Penalty / Allard Bekker / 2006 / 1min.
A last minute broadcast refusal by the Dutch public networks – during a soccermatch between the Dutch and Nigerian national teams – triggered this Amnesty commercial to become frontpage news on every Dutch newspaper and abroad.
The international breakthrough of director Allard Bekker.

Chocolade Haas / Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug / 2007 / 2 min.
The beautiful melting of a chocolate bunny in a colourful world.
Lernert Engelberts worked as director and writer for VPRO’s Waskracht! for which he made a.o. Driving Miss Palmen. He also works as a freelance editor for magazines such as BUTTmagazine.  Sander Plug is a freelance graphic designer and Art Director.

Boom / Tomas Schats / 2005 / 50 sec.
About a tree…
Tomas Schats makes clear line animations and drawings from which everything superfluous has been omitted.  The narratives he tells are layered and occasionally take unexpected turns.

Oh Great Now Look What Happened / Thijmen Hauer & Gerbrand Burger / 2007 / 4 min.
A compelling and enigmatic impression of an unexpected and strange event. Contemporary fears and insecurities are channeled intuitively into a four minute visual narration in both stark and powerful images, at the same time heavy-handed and humorous.
Tijmen Hauer and Gerbrand Burger have studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and are both working as artists and filmmakers.

Sanctus / Viola Groenhart / 2007 / 5.30 min.
An apparantly simple registation of an orchestral performance reveals itself as an intrigueing sequence of tableaux vivants in clair obscur.
Viola Groenhart has graduated form the Rietveld Academy this year and was nominated for the GRA award and the René Coelho Prijs 2007.

Regen / Chris Brans / 2007 / 3 min.
With this film, about the (mental) wherabouts and actions of a multidisciplined artist, Chris Brans won the ArtOlive prize for the best Dutch Art academy graduate in 2007.
On the question what he wants to tell the public with his work he states:
“I’m trying to find out myself what there is to tell. Sometimes I think there is nothing to tell and that is then what I try to express.”

Charismatic Fates & Vanishing Dates / Sara Rajaei / 2006 / 3 min.
In this work Rajari has tried to break the border of real and un-real. The timing and the act is nothing unusual but the way things are completing one another makes us realize we are not viewing reality.
Sara Rajaei studied at Tehran’s University and the Royal Arts Academy in Den Haag.

Arrangement voor Ampelmannen / Michiel van de Weerthof / 2006 / 1 min.
The symphonic qualities of crossing a street.
 “Arrangementen” is a series of short films about the everyday’s symphony, in which we are sometimes the director, and sometimes the instrument.
Michiel van de Weerthof has studied at the HKU Utrecht and graduated from St.Joost Academy, Breda last year. He has his own baned called the “Rotte Herders” with which he performs original songs and covers in multiple voices.

Do It Yourself Test / Ingeborg Houwen / 2007 / 3 min.
DIYST is a close but non vacuum-sucked encountering of the contemporary female sex.
Ingeborg Houwen is a Dutch scenario writer of reality scratching fiction and a (performance) artist exploring contemporary art in digital media.

This Could Be Heaven / Ruud Vrugt / 2007 / 1 min. 40 sec.
Looking back on your own childhood can be very confusing.
Ruud Vrugt graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from in 1995. He has been making art video's since 2000 which are shown in several contexts, such as galery exhibitions, on television and at several Film Festivals around the globe.

Voor Venus / Gonny Jüngst / 2007 / 1 min.
It’s a gift.
Gonny Jüngst graduated Cum Laude from the Art Academy in Tilburg with her dancefilm “Under Construction” in a co-operation with choreographer/dancer Batja Ten Kortenaar. This combination of film and dance appear to be her main challenge. She developed numerous film- en theatre projects, aiming to melt the two disciplines (or more) into one shape.
 
Audition / Avi Krispin / 2006 / 5 min.
A monologue is spoken in an audition, exploring the boundaries of remembering and telling, and questioning the balance between the perception of reality and the reality of perception.
Avi Krispin has studied arts at the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts, Givataim, Israel and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Currently  she is following a postgraduate programme at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

Arrangement voor Dirk van Asch / Michiel van de Weerthof / 2007 / 1 min.
A musical arrangement for and with the late Dirk van Asch.
See: Arrangement voor Ampelmannen

Interferenze / Zoe D’Amaro / 2007 / 12 min.
INTERFERENZE: TV Pirates or fighters for freedom of expression? In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? Short documentary, part of the global project Why democracy?, initiated by the Berlinale Talent Campus.
Zoe D’Amaro is an Italian filmmaker based in Amsterdam.Over the past 10 years she has worked as writer/director and producer on several short films and documentaries.

Coupé / David Lammers / 2007 / 3 min.
Do we really have to listen to all of this?!
David Lammers has graduated from NFTVA in 2001 and immediately after  won a “Gouden Kalf" with his short film “De Laatste dag van Alfred Maassen". Since then he has made several films, amongst which the critically acclaimed feature “Langer Licht” (2006).