Dutch Film Days
PROGRAM
OLIVIER / ОЛИВЕР (special guest Dragan Bakema- actor)
12.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length: 90 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Drama
Director: Sander Burger
Cast: Dragan Bakema, Joop Admiraal, Hans Dagelet, Noël Keulen, Maria Kraakman, Olga Zuiderhoek
Scenario: Marc Wortel, Sander Burger, Dragan Bakema, Maria Kraakman
Camera: Sal Kroonenberg
Sound: Gideon Bijlsma
Music: Bart Westerlaken
Editing: Brian Ent, Manuel Rombley
Production: Paula Loos, Mirjam Smit
Olivier was born with one hart chamber. With such disability no one can live more than thirty. His way of fighting against the sickness is enjoying as much as possible in every moment of his life. But his life changes drastically when a skilled doctor operates his heart. The operation is successful. People around him are very glad about that. Olivier is now confronted with the future that he never thought. At the same time- people around him are expecting that he will have a different approach to his life. Nothing in his life seems normal any more. Olivier feels himself as a victim.
“OBER” / WAITER / КЕЛНЕР
13.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length: 90 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Cast: Alex van Warmerdam, Ariane Schluter, Jaap Spijkers, Mark Rietman, Thekla Reuten, Kees Prins,
Pierre Bokma, Porgy Franssen e.a.
Scenario: Alex van Warmerdam
Camera: Tom Erisman
Sound: Franco Pispoco
Music: Vincent van Warmerdam
Editing: Ewin Ryckaert
Production: Gert Brinkers
A crummy job at a run-down restaurant. A wife who is chronically ill. The anti-social neighbours. An extramarital affair that offers little more than sexual gratification. Fictitious fifty-year-old waiter Edgar has had enough of his miserable existence… He wants out of the relationship with his wife, he wants a new girlfriend, he wants new neighbours and he is fed up with being treated like a doormat by his customers. But Edgar’s about to find out the hard way that his life is truly stranger than fiction. Structured as a film within a film, this lucid, funny and trilling story gives us much more than just a film plot.
Awards: Gouden Kalf, Gouden film, III Rigas Starptautiskais Fantazijas filmu festivals
“TUSSENSTAND”/ DIFFERENCE / РАЗЛИЧНОСТ
14.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length: 80 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Drama
Director: Mijke de Jong
Cast: Elsie de Brauw, Jennifer Jago, Stijn Koomen, Marcel Musters, Joan Nederlof, Shireen Strooker, Jeroen Willems e.a.
Scenario: Mijke de Jong, Dorith Vinken, Jolein Laarman
Camera: Ton Peters
Sound: Kees de Groot
Music: Paul M. van Brugge
Editing: Dorith Vinken
Production: Jolein Laarman
Synopsis: Following his parents' divorce, Isaac, seventeen, lives alone with his mother. An introvert by nature, he passes the time by polishing his Samurai sword, listening to his walkman, and slipping into the apartments of absent strangers. His parents, Roos and Martin, meet regularly to keep a connection with one another. When Roos confides her concerns about Isaac, arguments ensue, as Martin seems to have little to no interest in his son's welfare.
In the director's own words, her goal was to make a film where the dialogues would bring out the emptiness of words and the most important information would be transferred in a non-verbal way. Undoubtedly, she managed to achieve this aim in Tussenstand.
Awards: Award ‘Nou de Ouro’, award for Best Film, European Film Festival in Estoril (Portugal),Las Palmas De Gran Canaries International, Golden Calf for, Nederlandse Filmkritiek 2007.
“WOLFSBERGEN” / ВОЛФСБЕРГЕН
14.12.2008, 19:00,
Кино Фросина/ Kino Frosina
Length: 95 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Genre: Drama
Director: Nanouk Leopold
Cast: Tamar van den Dop, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders, Jan Decleir, Catherine ten Bruggencate and Piet Kamerman
Scenario: Nanouk Leopold
Camera: Richard van Oosterhout
Sound: Hans Helewaut
Music: Loek Dikker
Editing: Katharina Wartena
Production: Cercle Films BV
Wolfsbergen is a movie that tells a story of people in family who have lost the ability to stay together. Kaleidoscopic portrait of four generations living in one family where mutual relations are becoming very tensed.
Awards: Gouden Kalf , Nordic Film Festival in Rouen France
SMOKING AND OTHER CRIMES / ПУШЕЊЕ И ДРУГ КРИМИНАЛ
(special guest Mr. Denis Mujovic –producer)
15.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Year: 2008
Length 54 minutes
Country: Netherlands
Language: English
Scenario: Maya v.d. Heuvel
Director: Mathieu van den Berk
Photography: Danny Hollander
Editing: Danny Hollander
Production: Denis Mujovic
Cast: Johan Muller - Justin Pratt - Valentina Lacmanovic - Ira Prica - Rod Ben Zeev
Comic Film Noir. On the last night of legal public smoking, while a dangerous criminal is walking around free, a hypocrite psycho-therapist and a mysterious woman are trying to lay their hands on the inheritance of a dying man, as the bartender is desperately juggling to save the future of her bar.
