absent Wound – 114 Achoo – 117 After School Knife Fight – 30 Água Mole – 45 Alt J - Pleader – 99 Alteration – 91, 95 Among us – 98 Anatomi – 70 Anatomy – 70 And I Roam in Search of Brothers – 65 Andy Mineo & Wordsplayed - DANCE (You See It) – 99 ANT – 121, 124 Antão, o Invisível – 40 Anthony, the Invisible One – 40 As We're Told – 35 Asylum – 53 At Dawn – 61 Atrophy – 87 Autumn – 121 Awaker – 121, 124 B Bei Mir Bist Du Schön – 122 Belly – 98
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Big Booom – 113 Black Line – 42 Black Out – 77 Bloem? – 48 Bogdan and Rose – 111 Boogaloo and Graham – 89 Borders – 108 Botanica – 54 Bullet Time – 122
E En Ik Ren Rond op Zoek naar Broers – 65 En La Boca – 110, 118 Etrange dit l'ange – 35 Everything – 110, 113 Everything Is Far Away – 42 Extravaganza – 92
C Camera Threat – 39 Catastrophe – 111, 122 Cavy World Cup – 124 City of Tales – 26 Coda – 83 Cole & Marmelade – 100 Copa-Loca – 45, 118 Coup de Grâce – 41 Coyote – 26 Cream – 107 Credo – 53 Cuddle Sticks 2 – 106
F Facing The Beast – 112 Fear Of Flying – 85 Femme – 129 Field Study – 78 Fight on a Swedish Beach!! – 118 Find Fix Finish – 64, 114 Flicker – 72 Flimmer – 72 Flores – 44 Flower Found! – 48 Fowl Play – 106 Frankie – 88 Future Thoughts – 113
D Dark Waves – 60 Dark, Dark Woods – 121, 123 Darrel – 106 Day–glo – 94 De Begrafenis van de Verlegen Mens – 49 De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Manon – 100 De Madrugada – 61 De Spelende Mens – 48 Dear Basketball – 117 DeKalb Elementary – 117 Depart at 22 – 98 Die Abreise – 63 Diliman – 62 Dog – 101 Dog Duet – 101 Drop by Drop – 45 Dust – 64
G Garden Party – 73, 106, 117 Gasman – 79 Gaze – 40 Geist – 84 Ghost in the Boobs – 106 Gibraltar – 62 Glazin' – 108 Grandpa Walrus – 36 Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty – 88 Greetings From Kropsdam – 113 Gutten er sulten – 32 H Hallo Salaam – 51 Harbour – 48 Härlig är Jorden – 73, 80 Heal Tomorrow – 91 Hello Salaam – 51, 115, 124
Henri Le Chat Noir 10 – Reigning Cat & Dog – 100 Hermetic Dating Rituals – 106 Home – 86 Homo Ludens – 48 Hot Tea – 54 How To Have A Romantic Date – 106
Lembri Uudu – 33 LES ÎLES – 34 Letters to Adja – 66 Lettres à Adja – 66 Liars – Cred Woes – 99 Ligne noire – 42 Limbo – 92 LISTEN – 51 I Living Like Heta – 63 I Was Five When I Became A Woman Lord – 101 – 108 Los Desheredados – 36 Iedera – 26 Lost Property Office – 117 If Everyone Thinks Like That – 130 Lou – 117 I'll Probably Never See You Again – 42 Love – 118 Inertia – 94 LUISTER – 51 Information Skies – 118 Lupus – 28 Inseln – 62 Instead of Abracadabra – 70 M Irish Folk Furniture – 85 Make a Wish – 111 ISLANDS – 34 Manila High – Life in company with Islands – 62 death – 29 Istället för Abrakadabra – 70 Manila High – Livet i selskab med Ivy – 26 døden – 29 J Manivald – 37 J. Bernardt - Fear and Loving Berlin Marfa – 41 – 99 May Day – 36 James – Moving On – 99 Meanwhile – 84 JUCK [THRUST] – 27, 108 