Film Festival in Limburg and the surrounding regions with the best films, CineTalks & Limburg Film Pitch. The 2021-theme is We’ll See It Through!
07 maart 2021
om 10:00
07 maart 2021
om 22:00
Stationsplein 5
6411NE Heerlen
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No matter how uncertain and unpredictable the world is nowadays, we’ll see everything through! With its six-year edition, Euregion Film Festival 2021 continues showcasing short films with a strong message, urgent stories made by talented directors. This years’ festival is all about filmmakers in competition: tune in and listen to CineTalks, watch and vote for your favourite short film and support the filmmakers in the running to win Limburg Film Pitch!
Find the description of the complete program and tickets via the program-overview below. You can buy a festival pass that will give you access to watch all the short films in competition from March 1 (10:00) till March 7 (22:00). Please check the passe-partout list and choose the best option for you!
A pass for all the films (competition + special sections) can be bought for 5€ (4,00€ + 1,00€ service costs; VAT: 9%). You can order it following the link.
You will get the access on March 1 at 10:00, the email will be send to you with the link to the Showcase.
Don’t miss 11 international and 8 Euregion short films selected for the Short Film Competition! Starting from March 1 (10:00) till March 7 (22:00), you can watch films online and vote for your favourite film that will get an Audience Award!
A pass for all the films (competition & Made in Heerlen) can be bought for 5€ (4,00€ + 1,00€ service costs; VAT: 9%). Click here to buy a festival pass.
Selected films:
International competition
Euregion competition
Don’t miss this special Made in Heerlen films! Starting from March 1 (10:00) till March 7 (22:00), you can watch films online and vote for your favourite film that will get an Audience Award!
A pass for all the films (competition & Made in Heerlen) can be bought for 5€ (4,00€ + 1,00€ service costs; VAT: 9%). Click here to buy a festival pass.
Selected films:
Made in Heerlen
Check our social media or vimeo to get to know filmmakers whose films are selected to the Short Film Competition! Every day, starting from March 1, you will watch short interviews with directors, who will talk about their film, experiences and funny stories from shooting days with our host Saskia Loesser!
Are you looking for help with financing your project? Do you have a brilliant film idea, but you don't know how to proceed with it? Have you made a film and do you want to show it to the public? Make a cup of coffee and come along to our regular online meet-ups!
Come to an annual meet-up with the Limburg film sector about developments, trends and challenges of film in Limburg! Together with you we will discuss the future of the Limburg Film Fund and the film infrastructure in the province of Limburg!
Register by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
During the first part of the Pitching Training the participants will present their pitches for the first time and will get homework on making the presentations better.
Coach: Pieter Kuijpers.
Timeslot: 11:00-12:30.
If you are filmmaker from Limburg (the Netherlands), you can submit your project to the Limburg Film Pitch. Please follow the link. Deadline to submit: February 15.
Only for the Limburg Film Pitch participants. The Pitching Training will be done in Dutch.
Workshop Crowdfunding for film by Cinecrowd. This workshop will take place in Dutch.
Ben jij benieuwd hoe je als filmmaker een succesvolle crowdfunding campagne kunt opzetten? Kom dan naar de CineCrowd workshop over crowdfunden voor makers van korte films, animaties, documentaires, speelfilms, videoclips en series. In de workshop wordt uitgebreid ingegaan op alle ins & outs van het crowdfunden, de valkuilen en hoe je meer dan alleen vrienden en kennissen kunt betrekken in de financiering van je film. Ook wordt in de workshop aandacht besteed aan de matchingsregeling van de Provincie Limburg en CineCrowd. Limburgse filmmakers en filmmakers die draaien in Limburg maken via CineCrowd namelijk kans op een bijdrage aan hun crowdfunding campagne van de Provincie Limburg van maximaal 30% van het streefbedrag (maximumbijdrage is € 20.000). Meer info over deze samenwerking via deze link.
Aanmelden
Aanmelden kan door een mail te sturen naar [email protected], deelname is gratis. Vermeld bij je aanmelding je naam, e-mailadres en telefoonnummer.
These one-on-one sessions will be held in Dutch.
