Get ready for a great session with 5 short films straight from our official selection! After each screening, we interview the team behind the film and get to know more about their process and vision. We welcome (and encourage) the audience to ask questions.
Check out these cool short films and teams you can watch/meet this session:
(YOUR) MORAL COURAGE
Sanne Kortooms | Live-Action | 11'13''
Everybody wants to do the right thing. But do you still dare to do the right thing if it means that, in an everyday situation, you have to break out of your comfort zone and speak up?
In (Your) Moral Courage three people are facing three ethical dilemmas, putting their moral courage to the test.
EN ROUTE
Marit Weerheijm | Live-Action | 10'09''
When Inay (9) and her little brother have to join their father on a special trip through the city, she tries everything to cause a delay.
ONLY DEATH NEVER LIES
Sam Yazdanpanna | Live-Action | 15'00''
When a grandson escorts his beloved Iranian grandfather to a doctor’s visit, they are told that the grandfather is terminally ill. The grandson needs to translate the bad news, but decides to bend the truth. By doing so he hopes he can keep him alive longer, but at the same time he has to carry the burden of his lie.
OUT OF FOCUS
Jesse van der Kolk, Jesse van der Mark | Live-Action | 06'52''
The night of a Polaroid-photographer searching for human connection in the disorienting nightlife of Amsterdam ends with a blurry reminder.
THE END
Wiebe Bonnema | Animation | 04'37''
What comes after the ending? Where does the hero go to after the story is over? In The End, we continue to follow a cowboy on his path into the empty nothingness of the desert after he rides out of the town he has just saved.