SHIFT Film Festival 2022 | Program booklet

September 14-18 | Royal Theater | Heerlen

SHIFT FILM 2022 FESTIVAL Shift your filmmaking skills!

Shift distances!

Find more information on www.CineSud.nl

FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION

bit.ly/Shiftff2022

Director CineSud

Anna Demianenko

Festival Manager

Marie Lormeau

Festival Coordinator

Roger Schoenmakers

Technical Support

Awesta Mahani

PR & Communications

Guido Franken

TICKETS

International Short Film Competition 1 EN-sb 18-sep | 13:30 - 15:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Networking Drinks EN 17-sep | 19:00 - 20:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen Networking Drinks EN 18-sep | 21:30 - 23:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

FILMS Arthur Rambo (Laurent Cantet, 2021) EN-sb 14-sep | 20:00 - 22:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen Short Films: Director’s Village Special EN-sb 15-sep | 16:00 - 18:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Group Session | Directing: Find Your Director’s Vision EN 17-sep | 10:00 - 18:00 | Carbon6 Workshop | Directing: Working with Actors EN 18-sep | 10:00 - 18:00 | Carbon6

WORKSHOPS Pitching Training | Part 1 EN 12-sep | 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Pitching Training | Part 2 EN 14-sep | 10:00 - 12:00 | Online

Award Ceremony EN 18-sep | 20:45 - 21:30 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Short Films: SHIFT Special EN-sb 18-sep | 19:30 - 20:45 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Short Film Competition: Made in Limburg EN-sb 18-sep | 17:30 - 19:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

International Short Film Competition 2 EN-sb 18-sep | 15:30 - 17:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004) EN-sb 17-sep | 20:00 - 22:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Short Films: Ukrainian Focus EN-sb 17-sep | 17:00 - 19:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Limburg Film Pitch EN 18-sep | 11:00 - 11:45 | Royal Theater Heerlen

NETWORKING

Group Session | Writers Room: Script Development EN 16-sep | 10:00 - 18:00 | Carbon6

Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch, 2022) EN-sb 16-sep | 20:00 - 22:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Director’s Workshop EN 17-sep | 14:00 - 17:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

Take this opportunity to discover and learn from international and local makers: watch films from all over the world, and have a chance to discuss them through our Q&A sessions and Filmmakers talks. Broaden your horizons, and master the many intricacies of the filmmaking crafts, through our workshops, hosted by accomplished makers keen on sharing their knowledge, and willing to give the keys needed to apprehend all aspects of filmmaking.

City Tour EN 15-sep | 14:30 - 15:30 | Royal Theater Heerlen

For its eighth edition, the SHIFT Film Festival comes back to a complete physical edition: Film Pitch, Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg, special screenings, networking drinks and workshops to learn all there is to know about the film world: discover international new talents, learn from experienced professionals, get to know each other and exchange.

107 Mothers (Peter Kerekes, 2021) EN-sb 15-sep | 20:00 - 22:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

SHIFT FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Writer’s Workshop EN 17-sep | 10:00 - 13:00 | Royal Theater Heerlen

WELCOME

Kick-off Meeting EN 15-sep | 13:00 - 14:30 | Royal Theater Heerlen

September 14-18 2022

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FESTIVAL PROGRAM

All Access Shorts Pass 30,00€ Per Short Film Screening 6,00€ Feature Films Via bit.ly/FilmhuisDeSpiegel

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SEPTEMBER 18 | 13:30-15:00 | €6

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION I & Q&A

The Train Driver, Christian Wittmoser & Zuniel Kim, documentary, Germany, 6 min In the five-minute animated documentary film “The Train Driver,” an anonymous train driver recounts his experience with suicide on the rails.

Visiting Ben Shemen, Miriam Harris,

Don’t miss the first part of the Short Film Competition

documentary, New Zealand, 16 min

where International films will compete for the following

In 1946, three young Jewish teenagers met at the palestinian

awards Best Film (250€), Special Jury Mention (150€)

Ben Shemen school, after the Holocaust and WWII. Now

and the Audience Award.

in their late eighties they recount the ways in which Ben Shemen offered a healing and soul-nourishing refuge.

