School in Focus: Netherlands Belgium

70 minutes
School in Focus: Netherlands Belgium

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

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

69SECstudents

69SEC

  • Nicolas Laura
  • Belgium, 2016

This animated short is about a couple, intertwined in a puzzle like manner.

After a Whilestudents

After a While

  • Lise Custers
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 3 min.

The resourceful bear is trying to survive by adapting to its changing environment. He makes a journey in which he comes across elements in his environment that ask to change him. Life requires flexibility and the search for solutions. The elements that ask to change the bear are: temperature, color, material and shape.

Camouflagestudents

Camouflage

  • Imge Özbilge
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 5 min.

A forbidden friendship blossoms in a secret garden in the city where the East meets the West.  

Flightstudents

Flight

  • Reynaert Vosveld
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 4 min.

A person tries to enjoy his euphoric coffee moment, but the progression of time makes it impossible for him to remain resided in bliss.

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Bloodstudents

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Blood

  • Rik Chaubet
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 3 min.

Kaleidoscopic trip through life by a disfigured performer, as an extension of the Zappa meets punk song.

Lifelessstudents

Lifeless

  • Max van der Ree / Bas Jansen / Fokke Mars
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 2 min.

A new kind of organism has been born. It is not made up of flesh and blood, but of circuits and wires. Witness the life of this organism unfold as it grows and thrives, until it must inevitably conclude.

Low Sound of Firestudents

Low Sound of Fire

  • Daniel Wesseik
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 4 min.

A call to save a nest from burning leads a certain bird to strange and unfamiliar territory. 

Meatsstudents

Meats

  • Kay-Lee Boxem
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 2 min.

An abstract exploration of the meat industry.

Mooi Missistudents

Mooi Missi

  • Diego Nurse
  • Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016
  • 8 min.

A poetic portrait about how Petra, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the beautiful woman she is today. This film was made as an apology to the director's nephew who was openly discriminated against by the family when he shared his sexual orientation.

Opiastudents

Opia

  • Shanta Jethoe
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 5 min.

An inquisitive, little girl sets out to buy herself some ice cream. She then finds herself in an encounter with the neighbourhood children, who seem to question her presence.

Rascalsstudents

Rascals

  • Jasmine Elsen
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 5 min.

What if your window is your view. Would you like it to be clean or would you cover it? Do you have a choice? 'Kastaars' is about our own illusions about out there, hidden in our own world, about seeing and being seen.

Selfstudents

Self

  • Romée van Benten
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 4 min.

A young girl experiences the exciting process of  discovering herself. 

The Adaption Trilogystudents

The Adaption Trilogy

  • Danit Elgev
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 7 min.

Audiovisual book in three parts about an imaginary city, with a peculiar rhythm and structure. 

The Beaststudents

The Beast

  • Liesbet van Loon
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 2 min.

Experimental story about a woman with an inner demon that haunts her. 

Through the Treesstudents

Through the Trees

  • Tamara Janke
  • The Netherlands, 2016
  • 3 min.

A young artist is weighed down by her teacher’s expectations. She takes refuge in her own, drawn world. Here, she finds her path and eventually rises to the occasion.

Tourstudents

Tour

  • Jasmijn Cedee
  • Belgium / The Netherlands, 2016
  • 2 min.

A playful and somewhat abstract hand-painted animation with heaps of energy, dedicated to bicycle track racing. Made in honour of ’t Kuipke, a wooden indoor track in Ghent, Belgium, where the 6 days of racing are held since 1922.