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Ido Abram               Edith van der Heijde               Erik Mund
Director SEE NL         Short Films and Eye Experimental   Children's and Youth Films
idoabram@eyefilm.nl     edithvanderheijde@eyefilm.nl       erikmund@eyefilm.nl

Ph: +31 20 589 1400 / www.see-nl.com
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SHORT FILMS
   2021
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
The Art of Giving Up               6    Girlsboysmix                                    24
AYOR (At Your Own Risk)            6    Honds                                           24
Beti                               7    In Havana                                       25
Birdland                           7    Jano & Shiro, a Brothers’ Journey               25
Chicken Boy                        8    Julieta & Turtles in the Plastic Soup           26
The Departure                      8    Moments of Being                                26
F*ck My Life                       9    NAYA                                            27
Forest Edge Happiness              9    Pavement Party                                  27
Foster                             10   Restless Souls                                  28
Funkele                            10   When You Hear the Divine Call                   28
Good Boy                           11
Hantu                              11   ANIMATED SHORTS
Holiday From Mourning              12   Camouflage                                      30
Home Care Bettie                   12   The Cloudmaker                                  30
How Light Gets in                  13   Ink                                             31
I, Adonis                          13   Pig                                             31
Last Ride                          14   Pilar                                           32
Lioness                            14   See Me                                          32
A Little Less Ordinary             15   Steward                                         33
Marlon Brando                      15   Tourist Trap                                    33
Mirage                             16   Tram                                            34
Mother Tongue                      16   Zangkom Redux                                   34
Mustachio                          17
Nova                               17   EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
Only Time Will Tell                18   Breath to Breath                                36
Radio Freedom                      18   L’Eau Faux                                      36
She Used to Sing Here              19   Gaka                                            37
Silent Heat                        19   Gentle Wildfire                                 37
Stuckwitu                          20   Kinked                                          38
The Sweet Hassle of a First Time   20   Lacerate                                        38
Visitant                           21   Lost on Arrival                                 39
Watamalu                           21   P-9830                                          39
When I Explode                     22   Remembering the Nights in Safe Haven            40
When Light Fades                   22   Wander Around                                   40
                                        Yorishiro                                       41
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS
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6     LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS

                                                                 30’ / colour

                                                                 Genre: youth, drama
                                                                 Original title: THE ART OF GIVING UP
                                                                 Prod: Staccato Films - Storm Rechsteiner,
                                                                 Flip Kwakkel, Mayra Soares
                                                                 Sc: Flip Kwakkel, co-writer Rick Sterker
                                                                 Completed: May 2021
                                                                 Language: Dutch

                                                                 Flip Kwakkel:
                                                                 TUSSEN ONS (2019, short), SUMMUM (2019,
                                                                 short), LOPENDE BAND (2017, short),
                                                                 WILLEN/MOETEN (2017, short), INSTANT DESK
                                                                 (2017, short).

    THE ART OF GIVING UP                          YOUT
                                                             H   Staccato Films
                                                                 Ph: +31 20 419 0404
    Flip Kwakkel                                                 info@staccatofilms.com
                                                                 www.staccatofilms.com

    Milos must change in order to understand his
    comatose daughter.

                                                                 12' / colour

                                                                 Genre: drama, LGBTIQ , activism
                                                                 Original title: AYOR (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
                                                                 Prod: Dutch Mountain Film - Rogier
                                                                 Kramer
                                                                 Completed: spring 2021
                                                                 Language: Dutch

                                                                 Tom Bakker:
                                                                 First short film.

                                                                 Dutch Mountain Film
                                    Image courtesy of
                                                                 Ph: +31 20 688 1843
    AYOR (AT YOUR                   Stadsarchief Amsterdam
                                                                 info@dutchmountainfilm.nl
                                                                 www.dutchmountainfilm.nl
    OWN RISK)                                     LGBT
                                                         IQ
    Tom Bakker

    During Remembrance Day 1970, two young
    men try to make a statement against gay discri-
    mination. In the moments before and after the
    incident, their doubt, fear and firm belief beco-
    mes clear.
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                   7

                                                      10’ / colour

                                                      Genre: drama, family
                                                      Original title: BETI
                                                      Prod: Pupkin Film
                                                      Completed: October 2020
                                                      Language: Dutch

                                                      Amira Duynhouwer:
                                                      KIMYA (2019, short) Festivals: a.o. Cinekid
                                                      FF, ISFF for Children and Youth Berlin
                                                      “KuKi”, Mo&Friese KinderKurz FF.

                                                      Pupkin Film
                                                      Ph: +31 20 489 5088
                                                      info@pupkin.com
BETI                                         KIDS &
                                            FAMIL     www.pupkin.nl
                                                  Y
Amira Duynhouwer                                      Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
                                                      Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
                                                      info@kapiteinmedia.nl
Jay must conquer pride and tradition to accept        www.kapiteinkort.nl
stepdaughter Stacey.

                                                      15’ / colour

                                                      Genre: drama
                                                      Original title: BIRDLAND
                                                      Prod: Doxy - Janneke Doolaard
                                                      Completed: September 2020
                                                      Language: Dutch

                                                      Ashgan El-Hamus:
                                                      HABIBA (2017, student film).

                                                      Doxy
                                                      Ph: +31 20 422 2607
                                                      info@doxy.nl
                                                      www.doxy.nl

BIRDLAND                                    YOUT
                                                 H    Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
                                                      Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
Ashgan El-Hamus                                       info@kapiteinmedia.nl
                                                      www.kapiteinkort.nl

An intimate story about young mother Joy and
her daughter Skye, who live in a trailer park on
the outskirts of the city. Joy’s easy-going paren-
ting style is tested when Skye tries to be just as
mature as her mother.
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8     LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS

                                                       12’ / colour

                                                       Genre: comedy, drama, youth
                                                       Original title: KIPPENKRACHT
                                                       Prod: Millstreet Films - Rachel van
                                                       Bommel, Suzan de Swaan
                                                       Sc: Manon Verhagen
                                                       Completed: December 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Maria Philips:
                                                       CAVY WORLD CUP (2017, student film)
                                                       Festivals: a.o. Interfilm ISFF Berlin, Go
                                                       Short ISFF Nijmegen, SNOGGING (2016,
                                                       short).

    CHICKEN BOY                               YOUT
                                                   H   Millstreet Films
                                                       Ph: +31 20 772 5499
    Maria Philips                                      info@millstreetfilms.nl
                                                       www.millstreetfilms.nl

    A teenager, his mother and a tiny house - that’s
    trouble.

                                                       10’ / colour

                                                       Genre: horror, psychological drama
                                                       Original title: DE HUWELIJKSREIS
                                                       Prod: NL Film - Kaja Wolffers, Sabine
                                                       Brian
                                                       Completed: November 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Nico van den Brink:
                                                       a.o. THE BURDEN (2019, short) Festivals
                                                       and Awards a.o.: Best Short-South African
                                                       Horror Fest, Audience Award-San Sebas-
                                                       tian Horror & Fantasy Fest, Best Director-
                                                       Fantasia IFF, AVONDLAND (2017, TV film),
                                                       SWEET TOOTH (2017, short).
    THE DEPARTURE
                                                       NL Film
    Nico van den Brink                                 Ph: +31 20 574 7626
                                                       info@nlfilm.tv
                                                       www.nlfilm.tv
    30-year-old Nora has had a tough year which
    doesn't get any better when she notices that she
    keeps running into the same man...
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                                                   7’ / colour

                                                   Genre: comedy, drama
                                                   Original title: KUTLEVEN
                                                   Prod: Millstreet Films - Rachel van
                                                   Bommel, Suzan de Swaan
                                                   Completed: September 2020
                                                   Language: Dutch

                                                   Isis Cabolet:
                                                   First short film.

                                                   Millstreet Films
                                                   Ph: +31 20 772 5499
                                                   info@millstreetfilms.nl
                                                   www.millstreetfilms.nl
F*CK MY LIFE
Isis Cabolet

A comic tragedy about the pervasive fear of not
getting everything out of life.

