Golden calves winners in the house!! This session, our special guests are two ‘rockstars’ from the new-gen: director SHADY EL-HAMUS and screenwriter JEROEN SCHOLTEN VAN ASCHAT!! Since they’ve worked together SO many times, and they know each other SO well, at this session, Shady El-Hamus and Jeroen Scholten van Aschat will be interviewing each other!

Dutch newspaper, de Volkskrant, named Shady one of three directing talents of 2018. Shady also wrote Sam de Jong’s award-winning film, MAGNESIUM, selected for many international film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival. That year, Shady received the Dioraphte Award for Most Outstanding Graduation Student.

Shady’s last short film, NIGHTSHADE, written by Jeroen, was the Dutch submission for the Academy Awards in 2018 and was selected for competition in the Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the biggest international film festival dedicated to short films.

Jeroen Scholten van Aschat is at an extraordinary moment of his career. This year, besides DE LIBI, he also wrote Viktor van der Valk's cool feature debut NOCTURNE. Jeroen is currently writing I DON'T WANNA DANCE, the feature film based on the short film CROWS NEST (also written by him), which is in the race for Shortcutz Amsterdam Best Film of 2019.

Is this track record stellar or what?

In our OFFICIAL SELECTION, you can watch and meet the teams of:

BEST MOM EVER

Directed by Louis van Zwol | 10:42 | Live-Action | PREMIERE

Paul and Judith find out over dinner that their relationship has come to an end a long time ago as they have lost sight of themselves and the other person.

14.05 ALWAYS A KIND OF ONWARD

Directed by Guido F.G. Jeurissen | 07:51 | Experimental

Narrated by Rotterdam's city poet Dean Bowen with his memorial poem 'always a kind of onward' the viewer is challenged to relive the bombing of the city of Rotterdam on the 14th of May 1940. However, this time, in the context of the present. In a city rebuilt, a heedless community moves forward. The clock hits five 'o clock. Leftover wage slaves drip homewards; an old couple can't even remember each other's existence and a young pregnant woman struggles to find her way in an overcrowded subway. For just a moment, time freezes. Stuck in an infinite feedback loop. Until a colossal eruption awakens the city and embraces it in a blanket of black smoke. Taking everyone's breath.