Catalogus | CineSud Short Films 2018-2022

SHORTFILM CATALOGUE 2018-2022

FUNDING PROGRAMS:

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CINESUD FUNDING/ LABS& MENTORING/ INDUSTRY EVENTS CineSud is the film hub in the heart of the crossborder region of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. With a focus on new filmmakers and industry professionals, CineSud offers new and established filmmakers unique opportunities to further develop and realize their skills and projects. CineSud offers filmmakers a tailored package of activities in the field of networking, training and financing in such programs as ShortsLab, Feature Lab, Film Talents to Cannes program etc.

Organization CineSud | www.cinesud.nl | info@cinesud.nl

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

22

Entgen Luyten’s Executioner

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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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AWARD WINNING

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

bit.ly/cinesudshortslab

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

bit.ly/cinesuddirectorsvillage

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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AWARD WINNING

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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WOULDYOU LIKETOMAKE YOURFILMIDEA AREALITY? CONTACTUS! CINESUD SCRIPTLAB Annual Lab for the development of first or second feature films.

Developed feature film projects within CineSud ScriptLab:

2019 Karsten de Vreugd The Child of Lov (Netherlands) Mark van Seggelen Across the Channel (Netherlands) Nicole Jachmann The part of the day when you are not here (Netherlands) Tim Sagl

Anna Demianenko

The Final Girl (Netherlands)

Talent & Program manager

Roy van Kessel

anna@cinesud.nl

Echo (Netherlands)

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2020 Lotte & Karlijn Milder Bye Bye Baby (Netherlands) Kees-Jan Mulder Saint Europe (Netherlands) Jeannice Adriaansens It Won’t Be Always Like This (Netherlands) Gijs Veerhoek Son of God (Netherlands) Marleen van der Werf & Misja Pekel The Last Horizon (Netherlands)

2021 Daan Bunnik The Gentlemen’s Society (Netherlands) Tony Schollaert Blood ground (Belgium) Wout Malestein Paradise (Netherlands) Vera Ketelaars & Marc Pötgens Same Same But Different (Netherlands) Henry Disotuar This Place That No Longer Exists (Belgium)

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