AS LONG AS IT TAKES: SHORT
Goodbye Utopia Ding Shiwei
AS LONG AS IT TAKES: SHORT
Menunggu kabar Waiting for News Yandy Laurens
God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, including ‘Thou shalt not kill’. Humans strive to create the ideal society, killing many on the way. Short, but momentous animation that symbolically, yet clearly shows the rise and tragedy of various utopias. Screens before Fort Buchanan. EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Fluid camerawork follows Marcel, a seven-year-old at the orphanage in Serui in Papua waiting for a call from his brother Hans, an aspiring professional footballer in the distant capital. Glimpse of the life of a boy with a dream. The director dreamt of being a basketball player and understood Marcel. Screens before Siti.
China, 2014 | b&w, video, 8 min, no dialogue
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Prod: Han Hui | Sc: Ding Shiwei | Cam: Ding Shiwei | Ed: Ding Shiwei | Prod Des: Ding Shiwei | Sound Des: Mabonona | Music: Mabonona | Print/Sales: Ding Shiwei | www.dingshiwei.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 22-1 16:302 LantarenVenster 5 Sat 24-1 22:002 Cinerama 6 Sun 25-1 14:302 Cinerama 5 Mon 26-1 22:002 LantarenVenster 5 Sat 31-1 15:002 LantarenVenster 3
Kinabukasan The Day After
Indonesia, 2014 | colour, DCP, 7 min, Indonesian Prod: Sheila Timothy, Naomi Lie | Prod Comp: LifeLike Pictures | Sc: Yandy Laurens | Cam: Yandy Laurens | Ed: Yandy Laurens | Prod Des: Yandy Laurens | Sound Des: Agnes Hansella Binti | With: Jimmy Kobogau, Marcel Wopi, Mince Elsina Waroi | Print: Naomi Lie | Sales: LifeLike Pictures | www.lifelikepictures.co/menunggu-kabar Public SCREENINGS Thu 29-1 09:302 Pathé 6 Fri 30-1 15:302 LantarenVenster 3 Sat 31-1 16:452 Cinerama 7
Petite blonde Émilie Aussel
Adolfo Alix Jr.
Adolfo Alix is fast becoming the most prolific filmmaker ever, but so far he had never made a short film. It was also the first time for older actress Nora Aunor. Painful loss is depicted in a classical style. A young author has committed suicide and an older woman peruses the manuscripts. Screens before Gentle. EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Philippines, 2014 | colour, DCP, 16 min, Tagalog Prod: Adolfo Alix Jr., Lou Gopez | Prod Comp: Phoenix Features | Sc: Jerry Gracio | Cam: Albert Banzon | Ed: Benjamin Tolentino | Prod Des: Adolfo Alix Jr., Bobet Lopez | Sound Des: Alex Tomboc | With: Nora AunorAlden RichardsRosanna Roces | Print/Sales: Phoenix Features Public SCREENINGS Thu 22-1 15:152 Pathé 6 Sat 24-1 12:302 Pathé 3 Tue 27-1 19:302 Cinerama 7 Fri 30-1 09:302 Cinerama 1
MY BBY 8L3W Neozoon
Overly cutesy collage of YouTube videos in which women overenthusiastically introduce their pets to the world. They all openly declare their love of their pedigree dogs and cats. The relationship between people and animals in current society is a recurring theme in the work of women’s art collective Neozoon. Screens before No Men Beyond This Point. EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Germany/France, 2014 | colour, video, 3 min, English Prod: Neozoon | Sc: Neozoon | Ed: Neozoon | Print/Sales: Neozoon | www.neozoon.org Public SCREENINGS Wed 28-1 16:452 LantarenVenster 1 Fri 30-1 12:152 Pathé 6
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44TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
On a hot summer afternoon, a group of youngsters from Marseille’s working-class estates are hanging out at their spot by the sea. They saunter, catcall, swim and jump off the high rocks. A blonde girl observes them from the beach and decides to break cultural conventions. Screens before A Young Poet. France, 2014 | colour, DCP, 15 min, French Prod: Thomas Ordonneau, Anne Luthaud | Prod Comp: Shellac Sud, LE GREC | Sc: Émilie Aussel | Cam: Émilie Aussel | Ed: Enrica Gattolini-Ordonneau, Joséphina | Sound Des: Jean-Michel Tresallet, Pierre-Alain Mathieu | Music: Postcoïtom | With: Noé Bengorine-Chaumeil, Angélique Pagnon, Hamza Baggour, Faris Tighilt, Noémie Casari | Print/Sales: Shellac Sud | emilie.aussel.free.fr Public SCREENINGS Fri 23-1 22:152 Pathé 5 Sat 24-1 13:002 Pathé 4 Sun 25-1 09:302 Cinerama 1 Thu 29-1 12:002 LantarenVenster 2
Playground Gerco de Ruijter
A battle between nature and culture, between organic rye-grass and artificial turf. American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yards long and 160 feet wide. These dimensions defined the framework for this film. Made with images found in Google Earth. With music by Michel Banabila. Screens before Hometown. WORLD PREMIERE
Netherlands, 2015 | colour, video, 3 min, no dialogue Prod: Gerco de Ruijter | Sc: Gerco de Ruijter | Cam: Gerco de Ruijter | Ed: Gerco de Ruijter | Sound Des: Michel Banabila | Music: Michel Banabila | Sales: LIMA | Distr. NL: LIMA | www.gercoderuijter.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 22-1 16:302 LantarenVenster 5 Sat 24-1 21:302 LantarenVenster 2 Wed 28-1 21:452 LantarenVenster 2 44TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
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