School in Focus: Netherlands Belgium Student Films

70 minutes
School in Focus: Netherlands Belgium Student Films

A focus on the talents of the future, students from the Netherlands and Flanders.

This program screened as part of Haff 2016

Showing in this program

2048

2048

  • Tom van der Heiden
  • The Netherlands, 2015

Het is 2048. Vlak boven het wateroppervlak staat de familie Vis op het punt om één van de laatste blikjes mens te verorberen. Opa Vis weet niet goed hoe hij zich moet houden. Wat volgt is een absurde vertelling over de ondergang van de mensheid - een vraag-antwoord-gesprek tussen de twee uiterste generaties aan de tafel. Hoe heeft het zo ver kunnen komen?

2402,5 cm

2402,5 cm

  • Kévin Gachet-Thai
  • Belgium, 2014

Random thoughts and images come to life on a strip of paper going across the screen. This short film, animated within three days, results in a playful, joyful, energetic and spontaneous celebration of 'straight-ahead' animation.
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A Morning Without Coffee

A Morning Without Coffee

  • Jelle van Meerendonk
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 4 min.

De koffie is op, enkel hete lucht blaast over de woestijn. Kijk verder! De horizon rubbert!

Berry

Berry

  • Wietse Palmans
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 8 min.

About life, about being human, about culture, about ...

Big Fat Balloon Cat

Big Fat Balloon Cat

  • Nathalie Josephine
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 2 min.

A small but funny story about a boy and his balloon cat

Depart at 22

Depart at 22

  • Wiep Teeuwisse
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

'Depart at 22' is a poetic animated short about growing old and the fear of losing the beauty of youth.

Just Hug Me I’m Scared

Just Hug Me I’m Scared

  • Laura Ibáñez López
  • Belgium, 2015

just hug me i'm scared is a film about the minutes you spent in bed before sleeping, how do you behave in your bed when you are alone in the night and you need someone to hug you.
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Leek Soup

Leek Soup

  • Jef Staut
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 3 min.

Growing leek is not that easy.

New Moon

New Moon

  • Gerd de Kinderen
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 9 min.

The sun as a painter of clouds. The moon as a maniac. And the moon’s wife, a woman that shines. And something is not working between them.
Be taken into a banal little cosmos. To a house, on the green grass, under the blue sky. Where those mythological objects are turned into flesh and blood and all that human imperfection.

Photosynthetic Revelation

Photosynthetic Revelation

  • Maeva Jacques
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 3 min.

Allegorical and metaphorical story about a tiny plant locked up in an empty room, upset by a strange leaf come in through the window.
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Printbird

Printbird

  • Gerd de Kinderen
  • Belgium, 2015

A bird moves to the sounds of a printer. Suddenly he sees a nut and tries to crack it.
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Quacksalver

Quacksalver

  • Jorn Leeuwerink
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

It seems just like a regular day at the quack's office, but then things get brutally out of hand as one of the patients decides to give the wonder doctor a taste of his own medicine!

Raderen

Raderen

  • Gideon van der Stelt
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 6 min.

In the surreal short film ‘Raderen’, the viewer is confronted with the oppressive limbo between waking and sleeping of a young woman that lies in her bed. On the relentless rhythm of time she is propelled through the grim metropole of the mind, until she wanders into redemption.

Samo Bamo

Samo Bamo

  • Kenny Hoste
  • Belgium, 2015

Abstract painting + animation film.
Blowing balloons + destroying your vocal cords at the service of your creation.

The Case

The Case

  • Wietske Koelma
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

The Case is a metaphorical stop motion animation about carring your personality as bagage trough live.

Them & I

Them & I

  • Lina Kilkawi / Jolijn Schuurmans
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 4 min.

The movie "Them & i", tells the story of Victor, a stop motion animation puppet, whose happy ending gets brutally interrupted when his animators want to make a new movie.

Tinythinker

Tinythinker

  • Aniëla Czekaj
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 4 min.

A child’s brain functions differently from that of an adult. To a child, everything is still new, and an unbridled imagination is a natural thing. But they can also be utterly selfish, from a simple lack of empathy. In ‘Kleinbrein’ (Tinythinker), two little girls give free rein to their imagination, but their exclusive focus on themselves brings them to a confrontation.

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Turn the Tables

Turn the Tables

  • Raymon Wittenberg
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

A man named Norbert is trying to make contact with people while going out for dinner in a restaurant. Unfortunately, he is a little bit socially awkward. Is he able to succeed? Or will he spend the evening by himself?