                                                   7’ / colour

                                                   Genre: drama, romantic drama
                                                   Original title: BOSRANDGELUK
                                                   Prod: De Familie Film & TV - Michiel van
                                                   Erp, Monique Busman
                                                   Completed: September 2020
                                                   Language: Dutch

                                                   Philip Huff:
                                                   First short film.

                                                   Familie Film & TV
                                                   Ph: +31 20 663 3303
                                                   info@defamilie.net
                                                   www.defamilie.net
FOREST EDGE HAPPINESS
Philip Huff

An older couple very much in love cycle to their
favourite spot on the edge of the forest. But
there’s more to it than that.
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                                                     10’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama, family
                                                     Original title: FOSTER
                                                     Prod: Dutch Mountain Film - Rogier Kramer
                                                     Completed: fall 2021
                                                     Language: Dutch

                                                     Jordi Wijnalda:
                                                     GILLES (2016, short) Festivals: a.o. Odense
                                                     IFF, Interfilm ISFF, LUKAS AAN ZEE (2016,
                                                     short), NOW WHAT? (2015, short), WE ALL
                                                     DON'T WANT TO BE AFRAID (2015, short),
                                                     SOUTHWEST (2013, short).

                                           KIDS &    Dutch Mountain Film
 FOSTER                                   FAMIL      Ph: +31 20 688 1843
                                                Y
                                                     info@dutchmountainfilm.nl
 Jordi Wijnalda                                      www.dutchmountainfilm.nl

 A foster family tries to have one more normal
 morning together before the youngest son has
 to go back to his biological father.

                                                     16’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama, youth
                                                     Original title: FUNKELE
                                                     Prod: Dutch Mountain Film - Rogier Kramer
                                                     Completed: January 2021
                                                     Language: Dutch

                                                     Nicole Jachmann:
                                                     a.o. SHADOWHUNTER (2018, short), SERVING
                                                     IN SILENCE (2011, short doc).

                                                     Dutch Mountain Film
                                                     Ph: +31 20 688 1843
                                                     info@dutchmountainfilm.nl
                                                     www.dutchmountainfilm.nl
 FUNKELE                                  YOUT
                                                 H
 Nicole Jachmann

 Fifteen-year-old Robin and her best friend Merel
 share everything and are inseparable. Except,
 that is, for Robin's budding sexuality and her
 curiosity, something she is ashamed of, and
 which she keeps anxiously hidden.
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                  11

                                                   14’ / colour

                                                   Genre: drama
                                                   Original title: GOOD BOY
                                                   Prod: Family Affair Films - Noortje Wilschut
                                                   Sc: Britt Snel, Mariia Ponomarova
                                                   Completed: end 2020
                                                   Language: English, Ukrainian, Dutch

                                                   Mariia Ponomarova:
                                                   FAMILY HOUR (2018, short) Festivals: a.o.
                                                   Sarajevo FF, VIS Vienna Shorts, IFF
                                                   Braunschweig, Go Short ISFF, ARDEA
                                                   (2017, short) Festivals and Awards: a.o.
                                                   Grand Prix Best Fiction Film and Best
                                                   Cinematography-Open Night FF Kyiv.
GOOD BOY
                                                   Family Affair Films
Mariia Ponomarova                                  Ph: +31 20 707 1713
                                                   info@familyaffairfilms.nl
                                                   www.familyaffairfilms.nl
Aside from his own busy life, Andriy must care
for his father.

                                                   10’ / colour

                                                   Genre: drama
                                                   Original title: HANTU
                                                   Prod: NL Film - Sabine Brian, Kaja Wolffers
                                                   Completed: Autumn 2021
                                                   Language: Dutch

                                                   Kim Kokosky Deforchaux:
                                                   a.o. IBINU (2020, feature), COLOSSEUM
                                                   (2019, short), BAARDMOS (2015, short), IK,
                                                   MOORDENAAR (2019, short) Festivals: Busan
                                                   ISFF, Imagine FF, ONS ALLER ONKRUID
                                                   (2017, student film).

                                                   NL Film
HANTU                                              Ph: +31 20 574 7626
                                                   info@nlfilm.tv
Kim Kokosky Deforchaux                             www.nlfilm.tv

A lonely widow spends her remaining years in
her apartment, every day calling, and cooking
for her grown son. At night she is ravaged by
demons from a troubled past that she refuses to
burden him with.
12   LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS

                                                     15’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama, youth
                                                     Original title: A HOLIDAY FROM MOURNING
                                                     Prod: Studio Ruba - Layla Meijman &
                                                     Maarten van der Ven
                                                     Completed: October 2020
                                                     Language: Dutch, English

                                                     Zara Dwinger:
                                                     YULIA & JULIET (2018, short), SIRENE (2017,
                                                     student film) Festivals and Awards: a.o.
                                            YOUT     Golden Tadpole-Camerimage FF, Best
                                                 H   Short Film-Atlanta IFF, Audience Award-
                                                     Bogoshorts, Best Screenplay-Poitiers IFF,
                                                     LIV (2016, short).
 A HOLIDAY FROM MOURNING
                                                     Studio Ruba
 Zara Dwinger                                        Ph: +31 6 4189 8869
                                                     info@studioruba.com
                                                     www.studioruba.com
 A teenage girl attempts to flee the grief she has
 felt since her mothers' death by going on a post-   Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
                                                     Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
 exam trip to a Portuguese party town. But the       info@kapiteinmedia.nl
 faster she runs, the more the feeling she is try-   www.kapiteinkort.nl

 ing to escape from catches up on her.

                                                     29’ / colour

                                                     Genre: black comedy, drama
                                                     Original title: BETTIE VAN DE THUISZORG
                                                     Prod: Staccato Films - Storm Rechsteiner
                                                     Sc: Reowin Renkema
                                                     Completed: June 2021
                                                     Language: Dutch

                                                     Carmen Maria:
                                                     THE ONLY ONE (2020, short), AFTERMATH
                                                     (2019, short), MORNING FIX (2018, short).

                                                     Staccato Films
                                                     Ph: +31 20 419 0404
                                                     info@staccatofilms.com
 HOME CARE BETTIE                                    www.staccatofilms.com
 Carmen Maria

 As a result of the Corona crisis, Home Care Bet-
 tie is recognized as the hero she's always been.
 Will she maintain this status after the crisis is
 over?
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                 13

                                               length tbd / colour

                                               Genre: coming of age
                                               Original title: ZIELBESTUIVER
                                               Prod: Topkapi Film - Max de Wolf, Frans
                                               van Gestel, Laurette Schillings en Arnold
                                               Heslenfeld
                                               Sc: Saar Ponsioen
                                               Completed: spring 2021
                                               Language: Dutch

                                               Marit Weerheijm:
                                               a.o. EN ROUTE (2019, short) Festivals and
                                               Awards: a.o. Golden Calf Best Short-Ne-
                                               therlands FF, Best Dutch Live Action Short-
                                               Cinekid FF, Berlinale IFF, New York Int
HOW LIGHT GETS IN                              Children’s FF, Oberhausen Short FF, WHEN
                                               GREY IS A COLOUR (2016, student film) Fes-
Marit Weerheijm                                tivals and Awards: a.o. Student Academy
                                               Award-International Narrative Film, Best
                                               Short Film and Young Jury Award Best
Wies (14) wants to save the climate but her    Short Film-TIFF Kids IFF.
human desires are restricting her.
                                               Topkapi Films
                                               Ph: +31 20 303 2494
                                               info@topkapifilms.nl
                                               www.topkapifilms.nl

                                               14’ / colour

                                               Genre: drama, thriller, horror
                                               Original title: IK, ADONIS
                                               Prod: PRPL - Ellen Havenith
                                               Completed: January 2021
                                               Language: Dutch

                                               Angelo Raaijmakers:
                                               SAD SPIRIT (2015, student film).

