Catalogue - Go Short 2014

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SHORT FILMS, GREAT IDEAS.

6TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN

9/13 APRIL 2014 WWW.GOSHORT.NL

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CONTENT Timetable / 4 Map & Locations / 9 Welcome / 11 Acknowledgements / 12 Practical Information / 13 Delegate Information / 14 Industry Events / 15 Parties / 16 Industry Day / 17 Dziga's Master Class / 20 Student Campus / 21 Talks / 22

COMPETITION PROGRAM

FOCUS PROGRAM

SHORT FILM SPECIALS

European Competition Jury / 24 Dutch Competition & Breaking Shorts Jury / 26 Youth Competition Jury / 28 Awards / 29 European Competition / 31 Dutch Competition / 54 Youth Competition / 62 Breaking Shorts / 64

Paul Wright / 75 Belgian Shorts / 82 Food & Film / 90

Pohjankonna Oy / 100 Europe in Crisis / 102 International Highlights / 107 Comedy Shorts / 108 Homegrown / 109 Go Ahead / 110 HKU Presents / 112 Oscar Shorts / 113 Meet the Jury / 114

Go Shorty! / 115 Go Expo / 118 Film Index by Title / 120 Film Index by Country / 122 Colophon / 125

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WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL 11

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LUX 2

21:00 POHJANKONNA OY + TALK

LUX 4

LUX 3

20:30 OPENING

LEGENDA OTHER FOCUS PROGRAM

NL: DUTCH COMPETITION

SHORT FILM SPECIAL

BS: BREAKING SHORTS

TALKS + LECTURES

COMPETITION MIX

PARTY + AWARDS

LUX 5

EU: EUROPEAN COMPETITION

PAVILJOEN

COMPETITION PROGRAM:

WINNERS + FAVORITES

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16:00 BELGIUM: EXTRAORD. LIVES

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18:30 COMPETITION BS-4 18:00 GIF IT UP

15:45 COMPETITION EU-6 16:00 OCULUS RIFT

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18:00 FOOD: FOOD FIGHTS

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20:00 BELGIUM: EMERGING TALENT

19:30 COMPETITION BS-1

BESIENDERS– HUIS PRESENTATION

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14:00 CRISIS: EVERYTHING FOR THE JOB 13:45 COMPETITION NL-3

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22:00 COMPETITION NL-1 21:30 FOOD: HAUTE CUISINE

20:30 COMPETITION EU-2

22:30 COMPETITION EU-3

20:30 FOOD: TALKS

22:30 BELGIUM: BIG BOSSES

20:00 COMPETITION EU-1

22:00 COMPETITION EU-9 22:00 DE BRAKKE GROND BELGIUM TALK 23:00 – 04:00 PARTY MERLEYN

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FRIDAY 11 APRIL 11

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16:00 BELGIUM: EMERGING TALENT

18:00 CRISIS: MAKE ENDS MEET

20:00 PAUL WRIGHT + INTERVIEW

14:30 COMPETITION EU-1

14:00 COMPETITION EU-11 ANIMATION

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18:00 COMPETITION EU-9

16:30 COMPETITION EU-2

15:00 COMPETITION NL-1

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15:45 COMPETITION BS-3

14:00 HKU PRESENTS 1

18:30 COMPETITION BS-2

17:00 COMPETITION NL-3

16:00 HKU PRESENTS 2

19:45 COMEDY SHORTS

18:15 COMPETITION EU-12 ART FILMS

14:00 INDUSTRY DAY: (CO)PRODUCTION LOCATION: ZIEKERSTRAAT 81 GOSHORT

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20:00 FILMQUIZ LOCATION: PAVILION

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12:00 FOOD: HAUTE CUISINE

13:30 COMPETITION EU-10 DOCUMENTARY

11:00 COMPETITION BS-3

13:00 COMPETITION BS-1

11:00 COMPETITION NL-2

13:00 GO AHEAD

11:00 DZIGA: FROM IDEA TO FILM

13:00 CRISIS: EVERYTHING FOR THE JOB

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16:00 BELGIUM: BIG BOSSES

15:30 PAUL WRIGHT: FAVORITES

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17:30 CRISIS: MAKE ENDS MEET

17:00 MEET THE JURY

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20:00 AWARDS

16:00 LOCAL PLATFORM MEETING 13:00 GO SHORTY: PLAYGROUND LOCATION: LIBRARY

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18:00 OSCAR SHORTS

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22:00 PAUL WRIGHT: SHORTS 22:30 JURY WINNERS

21:00 COMEDY SHORTS

19:15 SOETERBEECK TALK 23:15 – 04:00 PARTY MERLEYN

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SUNDAY 13 APRIL 11

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19:15 AUDIENCE FAVORITES 2 18:45 BELGIUM: EXTRAORD. LIVES

17:00 FOOD: FOOD FIGHTS

12:30 48 HOUR B

15:15 JURY WINNERS 1

17:15 JURY WINNERS 2

19:15 JURY WINNERS 1

15:15 FAMILY SHORTS 6+

17:15 MIX: DUTCH

19:15 MIX: STUDENT

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21:15 POHJANKONNA OY 21:00 MIX: FICTION 21:00 FEATURE: FOR THOSE IN PERIL

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B&B DE PRINCE Lange Hezelstraat 42–44 CREDIBLE Hertogstraat 1 AMRÂTH HOTEL BELVOIR Graadt van Roggenstraat 101

GO SHORT OFFICE Stationsplein 13 6512 AB, Nijmegen PO Box 1449 6501 BK, Nijmegen T: +31 (0)24 663 6789 E: info@goshort.nl GOSHORT

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WELCOME TO THE 6TH EDITION OF GO SHORT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN

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A SHORT WELCOME... Short Films, Great Ideas! That says it all. These films may be short in running time, but they never run out of ideas. The biggest stories, emotions and experiences fit into the shortest of films. It’s still a rare pleasure to enjoy short films on the big screen in the Netherlands, although a lot has changed since we started Go Short six years ago. The banking crisis had just started and the future wasn’t looking very promising in those days. That didn’t stop Go Short however, as it has been the fastest growing film festival of the Netherlands for several years now. We’re happy to be part of a new short film era. The digitalization of production and distribution methods offers great opportunities to filmmakers. One mouse click is all it takes nowadays for short films to go everywhere. We do not know how this is going to end, but we are pretty sure we want to be there to see it! Year round we now host short film screenings in 18 art house cinemas before the main feature, offer a weekly short film on our Short Shot blog, and participate in numerous festivals and events throughout the country. This year we joined France and Germany in their celebration of the shortest day of the year and held our own European Short Film Day. Our five day Go Short festival is still the driving force behind everything we do however. We’re still doing what we do best: bringing short films to the big screen. The competition program we have compiled is our pride and joy, as always. On top of that we offer a great focus program on food films and have a look at short films from Belgium.

We are also proud to welcome Paul Wright as our special guest. He’s a great talent who even managed to convince us to make a rare exception and include his feature debut in our program. To compensate for its length we are happily going to take a closer look at the shortest of short moving images: GIFs. New impulses are coming from Pohjankonna Oy, who stayed with us for two months as Artist in Residence at the Besiendershuis. We are also going to explore the cinematic possibilities in the virtual realm of the Oculus Rift. To strengthen the roots of short film in the Netherlands, we are proud to introduce Go Ahead. This is a new program featuring works of Dutch film students before graduation, which is an effort to expose them to the appreciation short films receive at international festivals like Go Short. When film lovers, filmmakers, and film students all gather in Nijmegen it fills us with energy and inspiration. Even if some of us only meet once a year, it’s still an immense pleasure to see all of you here. This is where everything comes together. Whether it’s animation, fiction, documentary or art film, at Go Short you can indulge in shorts of all genres. We hope you enjoy our program. Some shorts will appeal to you more than others, but we can say with certainty that each and every film has been made with passion and inspiration. The unbridled enthusiasm, the immense diversity: this is why we love the short film format so much. Kirsten Ruber and Lisa ter Berg Festival directors GOSHORT

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THANK YOU! The Go Short festival team, Pien Houthoff and

Michaela van Wassenaer, Marieke van der Kruijs,

International Short Film Festival Clermont-

all the people at LUX, Frank Boeijen, Martine

Myra Groenink, Romy Jochems, Andrea Posthuma,

Ferrand, Annecy, International Short Film

Boot, Martine Eelman, Gema Pérez, Paul Wright,

Veerle Devreese (De Brakke Grond), Anouta de

Festival Rotterdam, Beeldbuis Festival, Krakow

Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen, Pierre-

Groot (Soeterbeeck), Annebel Kroezen (NPO

Film Festival, Holland Animation Film Festival,

Emmanuel Lyet, Gitta Kruisbrink, Tanja Koning,

Cultura), Laura Fulgori (Food Film Festival)

International Short Film Conference

Theo Tsappos (Swedish Film Institute), Zofia

De Balie, Filmhuis Den Haag, Focus Filmtheater,

Scisłowska (Kraków Film Foundation), Christof

Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt, Lumière Cinema, Rialto,

Wehmeier (Icelandic Film Centre), Otto Suuronen

Chassé Theater, De Lieve Vrouw, Verkadefabriek,

(Finnish Film Foundation), Ainhoa Jauregui

Filmhuis de Keizer, Filmtheater Hilversum,

(Unifrance), Arna Marie Bersaas (Norwegian Film

Concordia, Heerenstraat Theater, Filmschuur,

Institute), Salette Ramalho (Agencia – Portugese

Forum Images, Filmhuis Den Haag, ECI Cultuur-

Short Film Agency), il Luster Productions, Lisa

fabriek, Cacaofabriek, Cinema Oostereiland,

Linde Nieveld (EYE International), Marion Slewe

Parkfilmhuis, Slieker Film, Filmtheater Fanfare,

(NFA), Lisa Leistra-Hjalmarson (Embassy of

Filmhuis Lumen

Gugeli, Pepijn Kuyper, Sydney Neter, Wytze Koppelman (Breaking Ground), Jan-Wieger van den Berg, Andree van de Kerckhoven & Corrie Kuijs (Besiendershuis), Erik van Drunen, Animation Kitchen, Richard Schut & Pierre van Meegen (48 HFP), Ellen Kocken (Dziga), Nienke van der Fange & Roddia Rumahloine (NBF), Kyra Schiffers, Carlijn van der Laar, Thomas Keuvelaar, Pepijn Broekhorst, Jos Reinhoudt, Noël Vergunst, Andy Leenen, Mathieu Janssen, Bureau Twintig, CJP, Cultuur op de Campus, Architectuurcentrum Nijmegen, Jonatan Brand (Doornroosje), John

Sweden), Jonathan Dent (Embassy of Ireland), Gaby van-Soldt (Institut Francais),

Van Haren Auto’s, Amrâth Hotel Belvoir, B&B De Prince, Gastenschip de Orca, Credible, Extrapool,

Canciani, Marlijn Klerk (NPO Doc), Martijn van

International Short Film Festival Leuven,

Boven (ArtEZ), Grote Broer Kunsteducatie, Peter

Netherlands Film Festival, Festival del Film

van Hoof, De Gelderlander, Egbert de Ruiter

Locarno, International Short Film Festival

(HKU), Arthur Schuitemaker (NTR), Marjolein

Winterthur, International Short Film Festival

Hordijk (Bilbiotheek Gelderland Zuid), Monique

Oberhausen, Tampere Short Film Festival,

Winkelman (Rabobank Nijmegen), Henk Beerten,

Brest European Short Film Festival, Hamburg

Betty Bergman, Stefan Grond & Nathalie van den

International Short Film Festival, Curtas Vila do

Dobbelsteen (Gemeente Nijmegen), Floor Viveen

Conde Festival Internacional de Cinema, Mecal

Above all, we thank all of our volunteers.

& Milja Bos (Provincie Gelderland), Claudia

– Barcelona International Short and Animation

Without you there would be no Go Short!

Lansberger, Sylvia Brandsteder, Doreen

Film Festival, Nordisk Panorama, Encounters

Boonekamp, Dany Delvoie, Marg Brouwers,

Short Film and Animation Film Festival,

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and many more! We also want to say thanks to all the directors and producers who sent us their films. Thank you to our members of the jury, selectors and pre-selectors, our partners and all friends of the festival!


PRACTICAL INFORMATION TICKETS

FESTIVAL PAVILION

Tickets are available at the LUX box office or online at goshort. nl. Tickets for parties and activities not taking place at LUX are sold at the door. Terms and conditions can be found at goshort.nl.

Our festival pavilion, which is the hotspot for professional visitors, is located on the square outside LUX. This is where the Industry Desk can be found as well as the Festival Café. The festival pavilion will be the central location for several lectures, talk shows and informal gatherings. Let's meet and enjoy a beer from our official supplier, Warsteiner.

Ticket Prices Film Film Thu + Fri before 18:00 Student / CJP Strippenkaart (5–in–1) ** Day Pass Saturday Day Pass Sunday Weekend Pass (Sat & Sun)

box office €9 €7 €7

online € 8,50* € 6,50* € 6,50*

€ 40 € 35 € 30 € 50

* excluding an online administration fee of € 0.50 per transaction, regardless of the amount of tickets ** only available at the LUX Box Office

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Ever since the first edition, LUX has been our main film screening location. All regular film screenings will take place here. The central box office is also located in LUX, on the other side of the arch from the bar and the screening rooms. In addition, free wireless internet is available.

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DELEGATE INFORMATION ACCREDITATION Film professionals, film students and press are able to request a delegate or press pass. This accreditation identifies you as a professional visitor and is strictly personal. A delegate or press pass provides you with access to all festival screenings, industry events and the video library including the Dutch Platform. Please note that tickets to screenings and events are free of charge for pass holders, but it is necessary to pick up a ticket in advance at the box office. Pay What You Want Go Short has a Pay What You Want policy regarding accreditations. We aim to keep our prices low to make our festival accessible to all kinds of professionals. The minimum price for a delegate pass is € 45. Film students get a discount and pay a fee of € 20. A delegate pass is free for filmmakers of films in the official selection of Go Short 2014 and to verified members of the press. Everyone is welcome to pay an extra amount to support the festival. With your contribution you can support the continuation and growth 14

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of Go Short in the future. So please, pay what you want. Any contribution, small or big, is very much appreciated.

INDUSTRY & PRESS DESK The Go Short Industry Desk is located at the Festival Pavilion. Our staff will be there to welcome you and provide you with all the information you need about your stay at the festival. Feel free to stop by at the desk if you have any further questions throughout the festival. Opening Hours Industry & Press Desk Festival Pavilion Wed 9/4 > 14:00 – 22:00 Thu 10/4 > 10:00 – 21:00 Fri 11/4 > 9:00 – 21:00 Sat 12/4 > 10:00 – 21:00 Sun 13/4 > 9:30 – 20:00 Industry Desk Contact Details Fay Breeman & Thijs van der Laak industry@goshort.nl +31 (0)24–6636789 +31 (0)6–22392822 (mobile Fay)

Press Desk Contact Details Laura van der Sman pr@goshort.nl +31 (0)24–6636789 +31 (0)6–51216085 (mobile)

VIDEO LIBRARY The video library is located at Ziekerstraat 81 and is open to all delegate and press visitors. The library holds all films in this year’s festival program, including all inand out-of-competition titles. Technical data, synopsis, and contact information are available in a digital database. Dutch Platform The video library includes our Dutch Platform, which holds an extensive collection of recent Dutch shorts from different academies, institutes, distributors and production companies in the Netherlands. Opening Hours Video Library Ziekerstraat 81 Thu 10/4 – Sat 12/4 > 10:00 – 20:00 ** Sun 13/4 > 10:00 – 15:00 ** on request until 22:00


INDUSTRY EVENTS There are several social events, professional activities and parties during the festival. These offer great opportunities to meet new people and acquire new contacts. Sometimes they will require you to sign up in advance at the Industry Desk. Detailed information, locations and times are available at the Industry Desk. Friday features a lot of industry activities. If your visit is limited to just one day, this day might be the most interesting one. In collaboration with EYE, NBF, the Netherlands Film Fund, MEDIA and other partners, we present a full day’s program, including panel discussions. An accreditation provides access to all industry events during Industry Day. If you are interested in only attending our Industry Day, please contact our Industry Desk. Food vouchers for the daily dinner are available for a reasonable price at the Industry Desk. Places are limited so make your reservations at arrival or at least one day in advance.

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GO PARTY! GO FEVER Thursday 10/4 – 23:00 – Merleyn The Pin Up Club sets the dancefloor on fire with retro-synth-disco. Keljet and his buddies 2CV and Budakid bring more nu-disco and deep house heat.

AMAI DE MAX Friday 11/4 – 23:00 – Merleyn From Soulwax to Stromae, from Duvel to Brugse Zot. Belgian music and Belgian beers, can life get any better?

INDIE DISCO Saturday 12/4 – 23:15 – Merleyn The best indie dancefloor material of all time and genres. We’re pretty sure dj Maarten W. and the bartenders will keep the Belgian tap running!

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INDUSTRY DAY INDUSTRY DAY – (CO)PRODUCTION Fri 11/4 / 10:00–17:30 What possibilities are available for co-production in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe? What do you have to keep in mind when co-producing? What are possible advantages? What alternative modes of production are available? What might be future models? These questions will be central to the fourth edition of the Go Short Industry Day, which is organised in collaboration with the NBF (Dutch Association of Film and television professionals). This day will offer an inspiring and practical program for Dutch and international filmmakers, distributors and buyers. >>>>>

(Co)production: possibilities for Dutch filmmakers 10:30–11:30 / LUX 7 / Dutch spoken

(Co)production: two international case studies 11:30–13:00 / LUX 7

What possibilities are available for Dutch filmmakers? What opportunities are there just across the border, in Belgium? Is the production climate better over there and what can we learn from this? What opportunities are there for Belgian / Dutch coproductions? We will discuss these matters and more with VAF (Flanders Image) and Dorien van de Pas of Filmfonds (the Netherlands Film Fund).

Two international co-productions will be discussed. Vanya Rainova from the Bulgarian production company Portocal will talk about the co-production Pride. Pride is featured in our European Competition (p. 38) and is a co-production between Germany and Hungary. She will talk about the collaboration and all the things that come to mind when making a co-production. What are the steps you need to take? What are the pros and cons in co-producing? GOSHORT

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Network lunch 13:00–14:00 / Pavilion

Seminar: Crowdfunding Review 14:00–15:00 / LUX 7 / Dutch spoken

After the morning program, a tasty lunch will be served. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and talk with other guests.

It has been a few years since crowdfunding was introduced as a way to finance short films. Now it’s time to evaluate. Has it been successful? What works, what doesn’t? How should you use it? Could it have uses as a marketing tool instead of a financing model? The goal of this seminar is to have a critical evaluation with filmmakers who have experience with crowd funding.

PARALLEL SESSIONS 14:00–16:15 / seminars: LUX 7 / workshops: Ziekerstraat 81 In the afternoon you can choose to participate in two workshops or seminars.

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Workshop: Funding 14:00–15:00 / Ziekerstraat 81 / Dutch spoken How do you write a good application for a fund? Dorien van de Pas (Filmfonds) gives tips and tricks. Workshop: Made for the Web 14:00–15:00 / Ziekerstraat 81 / Dutch spoken How to produce content especially for the web? Meia Wippoo (Made for Web Academy) and Marko van Kampen (World of Mouth) will elaborate on cases they have worked with as concept developers and creative directors.


Seminar: Festival Programmers 15:15–16:15 / LUX 7 International festival programmers will discuss the ideal short film. What works for them? Which genres are best to work with? What are the do’s and don’ts? What do programmers pay attention to when selecting a film? The panel includes Katie Metcalfe, programmer for Sundance, and Jukka-Pekka Laakso from Tampere Film Festival, among others.

Workshop: Digital Formats 15:15–16:15 / Ziekerstraat 81 / Dutch spoken Which different digital formats are currently available? Which formats are convenient for which goals? What are the differences? What do festivals prefer? How do you make a DCP?

More information can be found on www.goshort.nl and www.nbf.nl. The NBF is the oldest association for film and television professionals in the Netherlands. With frequent network meetings, educational activities, and theme nights, they bring colleagues and competitors together.

Workshop: Green Film Making 15:15–16:15 / Ziekerstraat 81 / Dutch spoken How can you attain ecological sustainability in co-productions? Drinks & Network Opportunity hosted by Creative Europe Desk NL 16:30–17:30 / Pavilion

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DZIGA’S KINOLAB AND GO SHORT PRESENT MASTER CLASS: FROM IDEA TO FILM MASTER CLASS

ONE // ONE

Sat 12/4 / 11:00 / LUX 5 / Dutch spoken only

Sat 12/4 / 14.00–15.30 / Pavilion / registration required

In this master class by Miryam van Lier, Douwe Dijkstra and Joost van Ginkel you will get all the information you need to develop your own film idea into a successful film. What are the key elements from your initial idea and how can you develop them? How can you pitch your idea to producers and funders? These and more questions will be dealt with during this master class.

Up until 28 March filmmakers will have the opportunity to send DZIGA their log line for a short film. From these entries we will select filmmakers for 20-minute one-on-one sessions with Miryam, Douwe or Joost. Filmmakers can ask them for tips and guidance. Sign up by sending your log line to: info@dziga.nl

Miryam van Lier Miryam is senior executive at the Dutch Cultural Media Fund. Short film is one of her areas of expertise.

Douwe Dijkstra Douwe’s short film Démontable is part of this year’s Dutch Competition. Much of the work Douwe does as a video artist is commissioned by and made in collaboration with theatre groups, bands and festivals.

Joost van Ginkel Joost is a two-time winner of the Dutch Competition at Go Short, winning the awards for his films Kiss (2008) and Sand (2009). He made his feature debut with 170 Hz (2011).

DZIGA is a non-profit platform and meeting place for filmmakers and video artists in Nijmegen. DZIGA supports and facilitates the production of video and film, and presents a program of screenings, workshops and multimedia projects. www.dziga.nl 20

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GO SHORT STUDENT CAMPUS Since the very first edition of the festival, the Go Short Student Campus has been a meeting point for filmmakers who are about to make the big leap from the academy to the professional field. The Go Short Student Campus brings emerging filmmakers and seasoned film professionals together and offers 19 young filmmakers from all over Europe a unique and intensive program.

In this year’s Campus we focus on giving young filmmakers hands-on knowledge about everything that becomes important as soon as they leave the film academy. We will offer master classes, lectures, workshops and panel discussions by the industry’s top experts. Belgian filmmaker Gilles Coulier, our special guest Paul Wright, and our Artists in Residence Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen, among others, will contribute to the Campus program. The participants receive assignments and challenges throughout the week, prompting them to mingle and expand their network with other festival guests. You might very well be part of their learning experience! During this week the film students will prepare for the next step in their careers. On the trip back home suitcases will be filled with new experiences and address books with new contacts. They will have a practical starter kit at their disposal with tools of the trade.

CAMPUS PARTICIPANTS Wed 9/4 / 10:00–12:00 / LUX 3 / closed setting Every student presents a film or film plan at the beginning of the Campus and is then challenged to finance, promote, produce or distribute this film. All these films are available in the library. Alonso Carlos (ES) Home Otto Banovits (UK) Sebastiano Caceffo (IT) Loop Andreea Dobre (RO) A Small Treaty on the God Called Body Matija Drnikovi (HR) An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral Paolo Iskra (SE) Shadows Chadwick Jackson (UK) Rock, Paper, Scissors Lora Markova (ES) Draw Me A Fish Louisa Mayman (UK) Come Clean Marek Naprstek (CZ) Left, Right Mariia Ponomarova (UA) She is not with me Myriam Raja (UK) Menarche Emil Ramos (SE) Kompleks Anna Rubi (CH) Animalies Manual LAPUS ENTERICA Shannon Kanhai (NL) Jordy Tempelman (NL) Dread Mei Leng Yew (UK) Scarred Up GOSHORT

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TALKS

OCULUS RIFT

.GIF IT UP!

OLIVER DAVIES Thu 10/4 / 16:00 / Pavilion

EMMA CURVERS Thu 10/4 / 18:00 / LUX 4

Oliver Davies (NHTV – my Academy for Digital Entertainment) presents the Oculus Rift. He will explore the role the Oculus plays in the gaming world, and the possibilities it offers in scientific areas. What could the Oculus offer the world of cinema? The first experiments are taking place as we speak.

Emma Curvers, chief editor of Cineville, explores the cinematic possibilities of GIF images. They used to be known as “those annoying animated pictures on MySpace”, now it’s an internet phenomenon with countless narrative possibilities. Despite the limitations, a great number of stories, subcultures and private worlds have emerged from this intermediate form of graphic and cinematic images.

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Although they are used mainly in a humorous way, the possibilities for GIF images as a cinematic art form shouldn’t be underestimated. Do you want more .GIFs? ArtEZ: In the loop (p. 118)

FOOD TALKS Thu 10/4 / 20:30 / LUX 4 / Dutch spoken Four talks on the future of food (p. 98)

DE BRAKKE GROND – BELGIUM TALK Thu 10/4 / 22:00 / Pavilion The complete Belgian delegation joins us for a talk about the Belgian short film culture.

SOETERBEECK – CRISIS TALK Sat 12/4 / 19:15 / Pavilion Soeterbeeck talks about the films in Making Ends Meet and the crisis years.


COMPETITIONS EUROPEAN DUTCH YOUTH BREAKING SHORTS

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION JURY

MARTINA CARLSTEDT (SE)

ARNO COENEN (NL)

EMMA DE SWAEF (BE)

Martina (1985) graduated from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts with a degree in documentary filmmaking in 2013 and has a background in psychology. She has directed several short documentary films that explore relations-based themes, often relating to alienation and community. Her film Claes won the award for best documentary at Go Short 2011. Her latest film The Love Agency, about a small dating agency in the north west of Russia, won the Tempo Short Award for the best short documentary in Sweden 2013. Her new film Micke & Tommy has been selected for the Breaking Shorts competition.

A meeting of extremes is what Arno (1972) aims to achieve with his media art. His images reveal refreshing similarities between things that are generally represented as separate and incompatible in contemporary media. Arno is fascinated with the rise of cultures coming from abroad, as well as developments in subcultures, youth culture and pop culture. His special interest lies with more explosive sub-cultural phenomena, such as hooliganism, heavy metal and martial arts culture.

