EYE International Film Catalogue 2015
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EYE International Film Catalogue 2015
EY C E at In al te og rn ue at 20 ion 15 al INDEX FOREWORD FEATURE FILMS 30 Milligram 100 Eyes Dancing on the Volcano Dummie the Mummy Homies How to Avoid Everything Jack’s Birthday Wish Ladies 4 Little Gangster Lost in Laos Mister Twister on Stage Monkey Business The Most Beautiful Thing in the World Painkillers Prince Railmovie Sunny Side Up Undercover Viper’s Nest Waldstille The Wolf’s Game 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS The Admiral André Hazes, the Biopic Beyond Sleep Boy 7 Clean Hands Eisenstein in Guanajuato The Escape Full Contact Gift from the Heart History’s Future In the Heart J. Kessels Kidnap Life According to Nino Miracle Monks Our Sun Public Works Rendez-Vous Schneider vs. Bax The Sky Above Us The Surprise The Sword of D’Artagnan Triple Trouble 20 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 25 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 2 Ventoux Wiplala Zurich 31 32 32 MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS The Ardennes Belgica Blessed Benefit Brand New U Bull Down! Cafard Cherry Tree The Commune False Witness Francofonia Galloping Mind Humidity Intimacy Land and Shade The Lobster Mammal Math Sucks Paradise Trips Prejudice Road to La Paz The Summer of Sangaïlé Under the Pyramid 34 34 34 34 35 35 35 35 36 36 36 36 37 37 37 37 38 38 38 38 39 39 IN PRODUCTION As if I’m Crazy Brimstone Cobain Dead and Beautiful Disappearance Mr. Frog Out of Love Owls & Mice A Real van Meegeren When My Father Became a Bush 42 42 43 43 44 44 45 45 46 46 DOCUMENTARIES Alice Cares Around the World in 50 Concerts Banana Pancakes and the Children of Sticky Rice Between the Devil and the Deep Bezness as Usual Cheesehead Blues The Chimpanzee Complex Don’t Lose Heart 48 48 49 49 50 50 51 51 EYE International The Dutch Church of Bloemendaal Ego Erbarme Dich The Garage Gay Wedding Fair Georgica Ghosts from the Past Home I Don’t Belong Here Imperfect Harmony Killer Slope The Mission Naziha’s Spring Only the Best for Our Son Pekka People in Berlin The Perfect Horse Rebellious City Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT A Shtetl in the Caribbean Solo out of a Dream Stand by Your President Those Who Feel the Fire Burning Transit Havana What Went Wrong Where? 52 52 53 53 54 54 55 55 56 56 57 57 58 58 59 59 60 60 61 61 62 62 63 63 64 78 79 79 80 ANIMATED SHORTS Blue Moon Deadly Drive-in Disaster Dog-e Full Feather Jacket Loss A Single Life Splintertime Under the Apple Tree 82 82 83 83 84 84 85 85 COLOPHON EYE International Claudia Landsberger Nathalie Mierop Translations Nicholas Cunningham Design & Layout Floppy Design SHORT DOCUMENTARIES The Alchemist Chellina / Da Beast The Chinese Are Coming Giovanni and the Water Ballet Locked up Lions Losers My Dearest F#cking Phone Nothing Left Unsaid So Help Me God This Summer Is Mine You’ve Got a Problem 66 66 67 67 68 68 69 69 70 70 71 SHORT FILMS All Those Sunflowers Empty Expose A Hole in My Heart Home Suite Home In the Pit Der Kaiser Malaguti Phantom P 74 74 75 75 76 76 77 77 78 EYE International Spotters Symmetry Das Wad Wild Dog Print Ecodrukkers Nieuwkoop Price: € 20,This catalogue can be ordered from: EYE Film Institute Netherlands Dept. EYE International Ph: +31 20 758 2375 [email protected] www.international.eyefilm.nl / www.eyefilm.nl © EYE Film Institute Netherlands Copyright reserved. Subject to the exceptions provided for by law no part of this publication may be reproduced and or published in print, by photocopying, on microfilm or in any other way without the written consent of the copyright holder(s). The same applies to whole or partial adaptations. The publisher retains the sole right to collect from third parties fees payable in respect of copying and/or take legal or other action for this purpose. ISBN/EAN 978-90-74583-24-4 3 FOREWORD EYE International is very pleased to present the new EYE International Film Catalogue, Films from the Netherlands 2015. The catalogue strives to give information and full details about the latest features, shorts (narrative as well as experimental and animated) and feature-length and short documentaries. It is a record of the works and talents of Dutch directors and producers, both established and emerging, whose films deserve attention from international festivals, distributors and audiences alike. This year we are very pleased to serve you new films by such interesting and prolific directors as Alex van Warmerdam (BORGMAN) with SCHNEIDER VS. BAX; Boudewijn Koole (KAUWBOY) with BEYOND SLEEP; David Verbeek (HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD) with FULL CONTACT and Peter Greenaway with EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO, just to name a few. The promotion of Dutch film is continued at all of the prestigious festivals, such as Berlin, Sundance, Clermont Ferrand, Cannes, Locarno, Venice, San Sebastian and Toronto. Our films continue to pick up many international awards, Dutch children's and youth films are a good EYE International example of our highlights and currently winning awards all over the world. EYE International exists as a one-stop shop that offers a wide range of services to the global film community. We promote our broad range of home-grown products to festival programmers, journalists and buyers worldwide, as well as keep the global industry updated on all aspects of the Dutch industry. We match-make international companies with any Dutch talent and are always willing to advise international producers of the benefits of filming in the Netherlands. As ever, we very much look forward to collaborating with you and to seeing many of these Dutch films screened in festivals and cinemas across the world to wide and enthusiastic audiences. Wishing you a happy and prosperous Dutch New Film Year. Claudia Landsberger and the EYE International Team EYE Film Institute Netherlands 5 FEATURE FILMS FEATURE FILMS 30 MILLIGRAM 100 EYES Melvin Simons Thijs Bayens Iris dreams of learning the craft of filmmaking in Rio de Janeiro. Her father Pavo seems to have no artistic ambitions until he starts to work on a film about his own childhood. He enlists the Brazilian 'cinema novo' director Oscar and invests all he has. Iris feels attracted to Oscar. When he leaves she realizes that Pavo worked on the film to make her see that art creates selfish monsters unable to choose anything or anyone but art itself. 100’ / DCP / colour The ongoing crisis sent society spiraling downward. Already known for their progressive thinking, the Dutch government passed a law stating that all people born between ’45 and ’55 should be euthanized, ‘to give their grandchildren the future that was removed from them.’ Two men are tasked with the implementation of this law. Although clearly understaffed, they at least try to take pride in their work. But as the assignments increasingly take their toll emotionally, tension rises… and their work suffers. 76’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: 30 MILLIGRAM Prod: Filmband Sc: William Spaaij, Rogier Kahlmann D.O.P.: Michel Edelenbosch, Dennis Roelofs Completed: May 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: William Spaaij, Dieter Jansen, Johhny Kraaijkamp (LITTLE CRUMB), Tom Jansen. Genre: drama Original title: 100 EYES Prod: Making Of Foundation Sc: Thijs Bayens D.O.P.: Richard van Oosterhout, Maarten van Rossem, Josje van Erkel, Alex Wuijts Completed: September 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Kiki van Deursen (MANSLAUGHTER, GODFORSAKEN), Raymond Thiry (BETWEEN 10 AND 12, WOLF), André Gago (CINZAS, VIDAS DE SAL). Thijs Bayens: First feature film. FALLING (1998, doc). Making Of Foundation Ph: +31 6 2127 1555 [email protected] www.makingofthemovie.nl Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment Ph: +31 35 677 4777 [email protected] www.dutchfeatures.com PRIMAL INSTINCTS (2011, short), TRIADE (2010, short). Filmband [email protected] www.filmband.net Melvin Simons: First feature film. NO GUTS! (2013, short), THINK DIFFERENT (2012, short), 8 EYE International FEATURE FILMS DANCING ON THE VOLCANO DUMMIE THE MUMMY Pim van Hoeve Adriënne Wurpel Imagine this. Your name is Gus, you’re dead normal and you live in the most boring village in the whole wide world. But you walk into your bedroom one day and there’s an actual Egyptian mummy sitting on your bed. What do you do? Well, first you jump out of your skin of course. Then you close your eyes, count to ten, count to twenty… but it doesn’t help. The mummy is still there…! 80’ / DCP / colour Maarten is an ordinary 16-year-old. He likes to hang around in the park, listen to music, play videogames and dance as much as possible. Preferably with his dance partner Roxanne. But almost nobody, especially not Roxanne, knows he has a metabolic disease that could end his life. Despite the concerns of his parents, Maarten wants to live life to the fullest. But with his body failing him more and more, maybe the time has come to accept he is not ordinary. 83’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: DANSEN OP DE VULKAAN Prod: Dansen op de Vulkaan Foundation Sc: Nils Verkooijen, Sjors Mans, Adriënne Wurpel D.O.P.: Tibor Dingelstad Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Nils Verkooijen (COOL KIDS DON’T CRY, REGRET), Marcel Musters (ACCUSED, VIPER’S NEST), Bas van Prooijen (BOBBY AND THE GHOST HUNTERS, SECRETS OF WAR). EYE International Genre: family comedy Original title: DUMMIE DE MUMMIE Prod: PV Pictures Co-prod: Nickelodeon Sc: Tijs van Marle D.O.P.: Guido van Gennep Completed: September 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Roeland Fernhout (SCRAP WOOD WAR), Jennifer Hoffman (BROS BEFORE HOS), Ton Kas (MATTERHORN, MIRACLE MONKS), Julian Ras (SCRAP WOOD WAR). Pim van Hoeve: a.o. SNOWFEVER (2004, feature), I LOVE TO LOVE (2003, feature) Award: Best Young Director Flash FF. PV Pictures Ph: +31 35 677 4776 [email protected] www.pvpictures.nl Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment Ph: +31 35 677 4777 [email protected] www.dutchfeatures.com Adriënne Wurpel: First feature film. Festivals: Frank Hansen Ph: +31 6 5331 6879 [email protected] 9 FEATURE FILMS HOMIES HOW TO AVOID EVERYTHING Jon Karthaus Michiel ten Horn Thirty-two-year-old waster and eternal student Thijs leads a slovenly and relaxed life of beer, chicks and the occasional shift at a tedious media megastore. When he visits his sister's house to do some washing, instead of his usual encounter with her semi-perfect family, he meets Lisa, the baby-sitter: a mature sixteen-year-old with exorbitant ambitions. Without intending to, Lisa has a profound effect on Thijs, revealing a deeply ingrained dissatisfaction with his own passive behaviour. 98’ / DCP / colour Just as Timo is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend by convincing her of his new and improved life, he and his friends get caught up in a drugs war. To stay alive, four ordinary guys need to sell 22 kilos of drugs within a week! 95’ / DCP / colour Genre: comedy Original title: HOMIES Prod: Just Productions Co-prod: Johnnywood Productions, RTL Entertainment Sc: Jon Karthaus D.O.P.: Max Maloney Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch/English/ Russian Cast: Robert de Hoog (LOVE ETERNAL, NOVA ZEMBLA), Gijs Naber (HOW TO AVOID EVERYTHING, JACK’S BIRTHDAY WISH), Manuel Broekman (GIFT FROM THE HEART, FRESHERS), Tibor Lukács (LADIES 4). 10 Jon Karthaus: First feature film. a.o. NO GUTS! (2013, short). Just Productions Ph: +31 6 5434 8448 [email protected] www.justproductions.nl Genre: tragicomedy Original title: AANMODDERFAKKER Prod: Pupkin Film Co-prod: AVROTROS Sc: Anne Barnhoorn D.O.P.: Jasper Wolf Completed: September 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Gijs Naber (LOFT, THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING), Roos Wiltink (THE DARK HOUSE), Martijn Hillenius (BASTA, PRETTY SICK AND TWISTED), Anniek Pheifer (DEAD END, FIRST MISSION). Michiel ten Horn: Second feature film. a.o. FINGERS (2013, short), GUILTY MOVIE (2012, short), THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END (2012, feature), 7 MINUTES IN HEAVEN (2011, short), ALEX IN AMSTERDAM (2009, TV film), ARIE (2009, short), BOTTLED (2008, short). Pupkin Film Ph: +31 20 489 5088 [email protected] www.pupkin.com EYE International FEATURE FILMS JACK’S BIRTHDAY WISH LADIES 4 Anne de Clercq Maurice Trouwborst The immature Wyne (32) starts a football team to rebel against her friends whose lives have become dull and boring since giving birth or becoming pregnant. However, after a series of unexpected events, Wyne finds herself in danger of losing everything she holds dear... 90’ / DCP / colour Only-child Jack has two mothers, and all he wants for his birthday is a baby brother. But he gets a giant rabbit instead. Jack’s had enough, so he dons a pair of rabbit ears and refuses to remove them until he gets a baby bro. When he finds out where he himself came from – he was ordered online – he is ecstatic. Easy! But slowly he realises it’s not so simple to put in an order for a baby brother. 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: family Original title: JACK BESTELT EEN BROERTJE Prod: 2CFILM Co-prod: KRO, Just productions Sc: Anne Barnhoorn D.O.P.: Ezra Reverda Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Georgina Verbaan (THE SURPRISE, HEART STREET), Jelka van Houten (A CHRISTMOOSE STORY, JACKIE), Tygo Gernandt (RECKLESS, BOY 7), Patrick Stoof (MIKE SAYS GOODBYE). EYE International Genre: comedy Original title: DAMES 4 Prod: CTM Pictures Sc: Lotte Tabbers D.O.P.: Menno Mans Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Hannah van Lunteren (THE NEW MOTHER), Jennifer Hoffman (SPY OF ORANGE), Ryanne van Dorst. Maurice Trouwborst: First feature film. a.o. URFELD (2006, TV film), LADYBIRD (2006, short), JEF (2006, short). CTM Pictures Ph: +31 35 647 4040 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl Anne de Clercq: First feature film. a.o. SARAH & HE (2007, short). 