Film Catalogue
Little Movement New Dutch
Sergio Gridelli | Maaike van de Westeringh, 2023, NL, 8 min
Little Movement is a short dance film in which six patients with Huntington's disease are portrayed in a dream-like space where time is suspended. An intimate choreography shows us their positive energy, zest for life and resilience in their vulnerable and fragile existence.
Faces of Passing Love Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
Hsiang-Yun Huang , 2023, NL, TW, 9 min
Faces of Passing Love is a film that mourns for past lovers through obsolete technology: a repeatedly projected slideshow, where eyes open, mouths whisper, tears linger.
The Lost Years Out of Competition
Marcos Zoe Nacar, 2023, DE, ES, 5 min
On a 5-day hike from the Seriana to the Brembana Valley in Italy, a character is in search of answers but doesn’t pose any questions. A speculative dance documentary reflecting on the relationship between human and mountain, as material entity and as idea.
Dog Cloud New Dutch
Amos Ben-Tal/OFFprojects, 2023, NL, 8 min
Four dancers, one choreographic score, one poem, one camera, one angle, three takes and no edits. Dog Cloud explores the subtle interplay between structure, chance and the human desire for finding patterns and stories.
and so I'll go Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
Julia Müllner, Anna Sophia Rußmann, Kilian Immervoll, Pipi Fröstl, 2022, AT, 9 min
A building is in constant development, it’s enlivened, used, worn out, decaying. Bodies leave traces in buildings. Buildings leave their mark on us. Decay does not necessarily end in dust that we gently sweep away. In and so I'll go the carpet of an old furniture showroom becomes the grid of various accumulative micro plots and intimate dances.
Through Magma Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
elisabeth raymond (elieli), 2023, SE, 9 min
Inspired by hydrofeminist theories and wearing a vessel suit, full of leaking water, artist Elisabeth Raymond tells an otherworldly story about sorrow, the plastic in our oceans and how our borders are fluid.
Lucid Dreaming New Dutch
Emma Evelein, 2023, BE, NL, 13 min
Lucid Dreaming tells the story of a girl in a train, who loses herself in the world of another passenger. As she falls deeper in his emotions and sensations, the train and its passengers become part of the world she encounters through him. During this non-verbal encounter between strangers, she experiences how imagination and empathy are both powerful and vulnerable at the same time.
This film is part of the online program but accessible only in the Netherlands.
Life Left Behind Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
Valia Phyllis Zwart, 2022, NO, 6 min, 9+
Whilst driving, a woman attempts to reconcile with her past and the scars it left behind.
THORN Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
Alexander Stamatiadis, 2022, GR, 8 min, 0+
In a remote gas station in the heart of winter, a place where time stands still, three strangers cross paths and reshape time in their own way.
Dear Passengers Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
Madli Lääne, 2022, EE, 11 min
A lonely traveler embarks on a journey to find relief for a hidden yearning. Her restless longing spreads around and forces fellow passengers to face their own desires and disappointments.
This film is part of the online program but accessible only in the Netherlands.
The Paper Ensemble #16 Competition Shorts and International Short Film Competition
Jiska Rickels, Jochem van Tol, 2022, NL, 16 min, 0+
In an old empty paper factory, we follow a woman playing with sculptures made of paper. Inspired by the design of Japanese gardens, #16 by The Paper Ensemble invites you to be receptive to a world made entirely out of the sounds of paper: crackling bushes, ocean waves and singing whales.
The Machines New Dutch
Publik Universal Frxnd, 2023, NL, 19 min
This short documentary follows two performers who mix traditional clog dancing from the North West of the UK with choreography for two modified fitness machines based on agricultural yokes. Clog dancing is said to have originated in East Lancashire from the weaving mills of the 19th century, where working women would tap to the rhythm of the machines. The film explores identity and belonging in the context of industrialisation and economic migration and how movement, as a result, has been transformed by it.