The competition Dutch animation counts 49 films in the categories shorts, educational, leaders, commercials, clips and student films.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2014

Showing in this program

Almost Square

• Jeroen ter Welle
• The Netherlands, 2013

A short film about dancing square forms. The starting point for this film was abstract image. For the sound I found the composition “ Happy Polka “ by Jack Barbour and his rhythm rustlers. Once this was very popular dance music, but considering that the world did forgot to dance to this music it appears the square forms once again started to hit the dance floor.
And, the forms try to be square. Perhaps none of them are really square. But in Dutch the word square does not only mean “ square “, it also means a form with four sides. And as the title already tells us, they are almost square, they try to be square, or they want to be square.

-------------------------------------------------


-------------------------------------------------

Boogie Woogie

• René Adema
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 4 min.

Boogie Woogie shows us a quasi-chaotic manufacturing proces of a lightbulp.
the Viewer is taken into a fickle mechanism of fate, Accompanied by a rhythmic
Boogie Woogie pianosong.

-------------------------------------------------


-------------------------------------------------

Cut the Crap, Go Crop

• CROP
• The Netherlands, 2013

People these days don't feel like listening to tedious presentations or read endless emails they want the see a fun infomercial

Dodo Drama

• Niek Hilkmann / Sandra Gnjatovic
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 3 min.

The last living dodo probably died somewhere on the island of Mauritius during the 17th century. This was not such a big deal at the time, but reconstructions and reproductions of dodo’s have roamed through the public imagination by means of paintings, literature and movies ever since. Something gets lost in this flux and something takes shape, but what is not exactly clear. It’s a ‘dodo drama’!

Don’t Be Scared of Mental Illness

• Dario van Vree
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 2 min.

Animatie met als doel op lichtvoetige wijze de stigmatisering van psychische aandoeningen tegen te gaan: Depressie, psychiatrische opname en psychose.

Humorous animation aiming at reducing the stigmatization of mental illness: Depression, Psychiatric Admission and Psychosis.
-------------------------------------------------


-------------------------------------------------

Facing the News

• Wiep Teeuwisse
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 2 min.

A man gets shocked by the amount of bad news in the newspaper, then he takes control of the situation.

Get Happy or Get Out

• Andreia Dobrota
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 3 min.

D, lives alone in a small city in a world where everything is made to make people happy. Almost everyone is extremely happy and have absolutely everything that they might need or want. Unhappy people are gradually forced away from society and become legends that people only hear about. D is one of the few last unhappy people in the world and struggles to continue living in that world.

Hog Heaven

• Peter Aquino
• The Netherlands, 2012
• 3 min.

A pig escapes to the woods to discover there are worse things there than what annoys him at home.

I Love Hooligans

• Jan-Dirk Bouw
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 12 min.

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.

Jorka

• Michiel Wesselius
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 8 min.

Everybody once had thoughts about their own death and what it will cause to our loved ones. Jorka portrays theaftermath of the process of loss. After a tragic accident of the protagonist, we see the departed coping with his demise.The stories of the mourners are connected by telephone calls going through the ether. Each individual deals with the lossin their own way. What one says can be very different from one's actual thoughts...

Metamorfoza

• Martha Colburn
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 6 min.

Metamorfoza is close to Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony theme. After the 1917 revolution Shostakovich remained in the Soviet Union, where he got the brunt under the Stalin regime. His Seventh Symphony, written in 1941 during the siege of Leningrad, was dedicated to "our upcoming victory over the enemy." Officially he meant the Nazis, but between the lines it was an indictment of Stalin.

No Place Like Home

• Nicolien Opdam
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 7 min.

Short synopsis No Place Like Home
Nicolien Opdam
September 2013

A tall man lives in a little house. A short man lives in a small house.
That’s not very handy. That’s even painful sometimes.
Change houses seems to be the best solution. But is the easy way always the happy way?

No Place Like Home
Over gras dat niet altijd groener is bij de buren. Of juist wel. Over huisjes met kruisjes,
ditjes en

The Visitor

• George Dechev
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 8 min.

A short drama about a lonely and particularly someone. Despite his extraordinary gift, he is in doubt with himself and is thinking about his existence. Looking for the meaning of life.

Tombed

• Elian Van der Heijden / Jeffrey Schreuders
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 4 min.

On an expedition deep in the jungle a greedy treasure hunter suddenly finds himself into trouble because of his sidekick.

Wild

• Harry Arling / Martin Venema
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 2 min.

Wild is the story of an overzealous hunter and his explosive frolic through the peaceful woods. It quickly becomes apparent, though, that he has no idea what he is missing.