Video Catalogue 2009
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Video Catalogue 2009 COLOPHON The Holland Film Meeting 2009 is supported by : MEDIA Programme of the European Union Netherlands Film Fund, HGIS – Cultuurmiddelen Ministry of Education, Culture and Science Binger Filmlab Holland Film Netherlands Feature Film Association (NVS) MEDIA Desk Nederland City of Utrecht Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kodak Variety Screen International Treaty of Utrecht EAVE Cinelink Rotterdam Media Commission CoBO CineMeta Digital Holland Subtitling Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten Holland Harbour Productions AVP Grand Hotel Karel V Warnier Studio Bord Scannan nah Eireann/The Irish Film Board Rotterdam Media Fund Flanders Audiovisual Fund Film Fund Luxembourg Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung Swedish Film Institut Production Lorette Steenman, Coördinator Video Library Fred de Haas, Benelux Screenings & Industry Office Design Nico Komen Cover Design Evelyne Brehm for Geijsen Design GENERAL INFORMATION Welcome in the Video Library of the 2009 Holland Film Meeting. The Video Library is the place to bring recent films from the Benelux to the attention of buyers, commissioning editors, festival directors and sales agents. It presents a variety of recent Benelux Film- and TV productions, Netherlands Film Festival- and special programme selections, available for screening in one of the 20 screening booths. Every professional visitor receives a catalogue, which lists approximately 180 titles. These titles include especially films that were selected for one of the 2009 Netherlands Film Festival programs. The festival competition films are marked by the NFF logo in the catalogue. Besides, we offer this year a great amount of student films. Most of the available titles are English subtitled or English spoken. By looking through the films of the catalogue, which can only be obtained from the Video Library-desk in “De Boerderij” room, at the Karel V Hotel, you can decide which films you would like to see. Please write down your selection on the questionnaire available at the video-library desk. (A maximum of three titles each time). After handing in this form and your festival badge at the desk, you will be given the requested title(s). On returning the title(s) you will get your badge back. For the guests of the Holland Film Meeting, there is a computer available in the Industry Office, the room next to the Video Library, with Internet access. The Video Library is open daily between 9 am and 9 pm (except on Saturday Sept. 26; it will close at 7:30 pm and on the closing day Monday Sept. 28; it will close at 4 pm.) Fred de Haas and Lorette Steenman and their staff will be present during the Holland Film Meeting to assist you. We wish you an enjoyable and inspiring stay at the Video Library and hope that you will find the films that you are looking for, and will be surprised by the professional qualities of the available product. Fred de Haas Lorette Steenman Supervisor Video Library Coördinator Video Library Contents Short Films 2 Feature Films 69 Short Documentaries 95 Feature Length Documentaries 156 Short TV Dramas 178 Long TV Dramas 183 Index on title 187 Index on directors 194 Index on producers 202 Index on sales agents 208 Contents | 1 Short Films After the Water the Clouds Video no. 1 Director: Carmen Rozest raten The Netherlands 2009 Original language: no dialogue English video available Genre: Dance Length: 10' Production: Carmen Rozestraten Daniel Stalpertstraat 85 3 hoog Playful and poetic voyage of a young Catalan 1072 XC Amsterdam woman whose world becomes more and more Nederland surreal as she encounters mythical and unusual ℡ +31.20.6714094 characters. +31.20.6316694 [email protected] Sales: Same as Production Short Films | 3 Beguine Video no. 2 Director: Douwe Dijkstra The Netherlands 2009 Original language: Dutch English video available Genre: Animation Length: 4' Production: Festina Lente Media Oosteinde 9-11 I sing, I drink, I laugh, I dance, while my heart 1017 WT Amsterdam weeps. The melancholy, imagination, and hope. Nederland My Love left me last night. ℡ +31.20.6264179 +31.20.6265258 Beguine is a short movie abo ut losing ones Love [email protected] and the survival that follows after. http://festinalentemedia.com Contact: Nico de Haan Sales: Same as Production 4 | Short Films Bingo Video no. 3 Director: Timur Ismailov The Netherlands 2009 Original language: Russian, English, Dutch English video available Genre: Drama Length: 27' Academy: Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie (NFTA) BINGO is a young gypsy from Moldova who Markenplein 1 came to the Netherlands in search of better fate. 1011 MV Amsterdam In order to survive as an illegal immigrant he Nederland works for a demolition company t ogether with ℡ +31.20.5277333 Sergei, a former boxer from Russia, and Umar, +31.20.5277344 a biology teacher from Grozny, Chechnya. [email protected] Despite the