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

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  • Nicolas Laura
  • Belgium, 2016

This is a love story seen from a square.

After a While

After a While

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

De vindingrijke beer probeert te overleven door zich aan te passen aan zijn veranderende omgeving. Hij maakt een reis waarin hij elementen in zijn omgeving tegen komt die hem vragen te veranderen. Het leven vraagt om flexibiliteit en het zoeken naar oplossingen. De elementen die de beer vragen te veranderen zijn: temperatuur, kleur,materiaal en vorm.

Camouflage

Camouflage

  • Imge Özbilge
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 5 min.

Camouflage tells the story of a forbidden friendship blossoming in a secret garden in the city where the East meets the West.
This animated short inspired by Ottoman Miniatures and Hieronymus Bosch takes the audience to a mysterious and surreal world which is a reflection of the directors reality. The Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul and the current political matters in Turkey are some of the topics that the director implements and criticizes in her work.
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The movie file is downloadable for the jury
The password to watch and download is:
cay2016
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Flight

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 Blood

Hypochristmutreefuzz: Gums Smile Blood

  • Rik Chaubet
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 3 min.

Een caleidoscopische tocht doorheen het leven van een misvormd performer in het verlengde van het 'zunk' (Zappa meets punk)-nummer.
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Digital file is an WeTransfer-link and wil stop being available on November 7.
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Lifeless

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 Fire

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.

Meats

Meats

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

An abstract exploration of the meat industry.

Mooi Missi

Mooi Missi

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

A poetic portrait about how Beyong , 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 woman she is today.

Backstory:
This portrait was made as an apology to my nephew. He was openly discriminated against by the family when he shared with us his sexual orientation.

Opia

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.

Rascals

Rascals

  • Jasmine Elsen
  • Belgium, 2016
  • 5 min.

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

Self

Self

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

A young girl goes through the journey of self discovering anxiety.
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The Adaption Trilogy

The Adaption Trilogy

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

An animated visual audio book, consisting out of three parts. The film’s different parts focus on an imaginary city, with its own rhythm and structure. It examines, from three different points of view, the impact the surroundings and the community have on its residents.
The story is an allegory to current social matters such as immigration, expatriatism, and the hectic pace of modern big cities. It raises questions on integration and how places influence us. It emphasizes the feelings involved in adapting to a new place.
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The Beast

The Beast

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

An experimental story of a woman with an (inner) demon who haunts her in daily life. She attempts to avoid
and ignore the monster until she comes to revelation to accept and live with it.
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Through the Trees

Through the Trees

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

A young, aspiring artist caves under the expectations of her teacher and flees into her own mindscape, where she will find her way through the forest and eventually rises above herself.

Tour

Tour

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

A playfull and somewhat abstract handpainted animation with heaps of energy. A dedication to bicycle trackracing. Made in honor of “ ’t Kuipke ” a wooden indoor track in Ghent, Belgium, where the 6 days of racing are held since 1922.