SHIFT | Film Festival
SHIFT | Festival Program
Slowly but surely, the world is coming back to as it was! Filmmakers all over the world can make films, cinemas are opening and more and more festivals are hosting their events onsite. It is time to show your film to the world and prepare for a new one! SHIFT Film Festival offers both showing your film at the Short Film Competition and taking part in Bootcamp Shorts Lab. Boost your creativity, get inspired by masterclasses by renowned filmmakers, meet new people during online networking at get-together sessions and get ready - it is time to get out there and make a movie!
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Time
Language Location
Script Development
17-sep
10:00 - 12:45
English
Online
Producing
17-sep
15:30 - 17:00
English
Online
Directing
18-sep
10:00 - 12:45
English
Online
Camera & Composition
18-sep
14:30 - 16:00
English
Online
Editing
19-sep
09:00 - 10:15
English
Online
Sound Design
19-sep
10:30 - 12:00
English
Online
Distribution
19-sep
12:15 - 13:30
English Online
SHORTS LAB Pitching Training | Part 1
14-sep
10:00 - 11:30
English
Online
Pitching Training | Part 2
16-sep
10:00 - 11:30
English
Online
Euregion Film Pitch
18-sep
14:00 - 16:45
English
Online
STE Writers Room #1 (Group 1)
19-sep
14:00 - 18:00
English
Online
STE Writers Room #1 (Group 2)
19-sep
14:00 - 18:00
English
Online
SPECIALS
This year’s edition of SHIFT Film Festival will run online (for international filmmakers) and onsite.
Workshop | Crowdfunding for Film
16-sep
11:00 - 15:00
Dutch
Online
Speeddates | Crowdfunding | One-on-one Sessions
16-sep
15:00 - 16:30
Dutch
Online
CineTalk with Ammen S. Ogedengbe
17-sep
20:00 - 20:45
English
Online
CineTalk with Jelle Nesna
18-sep
20:00 - 20:45
English
Online
NETWORKING
For tickets and more information: bit.ly/shiftff21
Script: Get-together Working Sessions
17-sep
14:00 - 15:15
English
Online
Directing: Get-together Working Sessions
18-sep
16:15 - 17:45
English
Online
FILMS
May the World Not Carry You
SHIFT FILM 2021 FESTIVAL
Date
BOOTCAMP SHORTS LAB MASTERCLASSES
We celebrate the seventh edition of the SHIFT Film Festival from september 17-19, 2021 and we do so in spite, and maybe especially because of the crazy times that 2020 & 2021 have brought us so far.
September 17-19 | Online & ECI Roermond
Short Film Competition 1 (online cinema)
17-sep
18:00 - 19:30
English sb Online
Short Film Competition 2 (online cinema)
18-sep
18:00 - 19:30
English sb Online
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg DOCU
18-sep
14:00 - 15:30
English sb
(ECI)
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg DRAMA
18-sep
16:00 - 17:30
English
(ECI)
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg GENRE
18-sep
18:00 - 19:30
English sb
(ECI)
Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021)
17-sep
20:00 - 22:00
Dutch sb
(ECI)
I never cry (Piotr Domalewski, 2020)
17-sep
20:15 - 22:00
Dutch
(ECI)
Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021)
18-sep
20:00 - 22:00
Dutch sb
(ECI)
I never cry (Piotr Domalewski, 2020)
18-sep
20:15 - 22:00
Dutch sb
(ECI)
Award Ceremony
18-sep
20:45 - 21:00
English
Online
sb
sb
TICKETS All-access Bootcamp Shorts Lab 2021 | 30,00€
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg | 5,00€
All-access Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg (ECI) | 10,00€
All-access Short Film Competition (online cinema) | Free
Birgitte Stærmose (Denmark) is a
SHIFT | The Coaches
Masterclasses
director, whose early award-winning shorts screened at prestigious festivals (Sundance,
Script Development | 17 September, 10:00-12:45
Guro Ekornholmen and Anniken Fjesme work as coaches and script
Shape Up Your Idea into a Killer Script with
consultants at Mediefabrikken in Norway.