2CFILM [email protected] www.2cfilm.nl 11 FEATURE FILMS LITTLE GANGSTER Arne Toonen LOST IN LAOS Jonathan Kray & Vincent Lodder After Coen receives a disturbing call from an Asian clinic telling him that his brother is very ill, he is unable to make contact. The next day, however, he receives a video from his brother saying that all is well and that he’s back on the road. After a while even these videos stop and his brother goes officially missing. Eventually, after weeks of uncertainty and nightmares Coen seeks closure by deciding to follow the same trail as his brother… 70’ / DCP / colour Rik (11) and his dad Paul are bullied by the kids in their neighbourhood. Rik wishes his dad would be tougher. Inspired by a mafia movie he saw on TV, Rik fantasizes about being the son of a mafia boss. Everybody would show him respect. So when his dad is promoted and they move to a new town, Rik decides to tell everybody his dad really is a mafia boss – but what happens when his lies turn against him? 95’ / DCP / colour Genre: family, comedy Original title: DE BOSKAMPI’S Prod: Shooting Star Filmcompany Co-prod: Hazazah Pictures Sc: Lotte Tabbers D.O.P.: Rutger Storm Completed: spring 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Henry van Loon, Thor Braun, René van ‘t Hof. Genre: drama, road movie Original title: LOST IN LAOS Prod: Frank’s Garage Sc: Jonathan Kray, Vincent Lodder D.O.P.: Jonathan Kray Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch/English/ Laotian Cast: Jonathan Kray, Vincent Lodder (SEXTET, BROS BEFORE HOS), Rob Yee, Paul John McCormack. Jonathan Kray & Vincent Lodder: First feature film. Frank’s Garage Ph: +31 6 2152 4811 [email protected] www.franksgarage.nl Awards: a.o. Best International Short Cleveland IFF, Best International Short Kerry FF, Best Short Emden FF. Shooting Star Ph: +31 20 624 7272 [email protected] www.shootingstar.nl Arne Toonen: a.o. BLACK OUT (2011, feature), CHUBBY DRUMS (2010, feature) Awards: a.o Best European Film and Audience Award Schlingel Chemnitz Int. FF for Children and Young Audience, DROP DEAD! (2009, short) 12 EYE International FEATURE FILMS MR. TWISTER ON STAGE MONKEY BUSINESS Barbara Bredero Johan Nijenhuis MONKEY BUSINESS (3D) brings us back to the time before education was compulsory. Many young children did not go to school and were exploited in factories. When orphan Tom manages to escape his orphanage to go to school, Jet lets him hide at their farm. It is the start of a summer full of new friendships, lots of mischief and exciting adventures – while all the time trying to keep Tom out of the orphanage. 90’ / DCP 3D / colour The big end-of-term play is approaching. Tobias is somewhat anxious, but with Mees Kees at the helm, everything should be just fine. The class look forward to rehearsing in the afternoons and to making beautiful scenery – until they find out that Dreus has chosen a terribly boring medieval play. Moreover, it is to be staged in a dusty room within a nearby retirement home. But Mees Kees wouldn’t be Mees Kees if he didn’t put his own twist on things… 80’ / DCP / colour Genre: family comedy Original title: MEES KEES OP DE PLANKEN Prod: PV Pictures Co-prod: TROS Sc: Tijs van Marle D.O.P.: Coen Stroeve Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Willem Voogd, Sanne Wallis de Vries, Felix Osinga, Brent Thomassen (before mentioned cast also featured in MR. TWISTER AND MR. TWISTER GOES CAMPING). EYE International Barbara Bredero: a.o. MR. TWISTER GOES CAMPING (2012, feature) Award: Audience Award LUCAS Int. Children’s FF, MR. TWISTER: CLASS OF FUN (2012, feature) Awards: a.o. Best of Fest Award and Children’s Jury Prize Chicago Int. Children’s FF. Genre: family Original title: APENSTREKEN Prod: 2Houses Co-prod: Farmhouse Film, Johan Nijenhuis & Co Sc: Lars Boom, Maarten Lebens D.O.P.: Maarten van Keller Completed: July 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Sanne Vogel (LOVING IBIZA), Mike Weets (THE BLITZ), Loek Peters (SECRETS OF WAR, COOL KIDS DON’T CRY). Johan Nijenhuis: a.o. TUSCAN WEDDING (2014, feature), LOVING IBIZA (2013, feature), BENNIE BRAT (2011, feature) Award: Best Film Kryla Int. Children’s FF, FUCHSIA THE MINIWITCH (2010, feature) Awards: a.o. Best Children’s Movie 6+ Giffoni FF, ALIBI (2008, feature), ZOOP IN SOUTH AMERICA (2007, feature), ZOOP IN INDIA (2006, feature), ZOOP IN AFRICA (2005, feature), FULL MOON (2002, feature), COSTA! (2001, feature). Farmhouse Film www.farmhousefilm.nl Johan Nijenhuis & Co www.nijenhuisenco.nl Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group Ph: +31 6 5394 8986 [email protected] www.mountainroad.nl PV Pictures Ph: +31 35 677 4776 [email protected] www.pvpictures.nl Sales: Dutch Features Global Entertainment Ph: +31 35 677 4777 [email protected] www.dutchfeatures.com 13 FEATURE FILMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD PAINKILLERS Tessa Schram Danyael Sugawara Casper never knew his father and lives with his mother. He loves to spend his spare time playing the piano and he’s really happy when he is accepted into the youth orchestra. Especially when he becomes friends with orchestra member Anouk who knows what he’s going through when, suddenly, he discovers that his mother is seriously ill. She has cancer. Afraid of what might happen to her, Casper and his best friend Pim decide to search for his father. 100’ / DCP / colour Sam and Do are struggling with love. They have been together for five years, enjoying their lives and more than happy. Although they are opposites, they complement and bring out the best in each other. But when Do gives birth to their son Max, their world is turned upside down. Doubt, different views on parenting and unfinished things from the past cause a growing rift in their relationship. Will love survive after the arrival of their baby? 85’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: HET MOOISTE WAT ER IS Prod: OAK Motion Pictures Co-prod: EO Sc: Jolein Laarman D.O.P.: Ton Peters Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Maarten Heijmans (RAMSES), Sallie Harmsen (THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING), Johanna ter Steege (LILET NEVER HAPPENED), Nadia Amin (THE INTRUDER). 14 Genre: highschool drama Original title: PIJNSTILLERS Prod: Shooting Star Filmcompany Co-prod: KRO Sc: Maria Peters, Tessa Schram D.O.P.: Thijmen Doornik Completed: September 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Gijs Blom (BOYS, SICKOS), Susan Radder (KAUWBOY, QUIZ), Birgit Schuurman (BLACK OUT, LOTUS). Tessa Schram: First feature film. LOST AND FOUND (2012, short), SAMMIE IS MISSING (2011, short). Shooting Star Ph: +31 20 624 7272 [email protected] www.shootingstar.nl Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group Ph: +31 6 5394 8986 [email protected] www.mountainroad.nl Danyael Sugawara: Second feature film. FAITH (2012, short), AFTER YOU (2011, short), UPSTREAM (2009, feature) Awards: Golden Calf Audience Award Netherlands FF, Best Debut Brussels IFF. OAK Motion Pictures Ph: +31 20 717 3504 [email protected] www.oakmotionpictures.com EYE International FEATURE FILMS PRINCE RAILMOVIE Sam de Jong Eddy Terstall & Eric Wünsch Liza was three years old when she was abandoned by her father Mauro. When she is about to be a parent herself, she tries to contact him, but her efforts are in vain. But one day, Mauro approaches her and invites her to visit him in Venice. He takes her on a musical voyage along the route of the Orient Express: an emotional road trip through the Balkans. Liza discovers why her father contacted her: he is terminally ill. 90’ / DCP / colour A thrilling love story about Ayoub (17) who has been crazy about Laura since he first saw her. The only problem is her engagement to the baddest boy in town. As he pursues the means to conquer her heart he runs into Kalpa, a self obsessed hustler. Through Kalpa's influence his world starts to fall apart and during the course of one hallucinatory night, Ayoub must become a man in order to save what is truly valuable to him. 78’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: PRINS Prod: 100% Halal Co-prod: Vice Sc: Sam de Jong D.O.P.: Paul Ozgur Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Ayoub Elasri, Sigrid ten Napel (SUMMER, EVEN COWBOYS GET TO CRY), Jorik Scholten, Elsie de Brau. EYE International Sam de Jong: First feature film. a.o. MALAGUTI PHANTOM (2014, short), MARC JACOBS (2013, short), MAGNESIUM (2012, short) Awards: a.o. Best Student Film Hollyshorts FF, Audience Award Beijing Int. Student FF. Genre: drama, adventure Original title: RAILMOVIE Prod: Submarine, Fu Works, OneBigAgency Sc: Eddy Terstall D.O.P.: Gábor Deák Completed: February 2015 Language: English Cast: Beppe Costa (VALENTINO, TO BE KING), Roberta Petzoldt (DEAL), Nikola Rakocevic. Eddy Terstall: a.o. DEAL (2012, feature), TITTEN (2011, short), VOX POPULI (2008, feature), SEXTET (2007, feature), SIMON (2004, feature) Awards: a.o. Golden Calf Best Director, Best Film and Audience Award Netherlands FF, Best Actor Tribeca FF, RENT-A-FRIEND (1999, feature), BASED ON THE NOVEL (1998, feature), BABYLON (1997, feature), BASTARDS AND BRIDESMAIDS (1996, feature). Eric Wünsch: DEAL (2012, feature). Submarine Ph: +31 20 330 1226 [email protected] www.submarine.nl Sales: East West Film Distribution Ph: +43 1 5249 3103 [email protected] www.eastwest-distribution.com 100% Halal Ph: +31 20 639 1402 [email protected] www.100procenthalal.nl 15 FEATURE FILMS SUNNY SIDE UP UNDERCOVER Lourens Blok Boris Paval Conen When young female police officer Nurgül Özdemir is assigned an undercover mission in Amsterdam she must leave behind her homesick father and dependent mother in an attempt to find out what she wants with her life. In Amsterdam, Nurgül gets to play a key role in the exposure of a drug dealer but during the mission finds out secrets about her long lost brother - and the real reason why she was sent to Amsterdam… 84’ / DCP / colour Daan and Judith form the perfect couple: young, attractive, full-blooded Amsterdammers. For their sixth anniversary, they decide on a romantic weekend on an island off the north coast. But they have chosen the wrong weekend. Once a year, the islanders celebrate Sunderum, a traditional event at which outsiders are not welcome. The islanders politely ask the couple to leave, but when they refuse, the torment begins. Cracks in their relationship gradually come to light and old demons start to resurface… 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: thriller Original title: SUNNY SIDE UP Prod: Pupkin Film Co-prod: BNN Sc: Willem Bosch D.O.P.: Jacco van Ree Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Egbert-Jan Weeber (HEART STREET, SAINT), Hannah Hoekstra (APP, HEMEL), Ko Zandvliet (BOYS, EVEN COWBOYS GET TO CRY). Genre: thriller, drama Original title: UNDERCOVER Prod: Dutch Mountain Film Co-prod: KRO, NCRV Sc: Boris Paval Conen D.O.P.: Lennart Verstegen Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch/Turkish/ English Cast: Meral Polat (FIDGETY BRAM, ODD ONE OUT), Nasrdin Dchar (THE INTRUDER, WOLF), Romijn Conen (EXIT, SISTER), Ali Ben Horsting (LIVE!, HEMEL). Boris Paval Conen: a.o. BETWEEN ENTRANCE AND EXIT (2013, short), EXIT (2013, feature), MISTER BRAKER (2012, short), FIRST MISSION (2010, feature), MIGRATING BIRD (2009, short), CAR MEN (2006, short) Awards: a.o. Prix Italia, Grand Prize IF Films on Art, DILEMMA (2005, short) Awards: a.o. Grand Prize Tehran Short FF. Dutch Mountain Film Ph: +31 20 688 1843 [email protected] www.dutchmountainfilm.nl ture), STAY! (2011, feature) Awards: Amnesty Int. Award Giffoni FF, Best Children’s Film Hamburg FF, Don Quijote Award LUCAS Int. Children’s FF, THE SEVEN OF DARAN (2008, feature) Awards: Best Feature Sprockets IFF Toronto, Best Feature Cairo IFF, LOVE, DEATH AND AIR GUITAR (2006, short). Pupkin Film Ph: +31 20 489 5088 [email protected] www.pupkin.com Lourens Blok: a.o. BOY 7 (2014, feature), FRESHERS (2014, feature), A CHRISTMOOSE STORY (2013, fea- 16 EYE International FEATURE FILMS VIPER’S NEST 2 WALDSTILLE Will Koopman Martijn Maria Smits Ben, a truck driver, returns from Spain to spend the weekend together with his girlfriend Tinka and their little son. That night the couple get drunk at a party and quarrel in the car on the way home. Things get so badly out of hand that Ben causes a collision in which Tinka is killed. Two years later, Ben returns home to confront his embittered parents-in-law who have taken care of his son… When Claire returns from Burkina Faso, she is totally transformed and her girlfriends barely recognize her. Cheryl discovers Martin is cheating on her yet again and for her, this time it’s the last straw: she files for divorce. Anouk, also unhappy with her love life, threatens to develop an eating disorder. Roelien, however, accepts Evert’s wedding proposal. Then, a fatal and thoroughly bizarre accident transports the girlfriends to the snowy mountaintops of Austria… 104’ / DCP / colour Genre: comedy Original title: GOOISCHE VROUWEN 2 Prod: Talpa Fictie Sc: Frank Houtappels D.O.P.: Tom Erisman Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch/English Cast: Linda de Mol (VIPER’S NEST, THE DARK HOUSE), Tjitske Reidinga (VIPER’S NEST, THE RENOVATION), Susan Visser (VIPER’S NEST, TAPED), Lies Visschedijk (SOOF, IT’S ALL SO QUIET). EYE International 100’ / DCP / colour L’ÉTÉ (2010, feature), ANVERS (2009, short) Awards: Golden Calf Best TV Drama Netherlands FF, FIPA d’Or Grand Prize, OTZENRATH: LAST DAY (2006, short). Genre: drama Original title: WALDSTILLE Prod: Circe Films Sc: Martijn Maria Smits D.O.P.: Frank van den Eeden Completed: September 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Thomas Ryckewaert (KENAU). Circe Films Ph: +31 20 625 3591 [email protected] www.circe.nl Martijn Maria Smits: Second feature film. FOR EMILIA (2014, TV film), UNDER THE WEIGHT OF CLOUDS (2012, TV film), C’EST DÉJÀ Will Koopman: a.o. THE RENOVATION (2012, feature), VIPER’S NEST (2011, feature), THE DARK HOUSE (2009, feature). Talpa Fictie Ph: +31 35 533 3539 [email protected] www.talpa.tv 17 FEATURE FILMS THE WOLF’S GAME Thomas Korthals Altes Anger percolates through society when Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh is killed on an Amsterdam street by a man police describe as a Muslim extremist. The murder adds new fuel to the public debate over ultra-conservative Islam within Europe's most liberal society. The Secret Service is now awake and the agent Ellen Maas will delve deeply to find out the truth and to do the best for the country - even if these two concerns prove contradictory. 88’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: 2/11 – HET SPEL VAN DE WOLF Prod: Column Film Co-prod: VPRO Sc: Theodor Holman, Gijs van de Westelaken D.O.P.: Thomas Kist Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch/English/ Arabic Cast: Susan Visser (VIPER’S NEST, TAPED), Johan Leysen (THE AMERICAN, GLUCKAUF), Pierre Bokma (BORGMAN, QUIZ), William Hope (ALIENS, HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2). 