“GOUD” / GOLD / ЗЛАТО
15.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 105 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Documentary
Director: Nick Koppen
Research: Esther Gaarland
Editing: Erik Disselhoff
Music: Harry de Wit
Sound: Otto Horsch
Camera: Peter Brugman
Sound editing: Paul Pijpost
Producer: Selfmade films
An highly exciting documentary about Dutch female hockey team whose motto is: Winning is more important than participating!! At 8th October 2006 have the Dutch female hockey finally won the world hockey championship after 16 years. Ten intensive weeks of preparation before and during the championship. The players and the coach Marc Lammers are followed during trainings, conversations and during the matches.
Awards: Gouden Kalf
Jimmy Rosenberg - De vader, de zoon & het talent / Jimmmy Rosenberg – a father, a son & a talent / Џими Росенберг – татко, син и талент
15.12.2008, 22:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Year: 2006
Length 77 minutes
Country: Nederland
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Jeroen Berkvens
Cast: Jimmy Rosenber e.a
Producer: Frank de Jonge
Camera: Ton Peters
Jimmy Rosenberg was a wunderkind. As boy with big and surprising eyes, he was participating in the TV programme where he explains that his grandmother has tough him how to play a guitar saying: “the guitar playing is simply in my mind”. At age of 26 he is fighting against the heroin addiction.
Awards: Krakow Film Festival
“Dunya and Dessi in Morocco” / Дуња и Деси во Мароко
16.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length: 96 minutes
Year: 2008
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Drama
Director: Dana Nechustan
Cast: Maryam Hassouni, Eva van de Wijdeven, Christine van Stralen, Rachida Iaallala, Karim Mounir,Aziz Chaoufi, Robyn van Alphen e.a.
Scenario: Robert Alberdingk Thijm
Camera: Bert Pot
Music: Steve Willaert
Editing: JP Luijsterburg
Art director: Minka Mooren, Gerard Loomans
A heart-warming drama about the friendship between two best friends who leave Amsterdam, for different reasons, for an eventful journey through Morocco. But Morrocco isn't Amsterdam and they end up in all kinds of humorous as well as confronting situations, forcing them to take decisions on certain things in life. The story brings up in a very charming way, issues of modern world, of young generation and their struggle to find their own place. Based on the Emmy Award nominated TV series.
Awards: Gouden Film, Onda d'Oro 2008 (Golden Wave), Isabella International Film Week In Maratea Sarajevo Film Festival, World Academy for Quality Films
SKIN / СКИН
16.12.2008
16.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 85 minutes
Year: 2008
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Drama, TV movie
Director: Hanro Smitsman
Cast: John Buijsman, Guus Dam, Robert de Hoog, Maurits Delchot, Juda Goslinga, Jason Gwen, Dajo Hogeweg, Bart Klever e.a.
Scenario: Hanro Smitsman, Philip Delmaar
Producer: Marc Bary, Katja Draaijer, Ineke Kanters, Kees Kasander, Lisette Kelde
Camera: Joost Rietdijk
Strong family drama of a Dutch teenager Frankie, a Jewish boy who turns to be a skinheads follower. The father Simon, who has survived Auschwitz , doesn't manage to find a proper way to deal with his own trauma neither with his own family. Simon does not talk about that, but rather keeps his family in tension. The mother dies of cancer, the alienated seventeen old son, tries to compensate his own frustrations and pain handing out with friends, smoking joints and going out to look for girls. One day, he turns to agressive skinheads group betraying his best friend. Powerful drama on growing up and youth dillemas of a very normal Rotterdam boy who turns into a skinhead.
Awards: Gouden Kalf
DUSKA / ДУШКА
17.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length: 112 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Drama
Director: Jos Stelling
Cast: Sylvia Hoeks, Sergei Makovetsky, Gene Bervoets e.a
Scenario: Jos Stelling, Hans Heesen
Camera: Goert Giltay
Sound: Eddy de Cloe
Music: Bart van de Lisdonk
Editing: Bert Rijkelijkhuizen
Art director: Gert Brinkers
On your journey when traveling with other people, sometimes you say to someone “...... if you are in the neighborhood, you must pop in”. But what if some stranger takes the invitation for granted and at once he stands in front of the door. Bob a Dutchmen, in his forties, at one of Film festivals in Russia has given his business card to a Russian (Duska) thinking that he is never going to see him again. But one day Duska stands really in front of the Bob’s door. What now? Bob takes him in but after some time realizes that Duska is never going to leave his home. A young lady who works at box office of cinema is Bob’s inspiration. But nothing really happens, until Duska , a man of few words, finally finds his way to leave
Awards: Nederlands Film festival
“PARADISE NOW”
18.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length: 97 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Netherlands, France, Germany
Genre: Drama
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Cast: Lubna Azabal, Hamza Abu-Aiaash, Kais Nashif, Lotuf Neusser, Ali Sulima, Mohammad Bustami, Ahmad Fares, Waleed On-Allah e.a.
