SHORTFILM CATALOGUE 2018-2022
FUNDING PROGRAMS:
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INDEX 2018
Shorts Lab Sovereign
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Guido Franken
The Road of Repentance
5
guido@cinesud.nl
What You and I Share with the Salmon
5
Wild
6
Contact Director
Program manager
Anna Demianenko anna@cinesud.nl
Project coordinator
Marie Lormeau events@cinesud.nl
Pitch Genekt
6
Wei
7
Extra At Midnight Plays a Dance-Tune
7
Fucking Cola
8
Promise
8
Funkele
23
Happy Healing
24
Pitch Husom
2019
24
Extra All That Could Be
Shorts Lab
25
Henk van der Linden:
A Mutual Understanding
11
Pionier van de kinderfilm
25
Convoi Exceptionnel
12
Mother Tongue
26
Mardi Night
12
Wall #4
26
Quarantaine Film Stories
27
Pitch Before Bedtime
13
Bléh
13
Crossing The Blue
14
Nesting
14
Shorts Lab
Night Call
15
Amy & May
29
Nova
15
Blue
29
Woodland Cemetery
16
Blue Rain
30
Zwart
16
Mama & Ik
30
Patched
31
Peter in Vastelaoves-lockdown
31
Extra A Stranger from the Past
17
De Nul
17
2021
Elf
18
Pitch
Hideout
18
Als Een Schaduw Bleef Je Mij Bewaard
32
Kindermenu
19
Le Trajet
32
The Red Popessa
19
The Ballet of Service
20
Extra
Wine
20
I. Am. Motherland
33
Gelukszoeker(tje)s
33
2020 Shorts Lab Days of Spring
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Entgen Luyten’s Executioner
23
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SOVEREIGN
Original Title
Soeverein
Director
Remy Kooi
Script
Remy Kooi
Genre
Live Action Tragicomedy
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2020
Logline Ger, a lonely Limburgian customs officer, protects his small country bureaucratically until he’s confronted with a persistent stranger. Filmography Director Kalinka (2017), Mischa (2014) Festival Selections Euregion Film Festival 2020 Producer Sander Pleijsier Production company Seizure Productions www.seizureproductions.com Submedia www.submedia.nl
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AWARD WINNING
THEROADOF REPENTANCE
WHATYOUAND ISHAREWITH THESALMON
Original Title
Tot Inkeer
Original Title
De Zalm en Jij
Director
Vincent Konings
Director
Raynor Arkenbout
Script
Martijn Daamen
Script
Raynor Arkenbout
Genre
Live Action Drama
Genre
Live Action Comedy
Language
French
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2020
Release Year
2019
Logline In the 12th Century town of Houthem,
Logline A young man reflects on all the
a Knight named Gerlachus starts a journey
pivotal moments of his sexual development
of repentance after a crisis within his family.
which brought him to where he is today: by his wife’s side as she is about to give
Filmography Director
birth to their first child.
Such a Perfect Day (2017), Crossroads (2016) Festival Selections Imagine Film Festival 2020
Filmography Director
Producer Bas Geelen, Yorn Heijnen
Spangas (2018-2020), Run Free (2016)
Production company
Festival Selections Kadoma International Film
Kingswood Filmproductions
Festival 2020, Newport Beach Film Festival 2019,
www.kingswoodfilms.nl
Leuven International Film Festival 2019
YornHeijnen Films
Producer Raynor Arkenbout,
Everstory Productions (co-production)
Maarten Van Doornmalen
www.everstory.be
Production company Raynor Arkenbout Films
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GENEKT
WILD
PITCH
Original Title
Genekt
Original Title
Wild
Director
Larry Erens
Director
Jan Verdijk
Script
Maurizio Ciranni, Gil Vanroy,
Script
Jan Verdijk
Ulrike Venken
Genre
Live Action Thriller
Genre
Live Action Crime comedy
Language
Dutch
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2019
Release Year
2018
Logline An idyllic family holiday quickly
Logline When two drug couriers have to pick
descends into a hellish nightmare.
up a teddy bear filled with drugs, everything goes wrong when a little girl accidentally
Filmography Director
picks up the stuffed animal first and brings
Pantser (2021), A Stranger from the Past (2020)
it with her.
