Watch the New Arrivals entries of the fifth round

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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.

  1. 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.

     
  2. 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.

     
  3. Four

    Director: Jasper Teerling

    Experimental documentary

    Short documentary in which a guy is counting his foot steps.

     
  4. 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.

     
  5. 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.

     

     
  6. 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.

     
  7. 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.

     
  8. 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.

     
  9. 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.

     
  10. 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.

     
  11. 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.

     
  12. Les jeux d' enfants

    Director: Muriel Montini

    Experimental

    Short film about playing children.

     
  13. 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.

     
  14. 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.

     
  15. 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.

     
  16. 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.

     
  17. BANG!

    Director: Xavier Baeyens

    Thriller

    If you are in danger. Call a friend....or rather not?!?

     
  18. 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.

     
  19. As Long as the Wind Blows

    Director: Hark' oh Wubs

    Documentary

    In three different situations in Friesland people try to resist globalization.

     
  20. 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.

     
  21. 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.

     
  22. 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.

     
  23. 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.

     
  24. 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.

     
  25. 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’.

     
  26. The Road to Adventure

    Director:: Erik Clignett

    Experimental

    Experimental commercial.

     
  27. 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…