Get ready for a great session with 4 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:
AMANTEA
Laura Hermanides | Live-Action | 13'45''
Teddy is expecting to have a great reviving holiday with his sister Gina in Amantea, in the south of Italy, when the news of a passing family member brings back all the long-forgotten demons of their childhood on Curaçao.
ATILLA
Alkan Coklu | Live-Action | 13'08''
Atilla tells the story about Kemal (23), a Turkish boy who grew up in Amsterdam, who never knew his father in his youth. Kemal is seven years old when his parents’ divorce. After that, he doesn't see his father for ten years. When Kemal is seventeen years old, he contacts his father. They see each other occasionally, but those conversations remain superficial and never concern feelings. Now that he is 23 and becomes a father himself, Kemal decides to share his feelings for the first time. He wants to clear his bond with his father in order to create a new beginning for his son. They meet in a Turkish restaurant in Amsterdam. Will Kemal be able to forgive his father?
GABRIËL
Paul Haans | Live-Action | 13'00''
It's the start of 1945. Jacob, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, is hiding in a cellar with his sister and uncle, in an evacuated village somewhere in the Liemers. Above their heads, a fierce battle is raging over the freedom of the Netherlands. One day Jacob is above ground and runs into a heavily wounded German soldier who is trying to disguise himself as a Canadian soldier in a desperate attempt to save himself from the Allied forces. When the soldier faints, Jacob decides to help him and takes him down into the cellar, while keeping the identity of the soldier a secret for his sister and uncle.
LIFE AT ORANJEHOTEL
Mark Visser / Jeroen Schellekens | Animation | 12'30''
Between 1940 and 1945, Scheveningen was home to one of the most notorious prisons of the Nazis. The ironic nickname 'Oranjehotel' was a tribute to the many resistance fighters who were imprisoned there. More than 25,000 prisoners were detained here during World War II. 519 died in prison, most of them from torture. 215 people sentenced to death were taken to the adjacent dune area by truck and shot.
The animation shows the daily pattern of the prisoners and how they were treated by the SS guards. An aged man looks back at his imprisonment at Oranjehotel during WWII. He tells about his experiences in the prison and in particular about his new cellmate Pieter, a persistent resistance fighter who became his friend during their stay. Pieter and three fellow resistance fighters were taken into custody by the Germans because they had robbed a post-office and were betrayed. Their stay at Oranjehotel was brief and unpleasant.