Emma (1985) studied documentary filmmaking at the Sint-Lukas academy in Brussels. She decided to put her knitting and craft skills to use in her graduation film, Soft Plants. The short introduces the character of chubby office-worker Willy, who returned in the short Oh Willy‌ which was selected for Go Short last year. Oh Willy... was one of the most successful shorts of the year, receiving more than eighty awards and special mentions, including the Cartoon d’Or. She also works as a modelmaker on films and commercials. Our Belgian visitors may remember her sugar man, a little man made out of sugar cubes for a Belgian sugarcommercial. She is currently developing a new short film, another collaboration with filmmaker Marc James Roels.

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JUKKA-PEKKA LAAKSO (FI)

KATIE METCALFE (UK)

Jukka-Pekka (1959) started working for the Tampere Film Festival in Finland in the early 80’s, and has been involved with its film selection and programming since 2000, eventually taking up the directorship in 2002. Since 1998 he has been the Executive Director for the Pirkanmaa Film Centre, a local film centre in Tampere which runs an art house cinema, distributes films in Finland and works extensively in media education. He has worked as a freelance film critic for radio and magazines, and is now a member of the National Council for the Arts in Finland and the European Film Academy.

Video supervixen Katie (1980) has a background in cinematic events, producing immersive experiences around feature films using live music, set design and actors. She has worked in short film programming and acquisitions for Future Shorts, a London-based short film distribution label, and became a short film programmer for Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Based between the UK and the US she also worked with Vimeo to produce their Festival + Awards in New York in 2012.

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DUTCH COMPETITION / BREAKING SHORTS JURY

VIVIENNE VAN DEN ASSEM (NL)

TOM FASSAERT (NL)

DIRK LAMBRECHT (BE)

At the age of thirteen Vivienne (1983) started taking acting courses, landing her first acting job in a Dutch television series while she was still a teenager. After high school she attended the Netherlands Film Academy (AHK). She played roles in the short films Emergency Exit and Wat Is Daarop Uw Antwoord?, and is now a popular Dutch television personality, well known for her role in the children’s television show Zoop.

In 2006 Tom Fassaert (1979) graduated from the Dutch Film Academy with the critically acclaimed short documentary Doel Leeft, a film about a small Flemish village threatened with demolition. Tom always stayed closely connected to Doel and its last residents, and decided to continue the story with his debut feature length documentary An Angel in Doel, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival where it received an honorary mention. Currently Tom is working on a new feature length documentary titled A Family Affair. He is also a teacher and a coach at the Netherlands Film Academy and at the IDFA Mediafonds workshop.

Dirk (1970) studied traditional animation at KASK, Gent Belgium. Then he started, along with the digital era, as an indepent storyboard artist and director for Grid, Trix, Creative Conspiracy, Movida and several advertising companies. For the moment he works at Howest as a lecturer in Digital Arts & Entertainment, which is a specialised program for students of 3D animation and digital design. He is also an animation assessor for VAF (Flanders Image), which supports audiovisual production and international co-productions in Flanders. The aims of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund are threefold: to develop a sustainable audiovisual industry, to encourage and support upcoming audiovisual talent and to promote a vibrant audiovisual culture in Flanders.

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SVEN SCHWARZ (GE)

ANNA FRANCES EWERT (GE)

Since 2011 Sven (1977) has been the managing director of the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, which is a festival rooted in an environment of independent film makers. One of the primary concerns of the festival is to emphasise the independence of short films as an art form and to create a special environment for them. Furthermore, it wishes to promote and popularize the short film medium as a means of expression. Sven is also a member of the Hamburg-based artist group A Wall is a Screen, which transforms city walls into cinema screens.

Born in 1986 in the south of Germany, Anna gathered her first filmmaking experience through various workshops and internships with production companies in Berlin, London and Dublin. From 2007 – 2010 the German-Irish filmmaker studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where she made several shorts and discovered her passion for documentary filmmaking. In 2010 she took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and since 2011, she is a student of documentary film at the University of TV and Film in Munich. Her shorts have been screened at numerous film festivals around the world and her documentary Endless Day won the Dioraphte Encouragement Award at Go Short 2013.

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YOUTH JURY

TOSCA SOMMERDIJK 14 YEARS – TILBURG

NIKKI VAN DER LINDEN 14 YEARS – ZUTPHEN

VERONIQUE SCHARWÄCHTER 15 YEARS – BEMMEL

JOPKE VAN DEN BERG 15 YEARS – NIJMEGEN

MORI VAN HAREN 13 YEARS – BEUNINGEN

“I really like films, because I always feel like I am one of the persons in them. I always get the feeling that I need to shout to the character what to do. I will pay attention to the story line and from which perspective it’s told. I will also pay attention to whether or not the film moves me.”

“I like films a lot because you can imagine where it happens. You can go to a scary, beautiful, dark or light place. It’s all up to you, and you can choose which character you want to be. With short films the makers are going to try to let your imagination work fast, so that’s where I will be paying attention to.”

“I love to watch almost every film and have an opinion on every single one of them. A film needs to have an original touch and a core that is clear and strong. If I keep thinking about the story, it’s a film that deserves an award. I will also pay attention to the perspectives that are used and the idea behind the film.”

“Next year I will graduate on photography and film at my high school. I applied for Go Short’s Youth Jury because I like to make films, and I like to watch them as well. My focus as a jury member will be on originality, camerawork and the story line.”

“I am an opinionated person. I enjoy films with action and comedy, and I like to give my opinion about them. As a jury member I’ll be watching whether the film is entertaining. Does it have a sense of humor, and does it excite me?”

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AWARDS Go Short hands out no less than eight awards. Seven of these are chosen by our three juries. The audience vote is just as important, as all shorts in competition are eligible for the audience award.

NTR Go Short and Dutch public broadcaster NTR proudly present the NTR Go Short Awards for Best European Short Film in four categories: Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Art Film. All films in the European competition are eligible to receive an NTR Go Short award. It’s the sixth anniversary for NTR and Go Short, as they have been our partner from the very first edition. The winners of each category receive a € 1.000 prize.

VEVAM All films in the Dutch competition are eligible to receive the VEVAM Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short. It’s the second year VEVAM, the Dutch copyright society for film and television directors, joins us in handing out this award. A segment of the income of VEVAM goes into Stichting VEVAM Fonds (VEVAM Fund for social and cultural purposes). The VEVAM Go Short Award, consisting of € 2.500, is intended to stimulate Dutch directors to experiment and expand the genre of short film.

DIORAPHTE FOUNDATION Together with the Dioraphte Foundation, Go Short hands out an encouragement award for the Best Student Film in the Breaking Shorts Student Competition. This € 5.000 prize serves as an encouragement to a young artist at the start of a promising career in filmmaking. The Dioraphte Foundation promotes national and international projects of quality that make culture available to a broad audience.

YOUTH AWARD The youngest jury of Go Short is now in its third year. Once again we have asked five youngsters with a sharp eye for quality in short film to team up in the Youth Jury. These youngsters, all aged between 13 and 15 years, provide a fresh view on a selection of films from the competition programs. They will decide who is going to receive the Go Short Youth Award.

GO SHORT AUDIENCE AWARD Where would Go Short be without its audience? The Go Short Audience Award is handed out based on the greatest wisdom of all: the wisdom of the crowd. All shorts in competition are eligible for this award. Go Short Awards: Sat 12/04 - 20:00 - LUX 4 Go Short Audience Award: Sun 13/04 - 13:15 - LUX 1

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The Dioraphte Foundation supports cultural projects with a national and international reach. Go Short can count on our support in their mission to bring European short films to a wider audience. Not later, but now, because culture is the wealth you share.

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

Once again, we have brought the finest of short films from across Europe to Nijmegen. Short fiction films and animations, documentaries and art films: they are all equally represented in the competition programs and screened alongside each other. The selection of 60 includes films from 21 European countries.

Felix Massie is another regular at Go Short. He was a competitor in 2010, a jury member in 2011, and the designer of our tote bag in 2012. This year the bag is designed by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, who was an award winner in 2011, a jury member in 2012, and is now represented with his new film Angélique’s Day for Night.

It’s good to see so many new names and to have the chance to discover talented filmmakers working in Europe today. It’s also a joy to see filmmakers return to the festival, dedicated as they are to the short film format. We’re happy that they are still going short!

We’re also happy to see Karsten Krause again. He came in second in the Cinepoem competition of Go Short 2011, where he met the winner Paul Bogaert. A poem by Bogaert inspired Krause to make the film included in this year’s selection: I AM HERE. Also returning are Lotta Sweetliv, Zbigniew Czapla, and Nicolas Provost.

Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen have been selected for three years in a row. They are also present as our Artists in Residence (p. 100).

While viewing the submitted films we were struck by the fact that many of

them dealt with the economic crisis. As a result we added a special program with films exploring this theme, Europe in Crisis (p. 103).

We would like to thank our selection committee for their efforts in selecting a strong program. This year’s shorts were selected by Go Short’s director Kirsten Ruber, head of the program department Wouter Jansen, Floor Adams (independent animator), Tom de Bont (Heerenstraat Theater Wageningen), Manon Bovenkerk (ZAAL5, Filmhuis Den Haag), Erik van Drunen (LUCA Brussel), Bart Jansen (Beeldbuis Festival), Marlijn Klerk (NPO Doc), Tanja Koning (Discovery Festival, Amsterdam), Wiepko Oosterhuis (Age of Wonder), Constant van Panhuys (documentary producer, Hazazah) and Dirk van der Straaten (De Balie, Amsterdam). GOSHORT

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INDEX EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU-1: STILL STANDING / P. 34 Good Morning Resistance Adrián Orr documentary / Spain / 2013 / 20’ On Suffocation Jenifer Malmqvist fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 8’ People Who Fall Bobbie Peers fiction / Norway / 2013 / 11’ Women’s Letters Augusto Zanovello animation / France / 2013 / 11’ Just Before Losing Everything Xavier Legrand / fiction / France / 2013 / 30’

EU-2: STRANGERS AND CHARMERS / P. 35 Rhino Full Throttle Erik Schmitt, Stephan Müller fiction / Germany / 2013 / 15’ Eagle Boy Gry Elisabeth Mortensen documentary / Norway / 2013 / 27’ Abderrahman Elias Sfaxi fiction / France / 2013 / 20’ Floating Woman Thibault Lang-Willar fiction / France / 2013 / 18’

EU-3: PRIDE AND ACCEPTANCE / P. 37 Mont Blanc Gilles Coulier fiction / Belgium / 2012 / 15’ 32

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Sweet Rabbit Camiel Schouwenaar fiction / the Netherlands / 2012 / 14’ Father Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso animation / France, Argentina / 2013 / 12’ Pride Pavel Vesnakov fiction / Bulgaria, Germany / 2013 / 30’

EU-4: WHAT IF / P. 38 37°4 S Adriano Valerio fiction / France / 2013 / 12’ Young Guns Stéphane Demoustier documentary / France / 2013 / 40’ Angélique’s Day for Night Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, Joris Clerté animation / France / 2013 / 7’ Whale Valley Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson fiction / Denmark, Iceland / 2013 / 15’

EU-5: ANOTHER FLING / P. 39 Hands up to Heaven Ulrike Putzer, Matthias van Baaren documentary / Austria / 2013 / 18’ Kiran Alexander Riedel, Bettina Timm documentary / Germany / 2012 / 29’ All the World’s A Stage - Ways of Seeing 2013 Donna Verheijden art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 18’

Sandy Joseph Mann animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 2’ Undress Me Victor Lindgren fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 15’

EU-6: CONQUERORS / P. 41 The Missing Scarf Eoin Duffy animation / Ireland / 2013 / 7’ Chikara - The Sumo Wrestler’s Son Simon Lereng Wilmont documentary / Denmark / 2013 / 32’ Spherulite Lotta Sweetliv animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’ Eating Lunch Sanna Lenken fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 13’ Moritz and the Woodwose Bryn Chainey fiction / Germany / 2013 / 20’

EU-7: RIVERS AND ROADS / P. 43 Winter Cristina Picchi documentary / Russia / 2013 / 12’ The Day Has Conquered The Night Jean-Gabriel Périot documentary / France / 2013 / 28’ Hollow Land Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot animation / Denmark, France, Canada / 2013 / 14’


I AM HERE Karsten Krause, Francesca Bertin art film / Germany / 2013 / 6’ Shipwreck Morgan Knibbe documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 13’

Mystery Chema García Ibarra fiction / Spain / 2012 / 12’ Safari Heat Antti Laakso, Simo Ruotsalainen animation / Finland / 2013 / 6’

EU-8: MELTDOWN / P. 44

EU-10: DOC TO DOC / P. 48

The Child of Silent Winter Iiris Härmä documentary / Finland / 2012 / 21’ Carousel Jorge Quintela art film / Portugal, Italy / 2013 / 7’ Granny Sandro Katamashvili animation / Georgia / 2013 / 11’ Cathedrals Konrad Kästner documentary / Germany / 2013 / 15’ Pieces Xacio Baño fiction / Spain / 2012 / 7’

Rogalik Pawel Ziemilski documentary / Poland / 2012 / 17’ The Bet Michele Pennetta documentary / Switzerland / 2013 / 38’ Emergency Calls Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen documentary / Finland / 2013 / 15’

EU-9: IN ANOTHER WORLD / P. 46 Walk With Me Johan Oettinger, Peter Tukei Muhumuza art film / Uganda, Denmark / 2014 / 13’ Trespass Paul Wenninger animation / Austria / 2012 / 11’ Sunflower Seeds Antonis Tolakis documentary / Greece / 2013 / 32’

EU-11: ALL ANIMATION / P. 49 Fuel the Machines IV Jossie Malis Alvarez animation / Spain / 2012 / 10’ Rabbitland Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. animation / Serbia / 2013 / 7’ The Obvious Child Stephen Irwin animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 12’ Toto Zbigniew Czapla animation / Poland / 2012 / 12’ Absent Minded Roberto Catani animation / Italy / 2013 / 8’

But Milk Is Important Anna Mantzaris, Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen animation / Norway / 2012 / 11’ In the Air Is Christopher Gray Felix Massie animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 10’

EU-12: STATE OF THE ART / P. 51 I Can’t Cry Much Louder Than This Robert Cambrinus art film / Austria / 2013 / 11’ PERPETUUM IMMOBILE Marc Martí art film / Spain / 2013 / 4’ Echo Park Susanna Wallin art film / United Kingdom / 2012 / 2’ …Because Superglue is Forever! Johan Grimonprez art film / Belgium / 2012 / 12’ Tokyo Giants Nicolas Provost art film / Belgium / 2012 / 23’ A World Assembled Toby Tatum art film / United Kingdom / 2013 / 3’ Alice in the Sky Jonas Meier, Mike Raths art film / Switzerland / 2012 / 5’ Butter Lamp Hu Wei fiction / France / 2013 / 16’ GOSHORT

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–1: STILL STANDING THU 10 – 20:00 – LUX 5 / FRI 11 – 14:30 – LUX 3 / SAT 12 – 19:00 – LUX 5

Good Morning Resistance

On Suffocation

Director: Adrián Orr documentary / Spain / 2013 / 20’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Jenifer Malmqvist fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 8’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Bobbie Peers fiction / Norway / 2013 / 11’ / Dutch premiere

Very realistic, almost a morning ritual long, we observe a father getting his children up and ready for school.

An unsettling but important film about when a system becomes more important than a person’s life. Seven minutes without dialogue. The most unsettling aspect of the film is that it could be absolutely true.

One day portrayed through seven human falls.

Buenos Dias Resistencia

Production: Hugo Herrera, Fernando Franco / Script, Photography: Adrián Orr / Editing: Ana Pffaf / Sound: Eduardo G. Castro / Cast: David Ransanz, Luna Ransanz, Mia Ransanz, Oro Ransanz Filmography: Good Morning Resistance (2013), Gentlemen (2010) (Go Short 2012), The Ants (2007) Contact: Madrid en Corto: Martín Ismael +34 5121060, mail@madridencorto.es

Folk Som Faller

Production: China Åhlander / Script, Editing: Jenifer Malmqvist / Photography: Ita Zbroniec–Zajt / Sound: Mikael Körner, Claus Lynge / Cast: Poyan Karimi, Peshang Rad, Ali Dawoud, Zana Penjweni, Kurdi Kara, Ako Rauf Filmography: On Suffocation (2013), Birthday (2010), 13 Years and 10 Months (2007), At the End of the Street (2007), Peace Talk (2004), Power (2002) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Theo Tsappos, +46 86651133, theo.tsappos@sfi.se

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People Who Fall

Production, Script: Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, Per Schreiner / Photography: Jakob Ingimundarson / Editing: Sjur Aarthun / Music: Gaute Tønder / Sound: Thomas Angell Endresen Filmography: Dirk Ohm – The Illusionist That Disappeared (2014), People Who Fall (2013), The Croquet Match (2008), Down Under (2007), 5 Thrills (2007), Spandex Man (2007), Sniffer (2006) Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 22474500, amb@nfi.no


EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–2: STRANGERS AND CHARMERS THU 10 – 20:30 – LUX 3 / FRI 11 – 16:30 – LUX 3

Women’s Letters

Just Before Losing Everything

Rhino Full Throttle

Director: Augusto Zanovello animation / France / 2013 / 11’

Director: Xavier Legrand fiction / France / 2013 / 30’

Director: Erik Schmitt, Stephan Müller fiction / Germany / 2013 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

On the battlefields of the First World War, the nurse Simon patches up the shattered faces of the infantrymen with love letters. These words from beloved women have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers.

A young boy pretends to go to school and hides under a small bridge. A teenager in tears waits at a bus stop. A woman picks them up and drives them to the parking lot of a supermarket. They step out of the car, the woman takes a big trash bag out of the trunk. All three rush inside the store.

Bruno makes his way through Berlin searching for its soul. Driven by his curiosity, a challenging imagination and his wild reflection on reality, he lifts the old dusty curtain of the city’s crusted perception. . Production: Fabian Gasmia, Henning Kamm / Script: Erik Schmitt, Stephan Müller / Photography: Johannes Louis / Editing: Erik Schmitt, Steffen Hand / Music: Nils Frahm, David Nesselhauf / Sound: Elia Brose, Fedor Goritzki / Animation: Stephan Müller / Cast: Tino Mewes, Marleen Lohse, Folke Renken

Lettres de Femmes

Production: Gilbert Hus / Script: Augusto Zanovello, Jean–Charles Finck, Arnaud Béchet / Photography: Cyril Maddalena / Editing: Etienne Jeantet / Music: Christian Perret / Sound: Samuel Beaucamps / Cast: Constantin Pappas, Adeline Moreau Filmography: Women’s Letters (2013), Matich Fastich (2004), Points de Vue (1995), Le Gardien de la Cave (1993) Contact: Pictor Media: Gilbert Hus, +33 476619665, gilbert.hus@project–images.com

Avant Que De Tout Perdre

Production: Alexandre Gavras / Script: Xavier Legrand / Photography: Nathalie Durant / Editing: Yorgos Lamprinos / Sound: Vincent Verdoux / Cast: Léa Drucker, Anne Benoít, Miljan Chatelain, Mathilde Auveneux, Dennis Ménochet, Brigitte Barilley Filmography: Just Before Losing Everything (2013) Contact: KG Productions: Alexandre Gavras, +33 149720666, alexandre.gavras@gmail.com

Nashorn Im Galopp

Filmography: Rhino Full Throttle (2013), Now Follows (2010), Solartaxi, Around the World With the Sun (2010), How to Fly High (2009), Videokind (2007) Contact: DETAiLFILM: Sara Bökemeyer, +49 4060940944, info@detailfilm.de

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–2: STRANGERS AND CHARMERS THU 10 – 20:30 – LUX 3 / FRI 11 – 16:30 – LUX 3

Eagle Boy

Abderrahman

Floating Woman La Femme qui Flottait

Director: Gry Elisabeth Mortensen documentary / Norway / 2013 / 27’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Elias Sfaxi fiction / France / 2013 / 20’ / international premiere

Director: Thibault Lang–Willar fiction / France / 2013 / 18’ / Dutch premiere

It´s summer at the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Eight year old Sage spends sunny days playing with friends, swimming and fishing in the river. But one day his parents surprise him with some breaking news; they´re moving to Northern Norway! Starting school in Tromsø, Sage is different. Very different. He´s the only boy with long hair and braids and he doesn´t speak one word of Norwegian. But most important to the other kids: He´s a REAL indian, just like in the movies!

Abder has just turned 63. Retirement is approaching fast. A small neighborhood clothing designer, he has been working 60–hour weeks for more than 30 years. But when his childhood friend Larbi resurfaces, all of Abder’s plans suddenly become uncertain. . Production: Christophe Barral / Script: Elias Sfaxi, Thomas Wallon / Photography: Elias Sfaxi / Editing: Jean–Baptiste Alazard / Sound: Alexis Assadourian, Alexandre David / Cast: Larbi Baouab, Abderrahman Sfaxi, Françoise Sfaxi, Oy Kanchana Meksuan

Lionel is a middle–aged man. A little naive, maybe. One day, he finds a woman’s body floating in his pool. … Production: Antoine Gandaubert / Script: Thibault Lang–Willar / Photography: Julien Poupard / Editing: Lise Fernandez / Sound: Romain Clisson / Cast: Philippe Rebot, Michaël Abiteboul, Chloë Schmutz

Production: Mona Steffensen / Editing: Lars Apneseth / Music: Simen Solli Schøien, Alf Lund Godbolt / Sound: Rune Hansen Filmography: Eagle Boy (2013), Doing the Norway (2012) Contact: Kokofilm: Gry Elizabeth Mortensen, +47 91816093, gry@kokofilm.no

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Filmography: Abderrahman (2013) Contact: Les Films des Worso: Christophe Barral, +33 145440770, cbarral@worso.com

Filmography: Floating Woman (2013) Contact: Kare Productions: Antoine Gandaubert, +33 158535500, kare@kareprod.fr


EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–3: PRIDE AND ACCEPTANCE THU 10 – 22:30 – LUX 3 / SAT 12 – 15:00 – LUX 5

Mont Blanc

Sweet Rabbit

Father

Director: Gilles Coulier fiction / Belgium / 2012 / 15’

Director: Camiel Schouwenaar fiction / the Netherlands / 2012 / 14’

Director: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso animation / France, Argentina / 2013 / 12’

When an 80–year–old father is declared terminally ill, he asks his son to make a journey together. He wants to see the Mont Blanc for the last time. Soon it becomes clear that the relationship between father and son isn’t ideal. They don’t understand each other. But with the end of his life in sight, the differences get even more obvious.

In this Kafkaesque parable, a bored, devoted housewife thinks her new grown rabbit ears are the sure end of her marriage. They’re anything but!

Day by day a woman nurses her bedridden military father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.

Production: Eric Smit, Rinie Jansen / Script: Maureen Versprille, Camiel Schouwenaar / Photography: Ezra Reverda / Editing: Synco Sholvinck / Music: Wouter van Bemmel, Kris Berry / Sound: Paul Gies / Cast: Sylvia Poorta, Peter Bolhuis / Website: liefkonijn.nl

Production: Dora Bensousilio / Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso/ Music: Lucas Nikotian, Patricio Plaza / Sound: Alexandre Lormeau, Patricio Plaza

Lief Konijn

Production: Dirk Impens / Script: Gilles Coulier, Angelo Tijssens / Photography: David Williamson / Editing: Tom Denoyette / Music: Liesa Van der Aa, Johannes Genard / Sound: Matthias Hillegeer / Cast: Wim Willaert, Jean–Pierre Lauwers Filmography: Mont Blanc (2012), Paroles (2010), Iceland (2009)

Filmography: Uncle Mosleh (2013), Sweet Rabbit (2012)

Padre

Filmography: Father (2013), The Employment (2008), Hello? (2007), The Bird and the Man (2007) Contact: Les Films de l’Arlequin: Carole Leichtmann, +33 142772055, carole.arlequin@gmail.com

Contact: CrazyChickenFilm: Camiel Schouwenaar, +31 624559927, info@crazychickenfilm.com

Contact: Menuet bvba: Katelijne Pieters, +32 92357376, katelijne.pieters@menuet.be

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–3: PRIDE AND ACCEPTANCE THU 10 – 22:30 – LUX 3 / SAT 12 – 15:00 – LUX 5

EU–4: WHAT IF FRI 11 – 20:30 – LUX 3 / SAT 12 – 15:30 – LUX 4

Pride

37°4 S

Director: Pavel Vesnakov fiction / Bulgaria, Germany / 2013 / 30’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Adriano Valerio fiction / France / 2013 / 12’

Director: Stéphane Demoustier documentary / France / 2013 / 40’ / Dutch premiere

Nowadays, in Tristan da Cunha. 270 people live on this small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Nick and Anne, two teenagers, have known each other since their birth, and are lovers since childhood. But Anne’s just made up her mind: she’s going to study in England, 6152 miles away from Tristan.