Guro Ekornholmen & Anniken Fjesme
Guro Ekornholmen is a director educated
New Directors/New Films, Berlin, Rotterdam) and earned her awards at Berlin, Rotterdam,
Melbourne IFF and others.
Manuel Claro (Chili/Denmark) is a Director
at the Norwegian Film School where her
Script: Get-together Working Session
graduation film Oskar was shown at festivals around
of Photography whose notable works are
17 September, 14:00-15:15
the world and received several awards. Anniken Fjesme
Melancholia, Nymphomaniac, and The House
Work on your script with fellow writers
is a scriptwriter educated at NYU, New York, where she
that Jack Built (directed by Lars von Trier).
directed several award-winning short films. Guro and
Producing | 17 September, 15:30-17:00
Tessel Flora de Vries (Netherlands) opened
Anniken also collaborate creatively as writer and director.
Find Ways to Finance Your Film with Eliza Jones
her own editing studio Beneden Peil with
Directing | 18 September, 10:00-12:45 Bring Your Vision to the Screen with Birgitte Stærmose
Eliza Jones (Sweden) a producer at
colleague editor Ellemieke Middelhoff in
Grand Slam Film. Grand Slam have produced
Amsterdam West in September of 2017. Her
a number of short and mid-length feature films that have been selected to some of
Camera & Composition
latest short films are Funkele , Nova, Radio
Peter Albrechtsen (Denmark) is a sound
Berlinale, Tribeca, Toronto).
Make Your Story Visual with Manuel Claro
Work on your directors vision with fellow directors
Editing | 19 September, 09:00-10:15 Enhance Your Story in the Post with Tessel Flora de Vries
designer and music supervisor. Among his recent fiction credits are thriller Darkland, And Then, The Silence
18 September, 16:15-17:45
Finnish Cannes winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, and sound effects
recording for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.
Hidde de Vries (Netherlands) is a film festival strategist at Kapitein Kort. His films got more than 300 festival selections world-
Sound | 19 September, 10:30-12:00
wide at leading festivals such as Berlinale
Refine Your Story With Sound with Peter Albrechtsen
Panel: Distribution | 19 September, 12:15-13:15
Voorwaarts, Beti, A Holiday from Mourning.
the world’s finest film festivals (Cannes,
18 September, 14:30-16:00
Directing: Get-together Working Session
Terms and Conditions
SHIFT | Bootcamp Shorts Lab
Generation, Semaine de la Critique, Clermont
Ferrand ISFF, Palm Springs SFF, IFFR.
SHORT FILM COMPETITION | ONLINE
SHORT FILM COMPETITION I
17 September | 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Register at bit.ly/shift2021filmscreening1
Submit to be Selected with Arne Sommer, Hidde de Vries
Kristian Håskjold (Denmark/Norway)
and Kristian Håskjold
short films have been screened at 100+
Terms and Conditions, Amelie Befeldt,
festivals and won 20 awards. Among others A
Documentary, Germany, 2020, 20 min.
Worthy Man won Best European Short Film
A farmer’s daughter tries to improve the financial situation
(Leuven ISFF, 2018) and was shortlisted for
of the farm by selling stock footage video clips of
European Film Awards 2019.
everyday farming life.
Animation, Poland, 2019, 3 min. Sad love story inspired by a Polish folk song. The betrayed girl decides to commit suicide during the wedding of his love. SPELL, Philippe Safire, Animation, United States, 2021, 7 min. In a socially and technologically advanced society people enjoy access to vast freedoms and rapid economic growth, until a woman reports a mysterious incident.
ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND
Moon, Cleo Julia Mullis,
SHORT FILM COMPETITION & MADE IN LIMBURG
Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 13 min. On a one-year anniversary with her girlfriend Moon, Noa has to make a choice about what is best - for Moon and for herself. And Then, The Silence, Lucas Trochet, Fiction, France, 2020, 18 min. Matthias, in his twenties, works hard in the small family farm, waiting for the recognition of his father.
SHORT FILM COMPETITION | ONLINE
SHORT FILM COMPETITION II
Wichita, Sergine Dumais, Fiction, United States, 2020, 5 min.
All-access pass - €10 (incl. a drink)
Sara is in bed with her lover when her husband calls to ask for something in his sock drawer.
