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.
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.
Fiction
Musical short about a dancer and a musician. They meet coincidentally and at the same time their meeting is no coincidence at all.
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.
Experimental documentary
Short documentary in which a guy is counting his foot steps.
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.
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.
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.
Documentary
In ‘Het Kleine Wijk’, a small part of Utrecht, everybody knows each other. However, this lively neighbourhood is facing demolition.
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.
Fiction
The short dance film 'Pirouette' was nominated for the Tiger Awards Short Film Competition 2008 of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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.
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.
Fiction
At an aiport shuttle a businessman asks another passenger to stop talking so loudly on his mobile phone.
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.
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.
Fiction
Nils invites Pablo to introduce him to his girlfriend, but she is late. Tension between the two friends increases.
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.
Documentary
In three different situations in Friesland people try to resist globalization.
Fiction
Mathieu's life has reached a disturbing crossroad. He is thirtysomething and dividing his time bewteen odd jobs and uncertain relationships.
Fiction
A young man is going on a trip during his school holidays. He drives with no destination in mind.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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…