CONTEMPORARY DUTCH CINEMA - Highlights of the Lowlands 2

21 April 2011, Thursday

12:00h.
SPECIAL PROGRAMME

MASTER CLASS by André Schreuders
 LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION - producing and distributing

André Schreuders (1967), filmmaker and producer from Netherlands, mostly famous for his short films.  Films from Schreuders have very different style and content, but they are part of the same vision on life and art; the astonishing reality as starting point, the poetic glance as way to understand and the imperfectness as the highest point of perfection in the art and life. His film “Light” was one of the 7 short films that were selected in Cannes 2010 'Quinzaine des Realisateurs' (the Directors' Fortnight).

André Schreuders is invited to do film residence in Skopje in 2012, making a research, filming etc. For successful realization of his final goal - making a film, he is dependent of cooperation with the film sector in Macedonia. All producers, filmmakers, scriptwriters, editors and actors are welcome to introduce themselves.

Filmography
Light (15 minutes, April 2010), Manifesto for a free fall (12 minutes, March 2009), From the heart of Odessa (60 minutes, September 2007), New World Movements (7 minutes, August 2006), On Phenomena & Existences No.3 (11 minutes, January 2006.), On Phenomena & Existences No.3 – video-installation (11 minutes, December 2005), Vroeger, toen de wind nog vurig was (3 minutes, August 2005), Drunk Engel Dronken Engel/Pianie Angel (18 minutes, 2004), Wachters - video-installation (5 minutes loop, 2004), De wachter (27 minutes 2003), Zwijg (10 minutes, 2002), Du musst nicht traurig sein (3 minutes, 2002), Bij vlagen (4 minutes, 2001).

19:00 – 20:00h.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST IT – Presentation of the results of the film workshop

Presentation of the results of the project “Domestic violence and the fight against it” – Utrecht, Netherland, with participants from Macedonia, Netherland, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Albania and Bulgaria. Macedonian participants were Sinolicka Trpkova as mentor and the young actors: Ana Kafkaleska, Marija Bejkova, Slagjana Vujosevikj, Aleksandar Stepanuleski, Nikola Nastoski and Gazmend Izairi. 

20:45
LIGHT 
 short fiction
2010, 15’, color, 35mm
Director: Andre Schreuders
production: AS Film

An elderly single woman who realizes she is terminally ill, packs some clothes in a suitcase, puts her fish in a plastic bag and leaves on foot. During her lonely journey she has some brief but intense encounters.

Special guest: André Schreuders

WIN WIN

Drama
2010, 90’, color, 35mm
director: Jaap van Heusden
production: Ijswater films
cast: Oscar van Rompay, Leon Voorberg, Halina Reijn, Hans Kesting, Phi Nguyen, Pepijn Schoneveld 

Ivan is a true number cruncher and 'surfs the waves of the stock market' like a natural trader. He rakes in big profits for the bank. But all is not well. The new job gives Ivan sleepless nights. As Ivan rapidly becomes the most successful trader in town, he feels increasingly alienated from himself and the world around him. In spite of his unprecedented success Ivan has to get out. Before it's too late... 

22 April 2011, Friday
20:00 h.
FATA MORGANA

Short fiction
2009, 10', color, 35mm 
director: Joanna Wesseling
producer: Mak Kapetanović  

After being abandoned by her father, the seven-year old Eva prays every day to her Virgin Mary statuette, hoping he will come back. One night, her mother Margaritha brings home José, a man she met while she was out. The next morning, while Margaritha is off to work, Eva finds him, thinking her wish has come true. Now, she’s determined to make sure José is the father she’s been dreaming of.

EL OLVIDO

Documentary
2008, 93’, color, 35mm
Director: Heddy Honingmann
Producer: Carmen Cobos

This astonishing documentary takes a contemplative look at Peru’s recent political history. Honigmann’s tapestry-in-motion gives a complicated, never-deafening voice to the oppressed while cherishing the importance of even the tiniest action, be it the proper preparation of the national drink (Pisco Sour) or a magic-hour cartwheel through a crosswalk.

23 April 2011, Saturday
20:00 h.
JACCO'S FILM

short fiction
2009, 25', color, 35mm
Director: Daan Bakker
Production: Netherlands Film and Television Academy

Jacco’s world is a happy place. Even when it’s not.

МASTER AND HIS PUPILS

Documentary
2003, 85', color, 35mm
Director: Sonia Herman Dolz
Production: Hasten Slowly Films Production 

In this compelling and revealing film, celebrated Russian conductor Valery Gergiev mentors three young conductors in the artistry and passion required to conduct a symphony orchestra. Director Sonia Herman Dolz takes us behind the scenes into a gripping master-class, in which Gergiev works with his talented protégés to perfect their guidance of Rotterdam’s Philharmonic Orchestra.

25 April 2011, Monday
20:00 h.
МUM

Documentary
2009, 20', color, 35mm
Director: Adelheid Roosen
Producer: Adelheid Roosen voor Female Economy Foundation

Adelheid Roosen's mother is in a large bathtub, sitting on the lap of her other daughter, who is affectionately supporting her. The static camera records the daughter's tender movements and the mother's evident pleasure. 

THE PLAYER

Documentary
2010, 85', color, 35mm
Director: John Appel
Producer: Carmen Cobos

A film about gambling, winning and losing in the broadest sense of the words, based on the director’s memories of his father. Childhood memories of innocent fun and games give way to depictions of later high-risk ventures, life-threatening antics and inveterate gambling addiction.

26 April 2011, Tuesday
20:00 h.
BINGO

short fiction
2009, 27', color, 35mm
Director: Timur Ismailov
Producer: Maarten van der Ven
Cast: Sergiu Voloc, Dimitri Bilov

Story about young Roma guy Bingo, from Moldova who tries his luck in Holland.

NOTHING PERSONAL

Drama
2009, 85', color, 35mm
Director: Urszula Antoniak
Production: Rinkel Film
Cast: Lotte Verbeek, Stephen Rea

A young female rebel and an old sage challenge each other in a story about personal freedom and attachment. She is a young Dutch woman, who after throwing away all her possessions becomes a vagabond by choice and finds the solitude she was looking for in an austere landscape of Irish Connemara. He is an old man who lives a solitary life in a secluded house in Ireland. She is radical and uncompromising. He is wise and ironic. Their simple life follows the cycle of days and nights, work and rest but slowly brings the two of them closer to each other. Who will be the first one to break the deal and admit the personal interest?

27 April 2011, Wednesday
20:00 h.
MISSING

short fiction
2009, 25', color, 35mm
Director: Jochem de Vries
Production: Trueworks

A mother and 7-year old daughter are dealing with the little problems of everyday life.

КATJA'S SISTER

Drama
2008, 85', color, 35mm
Director: Mijke de Jong
Production: Key films
Cast: Betty Qizmolli, Julia Seykens, Olga Louzgina

An intimate portrait of a 13-year old girl, living Amsterdam, who loses her Russian mother and older sister Katia to the world of prostitution.

Programmer:
Rada Sesic

Suported by:
Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands
Macedonian Film Fund
Eye Film Institute, Netherlands

Organized by: 
Cinematheque of Macedonia
Stichting Cultural Aid
Eye Film Institute, Netherlands
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