Mentia – 50, 129 Julien Dyne - Hours – 99 MERRY-GO-ROUND – 32 JUNKSKE – 129, 130 Min Börda – 30 Just Saying – 86 Mirage My Bros – 38 Miragem Meus Putos – 38 K Miss Holocaust – 29 Kaleidogasm 3 – 108 Morning Cowboy – 115, 124 Kapitalistis – 111 Mountain Plain Mountain – 38 Kiem Holijanda – 51 My Bodies – 79 My Body, My Life – 115 L My Happy Complicated Family – 123 La Bataille de San Romano – 27 My Happy End – 101 La Bouche – 44 My Nephew Emmett – 117 Labor – 111 N Lalay-Balalay – 32 Nächtstuck – 34 Le Marcheur – 31 Nadia Schilling – Kite – 99 Lejla – 49
Natural Thing – Nobody Beats the Drum – 100 Nature: All Rights Reserved – 113 Negah – 40 Negative Space – 38, 117 Netflix & Chill – 107 New York Is Killing Me – 79 Nikog Nema – 60 Nobody Here – 60 Nocturne – 34 Notes To My Father – 92 Nothing Happens – 41 Novo Amor & Ed Tullett - Terraform – 99 NSFWhale – 106
O O Homem Eterno – 35 Of Biblical Proportions – 71 Of The Unknown – 78 Old Fangs – 86 Olga – 37 Onde o Verão Vai (Episódios da Juventude) – 66 Ondes noires – 60å One take stories - Painful Truth – 106 OOZE – 107 Orogenesis – 43 P Paralys – 107 Party Off The Pounds – 106 Paul est là – 66 Paul is Here – 66 Pencilles case – 106 Pentecost – 87 People Who Fall – 98 Pépé le Morse – 36 Plague – 113 Polska Warrior – 115, 123 Potato Dreams – 91 Private Parts – 108 Proch – 64 Pussy – 108 Pussy Have the Power – 108
R Rapa das Bestas – 34 Rats Island – 85 Reindeer – 76 Renata Zeiguer – Wayside – 99 Resistance – 106 Revolting Rhymes – 117 Rewind Forward – 33 RIP Geocities – 94 Road 13 – 28 Rogalik – 98 Running Sushi – 106
Sweet Tooth – 52, 107 Syndromeda – 71
T Take Rabbit – 112 Taking The Floor – 111 Tex – 52 The Angelmakers – 80 The Art of Flying – 113 The Art of Life – 129 The Artificial Humors – 118 The Award – 114 The Battle of San Romano – 27 The Black Dog's Progress – 101 S The Burden – 30 Salvation – 112 The Circle – 118 Sand Wanderer – 49 The Clitoris – 108 Schildkröten Panzer – 65 The Delivery – 112 Scrambled – 122 The Departure – 63 Seeds Of The Fall – 71 The Disinherited – 36, 118 Seven Things I Learned About Time The Door – 88 Travel – 123 The Eagleman Stag – 98 Shadow Animals – 30 The Eleven O’Clock – 117 Short but Sweet – 111 The Everlasting Man – 35 Silent River – 98 The External World – 73 Silica – 45 The Fall of Lenin – 28 Sing – 122 The Fruits of Clouds – 121 Siostry – 61 The Funeral of the Shy – 49 Sirocco – 106 The Girl With the Yellow Stockings Situation Frank – 70 – 98 Skógafoss – 50 The House – 123 Skywards – 77 The Hunger – 32 Slitage – 71 The Intimacy of Strangers – 76 Små Fuglar – 72 So Much Light - Full Body Mirror – 99 The Little Bird and the Caterpillar – 121 Sog – 65 The Mirror System – 94 Solar Walk – 33 The Missing Scarf – 83 Spindrift – 121 The Ogre – 112 Stacioni – 60 The Other Dakar – 93 Stay Ups – 37 The Party – 118 Steel Homes – 77 The Shadow of Utopia – 27 Steven Goes to the Park – 106 The Silent Child – 117 Strange Says the Angel – 35 The Sisters – 61 Stutterer – 89 The Solitary Life Of Cranes – 76 Sugar – 98 The Station – 60 Supernaive - Opal Waltz – 99