Festival Selections Sitges Film Festival 2019, Imagine Film Festival 2019, Nederlands Film
Filmography Director First short
Festival 2019
Festival Selections SHIFT Film Festival 2018
Producer Guusje van Deuren, Rianne Poodt,
Producer Maurizio Ciranni, Christian Vervaet
Harmen Kreulen
Production company LUCA School of Arts
Production company The Rogues therogues.nl
www.luca-arts.be
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AWARD WINNING
AWARD WINNING
WEI
ATMIDNIGHT PLAYSA DANCE-TUNE
PITCH
EXTRA
Original Title
Wei
Director
Ruud Lenssen
Script
Ruud Lenssen
Original Title
At Midnight Plays a Dance-Tune
Genre
Documentary
Director
Roy Seerden
Language
Dutch
Script
Roy Seerden
Release Year
2019
Genre
Documentary
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2018
Logline What happens when director Ruud Lenssen’s father is told he suffers from dementia? While Jac clings to his idyllic
Logline When the filmmaker’s mother dies,
meadow, mother Ria struggles with her role
his life transforms into a mix of energy,
as a caregiver. In the meantime, the inevita-
grief and detachment. At the same time,
ble farewell is closing in.
he can’t help thinking of Antoine, the strange neighbor from his youth who was eventually
Filmography Director De Zes van Zaerum (2019)
thrown out of his home.
De Mythe van het Meer (2019) Festival Selections IDFA 2019, Filmfestival
Filmography Director First short
Kitzbühel 2020, Kasseler Dokfest 2020, Nederlands
Festival Selections IDFA 2019, Nederlands Film
Film Festival 2020
Festival 2019, Limburg Film Festival 2020
Producer Ruud Lenssen
Producer Felix Voogt
Production company
Production company Netherlands Film Academy
Ruud Lenssen Documentaires www.ruudlenssen.nl
www.filmacademie.ahk.nl
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AWARD WINNING
FUCKINGCOLAEXTRA
PROMISE
Original Title
Fucking Cola
Director
Sophie van de Pol
Script
Sophie van de Pol
Original Title
Belofte
Genre
Live Action Drama
Director
Guido Coppis
Language
Dutch
Script
Guido Coppis
Release Year
2018
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2018
Logline When stuttering Stef (17) decides
EXTRA
to tell his grandmother about his studies at her birthday party, his family stops him from
Logline A brother and sister made a promise
speaking, as they always do. But this time
that has unexpected consequences…
Stef refuses to remain silent. Filmography Director Filmography Director
Before Bedtime (2020), Stille Storme (2018)
We War (2017), Before you hit the ground (2014)
Festival Selections
Festival Selections CineKid 2018, Nederlands
Rotterdams Open Doek Film Festival 2019,
Film Festival 2018, Brussels Short Film Festival
Euregion Film Festival 2019
2019, Inclus Film Festival 2019
Producer Paul Ruven
Producer Marc Bary, Steven Rubinstein Malamud
Production company Talent United Films & TV
Production company IJswater Films www.ijswater.nl
www.talentunitedfilm.tv
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SHORTS LAB During an annual program of the Shorts Lab, new filmmakers follow tailored coaching sessions throughout the year and while
PITCHING FORUM
developing and shooting their short film,
CineSud encourages new filmmakers
are guided through every step of production
and industry professionals by offering
from scriptwriting to distribution. New film-
co-financing opportunities. With the Pitching
makers who have done no more than three
Forum, promising filmmaker’s projects get
(professional) films can apply for the program
an extra boost, by receiving a production
and develop their projects regardless of genre
grant (average of €2,000) and the possibility
or format. The applicants need to be based
of tailored coaching sessions. The selected
in the Netherlands or Flanders. Together
participants also participate in the pitch
with the tailored coaching sessions, the
training prior to the Forum, and learn
selected projects receive funding for the
about the tools to sell their projects
production of their short film.
to our organization or to others.
For more information please check
For more information please check
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bit.ly/cinesudpitchingforum
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DIRECTOR’S VILLAGE The Director’s Village is a 4-day on-site European residence training program to enhance and develop the skills of directorswriters and help them prepare their next (short film) project. During group sessions on the script development, director’s vision
Cinesud Short Film Catalogue 2018-2022
TALENTS TOCANNES
and directing actors, participants work together
Since 2018, CineSud has offered a select
with coaches and each other to bring their
group of new makers a beautiful and unique
project further. The participants of the
package of activities within the Short Film
Director’s Village are directors-writers who
Corner during the Cannes Film Festival. The
are working on their new short film. In order to
aim of the Talents to Cannes program is to
be eligible for the submission, the director-
allow makers to expand their network during
writer needs to have already directed one
one of the most attended festivals in Europe,
short film. The participants will be selected
follow workshops, and present their films to
by Screen Talent Europe Network partners.
an international (industry) audience.