Corentin, Théo and Pierre are 11 years old and about to participate in the French Tennis Championships for the first time. During a week, they’ll be up against the very best players. The road to being a great player is long

A man of habits confronts a world in transition in his own kitchen. Manol – a retired general, a loving grandfather – is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs, which he has upheld in his household. But on this day he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default. . Production: Vanya Rainova, Sebastian Weyland / Script: Pavel Vesnakov, Vanya Rainova / Photography: Orlin Ruevski / Editing: Karen Tonne / Sound: Veselin Zografov / Cast: Mihail Mutafov, Aleksandar Aleksiev, Ani Bakalova, Scetlana Yancheva Filmography: Pride (2013), The Paraffin Prince (2012), Trains (2011) Contact: Portokal: Vanya Rainova, +35 9887916692, portokal@mail.orbitel.bg

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Young Guns

Les Petits Joueurs

Production: oriGine films, Pianissimo / Script: Adriano Valerio / Photography: Adriano Valerio, Loran Bonnardot / Editing: Claire Aubinais / Music: Romain Trouillet / Cast: RIaan Repetto, Natalie Swain Filmography: 37°4 S (2013), Curling (2010), Orbite (2009), Da Lontano (2007), Claire (2004) Contact: oriGine films: Olivier Berlemont, +33 610641526, emilie@originefilms.fr

Production: Guillaume Dreyfus / Script, Photography: Stéphane Demoustier / Editing: Jean-Christophe Bouzy / Sound: Francis Bernard / Cast: Corentin Magna, Pierre Delage, Théo Vicard, Grégory Paparic Filmography: Young Guns (2013), Fille du Calvaire (2012) (Go Short 2013), Bad Gones (2011), Weekend (2010), In the Urban Jungle (2009) Contact: Année Zéro: Guillaume Dreyfus, +33 143668029, contact@annee0.com


EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–5: ANOTHER FLING WED 9 – 22:00 – LUX 3 THU 10 – 15:00 – LUX 2 / FRI 11 – 20:00 – LUX 1

Angélique’s Day for Night

Whale Valley

Hands up to Heaven

Director: Pierre–Emmanuel Lyet, Joris Clerté animation / France / 2013 / 7’

Director: Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson fiction / Denmark, Iceland / 2013 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Ulrike Putzer, Matthias van Baaren documentary / Austria / 2013 / 18’ / Dutch premiere

La Nuit Américaine d’Angélique

When she saw François Truffaut’s La Nuit Américaine / Day for Night, Angelique discovered that it was possible to dream up her life. Production: Senso Films, Doncvoilà Productions / Script: Olivia Rosenthal / Music: Joris Clerté / Narration: Louise Bourgoin / Sound: Bruno Guéraçague, Martin Chapel / Animation: Christian Desmares, Jean-Yves Castillon Filmography: Angélique’s Day for Night (2013), Le Droit de Suite (2011), Parade (2010) (Go Short 2011), C’est Toujours le Meme Histoire (2007), Une Petite Histoire de L’image Animée (2007), a.o. Contact: Senso Films: Maryline Charrier, +33 177154303, lanuitamericaine@sensofilms.fr

Hvalfjörður

Two strongly bonded brothers live with their parents on a remote fjord. We enter their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey that marks a turning point in the brothers’ lives. Production: Anton Máni Svansson, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson / Script, Photography: Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson / Editing: Anders Skov / Sound: Gunnar Óskarsson / Cast: Örn Wigum, Einar Jóhann Valsson, Valdimar Örn Flygenring, Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir Filmography: Whale Valley (2013), Ártún (2013), Jeffrey & Beth (2009), Hidebound (2005) Contact: FRÆ films: Anton Máni Svansson, +354 6150005, anton@fraefilms.com

Hände Zum Himmel

Under a cloudless sky, Hansi Hinterseer hosts a communal mountain fair in the alpine idyll of Kitzbühel. Observing – without judgment – the camera follows along amidst the throng of fans, waiting patiently for the revered skiing and entertainment legend to appear. Eventually Hansi does emerge, and proceeds to sing, pray and bring people together. Production: Matthias van Baaren / Script, Photography, Editing, Sound: Ulrike Putzer, Matthias van Baaren Filmography: Hands up to Heaven (2013), The Folds of the King (2010), Elefantenhaut (2009), Die Adrenalin–Maschine (2007), K.O. (2006), Die Anderen (2006), Faunce (2005) Contact: Sixpackfilm: Gerald Weber, +43 15260990, gerald@sixpackfilm.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–5: ANOTHER FLING WED 9 – 22:00 – LUX 3 THU 10 – 15:00 – LUX 2 / FRI 11 – 20:00 – LUX 1

Kiran

All the World’s A Stage – Ways of Seeing 2013

Sandy

Director: Alexander Riedel, Bettina Timm documentary / Germany / 2012 / 29’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Donna Verheijden art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 18’

Director: Joseph Mann animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 2’

The film tells the story of Kiran, who lives with his mother in a yurt in the Pyrenees. Kiran is eight years old and know how to plant salad, which meadow–plants taste good and which you should not eat. But he has no idea what’s going on in the evening on TV and can not deal with the computer. His greatest wish is to go to a public school to learn to read and write at last. .. Production: Alexander Riedel, Bettina Timm / Photography: Philip Vogt / Editing: Frank Müller / Music: Antun Opic / Sound: Hannes Ullmann

I take my wishes for reality, for I believe my wishes to be real. All the World’s a Stage visually explores the meaning of the image in a world of constant retinal input. It questions and propagates the creation of today’s apparent or staged realities within mass media and politics. It reveals mythical truths and unveils true illusions by deconstructing and reconstructing realities that we often take as given. Close your eyes and you’ll see.

Summer is here and with it comes sun, sea and Sandy: a new amimated short film written and directed by Joseph Mann. Playful, bright and slightly NSFW. Sandy’s seaside world was brought to life entirely through the world of animation.

Filmography: Unter Müttern (2013), Kiran (2012); Alexander Riedel: Hundsbuam – Die letzte Chance (2011), Morgen das Leben (2010), Draussen Bleiben (2007); Bettina Timm: Ick Koch! (2010), Cosmic Station (2008) a.o.

Filmography: All the World’s a Stage – Ways of Seeing 2013 (2013), The Knows, the Unknowns (2012), The End (2011), Realtime (2011)

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Production, Script, Photography, Editing: Donna Verheijden / Narration, Cast: John Berger

Contact: Lima: Theus Zwakhals, +31 0203892030, theuszwakhals@li–ma.nl

Production: Bart Yates, James Bretton / Script: Joseph Mann / Photography: Max Halstead / Editing: Simone Ghilardotti / Music, Sound: Jonathan Smith / Animation: Andy Biddle, Tim Allen Filmography: Camera Obscura – Break It to You Gently (2013), Sandy (2013), Keaton Henson – Small Hands (2012), Me and My Toes (2010) Contact: Blinkink: Julie Crosbie, +44 02074940747, julie@blinkink.co.uk


EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–6: CONQUERORS THU 10 – 15:45 – LUX 5 / FRI 11 – 22:00 – LUX 4

Undress Me

The Missing Scarf

Ta Av Mig

Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son Chikara – Sumobryderens Søn

Director: Victor Lindgren fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 15’

Director: Eoin Duffy animation / Ireland / 2013 / 7’

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont documentary / Denmark / 2013 / 32’

Mikaela changed sex from male to female. One night out she meets a guy who follows her home. The movie Undress Me examines our perceptions of gender and how our identity can be formed by the perceptions of others.

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.

Chikara – the Sumo Wrestler’s Son follows the 10-year-old Japanese boy, Chikara, and his struggle to become a Sumo wrestler. His father was a professional Sumo wrestler, so expectations surrounding Chikara are extremely high. Today his father owns a noodle–shop where he works a lot. Their only time together is when they train Sumo wrestling.

Production: Therese Högberg / Script: Jana Bringlöv Ekspong, Victor Lindgren / Photography: Mattias Anderson / Editing: Victor Lindgren / Sound: Sven Jonsson / Cast: Jana Bringlöv Ekspong Filmography: Undress Me (2013), Tony & Lena (2013), Where Were You? (2010), Klasskamrater (2006) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Theo Tsappos, +46 86651133, theo.tsappos@sfi.se

Production: Jamie Hogan / Script, Animation: Eoin Duffy / Music: Tobias Norberg / Narration: George Takei / Sound: Gavin Little, Joe McHugh / Website: themissingscarf.com Filmography: The Missing Scarf (2013), On Departure (2012) Contact: Eoin Duffy, +1 6047282441, eoin@eoinduffy.me

Production: Monica Hellström Weston / Script: Simon Lereng Wilmont / Photography: Simon Lereng Wilmont, Lars Skree / Editing: Michael Aaglund / Music: Asger Baden, Peder Pedersen / Sound: Peter Albrechtsen Filmography: Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son (2013), Travelling With MR.T (2012), American Waste (2010), Før Ferien (2009), Over Jorden, Under Himlen (2008), The Game (2007) Contact: Final Cut for Real: Monica Hellström Weston, +45 35436043, monica@final–cut.dk GOSHORT

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–6: CONQUERORS THU 10 – 15:45 – LUX 5 / FRI 11 – 22:00 – LUX 4

Spherulite

Eating Lunch

Moritz and the Woodwose

Director: Sanna Lenken fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 13’

Director: Bryn Chainey fiction / Germany / 2013 / 20’ / Dutch premiere

Fifteen-year-old Klara and four girls and boys of the same age are to eat lunch under the supervision of nurses at a care facility for eating disorders. They have just 30 minutes to eat up.

Moritz is caught between the worlds of life and death as he struggles with the illness of his little brother. When he wanders into the forest to be alone, he encounters an ancient being who offers him a macabre bargain.

Äta lunch Director: Lotta Sweetliv art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’ / world premiere In search of an antidote to apathy, Lotta encounters some side effects that make her blush. . Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Lotta Sweetliv Filmography: Spherulite (2013), Like (2012) (Go Short 2013), Luv (2010) Contact: Lotta Sweetliv, +31 617383810, info@lottasweetliv

Production: Annika Rogell / Script: Sanna Lenken / Photography: Iga Mikler / Editing: Marinella Angusti / Cast: Elina Sandberg, Julia Sporre, Jonas Blom, Sara Runsten Filmography: Eating Lunch (2013), Yoghurt (2010), Travemünde Trelleborg (2009), Mellan 11 och 12 (2008), Valborg (2008), Morötter och Potatismos (2007) Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Theo Tsappos, +46 86651133, theo.tsappos@sfi.se

Moritz und der Waldschrat

Production: Anna Wendt / Script: Bryn Chainey / Photography: Marc Achenbach / Editing: Courtney O’Brien–Brown / Music: Ilja Coric / Sound: Johannes Peters / Cast: Kai Oliver Böhne, Anna Thalbach, Tim Sander, Ben Litwinschuh, Jens Winter Filmography: Moritz and the Woodwose (2013), Legacy (2011), Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness (2010), How to Make Noise (2008), Film for the Boxed (2006), Real Love (2006) Contact: Bryn Chainey, +49 17697843448, contact@brynchainey.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–7: RIVERS AND ROADS THU 10 – 18:00 – LUX 1 / FRI 11 – 22:30 – LUX 3

The Day Has Conquered The Night

Hollow Land

Director: Cristina Picchi documentary / Russia / 2013 / 12’

Director: Jean–Gabriel Périot documentary / France / 2013 / 28’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot animation / Denmark, France, Canada / 2013 / 14’

A portrait of a season – a journey through North Russia and Siberia, through the feelings and thoughts of the people who have to cope with one of the world’s harshest climates; a reality where the boundary between life and death is so thin that it’s sometimes almost nonexistent, where civilization constantly both fights and embraces nature and its timeless rules and rites.

Eight portraits, eight dreams, eight escapes.

An evocative film about the eternal human search for home.

Winter Zima

Le Jour a Vaincu La Nuit

Production: Tanya Petrik, Guillaume Protsenko / Script, Editing: Cristina Picchi / Photography: Saulius Lukosevicius / Music: Shoefiti / Sound: Henri D’Armancourt Filmography: Winter (2013), The Disassociated (2010–2013), Under Your Skin (2011), Fragments of a Dream (2011)

Production: Cécile Lestrade / Script, Editing: Jean- Gabriel Périot / Photography: Denis Gravouil / Music: Xavier Thibault / Sound: Dana Farzanehpour, Xavier Thibault, Laure Arto

Production: Marie Bro / Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot / Music: Uri Kranot / Sound: Normand Roger / Website: hollowlandfilm.wordpress.com

Filmography: The Day Has Conquered The Night (2013), The Devil (2012), Our Days, Absolutely, Have To Be Enlightened (2012), Looking At The Dead (2011), The Barbarians (2010), The Delicate Art Of The Bludgeon (2009) (Go Short 2010), Between Dogs And Wolves (2008)

Filmography: Hollow Land (2013), White Tape (2010) (Go Short 2011), The Heart of Amos Klein (2008) (Go Short 2009), God On Our side (2005), My Sister (2004), Fallout (2003), Ducks (2002), Avinu Malkenu (2002), The Balls (2001), Stickin’ With You (2000)

Contact: Alter Ego: Cécile Lestrade, +33 238807944, info@alterego–prod.com

Contact: TinDrum Animation: Uri Kranot, +45 87554913, urikranot@yahoo.com

Contact: Cristina Picchi, +44 7906778585, cristina@cristinapicchi.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–7: RIVERS AND ROADS THU 10 – 18:00 – LUX 1 / FRI 11 – 22:30 – LUX 3

I AM HERE

EU–8: MELTDOWN FRI 11 – 12:30 – LUX 3 / SAT 12 – 11:30 – LUX 2

Shipwreck

The Child of Silent Winter

Director: Morgan Knibbe documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 13’ / world premiere

Director: Iiris Härmä documentary / Finland / 2012 / 21’ / Dutch premiere

Schipbreuk Director: Karsten Krause, Francesca Bertin art film / Germany / 2013 / 6’ / Dutch premiere Rodolfo seems content. He lives in moment, following the same daily routine, inside the big white-painted house next to the church, the house he grew up in. He sleeps in the same bed, in the same room. His cloths are placed in the same closet, he eats his meals at the same table, he walks the same corridors. Rodolfo is suffering from depression. He hasn’t barely left the house in decades, he hasn’t spoken for years. Production, Photography, Editing: Karsten Krause / Script: Karsten Krause, Francesca Bertin / Narration: Paul Bogaert / Sound: Roman Vehlken

On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk in front off the Italian island Lampedusa. More than 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, vividly remembers the nightmarish experience, whilst countless coffins are being loaded on a military ship. Production: Katja Draaier, Jos de Putter / Script, Photography, Editing: Morgan Knibbe / Narration: Abraham Futsum / Sound: Noah Pepper

Filmography: Scenario (2014), I AM HERE (2013), The Photographer’s Wife (2011), You and Me (2010) (Go Short 2011), The Time it Takes (2008)

Filmography: Shipwreck, (2013), A Twist in the Fabric of Space (2012), Herengracht 602 (2011), Sweet Lips (2011), Abdel (2011), Zware Shag (2010), Tu Me Manques (2010), Als het maar niet te hard is (2010), We Go Europe Insha’Allah (2009), €50,- (2009)

Contact: Karsten Krause, +49 1785251463, karsten@workscited.de

Contact: Work of Mork: Morgan Knibbe, +31 681146787, mork@workofmork.nl

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Hiljaisen Talven Lapsi

Katja is a young retiree and frustrated. At 24, she is living in a circle of solitude, spending her days walking her dog and looking out of the window. Her loneliness stems from years of being the victim of school bullying. She is anxious and afraid. Is this her life? If only she could find a friend. Production, Photography: Visa Koiso-Kanttila / Script: Iiris Härmä / Editing: Tuula Mehtonen / Music: Marko Nyberg / Sound: Janne Laine / Filmography: The Child of Silent Winter (2012), Look at Me (2010), You Live and Burn (2007), Tomorrow’s Memories (2004) Contact: The Finnish Film Foundation: Otto Suuronen, +35 896220300, otto.suuronen@ses.fi


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Carousel

Granny

Cathedrals

Director: Jorge Quintela art film / Portugal, Italy / 2013 / 7’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Sandro Katamashvili animation / Georgia / 2013 / 11’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Konrad Kästner documentary / Germany / 2013 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

A carousel–esque pocket–movie set in a Florentine piazza.

At the sewing machine granny is working hard to sew an endless piece of cloth.

Production: Rodrigo Areias, Ricardo Freitas, Davide Luciani / Script: Pedro Bastos / Photography, Editing: Jorge Quintela / Music: Morteshopping / Sound: Davide Luciani / Cast: Vittorio Luciani, Francisco Dias de Castro

Production: Vladimer Katcharava / Script: Nikoloz Mdivani, Achi Tabukashvili, Sandro Katamashvili / Photography: Konstantine Mindia Esadze / Editing: Levan Kukhashvili / Music: Ana Kurtubadze, The Ishkhneli Sisters / Sound: Nika Paniashvili / Animation: Nana Samanishvili, Natia Nikolashvili, Gio Popkhadze, Elina Popkhadze, Roma Kobaidze / Cast: Tamila Laskhishvili, Eka Mzhavanadze, Besik Solomanashvili, Mukha Ganugrava, Marina Iakobidze

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for two milion people yet remains completely empty. Ordos is not so much a place but a symbol of babylonic hype. But nothing will change – as long as people believe.

Carosello

Filmography: Carousel (2013), O Amor é a Solução para a Falta de Argumento (2012), Contra–Campos (2012), Ausstieg (2010), On the Road to Femina (2010) Contact: Agencia – Portuguese Short Film Agency: Salette Ramalho, +35 1252646683, agencia@curtas.pt

Bebo

Kathedralen

Production: Fabian Gasmia / Script, Editing: Konrad Kästner / Photography: Katharina Bühler / Music: Hildur Gudnadòttir / Narration: Simon Newby, Hermann Beyer / Sound: Ginetta Fassio

Filmography: Granny (2013), A Fish by Name Guido (2008)

Filmography: Cathedrals (2013), Our Booze (2011), Japaaan! (2009), Teutdorf (2009), 24h Berlin (2009), Geri’s 40th Wedding (2008), Hab dich! (2007), Die Letzte Arbeitslose (2007), Etwas Ich (2007), Ich Ich Ich (2006)

Contact: 20 Steps Productions: Sandro Katamashvili, +995 322520945, sandrikoo@yahoo.com

Contact: DETAiLFILM: Sara Bökemeyer, +49 4060940944, info@detailfilm.de

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–8: MELTDOWN FRI 11 – 12:30 – LUX 3 / SAT 12 – 11:30 – LUX 2

EU–9: IN ANOTHER WORLD THU 10 – 22:00 – LUX 5 / FRI 11 – 18:00 – LUX 1

Pieces

Walk With Me

Trespass

Director: Xacio Baño fiction / Spain / 2012 / 7’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Johan Oettinger, Peter Tukei Muhumuza art film / Uganda, Denmark / 2014 / 13’

Director: Paul Wenninger animation / Austria / 2012 / 11’ / Dutch premiere

The life of a person can be as easy and straightforward as his recipe for sponge cake.

In a poetic-action-dance-journey, for children and curious souls, the 5-year-old Melanie lives in the countryside of Uganda. Full of life and living-toys she finds herself pushed out of daydreams and discovers death. But her toys and not least her vivid imagination helps and life goes on.

In English, “trespass” means to intrude, but it could also be an unauthorized entry, or in legal jargon, a “domestic disturbance.” Trespass, Paul Wenninger’s ten-minute real-animation film plays with all of these meanings in a technically impressive, varied, and precise tour de force.

Production: Patricia Drati / Script: Morten Søndergaard / Photography, Animation: Johan Oettinger, Peter Tukei Muhumuza / Editing: Jesper Maintz / Music: Marybell Katastrophy / Narration: Melanie Kemigisa / Sound: Rune Tuelund / Cast: Melanie Kemigisa, Lillian Kateba

Production: KGP Productions / Script, Cast: Paul Wenninger / Photography, Editing: Nik Humer / Music: Nik Humer, Miachael Moser / Animation: Nik Humer, Paul Wenninger, Peter Koger

Filmography: Walk With Me (2014), Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto (2012), Peter Laugesen & Singvogel: Strisserne Breder Sig (2011)

Contact: Sixpackfilm: Gerald Weber, +43 15260990, gerald@sixpackfilm.com

Anacos

Production, Script, Editing: Xacio Baño / Photography: Lucía C. Pan / Sound: Jorge M. Pérez / Cast: Mabel Rivera, Fernando Morán, Xosé Barato Filmography: To Be and To Come Back (2014), Pieces (2012), Stereoscopy (2011), Chords Relationship (2009), Hotcold (2009) Contact: Marvin & Wayne: Josep Prim, +34 934863313, fest@marvinwayne.com

Contact: DOX:LAB: Patricia Drati, +45 26478484, patricia@cphdox.dk

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Filmography: Trespass (2012)


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Sunflower Seeds

Mystery

Safari Heat

Director: Antonis Tolakis documentary / Greece / 2013 / 32’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Chema García Ibarra fiction / Spain / 2013 / 12’

Director: Antti Laakso, Simo Ruotsalainen animation / Finland / 2013 / 6’ / Dutch premiere

A group of children surviving on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year old boy, who works all day selling sunflower seeds in the city’s suburban parks. His existence borders on absolute poverty, as he prowls for food in philanthropic organizations.

They say that if you put your ear to the back of his neck, you can hear the Virgin talk.

They Came For Our Minerals. Denny must choose his side as key witness in the biggest court case in Cape Town history. Final episode.

Production, Script, Photography: Antonis Tolakis / Editing: Pietro Radin / Music: I Am No Hero / Sound: Orestis Kaberidis / Website: sunflowerseedsfilm.blogspot.gr Filmography: Sunflower Seeds (2013), Voiceless (2012) Contact: Antonis Tolakis Productions: Antonis Tolakis, +30 6944740935, antonis.tolakis@gmail.com

Misterio

Production: Chema García Ibarra, Leonor Díaz / Script, Editing: Chema García Ibarra / Photography: Alberto Gutiérrez / Music: Julio Posadas / Sound: José Marsilla / Cast: Angelita López, Asun Quinto, Josefa Sempere, Antonio Blas Molina, José Manuel Ibarra / Filmography: Mystery (2013), Protoparticles (2010), The Attack of the Robots from Nebula–5 (2008) Contact: Chema García Ibarra, +34 605544045, chemagarciaibarra@gmail.com

Production: Simo Ruotsalainen / Script, Editing: Antti Laakso, Simo Ruotsalainen / Photography: Antti Laakso / Music: Miki Brunou / Narration: Mies Mikkonen / Sound: Niina Muikku, Antti Siniranta / Animation: Antti Laakso / Cast: Mies Mikkonen, Elina Minn Filmography: Safari Heat (2013), Mainoskatko (2013); Antti Laakso: The Last Elephant (2008), Highwaymen (2007), They Came for Supper (2006), Frozen Visitor (2005); Simo Ruotsalainen: Bamboozled!!! (2008), Feral Ways (2007), Clicking (2006) Contact: Turun Anikistit ry: Antti Laakso, +35 8405919463, anttijlaakso@gmail.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–10: DOC TO DOC THU 10 – 14:00 – LUX 1 / SAT 12 – 13:30 – LUX 2

Rogalik

The Bet

Emergency Calls

Director: Michele Pennetta documentary / Switzerland / 2013 / 38’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen documentary / Finland / 2013 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

A Iucata Director: Pawel Ziemilski documentary / Poland / 2012 / 17’ Traveling among people and objects we discover a world usually considered as ugly and unattractive. This dream-like journey is not a dream. Who are the people in this “big aquarium”? Production: Marcin Malatynski / Script: Pawel Ziemilski / Photography: Maciej Twardowski / Editing: Ireneusz Grzyb / Sound: Bogdan Klat / School: Polish National Film School, Lódz Filmography: Rogalik (2012), Pizza a la Polonaise (2012), The Cherry Story (2010), Honeymoon (2010) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Zofia Scislowska, +48 122946945, zofia@kff.com.pl

Hätäkutsu

Catania, Sicily. In the heart of the working class neighbourhood lies a vast and lawless territory where makeshift stables can be found. One of them is owned by Concetto – aka “il farmacista” – a man respected and even feared by many, who built a reputation for himself in the small world of clandestine horse racing.

What is your emergency? The question that’s at the start of every call to an emergency centre is also at the start of this film. Excited, sometimes desperate people on the soundtrack. The emergencies: precipitate labour, a multiple car crash. But also a killing spree and the last radio message of the “Estonia”. The call marks the boundary between life and death which – perhaps – will be crossed.

Production: Joëlle Bertossa / Script: Michele Pennetta, Christian Tarabini / Photography: Gabriel Lobos / Editing: Orsola Valenti / Sound: Christian Tarabini, Guiseppe Di Blasi

Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen / Music, Sound: Joonatan Portaankorva / Cast: Juha Hippi, Lauri Hynninen, Eeva Putro, Jonna Uhrman

Filmography: The Bet (2013), The Dogs Bark (2010)

Filmography: Emergency Calls (2013), Gates of Life (2012) (Go Short 2013), Death of an Insect (2010) (Go Short 2011), Hanasaari A (2009)

Contact: Close Up Films: Joelle Bertossa, +41 786650512, joelle@closeupfilms.ch

Contact: Pohjankonna Oy: Hannes Vartiainen, +358 503209050, hannes@pohjankonna.fi

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–11: ALL ANIMATION FRI 11 – 14:00 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 14:00 – LUX 1

Fuel the Machines IV

Rabbitland

The Obvious Child

Director: Jossie Malis Alvarez animation / Spain / 2012 / 10’

Director: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. animation / Serbia / 2013 / 7’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Stephen Irwin animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 12’

An improbable hero embarks on a crude journey by land, sea, and air –throughout all the attractions of a planet turned into a massive petrochemical park... and beyond.

Brainless Rabbits live in Rabittland, a perfect world ordered according to the most successful examples of war zones, ghettos and slums. They are intensively pink, have holes in their heads instead of brains, and they are happy regardless of what happens to them.

Somebody broke the girl’s parents. The rabbit was there when it happened. It was an awful mess.

