This year CineSud organizes the seventh edition of the Euregion Film Festival in a hybrid form, both onsite and online in our festival heart Theater Royal, Heerlen. For a week you can enjoy short films in competition, take part in masterclasses and listen to the Filmmakers Talks.
Euregion Film Festival 2021
NO DISTANCE, NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS! Film festivals unite us! Euregion Film Festival is proud to present her Short Film Competition selection and program. Take this opportunity to watch selected short films, meet and learn from international makers: check films from all over the world, and have a chance to discuss them through our Q&A sessions and Filmmakers talks; broaden your horizons with our special networking events, and reach out to our guests and participants to spark new collaborations, make new friends and be creative together!
Short Film Competition | Official Selection
The selection was made by our lead programmer Alexandr Gusev (FIPRESCI journalist). During the festival, the films in the International and Euregion Short Film Competition have a chance to win various jury prizes: Best Film (€250), Best Euregional Film (€250), Special Jury Mention & Audience Award. The jury of the festival will be announced in mid-February.
International
ANOUSH | Deniz Telek | Turkey
Everyman | Jack Goessens | United Kingdom
I’m not Telling You Anything, Just Saying | Sanja Milardović | Croatia
Reduction | Réka Anna Szakály | Hungary
The other side | Jakub Zalewski | Poland
The sound of Water | J.B. Braud | France
You must have come from Hell | Hayfaa Chalabi | Sweden
Euregion
Autumn | Pim Christian de Vries | Netherlands
Le Pain | Pepijn Tebrunsvelt | Belgium
TILT | Björn Schürmann | Germany
Wall #4 | Lucas Camps | Netherlands
Woodland Cemetery | Niels Bourgonje | Netherlands
Join Euregion Film Festival on March 1-6 live or online.
Check out the complete programme, tickets and viewing links here.
TILT
Björn Schürmann | 14’14’’ | Fiction | Germany | 2021
While a paramedic works a 24-hour shift to help people, she finds herself in a spiral of violence and oppression.
Woodland Cemeteray
Niels Bourgonje | 09’45’’ | Fiction | the Netherlands | 2021
A photographer has the assignment in Skogskyrkogarden cemetery, Stockholm: she soon finds out that the haunting image she captured is more haunted than she bargained for.
ANOUSH
Deniz Telek | 15’00’’ | Fiction | Turkey | 2020
Anoush, a little girl, goes to borrow a wedding dress from a distant relative for her brother's wedding.
I’m not Telling you Anything, Just saying
Sanja Milardović | 17’41’’ | Fiction | Croatia | 2020
Zrinka arrives in her hometown for a few days to do some location scouting and discovers that her mother Tanja's exhibits a very strange behaviour.
The Sound of Water
J.B. Braud | 11’21’’ | Fiction | France | 2021
One day in Osaka, Chisato evaporated without a word. Paul, who had crossed her path, sets off to Koyasan, a sacred mountain, in the hope of finding her.
REDUCTION
Réka Anna Szakály | 10’56’’ | Animation | Hungary | 2021
Two girls live together along the post-apocalyptic coast. When a mysterious character enters the life of one, a chain of irreversible events begins.
Everyman
Jack Goessens | 10’52’’ | Documentary | United Kingdom | 2021
A personal, visual essay about gender transition – focusing on the social context and implications and exploring how the world is different living as female compared to being perceived as male.
Le Pain
Pepijn Tebrunsvelt | 10’’ | Fiction | Belgium | 2021
Namur, 1941. A German soldier investigates whether a jewish family is hiding in a dilapidated farmhouse that only seems to be inhabited by a French speaking Belgian girl.
The other Side
Jakub Zalewski | 12’30’’ | Documentaire | Poland | 2021
Marcin is a big hearted person with a large amount of energy for living. His biggest dream is a career in e-sport. On the other side of the screen life is different.
Autumn
Pim Christian de Vries | 04’25’’ | Animation | the Netherlands | 2021
Autumn brings the wind that carries a falling, withered leaf through the memories of a woman’s youth and her relationship with a once young man.
You Must Have Come From Hell
Hayfaa Chalabi | 05’22’’ | Animation | Sweden | 2021
In her short film, Chalabi tells about her own asylum experience and the roles that refugees are forced into in Sweden.
Wall #4
Lucas Camps | 07’54’’ | Fiction | the Netherlands | 2021
When a cinema audience starts mocking the film they're watching, the events in the theater take an unexpected turn.