18 Thomas Korthals Altes: Second feature film. DEAR CELINE (2012, feature), FINNEMANS (2010, short), VERA (2008, short). Column Film Ph: +31 20 572 2700 [email protected] www.columnfilm.com Sales: Media Luna New Films Ph: +49 221 5109 1891 [email protected] www.medialuna.biz EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS THE ADMIRAL ANDRÉ HAZES, THE BIOPIC Roel Reiné Diederik Koopal The turbulent life story of famous Dutch singer André Hazes is told through three important stages of his life; his rough upbringing in the 60’s, his breakthrough in the 80’s and the months leading up to his untimely death in 2004. Length tbc / DCP / colour Genre: biopic Original title: BLOED, ZWEET & TRANEN Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676) was one of the principal and most passionate innovators in the history of combat engineering, and consequently became a naval hero in Holland. As the deeply torn Netherlands is attacked from all sides, and seems on the verge of civil war, one man tries to fight for the interests of his country: Michiel de Ruyter. But in the eyes of those in power, his successes have made him too popular. Michiel therefore is sent on a deadly mission… 150’ / DCP / colour Genre: historical drama Original title: MICHIEL DE RUYTER Prod: Farmhouse Film (NL) Co-prod: Ciné Cri de Coeur (BE) Sc: Lars Boom, Alex van Galen D.O.P.: Roel Reiné Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch/English Cast: Frank Lammers (THE MARATHON, GANG OF OSS), Charles Dance (GAME OF THRONES), Will Bowden (THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN), Derek de Lint (A CHRISTMOOSE STORY, BLACKBOOK). Prod: Lemming Film (NL) Co-prod: A Private View (BE) Sc: Frank Ketelaar D.O.P.: Bert Pot Completed: March 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Martijn Fischer (MISTER TWISTER GOES CAMPING), Hadewych Minis (BORGMAN), Matheu Hinzen, Marcel Hensema (FAREWELL TO THE MOON), Raymond Thiry (BETWEEN 10 AND 12). Diederik Koopal: Second feature film. THE MARATHON (2012, feature). Lemming Film Ph: +31 20 661 0424 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com (2012, feature), SCORPION KING: BATTLE FOR REDEMPTION (2011, feature), WOLF (2010, feature), DEATH RACE 2 (2010, feature), BEAR (2009, feature), THE MARINE II (2009, feature), PRIMAL/THE LOST TRIBE (2008, feature). Farmhouse Film Ph: +31 51 153 9510 [email protected] www.farmhousefilm.nl Sales: Arclight Films Ph: +1 818 426 6359 [email protected] www.arclightfilms.com Roel Reiné: a.o. DEAD IN TOMBSTONE (2013, feature), DEATH RACE: INFERNO 20 EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS BEYOND SLEEP BOY 7 Boudewijn Koole Lourens Blok When Sam (18) regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he does not know how he got there, where he came from or what his name is. He frantically searches for his identity, desperately examining the contents of his backpack. Little by little he begins to realize that his life is in great danger… 87’ / DCP / colour A young man’s mythical quest for a stone that fell from the sky. He searches, stumbles and suffers as he traverses the sadistic universe of Northern Europe, finding redemption only on the very edge of madness. BEYOND SLEEP is based on the Dutch iconic novel Nooit meer slapen by W.F. Hermans, which has sold more than two million copies. 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: book adaptation, drama Original title: BEYOND SLEEP Prod: KeyFilm (NL) Co-prod: Neofilm (NO) Sc: Boudewijn Koole D.O.P.: Melle van Essen Completed: March 2015 Language: English Cast: Reinout Scholten van Aschat (BORGMAN, THE HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING), Pål Sverre Hagen (KRAFTIDIOTEN), Anders Baasmo Christiansen (KRAFTIDIOTEN), Thorbjørn Harr (ZWEI LEBEN). Boudewijn Koole: Second feature film. a.o. KAUWBOY (2012, feature) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix EYE International Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Award for Best Youth Film and Best First Feature Award Berlin IFF, Special Mention Buenos Aires IF, EFCA Award and Film & Kino Award Kristiansand Int. Children’s FF, European Film Academy Young Audience Award and European Film Academy European Discovery of the Year, OFF GROUND (2013, short), MAITE (2009, TV film). Genre: teen thriller Original title: BOY 7 Prod: Lemming Film (NL) Co-prod: Proton Film (HU), A Private View (BE) Sc: Marco van Geffen, Philip Delmaar, based on the book by Mirjam Mous D.O.P.: Jasper Wolf Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen (DUSK), Ella-June Henrard (LOVE IS THE WORD), Tygo Gernandt (RECKLESS), Halina Reijn (GIFT FROM THE HEART). Lourens Blok: a.o. SUNNY SIDE UP (2014, feature), FRESHERS (2014, feature), A CHRISTMOOSE STORY (2013, feature), STAY! (2011, feature) Awards: Amnesty Int. Award Giffoni FF, Best Children’s Film Hamburg FF, Don Quijote Award LUCAS Int. Children’s FF, THE SEVEN OF DARAN (2008, feature) Awards: Best Feature Sprockets IFF Toronto, Best Feature Cairo IFF, LOVE, DEATH AND AIR GUITAR (2006, short). Lemming Film Ph: +31 20 661 0424 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com Sales: Attraction Distribution Ph: +1 514 846 1222 [email protected] www.attractiondistribution.ca KeyFilm Ph: +31 20 423 1596 [email protected] www.keyfilm.nl Sales: TrustNordisk Ph: +45 3 686 8788 [email protected] www.trustnordisk.com 21 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS CLEAN HANDS EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO Tjebbo Penning Peter Greenaway 1931. Eisenstein, the greatest filmmaker of all time, at that heaven-sent age of 33, loses his virginity in Guanajuato, Mexico during a ten-day love affair. Maybe not Ten Days that Shook the World, but Ten Days that Shook Eisenstein. 110’ / DCP/ colour Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie’s flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family’. 100’ / DCP / colour Genre: crime drama Original title: SCHONE HANDEN Prod: Phanta Film (NL) Co-prod: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (BE), Mulholland Pictures (NL) Sc: Carl Joos D.O.P.: Danny Elsen Completed: June 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Thekla Reuten (ATLANTIC., THE DINNER), Jeroen van Koningsbrugge (A CHRISTMOOSE STORY, LOVE IS THE WORD). Athens Int. Film and Video Fest., MY 9/11 (2006, short doc) Awards: 3rd prize Short Doc Athens Ohio FF, Student Jury Prize Doc en Courts, MORLANG (2001, feature) Awards: Best Debut Film & Best Actor Cairo IFF, Best Thriller Houston IFF. Genre: love story Original title: EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO Prod: Submarine (NL) Co-prod: Fu Works (NL), Paloma Negra (MX), Edith Film (FI), Potemkino (BE) Sc: Peter Greenaway D.O.P.: Reinier van Brummelen Completed: early 2015 Language: Spanish/English/ Russian Cast: Elmer Bäck, Rasmus Slätis, Jacob Örman, Luis Alberti. Peter Greenaway: a.o. GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY (2012, feature), THE MARRIAGE (2009, doc), REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE (2008, doc), NIGHTWATCHING (2007, feature), WRITING ON THE WATER (2005, short), THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES (2004, feature). Submarine Ph: +31 20 330 1226 [email protected] www.submarine.nl Sales: Rezo Films Ph: +33 1 4246 9603 [email protected] www.rezofilms.com Phanta Film Ph: +31 20 626 0255 [email protected] www.phantavision.com Tjebbo Penning: a.o. GREAT KILLS ROAD (2009, feature) Awards: Best Director and Best Drama NYC Downtown FF, 3rd Prize 22 EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS THE ESCAPE FULL CONTACT Ineke Houtman David Verbeek FULL CONTACT is a film about a UAV pilot who takes out targets in the Afghan/Pakistani border area while sitting in the Creech Air Force Base in the Nevada desert, just outside of Las Vegas. Both at work and in his private life, Ivan feels the need to be in control. Which is why he is a lonely character, because to surrender to love would mean giving up the control he craves. Length tbc / DCP / colour Julia promised her deceased brother Jimmy that she’d live a glorious life of adventure and excitement. Twenty years on, she has failed: a boring job, a terraced house, 2 kids and a decent husband who tries to bring order to the house with schedules and charts. But it is not too late to make up for lost time. On the 20th anniversary of Jimmy’s death, after a big row with her husband, Julia decides to make radical changes to her life... 110’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: DE ONTSNAPPING Prod: Mountain Road Entertainment Group (NL), Incredible Film (NL) Co-prod: Marmelade Films (BE) Sc: Mirjam Oomkes, Olga Ponjee D.O.P.: Jeroen de Bruin Completed: April 2015 Language: Dutch/English Cast: Isa Hoes (QUEEN OF AMSTERDAM, WENTWORTH), Edwin Jonker, Rik Mayall (BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES), Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen (KENAU, BLOOD BROTHERS). EYE International Ineke Houtman: a.o. THOSE WERE THE DAYS (2014, feature), MY GRANDPA THE BANKROBBER (2010, feature) Awards: a.o. UNICEF Prize Vienna IFF for Young People, THE INDIAN (2009, feature) Awards: a.o. Best Film BUFF FF, 2nd place Adult Jury Prize Chicago Int. Children’s FF, SILENT NIGHT (2004, feature), POLLEKE (2003, feature) Awards: a.o. Best Feature and Best Screenplay Rimouski FF, Jury Award Ale Kino! Int. Young Audience FF. Genre: drama Original title: FULL CONTACT Prod: Lemming Film (NL) Co-prod: Nukleus Film (HR) Sc: David Verbeek D.O.P.: Frank van den Eeden Completed: March 2015 Language: French/English/ Arabic Cast: Grégoire Colin (JE M’APPELLE HMMM…), Lizzie Brocheré (LA MARQUE DES ANGES), Slimane Dazi (ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE). David Verbeek: a.o. HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD (2013, feature), IMMORTELLE (2013, short), CLUB ZEUS (2011, feature) Awards: Return of the Tiger Award IFF Rotterdam, R U THERE (2010, feature), SHANGHAI TRANCE (2008, feature), MELODY Z (2007, short), SUICIDE HOLIDAY (2005, short), BEAT (2004, feature). Lemming Film Ph: +31 20 661 0424 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com Sales: BAC Films Ph: +33 1 5353 5252 [email protected] www.bacfilms.com Mountain Road Entertainment Group Ph: +31 6 5394 8986 [email protected] www.mountainroad.nl 23 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS GIFT FROM THE HEART HISTORY’S FUTURE Kees van Nieuwkerk Fiona Tan After losing his memory following a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves home and sets out on a journey. As he travels from country to country, through a series of strange, illuminating and sometimes comic encounters, MP gains insight into the complexity of life in the 21st Century West. 90’ / DCP / colour Brothers Tom and Niek run the family costume shop. Former soapstar Tom takes nothing seriously. Niek, on the other hand, is a workaholic, and has recently separated from his wife. As the brothers prepare for the busy holiday season, attractive Julia walks through the door with an offer they can’t refuse - to participate in a ground-breaking ad campaign. The brothers find themselves in a whirlwind of family issues, national cultural matters and romance, after which neither will ever be the same. 87’ / DCP / colour Genre: romantic comedy Original title: PAK VAN MIJN HART Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (NL) Co-prod: Living Stone (BE), RTL Entertainment (NL), Inspire Pictures (NL) Sc: Jacqueline Epskamp D.O.P.: Daan Nieuwenhuijs Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch/English Cast: Chantal Jansen (SOOF, LOVE IS ALL), Fedja van Huêt (ACCUSED, THE ZIGZAG KID), Halina Reijn (BOY 7, ISABELLE). Benja Bruijning (HEART STREET, THE FAMILY WAY). 24 Genre: drama Original title: HISTORY’S FUTURE Prod: Family Affair Films (NL) Co-prod: Rohfilm (DE), Vico Film–Cormac Fox (IE), Antithesis Films (NL) Sc: Fiona Tan, Jonathan Romney D.O.P.: Vladas Naudzius Completed: May 2015 Language: English/German/ French/Dutch Cast: Mark O’Halloran (CALVARY, A KISS FOR JED WOOD), Denis Lavant (XI YOU, MARUSSIA), Anne Consigny (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY), Hristos Passalis (BLACK FIELD, DOGTOOTH). Fiona Tan: First feature film. Family Affair Films Ph: +31 20 707 1713 [email protected] www.familyaffairfilms.nl Sales: Mongrel Media Ph: +1 416 516 9775 [email protected] www.mongrelmedia.com Kees van Nieuwkerk: Second feature film. TALL TALES (2010, feature). Eyeworks Film & TV Drama Ph: +31 20 666 1892 [email protected] www.eyeworks.tv Sales: Mountain Road Entertainment Group Ph: +31 6 5394 8986 [email protected] www.mountainroad.nl EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS IN THE HEART J. KESSELS Nicole van Kilsdonk Erik de Bruyn J. KESSELS is both a hilarious road movie and a bittersweet trip down memory lane, a crazy ride in a flameadorned Toyata Kamikaze from provincial Holland to Hamburg’s Reeperbahn and back. And a hallucinatory trip through the mind of an author, who no longer knows if his novel is a product of his own imagination, or if he is actually living it. 90’ / DCP / colour Masha, a 37-year-old biologist, meets general practitioner Luuk (47) at the butterfly garden where she works. The two are irresistibly attracted to one another and fall in love. Luuk’s daughters find it hard to accept their father’s new girlfriend and they struggle with divided loyalties. Their mother refuses to accept the new situation as well. Nevertheless, despite all the tensions within the family, Luuk and Masha decide to build a new life together. At which point tragedy strikes… 104’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: ONDER HET HART Prod: Waterland Film (NL) Co-prod: A Private View (BE) Sc: Peer Wittenbols D.O.P.: Richard van Oosterhout Completed: December 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Kim van Kooten (THE FAMILY WAY), Koen de Graeve (LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO), Lies Visschedijk (SOOF), Frank Lammers (THE MARATHON). Genre: black comedy Original title: J. KESSELS Prod: CTM Pictures (NL) Co-prod: CZAR TV (BE) Sc: Jan Eilander D.O.P.: Danny Elsen Completed: autumn 2015 Language: Dutch/German Cast: Fedja van Huêt (ACCUSED, SOOF), Frank Lammers (THE ADMIRAL, THE MARATHON). Erik de Bruyn: a.o. GUITARBOYS (2013, doc), THE PRESIDENT (2011, feature), NADINE (2007, feature), WILD MUSSELS (2000, feature) Awards: a.o. Critics Award Moscow IFF. CTM Pictures Ph: +31 35 647 4040 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl feature), SECURITY (2009, TV film), HOW TO SURVIVE MYSELF (2008, feature), JOHAN (2004, feature) Awards: Best Film Houston FF, Best Director Palm Beach FF, MAKING WAVES (2003, TV film) Award: Golden Calf Best TV Drama Netherlands FF, MORNING SWIMMERS (2001, TV film). Waterland Film Ph: +31 20 763 0663 [email protected] www.waterlandfilm.nl Nicole van Kilsdonk: a.o. TAKING CHANCES (2011, feature), HEADING WEST (2010, EYE International 25 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS KIDNAP – BO’S MOST EXCITING HOLIDAY EVER Diederik Ebbinge LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO Simone van Dusseldorp The sudden death of his mum turns the family life of 8year-old Nino upside down. With his dad suffering from depression and his big brother in a street gang, Nino is left to his own devices. But Nino has a special talent: he can talk to animals! His pet rabbit Bobby can offer him comfort, but when will Nino get his family back? 80’ / DCP / colour Bo is the only child of rich parents, and goes to the best international boarding school in Europe. But when he is kidnapped at the beginning of the school holiday, his rich, safe and secluded world is turned upside down. However, during their cross-country trip back to the Netherlands to meet the ransom deadline, Bo and his abductor Fred, a lovable loser, forge a strange friendship… 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: family, comedy Original title: KIDNEP Prod: Topkapi Films (NL) Co-prod: The Storytellers Film & TV (NL), Menuet (BE), Mona Film Produktion (AT) Sc: Karen van Holst Pellekaan D.O.P.: Dennis Wielaert Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Martin van Waardenberg (THE MARATHON, THE LOONIES), Teun Stokkel (THE NEW WORLD), Steven Van Watermeulen (CONFETTI HARVEST), Ruth Becquart (SED LEKS, MADLY IN LOVE). 