Phase, Mykola Zaseev, fiction, Ukraine, 20 min 10-year-old boy Yarik spends the last days of summer

The Peephole, Tiziana Martini, fiction, Italy, 6 min

vacation with his grieving mother in the countryside.

Two women’s eyes, hidden behind the peepholes of their

Playing in the woods, Yarik and his friend see a couple

front doors. They both face the same hallway and see

wandering: Yarik suspects that the woman is strangled

the pain of a drunken man, locked out from his wife’s

by the man. Yarik investigates the possible murder.

house. What happens if one of the two doors opens?

Return, Ghiath Al Mhitawi, fiction, Germany, 16 min

In The Woods, Ilgın Saçan, animation, Türkiye, 2 min

Husam is a Syrian soldier who visits his family on a 24hr

The Woods is a recorded diary of monsters living in an urban

leave. After a long absence, he enjoys the company and

forest. Max, one enthusiastic showrunner monster boy,

food of his mother, but there is a lump in his throat.

takes us on a tour while his best friend P. records everything.

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SEPTEMBER 18 | 15:30 - 17:00 | €6

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION II & Q&A

Cleaner, Edwin Mullane, fiction, Ireland, 15 min Angela is a shy domestic cleaner. Mairead is a house-proud mother alone at home with the children. A friendship soon blooms between the two women. But is this relationship just another work-based transaction?

Shiny New World, Jan van Gorkum, fiction, the Netherlands, 9 min

These are the selected films for the second part of the

Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans

International Short Film Competition. Who do you think

crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While

will take home the awards and prizes? Get ready to vote

shooting a promotion for his business, things quickly get

on your favourite film.

out of hand.

Fanmi, Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers &

Canary, Chrysoula Korovesi & Marios Gampierakis,

Carmine Pierre-Dufour, fiction, Canada, 14 min

animation, Greece, 6 min

Heart-broken following a break-up, Martine receives the

A canary is born in captivity amongst other caged birds.

unexpected visit of her mother, Monique. Engrossed in

A coal miner is experiencing the hardships and risk of

sadness, Martine fails to notice that her mother is

everyday labour. The two of them will meet and form

hiding something.

a special bond.

Prosopagnosia, Steven Fraser,

Broken Record, Marie Seurin & Mathilde Cadrot,

documentary, the United Kingdom, 10 min

fiction, France, 13 min

Prosopagnosia means face-blindness and to understand

Francis, a depressed and nostalgic thirty-year-old, can’t

this neurodiverse behaviour, the contents of a memory

get over his break-up and spends his time listening to an

box are intricately explored.

old French variety song that reminds him of his lost love.

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SEPTEMBER 18 | 17:30 - 19:00 | €6

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

MADE IN LIMBURG & Q&A

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Undergrowth, Tim Ewalts, fiction, Belgium, 16 min Two brothers and their father who live secluded in a forest.

While their father tries to teach them how to become lumberjacks, the two are stuck in an escalating struggle for power.

Funkele, Nicole Jachmann, fiction, the Netherlands, 16 min Fifteen-year-old Robin and her best friend Merel are inseparable and share everything. Except for Robin’s budding sexuality and curiosity, she feels ashamed of this and keeps it anxiously hidden.

Shut, Niels Bourgonje, fiction, the Netherlands, 15 min When Jonas visits his father after a long time, he’s shocked to find him in a confused state. Has his father’s mental state badly deteriorated or is something more sinister going on?

Limburg has so much to offer! In this competition, discover films that are produced in Limburg. The films

Dick, Kiki Henger, fiction, the Netherlands, 7 min

will compete for the Best Euregion Film Award (250€),

When Ben tries to hold his brother back from making

Special Jury Mention (150€) and the Audience Award.

the wrong choices, the opposite happens.