                                               PRPL
                                               info@prpl.nl
                                               www.prpl.nl

                                               Sales: Aspect Ratio (North-America)
I, ADONIS                                      aspectratiofilms@gmail.com
                                               www.aspectratiofilms.com
Angelo Raaijmakers

Go big, or go home.
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                                                     11’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama
                                                     Original title: LAATSTE RIT
                                                     Prod: IJswater Films
                                                     Sc: Leila Sahir
                                                     Completed: November 2020
                                                     Language: Dutch

                                                     Edson da Conceicao:
                                                     a.o. PORFOTTO (2019, student film) Festi-
                                                     vals and Awards: a.o. Best Film-British
                                                     Urban FF London, Silk Road IFF (Dublin),
                                                     EINDHALTE (2018, short) Festivals: a.o. Go
                                                     Short FF, Short Shorts FF Asia (Tokyo),
                                                     Joinville Int Short FF.
 LAST RIDE
                                                     IJswater Films
 Edson da Conceicao                                  Ph: +31 20 442 1760
                                                     films@ijswater.nl
                                                     www.ijswater.nl
 When a cab driver reluctantly picks up his last
 customer of the night, he doesn’t yet know that
 this woman will make his last ride unforgettable.

                                                     10’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama
                                                     Original title: LEEUWIN
                                                     Prod: Family Affair Films - Chris Stenger,
                                                     Floor Onrust
                                                     Sc: Bastiaan Tichler
                                                     Completed: November 2020
                                                     Language: Dutch

                                                     Philip Besamusca:
                                                     VIGOR (2016, short).

                                                     Family Affair Films
                                                     Ph: +31 20 707 1713
                                                     info@familyaffairfilms.nl
 LIONESS                                             www.familyaffairfilms.nl
 Philip Besamusca                                    Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
                                                     Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
                                                     info@kapiteinmedia.nl
 When the temperamental Sylvie (17) is told that     www.kapiteinkort.nl
 she has to give up her child when it’s born, she
 decides to escape the youth institution where
 she’s placed. In her eyes it’s the only way to
 prevent her child from repeating the same cycle
 of institutionalized youth.
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                   15

                                                       23’ / colour

                                                       Genre: drama
                                                       Original title: A LITTLE LESS ORDINARY
                                                       Prod: Riverpark Films - Herman Slagter
                                                       Completed: June 2021
                                                       Language: Dutch, Mandarin

                                                       Guido Jeurissen:
                                                       a.o. EMBODY THE EARTH (2020, short), ROFFA
                                                       REPRESENT (2020, short doc series), CAMP
                                                       RAUW HOOP (2019, music video), EXODUS
                                                       (2019, short), 14.05 ALTIJD EEN SOORT VOOR-
                                                       UIT (2019, short).

                                                       Riverpark Films
A LITTLE LESS ORDINARY                                 Ph: +31 6 5510 7533
                                                       herman@riverparkfilms.nl
Guido Jeurissen                                        www.riverparkfilms.nl

In her quest for adventure, Maye, a young runa-
way guided by her own set of rules, is catapul-
ted back into reality when it turns out that real
life can be much, much harsher.

                                                       20’ / colour

                                                       Genre: drama, coming of age, LGBTIQ
                                                       Original title: MARLON BRANDO
                                                       Prod: Room for Film - Loes Komen, Eva
                                                       Verweij
                                                       Completed: May 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Vincent Tilanus:
                                                       MARLON BRANDO (2020, short) Festivals and
                                                       Awards: Cannes Semaine de la Critique
                                                       2020, Toronto IFF 2020, Palm Springs
                                           YOUT
                                                  H    2021, Go Short VEVAM Award 2020,
                                                       Aspen Shortfest Jury Award for Drama
                                                       2021; GOLD LEAF (2018, student film)
MARLON BRANDO                              LGBT
                                                 IQ
                                                       Room for Film
Vincent Tilanus                                        Ph: +31 6 2936 2360
                                                       loes@roomforfilm.com
                                                       www.roomforfilm.com
In this warm, wise, and irrestibly energetic film,
the tight friendship between two queer teens,          Sales: Varicoloured
                                                       Ph: +39 328 284 3112 / +39 327 004 8684
Cas and Naomi, is imperilled by the many com-          ev@varicoloured.eu / cv@varicoloured.eu
plications that go along with growing up and be-       www.varicoloured.eu
coming who you need to be.
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                                                   16’ / colour

                                                   Genre: drama
                                                   Original title: MIRAGE
                                                   Prod: OAK Motion Pictures
                                                   Completed: October 2020
                                                   Language: English

                                                   Sil van der Woerd:
                                                   GROWTH (2017, short) Festivals and
                                                   Awards: a.o. Best Editing-Autumn Shorts
                                                   FF, REQUIEM 2019 (2017, short).

                                                   OAK Motion Pictures
                                                   Ph: +31 20 717 3504
                                                   contact@oakmotionpictures.com
 MIRAGE                                            www.oakmotionpictures.com
 Sil van der Woerd

 The personal story of Mendel, a 70-year-old
 hunter struggling to accept his wife's imminent
 death.

                                                   11’ / colour

                                                   Genre: drama
                                                   Original title: SJEEMTE
                                                   Prod: Rinkel Film - Reinier Selen
                                                   Completed: June 2021
                                                   Language: Dutch (dialect)

                                                   Floris Ramaekers:
                                                   SLEEPING DOGS (2012, feature) Festivals:
                                                   Sofia IFF, Raindance FF, British Indepen-
                                                   dent FF.

                                                   Rinkel Film
                                                   Ph: + 31 20 616 3231
                                                   info@rinkelfilm.com
 MOTHER TONGUE                                     www.rinkelfilm.com
 Floris Ramaekers

 A benefits claim appointment spins out of con-
 trol when Candide (23) borrows her sister’s
 baby and pretends that it’s her own child.
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                    17

                                                       11’ / colour

                                                       Genre: black comedy, drama
                                                       Original title: SNORRIE
                                                       Prod: OAK Motion Pictures - Trent
                                                       Completed: December 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Victoria Warmerdam:
                                                       SHORT CALF MUSCLE (2019, short) Festivals
                                                       and Awards: a.o. Iris Prize, Best Short-
                                                       Austrian FF, Best Comedy-Bolton FF, Best
                                                       Short-Druk FF, Best Film-Kolkata FF, Best
                                                       Comedy-Mexico FF.

                                                       OAK Motion Pictures
MUSTACHIO                                              Ph: +31 20 717 3504
                                                       contact@oakmotionpictures.com
Victoria Warmerdam                                     www.oakmotionpictures.com

In this mildly absurd tragicomedy Freek is sur-
prised by a visit from Mustachio, his best friend
from childhood. But their uncomfortable reunion
quickly gets out of hand as Mustachio's unresol-
ved grief continues to surface.

                                                       11’ / colour

                                                       Genre: LGBTIQ, coming of age
                                                       Original title: NOVA
                                                       Prod: IJswater Films - Marc Bary, Nicky
                                                       Onstenk
                                                       Completed: November 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Luca Meisters:
                                                       WHEN BIRDS FLY LOW (2019, short) Festi-
                                                       vals and Awards: a.o. Cinekid FF, Ober-
                                                       hausen Kurzfilmtage, Mo & Friese Kinder
                                           YOUT
                                                  H    Kurz FF, Encouragement Award-Shift FF.

                                                       IJswater Films
NOVA                                       LGBT
                                                IQ     Ph: +31 20 442 1760
                                                       films@ijswater.nl
Luca Meisters                                          www.ijswater.nl

                                                       Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
When Nova (15) brings her little sister to soccer      Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
practice, she exchanges a glance with the new          info@kapiteinmedia.nl
                                                       www.kapiteinkort.nl
trainer Nadia which results in a feeling she can’t
seem to put her finger on.
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                                                      17’ / colour

                                                      Genre: psychological thriller
                                                      Original title: DE TIJD LEERT
                                                      Prod: Keplerfilm - Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji
                                                      Nelissen
                                                      Completed: October 2020
                                                      Language: Dutch, English

                                                      Laras Reinstar:
                                                      THICKER THAN WATER (2017, student film)
                                                      Festivals: a.o. VIS Vienna Shorts, Tel Aviv
                                                      ISFF, Bucharest SFF, WITHIN (2016, short),
                                                      DAYDREAMS (2012, short).