Scenario: Hany Abu-Assad, Bero Beyer
Camera: Antoine Heberlé
Sound: Uwe Haussig
Editing: Sander Vos
Production: Augustus Film, Razor Film, Lumen Films, Lama Films, Hazazah Film
"PARADISE NOW" follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited as suicide bombers.The film focuses on their last days before the action. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border and separated from their handlers, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their action. This refined psychological drama with brilliant performances of the main actors leaves no one indifferent.The film poses many important questions and brings to the subject from the news totally new, intriguing prospective.
Awards: Multiple prizes at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, Durban International Filmfestival in South Africa, Nederlands Film Festival
SHORT FILMS
(Кратките филмови ќе бидат прикажани премиерно на 10ти декември на Факултетот за Драмски Уметности – влезот е слободен)
“MISSIEPOO 16” / СУИТЕ 16
14.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 10 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Director: Anna van der Heide
MissiePoo16 is a brilliant portrait of modern teenagers living their lives on social networking sites and communicating via chat-rooms and webcams. The story of a teenage girl told to her webcam is witty and so believable
Award: Dutch Film Festival
“LE DERNIER CRI”
14.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 3 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Netherlands
Director: Erwin Olaf
Photographer and filmmaker Erwin Olaf ponders the changing face of beauty and the whims of fashion in this experimental short comedy. A suburban hostess prepares her home for a social gathering, making sure everything is spotless and nothing is out of place.
“ZUCHT” / DESIRE / ЖЕЛБА
16.12.2008, 18:00,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 10 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Netherlands
Director: Margien Rogaar
On a sunny beach a young boy discovers lust as he falls for the father of his best friend.
“RAAK” / CONTACT / КОНТАКТ
16.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 10 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Netherlands
Director: Hanro Smitsman
Small events in the lives of three people eventually lead to the moment at which a boy throws a rock from a bridge to hit a car. Small, unimportant causes can have big consequences
Award: Berlin International Film Festival
“SPOORWEG” / “LOSING TRACK” / “ГУБЕЊЕ ТРАГА”
17.12.2008, 20:30,
Кино Милениум/ Cinema Milenium
Length 13 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Холандија/ Netherlands
A typical nightmare of a guilty filling father, who is losing his daughter on a train just before returning her on his ex wife. On a top of it, his poetry project is falling apart and…
PROGRAMER
Rada Sesic is a film maker (Room without a view 1997, Soske, 2001, In whitest solitude 2002, Way to school 2007) , film lecturer at NIF ( Dutch Institute for the film education) and at the University of Amsterdam (Media and culture Faculty). She selects films for International Film Festival Rotterdam, (IFFR) and for International Documentary FF Amsterdam (IDFA) , is a head of the Competition Documentary section at Sarajevo film festival (SFF) and the main programmer at Bucharest International FF (BIFF) as well as one of programmers at Kerala FF in India. Serves on the comity of International funds Dutch based-Jan Vrijman and Hubert Bals. As a film critic writes for “Skrien”, “Dox”,“Film Guide” (England), “Film Documentary Encyclopedia” (US), “Animation Film Magazine” (US), “Film Annual” (Croatia) and “Sinest” (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Served on eminent juries, from Joris Ivens at IDFA, New Delhi and Moscow to dozen other festivals. Guest lecturer at the Universities- Anadolu in Eshisehir, in Geneve Ecole superieure des Beaux-arts and at Nederlandse Film Academy, at Srishti Institut in Bangalore, India. Works also as a tutor for European Documentary Network. Lives in Utrecht.
TEAM:
PROJECT MANAGER - ALEKSANDAR VELINOVSKI
ASSISTANT MANAGER – MARIJA NOVOVIC
MODERATOR – TONI MITRIKESKI professor Faculty of Drama Arts
WEB DESIGN – DEJAN PETKOVSKI
PUBLIC RELATIONS – BD CONSULTING
TECHNICAL SUPPORT – VLADIMIR VASILEVSKI
PROJECT PARTNERS:
CINEDAYS – EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
KINO MILENIUM
FACULTY OF DRAMA ARTS SKOPJE
STICHTING CULTURAL AID
NEWGROUND PRODUCTIONS
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