Bendito Machine IV

Production, Script, Editing, Narration, Animation: Jossie Malis / Music: Sxip Shirey / Sound: Julie Reier, Jossie Malis / Website: benditomachine.com Filmography: Sub (2012), Fuel the Machines IV (2012), The Fantastic World of Fantástico Morales (2010), Fuel the Machines III (2009), Fuel the Machines II (2007), Good Morning Isamu (2006), Fuel the Machines I (2006), Sopa (2005), Pacha (2005), Memento Mori (2004) Contact: Zumbakamera: Jossie Malis, +34 971079838, bendito@zumbakamera.com

Production: Jelena Mitrovic / Script: Ana Nedeljkovic / Photography: Nikola Majdak Jr. / Editing: Srdjan Radmilovic / Music: Dusan Petrovic / Narration: Masa Mileusnic / Sound: Vladimir Jankovic / Animation: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr. / Website: rabbitland.info Filmography: Rabbitland (2013)

Production, Script, Editing, Animation: Stephen Irwin / Narration: Ron Masa / Sound: Zhe Wu Filmography: The Obvious Child (2013), Moxie (2011) (Go Short 2012), Horse Glue (2010), Atomic Hubbub (2009), The Black Dog’s Progress (2008) (Go Short 2010), Dry Lips (2007), Bows and Arrows (2006), Reasons to Be Cheerful (2005), Dr Umz (2005), Dalog Central SSt. Martins (2005) Contact: Small Time inc.: Stephen Irwin, +44 7766732521, stephen@smalltimeinc.com

Contact: Bas Celik: Nikola Majdak, +38 1641107316, nmajdak@yahoo.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–11: ALL ANIMATION FRI 11 – 14:00 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 14:00 – LUX 1

Toto

Absent Minded

But Milk Is Important

Director: Zbigniew Czapla animation / Poland / 2012 / 12’

Director: Roberto Catani animation / Italy / 2013 / 8’

Director: Anna Mantzaris, Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen animation / Norway / 2012 / 11’

A story of a sensible boy, raised by a lonely and hard working mother, somewhere in a far province where life revolves around daily, inveterate habits. The little protagonist is being deceitfully seduced by a shady “master” and cynical collector of keys. In consequence of the mystery and rather incomprehensible events, the world of his unconcerned childhood falls apart.

A child’s daydream during a school lesson is abruptly interrupted by the teacher. The “instructor” threatens to cut off an ear to his young student to “stimulate” the concentration and prevent further escapes into the realm of imagination . Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Roberto Catani / Music, Sound: Andrea Martignoni

A man with social phobia gets followed by a naive and clumsy creature.. . Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen, Anna Mantzaris / Music: Philip Brookes / Sound: André Parklind

Production: Tomasz Wolf / Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Zbigniew Czapla / Music: Maja Kleszcz, Goska Isphording / Sound: Jaroslaw Konopka

Filmography: Absent Minded (2013), La Funambola (2003), La Sagra (1998), Il Pesce Rosso (1995)

Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 22474500, amb@nfi.no

La Testa tra le Nuvole

Filmography: Toto (2012), Paperbox (2011), The Ritual (2010) (Go Short 2012) Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Zofia Scislowska, +48 122946945, zofia@kff.com.pl

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Contact: OTTOmani a.c.:Andrea Martignoni, +39 0515875504, martignoni61@gmail.com

Filmography: But Milk Is Important (2012)


EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–12: STATE OF THE ART FRI 11 – 18:15 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 15:00 – LUX 3

In the Air Is Christopher Gray

I Can’t Cry Much Louder Than This

PERPETUUM IMMOBILE

Director: Felix Massie animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 10’

Director: Robert Cambrinus art film / Austria / 2013 / 11’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Marc Martí art film / Spain / 2013 / 4’

Christopher Gray has been in love with Stacey for quite some time, and no amount of lemonade can cool his desire. Meanwhile, Barry Flint has just bought his son a five-foot python from the pet store.

The media and the internet bring us images of events from all corners of the world – but personal experiences are not connected with them. We are at once interconnected and disconnected. We only have ourselves as starting and end points in this reflection.

The cycle of the end.

Production: Robert Stokvis / Script: Robert Cambrinus / Editing: Nathan Cubitt / Music: Thalija

Filmography: PERPETUUM IMMOBILE (2013), La Conversió de Pau (2002)

Filmography: I Can’t Cry Much Louder Than This (2013), Home Video (2011), Burka (2011), Commentary (2009), The Good Muslim (2009), Hi!jab (2006), Illegal (2006)

Contact: Marc Martí, +34 696 508 833, espillmirall@gmail.com

Production: Christopher O’Reilly / Script, Animation: Felix Massie / Music: Joe Paine / Narration: Andy London / Sound: Fonic: Marty O’Brien / Cast: Peter Ahern, Justin Cassano, Carolyn London, Ian Miller, Erica Perez Filmography: In the Air Is Christopher Gray (2013), The Ongoing Life of Peter Peel – Can, Can, Can’t (2010), The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother (2008) (Go Short 2010), Keith Reynolds Can’t Make it Tonight (2007)

Production, Script, Editing: Marc Martí / Photography: Alberto Pérez Pérez–Duque / Sound: Kurro González / Cast: María José Donzel, Marc Escrig

Contact: Sixpackfilm: Gerald Weber, +43 15260990, gerald@sixpackfilm.com

Contact: Nexus Productions: Felix Massie, +44 2077497500, carmen@nexusinteractivearts.com

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION EU–12: STATE OF THE ART FRI 11 – 18:15 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 15:00 – LUX 3

Echo Park

…Because Superglue is Forever!

Tokyo Giants

Director: Susanna Wallin art film / United Kingdom / 2012 / 2’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Johan Grimonprez art film / Belgium / 2012 / 12’

Director: Nicolas Provost art film / Belgium / 2012 / 23’

Set inside a theme park, the film combines several amusement rides into one audio visual experience of time.

Yesterday Salam Khamas, at the age of 93, married Mrs. Um Ahmed, at the tender age of 105, in the town of Basra, Iraq. It was sunny outside. The newly weds were both found dead in their honeymoon bed this morning. Mrs. Um Ahmed was still wearing her wedding dress.

Last part of the Plot Point Trilogy by Nicolas Provost with the Japanese capital Tokyo and its inhabitants as the leads. Provost focuses on everyday scenes, from a couple arguing to lost drunks in the hyperkinetic city at night. There is the suggestion of a murder, probably planned by the Yakuza.

Filmography: Echo Park (2012), Electric Light Wonderland (2009), Marker (2009) (Go Short 2013), Eddie Proctor (2007)

Production, Script: Johan Grimonprez / Photography: Michal Dabal / Editing: Pedro Collantes / Sound: Noel Lawrence / Cast: Raquel Startz, McKenna LeVasseur-Tripp

Script, Photography, Editing: Nicolas Provost / Cast: The Citizens & Visitors of Tokyo, Johan Rooms, Miet Warlop

Contact: Susanna Wallin, +44 7946517826, contact@susannawallin.com

Filmography: …Because Superglue is Forever! (2012), Double Take (2009), Dial H–I–S–T–O–R–Y (1997)

Production: Maggie Ellis, Rose Cupit / Script: Susanna Wallin / Sound: Mikkel H. Eriksen / Cast: Abigail Young, Anna Froud

Contact: Zapomatik: Johan Grimonprez, +32 486760356, johan@zapomatik.com

Filmography: The Painters (2013), The Dark Galleries (2013), Tokyo Giants (2013), The Invader (2011), Moving Stories (2011), Stardust (2010) (Go Short 2011), Abstract Action (2010), Storyteller (2010), Long Live the New Flesh (2009), Plot Point (2007), Gravity (2007) Contact: Lima: Theus Zwakhals, +31 0203892030, theuszwakhals@li–ma.nl

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EUROPEAN COMPETITION

A World Assembled

Alice in the Sky

Butter Lamp

La Lampe au Beurre de Yak Director: Toby Tatum art film / United Kingdom / 2013 / 3’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Jonas Meier, Mike Raths art film / Switzerland / 2012 / 5’

Director: Hu Wei fiction / France / 2013 / 16’

A World Assembled represents Toby Tatum’s creation of an improbable realm, stitched together from a kit of warring elements into a fantastic whole.

Animals possessed by humanity are alienated from their natural form. Behavioural patterns of once archaic animal species forced their way into predictable forms via human strains, taming the wild, isolating the animals. Animal and humans draw ever closer, sharing a common nature. But appearances are deceiving.

A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture. Against diverse and more or less exotic backgrounds, families appear to the photographer. Through these shots, the photographer will weave unique links with each of the various villagers.

Production, Script, Photography, Editing: Toby Tatum / Music, Sound: Abi Fry Filmography: Monsters (2013), The Green Mind (2013), A World Assembled (2013), The Secluded Grove (2012), The Subterraneans (2011), The Golden Age (2010), The Sealed World (2009), Crime Scene (2007), Between Two Men (2005), The Void (2003) Contact: Toby Tatum, +44 7853700879, info@tobytatum.com

Production: Alex Schweizer / Script: Jonas Meier / Photography, Editing, Animation: Mike Raths / Music, Sound: Rusconi

Production: Julien Féret / Script, Editing: Hu Wei / Photography: Jean Legrand / Sound: Liu Cheng, Wu Shi / Animation: Etienne Salançon / Cast: Genden Punstok

Filmography: Super Boost (2013), Alice in the Sky (2012), The Destroyed Room (2010) (Go Short 2011)

Filmography: Butter Lamp (2013), Le Proprietor (2012), Sans Toi (2009)

Contact: Zweihund GmbH: Alex Schweizer, +41 774500084, jonas@zweihund.com

Contact: Hu Wei, +33 638425000, googoowood@hotmail.com

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DUTCH COMPETITION Once again we have brought together the best the Netherlands has to offer in the field of short film! Every year we make new discoveries, and there are many fresh young faces in this selection. Some are very familiar, though. Documentary filmmaker Astrid Bussink was in our selection committee for many years and now that she has left us she immediately returns with her film Wool Fever. Sam de Jong received a special mention in the student competition last year for Magnesium, and it’s good to see him back here only a year later with his new short Marc Jacobs. The same goes for Klaas Arie Westland and Michiel ten Horn, who were selected for Go Short 2013 and managed to make the cut once again. We’re on a first name basis with Job, Joris & Marieke, but then, who isn’t? They were special guests at Go Short 2011, where they curated a stop-motion focus program. This time they are featured with their new animated short MUTE.

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INDEX DUTCH COMPETITION NL-1: DEPARTURES / P. 56

NL-3: TURMOIL / P. 59

Days of Steel Flynn von Kleist fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 23’ Jorka Michiel Wesselius animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’ Off Ground Boudewijn Koole art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’ History of Pets Kris Genijn animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 5’ Even Cowboys Get to Cry Mees Peijnenburg fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 20’

The Lion Klaas Arie Westland fiction / the Netherlands / 2014 / 15’ All What Is Somehow Useful Pim Zwier art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’ I Love Hooligans Jan-Dirk Bouw animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 23’ Travellers into the Night Ena Sendijarevic fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 9’ Démontable Douwe Dijkstra animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’ MUTE Job, Joris & Marieke animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’ Fingers Michiel ten Horn fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 13’

NL-2: LOWLANDS FROM ABOVE / P. 57 Suburban God Elsbeth Fraanje documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 25’ 97% Ben Brand fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’ Wool Fever Astrid Bussink documentary / The Netherlands / 2013 / 15’ Marc Jacobs Sam de Jong fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 17’

SCREENING IN EUROPEAN COMPETITION Sweet Rabbit / p. 37 Camiel Schouwenaar fiction / the Netherlands / 2012 / 14’ Shipwreck / p. 44 Morgan Knibbe documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 13’ Spherulite / p. 42 Lotta Sweetliv animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’ All the World’s A Stage – Ways of Seeing 2013 / p. 40 Donna Verheijden art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 18’

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DUTCH COMPETITION NL–1: DEPARTURES THU 10 – 22:00 – LUX 1 / FRI 11 – 15:00 – LUX 4 / SAT 12 – 21:30 – LUX 2

Days of Steel

Jorka

Off Ground

Director: Flynn von Kleist fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 23’

Director: Michiel Wesselius animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’

Director: Boudewijn Koole art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’

Franka (17) lives with her father under the smoke of the steelworks. She takes care of her father and the household. When Franka falls in love with windsurfer Kes, she starts to see her relationship with her father in a different light.

Everybody once had thoughts about their own death and what it will cause to our loved ones. Jorka portrays the aftermath of the process of loss. After a tragic accident of the protagonist, we see the departed coping with his demise.

Production: Rianne Poodt / Script: Lenina Ungari / Photography: Koen van Bergen / Editing: Nicolien van Loon / Music: Kristijan Krajncan / Sound: Tom Jansen / Cast: Elise van ‘t Laar, Reinout Bussemaker, Chiem Vreeken / School: Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam / Website: vloeibaarstaal.nl

Production: Arnoud Rijken, Michiel Snijders, Chris Mouw, Photon Films / Script: Michiel Wesselius / Music: Martin Vonk, Jaap de Weijer / Sound: Bob Kommer Studio’s / Animation: Sander Alt, Michiel Wesselius, Arthur Gorissen

Off Ground is a dance film about a boy (Antoine Mason) and his dying mother (Louise Lecavalier). In the film choreographer Jakop Ahlbom and filmmaker Boudewijn Koole study the transition from one state of consciousness to another. They are questioning the dualistic thinking that the world in their eyes is too simply broken in body and soul, heaven and hell, life and death. How hard is that limit?

Vloeibaar Staal

Filmography: Jorka (2013), Fascinatio (2006) Filmography: Days of Steel (2013), Love Storey (2009) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com

Contact: Il Luster Films: Thierry Paalman, +31 302400768, distribution@illuster.nl

Production: Jolanda Segers, Iris Lammertsma, Boudewijn Koole / Script: Boudewijn Koole, Jakop Ahlbom / Photography: Melle van Essen / Editing: Boudewijn Koole / Music: Alex Simu / Sound: Mark Glynne / Cast: Louise Lecavalier, Antoine Masson Filmography: Off Ground (2013), Kauwboy (2012), Maite Was Hier (2009), Trage Liefde (2007), Tommie (2000), Warriors of the Heart (1999), Gilliard (1998) Contact: JvdW film: Nazima Mintjes, +31 206885049

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DUTCH COMPETITION NL–2: LOWLANDS FROM ABOVE WED – 22:15 – LUX 1 / FRI – 22:15 – LUX 5 / SAT – 11:00 – LUX 4

History of Pets

Even Cowboys Get to Cry

Suburban God

Director: Kris Genijn animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 5’

Director: Mees Peijnenburg fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 20’

Director: Elsbeth Fraanje documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 25’

History of Pets is a requiem for all the childhood pets, who found their end in the most curious of circumstances. One by one they get revisited as the main character takes a trip down memory lane.

Sven (18) and Gijs (18) are one another’s best friends. When the two of them end up in a fight on a night out with a couple of guys in Amsterdam, Gijs gets beaten into a coma. Sven struggles with feelings of guilt and the fear of losing his best friend forever. When Gijs comes out of his coma, Sven wants nothing more than everything to be the same again as soon as possible. But Gijs has changed.

In the Netherlands, every week a church is closing down. In the same time, a pastor goes by the doors of the highly modern Amsterdam suburb IJburg. But who will let him in? Suburban God is a visually cunning portrait of a new housing estate, yielding a surprising view of the meaning of faith in the secular city.

Production: Ton Crone / Script, Animation: Kris Genijn / Music: Made for Chickens by Robots / Narration: Robin Kermode / Sound: Senstudio, Dame Blanche Filmography: History of Pets (2013), Murdock’s School Frenzy (2011), 9 Months Later (2009), Een Hand (2007), Of Lice and Men (2004), D.Head (2000), Indoctrinate (1997) Contact: Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 620689423, ursulavandenheuvel@yahoo.co.uk

Cowboys Janken Ook

Production: Layla Meijman / Script: Merinde Verbeek / Photography: Stephan Polman / Editing: Imre Reutelingsperger / Music: Robin Assen / Sound: Taco Drijfhout / Cast: Ko Zandvliet, Jonas Smulders / School: Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam / Website: cowboysjankenook.nl Filmography: Even Cowboys Get to Cry (2013), We Were Wolves (2012) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com

God op IJtje

Production: Katja Draaijer / Script: Elsbeth Fraanje / Photography: Jefrim Rothuizen / Editing: Patrick Schonewille / Music: Tobias Borkert / Sound: Mark Thur Filmography: Suburban God (2013), That’s All Folk! (2011), Dedans – Bound to Dance (2010), IJtopia (2009), Delfts Blauw (2009), Orpheus (2008), Square Dance (2008), Koe & Wij (2007) Contact: BALDR Film: Katja Draaijer, +31 203032670, sanne@baldrfilm.nl

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DUTCH COMPETITION NL–2: LOWLANDS FROM ABOVE WED 9 – 22:15 – LUX 1 / FRI 11 – 22:15 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 11:00 – LUX 4

97%

Wool Fever

Marc Jacobs

Director: Ben Brand fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’

Director: Astrid Bussink documentary / The Netherlands / 2013 / 15’

Director: Sam de Jong fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 17’/ Dutch premiere

Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% lovematch is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line?

Every year in May, the small village of Lievelde in the Dutch countryside is turned upside down. Everybody is seized by parade fever. Wool parade fever, to be precise. While other villages and towns have flower or fruit parades, Lievelde has the largest wool parade in the world! The wool parade is popular with the youth in Lievelde and for months, everyone goes out of their way to win the coveted first prize.

Production: Rogier Dorant / Script: Thomas van der Ree / Photography: Max Maloney / Editing: Wietse de Zwart / Music: Christiaan Verbeek / Sound: Dennis Kersten / Animation: Dennis Lubbers / Cast: Bert Hana, Thirsa van Til, Laura Branderhorst Filmography: 97% (2013), Life is Beautiful (2013) Contact: Caviar: Ben Brand, +31 618521122, ikbenbrand@gmail.com

Wolkoorts

Production: Frank van den Engel / Script, Narration: Astrid Bussink / Photography: Robbie van Brussel / Editing: Riekje Ziengs / Sound: Carla van der Meijs / Animation: Sander van der Hurk Filmography: Wool Fever (2013), Angelmakers (2005), Rückenlage (2006), The 9 Lives of My Car (2006), I Shot the Mayor (2007), The Lost Colony (2008) Contact: Zeppers Film: Julia van Schieveen, +31 206758594, julia@zeppers.nl

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Nine year old Soufyane, son of a Moroccan father and Dutch mother, lives in an apartment with his mother and sister in a typical big city high-rise estate. His father, whom he never sees, invites him on a journey. A journey to the country of his ancestors – Morocco. His friends insist that he should get a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, but Soufyane would rather wear Marc Jacobs. Production: Gijs Kerbosch, Roel Oude Nijhuis, Gijs Determeijer / Script: Sam de Jong / Photography: Ton Peters / Editing: Mieneke Kramer / Sound: Vincent Sinceretti / Cast: Ruhi Belkadi, Chaalisa Belkadi, Donna Harreman, Ayoub Elasri, Oussama Addi, Achraf Meziani Filmography: Marc Jacobs (2013), Magnesium (2012) (Go Short 2013) Contact: 100% Halal: Eline Verhoeven, +31 206391402, eline@100procenthalal.nl


DUTCH COMPETITION NL–3: TURMOIL THU 10 – 13:45 – LUX 5 / FRI 11 – 17:00 – LUX 4

The Lion De Leeuw

Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt

All What Is Somehow Useful

I Love Hooligans

Director: Klaas Arie Westland fiction / the Netherlands / 2014 / 15’

Director: Pim Zwier art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’

Director: Jan–Dirk Bouw animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’

After three years of detention for a violent offence, Abdel’s interview with his parole officer determines to what extent he still is a danger to society. A realistic film with convincing acting, inter-cut with the making-of.

A multitude of animals brought together in a rhythmical sequence of photographs. The images blend together similar to the cross breeding of animals. An accumulation of bygone days, captured in photos, in which the animals are replaceable, but the same employees frequently reappear.

In I Love Hooligans we enter the world of a homosexual football hooligan. Football is what he lives for, and his sexual orientation and love life have been relegated to the margin. It is a well-kept secret. As a hooligan, his club is everything to him and the matches against their arch rival are the highlights of the year.

Production, Script, Editing, Music: Klaas Arie Westland / Photography: Robijn Voshol / Sound: Matt Kemp, Ronnie van der Veer / Cast: Abdullah Monadile, Micha Schneijderberg / Website: filmdeleeuw.nl Filmography: The Lion (2014), Sans (2013) (Go Short 2013), Ten Kate (2009), Bob Dylan Wannabe Falling from a Rooftop (2007), Schapekop (2004) Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com

Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Sound: Pim Zwier Filmography: All What Is Somehow Useful (2013), Breathless (2012), Breathtaking (2012), Celestial Body (2010), Oerdak (2010), Sutrapeze (2010) Contact: EYE Film Instituut the Netherlands: Marta Jurkiewicz, +31 207582362, martajurkiewicz@eyefilm.nl

Production: Koert Davidse, Marc Thelosen, Frederik Nicolai / Script: Jan–Dirk Bouw / Editing: Tim Roza / Music: Paleis van Boem / Sound: Bart Jilesen / Animation: Joost Jansen Filmography: I Love Hooligans (2013), Always Different (2013), Hurray Pride Again (2011), Believe in Love II (2009) Contact: SeriousFilm: Koert Davidse, +31 641515974, koert@seriousfilm.nl

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DUTCH COMPETITION NL–3: TURMOIL THU 10 – 13:45 – LUX 5 / FRI 11 – 17:00 – LUX 4

Travellers into the Night

Démontable

MUTE

Director: Ena Sendijarevic fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 9’

Director: Douwe Dijkstra art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’

Director: Job, Joris & Marieke animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’

A woman works in a gas station, alone, at night. People she doesn’t know step into her world and out again, leaving her in her own little bubble. Until one night, a special kind of stranger walks in and turns her world upside down.

The level of media saturation we’re bombarded with creates an absurd distortion and distance between our daily routine and current affairs. Démontable explores this bizarre melange of realities by throwing the two worlds together: attack helicopters shred a newspaper, while a dinner plate suffers a drone strike. They’re a series of attempts to try and understand our world better by playing with its violent protagonists.

In a world populated by people without a mouth, a gory accident leads to the discovery a mouth can be created by cutting yourself. This unleashes an enthusiastic chain reaction among the population!

Reizigers in de Nacht

Production: Wibout Warnaar / Script: Ena Sendijarevic / Photography: Emo Weemhoff / Editing: Lot Rosmark / Sound: Tijn Hazen / Cast: Bien de Moor, Ward Weemhoff, Felix Jan Kuypers Filmography: Fernweh (2014), Travellers into the Night (2013), Februari (2013) Contact: Ena Sendijarevic, +31 641592894, ena.sen@gmail.com

Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Animation, Cast: Douwe Dijkstra / Music: Seven League Beats / Sound: Rob Peters / Website: douwedijkstra.nl Filmography: Démontable (2013), De Kift Up Close (2012), Beguine (2008), Zooldrift (2007), Pinball Man (2006) Contact: Douwe Dijkstra, +31 645476593, info@douwedijkstra.nl

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Production, Script, Sound, Animation: Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw / Music: Happy Camper Filmography: Mute (2013), It’s Not Funny, It’s Art! (2008) (Go Short 2009), Moi (2006), Visiting Walter (2006), Bezoek aan het Vrachtschip (2006), Niet te Geloven (2005), How Snjezhi Tsjelovek Found his Ancestors (2003), Mixed Frenquencies (2003), Wad (2003) Contact: KLIK! Distribution Service: Ursula van den Heuvel, +31 620689423, ursula@klikamsterdam.nl


DUTCH COMPETITION

Fingers Vingers

Director: Michiel ten Horn fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 13’ When math teacher Bernd believes he sees a girl get touched inappropriately by a boy in class, he gets totally confused about what happens sexually amongst the youth. Is there a world he didn’t know about for years? At the annual dance Bernd decides to dive in completely, without taking the possible consequences into account. Production: Julius Ponten / Script: Michiel ten Horn / Photography: Jasper Wolf / Editing: Wouter van Luijn / Music: Djurre de Haan / Sound: Hein Verhoeven / Cast: Ton Kas Filmography: Fingers (2013), Guilty Movie (2012), 7 Minutes in Heaven (2012) (Go Short 2013), The Deflowering of Eva van End (2012), Arie (2009), Alex in Amsterdam (2009), Basta (2007) Contact: Habbekrats: Cim Froeling, +31 203300324, info@habbekrats.nl

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YOUTH COMPETITION We are proud to present a young counterpart to our international juries: a group of five enthusiastic adolescents who are opinionated and love to watch films. They will critically judge ten European shorts. They provide a fresh outlook on the program by judging the films by their own standards and expectations. They will open their mind to new experiences, and be attentive to what triggers their imaginations. The challenge will be to choose a winner from ten preselected films, which represent the wide variety of films screened at Go Short. Films like Even Cowboys Get to Cry, Days of Steel or Moritz and the Woodwose, feature young adults as the main protagonists. Eating Lunch deals with young girls that struggle with anorexia. Will this make it easier for our jury members to identify with the characters?

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Beside fiction films, the selection also includes films our young jury might be less familiar with, like the art films Off Ground and Spherulite, and the animation films Jorka, History of Pets and The Missing Scarf. The documentary Chikara - the Sumo Wrestler’s Son completes the youth selection. This wide variety of films in both genre and country of origin will present a challenge to the jury’s assignment of coming to a joint decision. We look forward to hear how this young jury experiences and judges the shorts in this selection.


INDEX YOUTH COMPETITION EU-6: CONQUERORS / P. 41

NL-1: DEPARTURES / P. 56

The Missing Scarf Eoin Duffy animation / Ireland / 2013 / 7’ Chikara - The Sumo Wrestler’s Son Simon Lereng Wilmont documentary / Denmark / 2013 / 32’ Spherulite Lotta Sweetliv art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’ Eating Lunch Sanna Lenken fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 13’ Moritz and the Woodwose Bryn Chainey fiction / Germany / 2013 / 20’

Days of Steel Flynn von Kleist fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 23’ Jorka Michiel Wesselius animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 8’ Off Ground Boudewijn Koole art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’ History of Pets Kris Genijn animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 5’ Even Cowboys Get to Cry Mees Peijnenburg fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 20’

THU 10 – 15:45 – LUX 5 FRI 11 – 22:00 – LUX 4

THU 10 – 22:00 – LUX 1 FRI 11 – 15:00 – LUX 4 SAT 12 – 21:30 – LUX 2

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BREAKING SHORTS

STUDENT COMPETITION You could look upon films in a student competition as a window into future trends. This year is no different. Selected from over 600 entries, the 20 films shown are some of the best student works made in the past year. Though eclectic in subject matter and from a wide range of European film schools, there is still a lot of common ground between these films. Core themes are still the ones for the ages: love, death, family and friendship. Bonds between childhood friends, fathers and sons, and mothers and daughters give films such as Left and Days of Saturn an impressive maturity. 64

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Tackling these subjects can be a difficult task, but Elephant and The Swing of the Coffin Maker show that it can be done with humor and style. These students aren’t afraid to cross borders, be it literally as in Two at the Border, or be it figuratively in terms of genre-hopping, as in Z1. What all these films have in common is that they deserve to be seen more than once. Even though they differ in subject matter and approach, the films all have an underlying humanity, which is all you could ask for in a new generation of filmmakers. At the risk of hyperbole, the world is safe within their hands.

