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All the entries for the fifth round of the New Arrivals Competition are available here. Do you also want to send in your short film? Until September 15th 2008, films for the fifth round can be submitted.
In cooperation with the International Film Festival Rotterdam the NPS invites filmmakers to send in their short films. All entrances will be shown online. Every month the New Arrivals editors will select six films from which a jury of three qualified people will choose a winner. In the end eight winners will be shown at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2009. The winner of this last screening shall receive a New Arrivals Award of 1000 euros during the festival.
Woman meets Man, Djembé meets Flamenco
Director: Anthony Hoovers
Fiction
Musical short about a dancer and a musician. They meet coincidentally and at the same time their meeting is no coincidence at all.
Monsters
Director: Dominique Furge (France)
Experimental
'Monsters' is a series of short films in which Dominique Furge pursues his exploration of the narrative capacity of abstract images in cinema: in particular violent scenes from cinema classics.
Four
Director: Jasper Teerling
Experimental documentary
Short documentary in which a guy is counting his foot steps.
Pure Nature
Director: Juriaan Moolhuysen
Documentary / Mixed Media
' Pure Nature' is an interactive exhibition on a journey through the continent of South America. Visitor's can explore South America's nature from the Atlantic Coast to the heart of the Amazon.
De belichtingsmachine
Director: Arno Cupédo
Documentary
Documentary about the works of the artist F.M. Hutchison. The paintings from the period 2004 - 2007 are designed with the help of a 3D computer program.
Static
Director: Ramon Smeets
Experimental
'What's mine is mine, what's yours....will be mine soon' is the logline of this experimental short which is full of contradictions.
Het grote verlies van het kleine wijk
Directors: Aviva Brouwer en Sanne Sprenger
Documentary
In ‘Het Kleine Wijk’, a small part of Utrecht, everybody knows each other. However, this lively neighbourhood is facing demolition.
Le Voyage Extraordinaire
Director: Fabien Dettori
Fiction
A fantastic journey of a 7-month old little girl and a green bear driving an old car through the French country side on their way to the sea.
Pirouette
Director: Andrew Shermin
Fiction
The short dance film 'Pirouette' was nominated for the Tiger Awards Short Film Competition 2008 of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The Mysteries
Director: Erin Dunn
Animation
Short film based on a series of highly-detailed, multimedia drawings by Erin Dunn. Sea gulls fly through a garden of double helixes and a giant praying mantis leaps into swan filled bubbles.
The Gingerbread House
Director: Claudio Centimeri
Fiction
Adaptation of the classic fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. However, the story is retold through the eyes of a child who is forced to sit in front of a media bombing television set. Thus creating a distorted and disturbing version of this tale.
Les jeux d' enfants
Director: Muriel Montini
Experimental
Short film about playing children.
God is Angry
Director: Daniel Stuyck
Fiction
At an aiport shuttle a businessman asks another passenger to stop talking so loudly on his mobile phone.
Sugar Coated Film
Director: Michiko Takahashi (USA)
Experimental
Short film in which the director is refering to the violent images of found footage and commenting on the history of western avant-garde film.
Into My Eyes
Directors: Globalgroove (Michele Andreoni, Fabio Toffolo)
Experimental
Originally this film was conceived as a sound script, where recordings of on line video chats were overlapping with fragments of distorted musical tracks. A visual pattern was built step by step using hypnotic and psychedelic night shots.
Elle viendra pas (We are Still Waiting)
Director: Olivier Serrano
Fiction
Nils invites Pablo to introduce him to his girlfriend, but she is late. Tension between the two friends increases.
BANG!
Director: Xavier Baeyens
Thriller
If you are in danger. Call a friend....or rather not?!?
Don't Say a Word (Sin decir nada)
Director: Diana Carolina Montenegro Garcia
Fiction
Sofia, driven by a strong attraction, begins to photograph Vero, the cutest girl in class. One day the bump into each other and Sofia's pictures are uncovered.
As Long as the Wind Blows
Director: Hark' oh Wubs
Documentary
In three different situations in Friesland people try to resist globalization.
Elle dit qu'elle m'aime (She Says She Loves Me)
Director: Fabien Hemard
Fiction
Mathieu's life has reached a disturbing crossroad. He is thirtysomething and dividing his time bewteen odd jobs and uncertain relationships.
Dear Old Stockholm
Director: Nini Ten
Fiction
A young man is going on a trip during his school holidays. He drives with no destination in mind.
Sophie
Director: Vlado Priborsky
Thriller
During a stroll Sophie loses ground and falls down a cliff. She discovers her phone next to her. It is just a few steps away from her, but exactely these steps become a life threatening trap.
A Fala do cacique
Directors: Marcia Gomes de Oliveira Suchanek en Norbert G. Suchanek
Documentary
Documentary about the small village Sapukai, south of Rio de Janeiro, where the government has built two atomic power stations and is busy building a third one.
Cuisine
Director: Ans Kanen
Documentary
Documentary about the small village Sapukai, south of Rio de Janeiro, where the government has built two atomic power stations and is busy building a third one.
The World as a Collection
Director: Koert Davidse
Documentary
Short and poetic film about the fascinating life of the artist Erik Fens. By cutting and pasting he composes his own ‘ Encyclopaedia of the World’.
The Road to Adventure
Director:: Erik Clignett
Experimental
Experimental commercial.
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Danut pleaca pe vapour (Tiger Danny)
Regie: Radu Potcoava
Fiction
In a few hours, Danny will leave Romania to work on a luxurious cruising boat. However, her husband is about to run away with his younger mistress. Danny locks him up and is not letting him go…