For more information please check
For more information please check
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bit.ly/cinesudtalentstocannes
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AMUTUAL UNDERSTANDING Original Title
A Mutual Understanding
Director
Abigail Prade
Script
Abigail Prade
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
English & Vietnamese
Release Year
2021
Logline A Vietnamese woman enters a marriage of convenience with a disabled American war veteran and struggles to balance her new life with her personal desires. Filmography Director Future Perfect (2017), Paul Chang: Nature Quest (2017) Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival 2021, SHIFT Film Festival 2021 Producer Paul Oscar Kanter, Ibo Karatay Production company Alchemic Film www.alchemicfilm.com Co-produced with ZeroPoint MK www.zeropointmk.com & Rinkel Film www.rinkelfilm.com
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CONVOI EXCEPTIONNEL
MARDINIGHT Original Title
Asnacht
Original Title
Convoi Exceptionnel
Director
Jeroen Mourmans
Director
Genio de Groot
Script
Jeroen Mourmans
Script
Mark van Seggelen
Genre
Live Action Drama
Genre
Live Action Comedy Drama
Language
Dutch
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2020
Release Year
2019 Logline When Marcel finds himself in a state
Logline “I don’t have much longer to live, son.”
of loneliness right after the festivities of
In this alternately endearing and absurdist
Carnival in Maastricht have ended, he decides
sketch, a bachelor desperately tries to fulfill
to get on a night bus that’s packed to prolong
his mother’s last wish: to become a grandma.
the return to his empty everyday existence.
Filmography Director First short
Filmography Director
Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival
All There Is (2015), Verkapt (2013)
2019, Filmfest Dresden 2019, Limburg Film
Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival
Festival 2020
2020, Limburg Film Festival 2021
Producer Anna Demianenko
Producer Kenny Curfs, Remy Kooi,
Production company La Gata Productions
Sander Pleijsier, Lisanna Weston
www.lagataproductions.nl
Production company Stichting Lourdan
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AWARD WINNING
BEFORE BEDTIME
PITCH
BLÉH
Original Title
Voor het Slapen Gaan
Director
Guido Coppis
Script
Guido Coppis
Genre
Live Action Drama
Original Title
Bléh
Language
Dutch
Director
Tim Alards
Release Year
2020
Script
Pepijn van Essen, Tim Alards
PITCH
Genre
Animation
Logline For twelve-year-old Duco, the minutes
Language
Dutch
right before going to sleep are the worst
Release Year
2022
moment of the day. Only one way seems to remain to permanently put an end to this.
Logline In the eyes of an imaginative preschooler, telephone users are perceived
Filmography Director
as zombies.
Belofte (2018), Stille Storm (2018) Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival,
Filmography Director First film
Nederlands Film Festival
Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2022
Producer Paul Ruven, Marian Batavier
Producer Tim Alards, Pepijn van Essen
Production company Talent United Films & TV
Production company Digital Donkey
www.talentunitedfilm.tv
www.digitaldonkey.nl
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AWARD WINNING
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NESTING CROSSING THEBLUE
PITCH
Original Title
Nesting
Director
Alex Verhaest
Script
Alex Verhaest
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2019
PITCH
Original Title
Crossing The Blue
Director
Victoria Aleksanyan
Script
Victoria Aleksanyan
Logline A pregnant woman ignores her sister’s
Genre
Live Action Drama
pleading calls to visit their dying mother. She
Language
English, Armenian
hides out in a filthy hotel, smoking out her
Release Year
2022
troubles with cigarettes and drowning them with alcohol. When the hotel staff begins to
Logline A woman attempts suicide on board
reflect on the trauma she is fleeing from, she
of a plane while being deported to her home
realizes she will have to confront her past.
country. Filmography Director First Short Filmography Director Don’t Think About It (2016),
Festival Selections Leuven International Short
Man of God (2020)
Film Festival 2019, Breedbeeld 2019
Producer Victoria Aleksanyan, Armine Anda
Producer Melissa Dhondt
Production company Hoshkee Film
Production company In Hinterland
www.hoshkee.com
www.inhinterland.com
AWARD WINNING
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AWARD WINNING
NIGHTCALL
PITCH
NOVA
PITCH
Original Title
Nova
Original Title
Night Call
Director
Luca Meisters
Director
Tim Sagl
Script
Luca Meisters
Script
Tim Sagl
Genre
Live Action Drama
Genre
Live Action Horror
Language
Dutch
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2020
Release Year
2020 Logline When Nova (15) brings her little sister
Logline A phone sex operator is tormented
to soccer practice, she exchanges a glance
by the vengeful spirit of her former lover
with the new trainer Nadia which results in a
who confronts her with the past. To free
feeling she can’t seem to put her finger on.
herself from the claustrophobic nightmare she must overcome her deepest fears.
