Dutch Focus at Braunschweig 2021
Large selection of Dutch films screen at Braunschweig International Film Festival
November 1st, the 35th edition of the Braunschweig International Film Festival starts, continuing until the 7th. This year, there is a large selection Dutch (co-)productions at the festival, including a focus on Dutch shorts with a programme called Shorts from the Netherlands. Read the full selection and the programmes they are selected for below.
Here We Move, Here We Groove by Sergej Kreso
Founded in 1987, BIFF is the oldest festival in Lower Saxony, Germany. Started by a handful of cinema enthusiasts, it has developed into an audience festival for 27,500 visitors. Around 280 film industry professionals (filmmakers, actors/actresses, producers, composers, press) attend the festival to see about 250 full-length and short films on eight screens. Among these films, there is a huge collection of Dutch (co-)produced films.
Shorts from the Netherlands
As the festival describes it: short films from the Netherlands have been among their secret favourites for the past years. This year the Dutch shorts are finally in the spotlight and are granted their own short film programme, with a diverse and exciting selection of recent works:
Baba* by Lisa Konno and Sarah Blok, produced by Boondocs
Exhale by Moniek van der Kallen, produced by Dyzlo Film
L'eau faux by Serge Onnen and Sverre Frederiksen, produced by SeriousFilm
Lacerate by Janis Rafa, produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film
Lost on Arrival* by PolakVanBekkum
Pavement Party by Hugo Drechsler, produced by Staccato Films
See Me* by Patty Stenger and Yvonne Kroese, produced by Family Affair Films
Main Competition: Audience Award
10 outstanding European debut and second films are competing for two main prizes: The Audience Award "Der Heinrich" and the jury award "Volkswagen Financial Services Award". The Dutch (co-)productions selected for this competition are:
Mitra** by Kaweh Modiri, produced by BALDR Film
The Consequences** by Claudia Pinto Emperador, co-produced by N279 Entertainment
Queer/Cut
This year the film festival, in cooperation with the Association for Sexual Emancipation, the Queer Network Lower Saxony and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equality, will award the Queer Film Prize Lower Saxony to one of the short films from the Queer/Cut Programme. The winning film will be decided by the vote of the audience. Two Dutch shorts are competing:
Girlsboysmix by Lara Aerts, produced by Prospektor
NOVA* by Luca Meisters, produced by IJswater Films
Midnight Tales
Woodland Cemetery by Niels Bourgonje, produced by Conundrum Film
In Love Matters...
F*ck My Life* by Isis Cabolet, produced by Millstreet Films
Forest Edge Happiness by Philip Huff, produced by De Familie Film & TV
#Show Me Europe
Mother Tongue by Floris Ramaekers, produced by Rinkelfilm
Shortly Animated
Ink* by Erik Verkerk and Joost van den Bosch, produced by Ka-Ching Cartoons
Steward* by Jim Stüter, produced by Keplerfilm
Tourist Trap* by Vera van Wolferen, produced by Family Affair Films
Children and Youth Films
Binti** by Frederike Migom, co-produced by Family Affair Films
European Acting Award: Die Europa
Black Book* by Paul Verhoeven, produced by Fu Works.
New International Cinema
Buladó** by Eché Janga, produced by Keplerfilm
Sound on Screen
Here We Move, Here We Groove** by Sergej Kreso, produced by DOXY Films
For more information on Braunschweig International Film Festival, click here.
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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
**Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund and Film Production Incentive