26 Diederik Ebbinge: Second feature film. MATTERHORN (2013, feature) Awards: a.o. Audience Award IFF Rotterdam, Audience Award, Russian Film Critics Award and Best Film Award of the Russian Filmclub Association Moscow IFF, Best Debut Film IFF Valladolid, SUCCESS (2008, short) Award: Best Short Film Fernand Raynaud Award ClermontFerrand Int. Short FF. Genre: family Original title: HET LEVEN VOLGENS NINO Prod: Family Affair Films (NL), Waterland Film (NL) Co-prod: Savage Film (BE), NTR (NL) Sc: Urszula Antoniak D.O.P.: Lennert Hillege Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Rohan Timmermans, Koen de Graeve (WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, THE MISFORTUNATES), Arend Bouwmeester, Rifka Lodeizen (BOYS, HEMEL). Simone van Dusseldorp: a.o. THE SECRET LETTER (2010, feature) Award: Jury Award Buenos Aires IFF for Children and Youth Nueva Mirada, FROGS & TOADS (2009, feature) Awards: a.o. Golden Cairo Award Cairo IFF, Audience Award Kristiansand Int. Children’s FF, DEEP (2005, feature) Awards: a.o. Best Film Tout Ecran FF Geneva. Family Affair Films Ph: +31 20 707 1713 [email protected] www.familyaffairfilms.nl Sales: Attraction Distribution Ph: +1 514 846 1222 [email protected] www.attractiondistribution.ca Topkapi Films Ph: +31 20 303 2494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS MIRACLE MONKS OUR SUN Johan Timmers Joost van Ginkel We follow six characters who have nothing more in common than their alien status, who have moved, voluntarily or involuntarily, to Amsterdam. Yet they influence each other’s lives inexorably: in the darkest of times, love and friendship appear to be the drivers that offer each a future of hope and happiness. OUR SUN takes us to worlds that exist in the shadows of our own lives and is a raw and poetic ode to the human capacity for survival. 115’ / DCP / colour Five monks live harmoniously in the monastery but suddenly their peace is disturbed by a gang of construction workers. The leader of the church sold the monastery to the town council, and now their beloved home is destined to become a spa! The monks’ desperate attempts to stop this situation seem in vain, but then - a miracle! The monastery is saved. But that is just the start of their troubles… 88’ / DCP / colour Genre: comedy Original title: WONDERBROEDERS Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (NL) Co-prod: Eyeworks (BE), Inspire Pictures (NL), RTL Entertainment (NL) Sc: Martin van Waardenberg, Johan Timmers D.O.P.: Jeroen de Bruin Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Martin van Waardenberg (THE MARATHON), Thomas Acda (CHEZ NOUS, THE MARATHON), Ton Kas (MATTERHORN, THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END), Egbert-Jan Weeber (FIDGETY BRAM, STAY!). EYE International Johan Timmers: a.o. LOONIES 2 (2014, feature), THE ODD ONE OUT (2010, feature), DOBLI (2006, short), THE CATCHER (2003, TV film). Genre: mosaic drama Original title: OUR SUN Prod: PRPL (NL), Bastide Films (NL) Co-prod: GötaFilm (SE), Film I Väst (SE), KaBoAl Pictures (BU) Sc: Joost van Ginkel D.O.P.: Andréas Lennartsson Completed: spring/summer 2015 Language: English/Bulgarian/ French/Swedish/SerbianBosnian Cast: Anjela Nedyalkova (AVÉ), Jasna Djuricic (WHITE WHITE WORLD), Issaka Sawadogo (THE INVADER), Magnus Krepper (DAYBREAK), Boris Isakovic (CIRCLES). Joost van Ginkel: Second feature film. 170HZ (2011, feature) Awards: Aluminium Gryphon (16+) Giffoni FF, Audience Award FEST Int. Youth FF Espinho, KISS (2009, short), SAND (2008, short) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix Int. Short FF Courts Devant, Best Foreign Film Miami Short FF. PRPL Ph: +31 20 737 0189 [email protected] www.prpl.nl Eyeworks Film & TV Drama Ph: +31 20 666 1892 [email protected] www.eyeworks.tv 27 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS PUBLIC WORKS RENDEZ-VOUS Joram Lürsen Antoinette Beumer Simone (34) needs a change. Together with her husband Eric and their two children, she buys a decrepit mansion in the south of France, her intention to turn it into a home and B&B. As the chaos of the renovation builds, Simone embarks on a thrilling affair with one of the French construction workers, the gorgeous twentyyear-old Michel. Slowly she loses control of her life and the perfect French dream turns into her worst nightmare. 100’ / DCP / colour 1888: Lutheran Vedder must give up his home in central Amsterdam to allow construction of the new Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, a provincial pharmacist, is in a fix after illegal medical practices and is looking for a way out not only for himself and his wife but for a colony of peat-cutters to whom he promised a future in the US. Vedder and Anijs must therefore devise a scheme that will fully benefit everybody. But with tragic consequences. 110’ / DCP / colour Genre: modern historical drama Original title: PUBLIEKE WERKEN Prod: Topkapi Films (NL) Co-prod: Menuet (BE), I’m Film (HU), Mythberg Films (HU), VPRO (NL) Sc: Frank Ketelaar D.O.P.: Mark van Aller Completed: September 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Gijs Scholten van Aschat (THE POOL, MANSLAUGHTER), Jacob Derwig (THE FAMILY WAY, THE DINNER), Rifka Lodeizen (BOYS, LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO). Joram Lürsen: a.o. RECKLESS (2014, feature), 28 THE FAMILY WAY (2012, feature), ALFIE, THE LITTLE WEREWOLF (2011, feature) Awards: a.o. Best Children’s Film Tallinn Black Nights, THE MAGICIANS (2010, feature) Awards: a.o. Audience Award Copenhagen Int. Children's FF Buster, Special Jury Prize Montréal Int. Children's FF, Audience Award Kristiansand Int. Children’s FF, LOVE IS ALL (2007, feature), IN ORANGE (2004, feature) Awards: a.o Jury Special Mention and Audience Award Hamburg FF, Audience Award Kristiansand Int. Children’s FF. Genre: thriller Original title: RENDEZ-VOUS Prod: Millstreet Films (NL) Co-prod: FBO Films (BE) Sc: Marjolein Beumer, Dorien Goertzen D.O.P.: Jeroen de Bruin Completed: April 2015 Language: Dutch/French/ English Cast: Pierre Boulanger (MONTE CARLO), Loes Haverkort (GIFT FROM THE HEART), Mark van Eeuwen (KIDNAPPING FREDDY HEINEKEN), Peter Paul Muller (VIPER’S NEST). Antoinette Beumer: SOOF (2013, feature), JACKIE (2012, feature) Awards: Audience Award Dortmund/Cologne Int. Women’s FF, Golden Arena Best Film and Young Cinephiles Award Pula FF, LOFT (2012, feature), THE HAPPY HOUSEWIFE (2010, feature). Millstreet Films Ph: +31 6 4626 6566 [email protected] www.millstreetfilms.nl Topkapi Films Ph: +31 20 303 2494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS SCHNEIDER VS. BAX THE SKY ABOVE US Alex van Warmerdam Marinus Groothof Every day Ana, Sloba and Bojan put their lives at great risk, simply by going to work. Their jobs are in or next to the national television building in Belgrade which, because of the war, has become a strategic target for NATO bombings. All three force themselves to deal with the fear in order to hold on to their ordinary lives. But the concept of “ordinary” ceased to exist some time ago. 90’ / DCP / colour On his birthday, hit man Schneider’s target is Ramon Bax, a writer. It’s an easy job. It’ll be over before noon. Schneider reluctantly accepts. Bax is recovering from a night of drugs and alcohol. When his daughter Francisca arrives, depressed and unhappy, they quarrel and she starts to cry. Bax suppresses his discomfort with vodka, a joint and some haphazardly chosen pills. What seems a simple hit job for Schneider turns out to be a lot more complicated… 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: crime Original title: SCHNEIDER VS. BAX Prod: Graniet Film (NL) Co-prod: CZAR TV (BE), VARA (NL) Sc: Alex van Warmerdam D.O.P.: Tom Erisman Completed: spring/summer 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Tom Dewispelaere (BORGMAN), Alex van Warmerdam (THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK), Maria Kraakman (SCRAP WOOD WAR, HUNTING & SONS), Annet Malherbe (ACCUSED, BORGMAN). EYE International Genre: drama Original title: THE SKY ABOVE US Prod: CTM LEV Pictures (NL) Co-prod: Art & Popcorn (RS), Entre Chien et Loup (BE), Heretic (GR) Sc: Marinus Groothof D.O.P.: Ruben Impens Completed: December 2014 Language: Serbian Cast: Boris Isaković (ORDINARY PEOPLE), Nada Sargin (NOT THE END), Nikola Rakocevic (WARRIOR OF SATAN). Marinus Groothof: First feature film. a.o. MIRRORING (2011, short) Award: Best Experimental Film Belgrade Doc and Short FF, SUNSET FROM A ROOFTOP (2009, short), MORNING TO NOON (2008, short). CTM Pictures Ph: +31 35 647 4040 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl Alex van Warmerdam: a.o. BORGMAN (2013, feature) Awards: a.o. Best Film Sitges Int. Fantastic FF, Golden Tower Award Best Film Palić European FF, THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK (2008, feature) Awards: European Cinema Award Venice IFF, WAITER (2006, feature), GRIMM (2003, feature). Graniet Film Ph: +31 20 606 0630 [email protected] www.granietfilm.nl Sales: Fortissimo Ph: +31 20 627 3215 [email protected] www.fortissimo.nl 29 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS THE SURPRISE THE SWORD OF D’ARTAGNAN Mike van Diem Dennis Bots Against her family’s wishes, strong-willed Isabel (11) takes over her ailing grandfather’s search for musketeer D’Artagnan’s legendary lost sword. Joined by her cousin Rik (13) and friend Jules (12), her only clue is a secret code that can only be broken if they act like true musketeers. The thrilling search takes them through caves and castles, but they soon discover they are not the only ones looking. Can Isabel find the sword and reunite her divided family in the process? 90’ / DCP / colour An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life terminated. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. But when the couple fall in love, getting out of the contract proves troublesome… 105’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: DE SURPRISE Prod: N279 Entertainment (NL), FATT Productions (NL), Spinnaker Productions (NL) Co-prod: Prime Time (BE), Fastnet Films (IE), Riva (DE) Sc: Mike van Diem D.O.P.: Rogier Stoffers Completed: January 2015 Language: Dutch/English/Hindi Cast: Jeroen van Koningsburgge (HEAVEN ON EARTH, LOFT), Georgina Verbaan (FAMILY WAY, LOTUS), Jan Decleir (NOVA ZEMBLA, LOFT), Henry Goodman (NOTTING HILL, TAKING WOODSTOCK). Mike van Diem: Second feature film. 30 a.o. CHARACTER (1997, feature) Awards: a.o. Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Grand Prix Los Angeles IFF, Grand Jury Prize AFI Fest., ALASKA (1989, short) Awards: Student Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Golden Calf Best Short Netherlands FF. Genre: family Original title: CODE M Prod: Bijker Film & TV (NL) Co-prod: Elbe Stevens Films (NL), Living Stone (BE) Sc: Tijs van Marle, Karen van Holst Pellekaan D.O.P.: Dennis Wielaert Completed: June 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Nina Wyss (RHUBARB), Joes Brauers (SECRETS OF WAR), Senna Borsato (WITCHES DON’T EXIST), Derek de Lint (A CHRISTMOOSE STORY). Dennis Bots: a.o. SECRETS OF WAR (2014, feature) Awards: Golden Calf Special Jury Award Netherlands FF, Jury Prize Chicago Int. Children's FF, COOL KIDS DON’T CRY (2012, feature) Awards: a.o. Audience Award TIFF Kids IFF. Bijker Film & TV Ph: +31 20 226 0100 [email protected] www.bijker.tv Sales: Sola Media Ph: +49 71 1479 3666 [email protected] www.sola-media.com N279 Entertainment Ph: +31 20 422 9199 [email protected] www.n279entertainment.com FATT Productions www.fatt.nl Sales: Content Media Ph: +44 20 7851 6500 [email protected] www.contentmediacorp.com EYE International MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS TRIPLE TROUBLE VENTOUX Albert 't Hooft & Paco Vink Nicole van Kilsdonk A feel good film about four men, old friends, who decide to climb Mont Ventoux on their bikes, as they did 30 years before. On the way to the top they talk, mainly looking for answers to questions from the past and the present. And they do what men do so well, alternating between heavy seriousness and airy trivialities. 90’ / DCP / colour Every year Saint Nicolas hands out presents to all good children. Three young pets, a ferret, a canary and a stick insect, decide that they too deserve gifts and set out therefore on an adventurous journey to bring their wish lists to Saint Nick. Overcoming many obstacles en route, including a busy road, a scary but sweet young puppy and a thieving rat, they learn an important lesson: the best present you can give and receive is friendship. 67’ / DCP / colour Genre: animation, family Original title: TRIPPEL TRAPPEL DIERENSINTERKLAAS Prod: il Luster (NL) Co-prod: Vivi Film (BE) Sc: Arnoud Rijken & Michiel Snijders Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch (English dub available) Cast: Hans Somers, Georgina Verbaan (THE MARATHON, LOTUS), Rijnder van der Naalt, Bartho Braat. Short Golder Kuker Animation FF, Audience Award Holland Animation FF, Best 2D Animation Neum Animated FF, LITTLE QUENTIN (2010, animated short). Genre: feel good bicycle film Original title: VENTOUX Prod: KeyFilm (NL) Co-prod: Prime Time (BE) Sc: Nicole van Kilsdonk, Bert Wagendorp D.O.P.: Anton Mertens Completed: March 2015 Language: Dutch Cast: Kasper van Kooten (ALL STARS 2: OLD STARS, THE LOONIES), Wilfried de Jong (THE BEAST IN ME), Wim Opbrouck (IT’S ALL SO QUIET, ISABELLE), Leopold Witte (VIPER’S NEST). feature) Awards: a.o. EFCA Award BUFF FF, Best Film Stuttgart Children’s FF, HEADING WEST (2010, feature), HOW TO SURVIVE MYSELF (2008, feature), JOHAN (2004, feature) Awards: Best Film Houston FF, Best Director Palm Beach FF, MAKING WAVES (2003, TV film) Award: Golden Calf Best TV Drama Netherlands FF, MORNING SWIMMERS (2001, TV film). KeyFilm Ph: +31 20 423 1596 [email protected] www.keyfilm.nl Nicole van Kilsdonk: a.o. IN THE HEART (2014, feature), TAKING CHANCES (2011, Il Luster Ph: +31 30 240 0768 [email protected] www.illuster.nl Sales: Attraction Distribution Ph: +1 514 846 1222 [email protected] www.attractiondistribution.ca Albert ‘t Hooft & Paco Vink: First feature. a.o. FALLING FLOYD (2013, animated short) Awards: a.o. Best EYE International 31 MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS WIPLALA ZURICH Tim Oliehoek Sacha Polak When love of her life Boris, a lorry driver, gets killed in an accident Nina finds out that he's been leading a double life. As it turns out he was married to someone else throughout their relationship and had a second family. The shock of both the sudden loss and the long-lasting deceit causes her to lose all equilibrium. Struggling with her emotions she runs away and ends up within the anonymous truckers' scene. 90’ / DCP / colour He is only 10 cm tall but he is not a gnome, rather a Wiplala. A Wiplala can tinkle - in his language that is 'magic' - but he keeps forgetting how tinkling works exactly and how things can often go wrong. His most disastrous tinkling act is when he transforms the mansized Blom, his daughter Nella Della and son Johannes into little people, also 10 cm tall. And so begins an exciting adventure. Can they ever be made ‘normal’ again? 