Filmmakers met een concreet plan voor een crowdfunding zijn daarnaast van harte uitgenodigd voor het online spreekuur dat aansluitend de workshop wordt georganiseerd. Tijdens het spreekuur leg je je plan voor aan een medewerker van CineCrowd, brainstormen jullie samen over hoe jouw project succesvol gecrowdfund kan worden en onderzoeken jullie of je in aanmerking komt voor de matchingsregeling van CineCrowd en de Provincie Limburg. Het spreekuur vindt plaats van 14:30-16:30, afspraken duren +/- 20 minuten.
Limburgse filmmakers en filmmakers die draaien in Limburg maken via CineCrowd namelijk kans op een bijdrage aan hun crowdfunding campagne van de Provincie Limburg van maximaal 30% van het streefbedrag (maximumbijdrage is € 20.000). Meer info over deze samenwerking via deze link.
Aanmelden
Stuur een e-mail naar [email protected], deelname is gratis. Vermeld bij je aanmelding je naam e-mailadres en telefoonnummer. Informatie over je project is wenselijk maar geen vereiste.
Get to know filmmakers Catherina Iosifidis, Jet Kragt & Wibout Warnaar whose projects have been selected to the Shorts Lab 2021! They will be talking with EFF host Fabian Melchers about the future production of the shorts films, their experiences on set & challenges they had to cope with.
You can watch the interviews via our social media or vimeo.
Pitching Training | Part 2
During the second part of the Pitching Training the participants will present the updated versions of their pitches, will get more feedback from the coach and prepare for the Limburgs Film Pitch.
Coach: Pieter Kuijpers.
Timeslot: 10:00-11:30.
If you are filmmaker from Limburg (the Netherlands), you can submit your project to the Limburg Film Pitch. Please follow the link. Deadline to submit: February 15.
Only for the Limburg Film Pitch participants. The Pitching Training will be done in Dutch.
Five selected pitch participants will dare to tell the world about their film idea and compete for the main price of €2.000.
Timeslot: 15:00-16:00.
If you are filmmaker from Limburg (the Netherlands), you can submit your project to the Limburg Film Pitch. Please follow the link. Deadline to submit: February 15.
Only for the Limburg Film Pitch participants. The Pitching Training will be done in Dutch.
Tune in to CineSud social media and find out who will be the winner of International & Euregion Short Film Competition & Limburg Film Pitch!
Get to know filmmakers Kendra Jacobs and Kim de Bis whose projects have been selected to the Shoot Noord! Shorts Lab 2021! They will be talking with EFF host Fabian Melchers about the future production of the shorts films, their experiences on set & challenges they had to cope with.
You can watch the interviews via our social media or vimeo.
"Great festival with highly professional workshops. They’re there to showcase the films and the filmmaker."
Read more on the selected films and get teased by trailers, snippets and stills!
The pre-selection for the Official Competition has been done by Alexander Gusev (EFF festival programmer).
Biró Melinda Ildikó | 14’06’’ | Fiction | Hungary | 2020
The 6-year-old Vivi is terrified of water. However, after her father’s swimming lesson she realizes there are more horrifying things in life than the children’s pool.
Stephan Eigenmann | 11’26’’ | Fiction | United States | 2020
Anna, a young pianist, needs to fight for her passion and future as a musician when she begins to go deaf.
Brúsi Ólason | 16’09” | Fiction | Iceland | 2020
A distant father and his six year old son connect as they put a horse out of its misery.
Caspar Commijs | 19’05” | Fiction | Netherlands | 2020
Under pressure of his stepfather, Jurriën travels to Spain to disperse his recently deceased mother. The rebellious teenager has a different wish, but how far does he have to go to bring his mother's ashes safely back home?
Alejandro Renedo | 18’00” | Fiction | Spain | 2020
"De perfil" (Outline) is an actress's journey through the mandatory tolls of industry and customs of shame in search of a job.
Robertas Nevecka | 16’09” | Animation | Lithuania | 2020
Living as a squatter with a group of strangers in a war-devastated city, a thirty-year-old guy struggles to survive and find a little more comfort in the rough setting.
Roman Ďuriš | 18’54” | Fiction | Slovakia | 2018
Driven by his ambition, a journalist begins to investigate who is behind the violent acts in his city. After finally uncovering it, he is faced with the most difficult moral decision of his life.
