Sea Change

A fragile paper boat sails in the sun to a distant destination, but as soon as dark night falls it encounters obstacles and dangers that force it to develop courage.

script Marc Veerkamp & Boris Sverlow | director Boris Sverlow | line producer BE Kristof Lantin | music Jeroen de Brauwer| sound design Wiebe de Boer | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders Audiovisual Fund & Tax Shelter programme of the Belgian Gouvernement | in co-production with Animal Tank Brecht Van Elslande & Everstory Michael Van den Eynde

My brother

My brother Bart died of AIDS in 1986, without him or the family knowing he had it. Growing up in a family and environment where talking was not evident at all, I want to break the silence I experienced around Bart’s illness and death.

script & director Koert Davidse | development script Jolein Laarmans | script coaching Hester Overmars | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the context of the OASE programme, Netherlands Film Fund Film Production Incentive & NPO-fund | commissioning editor KRO-NCRV Jelle Peter de Ruiter & Michiel Brongers | producer KRO-NCRV Yolande van der Blij & Zelda Nieuwenhuis

We, the clean

A poetic documentary about cleaning in an indifferent universe.

script & director Joep de Boer | development by Boondocs Jasper Boon | this film is supported by the CoBO-fund and the Netherlands Film Fund | in co-production with AVROTROS  Jessica Raspe (commissioning editor) & Syrine Krabman (editor) 

LouLou

An 8-year-old child saves a butterfly at the memorial of his father. The child desperately tries to keep the butterfly alive. He barely succeeds, but then his new friend announces his departure…

director Hanneke van der Linden | script Rob de Barbanson | this film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, City of Utrecht, K.F. Heijn fund, Stimuleringsfonds Rouw, Voordekunst,nl, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Tax Shelter programme of the Belgian Gouvernement, in co-production with S.O.I.L. Geert van Goethem & Linda Sterckx | development producer Cineté Willem Thijssen & Nancy Fornoville

Squid

When an aspiring composer, Dune, is mansplained by her boss in a seafood restaurant about the proper skills needed to cut up a squid – she leaves work with a feeling that only worsens as her boyfriend breaks up with her once and for all.

Fearing failure in all areas of life, Dune cycles to the beach only to be surprised by her findings.

script & director Lucy Cordes Engelman | with Ishtar Bakhtali | editor Stephanie Sibbald | music Ishtar Bakhtali | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund & City of Rotterdam moving image

the Infinite Anatomical Theatre

THE INFINITE ANATOMICAL THEATRE is an animated re-telling of the myth of The Fall inspired by Baroque Anatomical Art in Holland. The film combines hand-drawn figures with digital scans of Baroque architecture to create a myth of our culture’s relationship to both the human body and technology.

script & director Simon Pummell | script coach Margot Knijn | VFX Barend Onneweer | 3D animation Ryan Cherewaty | editing Tim Roza | co-produced with Visualantics Steven Dhoedt | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund & Flemish Audiovisual Fund

Ziggurat

A dead body is found at the art fair. Commissioner Ziggurat and Lieutenant Le Bon go to investigate.

script & director Pieter Samyn | production design & animation Pieter Samyn | music Ruben de Gheselle | sound design Senjan Jansen | supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund & Netherlands Film Fund | a co-production with S.O.I.L. Brussels Linda Sterckx & Geert van Goethem

Dromodriller

Mister Ø has been working alone for years on a slow boring damp tunnel drilling machine. He passes his time well with his Concorde flight simulator. Until he gets a grain of sand in his eye.

script & directors Serge Onnen & Sverre Fredriksen | technical development & support Zoltan Korai | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of De Korte Verbeelding (Short Imagination) & Creative Industries Fund NL

ZAAD

ZAAD is the story of a man who gazes blindly at the supposed heredity of his father’s mental illness, without realizing that the most powerful drug against it is within his grasp.

script & director Dries Meddens | director of photography Benito Strangio | sound design Wiebe de Boer | music Maarten Meddens & Arthur Fink | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund & Flemish Audiovisual Fund | distribution Windmill Film Distribution Annemiek van der Hell & Wallie Pollé | a co-production with Associate Directors Mark Daems