93’ / DCP / colour Genre: family Original title: WIPLALA Prod: BosBros (NL) Co-prod: Ciné Cri de Coeur (BE), Samsa Film (LU) Sc: Tamara Bos D.O.P.: Rolf Dekens Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Cast: Géza Weisz (GIFT FROM THE HEART, BLACK BOOTY), Sasha Mylanus, Kee Ketelaar (TAKING CHANCES), Peter Paul Muller (ALL STARS 2: OLD STARS, LOVE IS ALL). feature), TOO FAT TOO FURIOUS (2005, feature). Genre: drama Original title: ZURICH Prod: Viking Film (NL) Co-prod: Rohfilm (DE), A Private View (BE) Sc: Helena van der Meulen D.O.P.: Frank van den Eeden Completed: December 2014 Language: Dutch/German/ English Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha Alexander Gersak (TORE TANZT), Barry Atsma (KENAU, IN YOUR NAME), Martijn Lakemeier (IT’S ALL SO QUIET, WINTER IN WARTIME). Sacha Polak: Second feature film. NEW BOOBS (2013, doc), HEMEL (2012, feature) Awards: a.o. FIPRESCI Award Berlin IFF, Grand Jury Prize Créteil Women’s IFF, Ecumenical Jury Prize Molodist IFF, BROTHER (2011, short), UNDER THE TABLE (2008, short), DRANG (2008, short), EL MOURABBI (2007, short) Award: Prix Special Collegien FF Cinesonne. Viking Film Ph: +31 20 625 4788 [email protected] www.vikingfilm.nl BosBros Ph: +31 20 534 4030 [email protected] www.bosbros.com Sales: Attraction Distribution Ph: +1 514 846 1222 [email protected] www.attractiondistribution.ca Tim Oliehoek: QUEEN OF AMSTERDAM (2013, feature), PIZZAMAFFIA (2011, feature), SPY OF ORANGE (2009, 32 EYE International MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS THE ARDENNES BELGICA Robin Pront Felix van Groeningen Director Robin Pront 95’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama, thriller, black comedy Prod: Savage Film (BE), Eyeworks (BE) Co-prod: PRPL (NL), Bastide Films (NL) Language: Flemish/French Completed: summer 2015 100’ / DCP / colour PRPL Ph: +31 20 737 0189 [email protected] www.prpl.nl Genre: drama Prod: Menuet (BE) Co-prod: Topkapi Films (NL), Pyramide (FR) Language: Dutch Completed: September 2015 BLESSED BENEFIT Genre: comedy, drama Prod: Twenty to Twenty Vision (DE) Co-prod: Habbekrats (NL), Yo Image (JO) Language: Arabic Completed: summer 2015 34 Sales: The Match Factory Ph: +49 221 539 7090 [email protected] www.the-match-factory.de BRAND NEW-U Mahmoud Al Massad 100’ / DCP / colour Topkapi Films www.topkapifilms.nl Simon Pummell 90’ / DCP / colour Habbekrats Ph: +31 20 330 0324 [email protected] www.habbekrats.nl Genre: psychological thriller Prod: Hot Property Films (UK) Co-prod: Rinkel Film (NL), SP Films (IE) Language: English Completed: March 2015 Rinkel Film www.rinkelfilm.com Sales: The Match Factory Ph: +49 221 539 7090 [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com EYE International MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS BULL DOWN! CAFARD Gabriel Mascaro Jan Bultheel 100’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Prod: Desvia (BR) Co-prod: Viking Film (NL), MalbichoCine (UY) Language: Portuguese Completed: May 2015 90’ / DCP / colour Viking Film Ph: +31 20 625 4788 [email protected] www.vikingfilm.nl Genre: animation, psychological drama Prod: Todondo Films (BE) Co-prod: Topkapi Films (NL), Superprod (FR), Tarantula (BE) Language: Dutch/French/ Russian/English Completed: May 2015 CHERRY TREE Topkapi Films Ph: +31 20 303 2494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl THE COMMUNE David Keating Thomas Vinterberg Director Thomas Vinterberg 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: horror Prod: Fantastic Films (IE) Co-prod: House of Netherhorror (NL) Language: English Completed: January 2015 EYE International 100’ / DCP / colour House of Netherhorror www.houseofnetherhorror.nl Sales: MPI Media Group [email protected] www.mpimedia.com Genre: drama Prod: Zentropa Entertainment 19 (DK), Zetropa Int. Sweden (SE) Co-prod: Topkapi Films (NL) Language: Danish Completed: June 2015 Topkapi Films www.topkapifilms.nl Sales: TrustNordisk Ph: +45 3686 8788 [email protected] www.trustnordisk.com 35 MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS FALSE WITNESS FRANCOFONIA Iglika Triffonova Aleksandr Sokurov 100’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Prod: Klas Film (BG) Co-prod: Phanta Film (NL), Filmlance (SE) Language: December 2014 Completed: English 90’ / DCP / colour Phanta Film www.phantavision.com Sales: Eastwest Filmdistribution Ph: +43 15 2493 1034 [email protected] www.eastwest-distribution.com Genre: documentary essay Prod: Idéale Audience (FR), zero one film (DE) Co-prod: N279 Entertainment (NL) Language: Russian/English/ French/German Completed: December 2014 GALLOPING MIND Genre: drama Prod: Savage Film (BE) Co-prod: Phanta Film (NL), Eyeworks (BE), Climax (BE), UJ Budapest Film Studio (HU) Language: English/Hungarian Completed: May 2015 36 Sales: Films Boutique Ph: +49 30 6953 7850 [email protected] www.filmsboutique.com HUMIDITY Wim Vandekeybus 100’ / DCP / colour N279 Entertainment www.n279entertainment.com Nikola Ljuca Length tbc / DCP / colour Phanta Film Ph: +31 20 626 0255 [email protected] www.phantavision.com Genre: drama, mystery Prod: Dart Film (RS) Co-prod: Lemming Film (NL) Language: Serbian Completed: summer 2015 Lemming Film www.lemmingfilm.com Sales: Soul Food Films Ph: +381 11 267 2004 [email protected] www.soulfoodfilms.com EYE International MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS INTIMACY LAND AND SHADE Tom Cullen César Augusto Acevedo Director Tom Cullen 95’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Prod: Faceless Features (UK), Barnsbury Film (UK) Co-prod: Mulholland Pictures (NL) Language: English/Welsh Completed: July 2015 Production still 90’ / DCP / colour Mulholland Pictures www.mulhollandpictures.com Sales: Jinga Films Ph: +44 20 7287 0050 [email protected] www.jingafilms.com Genre: drama Prod: Burning Blue (CO) Co-prod: Topkapi Films (NL), unafilm (DE), Ciné-Sud Promotion (FR) Language: Spanish Completed: autumn 2015 Topkapi Films Ph: +31 20 303 2494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl THE LOBSTER MAMMAL Yorgos Lanthimos Rebecca Daly length tbc / DCP / colour Genre: drama Prod: Element Pictures (IE) Co-prod: Lemming Film (NL) Language: English Completed: spring 2015 EYE International 90’ / DCP / colour Lemming Film www.lemmingfilm.com Sales: Protagonist Pictures Ph: +44 20 7734 9000 [email protected] www.protagonistpictures.com Genre: drama Prod: Fastnet Films (IE) Co-prod: Rinkel Film (NL), Calach Films (LU) Language: English Completed: May 2015 Rinkel Film www.rinkelfilm.com Sales: Picture Tree International Ph: +49 30 4208 248-14 [email protected] www.picturetree-international.com 37 MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS MATH SUCKS (WORKING TITLE) PARADISE TRIPS Kasia Roslaniec Raf Reijntjens 112’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Prod: Mañana Film (PL) Co-prod: OAK Motion Pictures (NL) Language: Polish/English Completed: July 2015 90’ / DCP / colour OAK Motion Pictures www.oakmotionpictures.com Sales: FDM Sales Ph: +1 323 330 9920 [email protected] www.freestyledigitalmedia.tv Genre: drama Prod: Caviar (BE) Co-prod: IJswater Films (NL) Language: Dutch/Flemish/ English Completed: spring 2015 IJswater Films Ph: +31 20 442 1760 [email protected] www.ijswater.nl PREJUDICE ROAD TO LA PAZ Antoine Cuypers Francisco Varone 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama, family Prod: Wrong Men (BE, LU) Co-prod: CTM Pictures (NL) Language: French Completed: September 2015 38 90’ / DCP / colour CTM Pictures Ph: +31 35 647 4040 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl Genre: drama, comedy Prod: Gema Films (AR) Co-prod: Habbekrats (NL), H&U (DE), Concreto (AR) Language: Spanish Completed: summer 2015 Habbekrats Ph: +31 20 330 0324 [email protected] www.habbekrats.nl EYE International MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS THE SUMMER OF SANGAÏLÉ UNDER THE PYRAMID Alanté Kavaïté Axel Petersén 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Prod: Fralita Films (LT) Co-prod: Viking Film (NL), Les Films d’Antoine (FR) Language: Lithuanian Completed: February 2015 EYE International 90’ / DCP / colour Viking Film Ph: +31 20 625 4788 [email protected] www.vikingfilm.nl Genre: thriller, adventure Prod: Idyll (SE) Co-prod: Family Affair Films (NL) Language: Swedish/Arabic/ English/Danish Completed: autumn 2015 Family Affair Films Ph: +31 20 707 1713 [email protected] www.familyaffairfilms.nl 39 IN PRODUCTION IN PRODUCTION AS IF I’M CRAZY Frank Lammers 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: OF IK GEK BEN Prod: IJswater Films (NL) Co-prod: Pellicola (NL) Language: Dutch Completed: spring 2016 Frank Lammers: First feature film. IJswater Films Ph: +31 20 442 1760 [email protected] www.ijswater.nl Young and successful artist Benjamin is rendered shocked and confused when he ends up in an involuntary clinic following his conviction for rape and attempted homicide - because he remembers nothing of what happened… BRIMSTONE Martin Koolhoven 140’ / DCP / colour Genre: thriller, western Original title: BRIMSTONE Prod: N279 Entertainment (NL) Co-Prod: Prime Time (BE), Pandora (DE), The Film Farm (CA), Illusion (SE), Jean Vigo (IT) Language: Dutch/English Completed: December 2015 Martin Koolhoven: a.o. WINTER IN WARTIME (2008, feature), HAPPY FAMILY (2006, feature). Director Martin Koolhoven A dark, violent and epic western about a young woman and her family whose lives change drastically when a diabolical preacher comes to town. 42 N279 Entertainment www.n279entertainment.com Sales: The Match Factory Ph: +49 221 422 9199 [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com EYE International IN PRODUCTION COBAIN Tomas Kaan 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: COBAIN Prod: Circe Films Language: Dutch Completed: May 2016 Tomas Kaan: a.o. GREENLAND (2014, feature), WE ARE 18 (2012, doc), DAYS OF GRASS (2011, TV film). Circe Films Ph: +31 20 625 3591 [email protected] www.circe.nl When his drug-addicted, newly pregnant, mother refuses to clean up her act, Cobain (15) decides to save his unborn brother. DEAD & BEAUTIFUL David Verbeek 90’ / DCP / colour Genre: action, thriller Original title: DEAD & BEAUTIFUL Prod: Lemming Film (NL) Co-prod: Les Petit Lumières (FR), China Blue Films (CN) Language: English Completed: spring 2016 David Verbeek: a.o. HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD (2013, feature), IMMORTELLE (2013, short), CLUB ZEUS (2011, feature) Awards: Return of the Tiger Award IFF Rotterdam, R U THERE (2010, feature). A group of young international nouveau riches turn into vampires after a night out, but jealousy, vanity and lust threaten to expose them to the outside world. EYE International Lemming Film Ph: +31 20 661 0424 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com 43 IN PRODUCTION DISAPPEARANCE Boudewijn Koole 100’ / DCP/ colour Genre: drama Original title: VERDWIJNEN Prod: Waterland Film (NL), Sweet Films (NO) Language: Dutch/English/Norwegian Completed: end 2015 Boudewijn Koole: a.o. KAUWBOY (2012, feature), OFF GROUND (2013, short), MAITE (2009, TV film). Roos travels to Norway to tell her family about her illness but old enmities make it impossible to talk. Only an unavoidable confrontation can bring about change. Waterland Film Ph: +31 20 763 0663 [email protected] www.waterlandfilm.nl MR. FROG Anna van der Heide 90’ / DCP / colour/ Genre: family Original title: MEESTER KIKKER Prod: BosBros (NL) Co-prod: Prime Time (BE) Language: Dutch Completed: April 2016 Anna van der Heide: Second feature film. FIDGETY BRAM (2012, feature) Awards: a.o. Honour Prize Young Jury and Special Mention Professional Jury Tel Aviv Int. Children’s FF, Best Feature Film Tokyo Kinder FF. Sita adores her schoolteacher Mr. Frans, who sometimes changes into a frog. But the animal world is not without its dangers... 44 BosBros Ph: +31 20 534 4030 [email protected] www.bosbros.com EYE International IN PRODUCTION OUT OF LOVE Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito 85’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: OUT OF LOVE Prod: Topkapi Films Language: English/Dutch Completed: winter 2015 Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito: First feature film. PARA (2013, short), ENTRE NOSOTROS (2011, short) Award: Fipa d’Argent FIPA IFF Biarritz, STAY, AWAY (2009, short) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix Films d’Écoles Premiers Plans Fest, LA SALIDA (2008, short). Varya and Nicolae can’t live with, and can’t live without, one another. Topkapi Films Ph: +31 20 303 2494 [email protected] www.topkapifilms.nl OWLS & MICE Simone van Dusseldorp Length tbc / DCP / colour Genre: family Original title: UILENBAL Prod: Lemming Film Language: Dutch Completed: spring 2016 Simone van Dusseldorp: a.o. THE SECRET LETTER (2010, feature), FROGS & TOADS (2009, feature), DEEP (2005, feature). Lemming Film www.lemmingfilm.com Trying to retrieve the pellet an owl must have made of her little mouse Peepeep, Meral learns what friendship is really about. EYE International Sales: Attraction Distribution Ph: +1 514 846 1222 [email protected] www.attractiondistribution.ca 45 IN PRODUCTION A REAL VAN MEEGEREN Rudolf van den Berg 100’ / DCP / colour Genre: historical drama Original title: EEN ECHTE VAN MEEGEREN Prod: Rinkel Film (NL) Co-prod: Fu Works (NL), Cadenza Films (NL), Tarantula (LU), Nukleus (HR) Language: English Completed: March 2016 Rudolf van den Berg: a.o. SÜSKIND (2012, feature), TIRZA (2010, feature), THE HERMIT OF AMSTERDAM (2002, feature). An exceptionally talented but highly narcissistic painter takes revenge on the hostile art world by creating a series of 'new' paintings of Vermeer. Rinkel Film Ph: +31 20 616 3231 [email protected] www.rinkelfilm.com WHEN MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH Nicole van Kilsdonk Length tbc / DCP / colour Genre: family Original title: TOEN MIJN VADER EEN STRUIK WERD Prod: Lemming Film Language: Dutch Completed: spring 2016 Nicole van Kilsdonk: a.o. TAKING CHANCES (2011, feature), HEADING WEST (2010, feature), HOW TO SURVIVE MYSELF (2008, feature). Before Toda’s father becomes a bush (don’t ask), he was a pastry chef. 46 Lemming Film Ph: +31 20 661 0424 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com EYE International DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARIES ALICE CARES Sander Burger AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 CONCERTS Heddy Honigmann In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra toured the whole world to celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50 concerts spread over 6 continents. In this film we see how unbridled passion and love for music brings musicians and concert-goers together. Documentary maker Heddy Honigmann lands with the orchestra in Buenos Aires, Soweto and St. Petersburg and shows how the ensemble succeeds in gaining the hearts of people from different cultural backgrounds, touching unexpected emotions and helping to overcome the pain of living. 