Filmography Director Elf (2019) Festival Selections Oberhausen International
Filmography Director The Hangman (2018)
Short Film Festival 2021, Mo & Friese Kinder, Kurz
Festival Selections Leuven International Short
Film Festival 2021, Palm Springs Shortfest 2021,
Film Festival 2021, Limburg Film Festival 2021,
Limburg Film Festival 2022
SHIFT Film Festival 2021 Producer Tim Sagl
Producer Marc Bary, Nicky Onstenk
Production company LUCA School of Arts
Production company IJswater Films
www.luca-arts.be
www.ijswater.nl
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AWARD WINNING
AWARD WINNING
WOODLAND CEMETERY
PITCH
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ZWART
PITCH
Original Title
Woodland Cemetery
Director
Niels Bourgonje
Original Title
Zwart
Script
Niels Bourgonje
Director
Tommie Geraedts
Genre
Live Action Horror
Script
Arthur Menko, Roy van Kessel
Language
Dutch
Genre
Live Action Thriller
Release Year
2019
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2019
Logline While on assignment a photographer sees an old woman placing a lantern
Logline When the slightly naive Ronnie gives
on a grave. When the photographer shoots
up a tad too much personal information
a picture of this very private moment, she
during verification questions on his compu-
soon finds out that this haunting image is
ter, he receives a fully customized invitation
more haunted than she bargained for.
from his OS in return.
Filmography Director Swipe (2019), Brug (2017)
Filmography Director Maelstrom (2013)
Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival
Festival Selections Festival de Sci-Fi, Terror
2020, 6ix Screams International Horror Film
y Fantasía 2019, Interfilm Berlin 2020, Bristol
Festival 2021, Genre Celebration Festival 2021,
Independent Film Festival 2020, Los Angeles
Clean Shorts Film Festival 2021, Euregion Film
Crime and Horror Film Festival 2020,
Festival 2022
Independent Shorts Awards 2020
Producer Niels Bourgonje
Producer Liene Berina, Jules Tervoort, Sacha Gertsik
Production company Conundrum Film
Production company House of Panic thepanics.com
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ASTRANGER FROMTHE PAST
EXTRA
DENUL
Original Title
A Stranger from the Past
Director
Jan Verdijk
Original Title
De Nul
Script
Jan Verdijk
Director
Joris Weerts
Genre
Live Action Horror
Script
Joris Weerts
Language
Dutch
Genre
Live Action Drama
Release Year
2020
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2020
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Logline Unsuspecting, a car mechanic opens up a hood, but what he finds under
Logline After his mother’s death, Sam
there scares the life out of him.
reaches out to his estranged father who has become a self-declared sect leader.
Filmography Director Wild (2019), Pantser (2021) Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival
Filmography Director Molotov Man (2016),
2020, San Sebastian HFFF 2020, Imagine Film
AMANI – VR (2021)
Festival 2020, Imagine Film Festival 2020
Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival 2020
Producer Daniel Dow, Jolien Snyers
Producer Daniel Dow
Production company DPPLR www.dpplr.nl
Production company DPPLR www.dpplr.nl
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AWARD WINNING
AWARD WINNING
WHENBIRDS FLYLOW
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HIDEOUT EXTRA
Original Title
Схрон
Director
Oksana Voitenko
Script
Oksana Voitenko,
EXTRA
Anatolii Sobolevskyi
Original Title
Elf
Genre
Live Action War Drama
Director
Luca Meisters
Language
Ukrainian
Script
Luca Meisters
Release Year
2020
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Logline Ukraine, 1946. Orest, commander of an
Release Year
2019
insurgent squad, is in a hideout together with his pregnant wife Eva and several fighters.
Logline Elf (11) lives with her mother and her
The NKVD surrounds the insurgents. The
little brother in a house alongside the water.
captain of the commissariat squad gives
After the disappearance of her father, Elf
Orest a choice: he either gives Eva out or
takes care of her brother while her mother
accepts an unequal fight.
hides away upstairs. Slowly, Elf wanders away in her mind, where the urge to meet
Filmography Director
her father grows stronger day by day.
