September 14-18 | Royal Theater | Heerlen SHIFT FESTIVALFILM2022 Shift your filmmaking skills! Shift distances! Find more information on www.CineSud.nl
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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.
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All Access Shorts Pass 30,00€ Per Short Film Screening 6,00€ Feature Films Via bit.ly/FilmhuisDeSpiegel TICKETS
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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.
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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.
Return, Ghiath Al Mhitawi, fiction, Germany, 16 min Husam is a Syrian soldier who visits his family on a 24hr leave. After a long absence, he enjoys the company and food of his mother, but there is a lump in his throat.
Don’t miss the first part of the Short Film Competition where International films will compete for the following awards Best Film (250€), Special Jury Mention (150€) and the Audience Award.
SEPTEMBER 18 | 13:30-15:00 | &COMPETITIONSHORTINTERNATIONAL€6FILMIQ&A
In 1946, three young Jewish teenagers met at the palestinian Ben Shemen school, after the Holocaust and WWII. Now in their late eighties they recount the ways in which Ben Shemen offered a healing and soul-nourishing refuge.
In The Woods, Ilgın Saçan, animation, Türkiye, 2 min The Woods is a recorded diary of monsters living in an urban forest. Max, one enthusiastic showrunner monster boy, takes us on a tour while his best friend P. records everything.
Phase, Mykola Zaseev, fiction, Ukraine, 20 min 10-year-old boy Yarik spends the last days of summer vacation with his grieving mother in the countryside. Playing in the woods, Yarik and his friend see a couple wandering: Yarik suspects that the woman is strangled by the man. Yarik investigates the possible murder.
Visiting Ben Shemen, Miriam Harris, documentary, New Zealand, 16 min
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The Peephole, Tiziana Martini, fiction, Italy, 6 min Two women’s eyes, hidden behind the peepholes of their front doors. They both face the same hallway and see the pain of a drunken man, locked out from his wife’s house. What happens if one of the two doors opens?
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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 Fifty-year-old Barry is a special kind of cleaner: he cleans crime scenes where demons have wreaked havoc. While shooting a promotion for his business, things quickly get out of hand.
Prosopagnosia, Steven Fraser, documentary, the United Kingdom, 10 min Prosopagnosia means face-blindness and to understand this neurodiverse behaviour, the contents of a memory box are intricately explored.
Canary, Chrysoula Korovesi & Marios Gampierakis, animation, Greece, 6 min A canary is born in captivity amongst other caged birds. A coal miner is experiencing the hardships and risk of everyday labour. The two of them will meet and form a special bond.
Broken Record, Marie Seurin & Mathilde Cadrot, fiction, France, 13 min Francis, a depressed and nostalgic thirty-year-old, can’t get over his break-up and spends his time listening to an old French variety song that reminds him of his lost love.
SEPTEMBER 18 | 15:30 - 17:00 |
These are the selected films for the second part of the International Short Film Competition. Who do you think will take home the awards and prizes? Get ready to vote on your favourite film.
Fanmi, Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers & Carmine Pierre-Dufour, fiction, Canada, 14 min Heart-broken following a break-up, Martine receives the unexpected visit of her mother, Monique. Engrossed in sadness, Martine fails to notice that her mother is hiding something.
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Funkele, Nicole Jachmann, fiction, the Netherlands, 16 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?
When Ben tries to hold his brother back from making the wrong choices, the opposite happens. 14-18
Shut, Niels Bourgonje, fiction, the Netherlands, 15 min
Limburg has so much to offer! In this competition, discover films that are produced in Limburg. The films will compete for the Best Euregion Film Award (250€), Special Jury Mention (150€) and the Audience Award.
Dick, Kiki Henger, fiction, the Netherlands, 7 min
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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.
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Undergrowth, Tim Ewalts, fiction, Belgium, 16 min
SEPTEMBER 18 | 17:30 - 19:00 | €6 SHORT &COMPETITIONFILMMADEINLIMBURGQ&A
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.
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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.
Come and watch several Ukrainian short films to discover, learn and support Ukrainian cinematographic identity.
Romano Haynes (Actor, The Netherlands) is a film and theatre actor based in Rotter dam. 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 the VaderSessie session, a “platform voor vaders in alle vormen” where Romano focuses on parenting and fatherhood through his posts, podcasts and videos. He currently works both for the screen and the stages in many productions and series.
