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

NEUTRINO

Deep inside a mountain in Japan, international physicists are researching the so-called ghost particle. On that mountain lives a small village community with its very own view of nature. Neutrino is a poetic-philosophical documentary about the interwovenness of elementary particles, countless gods, picking chestnuts, pixels on a computer screen and the art of making tofu.

script & director Jan van den Berg & Hannie van den Bergh | script & directors coach Tamara Vuurmans | translations & local production Maokoto Sugano | director of photography Claire Pijman | sound recordist Jeffrey Jousan | editor Katarina Türler | music Jacq Palinckx | sound design Wiebe de Boer | grading & delivery Laurent Fluttert | in co-production with KRO-NCRV | commissioning editor Laetitia Schoofs | supported by the NPO-fund, NIKHEF, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts & Physica Foundation

East of Noon

In the desperate setting of an enclave where hope seems to have faded after a failed revolution followed by a new military dictatorship, a young musician breaks through the shell of fear and risks everything in search of love and freedom. But at what price?

script & director Hala Elkoussy | supported by the Mondriaan Fund & by the Mondriaan Fund with the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of De Verbeelding & Fonds 21 | a co-production with VRIZA Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan & Nu’ta Films

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

Quoting masterpieces

How close to an artist you admire can you get? In an ultimate effort, I identify to the extreme with the work of Japanese artist Yokoo Tadanori.

script & director Koert Davidse | director of photography Annigje Jansen | research, translations & photography Hiko Uemura | editor Luce van de Weg | sound design Wiebe de Boer | grading & deliveries Laurent Fluttert | supported by the City of Rotterdam | visual arts, VEVAM & IAAF foundation