The Breaking Shorts Student Competition is selected in co-operation with Breaking Ground, a young and dynamic platform for European film students. Breaking Ground is always on the lookout for talented film students and opportunities to showcase their films. Do you want to submit your film, or do you have a screening opportunity, get in touch through www.breakingground.eu!


INDEX BREAKING SHORTS BS-1: YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND / P. 66

BS-3: STEPPIN’ OUT OF LINE / P. 68

BS-4: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH / P. 70

Micke & Tommy Martina Carlstedt documentary / Sweden / 2013 / 15’ Left Eamonn O’Neill animation / United Kingdom, Ireland / 2012 / 12’ F5 Timofey Zhalnin fiction / Russia / 2012 / 33’ Rabbit and Deer Péter Vácz animation / Hungary / 2013 / 16’

Two at the Border Tuna Kaptan, Felicitas Sonvilla documentary / Germany, Turkey / 2013 / 30’ Plug & Play Michael Frei animation / Switzerland / 2013 / 6’ That I’m Falling? Eduardo Williams fiction / France / 2013 / 15’ Zinneke Rémi Allier fiction / Belgium / 2013 / 19’ I Love You So Hard Ross Butter animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 4’

Pandas Matus Vizar animation / Slovakia / 2013 / 12’ Days of Saturn Sara Bungartz fiction / Germany / 2013 / 30’ The Way of All Flesh Deben Van Dam fiction / Belgium / 2013 / 27’ Elephant Pablo Larcuen fiction / Spain / 2013 / 9’

BS-2: LIKE FATHER, LIKE… / P. 67 The Call Reber Dosky documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 25’ Z1 Gabriel Gauchet fiction / United Kingdom / 2013 / 33’ The Swing of the Coffin Maker Elmar Imanov fiction / Azerbaijan, Germany / 2012 / 30’

BS-5: LOVE THY WOMAN / P. 71 After the Winter Jow Zhi Wei fiction / France, Singapore, Taiwan / 2012 / 19’ A Hedgehog’s Visit Kariem Saleh animation / Germany / 2013 / 6’ Mother Is God Maria Bäck documentary / Denmark / 2013 / 30’ Beach Boy Emil Langballe documentary / United Kingdom / 2013 / 27’

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Micke & Tommy

Left

F5

Director: Martina Carlstedt documentary / Sweden / 2013 / 15’ / international premiere

Director: Eamonn O’Neill animation / United Kingdom, Ireland / 2012 / 12’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Timofey Zhalnin fiction / Russia / 2012 / 33’ / Dutch premiere

Micke and Tommy are best friends. Together they set off on a cruise in the stormy night. Micke wants to meet a girl and his expectations are high. But when things are put to the test on the dance floor it’s good to have Tommy by his side.

We got older. We drifted apart. Neil changed and so did I.

Production, Script, Photography: Martina Carlstedt / Editing: Britta Norell / Music: Isabelle EngmanBredvik, Mats Jönsson, Anders Kampe / Sound: Svante Biörnstad / Cast: Mikael Nyberg-Ag, Tommy Sandin / School: Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts Filmography: Micke & Tommy (2013), The Love Agency (2013), Men Away from Home (2011), Claes (2010) (Go Short 2012) Contact: Martina Carlstedt, +46 733127767, mail@martinacarlstedt.com

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Production, Script: Eamonn O’Neill / Music: Pierre O’Reilly, Frederique Legrand / Sound: Joseph Tate / Animation: Henrique Barone, Marah Curran, Anne Louise Erambert, Aaron Lampert, Eimhin McNamara, Stephen Middleton, Don O’Herlihy, Eamonn O’Neill, Claudio Salas, Luiz Stockler, Luca Tóth / Cast: Rob Darby, Sam Senia, Jack Hollington, Abby Jackson, Tim Preston, Sean Shanahan, Jacqui Wilson / School: Royal College of Art, London Filmography: Left (2012), I’m Fine, Thanks (2011) Contact: Eamonn O’Neill, eoneillanimationgmail.com

Kate and Galya are two students of Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture. They are sent to an international festival with the choreographic performance. Girls believe that their modernistic dance will impress the audience and the jury. That means they will win a tour, and the world of high art... Production: Ivan Lopatin, Eugene Braginets, Dmitry Jidkov / Script: Timofey Zhalnin / Photography: Anna Rozhetskaya / Music: Anton Tanonov / Sound: Victor Semyonov / Cast: Daria Barabanova, Irina Tolchilshchikova / School: St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television Filmography: F5 (2012), Legkie 16 Let (2011), Balaganchik (2010), Chernovik (2010), Zheleznodorozhniy Romans (2008) Contact: Leevandia Entertainment: Ivan Lopatin, +74 959679398, mir.festivals@gmail.com


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Rabbit and Deer

The Call

Z1

Director: Péter Vácz animation / Hungary / 2013 / 16’

Director: Reber Dosky documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 25’

Director: Gabriel Gauchet fiction / United Kingdom / 2013 / 33’ Dutch premiere

The friendship of Rabbit and Deer is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension...

In the 1980s and 90s, the Turkish army destroyed 10.000 Kurdish villages to break Kurdish resistance. Habib’s family was forced to flee to Istanbul, 1600 km west of the family home. They lived there for 20 years, until Habib returned to Eastern Turkey 7 years ago. He married a new wife and had four more children. His first family decided to stay in Istanbul. Although Habib has built a new life for himself in his beloved village, nothing can make up for the absence of his children.

Nyuszi és Öz

Production: József Fülöp / Script: Péter Vácz / Photography: Gábor Garai / Editing: Judit Czakó / Music, Sound: Máté Hámori / Animation: Attila Bertóti, Péter Vácz / School: Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design, Budapest / Website: rabbitanddeer.com Filmography: Rabbit and Deer (2013), Streamschool (2010) Contact: Moholy–Nagy University of Arts and Design: Péter Vácz, +36 202057982, vaczpeter@gmail.com

Lokroep

Production: Vera Frohn, Steven Rubinstein Malamud / Photography: Stephan Polman / Editing: Jordi Beukers / Music: Wouter van Bemmel / Sound: Claas Meier, Bob Aronds / School: Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam / Website: lokroepdefilm.nl Filmography: The Call (2013), My Good Fortune in Auschwitz (2012)

Ruth and Guy’s years of resentment, manipulation and maliciousness culminate in a bitter separation. Things spiral out of control when their ten year old son, Max, starts to behave abnormally. Production: National Film and Television School / Script: Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet / Photography: Charlie Goodger / Editing: Alice Petit / Music: Alex Harwood / Sound: Raoul Brand / Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Kate Hardie, Adam Thomas Wright / School: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Filmography: Z1 (2013), The Mass of Men (2012) (Go Short 2013), Efecto Dominó (2010), Die Kneipe (2006) Contact: NFTS: Gabriel Gauchet, +44 7411132632, mail.gauchet@gmail.com

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The Swing of the Coffin Maker

Two at the Border

Plug & Play

Director: Elmar Imanov fiction / Azerbaijan, Germany / 2012 / 30’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Tuna Kaptan, Felicitas Sonvilla documentary / Germany, Turkey / 2013 / 30’

Director: Michael Frei animation / Switzerland / 2013 / 6’

Two young men, one Syrian the other Palestinian, smuggle refugees to European ground. While the Turkish border is still porous, Greece barricades its borders with European support. Thermographic cameras, fences, coastguard ships. The guys pack, they move, sometimes they make it, sometimes they don’t. The rent was due last week.

Anthropoid creatures with plugs in place of heads are up to mischief. Instead of abandoning oneself to the dictates of the raised finger, they soon submit to themselves. But the fingers also finger around. Is it love?

Die Schaukel des Sargmachers

Azerbaijan. Yagub lives with his adult son Musa in a small house in a desolate place. They lead a solitary life. Musa, mentally disabled and limited in his motor skills, assists his father with his work. Yagub is a carpenter and earns his money especially with coffins, which he carpenters for Georgians and Russians. Production: Eva Blondiau / Script: Elmar Imanov / Photography: Driss Azhari / Editing, Sound: Bastian Bothe / Cast: Shamil Suleymanli, Rasim Jafarov, Gurban Ismayilov, Emin Samedzade, Zülfiyya Gurbanova, Elmar Imanov / School: Internationale Filmschule Köln Filmography: The Swing of the Coffin Maker (2012), Behind Closed Eyes (2011), Wherever We Are (2010), The Bunker (2010), I Am Actor (2010) a.o. Contact: aug&ohr medien: Markus Kaatsch, +49 17662965299, markus@augohr.de 68

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Production: University of Television and Film Munich / Script, Sound: Tuna Kaptan, Felicitas Sonvilla / Photography: Tim Kuhn / Editing: Tuna Kaptan, Felicitas Sonvilla, Tortora / Music: Dimitri Grigoriev / Cast: Ali, Naser / School: University of Television and Film Munich / Website: thoseattheborder.com Filmography: Hinterland (2014), Two at the Border (2013), Mr. Siebzehnrübl (2012), Bordo Mavi (2011), Space Station (2011) Contact: University of Television and Film Munich: Tuna Kaptan, +49 89689574032, info@thoseattheborder.com

Production: François Chalet / Script, Editing, Animation: Michael Frei / Music: Saint Eliyah Church Children Choir / Sound: Michael Frei, Thomas Gassmann / School: Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst / Website: michaelear.com Filmography: Plug & Play (2013), Not About Us (2012) Contact: Micheal Frei, +41 794126896, info@michaelear.com


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That I’m Falling?

Zinneke

I Love You So Hard

Director: Eduardo Williams fiction / France / 2013 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Rémi Allier fiction / Belgium / 2013 / 19’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Ross Butter animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 4’

A young man in search of a seed emerges from the underground where he spends time with his friends. In their company he begins a long digestive journey.

Nine year–old Thomas spends most of his days at the flea market closely observing the wheelings and dealings of the market’s sellers. His desire to be one of them leads him to embark on a one-night adventure that overwhelms him. From a kid’s eye level, this is a decisive life moment, a rite of passage, a journey into the world of adults… Towards new realities, far removed from those of a child.

I Love You So Hard is an animated film about romance, violence and bodily fluids, entirely handdrawn with paper, pens and coloured crayons, made up of well over a thousand A4 pages. The shorts centre around a slightly unhinged and obsessive lothario who attempts to seduce his unfortunate love interest by detailing his bizarre and terrifying fantasies of how far he’d go in order to prove his feelings for her.

Production: Véronique Duys / Script: Rémi Allier / Photography: Erika Meda / Editing: Charlotte Loutsch / Music: Léo Dupleix / Sound: Arnaud Herman / Cast: Nissim Renard, Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert / School: Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Louvain–la–Neuve

Production, Script, Narration: Joel Veitch / Photography, Editing, Animation: Ross Butter / Music: Ed Snow / School: Edinburgh College of Art / Website: iloveyousohard.com

Que Je Tombe Tout le Temps?

Production: François Bonenfant, Amaury Ovise / Script, Editing: Eduardo Williams / Photography: Julien Guillery / Sound: Gautier Lanedolis, Eduardo Williams / School: Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing Filmography: That I’m Falling? (2013), The Sound of Stars Dazes Me (2012), Could See a Puma (2011), Beware (2010), They Were Seen (2010) Contact: Eduardo Williams, +33 695442925, teddywill@gmail.com

Filmography: I Love You So Hard (2013), Tiny Chainsaw (2011), Dinosaur Ballet (2010)

Filmography: Zinneke (2013) Contact: Mediadiffusion: Emmanuel van Hoof, +32 10478021, diffusion@iad–arts.be

Contact: Oliver’s Island: Joel Veitch, +44 07970782810, joel@rathergood.com

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Pandas

Days of Saturn

The Way of All Flesh

Director: Matus Vizar animation / Slovakia / 2013 / 12’

Director: Sara Bungartz fiction / Germany / 2013 / 29’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Deben Van Dam fiction / Belgium / 2013 / 27’ / Dutch premiere

After millions of generations they have a good chance of becoming another extinct species. But one day, an all too active primate called the human being found them and they became a pawn in man’s game.

Thies lives with his Girlfriend Isa and their 3-yearold daughter Ella in Berlin. He has a depression. He has had it for quite a while and tried all kinds of treatments. When his wife has to leave town for work and he is alone with his daughter for a couple of days he falls even more in a lethargic state and can’t really communicate with anyone.

Tibo has a serious condition: boredom. He works as a nurse on a palliative care floor, and all he can think of lately is money. Once and a while, he tries to break the routine by placing bets with his co-workers on the last breath of dying patients. All in vain. One day, his colleague Anouk asks him for a favor.

Production: France Orsenne / Script: Sara Bungartz / Photography: Jesse Mazuch / Editing: Karsten Weissenfels, Jonas Rothlaender, Sara Bungartz / Sound: Jerome Huber / Cast: Bijan Zamani, Julischka Eichel, Kara Köpf, Eray Egilmez / School: Deutsche Film – und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production: Ben Vandendaele / Script: Deben Van Dam / Photography: Wim Vanswijgenhoven / Editing: Thijs Van Nuffel / Music: Skip James, Ratatat / Sound: Moustache Sound / Cast: Flor Decleir, Sam Louwcyk, Goele Derick, Lotte Diependaele / School: Erasmus Hogeschool Rits, Brussel

Filmography: Days of Saturn (2013), They Call Me Sue (2012), Ich Will Tanzen (2011)

Filmography: The Way of All Flesh (2013), Frontman (2011)

Contact: Deutsche Film– und Fernsehakademie Berlin: Hella Schmidt, +49 3025759153, h.schmidt@dffb.de

Contact: Bekke Films: Ben Vandendaele, +32 477632746, bekkefilms@gmail.com

Pandy

Production: Peter Badac / Script: Matúš Vizár / Editing: Matúš Vizár, Martin Búril, Matej Šámal / Music: Ink Midget / Sound: Miloš Hanzély / Animation: Matúš Vizár, Dalibor Kristek, Dan Stanchev / School: FAMU, Prague Filmography: Pandas (2013) Contact: BFILM: Peter Badac, +42 077451425, peter@bfilm.sk

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De Weg van Alle Vlees


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Elephant

After the Winter

A Hedgehog’s Visit

Director: Pablo Larcuen fiction / Spain / 2013 / 9’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Jow Zhi Wei fiction / France, Singapore, Taiwan / 2012 / 19’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Kariem Saleh animation / Germany / 2013 / 6’/ Dutch premiere

Elefante

Manuel is a middle-aged man with a very sad life: he has a boring job, his only friend hates him and his family seems to not care at all about him. Everything changes when Manuel is diagnosed with a very strange illness: he is going to become an elephant. Production: Sergi Casamitjana / Script: Pablo Larcuen / Photography: Daniel Fernández Abelló / Editing: Antonio Gómez–Pan / Sound: Pau Xandri / Cast: Xavier Ortiz, Marc Montserrat, Cristina Rodríguez, Antonia Maria Perelló / School: The Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia, Barcelona Filmography: Hooked Up (2013), Elephant (2013), My Invisible Friend (2010)

Au–Delà de l’Hiver

An old Chinese couple is in a small village, waiting. Production: Francois Bonenfant / Script: Jow Zhi Wei / Photography: Angello Faccini / Editing: Mathias Bouffier / Sound: Nicolas Verhaeghe / Cast: Lui Gen–miao, Hong Lin–chun / School: Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing Filmography: After The Winter (2012), Waiting (2010), Outing (2009) Contact: Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains: Natalie Trebik, +33 660155452, ntrebik@lefresnoy.net

Ein Kurzer Film über den Igel

A grumpy hedgehog trying to confess his love. Will he be able to overcome his insecurities? A short film on the struggle with fear. Production: Heiko Schulze / Script, Animation: Kariem Saleh, Friederike Fiek / Music: Maik Oehme / Sound: Ana Monte / School: Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg / Website: hedgehogsvisit.de Filmography: A Hedgehog’s Visit (2013), Winter in Beijing (2010), El Estable (2009), The World‘s Knowledge (2009) Contact: Kariem Saleh, +49 15783049734, kariem.saleh@googlemail.com

Contact: Gisela Casas, +34 933248880, gisela.casas@escandalofilms.com

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BREAKING SHORTS BS–5: LOVE THY WOMAN THU 10 – 13:45 – LUX 3 / FRI 11 – 13:45 – LUX 1

Mother Is God

Beach Boy

Director: Maria Bäck documentary / Denmark / 2013 / 30’ / international premiere

Director: Emil Langballe documentary / United Kingdom / 2013 / 27’ / Dutch premiere

You want me to dance? I ask. Yes, my mum answers. So, where do you want me to dance? At the ward, she says. You can be psychotic. But I have never been psychotic, I laugh. My mum answers quickly: That doesn’t matter, does it? It’s a documentary.

Danish filmmaker Emil Langballe describes what appears to be a budding romance between the young Kenyan boy Juma and a middle aged British woman, in a real-life version of the feature film by Ulrich Seidl Paradise: Love, set in Kenya, whose sex tourism trade promises women a romantic idyll, but all they hear are compassionate lies.

Mamma Är Gud

Production: Julie Rix / Script: Maria Bäck / Photography: Maria von Hausswolff / Editing: Julius Krebs Damsbo / Music: Jacob Kirkegaard / Sound: Anne Gry, Friis Kristensen / Cast: Franziska Düring, Signe Düring, Maria Bäck, Elisabeth Bäck / School: The National Film School of Denmark, Copenhagen Filmography: Mother Is God (2013), Above City Below Sky (2012), One Is Not Enough (2010), Cecilie and the School Fairy (2009), Christopher Wants to Fly (2007) Contact: Maria Bäck, +45 23417117, maria.ingrid.back@gmail.com 72

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Production, Script, Photography: Emil Langballe / Editing: John Murphy / Music: Finn McNicholas / Sound: Maiken H. Hansen / Cast: Juma Abdalla, Lynn Emmery / School: National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield Filmography: Beach Boy (2013), The Gardener and His 21 Flowers (2010), The Barbecue Party (2008) Contact: Emil Langballe, +45 42949398, emillangballe@gmail.com


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Eu Europe loves European Festivals A privileged place for meetings, exchanges and discovery, festivals provide a vibrant and accessible environment for the widest variety of talent, stories and emotions that constitute Europe’s cinematography. stitut The MEDIA Programme of the European Union aims to promote European audiovisual heritage, to encourage the transnational circulation of films and to foster audiovisual industry nation competitiveness. The MEDIA Programme acknowledges the cultural, educational, social and economic role of festivals by co-fi nancing every year almost 100 of them across Europe. co fin These festivals stand out with their rich and diverse European n programming, networking and meeting opportunities for professionals and the public alike, their activities in support profe professionals, their educational initiatives and the of young yo importance they give to strengthening inter-cultural dialogue. In 2013, the festivals supported by the MEDIA Programme have programmed more than 20.000 screenings of European n works to nearly work 3 million cinema-lovers. MEDIA is pleased to support the 6th edition of the Go Short – MEDI International Short Film Festival Nijmegen and we extend our Inter best wishes to all of the festival goers for an enjoyable and stimulating event. 74

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PAUL WRIGHT FILMMAKER IN FOCUS Since his debut feature film For Those in Peril saw its world premiere as part of the Critic’s Week at Cannes, the name of young Scotsman Paul Wright has been buzzing. In the short film world his talent was spotted early on. His films have been screened at three editions of Go Short, and this year he is our filmmaker in focus. Paul Wright will present his own short films, his feature debut, and some of his favorite short films. Paul Wright was born in Scotland. His short film Hikikomori received a Scottish Bafta, and that was even before he was offered a place in the Master’s program for directing at the National Film and Television School. We were introduced to his work at the second edition of Go Short, when Believe received a nomination for best short fiction film in our European competition. It has proven to be one of the shorts that stayed in our hearts and minds, so we screened it again at our 5-year retrospective last year. Until the River Runs Red was shown in our student competition Breaking Shorts in 2011, and with this short he won the British Bafta. 76

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The jury of Go Short called Believe “an uneasy film about the difficult subject of loss; daring and touching at the same time”, and this characterisation could just as well be used for his other shorts and his feature debut. In addition to his short films we will also screen For Those in Peril, which won him two more Scottish Baftas. Like in his short films, this film is centered around people who have to go all the way up to the edge and then

go over it. Wright takes us to the lowest point in their existence. There is a way up, you can feel it, though Wright doesn’t show it. There’s a strength that comes from within the characters.

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Hikikomori

Believe

Photos of God

Director: Paul Wright fiction / United Kingdom / 2007 / 4’

Director: Paul Wright fiction / United Kingdom / 2009 / 20’

Director: Paul Wright fiction / United Kingdom / 2010 / 28’

Hikikomori is the story of a boy who takes sanctuary in his bedroom, then refuses to leave. It’s about an outsider living an alternative existence.

The story of one man’s grief following the death of his wife. The film captures a desperate journey, played out against beautifully isolated highland landscapes.

Forced to look after his disabled mother, Aaron has grown up cut off from the outside world. Together yet apart they live a fragile life of isolation, haunted by the memories that threaten to engulf them.

Production: Rhianna Andrews / Script: Paul Wright / Photography: Benjamin Kracun / Editing: Maya Maffioli / Music: Gunnar Oskarsson / Sound: Gunnar Oskarsson / Cast: Kate Dickie, Paul Thomas Hickey, Michael Smiley

Production: Rhianna Andrews / Script: Paul Wright / Photography: Davide Cinzi / Editing: Michael Aeglund / Sound: James Lee / Cast: David Molyneux, Farren Morgan, Jemma Stephens, Cathy Walker

Production: Karley Duffy / Script: Paul Wright / Photography: David Liddell / Editing: Paul Wright, Simon Ross / Music: Daniel Johnston, Phantom Pregnancies, Kimya Dawson / Sound: Scott Johnson / Cast: Farren Morgan, Pauline Goldsmith, Kallin Griffiths, Jim Fairlie, Harry Ward / School: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow Contact: Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland: Adam Mcillwaine, a.mcilwaine@rcs.ac.uk

Contact: Young Films: +44 1471888154, office@youngfilms.co.uk

Contact: NFTS: Hermant Sharda, +44 1494671234, hsharda@nfts.co.uk

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FEATURE: FOR THOSE IN PERIL SAT 12 – 19:30 – LUX 2 / SUN 13 – 21:00 – LUX 3

Untill the River Runs Red Director: Paul Wright fiction / United Kingdom / 2010 / 28’ 16 year old Chloe is the only daughter of God. Travelling around with her parents, she spends her days roaming the secluded coutryside, searching for the mythical ‘Red River’. As Chloe’s story unfolds we realise the horrific truth of what brought them there. Production: Poss Kondreatis / Script: Paul Wright / Photography: Annika Summerson / Editing: Michael Aaglund / Music: Jean Marc Petsas / Sound: Dario Swade, Catherine Duffy / Cast: Emma True, Jill Bradbury, Andy Gathergood, Charlotte Donnelly, Hannah Moss Contact: NFTS: Hermant Sharda, +44 1494671234, hsharda@nfts.co.uk

For Those in Peril Director: Paul Wright fiction / United Kingdom / 2013 / 92’ Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames Aaron for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe that his brother has died, he sets out to recover him and the rest of men. Production: Mary Burke, Polly Stokes / Script: Paul Wright / Photography: Benjamin Kracun / Editing: Michael Aaglund / Music: Erik Enocksson / Sound: Joakim Sundström / Cast: George Mackay, Kate Dickie, Nichola Burley

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PAUL WRIGHT PAUL WRIGHT: FAVORITES SAT 12 – 15:30 – LUX 2

Deformer

Gasman

Soft

Director: Mike Mills documentary / United States / 2000 / 17’

Director: Lynne Ramsay fiction / United Kingdom / 1998 / 15’

Director: Simon Ellis fiction / United Kingdom / 2007 / 14’

Pro skater and painter Ed Templeton is profiled in this short experimental documentary from music video director and graphic artist Mike Mills. In its 17–minute running time, the film offers a distinctly fractured glimpse into Templeton’s home life with his girlfriend and his artistic endeavors, as well as his reflections on growing up in Huntington Beach, CA, a place he continues to call home. Templeton’s scenes are intercut with brief profiles of Huntington Beach teens and copious skate footage.

It’s the Christmas season. With her mom’s help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. 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?

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

Production: Clare Crespo, Mike Mills / Photography: Jim Fealy / Editing: Haines Hall / Cast: Deanne Templeton, Ed Templeton

Production: Gavin Emerson / Script: Lynne Ramsay / Photography: Alwin H. Küchler / Editing: Lucia Zucchetti / Sound: Stuart Bruce / Cast: Lynne Ramsay Jr., Martin Anderson, James Ramsay, Denise Flannagan

Filmography: Beginners (2010), Does Your Soul Have a Cold? (2007), Thumbsucker (2005), Pulp Anthology (2002), Paperboys (2001), Moby: Play (2001), Architecture of Reassurance (2000), Deformer (2000), Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing (1999)

Production: Jane Hooks / Script, Editing: Simon Ellis / Photography: Christopher Ross / Music: Tom Bailey / Sound: Matthias Schwab / Cast: Jonny Phillips, Matthew O’Shea, Michael Socha Filmography: Stew & Punch (2013), Jam Today (2011) (Go Short 2013), Dogging: A Love Story (2009), Fur V (2008), Soft (2007), A Storm and Some Snow (2006), What the (2006), What About the Bodies (2003), 10 Again (2002), Slot Art: Doing Really Well (2001), Telling Lies (2001), The Five

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We Have Decided not to Die

The Girl Chewing Gum

Director: Daniel Askill art film / Australia / 2004 / 11’

Director: John Smith art film / United Kingdom / 1976 / 12’

We Have Decided Not To Die is an unusual short film. A modern day allegorical triptych, three figures under go transformation through three rituals. Though not a story in any conventional sense, We Have Decided Not To Die succeeds in taking audience on an emotional journey. Aurally intriguing, often stunning and always beautiful, Daniel’s short film has been winning fans from around the festival circuit.

