SHIFT Film Festival 2020 | Program booklet

September 11-12 | Online & ECI Roermond

Take this chance to try something stimulative.

Shift Distances!

Find more information on www.CineSud.nl

SHIFT | Festival Program

On September 11-12, 2020 we celebrate the sixth edition of the SHIFT Film Festival and we do so in spite, and maybe especially because, of the crazy times that 2020 has brought us so far.

Date

Time

Language

BOOTCAMP SHORTS LAB MASTERCLASSES Script Development

11-sep

10:00 - 13:00

English

Script Development for Documentary

11-sep

10:00 - 13:00

English

With film production on hold, a closedown of cinemas, financial and funding insecurities and the pressure of the lockdown, it is creativity that thrives and needs a double-boost.

Producing

11-sep

14:00 - 15:30

English

Directing

11-sep

15:40 - 17:10

English

Camera & Composition

12-sep

10:00 - 11:30

English

Editing & Sound

12-sep

11:40 - 13:10

English

This year’s edition of the SHIFT Film Festival will run online, shifting distance and creating a space for all the filmmakers to screen their films in an online cinema and to enhance their filmmaking skills during the Bootcamp Shorts Lab.

Distribution

12-sep

14:00 - 15:30

English

Let us try something new together and stay positive and fresh and eager to learn new things. Let us connect despite our physical distances and prove that creativity and our love of film can shift distances!

SPECIALS Workshop: Understanding Film, Day 1

05-sep

11:00 - 15:00

English

CineTalk with Sonja Wyss

11-sep

20:00 - 21:00

English

Workshop: Understanding Film, Day 2

12-sep

10:00 - 14:00

English

CineTalk with Ben Sombogaart

12-sep

20:00 - 20:45

English

NETWORKING

For tickets and more information: bit.ly/shift20_

Online Lunch & Filmmakers Talk

11-sep

13:15 - 13:45

English

Online Lunch & Filmmakers Talk

12-sep

13:15 - 13:45

English

FILMS Silence of the Fish

SHIFT FILM 2020 FESTIVAL

SHIFT | Film Festival

Short Film Competition 1

11-sep

18:00 - 19:30

English sb

Short Film Competition 2

12-sep

18:00 - 19:30

English sb

Made in Limburg

12-sep

18:00 - 19:30

Dutch

Lillian (2019, Andreas Horvath)

12-sep

20:00 - 22:10

Dutch sb

Farewell Paradise (2020, Sonja Wyss)

12-sep

20:15 - 22:00

Dutch sb

Award Ceremony

12-sep

20:45 - 21:00

English

Tickets: All-access Bootcamp Shorts Lab 2020

14€

SHIFT | The Coaches

Masterclasses

Eva Verweij and Loes Komen are successful with their own production

Script Development

Eric Collins is a writer with over 25 years

company Room for Film. Their films have

of experience as a feature-film screenwriter

been selected for multiple international film

11 September | 10:00-13:00

and script advisor. The film The Lover (1992),

festivals and won several awards such as a

Shape Up Your Idea into a Killer Script with Eric Collins

where he was involved as a screenwriter,

Golden Calf (En Route, 2019) and a Student

was nominated for the Oscar and 6 Césars.

Oscar (Grey is a Colour, 2016).

Script Development for Documentary 11 September | 10:00-13:00

Ruud Lenssen is an independent

Michiel ten Horn had the world

Develop Your Documentary Idea into a Filmable Short

documentary filmmaker, known from films

premier of his successful debut movie

Film Project with Ruud Lenssen

such as Lost in Memories (2019) and

De ontmaagding van Eva van End (2012)

Kathem & Chris (2010). The lessons of his

at the Toronto International Film Festival.

youth manifest themselves in all of his films

The prestigious American film magazine

Producing 11 September | 14:00-15:30

Find Ways to Finance Your Film with Eva Verweij &

through the choice of socially relevant themes.

Variety listed Ten Horn as one of ‘Ten

European directors to watch’.

Where Am I?