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg DOCU September 18 | 14:00 - 15:30
Portrait, Keir Siewert,
18 September | 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
ECI Cultuurfabriek | €5 | (incl. a drink)
Fiction, United Kingdom, 2020, 13 min.
Register at bit.ly/shift21filmscreening2
Terms and Conditions, The Ballet of Service,
A model takes matters into her own hands to expose a serial predator in the photography world.
Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion, Portrait Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion, Arturo Dueñas, Documentary, Spain, 2020, 15 min.
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg DRAMA
Among Humans, Caren Wuhrer,
In Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in
September 18 | 16:00 - 17:30
Fiction, Germany, 2019, 7 min.
southern Algeria, the celebration of a film festival,
ECI Cultuurfabriek | €5 | (incl. a drink)
Edda and Egon pictured their new son-in-law very
the Fisahara, breaks the monotony.
And Then, The Silence, Sjeemte, Moon, Crossroads,
differently. Especially less striped and furry.
Wichita MAYA, Martina Pavlíková, Fiction, Czech Republic, 2020, 15 min.
Short Film Competition & Made in Limburg GENRE
Animation, Ireland, 2021, 2 min.
Desert, sun, snakes - train passing through the landscape
September 18 | 18:00 - 19:30
The Time Machine is a short, animated piece which looks
- sex, prostitution, immorality… and in the center of
ECI Cultuurfabriek | €5 | (incl. a drink)
at the potency of nostalgia using a children’s class creation.
everything - Maya.
SPELL, Among Humans, The Time Machine, MAYA, Moon
The Time Machine, Max F.D’Eramo,
May the World Not Carry You, Night Call
Wichita
Dajla
Among Humans
SHIFT | Films & Specials
May the World Not Carry You, Rozalia Las,
SHIFT | Jury
ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND
SHIFT | Films & Specials
Reinier Selen (Producer) has produced
MADE IN LIMBURG
national and international (co-)productions, including the acclaimed films Rafiki, Rafaël, Van God Los, Lucia de B., Cool Kids Don’t Cry.
September 18, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00
Loes Komen (Producer) has produced Crossroads, Ella Esposito,
films that have been selected for multiple
Fiction, Belgium, 2021, 16 min.
international film festivals and won several
An unwanted pregnant student hopes to keep her carefree
awards. Recent film Marlon Brando is selected
life through abortion, but when a pregnant Muslim woman
for Cannes Semaine de la Critique 2020.
needs her help, she realizes that this choice is not just
EUREGION FILM PITCH
about her. Sjeemte, Floris Ramaekers, Fiction, Netherlands, 2021, 13 min. A benefits claim appointment spins out of control when Candide, 23, borrows her sister’s baby and strangely pretends like it’s her own child.
SCREEN TALENT EUROPE WRITERS ROOM 2021
Thomas Mataheru (Producer) has produced short films Days of May, Kimya, Seahorse and most recently the 17th century short costume drama Flood
18 September | 14:00 - 16:45
(2020, Nils Verkooijen).
SELECTED PROJECTS
The Euregion Film Pitch is made possible
19 September | 14:00 - 18:00 | Online by Grensverleggers - De Buren, an initiative
SELECTED FILMMAKERS
Fiction, Netherlands, 12 min.
to stimulate cultural cooperation between
Tara Mahmoudi | BACKA
Documentary, Netherlands, 2020, 15 min.
What if we ourselves are refugees?
organizations in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant,
(partner: VGR Filmcloud)
Limburg and Vlaanderen.
Hanna Hannerz Simå | Choir Practice / The Feminist Choir
At the International Butler Academy in Limburg, people from all over the world are trained to become a butler for the elite. Under a lot of pressure, they learn the old
Lost Emotions, Raimond van Soest,
(partner: Film Stockholm)
Fiction, Netherlands, 25 min.
Nicole Jachmann | Emma
Sometimes you find your dream love back in a nightmare.
(partner: CineSud)
SPELL
ways of butlering.
Titane
2051, Marcelle Arriëns, The Ballet of Service, Marlies Smeenge,
Nicolas Kouroumtzis | Adoption is an Option
Night Call, Tim Sagl,
Message in a Bottle, Sam van Zoest,
Fiction, Netherlands, 2021, 19 min.
