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

Get ready for a great session with 3 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.


After the session, let’s celebrate the monumental milestone of 300 sessions of Shortcutz in Amsterdam! Join us for an After-Party featuring a music selection curated by the talented Niks Door Niemand. Don't miss out on the opportunity to groove, so dust off your dance shoes and get ready to hit the dance floor!

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

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

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Honeycomb
Honeycomb

Haider Hussain | Live-Action | 13’51’’

Mariyam, a twenty-year-old Dutch Muslim heavy metal vocalist, realizes she might be pregnant. How does she reconcile this news with her different cultural identities and, above all, tell her mother?

Prison with Songbirds
Prison with Songbirds

Ewan Macbeth | Experimental | 12’30’’

An unseen narrator tells his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country and his random release. Based on a letter sent to Amnesty International by the filmmaker’s father and a surreal interview given about it. ‘Prison with Songbirds’ is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital celluloid collide.

Table 8
Table 8

Sander van Dijk | Live-Action | 10’50’’

An anxiety-ridden man meets his friend for dinner in a shadowy restaurant to share a dark suspicion. At first, his friend doesn't believe him and tries to convince the man nothing is happening. But the further they get into their midnight conversation, the more they begin to fear: something about this evening isn't quite right…