SHIFT | Bootcamp Shorts Lab

Loes Komen

11 September | 15:40-17:10

Window

Directing

Brigit Hillenius received a Silver Bear at the Berlinale with her short film GREAT! (2003) which she wrote, co-directed and

Bring Your Vision to the Screen with Michiel ten Horn

Camera & Composition

filmed. Her filmmusical Bolletjes Blues (2006) received 4 Gouden Kalf Nominations

and won 1 Gouden Kalf for Music.

12 September | 10:00-11:30

SHORT FILM COMPETITION:

SHIFTING DISTANCE I 11 September | 18:00 - 19:30 | Online

Jasper Quispel is a Dutch film editor who

Make Your Story Visual with Brigit Hillenius

Register now via bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening1

mainly works in feature film, drama series,

Editing & Sound

documentary and commercials. In 2018 he

Window, Inara Chayamiti,

was nominated for a Golden Calf for Best

Documentary, Experimental, Netherlands, 2020, 13 min.

Editing at the Netherlands Film Festival

A cinematographic window connects five self-isolated

for the movie In Blue (2017).

perspectives of the coronavirus.

12 September | 14:00-15:30

Wouter Jansen is the owner of the

8563, Áron Farkas & Ottó Kinizsi,

Submit to be Selected with Wouter Jansen

sales and festival distribution company

Fiction, Hungary, 2020, 6 min.

Square Eyes. Some of the films premiered

A game can go wrong in many ways.

12 September | 11:40-13:10 Enhance Your Story in the Post with Jasper Quispel

Distribution

at prestigious festivals and won multiple awards over the last few years such as

Where Am I?, Cheng Qiu,

main prizes in Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, and

Animation, Experimental, United Kingdom, 2020, 4 min.

Clermont-Ferrand.

What do you see inside the mist?

Der und die

Cuckoo!

SHIFT | Professionals Jury

Maya de Weerdt (17) is a Dutch student and has been involved with theatre, writing

SHORT FILM COMPETITION:

SHIFTING DISTANCE II

Brigit Hillenius is not only the coach for the

and directing since her childhood years. At

Bootcamp Shorts Lab Masterclass Camera

the moment she is focussing on her career

& Composition, but also a member of the

in the theatre and film world.

SHIFT Film Festival Professional Jury.

Muriel Bujotzek (17) is a German pupil currently participating in a literature course

Jan Pool is an independent film and tv

in which films are being evaluated and ana-

director, writer and producer. The children

lysed and the participants are also actively

12 September | 18:00 - 19:30 | Online

series Checkpoint (2009 - today), on which

creating visual content themselves.

Register now via bit.ly/shiftfilmscreening2

he worked as a director, won several prizes,

STAR, Catherina Iosifidis,

among which are the Prix de Jeunesse and

Nino Valcq (19) studies the course AV-

the Cinekid Award.

specialist. He has the ambition to become

Fiction, Netherlands, 2019, 12 min.

a film director in the future because he loves

Stella does everything to get a solo dance part but

Joris Hoebe is a director who co-founded

she quickly loses touch with reality.

the storytelling agency and production

to create worlds where everything is possible.

company Spektor Storytelling in 2011. LaSilence of the Fish, Hilke Rönnefeldt,

The Woman Who Feared to Vanish, Sam van Zoest,

ter, Joris also founded a film platform ba-

Zoé Stegers (18) is a freshly graduated

Fiction, Iceland, 2019, 19 min.

Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 15 min.

sed on the concept of Cinesud but then for

German pupil who studied Design and Art.

In the Icelandic Fjords a teenager has to fight a battle

Afraid that she will vanish if she isn’t seen by others,

the Northern region - New Noardic Wave.

Zoé is highly interested in different cultures,

against her mother’s depression.

a woman hires a stalker.

therefore her favourite motto is “Art knows

SHIFT | Youth Jury

Der und die, Peter Böving,

Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 5 min.

Experimental, Animation, Germany, 2019, 10 min.

When a mechanic opens the hood of a car he accidentally

A “tête-à-tête” between a Dresden woman and a Martian.

