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SHIFT Film Festival 2021
Shifting Distance.
Geplaatst op 16 juni 2021The SHIFT Film Festival invites all filmmakers and film viewers to a digital experience of connecting with like-minded people in a digital festival space: take part in Short Film Competition & Bootcamp Shorts Lab and network with filmmakers from all over the world! Together with film theatre ECI Roermond we will offer a on-site film program as well.
SHIFT Film Festival 2021
We celebrate the seventh edition of the SHIFT Film Festival from september 17-19, 2021 and we do so in spite, and maybe especially because, of the crazy times that 2020 & 2021 have brought us so far.
Slowly but surely, the world is coming back to as it was! Filmmakers all over the world can make films, cinemas are opening and more and more festivals are hosting their events onsite. It is time to show your film to the world and prepare for a new one! SHIFT Film Festival offers both - send in your film to the Short Film Competition and take part in Bootcamp Shorts Lab. Boost your creativity, get inspired by masterclasses by renowned filmmakers, meet new people during online networking at get-together sessions and get ready - it is time to get out there and make a movie!
This year’s edition of SHIFT Film Festival will run online (for international filmmakers) and onsite, shifting distance and creating a space for all the filmmakers to screen their films in the online cinema and enhance filmmaking skills during Bootcamp Shorts Lab. Get prepared to finally shoot and distribute your short film!
Bootcamp and workshops
Boost your filmmaking skills by joining our Writers Rooms or the Bootcamp Shorts Lab and learn everything from script development to the creative aspects of editing, sound and film distribution. Find the full program below.
Short Film Competition
September 17 and 18 we will also host the Short Film Competition online (for free, see links in the program section below) and onsite in our festival location ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond (only €5 including a drink). Let us try something new together and stay positive and fresh and eager to learn new things. Let us connect despite our physical distances and prove that creativity and our love of film can shift distances!
Great networking opportunities, valuable workshops and training options all at one location.Remy Kooi
Program & Tickets
Curious to know the complete program of SHIFT Film Festival 2021? You can find it below (including ticket links).
Program & Tickets
Curious to know the complete program of SHIFT Film Festival 2021? You can find it below (including ticket links).
The following activities are free to join.
- Short Film Competition: Shifting Distance I & II (September 17, 18) - Register now at bit.ly/shift2021filmscreening1 & bit.ly/shift2021filmscreening2
Meet the Jury & Coaches!
Reinier Selen | Euregion Film Pitch & Training
Reinier Selen (Producer) has produced national and international (co-)productions, including the acclaimed films Rafaël, Van God Los, Cool Kids Don't Cry, Nothing Personal, Lucia de B. and Süskind. His co-production Rafiki has been in the Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes Film Festival 2018.
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Loes Komen | Euregion Film Pitch
Loes Komen (Producer) founded the production company Room for Film together with Eva Verweij, shortly after graduating from the Netherlands Filmacademy. Their films have been selected for multiple international film festivals and won several awards. Marlon Brando (written and directed by Vincent Tilanus) is selected for Cannes Semaine de la Critique 2020.
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Thomas Mataheru | Euregion Film Pitch
Thomas Mataheru (Producer) owns a production company with Jolijn van Rinsum Blanc Film produced the WO-II short film Days of May (2019, Juri Ferri), their first co-production between the United Kingdom and The Netherlands, the short films Kimya (2019, Amira Duynhouwer) and Seahorse (2020, Natalie Bruins) and most recently the 17th century short costume drama Flood (2020, Nils Verkooijen).
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Tessel Flora de Vries | Short Film Competition
Tessel Flora de Vries (Film Editor) opened her own editing studio Beneden Peil with colleague editor Ellemieke Middelhoff in Amsterdam West in September of 2017. Her latest short films are Funkele , Nova, Radio Voorwaarts, Beti, A Holiday from Mourning.
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Bastiaan van Dalen | Short Film Competition
Bastiaan van Dalen is Head of Veronica Television, Net5 & SBS9 at Talpa Network. Senior executive with editorial, creative and commercial experience in international content and marketing.
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Jeanine Cronie | Short Film Competition
Jeanine Cronie (screenwriter) wrote several short children's films and the children's series Jesses Wereld, Woezel & Pip. Her latest children's series Evi & Co was nominated in 2018 for the Prix Jeunesse International and during the Cinekid Festival. The series won first prize for Best Live-Action TV at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival that same year. In addition to writing for children, Jeanine develops and gives various (media) workshops. Jeanine is currently writing her feature film debut.
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Film selection
Read more on the selected films and get teased by trailers, snippets and stills!
Among Humans
Caren Wuhrer, Fiction, Germany, 2019, 7 min.
Edda and Egon pictured their new son-in-law very differently. Especially less striped and furry.
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And Then, The Silence
Lucas Trochet, Fiction, France, 2020, 18 min.
Matthias, in his twenties, works hard in the small family farm, waiting for the recognition of his father.
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Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion
Arturo Dueñas, Documentary, Spain, 2020, 15 min.
In Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, the celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony.
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May the World Not Carry You
Rozalia Las, Animation, Poland, 2019, 3 min.
Sad love story inspired by a Polish folk song. The betrayed girl decides to commit suicide during the wedding of his love.
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MAYA
Martina Pavlíková, Fiction, Czech Republic, 2020, 15 min.
Desert, sun, snakes - train passing through the landscape - sex, prostitution, immorality… and in the center of everything - Maya.
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Moon
Cleo Julia Mullis, Fiction, Netherlands, 2020, 13 min.
On a one-year anniversary with her girlfriend Moon, Noa has to make a choice about what is best - for Moon and for herself.
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Portrait
Keir Siewert, Fiction, United Kingdom, 2020, 13 min.
A model takes matters into her own hands to expose a serial predator in the photography world.
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SPELL
Philippe Safire, Animation, United States, 2021, 7 min.
In a socially and technologically advanced society people enjoy access to vast freedoms and rapid economic growth, until a woman reports a mysterious incident.
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Terms and Conditions
Amelie Befeldt, Documentary, Germany, 2020, 20 min.
A farmer’s daughter tries to improve the financial situation of the farm by selling stock footage video clips of everyday farming life.
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The Time Machine
Max F.D'Eramo, Animation, Ireland, 2021, 2 min.
The Time Machine is a short, animated piece which looks at the potency of nostalgia using a children’s class creation.
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Wichita
Sergine Dumais, Fiction, United States, 2020, 5 min.
Sara is in bed with her lover when her husband calls to ask for something in his sock drawer.
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Shift to 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 to present their works, 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 by shifting distance!
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