                                                      Keplerfilm
 ONLY TIME WILL TELL                                  Ph: +31 20 737 0608
                                                      hello@keplerfilm.nl
 Laras Reinstar                                       www.keplerfilm.nl

 A lonely puppeteer encounters the princess of
 his dreams, but reality isn't quite as he imagined
 it.

                                                      19’ / b&w

                                                      Genre: drama
                                                      Original title: RADIO SLOBODA
                                                      Prod: YadMedia (NL) - Azur Begovic
                                                      Co-prod: Realstage (BA)
                                                      Completed: November 2020
                                                      Language: Bosnian

                                                      Ismar Vejzovic & Bafl Sarhang:
                                                      AMEEN (2018, short).

                                                      YadMedia
                                                      Ph: +31 6 4881 2799
                                                      abstrakts@hotmail.com
                                                      www.yadmedia.com
 RADIO FREEDOM
                                                      Festival distribution: Premiere Film
 Ismar Vejzovic & Bafl Sarhang                        www.premierefilm.it
                                                      premierefilmdistribution@gmail.com

 The story of a radio operator's last day in a be-
 sieged city, when he abandons reporting the
 war and helping people get in touch with their
 loved ones outside the city, choosing instead to
 flee and reunite with his own family.
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                  19

                                                        30’ / colour

                                                        Genre: psychological drama
                                                        Original title: SHE USED TO SING HERE
                                                        Prod: Topkapi Film - Max de Wolf, Frans
                                                        van Gestel, Laurette Schillings en Arnold
                                                        Heslenfeld
                                                        Completed: 2021
                                                        Language: Dutch

                                                        Sven Bresser:
                                                        a.o. FREE FIGHT (2018, TV film), L'ÉTÉ ET
                                                        TOUT LE RESTE (2018, short) Festivals and
                                                        Awards: a.o Venice IFF Orrizonti, Toronto
                                                        IFF, Chicago IFF, Golden Calf Award Best
                                                        Short-Netherlands FF, Grand Jury Prize-
SHE USED TO SING HERE                                   Quebec City IFF, CAVELLO (2016, short)
                                                        Festivals and Awards: a.o Vers Awards:
Sven Bresser                                            Cam-a-Lot/Filmmore Jury Prize Best Film.

                                                        Topkapi Films
When a musician goes looking for his missing            Ph: +31 20 303 2494
sister he realizes that he actually lost her a long     info@topkapifilms.nl
                                                        www.topkapifilms.nl
time ago.

                                                        19’ / colour

                                                        Genre: experimental, LGBTIQ
                                                        Original title: SILENT HEAT
                                                        Prod: Family Affair Films - Chris Stenger,
                                                        Noortje Wilschut, Floor Onrust
                                                        Completed: August 2020
                                                        Language: English, Dutch, Russian

                                                        Luciënne Venner:
                                                        UNLOST (2019, short), ERROR OF EROS
                                                        (2018, short), A RIDE TO MORESNET (2017,
                                                        student film).

                                                        Family Affair Films
                                                        Ph: +31 20 707 1713
SILENT HEAT                                 LGBT
                                                  IQ    info@familyaffairfilms.nl
                                                        www.familyaffairfilms.nl
Luciënne Venner

On vacation with her girlfriend, Lyla’s fantasies
are triggered unexpectedly after she is stung by
a sea urchin. She meets the sensual Valéry who
takes her to an underground sub-culture with its
own peculiar fetish, which changes Lyla’s life fo-
rever.
20   LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS

                                                   10’ / colour

                                                   Genre: drama
                                                   Original title: STUCKWITU
                                                   Prod: NL Film - Sabine Brian, Kaja Wolffers
                                                   Sc: Elvira Porcedda, Perla Vita Beerens
                                                   Completed: November 2020
                                                   Language: Dutch

                                                   Timo Ottevanger:
                                                   a.o. BAD INFLUENCER (2019, TV series), NIN-
                                                   GYO (2019, student film), SAFE HAVEN
                                                   (2019, short), RUN BABY RUN (2018, short),
                                                   MI LOBI (2014, short).

                                                   NL Film
 STUCKWITU                                         Ph: +31 20 574 7626
                                                   info@nlfilm.tv
 Timo Ottevanger                                   www.nlfilm.tv

 Gaby and Kesh are two slackers in their early
 twenties who spend their days recalling child-
 hood memories. When the two get wind of a
 foam party, they decide to relive their teenage
 years together...

                                                   13’ / colour

                                                   Genre: comic drama
                                                   Original title: DE VERRUKKELIJKE
                                                   ONBEHOLPENHEID VAN EEN EERSTE KEER
                                                   Prod: The Rogues - Guusje van Deuren,
                                                   Rianne Poodt
                                                   Completed: September 2020
                                                   Language: Dutch

                                                   Eva M.C. Zanen:
                                                   a.o. BEARS LOVE ME (2019, TV Film) Festi-
                                                   vals: a.o. PÖFF Talinn Black Nights FF,
                                                   Cinekid FF, Montevideo IFF for Children
 THE SWEET HASSLE                                  and Youth, SJAAK'S WIFE DIED, SO HE NEEDS
                                                   TO SAY SOMETHING (2017, short).
 OF A FIRST TIME
                                                   The Rogues
 Eva M.C. Zanen                                    Ph: +31 6 3072 5752
                                                   rianne@therogues.nl
                                                   www.therogues.nl
 A tragi-comedy in multi-screen revealing the
 awkwardness and naked truth of a first sexual
 encounter.
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS                  21

                                                        15’ / colour

                                                        Genre: drama
                                                        Original title: DWAALGAST
                                                        Prod: Family Affair Films - Chris Stenger
                                                        Completed: April 2021
                                                        Language: Dutch

                                                        Jeroen van ’t Hullenaar & Coen
                                                        Eigenraam:
                                                        HUMAN DAYS (2018, short).

                                                        Family Affair Films
                                                        Ph: +31 20 707 1713
                                                        info@familyaffairfilms.nl
                                                        www.familyaffairfilms.nl
VISITANT
Jeroen van ’t Hullenaar & Coen Eigenraam

At the end of their century-long lives two friends
look back. As one dissolves in the air the other
is covered with feathers.

                                                        26’ / colour

                                                        Genre: drama, LGBTIQ, coming of age
                                                        Original title: WATAMULA
                                                        Prod: Recent - Mario Gonsalves, Danique
                                                        Zimmerman
                                                        Completed: September 2020
                                                        Language: Papiamento

                                                        Kevin Osepa:
                                                        First short film.

                                                        Recent
                                                        Ph: +31 6 4693 4409
                                                        mario@recent.co
                                                        www.recent.co
WATAMULA                                    LGBT
                                                  IQ
Kevin Osepa

Visual artist and filmmaker Kevin Osepa, for
whom young Afro-Caribbean identity is an im-
portant subject, moulds a magical-realistic pa-
norama, bringing together landscape and fate,
spirituality, sensuality and machismo.
22   LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS

                                                        7’ / colour

                                                        Genre: black comedy
                                                        Original title: WANNEER IK ONTPLOF
                                                        Prod: Volya Films - Fleur Knopperts,
                                                        Denis Vaslin
                                                        Completed: September 2020
                                                        Language: Dutch

                                                        Angelo Raaijmakers:
                                                        I, ADONIS(2020, short), SAD SPIRIT (2015,
                                                        student film).

                                                        Volya Films
                                                        Ph: +31 6 5245 1987
                                                        fleur@volyafilms.nl
 WHEN I EXPLODE                                         www.volyafilms.nl
 Angelo Raaijmakers

 A millennial with a bomb in his belly, and time is
 ticking…

                                                        11’ / colour

                                                        Genre: kids & youth, drama
                                                        Original title: WHEN LIGHT FADES
                                                        Prod: Topkapi Films - Laurette Schillings,
                                                        Frans van Gestel, Arnold Heslenfeld
                                                        Completed: October 2020
                                                        Language: Dutch

                                                        Daan Groot:
                                                        AIMÉE (2017, student film).