Farzaneh Omidvarnia | 11’43” | Animation | Denmark | 2019
Based on a real event. Austria, August 2015. People of different color, race and culture embark on a journey, eager to find some place they can call home.
Haohao Yan | 25’00” | Fiction | China | 2020
May 2003, Beijing. During a lockdown inside a private boarding, three eight-year-old girls have to find a way to make sense of the world.
Angel Barroeta | 13’28” | Fiction | United States | 2020
When a young woman ventures into the unknown night, unexpected obstacles and the tantalizing distractions of creatures of the night transform her mission into a journey of self-discovery.
Christer Wahlberg | 14:30 | Documentary | Sweden | 2020
Having got hold of an old feature film from 2001, that he and his best friend made when they were 19, the director is reminiscing his youth and understands why their friendship is lost.
Daan Bunnik | 12’45” | Fiction | Netherlands | 2020
Danny lives in a rusty caravan in the middle of nowhere. When his brother Brian shows up, he tells Danny their father is dying. Soon the ghost of Danny's abusive father starts to haunt him.
Karel Konings, Yanu Schepens, Philippe Jackmaert | 15’35” | Fiction | Belgium | 2020
Boxing’s rising Youtube star ‘Charlie Z’ and his wicked manager Rabid try to impress a documentary crew following them to their next big fight.
Nils Hanssen | 23’18” | Fiction | Netherlands | 2020
After finding a mysterious puzzle in his living room, Adam, suffering from insomnia, decides to solve the puzzle, which brings him back to his past: to the happy times with his girlfriend Eva.
Vincent Groos | 17’11” | Fiction | Belgium | 2019
Starting out as a home nurse, Lieve braves the windy weather on her moped to assist her elderly patients. She has a big heart and tries her hardest to fulfill the wishes of all her patients.
Rocky Grispen, Violette Belzer | 10’32” | Animation | Belgium | 2020
On a far away planet, home to Bobtors, an astronaut-doctor suffers from a lack of oxygen. To survive she has to pay the highest price as a human and as a doctor…
Katja Jansen | 11’51” | Fiction | Belgium | 2020
After a painful breakup, a young couple's life splits in two. He feels relieved and resumes his life being single, she is in tears and seeks comfort from friends.
Marlies Smeenge | 14’55” | Documentary | Netherlands | 2020
At the International Butler Academy in Limburg, people from all over the world are trained to become a butler for the elite. Under a lot of pressure, they learn the old ways of butlering.
Hussein Al Khayat | 09’36” | Documentary | Netherlands | 2020
A painter and a dancer talk about how Heerlen has evolved and is still evolving in becoming more than the empty city with a bad reputation.
Paul Haans, Jeroen Wielheesen| 15’33’’ | Fiction | Netherlands | 2019
1743, Limburg, the Netherlands. People are starving and suppressed by the ruling power. Poor working people unite in small groups to revolt against their rulers and call themselves Buckriders. When captain of the Buckriders Mathias Ponts is being arrested, his son Thias is forced to make decisions which will determine his future.
Laura Huygen | 10’54’’ | Fiction | Netherlands| 2020
With limited access to a job or entertainment, how would you spend your time? This film is a portrait of eight people who await their asylum procedure, showing what they do during the day and what all that waiting does to them.
Mark Handels | 21’30” | Fiction | Netherlands | 2017
The hard life of miners in the south of the Netherlands in the 1950s. The mining industry was the economic heart of the country in that time, but for a lot of people the nostalgic and romantic feeling that now surrounds it, was not that evident.
Genio de Groot | 15’00” | Fiction | Netherlands
A tragicomic and sometimes absurdist portrait of Ronnie in his 40s, who still lives with his mother. By profession he is a transport assistant for convoi exceptionnel. As a hobby, Ronnie takes pictures of exceptionnel transport and collects miniatures of extraordinary trucks. A long-cherished dream of his mother is to become a grandmother. Now that she is dying, the son will have to look for a wife. But how will he actually find one?
Bert Hana (actor & theater director, Netherlands) has directed and created plays including De Rommel Hemel (2009) and Straatfantast II (2012). As an actor, Bert Hana appeared in various roles, like short film Suiker (2010) (Netherlands Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand), TV-series Ramses, theater performance Scrooge, etc.