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Patrick Tass (Director, Belgium) is a Belgian director of Palestinian origin born in Beirut in 1992. He completed degrees in directing at ALBA (Lebanon) and scriptwriting at the ULB (Belgium). As a script doctor, he teaches cinema analysis and scriptwriting courses at various Belgian cinema labs. He is currently directing two short films and co-writing a feature-film. In his works, Patrick focuses on themes such as identities and sexualities.
THE JURY
The screening will be held free of charge for the Ukrainian refugees who live in the Netherlands. The earnings from ticket sales will be donated to support Ukraine.
SEPTEMBER 17 | 17:00 - 19:00 | €6
Forest Song, Andrey Naumenko, animation, Ukraine, 2 min This film is about what people are focusing on and what they sometimes miss.
Dad’s Sneakers, Olha Zhurba, fiction, Ukraine, 19 min 13-year-old Sasha lives in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest –a family has finally agreed to adopt him. Today he will move to America forever - but there’s something that won’t let him go.
The Prince and the Mystery of the Charmed Frog, Nataliya Skryabina, animation, Ukraine, 4 min
SEPTEMBER 18 | 17:30 - 19:00 | €6
Mia Donna, Pavlo Ostrikov, fiction, Ukraine, 14 min
All That Could Be, Sam van Zoest, fiction, the Netherlands, 17 min
While parents, people of traditional rural values, are cooking blood sausage for the visit of daughter-in-law, Andriy, their son, tries to communicate the fact his fiancee is Jewish.
Krovyanka, Arkasha Nepytaliuk, fiction, Ukraine, 23 min
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The life of forty-six- year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year- old boy. Doctors are powerless and nobody can turn him back.
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This is an ironic story about the relativity of any stereotype situation, based upon the folk tale about the Prince and the Frog-Princess.
The old man Lyosha and his lady Christie decided to die happily in one day. But Lyosha has to finish something very important first. He does desperate things to implement his secret plan and convince his woman to delay the day of their death.
Wine, Anna Demianenko, fiction, the Netherlands, 25 min
Come and watch different out of competition films, and meet their makers.
After 10 years of not seeing her family, Sanne has to spend a night at their house, waiting for her father to wake up after a risky surgery. She fears that with the death of her father, she can never be a part of this family again.
Not Today, Khrystyna Syvolap, fiction, Ukraine, 18 min
The Pamphlet, Justin Heyl, fiction, the Netherlands, 17 min October 1944. Allied forces are determined to destroy the sea-dikes of the Netherlands. Pamphlets warning the citizens of the impending danger fall into the hands of two young lovers on a secret rendezvous in the dunes. They rush back to their homes to sound the alarm, but the danger is already too close.
An introverted millennial goes on vacation with his sister’s artist group where he is challenged to push his boundaries.
September 14 | 20:00-22:00
Please note: tickets for these feature films can be bought via partner bit.ly/FilmhuisDeSpiegel
September 15 | 20:00-22:00
September 17 | 20:00-22:00
Who is this Karim D. ? The new young writer whom the media can’t get enough of? Or his alias, Arthur Rambo, the author of old hate-fuelled messages which are dredged up, one day, from social media websites.
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women.
Arthur Rambo, Laurent Cantet, fiction, 2021
Ray, Taylor Hackford, fiction, 2004
Please note: tickets for these feature films can be bought via partner bit.ly/FilmhuisDeSpiegel
Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture. Tickets for the Brass Fest Forever feature films can be bought via bit.ly/NieuweNorprogram
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Casablanca Beats, Nabil Ayouch, fiction, 2022
107 Mothers, Peter Kerekes, fiction, 2021
September 16 | 20:00-22:00
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. Tickets for the Brass Fest Forever feature films can be bought via bit.ly/NieuweNorprogram
Two (former) lovers, two women in their 70s, meet each other again after 40 years, on one afternoon on a square in their former village.
PITCH TRAINING (ONLINE)
September 17 | 14.00 -17:00
Selected international participants will present their short film ideas and compete for the chance of winning a €2.000 development grant.
Dawn Chorus, Mykola Zasieiev, fiction, Ukraine Is it possible to live without memories?
September 12 & 14 | 10:00-12:00
During our Writers Workshop you will develop your script and project plan even further with intensive group coaching. Team up to correct and improve your story, brainstorm with other participants, and learn from your coach.