The Station – 107 The Stunt Manual – 106 The Summer Movie – 110 The Sun Ladies VR – 93 The Walker – 31 Tifa – 130 Timecode – 117 To Ourselves – 129 Tom Rosenthal - Fenn – 99 Toto Bona Lokua - Ma Mama – 99 Tram – 98 Travelogue Tel Aviv – 61 TREE9 - Ma Ydoum Hal – 99 True North – 64 Turtle Shells – 65
Wind – 113 Wishing Well – 44 Woods & Waters – 39 Word! – 50 World of Glory – 73, 80 World of Tomorrow – 94 Wrestler – 106 Written/Unwritten – 118
Y You Will Be Fine – 118 Young Men at Their Window – 118 Your Views – 80
U UBI SUNT – 43 Ugly – 29, 118 Uit de Tijd – 130 Un Chien Andalou – 72 Undressing My Mother – 87 Useless Dog – 101 V Väg 13 – 28 Valt een Man uit de Lucht – 53 Verjetno te Nikoli Vec ne Bom Videla – 42 Violence is to Charge 600 Euros – Public Land II – 43 W Walk With Me – 32 Wannabe – 118 Washed Out – Floating By – 99 Waste no.1 Money – 31 Watu Wote – 117 We, the Masses – 83 Weeds – 117 Well Groomed – 101 Where the Summer Goes – 66 White Riot: London – 114 Wild Horses – 63 Wild Mane Crop – 34 151
FILM INDEX COUNTRY Albania The Station – 60 Argentina En La Boca – 110, 118 Australia Kaleidogasm 3 – 108 Lost Property Office – 117 Silica – 45 Austria J. Bernardt - Fear and Loving Berlin – 99 The Shadow of Utopia – 27 Wannabe – 118 Belgium And I Roam in Search of Brothers – 65 Inertia – 94 Kapitalistis – 111 May Day – 36 Paul is Here – 66 Steven Goes to the Park – 106 The Station – 107 The Summer Movie – 110 The Walker – 31 Bosnia and Herzegovina Lejla – 49 Canada Cuddle Sticks 2 – 106 Manivald – 37 The Clitoris – 108 China A Gentle NIght – 110 Colombia Lupus – 28 Croatia Manivald – 37
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Czech Republic Awaker – 121, 124 Running Sushi – 106 The Fruits of Clouds – 121 The House – 123 Denmark Cream – 107 Dark, Dark Woods – 121, 123 Manila High - Life in company with death – 29 Nothing Happens – 41 Solar Walk – 33 Walk With Me – 32 Estonia Lembri Uudu – 33 Manivald – 37 Finland Taking the Floor – 111 Waste no.1 Money – 31 France (Fool Time) JOB – 39 4 – 98 A Brief History of Princess X – 108 A Gentle Night – 110 Achoo – 117 After School Knife Fight – 30 Alteration – 91 Autumn – 121 City of Tales – 26 Dark Waves – 60 DeKalb Elementary – 117 Facing The Beast – 112 Garden Party – 73, 106, 117 Gibraltar – 62 Grandpa Walrus – 36 Heal Tomorrow – 91 ISLANDS – 34 Kapitalistis – 111 La Bouche – 44 Letters To Adja – 66 Love – 118
Lupus – 28 Negative Space – 38, 117 Nothing Happens – 41 Olga – 37 Orogenesis – 43 Resistance – 106 Sirocco – 106 Strange says the angel – 35 Supernaive – Opal Waltz – 99 The Ogre – 112 The Station – 107 The Summer Movie – 110 Tram – 98 TREE9 – Ma Ydoum Hal – 99 Un Chien Andalou – 72 Woods & Waters – 39 You will be fine – 118 Young Men at their WIndow – 118
