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Audience Award 2

65 min.

43 Dutch narrative and non-narrative short films were selected for the Competition Audience Award Dutch Animation.


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Lena Platonos: Date

Director: 
Petros Papadopoulos 
Zina Papadopoulou
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
3 min.
A date with a great love.

Kika and Bob: Cowgirl Kika

Director: 
Colette Bothof 
Vincent Bal
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
13 min.

Episode one of a humorous series about the brave nine-year-old girl Kika and the not so bright fire fighter Bob. A storm blows them to the other side of the globe as they try to rescue Kika’s cat Tijgertje from the church steeple.

Sketchbook: Hair

Director: 
Maarten Koopman
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
1 min.
The Sketchbook series feature miniature observations of mundane subjects. Hair shows all types of hair, in unexpected places. Long, short, thick and thin.

Sketchbook: Water

Director: 
Maarten Koopman
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
2 min.
The Sketchbook series feature miniature observations of mundane subjects. Water shows water, and more water, and sketches of objects and figures in, above and under the water.
Student Film

Bloody Mary

Director: 
Zina Papadopoulo
 / 
Greece, 2007
1 min.

A door opens. Mary faces the strange room with mixed feelings of excitement and greed. Could things seem different, had she been a cow?

Mazerunners

Director: 
Nils Mühlenbruch
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
2 min.
Movie and game characters, trapped in a maze are fooling around in endless circles.

Bolletje: Commercials (Kip en Kruimeldief)

Director: 
Balder Westein 
Patrick Raats
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
1 min.

Compilation of two commercials.

Victor the Bandit

Director: 
Akmar Nijhof
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
2 min.

The search Victor the Bandit for the right gesture to demonstrate his eternal love for his beloved termite. In the end, he steals a forget-me-not from a flea.

Lipton: Clear Green Tea (3 commercials)

Director: 
Patrick Raats
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
2 min.
Three parts of a series for the Dutch Lipton Clear Green website. Three stressed characters find themselves in a relaxing environment with the help of Lipton Clear Green tea.

Dutchspring

Director: 
Frodo Kuipers
 / 
The Netherlands, 2007
1 min.
Realized as an animated website. In three scenes, several channels of communication are opened up.

Cheeseheads and Waterlanders

Director: 
Jeroen van Leeuwen
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
1 min.
Fictional camera movements across an animated sheet on which episodes from Dutch history unfold. Presented by Ernst Daniël Smid.

The Tiny Roots of Evil

Director: 
Wim Bechtold
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
2 min.
In a typical Dutch landscape, Dagastan Muslims protests against the Hak food company for sending a shipment of inferior carrots to Dagastan.

Oh My God It's Culture (8 commercials)

Director: 
Yvonne Kroese 
Reinoud van Hasselt 
René Gast
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
4 min.

A series of eight short promos for the digital TV channel Cultura. Cultura's eight themes are literature, film, dance, theatre, art, music and entertainment.

Ghost Trucker: Under the Stars

Director: 
Marleen Heidweiller
 / 
The Netherlands, 2007
4 min.
A boy scout wants to solve the mystery of some missing animals in a nearby forest. He meets a mysterious girl who comes to his aid when he falls into a hole in the ground. When she gets to trust him, they make a fantastic journey.

Whiplashed

Director: 
Arnoud Rijken
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
5 min.

When a man comes to behind the wheel of his crashed car, he discovers he has lost his memory.

Student Film

My Dear Grandma

Director: 
Marta Abad Blay
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
5 min.

In her dreams Dolores is an ordinary grandmother enjoying her pension, and her family. The reality, however, is quite different: she feels a slave to her family, responsible for taking care of the family members, and she feels powerless to change her situation.

Theatre Patouffe

Director: 
Maarten Koopman
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
7 min.

Inanimate objects, such as tables, chairs, a room, and even photo cameras, film projectors and small fantasy cars perform an animated and spectacular theatre show, dragging us along to places and events that are impossible in the theatre.

Big Buck Bunny

Director: 
Sacha Goedegebure
 / 
The Netherlands, 2008
10 min.
A huge, friendly rabbit enjoys his morning until three rodents start tormenting him.