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September 17 | 10:00 -13:00
SHIFT WRITER’S WORKSHOP
Clit’s Complicated, Lisanne Sweere, fiction, the Netherlands To whom clit may concern.
September 18 | 11:00-11:45
Join us and improve your script writing skill! Take your script and project plan to a higher level with our online pitch training.
CELENE, Julia M. Free, fiction, the Netherlands
SHIFT DIRECTOR’S WORKSHOP
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, and exchange with the other participants and the coach, on the importance of a vision, and what it needs to be made your own.
MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, Volodymyr Bakum, fiction, Ukraine
A rich man’s life changes after a homeless man makes him an unusual proposition. 14-18
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.
Uncanny Home is an experimental drama about the night two friends went back home in the virtual world but ended up opening real wounds.
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Uncanny Home, Eric Bitencourt, fiction, Germany
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Victor is in a midlife crisis. Before his wife’s anniversary, having no money for her gift, he decides to sell his collection of butterflies. But a rooster gets in the way.
Anatolia 1890, Ilgin Sacan, animation, Türkiye
In 1890, a cameraman visited rural Anatolia to record daily life. During the shoot, the camera captures supernatural incidents.
PAST, Maarten Sleegers, fiction, the Netherlands
To The Moon, Chinh Tran & Juulia Kalavainen, fiction, the United Kingdom
• Catriona MacLeod - Kill Me, Pay Me | GMAC, Scotland
• Lucas Brunelli Donnard - Filth | Germany
• Adam Starsmark - Bedside (Vaka) | FilmCloud, Sweden
THE COACHES
Director’s Village is a 4-day on-site training program to enhance and develop the skills of the new filmmakers (directors-writers) and help them prepare for their next (short film) project. During the bootcamp the filmmakers will learn and work on the script development and director’s vision & directing actors with coaches during group sessions, network and help each other to bring their projects further.
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September 15 - 18 | 10:00-18:00 | Carbon6 Heerlen
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 a teacher at Stockholm University of the Arts (formerly StDH). In 2011, Norlin was awarded a feature film scholarship from the Stockholm Film Festival, which then became her feature film debut, Ömheten (2013). Sofia Norlin is now working on a new feature film project that will take her through large parts of Europe. The film is co-written with Jean-Pol Fargeau, and has the working name Riviera.
• Nils Hanssen - The Right Note | CineSud, the Netherlands
• Wiebke Becker - DILAN | MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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• Rosita Wolkers - Pomegranates (Granaatappels) | New Noardic Wave, the Netherlands
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• Jamila Versi - My Shrunken Heart (and all that followed) (Mit Skrumpede Hjerte (og følgerne derpå)) | Film Workshop Copenhagen, Denmark
Janneke van Heesch (Director, the 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 Art and Design, Enschede. She specialises in Script Development and Directing Actors.
• Mari Ørstavik - All I Want (Alt Jeg Vil) | Mediefabrikken, Norway
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Selected filmography: Through with Love (2021); Plastercast (2018); Seven Mountains (2016); Diary of a Call Girl (2016); Basile H. (2015); Mowgli & Fidel (2011); Scooter Girls (2005).
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Nicky Onstenk (Producer, The Netherlands) completed her Bachelor of Media & Culture at the University of Amsterdam in 2015. In 2019 she graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy with the short fiction film Porfotto, which was nominated for a Student Oscar. After graduation, she started at IJswater Films as a junior producer. The documentary Dunya (directed by Tim Bary) premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival 2021. The short film Vlekkeloos (directed by Emma Branderhorst) won the main prize for the best short (youth) film at Berlinale 2022. Currently, there are several projects, both documentary, and fiction, long and short, in development and production.
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Valerie Bisscheroux (Director, The Netherlands) is a director and producer. As a queer filmmaker she focuses on creating LGBTQ+ characters for a positive representation. She is known for the series Anne+. Anne+ has two seasons on Netflix and the first season has been nominated for the Dutch Film Festival 2017 and 2018, Series Mania 2018, Tribeca Film Festival 2019 and the Prix Europa 2019. The second season also received several appreciations and nominations. Anne+ received many positive reviews which resulted in an Anne+ Netflix film directed by Valerie.
FESTIVAL YOU!THANKORGANISATION 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! Follow www.CineSud.nl for more. 24 | SHIFT Film Festival September 14-18 2022