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.
Big Buck Bunny

Big Buck Bunny

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

Edmond

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

Edmond's impulse to love and be close to others is strong... Maybe too strong. As he stands alone by a lake contemplating his options, he goes on a journey backwards through his life, and revisits all his defining moments in search for the origin of his desires.

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.

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. These grubs reveal themselves as bizarre, marching gluttons. The ant Red-end is different and tries an experiment…