Lullaby (2013), Dinner for Two (2015) Festival Selections Molodist International
Filmography Director Nova (2019)
Film Festival 2020, Ukrainian Film Academy
Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival
Awards 2021
2019, SHIFT Film Festival 2019, Limburg Film
Producer Kateryna Banakh, Yuriy Minzyanov
Festival 2020, Palm Springs Short Fest 2020
Production company Ukrainian State Film Agency
Producer Luca Meisters
www.usfa.gov.ua
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THEBALLET OFSERVICE KINDERMENU
EXTRA
Original Title
The Ballet of Service
Director
Marlies Smeenge
Script
Marlies Smeenge
EXTRA
Original Title
Kindermenu
Genre
Documentary
Director
Sem Wigman
Language
English
Script
Annet Bremmen
Release Year
2020
Genre
Live Action Family Drama
Language
Dutch
Logline At the International Butler Academy
Release Year
2021
in Limburg, people from all over the world are trained to become a butler for the elite.
Logline Lambert, a lonely widower, receives
Under a lot of pressure, they learn the old
an unexpected phone call from his daughter
ways of butlering. An observational and
s shocked to no end. Claire, with whom he
absurdist documentary that gives us a
has hardly any contact, wants to bring her
glimpse of the perfectionist world of the
two young children to him. She goes with
butler profession.
her new love to Paris for a long weekend. At first Lambert does not know what to
Filmography Director Traag naar de Hemel
do with his grandchildren, whom he hardly
(short documentary, 2019), Hamburger (2017)
knows. Then he thinks of something that
Festival Selections DOKter Moscow Documentary
will make them want to stay with him.
Film Festival 2021, Mecal Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival 2021, Short
Filmography Director First film
Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2021, Limburg Film
Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2021
Festival 2022
Producer Hendrik Jan Soet, Janou van Ratingen,
Producer Dobber Bolhuis
Sem Wigman
Production company Netherlands Film Academy
Production company Mockus www.mockus.nl
www.filmacademie.ahk.nl
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WINE THERED POPESSA
EXTRA
Original Title
Wine
Director
Anna Demianenko
Script
Anna Demianenko,
Nichole Jachmann
Genre
Live Action Drama
EXTRA
Original Title
The Red Popessa
Language
Dutch
Director
Koen Verheijden
Release Year
2021
Script
Koen Verheijden
Genre
Live Action Historical Drama
Logline After 10 years of not seeing her family,
Language
Italian
Sanne is forced to spend a night at their hostile
Release Year
2019
house, while waiting for her father to wake up after a risky surgery. Having no desire for
Logline A socialists gives all her dreams and
reconciliation, Sanne fears her thoughts that
love to another revolutionary but he, thanks
with the death of her father, she can never
to her encouragement and knowledge, beco-
be a part of this family again.
mes a facsist dictator. Filmography Director Filmography Director Bitterzoet (2016)
Keep a Fight (2015), Caged (2016)
Festival Selections Limburg Theater Festival 2019,
Producer Anna Demianenko, Yorn Heijnen
Cultura Nova 2019, Limburg Film Festival 2020
Production company La Gata Productions
Producer Koen Verheijden, Leonie Schuitema
www.lagataproductions.nl
Production company Koen Verheijden
YornHeijnen Films
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EUREGION FILM FESTIVAL
SHIFTFILM FESTIVAL
The main focus of the Euregion Film Festival
SHIFT Film Festival offers a dynamic and
is to highlight films from the Netherlands,
high quality festival experience with films
Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg,
from all over the world, inspiring workshops,
particularly in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine area.
lectures and more. It gives a podium to
It offers relevant networking possibilities for
upcoming talents to present their works,
the film industry across those borders, by
organizing special networking events, meet
conducting workshops and masterclasses,
& greets and workshops, so that they can shift
networking events, and organizing the
their point of view, share their experiences,
Euregion short film competitions and
interact with the audience and create
special screenings.
new projects.