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THE JURY Zorba Huisman (Director, the Netherlands) is a member of the artistic team of Theatergroep Maastricht for the talent development trajectory. In 2021 she directed Lentekus, Zomerkus, Herfstkus and Winterkus; each a series of six short films in sign of the beginning of new seasons. She also has created two documentaries.

Romano Haynes (Actor, The Netherlands) is a film and theatre actor based in Rotterdam. Graduated from Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2019 Romano played a recurring role in the NPO series Dit Zijn Wij from 2019 to 2020. In 2020 he created

SEPTEMBER 17 | 17:00 - 19:00 | €6

SHORT FILMS: UKRAINIAN FOCUS

the VaderSessie session, a “platform voor

Come and watch several Ukrainian short films

vaders in alle vormen” where Romano

to discover, learn and support Ukrainian

focuses on parenting and fatherhood

cinematographic identity.

through his posts, podcasts and videos.

He currently works both for the screen and

The screening will be held free of charge for the Ukrainian

the stages in many productions and series.

refugees who live in the Netherlands. The earnings from ticket sales will be donated to support Ukraine.

Patrick Tass (Director, Belgium) is a Belgian director of Palestinian origin born in Beirut

Forest Song, Andrey Naumenko, animation, Ukraine, 2 min

in 1992. He completed degrees in directing

This film is about what people are focusing on and what

at ALBA (Lebanon) and scriptwriting at

they sometimes miss.

the ULB (Belgium). As a script doctor, he teaches cinema analysis and scriptwriting

Dad’s Sneakers, Olha Zhurba, fiction, Ukraine, 19 min

courses at various Belgian cinema labs.

13-year-old Sasha lives in a boarding school for children

He is currently directing two short films

deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest –

and co-writing a feature-film. In his works,

a family has finally agreed to adopt him. Today he will

Patrick focuses on themes such as

move to America forever - but there’s something that

identities and sexualities.

won’t let him go.

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SEPTEMBER 18 | 17:30 - 19:00 | €6

Krovyanka, Arkasha Nepytaliuk, fiction, Ukraine, 23 min While parents, people of traditional rural values, are

SHORT FILMS: SHIFT SPECIAL

cooking blood sausage for the visit of daughter-in-law,

Come and watch different out of competition films,

Andriy, their son, tries to communicate the fact his

and meet their makers.

fiancee is Jewish.

All That Could Be, Sam van Zoest, The Prince and the Mystery of the Charmed Frog,

fiction, the Netherlands, 17 min

Nataliya Skryabina, animation, Ukraine, 4 min

An introverted millennial goes on vacation with his sister’s

This is an ironic story about the relativity of any

artist group where he is challenged to push his boundaries.

stereotype situation, based upon the folk tale about the Prince and the Frog-Princess.

Wine, Anna Demianenko, fiction, the Netherlands, 25 min After 10 years of not seeing her family, Sanne has to

Mia Donna, Pavlo Ostrikov, fiction, Ukraine, 14 min

spend a night at their house, waiting for her father to wake

The life of forty-six- year-old Oksana changes when

up after a risky surgery. She fears that with the death of

her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year- old boy.

her father, she can never be a part of this family again.

Doctors are powerless and nobody can turn him back.

The Pamphlet, Justin Heyl, fiction, the Netherlands, 17 min Not Today, Khrystyna Syvolap, fiction, Ukraine, 18 min

October 1944. Allied forces are determined to destroy

The old man Lyosha and his lady Christie decided to die

the sea-dikes of the Netherlands. Pamphlets warning the

happily in one day. But Lyosha has to finish something very

citizens of the impending danger fall into the hands of

important first. He does desperate things to implement

two young lovers on a secret rendezvous in the dunes.

his secret plan and convince his woman to delay the day

They rush back to their homes to sound the alarm, but

of their death.

the danger is already too close.