Damiën Joosten (21) is a Dutch Visual

awakens a dark force of nature.

Based on a poem by Ernst Jandl.

Artist with his own company Obscura

The Red Ball, Jussi Rautaniemi,

Room 5, Nihat Seven,

on Film/Cinema/Video Studies from Arcus

Fiction, Finland, 2020, 4 min.

Fiction, United Kingdom, 2020, 12 min.

Campus/Vista College.

A boy is waiting for his father. Something is not right.

A woman has run away from her abusive husband

The world is about to end.

with her 7-year-old son looking for refuge.

Video. He holds an AV-certificate focused

Daniel Feldman (22) is a former British school teacher turned Film Studies under-

Cuckoo!, Jörgen Scholtens,

I See You Now, Tara Gadomski,

graduate. His areas of expertise include

Fiction, Netherlands, 2019, 7 min.

Fiction, United States, 2020, 11 min.

racial representations in cinema, classical

Inside a cuckoo clock lives a lonely man.

Stuck at home during quarantine a religious father

and contemporary, and the forming of

Every hour he is catapulted out of his tiny house.

struggles to connect with his gay daughter.

Hollywood as an industry.

The Red Ball

A Stranger from the Past, Jan Verdijk,

no borders”.

A Stranger from the Past

SHIFT | Films & Specials

SPECIAL SCREENINGS IN ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND

SHIFT | Youth Jury special

SHIFT | Festival Organisation

THANK YOU!

September 12 | 20:00 - 22:10, 20:15 - 22:00

We want to thank you for being part of the sixth edition of the SHIFT Film Festival. Your enthusiasm and support

MADE IN LIMBURG

Lillian, Andreas Horvath,

makes this festival possible even despite the crazy times

Fiction, Austria, 2019, 130 min.

we live in at the moment. We want to express our gratitude

Lillian, an emigrant stranded in New York City,

to all our partners, sponsors, filmmakers and audience

decides to walk back to her native Russia.

for another unforgettable and truly special festival.

Tickets can be bought via bit.ly/SHIFTlillian Price: €9,00

Anna Demianenko | Festival Manager Saskia Lößer | Festival Coordinator

September 12 | 18:00 - 19:00 | ECI Cultuurfabriek

Farewell Paradise, Sonja Wyss,

Roy Lurken | Graphic Design

Tickets can be bought via bit.ly/madeinlimburg20

Documentary, Netherlands, 2020, 93 min.

Mirthe Simoen | Photographer

Price: €7,00

A film about the memories of a broken family.

Guido Franken | Director CineSud

Tickets can be bought via bit.ly/SHIFTfarewell-paradise

Toon Hezemans, Geertje Caris, Sjoerd van Heugten

Price: €9,00

Supervisory Board CineSud

Zo Gezegd, Mark Stevens, Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 8 min.

A film addressing mental health problems.

In Pieces, Nils Hanssen, Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 23 min.

Adam comes face to face with his biggest fear when his love for Eva pushes him to his limits.

The film is screened as an avant-première.

WORKSHOP UNDERSTANDING FILM

Special thanks to ECI Cultuurfabriek for the hosting of the live screenings!

Check www.CineSud.nl for more upcoming events and activities for filmmakers.

5 September, 11:00-15:00; 12 September, 10:00 - 14:00 Waiting Room, Laura Huygen,

Learn How to Watch Films Analytically and Write Your

Documentary, Netherlands, 2019, 11 min.

Own Film Review with Karel Deburchgrave

A portrait of eight people who await their asylum procedure.

Karel Deburchgrave is a film critic and the Schijntijd, Yorn Heijnen,

chairman of the Belgian film magazine Film-

The SHIFT Film Festival and/or program-sections

Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 8 min.

magie. He has been a member of many film

of the festival are made possible by

A spy goes undercover investigating a mysterious

festivals, including Karlovy Vary (2008), Prix

patient in an asylum.

The film is screened as an avant-première.

Italia Torino (2011), Montreal (2012), Berlin

(2014) and Film Fest Washington DC (2015).