hard circumstances Bingo www.filmacademie.nl maintains his sense of humour and joy of living. Contact : Marion Slewe While his two mates are dispirited, Bingo follows enthusiastically his dream of earning enough money to build a house in his homeland. Eventually his optimism is put to the test by an accident. Sales: Maarten van der Ven Singel 272 1016 AC Amsterdam Nederland ℡ +31.20.4229199 [email protected] www.isabellafilms.com www.bingothemovie.nl Short Films | 5 Blijf Stay Video no. 4 Director: Wiam Al -Zabari The Netherlands 2009 Original language: Dutch English video available Genre: Drama Length: 11' Production: Wiam Al-Zabari Erasmuslaan 3 It's a short film about staying true to your self. 3584 AZ Utrecht That doesn't apply to the characters or the plot Nederland line of the film but to your interpretation to it. ℡ +31.6.48377925 The story is fairly simpl e; John and Simone is a [email protected] couple. There is something going on with them, www.wiam.nl they love each other, they are in a loving Contact: Wiam Al-Zabari relationship, they see each other for what they are, they know each other. But there is something wrong. What that is? That's up to you to dec ide. The movie is a puzzle; you make of it what you want. But stay true to yourself. Sales: Same as Production 6 | Short Films Bloesem Blossom Video no. 5 Director: Tess Löwenhardt The Netherlands 2009 Original language: Dutch English video available Genre: Drama Length: 25' Academy: Hogeschool v.d. Kunsten Utrecht- Kunst, Media & Af anai (22), is unable to speak. She feels Technologie rejected by society. In response she stays home. Postbus 2471 She makes a living selling necklaces through the 1200 CL Hilversum Internet. Her mailman Jan, who takes her Nederland packages to the post office, becomes ill. The ℡ +31.35.6836464 new mailman, Sem (26), of cour se knows +31.35.6836480 nothing of their agreement. Afanai tries to ask [email protected] him for help. But because of communication www.hku.nl problems this only creates a conflict. Afanai Contact: Lily de Haan realises something has to change, and that she can only change herself, so she does. Sem takes her packages an d becomes intrigued by Afanai. He becomes a gateway between her and society. Sales: Tess Löwenhardt Eerste Oosterparkstraat 141d 1091 GZ Amsterdam Nederland ℡ +31.6.24763444 [email protected] www.bloesemdefilm.nl Short Films | 7 De breuk lijn Tears Video no. 6 Director: Teun van der Zalm The Netherlands 2009 Original language: no dialogue English video available Genre: Drama Length: 5' Academy: Hogeschool v.d. Kunsten Utrecht- Kunst, Media & This symbolic-surrealistic short film has been Technologie inspired by the fact that nowadays parents Postbus 2471 separate more often and with less 1200 CL Hilversum consideratio n. The film tells the story of a little Nederland boy who is suffering from the upcoming divorce ℡ +31.35.6836464 of his parents. +31.35.6836480 [email protected] www.hku.nl Contact: Lily de Haan Sales: Salmonick Productions Burg. Voskensstraat 2 5051 CT Goirle Nederland ℡ +31.62.8943270 salmonickproductions@gmail. com www.salmonick- productions.com Contact: Teun van der Zalm www.tearstheshortfilm.com 8 | Short Films Channels Channels Video no. 7 Director: Lukás Baca The Netherlands 2009 Original language: English English video available Genre: Experimental Length: 9' Academy: Gerrit Rietveld Academie Fred. Roeskestraat 96 You can s witch through the channels of a tv and 1076 ED Amsterdam each one of them offers a new way to go and a Nederland new experience. You can sail through the canals ℡ +31.20.5711600 of Amsterdam and from each one of them you +31.20.5711654 see a different part of the city. And you can [email protected] travel through the channels of the mind, the www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl channels of thoughts, ideas and dreams. Contact: Margriet Kruyver Sales: Lukás Baca Dukelska 3995 Zlin 76001 Czech Republic ℡ +31.20.606384083 [email protected] Short Films | 9 Detention Paradise Video no. 8 Director: Branko Miliskovic The Netherlands 2009 Original language: English, Serbian English video available Genre: Drama Length: 8' Academy: Kon. Acad. v. Beeld.Kunst Prinsessegracht 4 Detention Paradise is a short film, a 2514 AN Den Haag sublimation of my past and my present. There is Nederland no predictable future, just an illusion of the ℡ +31.70.3643835 period of time to come, with a very pathetic Contact: Branko Miliskovic ending. [email protected] Sales: Branko Miliskovic Pahudstraat 28 2593 TG Den Haag Nederland ℡ +31.61.5237398 [email protected] www.brankomiliskovic.worldpre ss.com 10 | Short Films Diorama Video no. 9 Director: Elly Bouman The Netherlands 2009 Original language: no dialogue English video available Genre: Animation Length: 3' Academy: Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten St. Joost The wonderful world of a fantasy in a box. An Postbus 90116 animation film about a girl who makes her 4800 RA Breda diorama more alive with a fly.