Marijke Prevoo (media consultant, Netherlands) works at Media INN as media consultant. Everyone has their own story, their own goals. In her work at Media INN Marijke helps people and their business to show themselves to the world. The power of visual media is huge and the tooling very flexible.
Nadine Bemelmans studied Arts and Culture at the University of Maastricht. Within the company Elbe Stevens Film she produced the documentary IT’S DUTCH DESIGN (2019). Nadine worked on the experimental film SOUVENIR (2019, premiere at IFFR) of the filmmakers Lina Sieckmann and Miriam Gossing. The hybrid documentary SIRENS CALL, another film of Lina and Miriam, in co-production with Filmfaust, Elbe Stevens Films and ZDF, is currently in production in the USA. Currently Nadine is producing the short black comedyfilm METEN = WETEN.
Pieter Kuijpers is founder and owner of Pupkin Film. He is the director of various projects, among others Hemel op aarde, Van God Los and Riphagen and producer of the Netflix series Ares. Currently his focus lies on project development, guiding writers and directors, both for feature films and television.
Selin Șen works at the Netherlands Film Festival as a film marketing professional and focuses on AV professionals, talent development and education. As a film marketer, Selin works closely with various industry organizations, film festivals and film theaters. Since 2020, Selin has been a member of the Cannes Lions Brand Marketer Academy.
Jeroen Mourmans (director, Maastricht) graduated in 2013 with a Master in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam and has since worked as a freelancer on commercials and award-winning short films. His most recent film, Asnacht (2020), had its premiere with a selection in the Golden Calf competition at the Dutch Film Festival.
Euregion Film Festival 2020 took place March 19-22, online (due to the covid19-pandemic we were forced to go online one week before the start of the festival). Around 20 films were shown, including 4 world premieres. Special guests were – amongst others – Bas Devos, Marietta von Hauswolff, Jolein Laarman, Ibo Karatay and Reinier Selen. Best Film was given to Unlike Today, Special Jury Prize and the Youth Jury Award to Something About Alex.
Euregion Film Festival 2019 took place March 21-25 in Schunck in Heerlen. More than 20 films were shown, including 5 world premieres. Special guests were – amongst others – Moniek Kramer, Marietta von Hauswolff, Bart van Langendonck, Denis Vaslin, Hans de Wolf, Genaro Rosato and Janet van den Brand. Best Film was given to Pistol, Special Jury Prize to Patision Avenue and the Youth Jury chose as well Pistol as Best Film. The festival attracted 1000 visitors.
Festivalguide 2019 | Photo album 2019 | Aftermovie day 1 | Aftermovie day 2 | Aftermovie day 3
Euregion Film Festival 2018 took place March 22-25 in Schunck in Heerlen. More than 40 films were shown, including 5 world premieres. Special guests were – amongst others – Johan Leysen, Kristof Hoornaert, Germen Boelens, Joost Rekveld, Joost Seelen, Peter Bouckaert and Remy van Heugten. Best Film was given to Wild Beast, Best Euregional Film to Stille Storm. The festival attracted 1020 visitors.
Festivalguide 2018 | Official selection 2018 | Photo album 2018 | Aftermovie day 1 | Aftermovie day 2 | Aftermovie day 3 | Aftermovie day 4
Euregion Film Festival 2017 took place March 16-19 in Schunck in Heerlen. More than 35 films were shown, including 8 world premieres. Special guests were – amongst others – Martin Koolhoven, Robert-Jan Westdijk and Kaweh Modiri. The 2017 edition of Euregion Film Festival hosted the first edition of DocCampus and FilmCampus. Best Film winner was Allegory of the Jam Jar, Best Euregional Film Tien by Nathalie Crum. The festival attracted 750 visitors.
Euregion Film Festival 2016 took place January 22-24 in Schunck in Heerlen. More than 30 films were shown, including 6 world premieres. Special guests were – amongst others – Pieter Kuijpers, Anne Gehring, Vera Ketelaars, Max Porcelijn, Pedro van Eecken en Harro van Staverden. The 2016 edition of Euregion Film Festival hosted the first edition of the Crossborder Film Conference. Best Film winner was Mediation, Best Euregional Film Home Suite Home by Jeroen Houben. The Special Jury Prize went to The Blue & The Beyond by Youri Dekker. The festival attracted 700 visitors.
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