bit.ly/euregionfilmfestival
bit.ly/shiftfilmfestival
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DAYSOF SPRING
Original Title
Lentedagen
Director
Arianne Hinz
Script
Arianne Hinz
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2022
Logline 11-year-old Roos invites best friend Ella to join her enigmatic group of friends in their mysterious games. But there is a catch. As the stakes get higher, Roos must ask herself whether she can accept the group’s increasingly disturbing demands. Filmography Director Ich bin nicht mutig (2012) Producer Ibo Karatay, Reinier Selen Production company Alchemic Film, Rinkel Film www.rinkelfilm.com
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AWARD WINNING
ENTGEN LUYTEN’S EXECUTIONER
FUNKELE Original Title
Funkele
Director
Nichole Jachmann
Original Title
De Beul van Entgen Luyten
Script
Nichole Jachmann
Director
Gideon van Eeden
Genre
Live Action Drama
Script
Gideon van Eeden
Language
Dutch
Genre
Live Action Historical Drama
Release Year
2021
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2022
Logline Fifteen-year-old Robin and her best friend Merel share everything and
Logline Limburg 1674. An authority fearing
are inseparable. Except, that is, for Robin’s
executioner tortures a suspected witch to
budding sexuality and her curiosity, something
force a confession. But what is his duty
she is ashamed of, and which she keeps
when he realizes she’s innocent?
anxiously hidden.
Filmography Director
Filmography Director Serving in Silence (2011),
Bijltjesdag (2017), God Glitch (2019)
Schaduwjager (2018)
Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2022
Festival Selections Nederlands Film Festival 2021,
Producer Gideon van Eeden, Dave Damon,
SHIFT Film Festival 2021, Berlinale Generation
Martijn Daamen
2022, Limburg Film Festival 2022
Production company Infocus Producties
Producer Rogier Kramer
www.infocusproducties.nl
Production company Dutch Mountain Film
Heynde & Van Verre Producties martijndaamen.nl
www.dutchmountainfilm.nl
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HAPPY HEALING Original Title
Happy Healing
Director
Serve Hermans
Script
Randy Oost
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2021
HUSOM
PITCH
Logline Koen Claassens (44), is a happy real
Original Title
Husom
estate agent who shares his life with his
Director
Mandula van den Berg
wife Fransien (40) and their child Roy (8).
& Job van Aken
When Koen pays a visit to his house doctor
Script
Mandula & Goya van den Berg
for routine check up, the doctor makes a
Genre
Live Action Drama
disturbing discovery. Koen is not happy.
Language
Dutch, Hungarian
Koen resists, but the technical equipment of
Release Year
2022
the doctor is relentless. He can simply tell by the data from the scanner and ‘the numbers
Logline Húsom is a short film about an old
tell the tale’. Koen has some serious work to
Hungarian woman who spends her days in
do. Will he succeed in achieving the perfect
solitude. Her daily telephone conversations
score for happiness?
make this life bearable, even though these calls turn out to be part of a paid social
Filmography Director (R)Evolutie (2021)
service.
Producer Nadine Bemelmans, Floor Kooi, Elbe Stevens Production company Elbe Stevens Films
Filmography Director A Boy Named Freedom (2021)
www.elbestevens.nl
Producer Sam Peetz
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ALLTHAT COULDBE
EXTRA
HENKVAN DERLINDEN: PIONIERVANDE KINDERFILM EXTRA
Original Title
Alles wat kan zijn
Original Title
Henk van der Linden:
Director
Sam van Zoest
pionier van de kinderfilm
Script
Sam van Zoest
Director
Olaf Koelewijn
Genre
Live Action Comedy
Script
Olaf Koelewijn
Language
Dutch
Genre
Documentary
Release Year
2021
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2021
Logline An introverted millennial (Jorryt) goes on vacation with his sister’s artist
Logline A documentary about the life and
group where he is challenged to push his
career of Henk van der Linden, pioneer of
boundaries. Jorryt soon starts to question
Dutch children’s film.
whether he can hold his own against the manifestations of colours, cries, sexual
Filmography Director De Videotheek, terugspoelen
gestures and creative excesses.
naar het begin (2019), ALS alles anders wordt (2021) Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2021,
Filmography Director De Eeuw van Mijn Opa (2020),
Film By The Sea 2021
De Vrouw Die Bang Was Om Te Verdwijnen (2020)
Producer Olaf Koelewijn
Producer Sam van Zoest, Kathlyn Wuyts
Production company Olaf Koelewijn Audiovisuele
Production company www.kathlynwuyts.com
Communicatie www.olafkoelewijn.nl
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AWARD WINNING
AWARD WINNING
MOTHER TONGUE
WALL#4
EXTRA
EXTRA
Original Title
Wall #4
Original Title
Sjeemte
Director
Lucas Camps
Director
Floris Ramaekers
Script
Lucas Camps
Script
Floris Ramaekers
Genre
Live Action Comedy Horror
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2021
Release Year
2021 Logline When a cinema audience starts
Logline A benefits claim appointment spins
mocking the film they’re watching, the events
out of control when Candide (23) borrows
in the theater take an unexpected turn.
her sister’s baby and pretends that it’s her own child.