Germany 5000 Feet is the Best – 94 ANT – 121, 114 Camera Threat – 39 Find Fix Finish – 64, 114 Islands – 62 My Happy End – 101 Nocturne – 34 Silent River – 98 Sog – 65 The Departure – 63 The External World – 73 The Girl With the Yellow Stockings – 98 Turtle Shells – 65 Ugly – 29, 118 Violence is to Charge 600 Euros Public Land II – 43 Wannabe– 118 Watu Wote – 117 Wind – 113 Wishing Well – 44 Greece 8TH CONTINENT – 31 Copa-Loca – 45, 118
Hello Salaam – 51, 115, 122 Violence is to Charge 600 Euros Public Land II – 43
Italy Gaze – 40 The delivery – 112
Lord – 101 Silent River – 98 Written/Unwritten – 118
Hungary Love – 118 Sing – 122 The Angelmakers – 80
Japan Mountain Plain Mountain – 38 Tom Rosenthal – Fenn – 99
Russia Big Booom – 113 MERRY-GO-ROUND – 32
Macedonia The Award – 114
Senegal The Other Dakar – 93
Norway People Who Fall – 98 The Hunger – 32
Serbia Nobody Here – 60
Iceland 2 Birds – 72, 98 Salvation – 112 India Camera Threat – 39 Notes To My Father – 92 Iran Gaze – 40 Ireland A Coat Made Dark – 84 Atrophy – 87 Coda – 83 Everything – 110, 113 Fear Of Flying – 85 Frankie – 88 Geist – 84 Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty – 88 Home – 86 Irish Folk Furniture – 85 Just Saying – 86 Meanwhile – 84 Old Fangs – 86 Pentecost – 87 Rats Island – 85 The Door – 88 The Missing Scarf – 83 The Party – 118 Undressing My Mother – 87 Useless Dog – 101 We, the Masses – 83
Poland 16,03 – 107 Bogdan and Rose – 111 Dust – 64 Miss Holocaust – 29 Pencilles case – 106 Pussy – 108 Rogalik – 98 The Sisters – 61 Portugal A Brief History of Princess X – 108 Anthony, the Invisible One – 40 At Dawn – 61 Coup de Grâce – 41 Drop By Drop – 45 Flores – 44 Mirage My Bros – 38 Nadia Schilling – Kite – 99 The Artificial Humors – 118 The Everlasting Man – 35 UBI SUNT – 43 Where the Summer Goes – 66 Republic of Kosovo The Station – 60 Romania Everything Is Far Away – 42 Ivy – 26
Of Biblical Proportions – 71 Paralys – 107 Pussy Have the Power – 108 Road 13 – 28 Salvation – 112 Seeds Of The Fall – 71 Shadow Animals – 30 Situation Frank – 70 Stay Ups – 37 Syndromeda – 71 The Burden – 30 World of Glory – 73, 80
Switzerland Anthony, the Invisible One – 40 Black Line – 42 Coyote – 26 En La Boca – 110, 118 Slovenia Living Like Heta – 63 I'll Probably Never See You Again – 42 OOZE – 107 Rewind Forward – 33 South Korea The Battle of San Romano – 27 Information Skies – 118 The Little Bird and the Caterpillar Wrestler – 106 – 121 The Mirror System – 94 Spain Travelogue Tel Aviv – 61 Darrel – 106 The Netherlands Morning Cowboy – 115, 124 #YOLO4REAL – 52 Mountain Plain Mountain – 38 A Butcher’s Heart – 124 Plague – 113 A Man Falls from the Sky – 53, 114 The Disinherited – 36, 118 AAA (Mein Herz) – 40 The Stunt Manual – 106 Among Us – 98 Timecode – 117 Asylum – 53 Violence is to Charge 600 Euros Bei Mir Bist Du Schön – 122 Public Land II – 43 Botanica – 54 Wild Mane Crop – 34 Bullet Time – 122 Sweden Catastrophe – 111, 122 Anatomy – 70 Cavy World Cup – 124 As We're Told – 35 Credo – 53 Fight on a Swedish Beach!! – 118 Day-glo – 94 Flicker – 72 De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Manon Instead of Abracadabra – 70 – 100 JUCK [THRUST] – 27, 108 Depart at 22 – 98 Make a Wish – 111 Femme – 129 Singapore Novo Amor & Ed Tullett – Terraform – 99
