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SHIFT Film Festival 2019
Celebrate the shifts in filmmaking.
Geplaatst op 3 april 2019Watch quality films by new filmmakers, attend special networking events, film labs, masterclasses and much more! Make a shift to your filmmaking skills!
SHIFT Film Festival 2019
SHIFT Film Festival is an annual film festival which focuses on new filmmakers, shifts in addressed topics, filmmaking, culture and society. What we perceive is our reality. Filmmakers tend to limit themselves as what they see becomes their truth. Perceptions are determined by what we value, experience, need or lack. They are determined by whether we are informed or misinformed. Shift is what is needed to change our perspective. And this is what SHIFT Film Festival is about. Be free, be different, do not be afraid, be in charge of your own life and make shifts to the world!
The central theme of SHIFT Film Festival 2019 is Shifting Boundaries.
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Check out the program booklet now!
Buy your tickets via the button on the top of this page.
Great networking opportunities, valuable workshops and training options all at one location.Remy Kooi
Program & Tickets
You can find the program of the festival via the button below. Tickets for the industry events (such as coaching, masterclasses and lectures) can only be bought beforehand online. Tickets for the films can be bought via our partner ECI Roermond.
Want to buy tickets?
- Tickets for film screenings can only be bought via partner ECI Filmhuis.
- For tickets for workshops, masterclasses and (industry) events click here.
Film selection
Read more on the selected films and get teased by trailers, snippets and stills!
Bellmouth
Joe Roberts | Fiction | United Kingdom | 16'21" | 2018
Amy is taken on a camping holiday for her 15th birthday by her Dad. The carefree days with her little brother soon give way to uncertain weeks. The shifting sands of the parent-child relationship reveals an uncertain foundation leaving Amy with a decision to make that’s best for her and her little brother.
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Evaluation
Eyal Tzadik, Yotam Kislev | Fiction | Israel | 14'35" | 2018
Irit, a welfare officer, visits the home of Sasha and Nitzan in order to evaluate Sasha's mental condition. He doesn't seem willing to cooperate, trying to share with her an important truth she seems to ignore.
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Line of Duty
Mayank Malhotra | Fiction | India | 12'44" | 2018
A young recruit of the Indian army posted at a remote bunker is asked to forego his principals of humanity against the rigid border regulations. With a natural calamity at hand, are all regulations applicable? Inspired by true events.
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Medium Rare
Luca Cioci | Animation | USA | 04'35" | 2018
Functional and aesthetic values in recurrent, yet questionable domestic scenarios.
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Mum
Mariam Al Awadhi | Documentary | United Arab Emirates | 09'29" | 2018
After 15 years of averting the source of her anxiety, Mariam at last walks the journey of voicing her avoided emotions regarding her non Emirati mother and the uneasiness she felt about her mixed background in the Emirati society.
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Sacrifice
Huixin Huang | Animation | China | 04'10" | 2019
In an arid land, a girl is selected to be sacrificed to the god of nature. The god chooses to spare her life and she decides to follow him. She then finds the true meaning of sacrifice.
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Samoeraai
Sven Peetoom | Fiction | Netherlands | 09'18" | 2019
The young Ivan lives with his eccentric single mother in Rotterdam. When he receives a samurai sword one day, all his hopes and dreams become reality. Reality, however, proves to be more threatening than he could ever have imagined.
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Shapes
Fariba Buchheim | Documentary | Germany | 10'42" | 2018
When talking about backs, we often look at beauty ideals. Our back shows strength - it is the largest part of our body and is irreplaceable. Our spine gives us an upright posture. SHAPES portray a "different back". A back that is scarred by scars, curves and deformation. It is an experimental portrait about a part of our body, that is mostly well hidden behind layers of clothes.
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Smack Edd
Greg Hall | Fiction | United Kingdom | 06'59" | 2018
Heroin addict Edd unexpectedly turns up to his son Patrick’s eighth birthday celebration, Mum Fran and her new partner Mark must do everything to make sure he doesn’t ruin the party. A social realist slice-of-life that looks at the consequences of addiction through the relationships of a dysfunctional family.
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Terminus
Jan Pool | Fiction | Netherlands | 14'00" | 2019
Two people, a boy and a girl on a train. They don't know each other. Both on their way to tie up loose ends. Is there a place they are running to or is it something that they're running from? After they meet their lives will never be the same again.
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Visit
Stijn Bouma | Fiction | Netherlands | 12'16" | 2019
On a stormy day widow Thea is visited by her son Willem in her big home located in the distant countryside. She convincingly rejects his idea to move somewhere else. When Willem leaves and Thea turns off the malfunctioning radio whilst even the cat seems to be asleep, she turns out to be lonelier than we thought.
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Who Are You
Tanya Yakovlev | Fiction | Israel | 06'55" | 2019
When a daughter visits her sick mother, who suffers from memory loss, she finds herself reliving a childhood trauma.
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For everyone: filmmakers and the audience
Whether you are general audience, a new filmmaker or a professional one, SHIFT Film Festival offers a dynamic and high quality festival experience, with films from all over the world, inspiring workshops, lectures and more. Moreover, SHIFT gives a podium to upcoming talents by inviting filmmakers to the festival, organizing special networking events, meet & greets and workshops, so that they can make shifts in their way of filmmaking, expand their network, collaborate with each other, talk with the audience and create new projects. We are constantly seeking for productions and professionals that set changes in the world. Be the one to shift your boundaries!
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