Who has not – particularly as a child – dreamed now and then of playing God, of sitting for a while in the Great Director’s chair in the sky? The maker of this film plays with this desire using a rolereversal trick. Filmmaker John Smith constantly gives directions over images produced by a static camera: “Now I want the man on the left to cross the street,” etc., giving the impression that the seemingly random London street scenes have been deliberately created.

Production: Daniel Askill, Christopher Seeto / Script, Editing: Daniel Askill / Photography: Denson Baker / Music: Michael Askill / Sound: Daniel Askill, Sam Dixon / Cast: Kasia Werstak, Daniel Askill, Jordan Askill / Website: WeHaveDecidedNotToDie.com Filmography: Wim – See You Hurry (2011), We Have Decided Not to Die (2004)

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Production, Script, Photography, Editing, Narration: John Smith

Outer Space

Director: Peter Tscherkassky art film / Austria / 2011 / 11’ A premonition of a horror film, lurking danger: A house – at night, slightly tilted in the camera’s view, eerily lit – surfaces from the pitch black, then sinks back into it again. A young woman begins to move slowly towards the building. She enters it. The film cuts crackle, the sound track grates, suppressed, smothered. Found footage from Hollywood forms the basis for the film. The figure who creeps through the images, who is thrown around by them and who attacks them is Barbara Hershey. Production, Script, Editing: Peter Tscherkassky

Filmography: Dad’s Stick (2012), Hotel Diaries 2001, (2004, 2005, 2007), Worst Case Scenario (2003), Lost Sound (2001), Regression (2000), The Kiss (2000), The Waste Land (1999), Blight (1996), Home Suite (1994), a.o.

Filmography: Coming Attractions (2010), Nachtstück (2006), Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005), Dream Work (2002), Outer Space (2000), Get Ready (1999), L’arrivée (1999), Happy–End (1996), Parallel Space: Inter–View (1992), a.o.


PAUL WRIGHT

Papillon D’Amour

Creature Comforts

Billy’s Balloon

Director: Nicolas Provost art film / Belgium / 2003 / 4’

Director: Nick Park animation / United Kingdom / 1989 / 5’

Director: Don Hertzfeldt animation / United States / 1998 / 6’

By subjecting fragments from the film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa to the mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinating scene of a woman‘s reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. Papillon d’Amour produces skewed reflections upon love, its lyrical monstrosities and wounded act of dissappearance.

A humourous and thought provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

A balloon wraps itself around a young child’s hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child’s delight... but...

Production: Sara Mullock / Script, Animation: Nick Park / Photography: Andy MacCormack, Fred Reed, Dave Alex Riddett, David Sproxton / Editing: William Ennals / Sound: Aad Wirtz

Production, Script, Sound, Animation: Don Hertzfeldt / Photography, Editing: Rebecca Moline

Production: Nicolas Provost / Music: Köhn, Jürgen De Blonde Filmography: The Painters (2013), The Dark Galleries (2013), Tokyo Giants (2013), The Invader (2011), Moving Stories (2011), Stardust (2010) (Go Short 2011), Abstract Action (2010), Storyteller (2010), Long Live the New Flesh (2009), Plot Point (2007), Gravity (2007)

Filmography: The Curse of the Were–Rabbit (2005), Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection 2 (1996), A Close Shave (1995), Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection (1995), The Wrong Trousers (1993)

Filmography: It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012), Wisdom Teeth (2010), I Am So Proud of You (2008), Everything Will Be Ok (2006), The Meaning of Life (2005), Rejected (2000), Billy’s Balloon (1998), Lily and Jim (1997), Genre (1996), Ah, L’Amour (1995)

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BELGIAN SHORTS BELGIUM: EMERGING TALENT THU 10 – 20:00 – LUX 1 / FRI 11 – 16:00 – LUX 2

Death of a Shadow

Oh Willy...

Sundays

Director: Tom Van Avermaet fiction / Belgium, France / 2012 / 20’

Director: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels animation / Belgium, France, the Netherlands / 2012 / 16’

Director: Valéry Rosier art film / Belgium / 2012 / 16’

Dood van een Schaduw

Stuck in a limbo between life and death, a deceased World War I soldier has to collect shadows to regain a second chance at life and love. With two shadows left to collect, he discovers something that shakes his world completely. Production: Ellen De Waele / Script: Tom Van Avermaet / Photography: Stijn Van der Veken / Editing: Dieter Diependaele / Music: Raf Keunen / Sound: Yves De Mey / Animation: Digital Graphics / Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Laura Verlinden, Peter Van Den Eede, Benjamin Ramon / Website: deathofashadow.com Filmography: Death Of A Shadow (2012), Dreamtime (2006) Contact: Serendipity Films: Tom Van Avermaet, +32 498233151, tom_vanavermaet@telenet.be

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Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery. Production: Ben Tesseur / Script: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels / Photography: Marc James Roels / Editing: Dieter Diependaele / Sound: Bram Meindersma / Animation: Andreas De Ridder, Alice Tambellini Filmography: Oh Willy... (2012), A Gentle Creature (2010), Soft Plants (2009), Mumbler (2008) Contact: Beast Animation: Dorien Schetz, +32 015636828, dorien@beastanimation.be

Dimanches

Sundays or how Mankind faces the passage of time. That free time we are trying to fill at all costs. That same time we look at passing by, with laughter or boredom. Production: Nicolas Guiot / Script: Valéry Rosier / Photography: Olivier Boonjing / Editing: Nicolas Rumpl / Music: Jürgen Biller / Sound: Arnaud Calvar / Cast: Germaine Dervaux, Jonathan Masure, Fernande Delcroix, Odette Beaudart, Monique Parent Filmography: Silence Radio (2013), Sundays (2012), Good Night (2011) Contact: Ultime Razzia Productions: Nicolas Guiot, +32 477305939, urzzia@gmail.com


BELGIAN SHORTS BELGIUM: BIG BOSSES THU 10 – 22:30 – LUX 4 / SAT 12 – 16:00 – LUX 1

Baghdad Messi

Swimsuit 46

Theme from Turnpike

Director: Sahim Omar Kalifa fiction / Belgium, UAE / 2013 / 19’

Director: Wannes Destoop fiction / Belgium / 2010 / 15’

Director: Tom Barman fiction / Belgium / 1996 / 6’

Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona – Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down...

Chantal, a chubby girl of twelve, is having a hard time finding her way through life. Only in the local pool does she truly feel at home.

Two men take a journey through crowded Parisian streets, interacting and disrupting everyday life.

Production: Hendrik Verthé, Kobe Van Steenberghe / Script: Sahim Omar Kalifa / Photography: Robrecht Heyvaert / Editing: Pieter Jan Bergmans / Music: Hannes De Maeyer / Sound: Maarten Leemans / Cast: Ali Raad Al Zaidawy, Noor Al Hoda, Hayder Helo Filmography: Bad Hunter (2013), Baghdad Messi (2013), Land of the Heroes (2011) (Go Short 2012)

Badpakje 46

Production: Katleen Goossens / Script: Wannes Destoop / Photography: Dries Delputte / Editing: Tom Denoyette / Music: Inne Eysermans / Sound: Jan Deca / Cast: Johan Heldenbergh, Wim Opbrouck, Lies Pauwels, Kenneth Vanbaeden, Janis Vercaempst / School: Koninklijke Academie voor de Schone Kunsten / Website: badpakje46.be

Production: Island Records, Musickness / Script: Tom Barman / Photography: Renaat Lambeets / Music: dEUS / Sound: Luc Cuveele / Cast: Seymour Cassel, Sam Louwyck / Filmography: Any Way the Wind Blows (2003), Theme from Turnpike (1996) Contact: Christian Pierre, christian@musickness.be

Filmography: Swimsuit 46 (2010), We Are So Happy (2008) Contact: Premium Films: Jean–Charles Mille, +33 177373367, jcm@premium–films.com

Contact: A Team Productions: Hendrik Verthé, +32 497464180, hendrik@ateamproductions.be

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BELGIAN SHORTS BELGIUM: BIG BOSSES THU 10 – 22:30 – LUX 4 / SAT 12 – 16:00 LUX 1

Carlo

Pic Pic Andre Show 4 moins 1

A Hard Days Work

Director: Michaël R. Roskam fiction / Belgium / 2004 / 18’

Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar animation / Belgium / 1999 / 13’

Director: Koen Mortier fiction / Belgium / 1997 / 13’

Carlo, a young man, works in a slaughterhouse. When his cousin, Nicky, breaks both of his feet, he asks Carlo to replace him for a football match. Hesitatingly, Carlo accepts. When, the day of the game, he gets picked up by the wrong car, he ends up in a very akward position...

A cowboy is looking for gold and André comes to pester him. A transformator destroys Pic Pic’s house. André betrays his friend Coboy. Dany participates in a potery course.

We follow Eric on his day at work.

Production: CCCP / Script: Michaël R. Roskam / Photography: Lieven Van Baelen / Editing: Alain Dessauvage / Music: Raf Keunen / Cast: Hans Knaepen, Johan Vanswijgenhoven, Fabrice Boutique, Oliivier Bony, Sam Louwyck Filmography: Bullhead (2011), Today Is Friday (2007), The One Thing to Do (2005), Carlo (2004) Contact: CCCP: Eurydice Gysel, eurydice@czar.be

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Production: Benoît Marcandella / Script, Animation, Cast: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar / Photography: Olivier Brondeel / Editing: Yvan Flass / Music: Daniel Daniel, Be Plouvier / Sound: Franco Piscopo / Website: picpicandre.be Filmography: La Bûche de Noël (2014), Panique au Village (1991), Saint–Nicolas chez les Baltus (1991), Pic Pic André Show (1988), a.o. Contact: Pic Pic André Production: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, +32 25346808, picpic.andre@scarlet.be

Production, Script: Koen Mortier / Photography: Glynn Speeckaert / Editing: Karin Vaerenberg / Sound: Marc Engels / Cast: Norman Baert, Fred van Kuyk, Frans van der Aa, Jan Steen Filmography: May 22 (2010), Nothing But the Truth (2007), Ex Drummer (2007), A Hard Day’s Work (1997), Ana Temnei (1995) Contact: Eurydice Gysel, +32 24130770, eurydice@czar.be


BELGIAN SHORTS BELGIUM: EXTRAORDINARY LIVES THU 10 – 16:00 – LUX 1 / SUN 13 – 18:45 – LUX 2

The World’s Racing

Nighthawks

General Practitioner

Director: Jean–Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne fiction / Belgium / 1987 / 12’

Director: Hans Van Nuffel fiction / Belgium / 2009 / 14’

Director: Damien Chemin fiction / Belgium / 2006 / 7’

Production: Dérives a.s.b.l. / Script: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne / Photography: Alain Marcoen / Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo / Sound: Thierry De Haleux / Cast: Jean–Paul Dermont, John Dobrynine, François Duisinx

A disillusioned older woman is trying to hide her true nature from the young girl she is dating. Things heat up considerably when her maker shows up, displeased with her life in denial and her outright refusal to see him. A story about passionate affaires, vicious circles and fresh blood.

Richard didn’t want roast yesterday. Can the doctor help?

Il Court, Il Court, Le Monde

Filmography: The Kid with a Bike (2011), Lorna’s Silence (2008), The Child (2005), The World’s Racing (1987), a.o. Contact: Les Films du Fleuve: +32 43495690, info@lesfilmsdufleuve.be

Nachtraven

Production: Steven Dhoedt / Script: Hans Van Nuffel / Photography: Rik Zang / Editing: Alain Desauvage / Music: Tape Tum / Sound: Raf Enckels / Cast: Kirsten Pieters, Valentijn Dhaenens, Inge Van Bruysteghem Filmography: Oxygen (20120), Nighthawks (2009), Fal (2007), The End of the Ride (2005), Lurking in the Shadows (2004), Entangled (2003)

Le Généraliste

Production: Xavier Diskeuve / Script: Damien Chemin / Photography: Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd / Editing: Yannick Leroy / Music: Jablkon / Sound: Gilles Laurent, David Gillain / Cast: Alexandre Von Sivers, Carlo Ferrante, Vera van Dooren, Anne Carpriau Filmography: A Pelada (2012), La Monique de Joseph (2009), Lampião: Bandit Dreams (2008), General Practitioner (2006), Poulet–Poulet (2005) Contact: Benzine: Damien Chemin, +32 485223076, damienchemin@hotmail.com

Contact: Visualantics: Steven Dhoeth, +32 25602127, info@visualantics.net

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BELGIAN SHORTS BELGIUM: EXTRAORDINARY LIVES THU 10 – 16:00 – LUX 1 / SUN 13 – 18:45 – LUX 2

The Wildness

Thermals Bath

The Extraordinary Life of Rocky

Director: Guérin van de Vorst fiction / Belgium / 2012 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Banu Akseki fiction / Belgium / 2010 / 27’

Director: Kevin Meul fiction / Belgium / 2010 / 13’

Alex is 20 years old and has a whole life to build. To get there though, he has to quit his bad habits. Alex knows he’s got to straighten up. What he knows as well is that this is a line easier said than done.

Joachim is fifteen. He wins two invitations to a Spa & Health centre and decides to go with his mother. They are projected into an unusual haven of good health that pulls them in diverging directions. The eternal drama of solitude and breakdown gets played out in this aquatic microcosm...

Rocky grows up surrounded by death: everyone around him dies in a freak accident and each time he’s at the center of it all. A modern tale about a lot of bad luck and a tiny bit of bliss.

La Part Sauvage

Production: Benoît Roland / Script: Guérin van de Vorst / Photography: Joachim Philippe / Editing: Matyas Veress / Music: Manu Roland / Sound: Fabrice Osinsky / Cast: Jérémie Segard, Yassine Fadel, Sam Louwyck, Anthony Foladore, Delphine Bibet

Thermes

Production: Jean–Yves Roubin / Script, Editing: Banu Akseki / Photography: Manu Dacosse / Music: Nicolas Boulinguez / Sound: Joachim Hansen / Cast: Tom Boccara, Sophia Leboutte, Julie Neenemagi

Filmography: The Wildness (2012), Putain Lapin (2010), Retour à la Rue (2007)

Filmography: Thermal Bath (2010), Songes d’une Femme de Ménage (2007)

Contact: Entre Chien et Loup: Benoît Roland, +32 27364813, info@entrechienetloup.be

Contact: Frakas Productions: Cassandre Warnauts, +32 42313863, infos@frakas.be

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Het Bijzondere Leven van Rocky de Vlaeminck

Production: Steven Dhoedt / Script: Kevin Meul / Photography: Nicolas Karakatsanis / Editing: Tom Denoyette / Music: Das Pop / Narration: Josse de Pauw / Sound: Raf Enckels / Cast: Wim Willaert, Ruth Becquart, Jef Demedts, Kenneth Vanbaeden Filmography: Cadet (2013), The Extraordinary Life of Rocky (2010) Contact: Visualantics: Steven Dhoedt, +32 25602127, stephen@visualantics.net


BELGIAN SHORTS

Paroles Director: Gilles Coulier fiction / Belgium / 2010 / 22’ Nightly encounters imply a return. A return that should make a departure easier. Production: Gilles Coulier / Script: Gilles Coulier, Angelo Tijssens / Photography: David Williamson / Editing: Tim Debevere / Music: Liesa Van der Aa / Sound: Jori Hernalsteen / Cast: Wim Willaert, Sam Louwyck, Gilles De Schryver, Angelo Tijssens / School: Sint Lukas School of Arts, Brussels Filmography: Mont Blanc (2012), Paroles (2010), Iceland (2009) Contact: Watch and Behave pictures: Gilles Coulier, +32 472651716, gc@dewereldvrede.be

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FOOD & FILM The food industry faces enormous challenges when it comes to creating a sustainable food supply for the world. We want good food. We want affordable food. We want to eat healthy, and at the same time we don’t want to consume the planet. What choices do we make when we shop and when we cook? Where does good food come from, and where does it go? Questions that occupy our minds, and those of filmmakers as well. With lots of new sustainable restaurants, microbreweries, craft markets and businesses, there’s a food culture heyday. This year Go Short is a feast for foodies and film lovers.

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FOOD TALKS Four talks on the future of food. Thu 10/4 – 20:30 – LUX 4 – Dutch spoken OUR DAILY BREAD + SLOW FOOD Enjoy a slow food package to accompany your short films! Sat 12/4 – 20:00 – LUX 1 FOOD FILM EXPO Continuously at the pavilion (p.98)


FOOD TALKS

FOUR VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Everyone loves food! When we’re not eating it, we sure love to talk about it. So let’s speculate a little on the future of our food. We invite four inspiring food experts to explore the menu of tomorrow. They will present innovative views from different perspectives that make your mind race and your mouth water.

CULTURED MEAT Cor van der Weele is a bioethicist and philosopher within the Department of Applied Philosophy at Wageningen University. She works at the intersection of biology and philosophy, with special

research interests in metaphor and selective attention, genetics, genomics and cultured meat. She will guide you through the new developments within cultured meat, and what these mean for the future.

EATING INSECTS Food designer Daisy Stauder started her Bugbon company with a big challenge: how can we feed the world in the future? Eating insects, she suggests, could be the answer to a lot of big issues. She invites us to try the taste of insects. Why and how should we go about eating them?

SLOW FOOD Guus Thijssen, a board member of Slow Food, will talk about the ideals of the Slow Food movement. How do you implement these ideals and how are they rooted within a broader perspective of changes within the food chain? He will show you some examples of the creativity of small producers.

PIGS HOME

After a year they will be slaughtered and prepared to be consumed by the same people that have taken care of them for the last year. How does this affect a local community, and what can we learn about our relationship with our daily meal? FOOD TALKS Thu 10/4 – 20:30 – LUX 4 This program will be Dutch spoken only.

Rianne Andeweg from the Rotterdamse Oogst will talk about Pigs Home (Varkenshuis), which houses two pigs for a year. They live on the leftovers from the neighbourhood. GOSHORT

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FOOD & FILM FOOD: FOOD FIGHTS THU 10 – 18:00 – LUX 5 / SUN 13 – 17:00 – LUX 3

Food

Meatwork

Director: Jan Švankmajer animation / Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom / 1992 / 17’

Director: Madeleine Parry documentary / Australia / 2012 / 29’

Director: Tato Kotetishvili fiction / Poland / 2012 / 10’ / Dutch premiere

Can you eat meat and really care about the animals on your dinner plate? Documentarian and meateater, Madeleine Parry wants to find out. So she enlists to become an abattoir meat-worker, and works her way up the production line toward the ‘killbox’. With unparalleled access to a slaughterhouse, she explores the experiences of the animals we eat and the men who kill them.

Somewhere off the beaten track, far away from big cities, a man puts up his stand selling watermelons. Those few local drivers who pass it, remain unimpressed. Only tourists stop to take a photo of this peculiar attraction. This kind of a business cannot be profitable. To make things worse, a competing enterprise emerges on the other side of the metalled road. The film shows one day in the life of a watermelon seller.

Jídlo

Metaphor of insatiable contemporary human society which is manipulated to gluttony and may end up in its own destruction. Production: Jaromír Kallista / Script: Jan Švankmajer / Photography: Svatopluk Malý / Editing: Marie Zemanová / Sound: Ivo Špalj / Animation: Bedrich Glasser / Cast: Ludvík Šváb, Josef Fiala, Bedrich Glasser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek, Jaromír Kallista Filmography: Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), Food (1992), Alice (1988), Dimensions of Dialogue (1982) a.o. Contact: Athanor: Pavla Kallistová, +420 603499828, athanor@nextra.cz

Arbuz

Production: Daniel Joyce / Photography: Mark Andersson / Editing: David Scarborough / Music: Jonathan Dreyfus / Sound: Leigh Kenyon Filmography: Good Job (2013), Meatwork (2012), Murder Mouth (2011), Living In Detention (2011), Melbourne Says YES To A Price on Pollution (2011), Also A Mirror (2011), The Making of the November Edition (2009) Contact: Projector Films: Daniel Joyce, +61 403354043, dan@projectorfilms.com.au

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Watermelon

Production: Marcin Malatynski / Script: Nikoloz Mdivani, Tato Kotetishvili/ Photography: Tato Kotetishvili / Editing: Tato Kotetishvili, Wojciech Janas / Music: Orera / Cast: Gocha Jikhashvili, Valeri Cercvadze / School: Polish National Film School, Lodz Filmography: Watermelon (2012) Contact: Tato Kotetishvili, +31 99599929051, tatokotetishvili@gmail.com


FOOD & FILM FOOD: OUR DAILY BREAD SAT 12 – 20:00 – LUX 1 / SUN 13 – 15:00 – LUX 3

Flatten

How to Pick Berries Miten Marjoja Poimitaan

No Bread No Hay Pan

Director: Hugo de Kok, Kay van Vree art film / the Netherlands / 2012 / 1’

Director: Elina Talvensaari Documentary / Finland / 2010 / 19’

Director: Macarena Monrós fiction / Chile / 2012 / 20’

Flatten is a beautiful experimental video by Dutch artists Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree that explores the forms and shapes of flattened food. The images were created by compositing different parts of the video, giving each one separate time spans so they could be edited with music . Production, Photography, Editing: Hugo de Kok, Kay van Vree / Music: Ivo van Dijk, Sophie Ansems / School: Utrecht School of the Arts

Economy is stranger than fiction. Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. As harmless as they are, their foreign presence unwittingly disrupts the pace of local habits. They have come to look for berries, an activity that all of a sudden seems to embody all the values of local culture. Who is to blame and where do the profits end up? How to Pick Berries is an exploration of Finnish mind and the absurdities of global economy.

Luis (72) is the owner of a little grocery store that suffers a sudden downturn when a supermarket sets up in its neighborhood and he is told that he’ll no longer be provided with bread. The man faces a crossroads: closing the store, or finding another bread supplier to keep his business open.

Filmography: Applied Narrative Design Leaders (2013), Broke for Free – Night Owl (2012), Flatten (2012), Jenny Mayhem – Alice in Wonderland (2012), Dilemn – Modern Slave (2010)

Production: Elina Talvensaari / Script: Elina Talvensaari, Mauro Firañas / Photography: Joonas Pulkkanen / Editing: Markus Leppälä / Music, Sound: Pinja Kuusela

Contact: Hugo de Kok,+31 653409054, hugodekok@gmail.com

Filmography:How to Pick Berries (2010), Palm Tree (2008)

Production: Iván Nakouzi / Script: Pamela Muñoz / Photography: Mauricio Palacios / Editing: Jasmín Valdés / Music: Eduardo Ortíz, Martín Pérez / Sound: Patricia Muñoz / Cast: Raúl Palma, Marta Méndez / Website: nobreadfilm.com Filmography: No Bread (2012) Contact: Luminaria: Iván Nakouzi, +56 228950095, ivan@luminaria.in

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Asparragos

Alive

Back to the Start

Director: Laura Zuallaert documentary / Belgium / 2012 / 14’

Director: Aniëlle Webster fiction / the Netherlands / 2012 / 13’

Director: Johnny Kelly animation / United Kingdom / 2011 / 2’

On the coast of northern Peru, an exotic branch of agriculture has sprung up: asparagus farming. Glacier water is diverted from mountain streams to the parched desert soil of Trujillo so that the asparagus can grow. Peruvians aren’t fond of asparagus and the harvest is almost completely exported to richer countries in the North. In this documentary we follow the production cycle at a local level and are given a look into the lives of the farmers and factory workers that are trying to survive on 2 to 5 US Dollars a day.

A poetic short film about a biology teacher who knows death is an apparent part of life. Until his mother passes away and his father – stricken with grief – faces him with a choice. Will he assist his father?

A stop-motion animated film about farming commissioned by Chipotle Mexican Grill. It shows the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory, before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future.

Leven

Production, Script, Photography, Narration: Laura Zuallaert / Editing: Kenneth Michiels / Sound: Finn Ziegler / School: Koninklijke Academie voor de Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen Filmography: Asparragos (2011), The Uplands (2010), a.o. Contact: VZW Mira: Laura Zuallaert, +32 472719404, zualaura@yahoo.com 94

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Production: Trent / Script: Gerry de Hoogh / Photography: Jan Moeskops / Editing: Michiel Boesveldt / Music: Arjan de Wit / Sound: Arno Willemstein / Cast: Arthur Boni, Rogier Schippers

Production: Liz Chan / Photography: Matthew Day / Music: Willie Nelson / Sound: Fonic / Animation: Gary Cureton, Matthew Cooper

Filmography: Bowy is Inside (2012), Being Alive (2012), Arigato (2012), Tussendoor (2011), Even (2010), Nagelaten (2009) (Go Short 2010)

Filmography: Back to the Start (2011), The Seed (2009), Procrastination (2007) (Go Short 2009), Shelly (2007), ‘We Still Got It’ The Redneck Manifesto (2004)

Contact: NFI: Trent, +31 207173504, trent@nfi.nu

Contact: Nexus: Johnny Kelly, +44 7930436653, johnny@mickeyandjohnny.com


FOOD & FILM FOOD: HAUTE CUISINE THU 10 – 21:30 – LUX 2 / SAT 12 – 12:00 – LUX 1

MAQLOUBEH

Gestes du Repas

Eating Out

Director: Nicolas Damuni fiction / France, Palestine, Egypt, the Netherlands / 2012 / 10’

Director: Luc de Heusch documentary / Belgium / 1957 / 20’

Director: Pål Sletaune fiction / Norway / 1993 / 7’

Using different situations (a party, sumptuous dinner, fast food, …) de Heusch tries to define Belgians according to their eating habits. He builds up under the guise of a serious documentary, an at times malicious fantasy about Belgium.

A black comedy about a man sitting alone in a rundown burger joint, enjoying his burnt fries and a burger. Suddenly a very extraordinary hold-up disrupts the snack bar’s owner in his cooking and the guest, who is right in the middle of his dinner..

