December 17, 2022
Funeral march
In a procession, the hunter is carried to his grave by the animals he threatened until recently. When it dawns on them that they have been freed from their oppressor and can master his dogs, their moods change dramatically.
script | director | animator Lucette Braune | music Gustav Mahler | distribution by Kaboom distribution Ursula van den Heuvel | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
December 3, 2022
Desire Lines
Branko obsessively trails his brother through Belgrade, trying to fathom his unusual behavior, but realizes along the way that he himself is the strange one, an observer, an apparition.
Branko keeps walking and leaves the city behind, passing through landscapes and borders on his way to somewhere else: a place where everyone and everything has a story to share.
script & director Dane Komljen | director of photography Ivan Markovic | a co-production with DART FILM & VIDEO Natasa Damjanovic, Marletti Armin Hadzic, Flaneur Films Zsuzanna Kiraly | distribution by Windmill Film Distribution, Megocom Films | supported by the Film Center Serbia, Hubert Bals Fund / Netherlands Film Fund, Media Plus, Megacom, Sarajevo Ministry of Culture & Sports
September 9, 2022
Frankenstein’s dream
An animated science-fiction world where sex, language and technology are inextricably intertwined. A creation myth for the age of artificial intelligence. Voiceless creatures accept total control as the price for the technology of language. But does the technology have its own purpose? Are humans finally just its host and breeding ground?
script & director Simon Pummell | script coach Margot Knijn | animation & VFX Barend Onneweer | development 3D animation Ryan Cherewaty | motion capture choreography Peeping Tom dance company | choreography Gabriela Carrizo | editing Tim Roza | music Roger Goula | performed by Echo collective | sound design Senjan Jansen | co-produced with Visualantics Steven Dhoedt | supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, Flemish Audiovisual Fund & Hot Property
September 9, 2022
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
February 8, 2022
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
November 28, 2021
Nostalgia for the future
A film based on the life and work of director Chris Marker. A documentary essay about memory, history, nostalgia and how images of the past shape our future. The essence of the archive as the fundament of our collective memory itself is being questioned.
script & director Brecht Debackere| editor Beppe Leonetti | sound design Wiebe de Boer | music Rutger Zuydervelt | supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Netherlands Film Fund & Fondo per l’Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia | a co-production with Visualantics (Brussels) Steven Dhoedt | international sales Cat ‘n Docs Catherine Le Clef | film distribution Lightlines Wallie Pollé
March 17, 2021
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
July 22, 2020
Desert of the Real
Intimate conversations with ex-psychotics unravel seeking answers to how much control man has over his own psyche. During the film, the boundary between madness and common sense appear rather cloudy.
script | director | animator Luuk Bouwman | research Luuk Bouwman & Linde van Schuppen | line producers Gwen Pol & Edgar Kapp | design Pien den Hollander | director of photography Jan Pieter Tuinstra | set sound Luuk Bouwman | VFX Jos Wabeke | co-produced with EO | supported by Netherlands Media Fund in the framework of LEF & by CoBO Fund & the Netherlands Film Fund in the framework of Teledoc | commissioning editor EOdocs Margit Balogh | editor EOdocs Judith Vreriks
June 5, 2020
This is your captain speaking
What would you do if you could fly for one day? While local residents answer this question, we fly with them. Along the flight it becomes clear that fantasy is more urgent for some persons than for others.
script, director & animator Nienke Deutz director & animator Digna van der Put supported by the Netherlands Film Fund