Filmography Director Geen Hond in Amsterdam (2020), Sprokkelhout (2016)
Filmography Director Sleeping Dogs (2012)
Festival Selections Oldenburg Film Festival 2021,
Festival Selections Sofia International Film Festival
Interfilm Berlin 2021, Nederlands Film Festival
2021, Raindance Film Festival 2021 , British
2021, Leiden International Film Festival 2021,
Independent Film Festival 2021, Audience Award
Fantastic Fest 2021, Euregion Film Festival 2022
SHIFT Film Festival 2021, Limburg Film Festival 2022
Producer Lucas Camps, Philip Driessen,
Producer Reinier Selen
Yorn Heijnen
Production company Rinkel Film
Production company Lucas Camps Producties
www.rinkelfilm.com
www.lucascamps.nl
27 Barrier, Yorn Heijnen Beachvolley@Home, Dennis de Bakker Binnenste, Teun Grondman CoRNA Flores, Marleen van der Werf Echt, Louka Hoogendijk Elders, Madeleine Homan Groepsimmuniteit, Falcke Penso Het Oudernuurtje, Tamino Parren Het volkstuincomplex, Pelle Nijburg Home Office, Coen Leuven & Marie Lormeau Interior, Sven Peetoom Interlude, Jim Suter Jonge Tak, Kiki Henger Lieve Hemel, Nicky van Exel
QUARANTAINEFILM STORIES
EXTRA
Lost in Lockdown, Paul Grijpman Maan, Edith van den Elzen Masker-19, Bas Opgenoorth Me Time, Hanna Burkhardt Mijmert, Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger & Tim Coenen Monopoly Quarantaine Editie, Max Noorda Office Quarantaine Pranks, Shane Redondo Oma 2020, Sophie Kaars One or Two Shades of Blues, Chris Frieswijk Opa 90, Storm Rechsteiner
Quarantaine Film Stories
Pasta Dilemma, Amir Zaza
Genre
Live Action, Animation
Pauze: Een Creative Lockdown, Onno Dijkman
& Documentary
Quarantaine, Jaap Mees
Language
Dutch, English
Quarantaine, Rozemarijn Elisa Pegt
Release Year
2020
QUARANTAINE2, Vincent Konings
Original Title
Quarantine in a Nutshell - A Blindfold Animation,
Logline A collection of films written in and
Erik van Schaalk
about quarantaine- An artistic response to the
Saturday Night, Loes Janssen
Covid 19 pandemic and the unprecedented
Stop Child Abuse, Jerry Mars
global lockdown resulting from it.
The Window, Anna Berkhof & Carlos Mora Fuentes
COLLECTION
Thuiskomen, Csaba Bogádi Tweezaamheid, Eva van Heijningen & Wilma Ligthart
28 Days, Lies Bruines
Was, Laurens Zautsen
Alleen maar Alleen, Monty & Camilla
Wat nog hetzelfde is, Fleur Bax
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BLUE AMY&MAY
Original Title
Blauw
Director
Nick Marlow
Script
Martijn Daamen
Genre
Live Action Comedy
Original Title
Amy & May
Language
Dutch
Director
Catherina Iosifidis
Release Year
2022
Script
Catherina Iosifidis
Genre
Live Action Coming of
Logline When the curious and imaginative
Age Drama
Tatjana is keeping an eye on her aunt’s
Language
Dutch
tanning salon, a very handsome customer
Release Year
2022
drops by. Spurred on by her whatsapping friend, she does everything in her power
Logline The friendship between two best
to see the man naked.
friends is tested when they meet two French boys at a cave party Filmography Director First Short Filmography Director STER (2019)
Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2022
Producer Fleur Knopperts, Denis Vaslin
Producer Ron Claassens
Production company Volya Film
Production company Studio Witzwart
www.volyafilms.com
www.studiowitzwart.nl
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BLUERAIN
MAMA&IK Original Title
Mama & Ik
Original Title
Blauwe Regen
Director
Kendra Jacobs
Director
Jet Kragt
Script
Kendra Jacobs
Script
Jet Kragt
Genre
Documentary
Genre
Live Action Drama
Language
Dutch
Language
Dutch
Release Year
2022
Release Year
2022 Logline Kendra is a young adopted woman
Logline After giving birth to her stillborn child,
struggling to settle in a culture that does
Saar flees into what could have been her future.
not feel like hers. She goes in search of her
When the safe delusion is overtaken by harsh
origin and identity in order to give a place to
reality, everything becomes unbearable.
her feelings of incompleteness.