94’ / DCP / colour Original title: OM DE WERELD 50 CONCERTEN Prod: Cobos Films Sc: Heddy Honigmann D.O.P.: Goert Giltay Completed: November 2014 Language: English/Dutch/ Russian IN In order to meet future care demands for an elderly population suffering from the twin perils of loneliness and dementia, the ‘carebot’ Alice has been developed. Can a robot establish a ‘human’ relationship with someone and thus replace a ‘real’ person made of flesh and blood? In this documentary we see how three women, all getting on in years, actually develop a deep fondness for this robot girl… 79’ / DCP / colour . Original title: IK BEN ALICE Prod: KeyDocs Sc: Sander Burger D.O.P.: Sal Kroonenberg Completed: December 2014 Language: Dutch Heddy Honigmann: a.o. MEMORIES ON FIRE (2012, short doc), AND THEN ONE DAY (2010, short), EL OLVIDO (2008, doc) Awards: a.o. Silver Dove, Fipresci Award and Eocumenical Award Leipzig Festival for Documentary & Animated Films, FOREVER (2006, doc) Awards: Golden Calf Best Doc and Dutch Film Critics Award Netherlands FF, DAME LA MANO (2003, doc), GOOD HUSBAND, DEAR SON (2001, doc). Cobos Films Ph: +31 20 320 3368 [email protected] www.cobosfilms.nl Sales: NPO Sales Ph: +31 35 677 3760 [email protected] www.npo.nl Sander Burger: a.o. WILL (2012, short), HUNTING & SONS (2010, feature), THE PANMAN: RHYTHM OF THE PALMS (2007, feature), KOEN! (2004, short), PISKA FRESKU (2003, feature). KeyDocs Ph: +31 20 422 2607 [email protected] www.keydocs.nl 48 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES BANANA PANCAKES AND THE CHILDREN OF STICKY RICE BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP Daan Veldhuizen Heinrich Dahms Three interwoven storylines bound by a single theme: abalone poaching. An immersive dive into the lives of five characters in a small South African fishing community that is suspended in a limbo between its traditional lifestyle and a corrupt and brutal enforcement apparatus deployed to counter the illicit supply of abalone to China, where this endangered marine snail is prized as an aphrodisiac and status symbol. 93’ / DCP / colour Original title: IN DIEPE WATEREN Traditional farmers within a remote village in Laos meet the outside world via the tourists that visit them. While backpackers are searching for an authentic culture, their presence brings development to the eager inhabitants. Two worlds meet at the crossroads of their respective desire; one longing for authenticity, the other for modernity. They embrace each other’s lifestyle and culture, but as soon as they realize that their desires are contradictory, the story turns back on itself. 80’ / DCP / colour Original title: BANANA PANCAKES AND THE CHILDREN OF STICKY RICE Prod: Viewpoint Productions Sc: Daan Veldhuizen D.O.P.: Daan Veldhuizen Completed: December 2014 Language: English/Laotian Buzzmedia Ph: +31 35 772 5225 [email protected] www.buzzmedia.net Prod: Buzzmedia (NL) Co-prod: Visualantics (BE) Sc: Heinrich Dahms D.O.P.: Johan Bosgraaf Completed: January 2015 Language: Afrikaans Heinrich Dahms: First feature length documentary. a.o. SCUM (2010, feature), SURVIVING (2008, short). Viewpoint Productions Ph: +31 20 636 3678 [email protected] www.viewpointdocs.com Sales: Illumina Films Ph: +31 20 624 8395 [email protected] www.illuminafilms.nl Daan Veldhuizen: Second feature length documentary. STORIES FROM LAKKA BEACH (2011, doc), TINI TINOU (2009, short doc), VERSUS (2007, short). EYE International 49 DOCUMENTARIES BEZNESS AS USUAL CHEESEHEAD BLUES Alex Pitstra Jan Doense Documentary about the blues, set in Clarksdale, Mississippi - birthplace of the Delta blues and second home of Theo Dasbach of the Rock & Blues Museum. 80’ / DCP / colour Original title: CHEESEHEAD BLUES Prod: Film Events Sc: Jan Doense, Ot Louw D.O.P.: Suzanne Arts Completed: November 2014 Language: English/Dutch Like his Swiss half-sister Jasmin, Dutch filmmaker Alex Pitstra is the child of a European mother and a Tunisian playboy father. The majority of their lives their father was absent, but after more than twenty years Alex invites Jasmin to travel to Tunisia with him. They want to reconnect with their Tunisian roots and find out how their father and his family relate to the 'bezness' phenomenon of North-African men roaming beaches and hotels, trying to seduce western women. 80’ / DCP / colour Original title: BEZNESS AS USUAL Film Events Ph: +31 20 623 0121 [email protected] Jan Doense: First feature length documentary. a.o. NOISE (2011, short), FAR AWAY (2004, short), R.I.P. (2001, short) Award: Crystal Skull Award Screamfest Los Angeles. Selfmade Films Ph: +31 20 606 0789 [email protected] www.selfmadefilms.nl Prod: Selfmade Films Sc: Alex Pitstra D.O.P.: Tadeusz Kieniewicz Completed: autumn 2015 Language: Dutch/English/ Swedish/German/Arabic Alex Pitstra: First feature length documentary. DIE WELT (2011, feature) Awards: Jury Prize Best Feature Berkshire IFF, Grand Prix Students’ Jury Int. Independent FF Bordeaux. 50 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES THE CHIMPANZEE COMPLEX DON’T LOSE HEART Hella de Jonge Marc Schmidt When her 88-year-old father moved home, estranged daughter Hella de Jonge acquired the legacy of her great aunt who survived the Nazi terror along with Hella’s parents. This inspires her to investigate the history of her family. With the aid of photos and documents, a videotape of Hella’s mother’s testimony made as part of Steven Spielberg’s Shoah project, conversations and visits to places with painful memories, the father and daughter begin to heal their fractured relationship. 81’ / DCP / colour Original title: VERLIES NIET DE MOED After years in solitary captivity, the chimpanzees in a Dutch rescue centre must learn to live with members of their own species again. The caretakers who oversee this process continuously encounter a paradox within their work: is it possible to think beyond the boundaries of our human perspective when trying to understand another species? As people they try to let the animals be animals again but emotional confrontations and ethical considerations emphasize the ambiguous relationship between man and primate. 75’ / DCP / colour Original title: HET CHIMPANSEE COMPLEX Prod: Basaltfilm (NL) Co-prod: Mira Film (CH) Sc: Marc Schmidt D.O.P.: Marc Schmidt, Rogier Timmermans Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch/English/ Lithuanian/French/Spanish Marc Schmidt: Second feature length documentary. a.o. MATTHEW’S LAWS (2012, doc) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix Visions du Réel, Best Int. EYE International Feature Rencontres Int. du Documentaire de Montréal, Grand Jury Award Open City Docs Fest London, BIDCATCHER (2007, short doc) Award: Best Doc Tampere FF. Sales: NPO Sales Ph: +31 35 677 3760 [email protected] www.nposales.com Prod: De Roje Hel Sc: Hella de Jonge D.O.P.: Paul Schuurman Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Hella de Jonge: First feature length documentary. De Roje Hel Ph: +31 6 5183 3485 [email protected] www.helladejonge.nl Basaltfilm Ph: +31 10 412 6946 [email protected] www.basaltfilm.nl Sales: Autlook Films Ph: +43 72 034 6934 [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 51 DOCUMENTARIES THE DUTCH CHURCH OF BLOEMENDAAL EGO Ester Gould Sarah Vos & Sander Snoep When I was little I wanted nothing other than to become one thing: Rowan, my beautiful sister, who was two years my senior. With her unique personality and self-confidence the world was her oyster, until her enormous ego was shattered at the age of 32… 90’ / DCP / colour Original title: EGO Prod: Zuidenwind Filmprodukties Sc: Ester Gould D.O.P.: Jean Counet Completed: autumn 2015 Language: Dutch/English A film about the successful and prosperous villagers of Bloemendaal, a city in the Netherlands. All are members of the Protestant Church and all live within a municipality where the outward appearance of happiness and prosperity is frantically maintained. Until a new, rebellious and wayward pastor comes in, who has decided it is time to expose the pain and discomfort behind the facade of prosperity. 80’ / DCP / colour Original title: DE KERK VAN BLOEMENDAAL Prod: Zeppers (NL) Co-prod: IKON (NL) Sc: Sarah Vos D.O.P.: Sander Snoep Completed: autumn 2015 Language: Dutch Zuidenwind Filmprodukties Ph: +31 76 514 0871 [email protected] www.zuidenwind.nl Ester Gould: Second feature length documentary. a.o. CATHLEEN’S TURN (2012, short doc), STARRING DAVID (2011, short doc), SHOUT (2010, doc), 50 CENT (2007, short doc). Zeppers Ph: +31 20 675 8594 [email protected] www.zeppers.nl Sarah Vos: a.o. CURAÇAO (2011, doc), RELIANCE, AN AFRICAN SAGA (2009, doc), WELCOME TO HOLLAND (2003, doc). Sander Snoep: a.o. CURAÇAO (2011, doc). 52 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES ERBARME DICH - MATTHÄUS PASSION STORIES THE GARAGE Catherine van Campen Ramon Gieling A film about how people deal with the financial crisis. We encounter the professional and personal stress of the salesman - and the financial considerations of his clients. We see how the car becomes a source of discord between the man (who wants it big with all the trimmings) and the woman (who wants it small, clean and efficient). And we unravel the personal story of a family, highlighting the stark contrast between the ways we assess ‘work' in the Netherlands. 90’ / DCP / colour A labyrinthine narrative in which people such as Peter Sellars, Emio Greco, Simon Halsey and painter Rinke Nijburg relate their special relationship with the music of Bach, with Pieter Jan Leusink's Bach Choir & Orchestra providing the score and a group of homeless people serving as their audience. 80’ / DCP / colour Original title: ERBARME DICH Prod: KeyDocs Sc: Ramon Gieling D.O.P.: Goert Giltay Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch/English Ramon Gieling: a.o. HOME (2014, doc), BLIND FORTUNE (2012, doc), ABOUT CANTO (2011, doc), GREAT LENGTHS (2010, short), TRAMONTANA (2009, feature), JOAQUIN SABINA, 19 DIAS Y 500 NOCHES (2008, doc) Award: Best Doc Cinestrat Alicante & Buenos Aires, EN UN MOMENTO DADO (2004, doc), THE PRISONERS OF BUÑUEL (2000, doc). EYE International KeyDocs Ph: +31 20 422 2607 [email protected] www.keydocs.nl Sales: Doc & Film International Ph: +33 1 4277 5687 [email protected] www.docandfilm.com Original title: DE GARAGE Prod: Zuidenwind Filmprodukties Sc: Catherine van Campen D.O.P.: Jean Counet Completed: autumn 2015 Language: Dutch (2009, short doc), ETERNAL MASH (2008, short doc). Zuidenwind Filmprodukties Ph: +31 76 514 0871 [email protected] www.zuidenwind.nl Catherine van Campen: First feature length documentary. JOAN’S BOYS (2013, short doc), PAINFUL PAINTING (2011, short doc), FLYING ANNE (2010, short doc) Awards: a.o. Best Short Doc Visions du Réel, Audience Award IFF Boston, DRONA AND I 53 DOCUMENTARIES GAY WEDDING FAIR GEORGICA Sophia Luvara Katelijne Schrama We float above the plains of the Flevopolder, the last land reclamation project of the Dutch government. We see how farmers carry out their duties in that ordered landscape. Over 2000 years ago, the Roman poet Virgil wrote The Georgics, an ode to farming and to life in the countryside. When the farmers hear the old texts, they spontaneously conjure up stories on what has changed, about the influence of the food industry and about contemporary regulations. 70’ / DCP / colour Andy is 23 and living the good life within Shanghai's sparkling gay scene. But all the time he is on the hunt for a suitable lesbian girl to propose to, searching the internet and frequently attending underground ‘gay wedding fairs’ where gay guys can meet up with gay girls in order to find a compatible partner within a marriage of convenience. In this way both parties can deliver what their parents and society demand from them: a traditional wedding and a child. 70’ / DCP / colour Original title: GAY WEDDING FAIR Prod: Witfilm Sc: Sophia Luvara D.O.P.: Ton Peters Completed: July 2015 Language: Chinese/English Sales: Films Transit Ph: +1 514 844 3358 [email protected] www.filmstransit.com Original title: GEORGICA Prod: SNG Film Sc: Katelijne Schrama D.O.P.: Ben Geraerts Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch SNG Film Ph: +31 20 686 7837 [email protected] www.sngfilm.nl Katelijne Schrama: First feature length documentary. a.o. 1974 (2011, short doc), o 360 HORIZON, LAND WITHOUT A PAST (2007, short doc), DAYDREAMS AND SANDMAN (2000, short). Sophia Luvara: First feature length documentary. ZAATRAY (2013, short doc), ROAD TO FUREIDIS (2011, short doc). Witfilm Ph: +31 20 688 5049 [email protected] www.witfilm.nl 54 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES GHOSTS FROM THE PAST HOME Walther Grotenhuis & Cinta Forger Ramon Gieling The Ivorian Cyriaque is one of the illegal refugees who joined the We Are Here campaign group. These asylum seekers (whose applications have thus far been denied) have struggled for the past two years to gain a face, a voice and a permanent resident permit. Filmmaker Ramon Gieling makes early contact with Cyriaque, a musical and spiritual figure, in the makeshift encampment in central Amsterdam and follows him until their paths diverge, partly because ‘the film has come to an end’. 72’ / DCP / colour In prison Viggo wonders why he developed from a sensitive little boy into a merciless criminal. He decides to give up crime for good, and immerses himself into his past to avoid making the same mistakes again. But his quest, undertaken with his two sisters, leads to painful confrontations with their past as, little by little, the secrets of their incestuous family and manipulative father are unravelled. 90’ / DCP / colour, b&w Original title: SPOKEN VAN VIGGO Prod: Windmill Film Sc: Walther Grotenhuis D.O.P.: Wiro Felix Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch Windmill Film Ph: +31 6 5314 8543 [email protected] www.windmillfilm.com Original title: HOME Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film (NL) Co-prod: Human (NL) Sc: Ramon Gieling D.O.P.: Eugene van den Bosch, Ramon Gieling Completed: October 2014 Language: French Best Doc Cinestrat Alicante & Buenos Aires, EN UN MOMENTO DADO (2004, doc), THE PRISONERS OF BUNUEL (2000, doc). Pieter van Huystee Film Ph: +31 20 421 0606 [email protected] www.pvhfilm.nl Ramon Gieling: a.o. BLIND FORTUNE (2012, doc), ABOUT CANTO (2011, doc), GREAT LENGHTS (2010, short), TRAMONTANA (2009, feature), JOAQUIN SABINA, 19 DIAS Y 500 NOCHES (2008, doc) Award: Walther Grotenhuis & Cinta Forger: a.o. IT MIGHT BE DARK TOMORROW (2011, doc), JEANNE (2011, doc), THE COOL RAGE OF BERNHARD WILLEM HOLTROP (2007, doc). EYE International 55 DOCUMENTARIES I DON’T BELONG HERE IMPERFECT HARMONY Mercedes Stalenhoef Carmen Cobos IMPERFECT HARMONY is a film about musical control, explored through a clash between two maestros: avantgarde rebel and Holland’s best-known composer, Louis Andriessen, and chief conductor at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons. The occasion is the orchestra’s 125th jubilee year concert. With barely a week of rehearsals before the world premiere of Andriessen’s latest composition Mysteriën, they must attempt to reconcile their radically differing sensibilities. Will they overcome their musical differences? At times the outcome is far from certain. 76’ / DCP / colour Peter Schuster lives in an institution for the mentally handicapped. He is able to control his anger issues only by playing the drums and piano, but frequently something in his brain explodes, making him fly off the handle. And when this happens, even he is afraid of himself. 77’ / DCP / colour Original title: IK HOOR HIER NIET THUIS Pieter van Huystee Film Ph: +31 20 421 0606 [email protected] www.pvhfilm.nl Original title: IMPERFECT HARMONY Prod: Cobos Films Sc: Kees Rijninks D.O.P.: Sander Snoep Completed: May 2014 Language: English/Dutch Cobos Films Ph: +31 20 320 3368 [email protected] www.cobosfilms.nl Carmen Cobos: First feature length documentary. Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film (NL) Co-prod: Human (NL) Sc: Mercedes Stalenhoef D.O.P.: Sander Snoep, Gregor Meerman, Erik van Empel, Martijn van Beenen Completed: October 2014 Language: Dutch Mercedes Stalenhoef: a.o. KARSU (2012, doc), CARMEN MEETS BORAT (2008, doc), IT’S MY LIFE (2007, doc), I NEVER WANT TO BE FAMOUS (2005, doc), GODOFREDO IS ALIVE (2004, short doc), I JUST TAKE MY TOYS WITH ME (2002, doc). 