Flower Found! – 48 Future Thoughts – 113 Greetings From Kropsdam – 113 Harbour – 48 Hello Salaam – 51, 115, 122 Homo Ludens – 48 Hot Tea – 54 How to Have a Romantic Date – 106 If Everyone Thinks Like That – 130 Inertia – 94 Information Skies – 118 JUNKSKE – 129, 130 Kiem Holijanda – 51 Labor – 111 Lejla – 49 LISTEN – 51 Mentia – 50, 129 Mountain Plain Mountain – 38 My Body, My Life – 115 My Happy Complicated Family – 123 Natural Thing - Nobody Beats the Drum – 100 Nature: All Rights Reserved – 113 Netflix & Chill – 107 Novo Amor & Ed Tullett - Terraform – 99 One Take Stories - Painful Truth – 106 Polska Warrior – 115, 123 Sand Wanderer – 49 Scrambled – 122 Seven Things I Learned About Time Travel – 123 Short but Sweet – 111 Skógafoss – 50 Sugar – 98 Sweet Tooth – 52, 107 Tex – 52 The Angelmakers – 80 The Art of Flying – 113 The Art of Life – 129 The Funeral of the Shy – 49 Tifa – 130 To ourselves – 129 Uit de Tijd – 130 Word! – 50
Turkey The Circle – 118 Ukraine 5'nizza – SAMOLIOT – 99 The Fall of Lenin – 28 United Kingdom A Brief History of Princess X – 108 Absent Wound – 114 Belly – 98 Black Out – 77 Boogaloo and Graham – 89 Borders – 108 Day-glo – 94 Diliman – 62 Dog – 101 Field Study – 78 Gasman – 79 Ghost in the Boobs – 106 I Was Five When I Became A Woman – 108 James – Moving On – 99 Limbo – 92 Marfa – 41 Meanwhile – 84 New York Is Killing Me – 79 Notes To My Father – 92 Of The Unknown – 78 Private Parts – 108 Reindeer – 76 Revolting Rhymes – 117 Silica – 45 Skywards – 77 Spindrift – 121 Steel Homes – 77 Stutterer – 89 Take Rabbit – 112 The Angelmakers – 80 The Black Dog's Progress – 101 The Eagleman Stag – 98 The Intimacy of Strangers – 76 The Solitary Life Of Cranes – 76 Toto Bona Lokua - Ma Mama – 99 True North – 64
White Riot: London – 114 Wild Horses – 63 Your Views – 80
United States 5000 Feet is the Best – 94 Alt J - Pleader – 99 Andy Mineo & Wordsplayed – DANCE (You See It) – 99 Cole & Marmelade – 100 Dear Basketball – 117 Dog Duet – 101 Everything – 110, 113 Extravaganza – 92 Fowl Play – 106 Glazin' – 108 Henri Le Chat Noir 10 - Reigning Cat & Dog – 100 Hermetic Dating Rituals – 106 Julien Dyne - Hours – 99 Liars - Cred Woes – 99 Lou – 117 My Bodies – 79 My Nephew Emmett – 117 Notes To My Father – 92 NSFWhale – 106 Party Off The Pounds – 106 Potato Dreams – 91 Renata Zeiguer – Wayside – 99 RIP Geocities – 94 So Much Light – Full Body Mirror – 99 The Eleven O’Clock – 117 The Silent Child – 117 The Sun Ladies VR – 93 Washed Out - Floating By – 99 Weeds – 117 Well groomed – 101 World of Tomorrow – 94 Zimbabwe Waste no.1 Money – 31
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