                                                        Topkapi Films
                                                        Ph: +31 20 303 2494
                                                        info@topkapifilms.nl
                                               KIDS &   www.topkapifilms.nl
 WHEN LIGHT FADES                             FAMIL
                                                    Y   Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
 Daan Groot                                             Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
                                                        info@kapiteinmedia.nl
                                                        www.kapiteinkort.nl
 As a boy spirals further into isolation, it becomes
 harder for him to resist the visions of an offered
 escape.
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
24   SHORT DOCUMENTARIES

                                                       7’ / b&w

                                                       Original title: MEISJESJONGENSMIX
                                                       Prod: Prospektor - Eefje Blankevoort,
                                                       Laura Verduijn
                                                       Completed: September 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Lara Aerts:
                                                       First short documentary.

                                                       Prospektor
                                                       Ph: +31 6 4714 6564
                                             LGBT
                                                  IQ   laura@prospektor.nl
                                                       www.prospektor.nl
                                              KIDS &
 GIRLSBOYSMIX                                FAMIL
                                                   Y
 Lara Aerts

 Why is it so important to be a boy or a girl?

                                                       26’ / colour

                                                       Original title: HONDS
                                                       Prod: NEWTON Film - Ton van Zantvoort
                                                       Completed: September 2020
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Josefien van Kooten:
                                                       GOOD PEOPLE (2016, short), POLISH FOR
                                                       BEGINNERS (2014, short).

                                                       NEWTON Film
                                                       Ph: +31 6 4103 9081
                                                       info@newtonfilm.nl
                                                       www.newtonfilm.nl

 HONDS
 Josefien van Kooten

 During dog training the tension between love,
 control and powerlessness is reflected in the re-
 lationship between man and beast.
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES                     25

                                                    16’ / colour

                                                    Original title: IN HAVANA
                                                    Prod: Kim Films - Kim van Haaster
                                                    Completed: September 2020
                                                    Language: Spanish

                                                    Kim van Haaster:
                                                    Second short documentary.
                                                    PLAY, NO MATTER WHAT! (2014, doc)
                                                    Awards: A Like for Documentary Cronograf
                                                    Int Documentary FF, Special Jury Prize-
                                                    SIMFEST.

                                                    Kim Films
                                           KIDS &   Ph: +31 6 2830 9576
IN HAVANA                                 FAMIL
                                                Y   info@kimvanhaaster.nl
                                                    www.kimvanhaaster.nl
Kim van Haaster
                                                    Sales: Feelsales
                                                    pablobriseno@feelsales.com
Anthony, Carolina, Camilo. The beliefs, dreams      www.feelsales.com
and hopes for the future of three Cuban children.
                                                    Festival distribution: Agencia Freak
                                                    Ph.: +34 9 5147 5230
                                                    vanesa@agenciafreak.com
                                                    www.agenciafreak.com

                                                    35’ / colour

                                                    Original title: JANO & SHIRO, A BROTHERS’
                                                    JOURNEY
                                                    Prod: Prospektor - Laura Verduijn
                                                    Co-prod: KRO-NCRV
                                                    Completed: October 2020
                                                    Language: Kurdish, Arabic, Dutch

                                                    Els van Driel & Eefje Blankevoort:
                                                    a.o. SHADOW GAME (2021, doc), THE DEAL
                                                    (2017, mid-length doc), THE ASYLUM
                                                    MACHINE (2016, interactive, mid-length doc).

JANO & SHIRO, A                                     Prospektor
                                                    Ph: +31 6 4714 6564
BROTHERS’ JOURNEY                         YOUT
                                                H   laura@prospektor.nl
                                                    www.prospektor.nl
Els van Driel & Eefje Blankevoort

The brothers Jano (18) and Shiro (15) flee toge-
ther from Syria to the Netherlands. While Shiro,
who is a minor, learns the language and makes
friends, Jano spends his time waiting in an asy-
lum centre for adults.
26   SHORT DOCUMENTARIES

                                                       15’ / colour

                                                       Original title: JULIETA & DE SCHILDPADDEN
                                                       IN DE PLASTIC SOEP
                                                       Prod: Tangerine Tree - Nienke Korthof
                                                       Completed: November 2020
                                                       Language: English, Dutch

                                                       Mirjam Marks:
                                                       a.o. JOVANNAFORFUTURE (2019, short doc),
                                                       HARBOURBOYZ (2018, short doc), PRIDE &
                                                       PREJUDICE (2017, short doc), SPOTLIGHT ON
                                                       MERNA (2016, short doc), THE GIRL OF 672K
                                                       (2015, short doc).
 JULIETA & THE TURTLES                        KIDS &
                                                       Tangerine Tree
 IN THE PLASTIC SOUP                         FAMIL
                                                   Y   info@tangerinetree.nl
                                                       www.tangerinetree.nl
 Mirjam Marks

 The wonderful world of the ocean feels like
 home to 14-year-old Julieta, but the amount of
 plastic pollution she encounters makes her ex-
 tremely angry. Staying positive and believing
 that you can create a better world can be a diffi-
 cult task.

                                                       15’ / colour

                                                       Original title: MOMENTS OF BEING
                                                       Prod: Rots Filmwerk - Steven Rubinstein
                                                       Malamud
                                                       Completed: May 2021
                                                       Language: Dutch

                                                       Paul de Ruijter:
                                                       WITHOUT SUN (2016, graduation short doc).

                                                       Rots Filmwerk
                                                       Ph: +31 6 1491 1222
                                                       steven@rotsfilmwerk.nl
                                                       www.rotsfilmwerk.nl

 MOMENTS OF BEING
 Paul de Ruijter

 An intuitive search for small moments of happi-
 ness in the year before the family farm gets
 sold.
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES                   27

                                                  25’ / colour

                                                  Original title: NAYA - DER WALT HAT
                                                  TAUSEND AUGEN
                                                  Prod: [boondocs] - Jasper Boon
                                                  Completed: November 2020
                                                  Language: Dutch

                                                  Sebastian Mulder:
                                                  First short documentary.
                                                  NATURE: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED (2017,
                                                  graduation short doc).

                                                  [boondocs]
                                                  Ph: +31 6 4821 1049
                                                  jasper@boondocs.nl
NAYA                                              www.boondocs.nl
Sebastian Mulder

We follow the story of she-wolf Naya, who wal-
ked from East Germany to Belgium with a GPS
collar.

                                                  15’ / colour

                                                  Original title: STOEPFEESTJE
                                                  Prod: Staccato Films - Joey Jansen, Storm
                                                  Rechsteiner
                                                  Completed: June 2021
                                                  Language: Dutch, Sranantongo

                                                  Hugo Drechsler:
                                                  MISERABEL (2017, short).

                                                  Staccato Films
                                                  Ph: +31 20 419 0404
                                                  info@staccatofilms.com
                                                  www.staccatofilms.com

PAVEMENT PARTY
Hugo Drechsler

“One and a half metres, is the new normal”. Du-
ring Corona, Master Stu brings comfort to the
isolated elderly with his ‘pavement parties’.
28   SHORT DOCUMENTARIES

                                                       26’ / colour

                                                       Original title: RUSTELOZE ZIELEN, SCÈNES UIT
                                                       DE TBS
                                                       Prod: Tangerine Tree - Nienke Korthof
                                                       Completed: October 2020
                                                       Language: English, Dutch

                                                       Ingrid Kamerling:
                                                       GRAN AND CHRIS & THE RED CAR (2019,
                                                       doc), VIVIAN, VIVIAN (2016, doc), THE BIRD
                                                       BOY (2016, short doc), AFTER THE SUMMER
                                                       (2015, short doc), SOUNDS FOR MAZIN
                                                       (2012, short doc).