56 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES KILLER SLOPE THE MISSION Geertjan Lassche Robert Oey The Netherlands contributes to the UN peacekeeping force in the West-African country of Mali with both military and civilian personel. It’s a groundbreaking mission, particularly because for the first time in history a UN mission will rely on its own intelligence, gathered by Dutch Special Forces supported by Apache and Chinook helicopters. With unrestricted access, Robert Oey will follow the key players over the year to come. 80’ / DCP / colour Filmmaker and investigative journalist Geertjan Lassche joins a Dutch expedition to climb Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world. What drives these mountain climbers? How ruthless do you need to be? And are they really as arrogant as they seem to be? The closer the group gets to the top, the more we see the diverse dilemmas that beset mountaineers. And then, after six weeks, the mountain itself turns against them. 110’ / DCP / colour Original title: HEMELBESTORMERS Prod: EO Sc: Geertjan Lassche D.O.P.: Frank Moll, Geertjan Lassche Completed: October 2014 Language: English/Dutch Sales: NPO Sales Ph: +31 35 677 3760 [email protected] www.npo.nl Original title: DE MISSIE Prod: Zeppers (NL) Co-prod: IKON (NL) Sc: Robert Oey D.O.P.: Rogier den Boer Completed: autumn 2015 Language: Dutch/English/ French Zeppers Ph: +31 20 675 8594 [email protected] www.zeppers.nl Robert Oey: a.o. FALLEN (2012, doc), THE LIE (2010, doc), SAFETY FIRST (2008, doc), THE SWIMMERS (2007, doc), WONDERLAND (2004, doc). Geertjan Lassche: a.o. BLACK ICE (2013, doc), THE CHOSEN ONES (2012, doc), SOUHOKA’S TESTAMENT (2011, doc), NOBODY KNOWS ME (2011, doc), THE BRETHREN (2011, doc). EO Ph: +31 35 647 4645 [email protected] www.eo.nl EYE International 57 DOCUMENTARIES NAZIHA’S SPRING ONLY THE BEST FOR OUR SON Gülșah Doğan Monique Nolte The 49-year-old Kees is autistic and still lives with his parents who take care of him. Their love has given Kees the ability to blossom as a relatively independent grown-up. But what will happen to Kees when his parents, now 80 and 83 years old, can no longer take care of him? Filmmaker Monique Nolte follows the attempts of Kees’ parents to create the perfect future for their autistic son. 87’ / DCP / colour Original title: HET BESTE KEES Prod: Selfmade Films Sc: Monique Nolte D.O.P.: Rogier Timmermans, Adri Schrover Completed: June 2014 Language: Dutch/Japanese VOOR Nine years ago Naziha, a Moroccan-Dutch woman and mother of 10 children, made a drastic decision. She no longer wished to spend hours at the police station after one of her sons had caused trouble, so she threw out her violent husband and took up the struggle to get her children back on the straight and narrow - with the help of a dozen social workers. 90’ / DCP / colour Original title: NAZIHA’S LENTE Prod: Volya Films Sc: Gülșah Doğan D.O.P.: Alle van der Wal Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch/Arabic Selfmade Films Ph: +31 20 606 0789 [email protected] www.selfmadefilms.nl Sales: NPO Sales Ph: +31 35 677 3760 [email protected] www.nposales.com Monique Nolte: a.o. A BITTERSWEET TEMPTATION (2007, short doc), TRAINMAN (1998, short doc). Volya Films Ph: +31 10 415 5621 [email protected] www.volyafilms.com Gülșah Doğan: a.o. LOVE’S WINTER (2010, doc), ROMEO & JULIA (2007, short doc) Awards: Boundless Media Award, ALI B (2005, short). 58 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES PEKKA, INSIDE THE MIND OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER PEOPLE IN BERLIN Rosemarie Blank Alexander Oey A kaleidoscope of images of the city and its people. The main characters are three immigrants and a native Berlin woman. The Slovenian 'butterfly man' sees Berlin as a hunting ground for insects. Two Congolese brothers mourn their father's death, a comrade of Patrice Lumumba. The aged Eva-Maria, once a fashion model, runs a fur shop in a poor district among jobless immigrants. However different they may be, they're all citizens of this multicultural city. 86’ / DCP / colour On November 7 2007, an 18-year-old Finnish student shot dead eight people at the high school in Jokela, a small town north of Helsinki. PEKKA reconstructs the events that led to this terrible act, committed by a boy who seemed such an ordinary kid… 90’ / DCP / colour Original title: PEKKA, INSIDE MIND OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER Prod: Submarine (NL) Co-prod: BOS (NL), Vaski Filmi (FI) Sc: Alexander Oey D.O.P.: Chris van Oers Completed: November 2014 Language: Finnish/English THE Submarine Ph: +31 20 330 1226 [email protected] www.submarine.nl Sales: Journeyman Pictures Ph: +44 208 398 4616 [email protected] www.journeyman.tv Original title: MENSCHEN IN BERLIN Prod: Casa Film (NL) Co-prod: Zig/Zag Filmproduction (NL) Sc: Rosemarie Blank D.O.P.: Rosemarie Blank Completed: January 2015 Language: German Casa Film Ph: +31 20 626 5550 [email protected] www.rosemarieblank.nl Rosemarie Blank: a.o. BERLIN DIARY (2012, doc), JOB AND THE DUTCH FREESTATE (2009, doc), FAREWELL PAVEL (1999, feature), CROSSING BORDERS (1994, feature) Award: Golden Calf Best Director Netherlands FF. Alexander Oey: a.o. OFF THE GRID (2011, doc), ZEN AND WAR (2009, doc), THERE IS NO AUTHORITY BUT YOURSELF (2006, doc), NEGOTIATING WITH AL QAEDA? (2006, doc), MY LIFE AS A TERRORIST: HANS-JOACHIM KLEIN (2005, doc). EYE International 59 DOCUMENTARIES THE PERFECT HORSE REBELLIOUS CITY Hans Fel Willy Lindwer The Amsterdam-based anarchist Provo movement had a shocking impact on Dutch society in the tumultuous sixties with their absurdist revolution. The Dutch saw with wonder and amazement the situation as events in the city regularly got out of control - riots against the royal family, a mayor and a police chief were dismissed and all this activity received widespread international attention. To match their strange and colourful appearance, the movement offered playful but provocative alternatives for all society’s problems. 100’ / DCP / colour Through dedication and reliance on the highest levels of craftsmanship, generations of horse breeders honed the unique horse – the Lipizzaner – towards perfection. But now their craft is challenged by new insights into genetics that offer breeders the new tools to bend the evolution to their will. How far do you go to create the perfect horse? 90’ / DCP / colour Original title: DIER BOVENDIER Pieter van Huystee Film Ph: +31 20 421 0606 [email protected] www.pvhfilm.nl Original title: REBELSE STAD Prod: Doc.Eye Film Sc: Willy Lindwer D.O.P.: Willy Lindwer Completed: February 2015 Language: Dutch Doc.Eye Film Ph: +31 20 686 5687 [email protected] www.doceyefilm.nl Willy Lindwer: a.o. ANNA’S SILENT STRUGGLE (2009, doc), MR. ISREAL, THE SHIMON PERES STORY (2008, doc), AFRICA GOES DIGITAL (2006, doc), GOODBYE HOLLAND, THE DESTRUCTION OF DUTCH JEWRY (2004, doc). Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film Sc: Hans Fel D.O.P.: Hans Fel, Deen van der Zaken Completed: August 2014 Language: German/French Hans Fel: LE MARYAJ LENGLENSOU (2007, doc), IN EUROPE (2007, short doc), QUATRE MAINS (1989, feature). 60 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES SERGIO HERMAN, FUCKING PERFECT A SHTETL IN THE CARIBBEAN Sherman de Jesus Willemiek Kluijfhout A compelling story of two childhood friends, both in search of their family history in Eastern Europe. Mark and Tsale, children of Eastern European Jews who fled to Curaçao, travel back to the home countries of their ancestors. In a road-movie across Curaçao, the United States, Belarus, Ukraine and Israel, we witness their discoveries, courage and despair as they are reminded of the sacrifices their parents made to provide their family with a better future. 99’ / DCP / colour Original title: A SHTETL IN CARIBBEAN Prod: Memphis Film & Television (NL) Co-prod: Jewish Broadcasting (NL) Sc: Sherman de Jesus D.O.P.: Bernd Wouthuysen, Manes Avny Completed: October 2014 Language: a.o. English/Dutch/ Papiamentu/Yiddish/Hebrew JAN SCHOONHOVEN – OFFICIAL NO. 18977 (2005, doc), ALL IS LIGHT (2001, doc). THE Top chef Sergio Herman strives for perfection every day. Never giving up, always in the thick of it. However, the beauty and success of his culinary art has a downside: the competition, the long hours, the pressure. Sergio is on the verge of taking a radical decision. He feels he needs to turn aside from his 3-Michelin-star restaurant in order to fulfil his dreams. A revealing story about perfection, ambition and the nature of sacrifice. 80’ / DCP / colour Original title: SERGIO HERMAN, FUCKING PERFECT Prod: Trueworks Sc: Willemiek Kluijfhout D.O.P.: Remko Schnorr Completed: February 2015 Language: Dutch/English Willemiek Kluijfhout: Second feature length documentary. a.o. MUSSELS IN LOVE (2012, doc), BLACK AS INK (2008, short doc), BALL POSSESSION (2007, short) Awards: Best Comedy Award Very Short Movies Festival Hollywood, Silver EYE International Remi Award World Festival Houston, THINGS TO COME (2005, short doc), SURVIVING THE WATER (2003, short doc). Memphis Film & Television Ph: +31 30 233 2023 [email protected] www.memphisfilm.net Sherman de Jesus: a.o. EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE – PIET ZWART (2012, doc), GOD’S OWN PARISH (2011, doc), Trueworks Ph: +31 6 2487 0468 [email protected] www.true-works.nl Sales: Autlook Film Sales Ph: +43 72 034 6934 [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 61 DOCUMENTARIES SOLO - OUT OF A DREAM STAND BY YOUR PRESIDENT Jos de Putter Ineke Smits Feature documentary about Sandra Roelofs, a Dutch girl who became the First Lady of the exotic, but politically unstable, Georgia. After ten turbulent years in office her husband, the now controversial Mikhael Saakashvili, cannot be re-elected. So the presidential couple become citizens again. What does life in the political limelight entail, and what is the price paid within your private life? 92’ / DCP / colour SOLO – OUT OF A DREAM portrays the lives and history of Leonardo and Anselmo who, 20 years ago, were the main characters in the documentary SOLO – THE LAW OF THE FAVELA. Then, they were 11 years old, living in the Rio slums, dreaming of becoming footballers. As a result of the documentary, Leonardo came to play for Feyenoord and then for many other top teams, and became a millionaire. But now, as he evaluates his life story, a personal tragedy emerges. 90’ / DCP / colour Original title: SOLO – OUT OF DREAM Prod: Dieptescherpte (NL) Co-prod: VPRO (NL) Sc: Jos de Putter D.O.P.: Brian Sewell Completed: November 2014 Language: Portuguese/Dutch A Best Doc Message to Man FF, Special Mention Tribeca FF. Original title: STAND BY YOUR PRESIDENT Prod: IDTV Docs (NL) Co-prod: NCRV (NL) Sc: Ineke Smits D.O.P.: Paul Cohen, Tato Kotetishvili Completed: November 2014 Language: Dutch/English/ Russian/Georgian IDTV Docs Ph: +31 20 314 3100 [email protected] www.idtv.nl Ineke Smits: a.o. THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK (2009, feature), TRANSIT DUBAI (2008, doc), BLACK GOLD UNDER NOTECKA FOREST (2005, doc), PUTIN’S MAMA (2003, doc), MAGONIA (2001, feature). Dieptescherpte Ph: +31 20 612 4478 [email protected] Jos de Putter: a.o. SEE NO EVIL (2014, doc), BEYOND THE GAME (2008, doc), HOW MANY ROADS (2005, doc), ALIAS KURBAN SAÏD (2004, doc), THE DAMNED AND THE SACRED (2002, doc) Awards: a.o. Best Doc Chicago Int. Doc Fest, 62 EYE International DOCUMENTARIES THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING TRANSIT HAVANA Daniel Abma Morgan Knibbe Cuba knows Mariela Castro - Raul’s daughter and Fidel's niece - as the champion of gay rights. Under her inspiring guidance, the state recently started a treatment programme for Cuban transgenders whereby all expenses are reimbursed, and the medical treatment is top notch. Is the poor communist island changing into a paradise for transgenders? And are the Cuban transgenders the symbol of growing freedom? And can all these social changes in Cuba neatly fit within the remit of the socialist dictatorship? 90’ / DCP / colour As a group of refugees tries to enter Europe illegally by boat, a storm suddenly appears and an old man falls overboard. His perception shifts into another dimension: a dark, hallucinatory place. Driven by a mysterious power, and desperately in search of his loved ones, his soul passes by the everyday reality experienced by many castaway refugees at the border of Europe, the alleged paradise. 74’ / DCP / colour Original title: THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING Prod: BALDR Film D.O.P.: Morgan Knibbe Completed: October 2014 Language: Arabic/Bengali/ Farsi/Greek/Italian/Tigrigna/ Wolof BALDR Film Ph: +31 20 303 2670 [email protected] www.baldrfilm.nl Original title: TRANSIT HAVANA Prod: Witfilm (NL) Co-prod: Kloos & Co (DE), HFF (DE) Sc: Alex Bakker D.O.P.: Johannes Praus Completed: September 2015 Language: Spanish/Dutch/ English Daniel Abma: Second feature length documentary. a.o. BEYOND WRIEZEN (2012, doc) Awards: Audience Award Docudays Kiev, Best Documentary and Best Editing Sehsüchte Filmfestival Potsdam, HOLANDA DEL SOL (2013, short doc), GABRIELLA AND THE GOLDEN BOYS (2011, short doc), HANNES – ABOUT PAPAS AND POWER RANGER (2011, short doc), OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIALLY (2011, short doc), LOTHAR ERDMANN (2010, short doc). Witfilm Ph: +31 20 688 5049 [email protected] www.witfilm.nl Sales: Rise and Shine World Sales Ph: +49 30 4737 2980 [email protected] www.riseandshine-berlin.de Morgan Knibbe: First feature length documentary. SHIPWRECK (2014, short doc) Awards: Silver Leopard and Nomination European Film Award Locarno IFF. EYE International 63 DOCUMENTARIES WHAT WENT WRONG WHERE? Digna Sinke What do we do if a country does not stick to the agreement it signed? In 2005, after lengthy negotiations, an agreement was concluded between Belgium and the Netherlands concerning the Western Scheldt. The river would be deepened so that the largest sea-faring vessels could also get to Antwerp, at the same time ensuring ecological restoration within the area. Nine years later the agreement has still not been honoured by the Dutch. What went wrong, and how? 75’ / DCP / colour Original title: WAT ONS BINDT EN WAT ONS SCHEIDT Prod: De Familie (NL) Co-prod: Associate Directors (BE) Sc: Digna Sinke D.O.P.: Jan Wich Completed: summer/autumn 2015 Language: Dutch/Flemish Digna Sinke: a.o. AFTER THE TONE (2014, feature), WISTFUL WILDERNESS (2010, doc) Awards: Best Doc Paris Int. Environmental FF, Best Doc Freistadt FF, ATLANTIS (2008, feature), 64 TIENGEMETEN 2001-2006 (2006, doc), BROSSA (2005, doc), HOPE & EXPECTATIONS (2004, short), TIENGEMETEN PART 1 (2001, doc), BELLE VAN ZUYLEN/MADAME DE CHARRIÈRE (1993, feature) Awards: Main Prize MannheimHeidelberg IFF, ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS (1992, feature), NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (1990, doc), FAREWELL (1990, short). De Familie Ph: +31 20 663 3303 [email protected] www.defamilie.net EYE International SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SHORT DOCUMENTARIES THE ALCHEMIST Jona Honer 25’ / DCP / colour Original title: DE ALCHEMIST Prod: Een van de jongens Language: Dutch Completed: June 2015 Jona Honer: First short documentary. Een van de jongens Ph: +31 20 894 3628 [email protected] www.eenvandejongens.nl Hedge-fund boss Sebastiaan inhabits a harsh world where major conglomerates hold all the cards. To succeed, therefore, he must be prepared to go all the way… CHELLINA / DA BEAST Zoeteke Lugthart 16’ / DCP / colour Original title: CHELLINA / DA BEAST Prod: Hazazah Pictures Language: Dutch Completed: November 2014 Zoeteke Lugthart: First short documentary. P5 (2006, short). Hazazah Pictures Ph: +31 20 422 6422 [email protected] www.hazazahpictures.com Nobody wants to fight kickboxer Chellina anymore because she is too good. Will she continue kickboxing or give up? 66 Sales: NPO Sales Ph: +31 35 677 3760 [email protected] www.npo.nl EYE International SHORT DOCUMENTARIES THE CHINESE ARE COMING Willem Timmers 25’ / DCP / colour Original title: DE CHINEZEN KOMEN Prod: Copper Views Language: Mandarin/Dutch/English Completed: January 2015 Willem Timmers: FRAMING THE OTHER (2011, short doc). Copper Views Ph: +31 6 2702 1045 [email protected] www.copperviews.com Two Chinese tourists swap their megacity for the Dutch village of Giethoorn where the hosts work hard to provide for them the authentic Dutch experience. GIOVANNI AND THE WATER BALLET Astrid Bussink 17’ / DCP / colour Original title: GIOVANNI EN HET WATERBALLET Prod: Een van de jongens Language: Dutch Completed: October 2014 Astrid Bussink: a.o. WOOL FEVER (2013, short doc), THE HIDEOUT (2013, short doc), THE LOST COLONY (2008, doc). Een van de jongens www.eenvandejongens.nl Giovanni (10) wants to compete in the Dutch Synchronized Swimming Championships, but this is considered a typical girls’ sport. Can Giovanni realise his dream? EYE International Sales: NPO Sales Ph: +31 35 677 3760 [email protected] www.npo.nl 67 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES LOCKED UP LIONS Eline Helena Schellekens 25’ / DCP / colour Original title: LOCKED UP LIONS Prod: Dutch Mountain Film Language: Dutch Completed: July 2015 Eline Helena Schellekens: a.o. A HOME FOR LYDIA (2013, short doc), TO PROTECT YOUR SAFETY (2012, doc), TWENTY SEVEN (2011, short doc). Director Eline Helena Schellekens Dutch Mountain Film Ph: +31 20 688 1843 [email protected] www.dutchmountainfilm.nl What do you do when, after years of struggling, the residence permit finally arrives? A fascinating documentary about human resilience. LOSERS - A FILM ABOUT LOSS Arianne Hinz 16’ / DCP / colour Original title: LOSERS – EEN FILM OVER VERLIES Prod: Hazazah Pictures Language: Dutch Completed: October 2014 Arianne Hinz: First short documentary. I AM NOT BRAVE (2012, short), THE GIRL WHO COULDN’T DECIDE (2011, short). Hazazah Pictures Ph: +31 20 422 6422 [email protected] www.hazazahpictures.com Three children have each lost something - but was the experience the same? Can the study of one kind of loss teach us about other kinds? 68 EYE International SHORT DOCUMENTARIES MY DEAREST F#CKING PHONE Eef Hilgers 17’ / DCP / colour Original title: LIEVE K#TTELEFOON Prod: Een van de jongens Language: Dutch Completed: October 2014 Eef Hilgers: a.o. JUST A GIRL YOU KNOW (2012, short doc). Een van de jongens Ph: +31 20 894 3628 [email protected] www.eenvandejongens.nl A holiday without Wi-Fi turns out to be a revelation for Claudia (14). At last, no more Instagram pictures of her beautiful, successful and fun-loving friends. NOTHING LEFT UNSAID Anne-Marieke Graafmans 25’ / DCP / colour Original title: ALLES IS GEZEGD Prod: Een van de jongens Language: Dutch Completed: September 2014 Anne-Marieke Graafmans: First short documentary. Een van de jongens Ph: +31 20 894 3628 [email protected] www.eenvandejongens.nl When the three sons of locked-in-syndrome sufferer Wim take over his care, each experiences, for the first time, a total dependence on the others. EYE International 69 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SO HELP ME GOD Thomas Vroege 21’ / DCP / colour Original title: SO HELP ME GOD Prod: Zuidenwind Filmprodukties Language: English Completed: November 2014 Thomas Vroege: First short documentary. Zuidenwind Filmprodukties Ph: +31 76 514 0871 [email protected] www.zuidenwind.nl Cinematic essay fusing observations of London’s financial centre, the story of a psychotherapist and footage of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein at the US Senate Hearing. THIS SUMMER IS MINE Marinka de Jongh 25’ / DCP / colour Original title: DEZE ZOMER IS VAN MIJ Prod: Bananaz Language: Dutch Completed: autumn 2015 Marinka de Jongh: MY DEAR CANCER DOG (2012, short doc). Bananaz Ph: +31 6 4404 2556 [email protected] www.bnnz.nl A coming of age story about two young adults with mild intellectual disability and their holiday on the thrilling island of Ibiza. 70 EYE International SHORT DOCUMENTARIES YOU’VE GOT A PROBLEM Esra Piké 25’ / DCP / colour Original title: U HEBT EEN PROBLEEM Prod: IJswater Films Language: Dutch Completed: April 2015 Esra Piké: First short documentary. IJswater Films Ph: +31 20 442 1760 [email protected] www.ijswater.nl A documentary that follows outreach social workers who must intervene in the lives of their patients, and asks the question, ‘how far should social work go?’ EYE International 71 SHORT FILMS SHORT FILMS ALL THOSE SUNFLOWERS Bram Schouw 19’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: ALL THOSE SUNFLOWERS Prod: Hazazah Pictures Language: English Completed: May 2014 Bram Schouw: a.o. SEVILLA (2012, short), BABY SHOWER (2012, TV film), NINA SATANA (2011, TV film), MARRIAGE (2007, short). Living in the present only seems possible when the past has been erased. Hazazah Pictures Ph: +31 20 422 6422 [email protected] www.hazazahpictures.com EMPTY Flynn von Kleist 10’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: LEEG Prod: Waterland Film Language: Dutch Completed: November 2014 Flynn von Kleist: DAYS OF STEEL (2013, short), LOVE STOREY (2010, short). Waterland Film Ph: +31 20 763 0663 [email protected] www.waterlandfilm.nl When Job comes to work on board, repressed feelings are awoken in Rein who, imprisoned on the boat, is unable to ignore his growing desires… 74 EYE International SHORT FILMS EXPOSE Moniek van der Kallen 12’ / DCP / colour Genre: dance Original title: EXPOSE Prod: Dyzlo Film Language: no dialogue Completed: January 2015 Moniek van der Kallen: EXPLORE (2010, short). Dyzlo Film Ph: +31 30 752 5421 [email protected] www.dyzlofilm.nl A girl appears through transparent curtains and glass ornaments. Lightheartedly she dances across the floor, until she realizes she is not alone… A HOLE IN MY HEART Mees Peijnenburg 9’ / DCP / b&w Genre: drama Original title: UN CREUX DANS MON COEUR Prod: 100% Halal Language: French Completed: November 2014 Mees Peijnenburg: a.o. WILD DOG (2014, short), EVEN COWBOYS GET TO CRY (2013, short) Awards: a.o. Youth Award Go Short FF, Best Int. Student Film Brussels Short FF, WE WERE WOLVES (2012, short). Nineteen-year-old Frenchman Henri is confronted with issues about the mortality and fragility of life following the loss of his brother in a road accident. EYE International 100% Halal Ph: +31 20 639 1402 [email protected] www.100procenthalal.nl 75 SHORT FILMS HOME SUITE HOME Jeroen Houben 12’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: HOME SUITE HOME Prod: Habbekrats Language: Dutch Completed: mid 2015 Jeroen Houben: a.o. SORRY (2012, short) Awards: a.o. Best Screenplay Shortcutz, PAGE 23 (2011, short), MIX TAPE (2011, short). Habbekrats Ph: +31 20 330 0324 [email protected] www.habbekrats.nl Hotel inspector Ludwig leads a dreadful life, but one night in Paris he gets the wake-up call he needs. IN THE PIT Nima Mohaghegh 15’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: IN THE PIT Prod: Habbekrats Language: Dutch/Arabic Completed: September 2014 Nima Mohaghegh: First short fiction film. Habbekrats Ph: +31 20 330 0324 [email protected] www.habbekrats.nl A young Iranian man tries to elevate himself from the aggressive environment of pit-bull fighting to respectable fatherhood. 76 EYE International SHORT FILMS DER KAISER Eché Janga 10’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: DER KAISER Prod: Lemming Film Language: Dutch Completed: October 2014 Eché Janga: a.o. HELIUM (2014, feature), STOCKHOLM (2012, short), IN OBSERVATION (2011, short), MO (2010, short). Lemming Film Ph: +31 20 661 0424 [email protected] www.lemmingfilm.com Darth Vader is a boy who - when not wearing his mask – goes by the name Kai. MALAGUTI PHANTOM Sam de Jong 9’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: MALAGUTI PHANTOM Prod: 100 % Halal Language: Dutch Completed: September 2014 Sam de Jong: a.o. MARC JACOBS (2013, short), MAGNESIUM (2012, short) Awards: a.o. Best Student Film Hollyshorts FF, Audience Award Beijing Int. Student FF. With his mutilated face, minimal social skills and a crappy scooter, Jeroen must transform in order to be accepted by the bad kids of the neighborhood. EYE International 100% Halal Ph: +31 20 639 1402 [email protected] www.100procenthalal.nl 77 SHORT FILMS P Aaron Rookus 10’ / DCP / colour Genre: tragicomedy Original title: P Prod: Venfilm Language: no dialogue Completed: September 2014 Aaron Rookus: a.o. BALANCE (2012, short), WEDNESDAYS (2011, short). Venfilm Ph: +31 6 4187 8497 [email protected] www.venfilm.nl A family reaches boiling point during a pit stop on their way home from vacation. SPOTTERS Wim van der Aar 10’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: SPOTTERS Prod: IJswater Films Language: Dutch Completed: September 2014 Wim van der Aar: GABBERS (2013, doc), THE VAN WAVEREN TAPES (2012, doc). IJswater Films Ph: +31 20 442 1760 [email protected] www.ijswater.nl When a man loses control of his life, he finds meaning in machines that ascend and descend. A winterly story about loss, desire and airplanes. 78 EYE International SHORT FILMS SYMMETRY Ruben van Leer 20’ / DCP / colour Genre: dance, opera Original title: SYMMETRY Prod: CTM Pictures Language: English Completed: September 2015 Ruben van Leer: INSTRUMENT (2011, short). CTM Pictures Ph: +31 35 647 4040 [email protected] www.ctmpictures.nl A CERN researcher performs a ritual dance with a female shaman and learns that life’s riches are hidden in the smallest human body parts. DAS WAD Rob Lücker 11’ / DCP / colour Genre: comedy, action Original title: DAS WAD Prod: Hazazah Pictures Language: no dialogue Completed: September 2014 Rob Lucker: a.o. RESISTANCE (2013, TV film), THE VISIT (2011, short), WALZER (2010, short), SKODA (2007, short). Hazazah Pictures www.hazazahpictures.com When Salomon discovers a giant submarine on a beach, he accidently releases its fanatical German crew who have long since passed the age of retirement… EYE International Sales: SND Films Ph: +31 20 404 0707 [email protected] www.sndfilms.com 79 SHORT FILMS WILD DOG Mees Peijnenburg 8’ / DCP / colour Genre: drama Original title: BLOEDHOND Prod: Pupkin Film Language: Dutch Completed: September 2014 Mees Peijnenburg: a.o. A HOLE IN MY HEART (2014, short), EVEN COWBOYS GET TO CRY (2013, short) Awards: a.o. Youth Award Go Short FF, Best Int. Student Film Brussels Short FF, WE WERE WOLVES (2012, short). A destructive aggression is festering inside 19-year-old Gijs, something he must learn to contain as his life begins to spiral out of control. 80 Pupkin Film Ph: +31 20 489 5088 [email protected] www.pupkin.com EYE International ANIMATED SHORTS ANIMATED SHORTS BLUE MOON Marsha Onderstijn & Jordie Roomer 2’ / DCP / colour Original title: BLAUWE MAAN Prod: Armadillo Film Language: no dialogue Completed: October 2014 Marsha Onderstijn & Jordie Roomer: First animated film. Armadillo Film Ph: +31 6 5050 5888 [email protected] www.armadillofilm.nl Moon is sad because everyone goes to sleep at night, leaving him alone. But Sun and the animals devise a plan to brighten Moon's life. DEADLY DRIVE-IN DISASTER Arjan Wilschut 2’ / DCP / colour Original title: DEADLY DRIVE-IN DISASTER Prod: Comic House Amsterdam Language: no dialogue Completed: June 2015 Arjan Wilschut: a.o. FARMER JACK (2011, animation), HARD BOILED CHICKEN (2006, animation), PENGUIN’S CHRISTMAS (2004, animation), SHADOWS (2001, animation). A UFO descends upon a drive-in theater and starts abducting viewers, but once again Sola Powers saves the world, this time with a film reel. 82 Comic House Amsterdam Ph: +31 26 321 0032 [email protected] www.comichouse.nl EYE International ANIMATED SHORTS DOG-E Patrick Raats 3’ / DCP / colour Original title: DOG-E Prod: Valkproducties Language: Dutch Completed: June 2014 Patrick Raats: a.o. GYM (2008, animation), SEE, I LOVE YOU (2005, animation), SHIT (2003, animation). Valkproducties www.valkproducties.nl In our techy, gadget-laden society it’s sometimes hard to tell what is true and what is fiction… Sales: SND Films Ph: +31 20 404 0707 [email protected] www.sndfilms.com FULL FEATHER JACKET Liz el Saadany 2’ / DCP / colour Original title: FULL FEATHER JACKET Prod: The Drawing Room Language: no dialogue Completed: June 2015 Liz el Saadany: First animated film. The Drawing Room Ph: +31 6 2428 4466 [email protected] www.drawingroom.nl Fascinated by the war that rages on in the city, clumsy seagull Manfred decides to join the air force. EYE International 83 ANIMATED SHORTS LOSS Yi Zhao 20’ / DCP / colour Original title: LÖSS Prod: Armadillo Film Language: no dialogue Completed: March 2015 Yi Zhao: First animated film. Armadillo Film Ph: +31 6 5050 5888 [email protected] wwwarmadillofilm.nl An abused Chinese farm-woman, poor and childless, fantasises about a better life. In one such fantasy she kills her husband, burying him outside the house… A SINGLE LIFE Job, Joris & Marieke 2’ / DCP / colour Original title: A SINGLE LIFE Prod: Job, Joris & Marieke Language: no dialogue Completed: June 2014 Job, Joris & Marieke: a.o. MUTE (2013, animation), IT’S NOT FUNNY, IT’S ART (2008, animation). Job, Joris & Marieke www.jobjorisenmarieke.nl Festivals: KLIK! Distribution [email protected] Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life, when playing a mysterious vinyl single. 84 Sales: SND Films Ph: +31 20 404 0707 [email protected] www.sndfilms.com EYE International ANIMATED SHORTS SPLINTERTIME Rosto 11’ / DCP / colour Original title: SPLINTERTIME Prod: Studio Rosto A.D. Language: no dialogue Completed: December 2014 Rosto: a.o. LONELY BONES (2013, animation), THE MONSTER OF NIX (2011, animation), NO PLACE LIKE HOME (2008, animation). Studio Rosto A.D www.rostoad.com “Zip up and let's dance to the sound of breaking glass." A band of sleepy spirits in an ambulance run out of road. Sales: Autour De Minuit Ph: +33 1 4281 1728 [email protected] www.autourdeminuit.com UNDER THE APPLE TREE Erik van Schaaik 17’ / DCP / colour Original title: UNDER THE APPLE TREE Prod: PEDRI Animation Language: English Completed: July 2015 Erik van Schaaik: a.o. PECKER (2010, animation), THE PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA (2008, animation) Award: Grand Prix Anim’est IFF, Vent (2004, animation) Awards: a.o. FIPRESCI Award Annecy Int. Animated FF. A deceased farmer is buried by his hated brother, the vicar. Worms inhabit the corpse and take full control of it. The dead farmer reawakens... 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