• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

Van Diem’s Tulipani world premieres at TIFF Dutch master: Hoyte van Hoytema Bringing Dunkirk to Holland Antoniak and Koole head for Toronto Rifka Lodeizen times two at TIFF Issue #28 August 2017 Venice / TIFF San Sebastian / Netherlands Film Festival Index COLOPHON 4-5 An immigrant’s tale Urszula Antoniak 32-33 Boarding cargo Gijs Kerbosch is selected for TIFF and San Sebastian of Halal talks to SeeNL about the See NL is published four times per with her very personal Beyond Words co­production of Gilles Coulier’s Cargo, year by EYE International and world­premiering in San Sebastian The Netherlands Film Fund and is distributed to international film 6-7 Picture purrfect Jamille van Wijn­ professionals. gaarden’s feline­themed animation debut 34-35 Lighting up Locarno The strong Catastrophe is pawing its way to TIFF Dutch presence at August’s Locarno Editors in chief: Marten Rabarts International Film Festival (EYE), Jonathan Mees 8-9 Puppy love Ben Brand chronicles (Netherlands Film Fund) Executive editor: Nick Cunningham our digital age in Find This Dumb Little 36-37 New kid on the block Floor van Contributor: Geoffrey Macnab Bitch and Throw Her into the River Spaendonck is the new head of leading Concept & Design: Lava.nl, children’s fest Cinekid Amsterdam Layout: def., 10-11 Better together Leading Dutch Amsterdam Printing: mediaLiaison Printed on FSC paper production house Lemming Film 38-39 Kindred spirits This Autumn the © All rights reserved: presents two dynamic new EYE Museum will celebrate the sensory The Netherlands Film Fund and co­productions at Venice/Toronto and dreamlike works of Apichatpong EYE International 2017 Weerasethakul and Cao Guimarães 12-13 More vroom The Production CONTACT Sandra den Hamer Incentive now welcomes high­end TV, 40 Star profile Rifka Lodeizen, star of CEO EYE doc and animation series Disappearance by Boudewijn Koole and E [email protected] Marleen Jonkman’s Messi and Maud, 14-15 The ice queen cometh Boudewijn both selected for Toronto Marten Rabarts Koole is back with Disappearance, Head of EYE International E [email protected] selected for TIFF EYE International 16-17 Heading north Debutant Marleen PO BOX 74782 Jonkman tackles the raw subject of 1070 BT Amsterdam The Netherlands childlessness in Messi and Maud, T +31 20 758 2375 selected for TIFF Discovery W www.eyefilm.nl 18-21 Catching tulip fever Mike van Doreen Boonekamp Diem’s lavish and romantic Tulipani CEO Netherlands Film Fund E [email protected] opens The Netherlands Film Festival – and is Toronto­bound as well Jonathan Mees Communications 22-25 High flying Dutchman Leading Netherlands Film Fund Dutch DOP Hoyte van Hoytema talks E [email protected] to See NL about lensing Dunkirk for Netherlands Film Fund Christopher Nolan Pijnackerstraat 5 1072 JS Amsterdam 26-27 Epic benefits Kaap Holland The Netherlands T +31 20 570 7676 Film’s Maarten Swart talks about W www.filmfonds.nl bringing Dunkirk to The Netherlands 28-29 First among equals In We Margiela Dutch dochouse Mint Film profiles the rise of avant-garde fashion house Maison Martin Margiela 30-31 Under her wing Jaap van Heusden’s In Blue, about an air stewardess who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a young boy, opens Cover: Tulipani Mike van Films by the Sea Diem See page 18 Tulipani Mike van Diem See page 18 2 3 TIFF and San Sebastian Film Festival Beyond Words Urszula Antoniak An immigrant’s tale Antoniak was in her early 20s when Antoniak first had the idea for she came to The Netherlands in the Beyond Words a decade ago. late 1980s, even though she was still She intended to shoot it in The enrolled at film school in Katowice. Netherlands and had even lined up “It was pretty obvious,” she a Dutch­Polish actor to play the responds when asked why she lead. In the event, she couldn’t raise decided to build herself a new life the financing. Now, ten years later, Photo: Maciej Zienkiewicz away from Poland. “I just couldn’t she has completed the project Urszula Antoniak stand the [political] climate there. – but has shot it in Germany. It was communism still, a bastard The film stars Jakub Gierszał, a Urszula Antoniak acknowledges version of communism – the last charismatic young Polish actor who that her new feature, Beyond years of a system that everybody was born in Cracow but grew up Words, about a successful knows is not working.” Her father between Germany and Poland. young Polish lawyer living in was a communist and her mother The lawyer’s father is played by Berlin, has a strong was in Solidarity. That meant the Andrzej Chyra, a hugely respected autobiographical undertow, tensions in the country as a whole cinema and stage actor. writes Geoffrey Macnab. were reflected in her own