• Societeit de Kring (map)
  • Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7-9
  • 1017 RP Amsterdam
  • Netherlands

WE ARE BACK!!! Get ready for a great session with 2 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 are honoured to have director SACHA POLAK as our opening guest this season! Sacha is also back! Her latest film SILVER HAZE has just premiered at Berlinale and granted her leading star, Vicky Knight, the Teddy Award at Berlinale for her role. This is not the first time we can see this duo together. Sacha and Vicky already joined forces on Sacha’s previous film, DIRTY GOD, Sundance Official Selection. Some much to talk about!

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

Check out the cool short films and teams you can watch/meet this session:

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Gnomes
Gnomes

Ruwan Heggelman | Live-Action | 05’56''

Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she soon wishes she'd stayed on her usual tracks...

Anahit
Anahit

Laura Hermanides | Experimental | 08’52’’

A visit to the swimming pool brings back Imaani's dark memories of a sexual assault. To defeat her inner demons and overcome the past, Imaani will have to face her trauma.

Special Guest

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SACHA POLAK
SACHA POLAK

DIRECTOR (SILVER HAZE, DIRTY GOD, HEMEL)

7 March

Sacha Polak is an award-winning director and writer. She graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2006. Her first two feature films, Hemel (2012) and Zurich (2014), received great critical acclaim from the international press. They were both selected at many international film festivals; Hemel won the Fipresci award (International Federation of Film Critics Award) at the Berlinale Forum and Zurich the International Confederation of Art Cinema Award (C.I.C.E.A award), the jury prize for Best Film of Berlinale’s Forum. Her latest feature Dirty God, about a young mother who is the victim of an acid attack, premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of Sundance 2019 and was the opening film of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019. After finishing Dirty God, Sacha directed a block of episodes for Season 2 of Hanna for Amazon. She is currently shooting 3 episodes of The Doll Factory for Paramount+. Her newest feature film Silver Haze premieres at Berlinale Panorama.