                                                       Tangerine Tree
 RESTLESS SOULS                                        info@tangerinetree.nl
                                                       www.tangerinetree.nl
 Ingrid Kamerling

 People detained under hospital orders work
 hard to return to society. Participating in a thea-
 tre project helps, but can also cause tension. Is
 it possible to leave your demons behind, or will
 they always remain with you?

                                                       25’ / colour

                                                       Original title: WHEN YOU HEAR THE DIVINE
                                                       CALL
                                                       Prod: [boondocs] - Jasper Boon
                                                       Completed: September 2020
                                                       Language: English, Dutch

                                                       Festus Toll:
                                                       First short documentary.
                                                       WE WILL MAINTAIN (2017, graduation film).

                                                       [boondocs]
                                                       Ph: +31 6 4821 1049
 WHEN YOU HEAR                                         jasper@boondocs.nl
                                                       www.boondocs.nl
 THE DIVINE CALL
                                                       Festival distribution: Kapitein Kort
 Festus Toll                                           Ph: +31 6 3630 5627
                                                       info@kapiteinmedia.nl
                                                       www.kapiteinkort.nl
 Moral questions and the search for identity
 come together in this short documentary about
 what ‘home’ means as a half European, half
 African child.
ANIMATED SHORTS
30   ANIMATED SHORTS

                                                      20’ / colour

                                                      Genre: drama, thriller
                                                      Original title: CAMOUFLAGE
                                                      Prod: Mooves (NL) - Jantiene de Kroon
                                                      Co-prod: Lunanime (BE)
                                                      Sc: Jantiene de Kroon
                                                      Completed: April 2021
                                                      Language: English

                                                      Remco Polman:
                                                      DIRKJAN RULES! (2010, animated short)
                                                      Award: Jury Award-Computer Space FF
                                                      Sofia, MORTEL (2006, animated short).

                                                      Mooves
 CAMOUFLAGE                                           Ph: + 31 20 694 5602
                                                      mooves@mooves.nl
 Remco Polman                                         www.mooves.nl

                                                      Festival Distribution: Kaboom
 An office clerk desperately tries to hold his life   Distribution
 together while the world around him gets darker      Ph.+31 620689423
                                                      ursula@kaboomfestival.nl
 and darker. A brutal regime systematically pro-
 secutes certain groups - and he is not a brave
 character. This time, will he be strong enough to
 resist?

                                                      8’ / colour

                                                      Genre: fantasy, action, adventure
                                                      Original title: THE CLOUDMAKER
                                                      Prod: Hazazah Pictures - Maarten Kuit
                                                      Completed: December 2020
                                                      Language: Spanish

                                                      Hanna van Niekerk:
                                                      ANNE FRANK VIDEO DIARY (2020, web
                                                      series), SOAP (2017, short fiction), IF THE
                                                      SUN EXPLODES (2016, feature).

                                                      Hazazah Pictures
                                                      Ph: +31 20 422 6422
                                                      info@hazazahpictures.com
 THE CLOUDMAKER                                       www.hazazah.com
 Hanna van Niekerk                                    Festival Distribution: Kaboom
                                                      Distribution
                                                      Ph.+31 620689423
 High up in the sky lives the charismatic Hipólito    ursula@kaboomfestival.nl
 who transforms clouds into wondrous figures. In
 order to return to his true love on earth, he has
 first to find a worthy successor.
ANIMATED SHORTS                  31

                                                     2’ / colour

                                                     Genre: comedy, kids, family
                                                     Original title: INKT
                                                     Prod: Ka-Ching Cartoons
                                                     Completed: September 2020
                                                     Language: none

                                                     Erik Verkerk & Joost van den Bosch:
                                                     a.o. CASH FOR TRASH (2019, animated fea-
                                                     ture), DE TAND DES TIJDS (2019, animated
                                                     feature), TEX (2017, animated short) Festi-
                                                     vals: a.o: Golden Elephant ICFF Hydera-
                                                     bad.

                                            KIDS &   Ka-Ching Cartoons
INK                                        FAMIL
                                                 Y   Ph: +31 6 4509 8574
                                                     info@ka-chingcartoons.com
Erik Verkerk & Joost van den Bosch                   www.ka-chingcartoons.com

                                                     Sales: SND fIlms
In this hilarious 2D & 3D animated short, a          Ph: +31 6 5495 5266
clean-up neat-freak octopus uses all of his ten-     info@sndfilms.com
                                                     www.sndfilms.com
tacles in trying to reach what he’s aiming for.
                                                     Festival Distribution: Kaboom
                                                     Distribution
                                                     Ph.+31 620689423
                                                     ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

                                                     7’ / colour

                                                     Genre: black comedy
                                                     Original title: VARKEN
                                                     Prod: Studio Pupil - Tünde Vollenbroek
                                                     Completed: summer 2021
                                                     Language: no dialogue

                                                     Jorn Leeuwerink:
                                                     a.o. FLOWER FOUND! (2017, student film)
                                                     Festivals and Awards: a.o. Best Student
                                                     Animation-Anibar IAF, Best Student Film-
                                                     European Animated FF Balkanima, Jury’s
                                                     Special Prize Student Films Competition-
                                                     Animakom Bilbao, TEKKOL (2015, animated
                                                     short) Award: Super Short Competition
PIG                                                  Jury Honorable Mention-MONSTRA: Lis-
                                                     bon Animated FF.
Jorn Leeuwerink
                                                     Studio Pupil
                                                     Ph: +31 6 4726 4049
A group of animals hook up a power grid to the       contact@studiopupil.com
socket-shaped snout of a large, sleeping pig.        www.studiopupil.com
The animals use the pig’s energy for simple          Sales: SND Films
things at first, but they are soon dependent on a    Ph: +31 20 404 0707
                                                     info@sndfilms.com
city where everything is automated...                www.sndfilms.com
32   ANIMATED SHORTS

                                                     9’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama
                                                     Original title: PILAR
                                                     Dir: Yngwie Boley, J.J. Epping & Diana van
                                                     Houten
                                                     Prod: il Luster Productions (NL) - Michiel
                                                     Snijders en Arnoud Rijken
                                                     Co-producer: S.O.I.L. (BE)
                                                     Completed: July 2020
                                                     Language: no dialogue

                                                     Yngwie Boley, J.J. Epping and Diana
                                                     van Houten:
                                                     SPELLBREAKER (2013, animated short).

 PILAR                                               il Luster Films
                                                     Ph. +31 6 2412 8200
 Yngwie Boley, J.J. Epping & Diana van Houten        info@illuster.nl
                                                     www.illuster.nl

 A dangerous intruder gives Pilar the chance to      Sales: SND Films
 discover the wild animal within, and the means      info@sndfilms.com
                                                     www.sndfilms.com
 to escape the post-apocalyptic village she lives
 in.                                                 Festival Distribution: Square Eyes
                                                     info@squareyesfilm.com
                                                     www.squareeyesfilm.com

                                                     7’ / colour

                                                     Genre: drama, action/adventure, kids
                                                     Original title: SEE ME
                                                     Prod: Family Affair Films - Chris Stenger,
                                                     Noortje Wilschut, Floor Onrust
                                                     Completed: summer 2020
                                                     Language: Dutch

                                                     Patty Stenger and Yvonne Kroese:
                                                     First short film.

                                                     Family Affair Films
                                                     Ph: +31 20 707 1713
                                                     chris@familyaffairfilms.nl
                                            KIDS &   www.familyaffarifilms.nl
 SEE ME                                    FAMIL
                                                 Y   Sales: SND FIlms
 Patty Stenger and Yvonne Kroese                     Ph: +31 6 5495 5266
                                                     info@sndfilms.com
                                                     www.sndfilms.com
 When nobody wants to see you, your vision
 changes. Only when you fall, you seem to be a       Festival Distribution: Kaboom
                                                     Distribution
 part of everybody, just for a little while.         Ph.+31 6 2068 9423
                                                     ursula@kaboomfestival.nl
ANIMATED SHORTS                 33

                                                       2’ / colour

                                                       Genre: comedy
                                                       Original title: STEWARD
                                                       Prod: Keplerfilm - Derk-Jan Warrink, Peter
                                                       Lindhout, Koji Nelissen
                                                       Completed: October 2020
                                                       Language: no dialogue

                                                       Jim Stüter:
                                                       First short film.

