Connecting People

75 minutes
Connecting People

The main theme this edition is connecting people: filmmakers and the audience and theatres in the neighbourhood. Dutch highlights from the festival history.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

A Single Life

A Single Life

  • Job / Joris & Marieke
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

When Pia puts on a mysterious vinyl single, she's suddenly able to travel through her own life.

Barcode

Barcode

  • Adriaan Lokman
  • The Netherlands, 2001
  • 8 min.

A road movie through an abstract and virtual world.

Big Buck Bunny

Big Buck Bunny

  • Sacha Goedegebure
  • The Netherlands, 2008
  • 9 min.

A huge, friendly rabbit enjoys his morning until three rodents start tormenting him.

Edmondstudents

Edmond

  • Nina Gantz
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 9 min.

Sometimes the impulse to love is too strong, perhaps even cannibalistic. Edmond is the stop-motion story of an oddball felted character who contemplates his life, revisiting all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires. A strangely relatable black comedy.

Father and Daughter

Father and Daughter

  • Michael Dudok de Wit
  • The Netherlands, 2000
  • 8 min.

A girl grows up, but within her there is always a deep longing for her missing father.

Oh Willy…

Oh Willy…

  • Emma de Swaef / Marc James Roels
  • Belgium / The Netherlands, 2012
  • 16 min.

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery. Entirely made from wool, felt and textile, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels' short tells a story of life, death and rebirth with wobbly thighs, vomit, breastfeeding, space travel and bunny rabbits - all against the backdrop of a nudist colony. Oh Willy... reads as a surrealist story about loneliness, grief and a soft little guy tossed around by life. De Swaef & Roels create a universe where its inhabitants and building blocks are allowed their imperfections.

Panic!

Panic!

  • Joost Lieuwma / Daan Velsink
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 5 min.

In the car on her day off Marja has a sudden rush of panic: did she turn off the gas? And did she leave the water running? And lock the window? In her mind her imaginary mistakes grow to absurd proportions.

Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society

Red-end and the Seemingly Symbiotic Society

  • Robin Noorda / Bethany de Forest
  • The Netherlands, 2009
  • 15 min.

Ants gather sugar cubes in an icy marl cave in order to build a big palace. This turns out to be a nursery to cultivate larvae, bizarre, marching gluttons.