home. “There were quarrels on a daily basis.” In the decade since she first wrote Like the lawyer in the film, selected the screenplay for Beyond Words, for San Sebastian and TIFF Contemp­ Coming to The Netherlands, the tone of the project has changed. orary World Cinema, Antoniak left Antoniak relished the blast of Originally, it had a ‘feelgood’ factor. her homeland to head west. She too freedom. She could buy whatever Now, it is much more harrowing in has become very successful with a books and music she wanted – or its depiction of the immigrant’s string of award­winning features was able to afford. Nothing was situation. The young lawyer is highly behind her (Code Blue, Nothing banned. If she wanted to read successful but he has had to Personal) that have screened at Celine’s Journey To The End Of The become ‘a bit of an actor, a shape numerous international festivals Night, nobody was going to stop her. shifter,’ and his connection with his and sold to many countries. She could step on a train to Paris father has become very strained. without any interference. “It was a In Beyond Words, supported by the life free of politics.” Antoniak’s own relationship with Netherlands Film Fund, the lawyer her homeland has also changed. is visited by his father, but despite Eventually, Antoniak enrolled in The Law And Justice Party is now in their blood ties, it’s as if the two film school in The Netherlands. government and, to her dismay, the men are living in different worlds. The approach was very different country has swung to the right. They struggle to relate to one from that in Poland and altogether “What is in Poland now is beyond another. “This is like the primal more pragmatic. Whereas Polish words. The conflict there is just the scene for any immigrant, when you students were all talking about the tip of the iceberg of the many are visited by your parents from the vision and beauty of Tarkovsky from conflicts of the past that were never “The Dutch ‘me’ became old country,” Antoniak explains of the day they arrived, the Dutch were resolved. Politically, people are very different from the the new raw feelings her film far more focused on simply scared. They don’t know what the Polish version of me” exposes. An immigrant, she mastering their craft. “The new future will bring. Whenever I go to continues, becomes someone else, version of me, the Dutch ‘me’, was Poland, I am sad, I am angry and a different version of the person very different from the Polish I feel helpless. So I return to Photo: Olaf Tryzna who left home. version,” she jokes. Amsterdam, where I belong.” Director & script: Urszula Antoniak Production: Opus Film (PL) Co-Production: Family Affair Films (NL) Sales: Global Screen 4 5 Toronto International Film Festival Catastrophe Jamille van Wijngaarden Picture purrfect a larger than life world with larger Each film is screened before a major than life characters. And I like release at Pathé cinemas across comedy, especially dark comedy, The Netherlands. Catastrophe will so it was a bit logical. In animation play before Spiderman Homecoming. everything is possible, so I wanted Past Ultrakort­funded films include to go further than you can in a live the Academy Award shortlisted action film. For me that was the film A Single Life by Job Joris and most fun part, and I could definitely Marieke. Jamille van Wijngaarden explore the darkest depths of my humour.” “We are very proud that one of the She may be better known as a short animation films, made within live action director but Jamille After receiving Film Fund support, our Ultrakort programme is van Wijngaarden’s animation Van Wijngaarden worked on selected for TIFF,” enthuses Dorien debut Catastrophe, backed by character design and blocking in van de Pas, head of New Screen NL the Film Fund’s Ultrakort November 2016 and modeling in at The Netherlands Film Fund. scheme, has been selected for January 2017 before three weeks of “It is a project made by Kepler Film, Toronto Short Cuts Competition. intense and very detailed animation. a young and ambitious team, She talks to Nick Cunningham. “The difficult part for me was the coming from fiction to animation blocking, when your characters are for the first time. Together with The idea for the animated pre­defined as blocks. It was Storm Postproduction, their Catastrophe only came to Jamille difficult to see their eventual technical partner, they succeeded in van Wijngaarden in August 2016. movements, how fast they walk, making a very energetic, vivid and A mere year later her madcap and how fast they talk, but I had a great adventurous trip set in one room audacious 2­minute short film team of animators and post­ – and played within a very short world premieres in Toronto.

Load more

  21

Copy Link