                                                       Keplerfilm
                                                       Ph: +31 20 737 0608
                                                       peter@keplerfilm.com
                                                       www.keplerfilm.nl
STEWARD
                                                       Festival Distribution: Kaboom
Jim Stüter                                             Distribution
                                                       Ph.+31 6 2068 9423
                                                       ursula@kaboomfestival.nl
Working as a soccer stadium steward is not al-
ways great. Especially when your idol is doing
his thing on the pitch, while you have to keep an
eye on the supporters.

                                                       2’ / colour

                                                       Genre: comedy, drama, environment &
                                                       nature
                                                       Original title: TOURIST TRAP
                                                       Prod: Family Affair Films - Chris Stenger,
                                                       Floor Onrust
                                                       Sc: Britt Snel
                                                       Completed: August 2020
                                                       Language: no dialogue

                                                       Vera van Wolferen:
                                                       HOW TO CATCH A BIRD (2013, animated
                                                       student film) Festivals: a.o. Holland Anima-
                                                       tion FF, Mo&Friese Children's SFF Ham-
                                                       burg, Montreal Stop Motion FF.
TOURIST TRAP                                           Family Affair Films
Vera van Wolferen                                      Ph: +31 20 707 1713
                                                       info@familyaffairfilms.nl
                                                       www.familyaffairfilms.nl
Jeep is looking for the ultimate vacation spot; an     Sales: SND Films
idyllic island full of wilderness and beautiful tro-   info@sndfilms.com
                                                       www.sndfilms.com
pical birds. But he is not the only adventurer.
What starts out as an idyllic trip escalates quic-     Festival Distribution: Kaboom
                                                       Distribution
kly into a tourist trap from which no escape is        Ph.+31 620689423
possible.                                              ursula@kaboomfestival.nl
34   ANIMATED SHORTS

                                                      2’ / colour

                                                      Genre: drama
                                                      Original title: TRAM
                                                      Prod: il Luster Films - Arnoud Rijken,
                                                      Michiel Snijders
                                                      Completed: September 2020
                                                      Language: no dialogue

                                                      Olga van den Brandt:
                                                      LINEAGE (2015, animated student film)
                                                      Festivals: a,o, Anilogue IAFF Budapest,
                                                      Holland Animation FF.

                                                      il Luster Films
                                                      Ph: +31 6 2412 8200
 TRAM                                                 info@illuster.nl
                                                      www.illuster.nl
 Olga van den Brandt
                                                      Festival Distribution: Kaboom
                                                      Distribution
 A tram ride through Amsterdam in the 1930's          Ph.+31 620689423
 shows both the proximity of, and distance be-        ursula@kaboomfestival.nl

 tween, the rich and poor living in the metropolis.

                                                      2’ / colour

                                                      Genre: drama
                                                      Original title: ZANGKOM REDUX
                                                      Prod: Volya Films - Fleur Knopperts, Denis
                                                      Vaslin
                                                      Sc: Maurice de Bruijne, Randy Oost
                                                      Completed: October 2020
                                                      Language: no dialogue

                                                      Maurice de Bruijne:
                                                      KARMAN (2019, TV film), CREDO (2017,
                                                      short).

                                                      Volya Films
                                                      Ph: +31 10 415 5621
 ZANGKOM REDUX                                        fleur@volyafilms.com
                                                      www.volyafilms.com
 Maurice de Bruijne

 An ultrashort animation about the transience of
 essential connection and our deep desire to ex-
 perience it despite everything.
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
36   EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

                                                        5’ / colour

                                                        Original title: ADEM AAN ADEM
                                                        Prod: Miloushka Bokma
                                                        Completed: November 2019
                                                        Language: no dialogue

                                                        Miloushka Bokma:
                                                        Experimental shorts: a.o. THUIS, HOME,
                                                        HEIMAT (2018), WINTERWENDE (2016),
                                                        CYCLES (2015) Award: Pearl Artist Prize-
                                                        Dance FF Berlin, SOFTLY TO NOT #7 (2013),
                                                        SOFTLY TO NOT #5/ #6 (2012).

                                                        Miloushka Bokma
                                                        Ph: +31 6 4452 1951
 BREATH TO BREATH                                       mail@miloushkabokma.nl
                                                        www.miloushkabokma.nl
 Miloushka Bokma
                                                        Distributor: EYE Experimental
                                                        Ph: +31 20 589 1446
 The personal and emotional history which every         experimental@eyefilm.nl
 man carries is the premise of this video-work.         www.international.eyefilm.nl

 Signals, as elusive traces in the body, manifest
 or suppressed. I examine the language of the
 body in relation to its environment.

                                                        15’ / colour

                                                        Original title: L’EAU FAUX
                                                        Prod: seriousFilm - Marc Thelosen &
                                                        Koert Davidse
                                                        Completed: 2020
                                                        Language: no dialogue

                                                        Serge Onnen:
                                                        a.o. CLOACINAE (2017, animated short) Fes-
                                                        tivals: o.a. IFF Rotterdam, Holland Anima-
                                                        tion FF, Animator Int Animated FF Poznań,
                                                        BREAK (2006, animated short).

                                                        Sverre Fredriksen:
                                                        a.o. HUMAN NATURE (2019, animated short)
                                                        Festivals and Awards: a.o. Toronto IFF,
 L’EAU FAUX                                             Award Best Dutch Short-Kaboom Animation
                                                        Fest, Jury Prize Best Dutch Animation-Cine-
 Serge Onnen & Sverre Fredriksen                        kid FF, CLOACINAE (2017, animated short).

                                                        seriousFilm
 There is friction in the water. An entity of nature,   Ph: +31 6 2073 7277
                                                        marc@seriousfilm.nl
 constantly manipulated. Something happened,            www.seriousfilm.nl
 when water became a 'thing' that you can buy in
                                                        Distributor: EYE Experimental
 a bottle…                                              Ph: +31 20 589 1446
                                                        experimental@eyefilm.nl
                                                        www.international.eyefilm.nl
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                                                  22’ / colour and b&w

                                                  Original title: GAKA
                                                  Prod: seriousFilm - Marc Thelosen &
                                                  Koert Davidse
                                                  Sc: Aryan Kaganof
                                                  Completed: September 2020
                                                  Language: no dialogue

                                                  Tomoko Mukaiyama:
                                                  First film.

                                                  Aryan Kaganof:
                                                  a.o. THE DEAD MAN 2 : RETURN OF THE DEAD
                                                  MAN (2004, experimental short), WESTERN
                                                  4.33 (2002, experimental short), SHABON-
GAKA                                              DAMA ELEGY (1999, feature), KIODAY MAKES
                                                  THE BIG TIME (1992, feature).
Tomoko Mukaiyama & Aryan Kaganof
                                                  seriousFilm
                                                  Ph: +31 6 2073 7277
Gaka is a ritual performance in which dance,      marc@seriousfilm.nl
music and stage design contribute equally to an   www.seriousfilm.nl

aesthetic experience within a specific location   Distributor: EYE Experimental
and time of day.                                  Ph.+31 20 589 1446
                                                  experimental@eyefilm.nl
                                                  www.international.eyefilm.nl

                                                  13’ / colour

                                                  Original title: GENTLE WILDFIRE
                                                  Prod: Interakt - René Mendel en
                                                  Mira Mendel
                                                  Completed: September 2020
                                                  Language: Portuguese

                                                  Simone Bennett:
                                                  a.o. MOTOR (2012, experimental short)
                                                  Festivals: a.o. IFF Rotterdam, Guanajuato
                                                  IFF, Berwick Film and Media Art Fest, Eu-
                                                  ropean Media Art Fest, KasselerDokfest,
                                                  BLUES BROTHER CASTRO THE SCORE (2011,
                                                  music video).