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FEATURE FILMS September 14 | 20:00-22:00 Arthur Rambo, Laurent Cantet, fiction, 2021

September 16 | 20:00-22:00

Who is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the

Casablanca Beats, Nabil Ayouch, fiction, 2022

media can’t get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo,

Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre.

the author of old hate-fuelled messages which are

Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to

dredged up, one day, from social media websites.

free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their

Please note: tickets for these feature films can

passion and express themselves through hip hop culture.

be bought via partner bit.ly/FilmhuisDeSpiegel

Tickets for the Brass Fest Forever feature films can be bought via bit.ly/NieuweNorprogram

September 15 | 20:00-22:00 107 Mothers, Peter Kerekes, fiction, 2021

September 17 | 20:00-22:00

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings

Ray, Taylor Hackford, fiction, 2004

her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s

​​The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and

correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her

blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings

first child, and now she is entering a world populated

in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his

only by women.

meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.

Please note: tickets for these feature films can

Tickets for the Brass Fest Forever feature films can

be bought via partner bit.ly/FilmhuisDeSpiegel

be bought via bit.ly/NieuweNorprogram

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INDUSTRY EVENTS September 12 & 14 | 10:00-12:00

PITCH TRAINING (ONLINE)

Join us and improve your script writing skill! Take your script and project plan to a higher level with our online pitch training.

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SHIFT WORKSHOPS:

SELECTED PARTICIPANTS & PROJECTS Clit’s Complicated, Lisanne Sweere, fiction, the Netherlands

September 17 | 10:00 -13:00

To whom clit may concern.

During our Writers Workshop you will develop your script

CELENE, Julia M. Free, fiction, the Netherlands

and project plan even further with intensive group coaching.

Two (former) lovers, two women in their 70s, meet each

Team up to correct and improve your story, brainstorm

other again after 40 years, on one afternoon on a square

with other participants, and learn from your coach.

in their former village.

September 17 | 14.00 -17:00

Dawn Chorus, Mykola Zasieiev, fiction, Ukraine

SHIFT WRITER’S WORKSHOP

SHIFT DIRECTOR’S WORKSHOP

Is it possible to live without memories?

Enhance your Director’s vision! Learn to affirm your style and find your voice through our Director’s workshop.

Team up to correct and improve your directing skills,

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LIMBURG FILM PITCH

and exchange with the other participants and the coach,

Selected international participants will present their

on the importance of a vision, and what it needs to be

short film ideas and compete for the chance of

made your own.

winning a €2.000 development grant.

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LIMBURG FILM PITCH:

SELECTED PARTICIPANTS & PROJECTS MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS,

To The Moon, Chinh Tran & Juulia Kalavainen, fiction, the United Kingdom In a world where Moon travel has been commercialised, an alienated 20-year-old Vietnamese woman must learn how to connect to the world around her when her far fetched dream of moving to the Moon suddenly becomes possible.

Volodymyr Bakum, fiction, Ukraine Victor is in a midlife crisis. Before his wife’s anniversary,

Uncanny Home, Eric Bitencourt, fiction, Germany

having no money for her gift, he decides to sell his

Uncanny Home is an experimental drama about the

collection of butterflies. But a rooster gets in the way.

night two friends went back home in the virtual world but ended up opening real wounds.

Anatolia 1890, Ilgin Sacan, animation, Türkiye In 1890, a cameraman visited rural Anatolia to record

PAST, Maarten Sleegers, fiction, the Netherlands

daily life. During the shoot, the camera captures

A rich man’s life changes after a homeless man

supernatural incidents. ​​

makes him an unusual proposition.

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THE COACHES DIRECTOR’S VILLAGE

DIRECTOR’S VILLAGE

Janneke van Heesch (Director, the

September 15 - 18 | 10:00-18:00 | Carbon6 Heerlen

Art and Design, Enschede. She specialises

Director’s Village is a 4-day on-site training program to

in Script Development and Directing Actors.

enhance and develop the skills of the new filmmakers

Selected filmography: Through with Love

(directors-writers) and help them prepare for their next

(2021); Plastercast (2018); Seven Mountains

(short film) project. During the bootcamp the filmmakers will

(2016); Diary of a Call Girl (2016);

learn and work on the script development and director’s vision

Basile H. (2015); Mowgli & Fidel (2011);

& directing actors with coaches during group sessions,

Scooter Girls (2005).

