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Dutch films at Rencontres

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin is taking place in Paris from 30 October to 5 November

Quite a few Dutch productions have been selected for Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, a major event alternately taking place in either Berlin or Paris dedicated to the contemporary practices of the moving image. This year's Rencontres Internationales Paris offers a space to discover and reflect upon new cinema and contemporary art. You can find an overview of the selected works below.


Still: Obsada - Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Selected Shorts

Obsada by Wendelien van Oldenborgh is a collaboration with an all-female film crew, who are at the same time the film’s cast. It had its world premiere at FID Marseille and was made especially for an exhibition at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lotz. Festival distribution by LUX Distribution.

Center, Ring, Mall* by Mateo Vega offers perspectives on three urban structures, each representing the illusion of utopian promise. The short world premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and was selected for: New Directors/New Films Festival by MoMA and Lincoln Center New York, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and Guanajuato International Film Festival. Festival distribution handled by LIMA.

In What Wide Web? Michiel van Bakel explores the surreal wasteland of Rotterdam Maasvlakte an improbable beauty germinates beneath the high voltage pylons. It premiered at Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. Prod. by Zinc Garden, festival distribution handled by LIMA.


In Prison With Songbirds an unseen narrator recounts his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country, and his sudden release. Based on a nightmarish letter sent to Amnesty International, and a surreal interview with its writer on freedom and coincidence. The short is directed by Ewan Macbeth and world premiered at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival and was selected for International Film Festival Rotterdam
Festival. Distribution handled by Eye Experimental.

In Flow of Words* by Eliane Esther Bots follows the narratives of three interpreters of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. and was selected for over 70 international film festivals, winning many prizes such as the Pardi di Domani Best Direction Prize at Locarno Film Festival, Best Documentary at Clermont Ferrand Short FF and Best Short Film at Docaviv – Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival. Sales handled by Square Eyes.

 Shot in the pine forests and sand dunes of the Curonian Spit in Lithuania, Songs from the Compost* by Egle Budvytyte (LT/NL coproduction) is a poetic and hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life in the forest: interdependence, surrender, dying and decay  .

Archival Grid 1 by Charlotte Eifler & Clarissa Thieme (GER/BH/NL/SP coproduction) is the first part of a filmic analysis in three parts.

Selected Feature

Easy Tiger by Karel Tuytschaever, an intimate portrait of a vulnerable man during a true and insurmountable romance, premiered at Lumière cinema - Photo Museum, Antwerp. Co-producer DansBrabant. With the financial support of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds & Grensverleggers - deBuren, an arrangement to support cultural collaborations between parties in Flanders, the province of North Brabant, the province of Limburg and/or the Province of Zeeland.