Production: Henri Storck Fonds / Script: Luc de Heusch, Jacques Delcorde / Photography: Charles Abel / Editing: Charles Abel / Music: Benoît Quersin / Narration: Paul Anrieu, Darío Moreno / Cast: Paul Anrieu

Production: Lars Tommerbakke / Script: Pal Sletaune / Photography: Peder Nordlund / Editing: Pal Gengenbach / Sound: Sturla Einarson / Cast: Anneke von der Lippe, Roberst Skjaegstad, Bjorn Sundquist, Bjorn Jenseg

Filmography: Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday (1967), Six Mille Habitants (1958), Gestes du Repas (1958) a.o.

Filmography: Eating Out (1993), The Bingo Joint (1992)

Five art students awake to the sound of gunfire and bombardments. Since the electricity had been cut and a curfew imposed they do not know what is happening outside. To fill the time the young men decide to prepare a ‘Maqloubeh’ for lunch. They all contribute to the preparation of this traditional dish. Suddenly an uninvited guest arrives. Production: Karim Boutros Ghali / Script: Nicolas Damuni, Hani Zurob / Photography: Ahmad Yakoub / Editing: Nicolas Damuni / Music: Ahmad Al Khatib, Youssef Hbeisch / Sound: Boris Chapelle / Cast: Nabiha Lotfy, Mohammad al–Bughdadi, Amer Melhem Filmography: MAQLOUBEH (2012), Making Of the Baby Doll Night (2008), KAN YA MAKAN (2006), TOPfONIE (2006), INdiVIduE (2006) a.o.

Contact: Henri Storck Fonds: Natacha Derycke, +32 22196333, info@fondshenristorck.be

Contact: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 22474500, amb@nfi.no

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Prologue

Werner Herzog Eats his Shoe

Director: Béla Tarr fiction / Hungary / 2004 / 5’

Director: Les Blank documentary / USA / 1979 / 20’

Director: Vittorio De Seta documentary / Italy / 1958 / 11’

A 5 minute dolly shot of people waiting in line for food filmed in beautiful black in white accompanied by music by Mihály Vig. This short was Béla Tarr’s contribution to the Visions of Europe project.

In 1979, Les Blank took a detour to film German filmmaker Werner Herzog honoring a vow he made to Errol Morris that he (Herzog) would eat his shoe if Morris ever actually made one of the films he was forever talking about. Stung to action, Morris directed Gates of Heaven, a highly acclaimed film about a pet cemetery; Herzog, true to his word, returned to Berkeley to consume one of his desert boots at the UC Theater. Blanks film documents Herzog’s strongly expressed belief that people must have “the guts to attempt what they dream of”.

Fishing Boats sheds light on the fisheries between Sicily and Africa. De Seta shows how the fishermen put out to sea in all weathers to scrape a living. If a storm breaks, the fishing boats seek refuge on the island of Lampedusa. The sober but effective use of the surrounding sounds drowns the fishermen’s voices and gives the film an extra dramatic dimension.

Production, Photography: Les Blank / Editing: Maureen Gosling / Sound: Maureen Gosling / Cast: Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Errol Morris

Filmography: Bandits of Orgosolo (1961), Letters from Sahara (2004), Fishing Boats (1958), a.o.

Prológus

Production: Gábor Téni / Photography: Robby Müller /Music: Mihály Vig / Sound: György Kovács Filmography: The Turin Horse (2011), The Man from London (2007), Prologue – Visions of Europe (2004), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), a.o. Contact: ttfilmmuhely02@gmail.com

Pescherecci

Filmography: All In This Tea (2007), The Maestro Rides Again! (2005), Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1979), a.o. Contact: Les Blank Films Inc.: Harrod Blank, +510 5250942, lesblankfilmsinc@gmail.com 96

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Fishing Boats

Production, Script: Vittorio De Seta / Photography: Alfredo Manganiello / Editing: Tita Perozzi

Contact: Cineteca di Bologna: Andrea Meneghelli, andrea.meneghelli@cineteca.bologna.it


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Island of Flowers

The Bellies

Director: Jorge Furtado documentary / Brazil / 1989 / 12’

Director: Philippe Grammaticopoulos animation / France / 2009 / 17’

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. Ends? No. Island of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

In a very industrialized world, where humans only eat transgenic food, some plates make for surprising dishes. .. Production: Jean–Jacques Benhamou / Script, Photography, Editing, Narration, Sound: Philippe Grammaticopoulos / Music: Pierre Schaeffer, George Crumb / Animation: Jérémie Droulers, Jean-Charles Gonin, Philippe Grammaticopoulos, Loïc Salmon, Lucas Vallerie

Ilha das Flores

Production: Nora Goulart / Script: Jorge Furtado / Photography: Roberto Henkin, Sérgio Amon / Editing: Giba Assis Brasil / Music: Geraldo Flach / Narration: Paulo José / Cast: Paulo José, Ciça Reckziegel Filmography: The Man Who Copied (2003), Two Summers (2002), Island of Flowers (1989), The Day Dorival Faced the Guard (1986)

Les Ventres

Filmography: Les Oiseaux (2011), The Bellies (2009), Signature (2007), Le Régulateur (2004), Le Processus (2000) Contact: Haidouk! Films: Benhamou Jean-Jacques, +33 613091763, jjbenhamou@haidoukcom

Contact: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre: Nora Goulart, +55 5133169200, distribuidora@casacinepoa.com.br

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INDULGE IN THE VISUAL FEAST OF FOOD FILMS! Crushed food, in completely abstracted form, is the subject of Futures. Innuendos, artifacts and the rough synchronisation all add subtle emotions to the uncertain process that builds a morbid tableaux, accompanied by the beautiful music of José González.

Facing Animals by Jan van IJken is a documentary film about the complex and often bizarre relationship between man and animal. The stunning and often confronting visuals take the viewer on a roller coaster of emotions. It becomes clear how complex and often bizarre the relationship between man and animal is. The food porn of Momoko Seto is something else! In Octupus Love Affair an octopus and a red fish get intimate. An oyster and mussel share a moment of intense love in Jennifer and Tiffany. The title of Prawns Orgy is self-explanatory. Warning: these films can evoke erotic sensations! Niina Suominen really believes that nothing good should go to waste. Good Stuff is a food animation that was completely collected from waste bins. A choreography where another one’s loss is no-one’s gain.

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FOOD FILM EXPO Daily – pavilion & pop-up locations Good Stuff Niina Suominen animation / Finland / 2009 / 8’ Futures Robert Seidel art film / Germany / 2006 / 4’ Facing Animals Jan van IJken documentary / the Netherlands / 2012 / 30’ Octopus Love Affair Momoko Seto art film / France / 2011 / 2’ Jennifer and Tiffany Momoko Seto art film / France / 2011 / 2’ Prawns Orgy Momoko Seto art film / France / 2012 / 1’


SHORT FILM SPECIALS POHJANKONNA OY EUROPE IN CRISIS FILM CONCERT INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS COMEDY SHORTS HOMEGROWN GO AHEAD HKU PRESENTS OSCAR SHORTS MEET THE JURY

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POHJANKONNA OY

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Go Short had the Finnish filmmakers Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen of Pohjankonna Oy over for a two-month stay in Nijmegen as Artist in Residence. From February till April they lived and worked in the Besiendershuis, a historic building situated on the quay of the Waal River. The Besiendershuis annually asks four organisations from Nijmegen to be a host for the Artist in Residence project ‘Straight Flow’. In this period the Artist in Residence works closely with the host organisation and other people and artists from Nijmegen.

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Hannes Vartiainen (1980) started off working as a filmmaker and Pekka Veikkolainen (1982) as an animator and illustrator. In 2008 they combined their talents to work together on new and exciting ways of filmmaking. The duo combines various digital techniques with, among others, stop-motion and x-ray scans. Their short films and documentaries have a unique style and feel that manages to be experimental and accessible at the same time. They take the audience on an adventurous audiovisual trip. Their films The Death of an Insect (2010) and Gates of Life (2012) were

selected for the European Competition of the last two editions of Go Short. Quite uniquely, they were selected for a third consecutive year, with their new short Emergency Calls (2013). POHJANKONNA OY: FILMS + TALK Wed 9/4 - 21:00 - LUX 2 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE BESIENDERSHUIS PRESENTATION Thu 10/4 - 17:00 - LUX 2 – free POHJANKONNA OY: FILMS + TALK Sun 13/4 - 21:15 - LUX 1


SHORT FILM SPECIALS

POHJANKONNA OY

WED 9 – 21:00 – LUX 2 / SAT 13 – 21:15 – LUX 1

Hanasaari A

Death of an Insect Erään Hyönteisen Tuho

Director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen documentary / Finland / 2009 / 15’ Hanassaari A is a short documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki, and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant.

Director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen documentary, art film / Finland / 2010 / 7’ In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die.

Gates of Life Häivähdys Elämää

Emergency Calls Hätäkutsu

Director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen documentary, art film / Finland / 2012 / 6’ Brief moments of life stolen from passaging-by strangers form a sequence of events hidden in plain sight.

Director: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen documentary / Finland / 2013 / 15’ What is your emergency? The question that’s at the start of every call to an emergency centre is also at the start of this film.

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EUROPE IN CRISIS: EVERYTHING FOR THE JOB

Something Will Turn Up

Interviews

In Your Interest

Director: Thanos Psichogios fiction / Greece / 2013 / 13’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Michael Rittmannsberger fiction / Austria / 2010 / 6’

Director: Jimmy Olsson fiction / Sweden / 2012 / 10’

Based on the book that won the 2011 Greek State Award for Short Story, by writer Christos Economou, Something Will Turn Up is the story of Nicky, a woman living in modern-day Greece, who despite facing a financial impasse, struggles to remain hopeful and maintain her dignity.

Two women having job interviews. An elder one, whose life hasn’t quite lived up to her expectations. A young one, full of hope. Her future seems bright. And still, this story doesn’t have a happy end for her.

It’s an ordinary day at the bank. A somewhat stressed young man makes an entrance and sits down among the other waiting customers. When it’s his turn at the lady cashier’s he suddenly draws a pistol and declares it’s a bank robbery. It’s a situation that could have terrifying consequences if it weren’t for the the cashiers unusual take on the situation…

Kati Tha Ginei

Production, Script: Thanos Psichogios / Photography: Yorgos Giannelis / Editing: Ioanna Spiliopoulou / Sound: Xenofontas Kontopoulos, Marios Aristopoulos / Cast: Maria Zorba, Alexandros Logothetis, Dina Mihailidou, Evgenia Dimitropoulou Filmography: Something Will Turn Up (2012), Eve (2008) Contact: Thanos Psichogios, +30 2106815377, thanos.psichogios@gmail.com

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Vorstellungsgespräche

Production, Script: Michael Rittmannsberger / Photography: Sonja Aufderklamm / Editing: Stefan Hahn / Music: Iva Zabkar / Sound: Gregor Rasek / Cast: Julia Jelinek, Heidi Pfaffenbichler, Christine Renhardt, Martin Oberhauser Filmography: Punched (2012) (Go Short 2012), Sister (2010) (Go Short 2011), Interviews (2010) Contact: Michael Rittmannsberger, +43 6502169811, mail@rittmannsberger.com

Bättre Ränta

Production: Anna G. Magnusdottir / Script: Jimmy Olsson / Photography: Christian Haag / Editing: Simon Pontén / Music: Johan T Karlsson / Sound: Lo Petterson, Calle Buddee–Roos / Cast: Ann Petrén, Harald Lönnbro Filmography: In Your Interest (2012) Contact: Anna G. Magnusdottir, +46 702616465, anna.g@littlebig.se


SHORT FILM SPECIALS THU 10 – 14:00 – LUX 4 / SAT 12 – 13:00 – LUX 5

45 Degrees

The Audition

Say Yes and Dance

Director: Georgis Grigorakis fiction / Greece / 2012 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Pierre Niney fiction / France / 2013 / 13’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Antti Heikki Pesonen fiction / Finland / 2012 / 8’

Athens, August 2012. 45 degrees. The fridge is empty. The situation is very tense. A father changes under the burden of the economic crisis. It’s getting dark and its still boiling hot. A capital at the border of exploding.

François attends a casting. After a very strange interview, he finds out he is actually at the heart of a mysterious set up in which he is forced to take part….

An unemployed man applies for a job that he doesn’t want to have. The interviewer does not believe in him and he doesn’t believe in the interviewer.

Production: Antoine Le Carpentier / Script: Pierre Niney / Photography: Julien Bureau / Editing: Grégoire Civan / Music: Mathieu Langlet / Narration: Igor Gotesman / Sound: Rémi Daru / Cast: François Civil, Brice Hillairet, Yann Sorton, Nomémie Merlant

Production: Aleksi Bardy / Script, Photography: Antti Heikki Pesonen / Editing: Hanna Kuirinlahti / Cast: Mikko Kouki, Ville Tiihonen

45 Vathmi

Production: Georgis Grigorakis / Script: Georgis Grigorakis / Photography: Claudio Bolivar / Editing: Theodoros Armaos / Cast: Stelios Ksanthoudakis, Yiannis Tsortekis Filmography: 45 Degrees (2012), From Nowhere (2011), Revolving (2012), The Case of Regina Scalici (2011), Now What (2010), Reverse (2010), And Me for Myself (2009), Vicious Circle (2007)

Pour le Rôle

Filmography: The Audition (2013) Contact: Mon Voisin Productions: Antoine le Carpentier, +33 177350723, db@monvoisinproductions.com

Sano Kiitos Ja Tanssi

Filmography: Päin Seinää (2014), Say Yes and Dance (2012), So It Goes (2012), Radio Millennium (2010-2011), Meal With a Deal (2011), Henkisesti Läski (2008) Contact: Helsinki filmi Oy: +358 97740300, marja.pallassalo@ses.fe

Contact: Georgis Grigorakis, +30 6948037783, g.grigorakis@gmail.com

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EUROPE IN CRISIS: MAKING ENDS MEET

Colectia de Arome

The Flavors Collection

One Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Two Fifty Two

Down On The Corner

Director: Igor Cobîleanski fiction / Moldova / 2013 / 14’ / Dutch premiere

Director: Scott Massey art film / United Kingdom / 2011 / 4’

Director: Nikola Ilíc, Corina Schwingruber Ilíc documentary / Switzerland / 2013 / 15’ / Dutch premiere

To get the necessary daily medication for his mother, Victor and his father resort to the toughest and dangerous solution. Physical survival in the context of poverty is cruel and sometimes can irretrievably destroy human values.

The audio is a conversation I had with a sachier in my bank. It is a piece of improvised theatre as I try to convey my idea of currency to her. The video is the subtitles to this conversation, mirroring it exactly emphasising the use of ‘word’ as currency.

Production: Brio Film Studio / Script, Editing: Igor Cobîleanski / Photography: Veaceslav Cebotari / Sound: Cristian Tarnovetchi / Cast: Radu Marin Suceanu, Gheorghe Gra

Production, Editing: Scott Massey

Filmography: The Flavor’s Collection (2013)

Contact: Scott Massey, scottlloydmassey@gmail.com

Contact: Brio Film Studio: +37 322243064, brio.studio@yahoo.com

Filmography: One Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Two Fifty Two (2011) (Go Short 2012)

Kod Coska

Beer, cigarettes or margarine, the corner store in Sirya has it all. It’s the meeting point of those who didn’t emigrate. No work, no money, but a lot of humour and friendship. Everyday life in central Serbia and maybe soon all over Europe? Production: Corina Schwingruber Ilíc / Script, Photography: Nikola Ilíc, Corina Schwingruber Ilíc / Editing: Jovica Radisavljevic / Music: Heidi Happy / Sound: Beni Mosele Filmography: Down on the Corner (2013), Tons of Passion (2011) (Go Short 2012) a.o. Contact: Corina Schwingruber, +41 788355158, corthafilm@gmail.com

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SHORT FILM SPECIALS FRI 11 – 18:00 – LUX 2 / SAT 12 – 17:30 – LUX 2

Worse Than Yesterday, Better Than Tomorrow

The Mass of Men

Director: Thaïs Odermatt, Carlos Isabel documentary / Switzerland / 2014 / 24’ / international premiere

Director: Gabriel Gauchet fiction / United Kingdom / 2012 / 17’

Peor Que Ayer, Mejor Que Mañana

The crisis of the capitalist system is here. It seems to reinvent itself daily. In Spain you can see its effects: the real estate bubble bursts, bankruptcy, unemployment, loss of rights. Different stories and opinions of inhabitants from Spain are mixed into a dialogue about the crisis. Production, Script, Photography: Thaïs Odermatt, Carlos Isabel / Editing: Rebecca Ruth Trösch / Music: Marta Ramirez, Pinche Ramirez, Zaba Ramirez, Alberto Goicoechea / Sound: Beni Mosele Filmography: Peor Que Ayer, Mejor Que Mañana (2014), Kurt und der Sessellift (2012), Nid Hei Cho (2009), Heimatliebe (2008), Wir Kinder von der Huob (2006)

Richard, an unemployed 55-year-old, arrives 3 minutes late for his appointment at a job centre. An advisor, stifled by the limits of the system she works in, has no choice but to penalise him for his tardiness. To avoid plunging further into destitution, Richard takes desperate measures. Production: Emily Morgan / Script: Gabriel Gauchet, Rungano Nyoni / Photography: Nick Cooke / Editing: Alice Petit / Music: Matt Kelly / Sound: Ania Przygoda / Cast: Peter Faulkner, Jane McDowell Filmography: 21 (2013), The Mass of Men (2012), Diary of Incidences (2012), Efecto Dominó (2010), Die Kneipe (2006) Contact: NFTS: Hermant Shardat, +44 1494731452, festivals@nfts.co.uk

Contact: Thaïs Odermatt, thaisodermatt@hotmail.com

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FILM CONCERT Nijmegen calls itself Rock City. There are quite a few bands that can back up this claim like De Staat, Suit and Tie Johns, The Gathering and Automatic Sam. For this film concert we brought the best musicians of the local scene together. They will provide a live soundtrack for several short films. Though they are known to freak out, they will now use all their musical skills to match the diverse visuals of these mesmerizing films.

FILM CONCERT Fri 11 – 22:00 – LUX 7 Swimmer Lynne Ramsay fiction / United Kingdom / 2012 / 15’ The Slow Game Paolo Sorrentino fiction / Italy / 2009 / 10’ Tranquility Siegfried A Fruhauf art film / Austria / 2010 / 6’ Ritual in Transfigured Time Maya Deren art film / Denmark / 1946 / 15’ Outer Space Peter Tscherkassky art film / Austria / 2011 / 11’

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SHORT FILM SPECIALS

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

FRI 11 – 22:00 – LUX 1 / SAT 12 – 17:00 – LUX 5

Some of the films that caught our eye, or were the talk of the town at the international festival circuit.

The Runaway La Fugue

Dad’s Stick

Betty’s Blues

Director: Jean–Bernard Marlin fiction / France / 2013 / 22’ / Dutch premiere A youth worker in a home for juvenile offenders, goes to court along with one of the teenagers he’s in charge of. Contact: Adastra Films: Eymard Sylvain, +33 489822124, s.eymard@adastra–films.com

Director: John Smith art film / England / 2012 / 5’ Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects that were shown to the filmmaker by his father a few months before he died. Contact: John Smith, +44 20 72412624, info@johnsmithfilms.com

Director: Remi Vandenitte animation / France, Belgium / 2013 / 12’ A young guitarist tries his luck in an old blues dive in Louisiana. Contact: Mikhal Bak, +33 979349902, mikhal.bak@gmail.com

The Curse

Baths Laznia

Butter Lamp La Lampe au Beurre de Yak

Director: Fyzal Boulifa fiction / United Kingdom / 2013 / 16’ / Dutch premiere Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When she is caught by a small boy, all she wants to do is go home. Contact: Quark Films: Gavin Humphries, info@quarkfilms.com

Director: Tomek Ducki animation / Poland / 2013 / 4’ / Dutch premiere Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time they are diving deeper than usual. Contact: Krakow Film Foundation: Zofia Scislowska, +48 122946945, zofia@kff.com.pl

Director: Hu Wei fiction / France / 2013 / 16’ A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture. Contact: Hu Wei, +33 638425000, googoowood@hotmail.com

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COMEDY SHORTS

FRI 11 – 20:15 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 21:00 – LUX 5

Silver linings and some careful smiles. Don’t hold back now, you’re allowed to laugh!

The Lizards Les Lézards

Whateverest

A Simpler Life

Pouters

Director: Vincent Mariette fiction / France / 2013 / 14’ / Dutch premiere Léon and his pal Bruno are in a bathhouse, waiting on a date. Contact: Kazak Productions: Amaury Ovise, +33 148243057, info@kazakproductions.fr

Director: Kristoffer Borgli fiction / Norway / 2012 / 15’ / Dutch premiere Whateverest is a documentary about the inspiration behind a dance tune. Contact: Norwegian Film Institute: Arna Marie Bersaas, +47 22474500, amb@nfi.no

Director: Gunhild Enger fiction / Sweden / 2013 / 15’/ Dutch premiere Ing–Marie and Carl are very busy. Contact: Swedish Film Institute: Theo Tsappos, +46 86651133, theo.tsappos@sfi.se

Director: Paul Fegan documentary / Scotland / 2012 / 17’ Pouters is a modern day story of undying commitment. Contact: Scottish Documentary Institute: Agata Jagodzinska, +44 07828325982, agata@scottishdocinstitute.com

Super Boost

Carpark

Pony Place

Director: Jonas Meier fiction / Switzerland / 2013 / 2’ / international premiere What if we took some of the most abstruse advertising at its word? Contact: Zweihund GmbH: Alex Schweizer, +41 774500084, jonas@zweihund.com

Director: Ant Blades animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 1’ A simple shopping trip goes horribly wrong. Contact: Birdbox Studio: Ant Blades, +44 7968840412, ant@birdboxstudio.com

Director: Joost Reijmers fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 10’ When Emma is on holiday, she asks her grandma to look after her digital horse farm. Contact: Topkapi Films: Laurette Schillings, +33 203032494, info@topkapifilms.nl

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Ett Enklare Liv


SHORT FILM SPECIALS

HOMEGROWN

FRI 11 – 20:15 – LUX 5 / SAT 12 – 19:45 – LUX 3

Local talent with global ambitions. Support our local scene!

Het Lot van Tom

To Scratch Krassen

Little Freak

Director: Iris Meyer fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 14’ / world premiere Lonely Tom meets pretty but difficult Noor in a cafe across his apartment. Contact: Iris Meyer, +31 648019300, irismeyervdvegt@hotmail.com

Director: Niek Groven documentary / the Netherlands / 2014 / 6’ / world premiere In this film I’m trying to convey the main characters passion for graffiti. Contact: NNfilm: Niek Groven, +31 652563515, niek@nnfilm.nl

Director: Edwin Schaap animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 4’ A young deformed boy lives as a side-show freak. When his father asks him to make a birthday-wish he starts to imagine... Contact: Edwin Schaap, +31 612320948, info@edwinschaap.com

This Is Ronald Dit Is Ronald

Things That May Not Really Be There

Contact

Director: Jules Comes fiction / Belgium / 2012 / 19’ Ronald has been feeling attracted to young children for a long time. Contact: Jules Comes: +32 496607380, julescomes@hotmail.com

Director: Frank Blommestijn, Michiel van der Werf art film / the Netherlands / 2013 / 11’ Everyone is trying to succeed in their work and life. But why? The path to success is hard and what are the benefits? Contact: Kunst–kunst, +31 639722768, frankenmichiel@gmail.com

Director: Juul Thielen, Yaron Cohen documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 14’ Marianne used to be healthy and lively, but since a couple of years she’s been coping with an unknown disease. Contact: Yaron Cohen: +31 612777016, info@yaroncohen.nl

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GO AHEAD A first glimp at tomorrow’s talented filmmakers. Go Ahead is a brand new program featuring the work of Dutch film students in the first, second and third years of Dutch academies and film schools. Many short films are made here and then soon forgotten, as new projects take up the students’ time and screening opportunities are scarce. Now Go Short offers these students the opportunity to show their films at an international short film festival, even before they have made their graduation film. The film students will present their work, and a panel of professionals will reflect on it and give them useful tips for their future productions.

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We have selected five films that represent the budding talent the Netherlands has to offer. The films are from students at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, the School of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), and the Netherlands Film Academy (AHK). Different genres like animation, documentary and fiction are all represented. We have

spotted different talents in cinematography, writing and scripting a story, and giving directions to actors. Although they’re young, they have already developed a unique and personal style. Be the first to scout the talents of tomorrow!


SHORT FILM SPECIALS

GO AHEAD

SAT 12 – 13:00 – LUX 4

Wake Up

Brick

When the Rain Falls

Director: Ken Wolff animation / the Netherlands / 2012 / 8’ A yellow canary performs his usual week routine, but as his week continues to progress, he is constantly faced with unfortunate situations. Contact: Wolff Independents: Ken Wolff, +31 614372248, info@wolffindependents.com

Director: Viktor van de Valk fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 13’ Jeffrey, who lives with his father and his girlfriend, is about to become a dad. Contact: Some Shorts: Wouter Jansen, +31 622076717, info@someshorts.com

Director: Kim Faber documentary / the Netherlands / 2014 / 20’ / world premiere Saskia suffers from a manic depression. Contact: Kim Faber, +31 619390690, info@kimfaber.nl

Steen

Black, with Sugar

To the End of the Street

Director: Vincent Konings fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 11’ Friendships are spiraling into a dangerous fall when Arthur’s girlfriend, Emma, cheats with Arthur’s best friend Yves. Contact: Vincent Konings, +31 611705544, vincent.konings@hotmail.com

Director: Eva Zanen animation / the Netherlands / 2012 / 12’ “When you’re thirteen, you’re not allowed to do anything by yourself! You’re too young for utterly everything.” Contact: Merel Six, +31 619478103, merelsix@gmail.com

Zwart, met Suiker

De Regen Komt Niet van Ver

Naar het Einde van de Straat

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HKU PRESENTS

FRI 11 – 14:00 – LUX 2 / FRI 11 – 16:00 – LUX 5

A compilation of the most striking productions of the past year. The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) is a fertile breeding ground for young filmmakers. At the Faculty of Art, Media and Technology students explore the possibilities provided by new media and digital technology in the field of filmmaking. Every year Go Shorts shows a compilation of the most striking productions of the past year. Numerous HKU talents will be present at Go Short to tell us more about their films.