Fiction, Netherlands, 8 min.
Lorraine Higgins | Wilde Ones
Late at night, ‘Jennifer’ earns a little extra as a sex operator.
Their love was written by the sea.
(partner: Galway Film Centre)
One night she gets a phone call from a man who claims
(partner: Odense Film Workshop)
Jonathan Hughes | Yes Chef
to be her ex-lover. To overcome this evil spirit, she must
Le Trajet, Marie Lormeau,
(partner: Galway Film Centre)
confront her deepest fears.
Fiction, Netherlands, 8 min.
Augustin Sjöberg | Brainless
Mother and daughter settle their differences and
(partner: Film i Skane)
open up to one another during a hectic car trip.
Lena Stefanie Meier | The whisper of the searoses (partner: Filmwerkstatt Kiel)
A Stranger from the Past
SHIFT | Films & Specials
Titane
SHIFT | Special events WORKSHOP
CROWDFUNDING FOR FILM
16 September, 13:00 - 14:30
Learn about do’s and don’ts of crowdfunding,
17 September, 20:00-20:45, via CineSud Facebook page, bit.ly/fbcinesud or register at bit.ly/cinetalkammensogedengbe CineTalk with Ammen S. Ogedengbe
already crowdfunded.
SPEEDDATES
ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS WITH CINECROWD
16 September, 15:00 - 16:30
We want to thank you for being part of the seventh edition
via CineSud Facebook page, bit.ly/fbcinesud
of the SHIFT Film Festival. Your enthusiasm and support
or register at bit.ly/cinetalkjellenesna
makes this festival possible even despite the crazy times
CineTalk with Jelle Nesna & Award Show
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.
SHIFT | Professionals Jury
Kaj Cuijpers | Event Management on Location Marie Lormeau | Event Host
her own editing studio Beneden Peil with
Arianne Hinz | Event Host
colleague editor Ellemieke Middelhoff in
Roy Lurken | Graphic Design
Amsterdam West in September of 2017. Her
Damien Joosten | Promo Editor
latest short films are Funkele , Nova, Radio
Guido Franken | Director of CineSud
Voorwaarts, Beti, A Holiday from Mourning.
Toon Hezemans, Geertje Caris, Sjoerd van Heugten, Selin Șen, Pieter Kuijpers, Mark Pütz | Supervisory Board CineSud
Jeanine Cronie (Screenwriter) writes short children’s films and the children’s series
Special thanks to ECI Cultuurfabriek for the hosting of the live screenings!
Take part in one-on-one sessions with CineCrowd
e.g. Jesses Wereld, Woezel & Pip, Evi & Co.
and present your film idea for crowdfunding.
In addition to writing for children, Jeanine
20:00 | ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND
thriller, drama, France, 2021, 108 min. Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years.
ONLINE
CINETALK
develops and gives various (media) work-
Check www.CineSud.nl for more upcoming events
shops. She is currently writing her feature
and activities for filmmakers.
film debut.
Bastiaan Van Dalen is Head of Veronica Television, Net5 & SBS9 at Talpa Network. Senior executive with editorial, creative and
20:15 | ECI CULTUURFABRIEK ROERMOND
Lean back and listen to the special guest while he
commercial experience in international
I never cry, Piotr Domalewski,
talks about how to set foot in the filmmaking business,
content and marketing. With over 20 years
drama, Poland/Ireland, 2020, 98 min.
previous and current work, throwbacks and successes
of experience in acquisition, commission and
Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in her own
as well as the festival’s motto
sales in the entertainment industry, Bastiaan
street-smart way, Olka learns that her biggest
SHIFTING DISTANCE.
has worked at companies like 20th Century
dream wasn’t a car, but getting to know her dad.
Anna Demianenko | Festival Manager
Tessel Flora de Vries (Film Editor) opened
September 17 and 18
Titane, Julia Ducournau,
THANK YOU!
18 September, 20:00-20:45,
funds that can contribute to your crowdfunding and a success story together with a filmmaker who has
SHIFT | Festival Organisation
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