SHIFT Film Festival 2021

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.