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HKU PRESENTS 1

HKU PRESENTS 2

FRI 11 – 14:00 – LUX 2 Connecting Flight Jay Lee animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 3’ God’s Lamb Kees-Jan Mulder fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 21’ Little Freak Edwin Schaap Animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 3’ Oscar Marthe Naber Heuer documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 21’ Red Jasper ten Hoor fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 14’ Endtrip Koen de Mol, Olivier Ballast, Rick Franssen animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 5’

FRI 11 – 16:00 – LUX 5 Een Verre Reis Kurt Platvoet fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 17’ Gracht Nick Groeneveld, Joost de Jong, Michael Koning, Jeroen Hoolmans animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 5’ Kubus – Bops Mischa Reining animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 2’ For Floppy Ears Only Ronja Hijmans documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 20’ A Brief History of Time Mink Wildschut animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 2’ Making of “Our Daily Struggle” Robert Dines, Sander Hegeman animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 2’ Little Girl and the Sea Floortje Mols fiction / the Netherlands / 2013 / 12’ Facing the News Wiep Teeuwisse animation / the Netherlands / 2013 / 2’


SHORT FILM SPECIALS

OSCAR SHORTS

SAT 12 – 18:00 – LUX 1

Academy Award Nominees for Best Live-Action Short Film. Way to go Europe! All five nominated shorts for the Oscars were from Europe this year. Helium took home the much desired statue. This program is presented by ShortsTV.

OSCAR SHORTS SAT 12 – 18:00 – LUX 1 That Wasn’t Me Esteban Crespo fiction / Spain / 2012 / 20’ Helium Anders Walter fiction / Denmark / 2013 / 23’ Do I Have to Take Care of Everything Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari fiction / Finland / 2012 / 7’ The Voorman Problem Mark Gill fiction / United Kingdom / 2013 / 13’ Just Before Losing Everything Xavier Legrand fiction / France / 2013 / 30’

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MEET THE JURY

SAT 12 – 17:00 – LUX 3

They have seen all films that are in competition. The least we could do in return is enjoy some of the great shorts made by our jury members.

Endless Day

Doel Leeft

Brothers of Metal

Director: Anna Frances Ewert documentary / Germany / 2012 / 10’ The film is about an insomniac’s inner journey through a sleepless night. Contact: Anna Ewert, +49 1781465143, anna_frances@gmx.de

Director: Tom Fassaert documentary / the Netherlands / 2006 / 34’ The almost deserted village Doel is being taken over by the expanding of the harbor in Antwerp. Contact: Nederlandse Film Academie: Marion Slewe, +31 205277392, marion.slewe@ahk.nl

Director: Arno Coenen art film / the Netherlands / 2010 / 13’ Art hooligan Arno Coenen’s journey through the metal heart of Europe. Contact: Lima: Theus Zwakhals, +31 0203892030, theuszwakhals@li–ma.nl

Oh Willy...

The Love Agency Kärleksförmedlingen

Director: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels animation / Belgium, France, the Netherlands / 2012 / 16’ Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery. Contact: Beast Animation: Dorien Schetz, +32 015636828, dorien@beastanimation.be

Director: Martina Carlstedt documentary / Sweden / 2013 / 27’ We are far away from the Internet dating world when we gain entrance to the little office where Svetlana runs her Love Agency. Contact: Martina Carlstedt, +46 733127767, mail@martinacarlstedt.com

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GO SHORTY! Go Shorty! organises several extracurricular film and new media projects for children of various ages. With film programs, workshops and educational school programs, we show them how much fun it can be not only to watch films, but to make them yourself as well. Go Shorty inspires creativity, talent and passion for film in everyone!

PLAYGROUND

GO SHORT IN SCHOOL

Kids today‌ Before you know it they are little filmmakers! With mobile phones, cheap handheld cameras, editing software and apps, all the necessary tools are as easily accessible as a box of crayons nowadays. At the Go Shorty Playground we love to stimulate the creativity of kids. We offer workshops for children of all ages, where they work with stop motion, flipbooks or documentary filming.

Go Short offers film education for primary and secondary schools throughout the year. In cooperation with Grote Broer Kunsteducatie, Go Short organises Go Docu and Go Lipdub: projects that take place in class rooms and at the local art house. Primary schools visit us in the early morning of the festival days for special school screenings, complete with hand-outs and meet-and-greets with filmmakers or actors. Go Short organises film screenings for secondary schools in cooperation with Bureau 20. We will screen short films about social themes and then discuss these themes with the kids and an expert. Interested in bringing Go Short to your school? Then you can contact us at: educatie@goshort.nl

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FAMILY SHORTS

SUN 13 – 15:15 – LUX 5

Shorts for shorties from 6 years and older.

Hopfrog Pryg–Skok

Yim & Yoyo

Rabbit and Deer Nyuszi és Öz

Director: Leonid Shmelkov animation / Russia / 2012 / 5’ Non scientific observations of the jumping fellows life. Contact: Leonid Shmelkov, +79 165017298, hopfrogfilm@gmail.com

Director: Anna van Keimpema fiction / The Netherlands / 2012 / 25’ Lonely and shy Yim and his imaginary friend Yoyo have many adventures together. Contact: Volt Films: Ivo Noorlander, +31 208932332, info@voltfilms.nl

Director: Péter Vácz animation / Hungary / 2013 / 16’ The friendship of Rabbit and Deer is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession. Contact: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: Péter Vácz, +36 202057982, vaczpeter@gmail.com

Mia

Exercise

Macropolis

Director: Wouter Bongaerts animation / Belgium / 2013 / 9’ 7 year old Mia tries to liberate her overworked mother from the grasp of an overpopulated metropolis. Contact: Vivi Film: Veerle Appelmans, +32 25696006, veerle@vivifilm.be

Director: Andrew Brand documentary / United Kingdom / 2013 / 2’ / Dutch premiere Two excitable fox cubs find a new way to keep fit. Contact: Andrew Brand: +44 7765861388, mail@andrewbrand.co.uk

Director: Joel Simon animation / United Kingdom / 2012 / 7’ Macropolis is the story of two toys with impairments discarded from a factory production line. Contact: Flickerpix: info@macropolis.tv

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GO SHORTY! SCHOOL PROGRAM

Wildebeest

Jamey’s Fight Jamey’s Gevecht

Director: Ant Blades animation / United Kingdom / 2013 / 2’ Two wildebeest consider crossing a river. Contact: Birdbox Studio: Ant Blades, +44 7968840412, ant@birdboxstudio.com

Director: Denise Janzée documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 15’ Jamey (16) has a stammer. This makes want to him shut himself off. Contact: Zeefilm: Denise Janzee, +31 650575672, d.janzee@upcmail.nl

Legacy

Wool Fever Wolkoorts

Us

Director: Bryn Chainey fiction / Germany / 2011 / 4’ When a pet dies, what do you do? Contact: Bryn Chainey, +49 17697843448, contact@brynchainey.com

Director: Astrid Bussink documentary / the Netherlands / 2013 / 15’ Every year in May, the small village of Lievelde in the Dutch countryside is turned upside down. Everybody is seized by parade fever. Contact: Zeppers Film: Julia van Schieveen, +31 206758594, julia@zeppers.nl

Director: Ulrich Totier animation / France, Belgium / 2013 / 9’ In an empty, timeless setting, funny little figures wander around with no apparent purpose... Contact: Fargo, +33 475615448, sf@fargo.fr

Hedgehogs and the City Ezi un Lielpilseta

Director: Evalds Lacis animation / Latvia / 2013 / 10’ One spring morning animals wake-up and discover that the forest has been turned into the city. Contact: Animacijas Brigade: Katrina Cimermane, +371 67520770, ab.studija@apollo.lv

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GO EXPO IN THE LOOP ARTEZ INTERACTION DESIGN GIF images, Vines, Supercuts, samples and instant replays: the loop has not only become a dominant media form, but also a new way to perceive information. Film is light moving in time. Why do films have a certain specific length? Students of Interaction Design at ArtEZ Arnhem have researched the phenomenon of time by looking at GIF images and Vines, looking for ways to visualise the passing of time in film. More than a hundred GIF images and vine clips are made into a visual collage.

MINI CINEMAS Mini cinemas will pop-up at several locations spread over Nijmegen.

MINI CINEMAS: SHORT SHOT CINEMA Dans Le Cochon Tout Est Bon Iris Alexandre animation / France / 2011 / 5’ Fata Morgana Frodo Kuipers animation / the Netherlands / 2011 / 4’ Glucose Mihai Grecu & Thibault Gleize art film / France / 2012 / 7’ Orange Ô Desespoir John Banana animation / France / 2011 / 4’

With work from: Bram Bogaerts, Cas de Rooij, Robin Jaspers, Diewertje Luitse, Jesper Vos, Jip Warmerdam, Wilmer Weeink, Tjerk Woudsma and Niels Zweekhorst.

MINI CINEMAS: .GIF CINEMA

daily - Pavilion

Shorts for Kids

Best of the .GIFs

MINI CINEMAS: SHORTY CINEMA

daily - pop-up locations

GO OCULUS CREATIVE LAB Let’s explore the future of film with the Oculus Rift! The Creative Lab (NHTV) has developed one of the very first short films to be experienced with the Oculus. This is a new virtual reality headset designed with a wide viewing angle, high resolution and head tracking. The Oculus provides its users a whole new immersive experience. You can try out the headset daily at the pavilion. This project is made by the Creative Lab of the Academy for Digital Entertainment (NHTV), which is a place for students, alumni, researchers and professionals from the games and media world to work on their own experimental projects. Thu 10/4-Fri 11/4 16:00-18:00, 20:00-22:00 – Pavilion Sat 12/4-Sun 12/4 12:00-14:00, 16:00-18:00, 20:00-22:00 – Pavilion

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FILM INDEX TITLE # 97% – 58 …Because Superglue is Forever! – 52 37°4 S – 38 45 Degrees – 103 45 Vathmi – 103 A A Brief History of Time – 112 A Hard Days Work – 86 A Hedgehog’s Visit – 71 A Iucata – 48 A Simpler Life – 108 A World Assembled – 53 Abderrahman – 36 Absent Minded – 50 After the Winter – 71 Alice in the Sky – 53 Alive – 94 All the World's A Stage – Ways of Seeing 2013 – 40 All What Is Somehow Useful – 59 Alles Was Irgendwie Nützt – 59 Anacos – 46 Angélique’s Day for Night – 39 Aquel No Era Yo – 113 Arbuz – 92 Asparragos – 94 Äta lunch – 42 Au–Delà de l’Hiver – 71 Avant Que De Tout Perdre – 35. 113 B Back to the Start – 94 Badpakje 46 – 85 Baghdad Messi – 85 Baths – 107 Bättre ränta – 102 Beach Boy – 72 Bebo – 45 Believe – 77 Bendito Machine IV – 49 Betty’s Blues – 107 Billy's Balloon – 81 Black, with Sugar – 111 120 GOSHORT

Brick – 111 Brothers of Metal – 114 Buenos Dias Resistencia – 34 But Milk Is Important – 50 Butter Lamp – 53, 107 C Carlo – 86 Carosello – 45 Carousel – 45 Carpark – 108 Cathedrals – 45 Chikara – Sumobryderens Søn – 41 Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler's Son – 41 Colectia de Arome – 104 Connecting Flight – 112 Contact – 109 Cowboys Janken Ook – 57 Creature Comforts – 81 D Dad's Stick – 107 Days of Saturn – 70 Days of Steel – 56 De Leeuw – 59 De Regen Komt Niet van Ver – 111 De Weg van Alle Vlees – 70 De Zee en het Meisje – 112 Death of a Shadow – 84 Death of an Insect – 101 Deformer – 79 Démontable – 60 Die Schaukel des Sargmachers – 68 Dimanches – 84 Dit Is Ronald – 109 Do I Have to Take Care of Everything – 113 Doel Leeft! – 114 Dood van een Schaduw – 84 Down On The Corner – 104 E Eagle Boy – 36 Eating Lunch – 42 Eating Out – 95 Echo Park – 52 Een Verre Reis – 112

Ein Kurzer Film über den Igel – 71 Elefante – 71 Elephant – 71 Emergency Calls – 48, 101 Emergency Calls – 101 Endless Day – 114 Endtrip – 112 Erään Hyönteisen Tuho – 101 Ett Enklare Liv – 108 Even Cowboys Get to Cry – 57 Exercise – 116 Ezi un Lielpilseta – 117

Helium – 113 Het Bijzondere Leven van Rocky de Vlaeminck – 88 Het Lot van Tom – 109 Hikikomori – 77 Hiljaisen Talven Lapsi – 44 History of Pets – 57 Hollow Land – 43 Hopfrog – 116 How to Pick Berries – 93 Hvalfjörður – 39 Hyvä meininki – 98

F F5 – 66 Facing Animals – 98 Facing the News – 112 Father – 37 Fingers – 61 Fishing Boats – 96 Flatten – 93 Floating Woman – 36 Folk Som Faller – 34 Food – 92 For Floppy Ears Only – 112 For Those in Peril – 78 Fuel the Machines IV – 49 Futures – 98

I I AM HERE – 44 I Can't Cry Much Louder Than This – 51 I Love Hooligans – 59 I Love You So Hard – 69 Il Court, Il Court, Le Monde – 87 Ilha das Flores – 97 In the Air Is Christopher Gray – 51 In Your Interest – 102 Interviews – 102 Island of Flowers – 97

G Gasman – 79 Gates of Life – 101 General Practitioner – 87 Gestes du Repas – 95 God op IJtje – 57 Gods Lam – 112 God's Lamb – 112 Good Morning Resistance – 34 Good Stuff – 98 Gracht – 112 Granny – 45 H Häivähdys Elämää – 101 Hanasaari A – 101 Hände Zum Himmel – 39 Hands up to Heaven – 39 Hätäkutsu – 48, 101 Hedgehogs and the City – 117

J Jamey's Fight – 117 Jamey's Gevecht – 117 Jennifer and Tiffany – 98 Jídlo – 92 Jorka – 56 Just Before Losing Everything – 0 K Kärleksförmedlingen – 114 Kathedralen – 45 Kati Tha Ginei – 102 Kiran – 40 Kod oska – 104 Krassen – 109 Kubus "Bops" – 112 L La Femme qui Flottait – 36 La Fugue – 107 La Lampe au Beurre de Yak – 53, 107 La Nuit Américaine d’Angélique – 39 La Part Sauvage – 88 La Partita Lenta – 106


La Testa tra le Nuvole – 50 Laznia – 107 Le Généraliste – 87 Le Jour a Vaincu La Nuit – 43 Left – 66 Legacy – 117 Les Lezards – 108 Les Petits Joueurs – 38 Les Ventres – 97 Lettres de Femmes – 35 Leven – 94 Lief Konijn – 37 Little Freak – 109, 112 The Little Girl and the Sea – 112 Lokroep – 67 M Macropolis – 116 Making of "Our Daily Struggle" – 112 Mamma är Gud – 72 MAQLOUBEH – 95 Marc Jacobs – 58 Meatwork – 92 Mia – 116 Micke & Tommy – 66 Misterio – 47 Miten Marjoja Poimitaan – 93 Mont Blanc – 37 Moritz and the Woodwose – 42 Moritz und der Waldschrat – 42 Mother is God – 72 Mute – 60 Mystery – 47 N Naar het Einde van de Straat – 111 Nacht Grenze Morgen – 68 Nachtraven – 87 Nashorn Im Galopp – 35 Nighthawks – 87 No Bread – 93 No Hay Pan – 93 Nyuszi és Öz – 67, 116 O Octopus Love Affair – 98 Off Ground – 56 Oh Willy... – 114 On Suffocation – 34

One Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Two Fifty Two – 104 Oscar – 112 Outer Space – 80, 106 P Padre – 37 Pandas – 70 Pandy – 70 Papillon d'Amour – 81 Paroles – 89 People Who Fall – 34 Peor Que Ayer, Mejor Que Mañana – 105 PERPETUUM IMMOBILE – 51 Pescherecci – 96 Photos of God – 77 Pic Pic Andre Show 4 moins 1 – 86 Pieces – 46 Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? – 113 Plug & Play – 68 Pony Place – 108 Pour le Rôle – 103 Pouters – 108 Prawns Orgy – 98 Pride – 38 Prologue – 96 Prológus – 96 Pryg–Skok – 116 Q Que Je Tombe Tout le Temps ? – 69 R Rabbit and Deer – 67, 116 Rabbitland – 49 Red – 112 Reizigers in de Nacht – 60 Rhino Full Throttle – 35 Ritual in Transfigured Time – 106 Rogalik – 48 Rood – 112 S Safari Heat – 47 Sandy – 40 Sano Kiitos Ja Tanssi – 103 Saturntage – 70 Say Yes and Dance – 103 Schipbreuk – 44

Shipwreck – 44 Soft – 79 Something Will Turn Up – 102 Spherulite – 42 Steen – 111 Suburban God – 57 Sundays – 84 Sunflower Seeds – 47 Super Boost – 108 Sweet Rabbit – 37 Swimmer – 106 Swimsuit 46 – 85 T Ta Av Mig – 41 That I'm Falling? – 69 That Wasn't Me – 113 The Audition – 103 The Bellies – 97 The Bet – 48 The Call – 67 The Child of Silent Winter – 44 The Curse – 107 The Day Has Conquered The Night – 43 The Extraordinary Life of Rocky – 88 The Flavor's Collection – 104 The Girl Chewing Gum – 80 The Lion – 59 The Lizards – 108 The Love Agency – 114 The Mass of Men – 105 The Missing Scarf – 41 The Obvious Child – 49 The Runaway – 107 The Slow Game – 106 The Swing of the Coffin Maker – 68 The Voorman Problem – 113 The Way of All Flesh – 70 The Wildness – 88 The World's Racing – 87 Theme from Turnpike – 85 Thermals Bath – 88 Thermes – 88 Things That May Not Really Be There – 109 This Is Ronald – 109 To Scratch – 109 To the End of the Street – 111 Tokyo Giants – 52 Tom – 109

Toto – 50 Tranquility – 106 Travellers into the Night – 60 Trespass – 46 Two at the Border – 68 U Undress Me – 41 Untill the River Runs Red – 78 Us – 117 V Vingers – 61 Vloeibaar Staal – 56 Vorstellungsgespräche – 102 W Wake Up – 111 Walk With Me – 46 Wat Konijnen Mogen Weten – 112 Watermelon – 92 We Have Decided not to Die – 80 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe – 96 Whale Valley – 39 Whateverest – 108 When the Rain Falls – 111 Wildebeest – 117 Winter – 43 Wolkoorts – 58, 117 Women's Letters – 35 Wool Fever – 58, 117 Worse Than Yesterday, Better Than Tomorrow – 105 Y Yim & Yoyo – 116 Young Guns – 38 Z Z1 – 67 Zima – 43 Zinneke – 69 Zwart, met Suiker – 111 – 47 – 38

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FILM INDEX COUNTRY Argentina Father – 37 Australia Meatwork – 92 We Have Decided not to Die – 80 Austria Hands up to Heaven – 39 I Can’t Cry Much Louder Than This – 51 Interviews – 102 Outer Space – 80, 106 Tranquility – 106 Trespass – 46 Azerbaijan The Swing of the Coffin Maker – 68 Belgium …Because Superglue is Forever! – 52 A Hard Days Work – 86 Asparragos – 94 Baghdad Messi – 85 Betty’s Blues – 107 Carlo – 86 Death of a Shadow – 84 General Practitioner – 87 Gestes du Repas – 95 Mia – 116 Mont Blanc – 37 Nighthawks – 87 Oh Willy... – 84 Papillon d’Amour – 81 Paroles – 89 Pic Pic Andre Show 4 moins 1 – 86 Sundays – 84 Swimsuit 46 – 85 The Extraordinary Life of Rocky – 88 The Way of All Flesh – 70 The Wildness – 88 The World’s Racing – 87

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Theme from Turnpike – 85 Thermals Bath – 88 This Is Ronald – 109 Tokyo Giants – 52 Us – 117 Zinneke – 69 Brazil Island of Flowers – 97 Bulgaria Pride – 38 Canada Hollow Land – 43 Chile No Bread – 93 Czechoslovakia Food – 92 Denmark Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son – 41 Helium – 113 Hollow Land – 43 Mother is God – 72 Walk With Me – 46 Whale Valley – 39 Egypt MAQLOUBEH – 95 Finland Death of an Insect – 101 Do I Have to Take Care of Everything – 113 Emergency Calls – 48, 101 Gates of Life – 101 Good Stuff – 98 Hanasaari A – 101 How to Pick Berries – 93

Safari Heat – 47 Say Yes and Dance – 103 The Child of Silent Winter – 44 France 37°4 S – 38 Abderrahman – 36 After the Winter – 71 Angélique’s Day for Night – 39 Betty’s Blues – 107 Butter Lamp – 53, 107 Death of a Shadow – 84 Father – 37 Floating Woman – 36 Hollow Land – 43 Jennifer and Tiffany – 98 Just Before Losing Everything – 35, 113 MAQLOUBEH – 95 Octopus Love Affair – 98 Oh Willy... – 84 Prawns Orgy – 98 That I’m Falling? – 69 The Audition – 103 The Bellies – 97 The Day Has Conquered The Night – 43 The Lizards – 108 The Runaway – 107 Us – 117 Women’s Letters – 35 Young Guns – 38 Georgia Granny – 45 Germany A Hedgehog’s Visit – 71 Cathedrals – 45 Days of Saturn – 70 Endless Day – 114 Futures – 98 I AM HERE – 44

Kiran – 40 Legacy – 117 Moritz and the Woodwose – 42 Pride – 38 Rhino Full Throttle – 35 The Swing of the Coffin Maker – 68 Two at the Border – 68 Greece 45 Degrees – 103 Something Will Turn Up – 102 Sunflower Seeds – 47 Hungary Prologue – 96 Rabbit and Deer – 67, 116 Iceland Whale Valley – 39 Ireland Left – 66 The Missing Scarf – 41 Italy Absent Minded – 50 Carousel – 45 Fishing Boats – 96 The Slow Game – 106 Latvia Hedgehogs and the City – 117 Moldavia The Flavor’s Collection – 104 Norway But Milk Is Important – 50 Eagle Boy – 36 Eating Out – 95 People Who Fall – 34


Whateverest – 108 Palestine MAQLOUBEH – 95 Poland Baths – 107 Rogalik – 48 Toto – 50 Watermelon – 92 Portugal Carousel – 45 Russia F5 – 66 Hopfrog – 116 Winter – 43 Serbia Rabbitland – 49 Singapore After the Winter – 71 Slovakia Pandas – 70 Spain Elephant – 71 Fuel the Machines IV – 49 Good Morning Resistance – 34 Mystery – 47 PERPETUUM IMMOBILE – 51 Pieces – 46 Sweden That Wasn’t Me – 113 A Simpler Life – 108 Eating Lunch – 42 In Your Interest – 102 Micke & Tommy – 66

On Suffocation – 34 The Love Agency – 114 Undress Me – 41

Switzerland Alice in the Sky – 53 Down On The Corner – 104 Plug & Play – 68 Super Boost – 108 The Bet – 48 Worse Than Yesterday, Better Than Tomorrow – 105 Thailand After the Winter – 71 the Netherlands 97% – 58 A Brief History of Time – 112 Alive – 94 All the World’s A Stage – Ways of Seeing 2013 – 40 All What Is Somehow Useful – 59 Black, with Sugar – 111 Brick – 111 Brothers of Metal – 114 Connecting Flight – 112 Contact – 109 Days of Steel – 56 Démontable – 60 Doel Leeft! – 114 Een Verre Reis – 112 Endtrip – 112 Even Cowboys Get to Cry – 57 Facing Animals – 98 Facing the News – 112 Fingers – 61 Flatten – 93 For Floppy Ears Only – 112 God’s Lamb – 112

Gracht – 112 History of Pets – 57 I Love Hooligans – 59 Jamey’s Fight – 117 Jorka – 56 Kubus “Bops” – 112 Little Freak – 109, 112 The Little Girl and the Sea – 112 Making of “Our Daily Struggle” – 112 MAQLOUBEH – 95 Marc Jacobs – 58 Mute – 60 Off Ground – 56 Oh Willy... – 114 Oscar – 112 Pony Place – 108 Red – 112 Shipwreck – 44 Spherulite – 42 Suburban God – 57 Sweet Rabbit – 37 The Call – 67 The Lion – 59 Things That May Not Really Be There – 109 To Scratch – 109 To the End of the Street – 111 Tom – 109 Travellers into the Night – 60 Wake Up – 111 When the Rain Falls – 111 Wool Fever – 58, 117 Yim & Yoyo – 116 Turkey Two at the Border – 68 United Arabian Emirates Baghdad Messi – 85

United Kingdom A World Assembled – 53 Back to the Start – 94 Beach Boy – 72 Believe – 77 Carpark – 108 Creature Comforts – 81 Dad’s Stick – 107 Echo Park – 52 Exercise – 116 Food – 92 For Those in Peril – 78 Gasman – 79 Hikikomori – 77 I Love You So Hard – 69 In the Air Is Christopher Gray – 51 Left – 66 Macropolis – 116 One Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Two Fifty Two – 104 Photos of God – 77 Pouters – 108 Sandy – 40 Soft – 79 Swimmer – 106 The Curse – 107 The Girl Chewing Gum – 80 The Mass of Men – 105 The Obvious Child – 49 The Voorman Problem – 113 Untill the River Runs Red – 78 Wildebeest – 117 Z1 – 67 United States Billy’s Balloon – 81 Deformer – 79 Ritual in Transfigured Time – 106 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe – 96

Uganda Walk With Me – 46

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SHORT FILMS, GREAT IDEAS.

6TH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN

9/13 APRIL 2014 WWW.GOSHORT.NL

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GOSHORT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL NIJMEGEN 2014

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