Filmography Director First Short
Filmography Director First Short
Producer Jet Kragt
Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2022
Production company Eye Movement Media
Producer Ruud Lenssen
Producties www.eye-movement.nl
Production company
Doscforbrands docsforbrands.com
Ruud Lenssen Documentaires www.ruudlenssen.nl
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PETERIN VASTELAOVESLOCKDOWN Original Title
Peter in
Vastelaoves-lockdown
Director
Kim de Bis
Script
Kim de Bis
Genre
Documentary
Original Title
Schaamhaar
Language
Dutch
Director
Wibout Warnaar
Release Year
2022
Script
Wibout Warnaar
PATCHED Genre
Live Action Comedy
Logline How does an enthusiastic carnival
Language
Dutch
float builder from Tegel manage to manifest
Release Year
2022
himself in spite of the corona crisis? Can he and his wife become members of
Logline The life of a balding man in his
a new float building group? Will they fulfill
thirties has improved significantly since
their dreams?
he started wearing a wig, but hiding his baldness from his new girlfriend brings
Filmography Director Een Nieuwe Limburger (2018)
many challenges.
Festival Selections Limburg Film Festival 2022 Producer Kim de Bis
Filmography Director Barbara (2020)
Production company Kim de Bis Filmcreator
Producer Wibout Warnaar
www.kimdebis.nl
Production company Mosi Movies
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ALSEENSCHADUW BLEEFJEMIJ BEWAARD PITCH
LETRAJET
Original Title
Als Een Schaduw
Bleef Je Mij Bewaard
Director
Luka Kluskens
Original Title
Le Trajet
Script
Luka Kluskens
Director
Marie Lormeau
Genre
Live Action Drama
Script
Marie Lormeau
Language
Dutch
Genre
Live Action Drama
Release Year
2022
Language
French
Release Year
2022
PITCH
Logline While quirky Limburg girl Juul is eager to leave the quiet and boring province,
Logline Nathalie picks up her daughter Julie
her mother expects her to take over the
from the mall where she’s just been caught
family business and thus stay. On her 21st
stealing. Entrapped in the car, the exhausted
birthday, Juul finds herself at an imaginary
single mother and her rebellious but fragile
dinner party in a church ruin, where the
teenage daughter get into an argument which
special guests finally free her of the
soon escalates into a violent altercation.
longing for a lost time. Filmography Director Filmography Director First Short
Les Yeux plus Gros que le Ventre (2020)
Producer Sem Wigman
Producer Marie Lormeau
Production company Mockus www.mockus.nl
Production company Reeled In www.reeledin.nl
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I.AM. MOTHERLAND PITCH
GELUKS ZOEKER (TJE)S
PITCH
Original Title
Gelukszoeker(tje)s
Director
Jamil Makhoul & Moos Pozzo
Script
Jamil Makhoul & Moos Pozzo
Original Title
I. Am. Motherland
Genre
Documentary
Director
Kalkidan Hoex
Language
Dutch
Genre
Experimental
Release Year
2022
Release Year
2021 Logline When director Jamil Makhoul in azc
Logline In this experimental work Kalkidan
Heerlen, became acquainted with Moos Pozzo
Hoex illustrates how she experiences her
of Stichting de Vrolijkheid, he was immediately
mixed identity. Born in Ethiopia and adopted
intrigued by the name of the foundation.
to the Netherlands, living with the feeling
Where is the “happiness” of people who
of being in between two worlds; a third
stay in an AZC? And how do they relate to
world emerges when the first two overlap.
the loaded term “Gelukzoeker” (“happiness
Her third world, a surrealistic place that
seeker”) used in the Dutch discourse to refer
conveys a culture that does not belong
to asylum seekers and refugees?
anywhere, serving as a safe space and coping mechanism for the mental
Filmography Director First Film (Jamik Makhoul),
fractures endured.
Liefde in Procedure (2022, Laura Huygen & Moos Pozzo)
Filmography Director First Film
Producer Moos Pozzo
Festival Selections FASHIONCLASH 2021
Production company Zajal Media
Producer Kalkidan Hoex
Stichting de Vrolijkheid www.vrolijkheid.nl
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