Netherlands) lives in Amsterdam and directs short films, television series and feature films. She currently is employed by the Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam as Directing Coach and teaches as a guest professor at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam and at the AKI, Academy of

network and help each other to bring their projects further.

DIRECTOR’S VILLAGE: SELECTED PARTICIPANTS & PROJECTS

• Mari Ørstavik - All I Want (Alt Jeg Vil) | Mediefabrikken, Norway

Sofia Norlin (Director, Sweden) lives in Paris, and has been working with film and theatre in both France and Sweden since 1994. She also works regularly as a film educator for young people in Paris and as

• Adam Starsmark - Bedside (Vaka) | FilmCloud, Sweden

a teacher at Stockholm University of the

• Wiebke Becker - DILAN | MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg

Arts (formerly StDH). In 2011, Norlin was

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

awarded a feature film scholarship from

• Lucas Brunelli Donnard - Filth | Germany

the Stockholm Film Festival, which then

• Catriona MacLeod - Kill Me, Pay Me | GMAC, Scotland

became her feature film debut, Ömheten

• Jamila Versi - My Shrunken Heart (and all that followed)

(2013). Sofia Norlin is now working on a

(Mit Skrumpede Hjerte (og følgerne derpå)) |

new feature film project that will take her

Film Workshop Copenhagen, Denmark

through large parts of Europe. The film

• Rosita Wolkers - Pomegranates (Granaatappels) | New Noardic Wave, the Netherlands • Nils Hanssen - The Right Note | CineSud, the Netherlands

is co-written with Jean-Pol Fargeau, and has the working name Riviera.

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THE COACHES

SHIFT WORKSHOPS

LIMBURG FILM PITCH

Valerie Bisscheroux (Director, The

Nicky Onstenk (Producer, The Netherlands)

Netherlands) is a director and producer.

completed her Bachelor of Media & Culture

As a queer filmmaker she focuses on

at the University of Amsterdam in 2015.

creating LGBTQ+ characters for a positive

In 2019 she graduated from the Netherlands

representation. She is known for the

Film Academy with the short fiction film

series Anne+. Anne+ has two seasons

Porfotto, which was nominated for a Student

on Netflix and the first season has been

Oscar. After graduation, she started at

nominated for the Dutch Film Festival

IJswater Films as a junior producer.

2017 and 2018, Series Mania 2018, Tribeca

The documentary Dunya (directed by Tim

Film Festival 2019 and the Prix Europa

Bary) premiered at the Netherlands Film

2019. The second season also received

Festival 2021. The short film Vlekkeloos

several appreciations and nominations.

(directed by Emma Branderhorst) won

Anne+ received many positive reviews

the main prize for the best short (youth)

which resulted in an Anne+ Netflix film

film at Berlinale 2022. Currently, there are

directed by Valerie.

several projects, both documentary, and fiction, long and short, in development and production.

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FESTIVAL ORGANISATION

THANK YOU!

We want to thank you for being part of the eight edition of the SHIFT Film Festival. Your enthusiasm and support makes this festival possible even despite the crazy times we live in at the moment. We want to express our gratitude to all our partners, sponsors, filmmakers and audience for another unforgettable and truly special festival.

Anna Demianenko | Festival Manager Marie Lormeau | Festival Coordinator Roger Schoenmaekers | Technical Support Awesta Mahani | PR & Communications Saskia Loesser | Festival Reporter & Moderator Philip Driessen | Photographer Coen Leuven | Videographer Iris van de Winkel | Graphic Designer SHIFT Illustration Mariia Kryvoshchokova | Ukrainian Focus Guido Franken | Director of CineSud Toon Hezemans, Geertje Caris, Sjoerd van Heugten, Selin Șen, Pieter Kuijpers, Mark Pütz | Supervisory Board CineSud Special thanks to the Royal Theater for the hosting of the screenings! Check www.CineSud.nl for more upcoming events and activities for filmmakers.

Cheers and see you next time!

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