SAPPORO SHORT FEST 2019

PROGRAMMES

プログラム

Netherlands

NOBU

A short film about former world champion karate and Japanese immigrant Nobuaki Konno. His daughter and fashion designer Lisa Konno asks him about cultural differences while he wears a collection she made for him.

Sarah Blok

Documentary, Portlate | Netherlands | 2019 | 0:09:20

PRESCHOOL DOCS Giulia and Sophie go to swim class

This short documentary follows hearing-impaired twin sisters.
As Giulia and Sophie take off their hearing aids and plunge into the water, so the world of sound fades away and a new one emerges.

Gerdie Snellers (Editor in Chief)

Documentary | Netherlands | 2018 | 0:03:33 | TV | KRO-NCRV

Prize & Screenings

Japan Prize 2018, The Best Work in the Pre-school Category
(The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Prize)

SWIPE

A girl finds out that she has a match on a dating app with a stranger, despite swiping him to the left moments ago. She starts to fear that the man is dangerously close to her.

Niels Bourgonje

Fiction, Thriller | Netherlands | 2019 | 0:05:48

TRAPPED IN THE CITY OF A THOUSAND MOUNTAINS

A new phenomenon of authentic Chinese rap has taken the internet by storm. But behind the unprecedented gains in popularity, there is a struggle for freedom of speech. Rappers are trying to figure out what they still can and cannot do after new censorship is announced.

David Verbeek

Documentary, Portlate | Netherlands, China | 2018 | 0:23:32

#TAGGED

Elise, a fourteen-year-old girl is inseparable from her smartphone. The morning after a party, she receives messages from her friends. When she opens her SNS app, she is shocked to find herself lying unconscious…

Martin Winkler, VERTOV

Drama | Netherlands | 2018 | 0:12:05 | Film | VERTOV, KRO-NCRV, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep

Prize & Screenings

The Best Work in the Youth Category
(The Minister of Foreign Affairs Prize)

TRAPPED IN THE CITY OF A THOUSAND MOUNTAINS

A new phenomenon of authentic Chinese rap has taken the internet by storm. But behind the unprecedented gains in popularity, there is a struggle for freedom of speech. Rappers are trying to figure out what they still can and cannot do after new censorship is announced.

David Verbeek

Documentary | Netherlands, China | 2018 | 0:23:32

Prize & Screenings

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2018)
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2019)
Ismailia Film Festival, Egypt (2019) Short Documentary Competition

SCREWED

Tim Schijf

Fiction, Comedy | Netherlands | 2018 | 0:07:00

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