GENTLE WILDFIRE                                   Interakt
                                                  Ph: +31 20 623 7982
Simone Bennett                                    interakt@interakt.nl
                                                  www.interakt.nl
Photographer Carlos' journey back home
rekindles his connection to his roots.
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                                                                 5’ / colour

                                                                 Original title: KINKED
                                                                 Prod: Gerrit Rietveld Academie - Feline
                                                                 Hjermind
                                                                 Completed: summer 2020
                                                                 Language: English

                                                                 Feline Hjermind:
                                                                 First short film.

                                                                 Feline Hjermind
                                                                 Ph: +31 6 4447 0643
                                                                 feline.hjermind@gmail.com
                                                                 www.felinehjermind.com

 KINKED                                                          Distributor: EYE Experimental
                                                                 Ph: +31 20 589 1446
 Feline Hjermind                                                 experimental@eyefilm.nl
                                                                 www.international.eyefilm.nl

 KINKED seeks to ‘kink’ - bend, warp, curve and
 twist - familiar images of seduction and desire.
 In this video, pornographic tropes are imitated
 and lovingly subverted. The images form a vi-
 sual vocabulary, moving towards a set of new
 sensual semantics.

                                                                 16’ / colour

                                                                 Original title: LACERATE
                                                                 Prod: Fondazione In Between Art Film (IT)
                                                                 Completed: October 2020
                                                                 Language: no dialogue

                                                                 Janis Rafa:
                                                                 a.o. KALA AZAR (2020, feature) Festivals
                                                                 and Awards: a.o. KNF Award -IFF Rotter-
                                                                 dam, New Directors/New Films MoMA,
                                                                 Best Cinematography-Black Canvas CFF,
                                                                 Special Mention - Hong Kong IFF, Thessa-
                                                                 loniki IFF, GRAVEDIGGERS (2014, medium
                            Lacerate, courtesy the artist and    length), REQUIEM TO A FATAL INCIDENT (2015,
                                                                 experimental short).
 LACERATE                   Fondazione In Between Art Film

                                                                 Fondazione In Between Art Film
 Janis Rafa                                                      Ph: +39 33 3428 5531
                                                                 info@inbetweenartfilm.com
 Inspired by the iconography of biblical paintings               www.inbetweenartfilm.com
 and Flemish still-lifes, LACERATE reflects on the
                                                                 Distributor: EYE Experimental
 subject of domestic and gender violence by por-                 Ph: +31 20 589 1446
 traying the extreme decision of a woman who                     experimental@eyefilm.nl
                                                                 www.international.eyefilm.nl
 turns from victim into executioner.
 * The work was commissioned and produced by Fondazione
   In Between Art Film as part of the project 'Mascarilla 19 -
   Codes of Domestic Violence'.
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                                                      8’ / colour

                                                      Original title: LOST ON ARRIVAL
                                                      Prod: PolakVanBekkum
                                                      Completed: 2020
                                                      Language: Dutch

                                                      Esther Polak, Ivar van Bekkum:
                                                      a.o. THE RIDE (2019, experimental short)
                                                      Festivals: a.o. Int Documentary FF Amster-
                                                      dam, Visions du Reél Nyon, A COLLISION OF
                                                      SORTS (2017, short doc), ONCE WE GET
                                                      THERE (2016, TV doc), TT BOY (2013, short
                                                      doc).

                                                      PolakVanBekkum
LOST ON ARRIVAL                                       Ph: +31 6 4469 2524 / +31 6 1626 6385
                                                      contact@polakvanbekkum.nl
PolakVanBekkum                                        www.polakvanbekkum.nl

                                                      Distributor: EYE Experimental
After retiring, a man wants to return to the Carib-   Ph: +31 20 589 1446
bean island where he once lived. But advancing        experimental@eyefilm.nl
                                                      www.international.eyefilm.nl
dementia ruins his plans. He moves there but
never really arrives.

                                                      5’ / colour

                                                      Original title: P-9830
                                                      Prod: Zinc Garden - Michiel van Bakel
                                                      Completed: August 2020
                                                      Language: no dialogue

                                                      Michiel van Bakel:
                                                      All short experimental: a.o. RE-SCULPTED IN
                                                      TIME: SANATORIUM ZONNESTRAAL (2020),
                                                      HOURS OF GLASS (2019) Festivals: a.o.: Int
                                                      Documentary FF Amsterdam, OBERHAUSEN
                                                      KURZFILMTAGE, FOREST PATHS -FORGET
                                                      HEIDEGGER (2018) Festivals: a.o. Karlovy
                                                      Vary FF.

P-9830                                                Zinc Garden
                                                      Ph: +31 10 425 9772
Michiel van Bakel                                     info@michielvanbakel.nl
                                                      www.michielvanbakel.nl
Playing with elastic time in a compelling techno-     Distributor: LIMA
logical landscape.                                    theuszwakhals@li-ma.nl
                                                      www.li-ma.nl
40   EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

                                                        22’ / colour

                                                        Original title: REMEMBERING THE NIGHTS IN
                                                        SAFE HAVEN
                                                        Prod: Iztokk - Iztok Klančar
                                                        Completed: November 2020
                                                        Language: English, Portuguese, Ukrainian

                                                        Iztok Klančar:
                                                        a.o. DESCENT (2020, short), RAPTURE (2019,
                                                        short), SAFE PLACE (2017, short), HEALING
                                                        THE FEELING (2016, short).

                                                        Iztokk
 REMEMBERING THE                                        Ph: +31 6 1353 6301
                                                        info@iztokk.com
 NIGHTS IN SAFE HAVEN                        LGBT
                                                   IQ   www.iztokk.com
 Iztok Klančar                                          Distributor: EYE Experimental
                                                        Ph: +31 20 589 1446
                                                        experimental@eyefilm.nl
 A drag performer rendez-vous with their many           www.international.eyefilm.nl
 personalities during the after-hours. A man is
 taken over by his surrogate lover, made of tex-
 tile. Two brothers dance in an empty nightclub.

                                                        9’ / colour

                                                        Original title: DEAMBULAR
                                                        Prod: Parquee
                                                        Completed: December 2020
                                                        Language: Spanish, Dutch, French

                                                        Pilar Falco:
                                                        LUCY (2019, short), GAM (2018, short).

                                                        Parquee
                                                        Ph: +31 6 3339 9356
                                                        labancamanque@gmail.com

                                                        Distributor: EYE Experimental
                                                        Ph: +31 20 589 1446
 WANDER AROUND                                          experimental@eyefilm.nl
                                                        www.international.eyefilm.nl
 Pilar Falco

 A space-time traveler traverses dimensions of
 matter and energy, crossing parallel, unique
 realities. A dream trip through her memories,
 nightmares and fantasies. Fantasy or reality?
 Nothing is static, nothing is permanent. Or is it?
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                                                      20’ / colour

                                                      Original title: YORISHIRO
                                                      Prod: Charlotte Dumas
                                                      Sc: Charlotte Dumas & Jolein Laarman
                                                      Completed: 2020
                                                      Language: no dialogue

                                                      Charlotte Dumas:
                                                      All shorts: SHIO (2018), WORK HORSE (2015)
                                                      Festivals: a.o. Int Documentary FF Amster-
                                                      dam, THE WIDEST PRAIRIES (2013), ANIMA
                                                      (2012) ) Festivals: a.o. Int Documentary FF
                                                      Amsterdam.

                                                      Distributor: EYE Experimental
YORISHIRO                                             Ph: +31 20 589 1446
                                                      experimental@eyefilm.nl
Charlotte Dumas                                       www.international.eyefilm.nl

A little girl in a purplish-gray horse suit travels
through urban Japanese landscapes to a re-
mote island where she finds kinship with the
horses, subtly restoring the historical bond be-
tween animal and mankind.
Supported a.o.:
            Monos (2019)
           Lyrebird (2019)
       Killing Eve II (2019)
           Undone (2019)
         Dirty God (2019)
     The Goldfinch (2019)
  Heirs of the Night (2019)
  A Land Imagined (2018)
Stupid Young Heart (2018)
           Dunkirk (2017)
           Sense8 (2017)
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