Nederlands
00 September, 00:00 – 00:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info. Film director: Tal Amiran | Year: 2020 | Runtime: 15min | Genre: Short documentary | Subtitle(s): English | Language(s): Wolof DUTCH PREMIERE Synopsis Under Paris’ glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded … Read More
Irreversibile (2020) by Matteo De Liberato
00 September, 00:00 – 00:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info. Film director: Matteo De Liberato | Year: 2020 | Runtime: 12 min | Genre: Fiction | Subtitle(s): N/A | Language(s): Italian DUTCH PREMIERE Synopsis When two different and distant galaxies collide the result is always unpredictable. Two existences, the life of Carlo and Marco, will change shape irreversibly. Programme … Read More
Demi (2021) by Rachel van Bruggen
Friday | 24 Sept 2021 | 21:20 – 23:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Podium Mozaïek, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info Film director: Rachel van Bruggen | Year: 2021 | Runtime: 24 min Genre: Fiction | Subtitle(s): English | Language(s): Dutch INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Synopsis NL | De door haar ouders overbeschermde Demi (23) raakt zwanger van een vrijgevochten muzikant. Wanneer haar ouders zich vervolgens te veel … Read More
Rebel (2019) by Pier-Philippe Chevigny
00 September, 00:00 – 00:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info. Film director: Pier-Philippe Chevigny | Year: 2019 | Runtime: 15 min | Genre: Fiction | Subtitle(s): English | Language(s): French DUTCH PREMIERE Synopsis Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is much too young to understand why thousands of refugees have been entering Canada illegally. Yet when his father takes … Read More
Libertá (2019) by Savino Carbone
00 September, 00:00 – 00:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info. Film director: Savino Carbone | Year: 2019 | Runtime: 30 min | Genre: Short documentary | Subtitle(s): English | Language(s): English, French, Italian Synopsis Bari, 2019. What does it mean to be free? Two homosexual migrants talk about their status of asylum seekers. Meanwhile, the effects of the new … Read More
Mthunzi (2019) by Tebogo Malebogo
00 September, 00:00 – 00:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info. Film director: Tebogo Malebogo | Year: 2019 | Runtime: 8:35 min | Genre: Fiction short film | Subtitle(s): N/A | Language(s): English DUTCH PREMIERE Synopsis The film follows Mthunzi walking home from the shops as he sees a lady go into seizures in her driveway – he is … Read More
SHIBUYA, TOKYO 16:30 (2020) by Izumi Ohtomi
Friday | 24 Sept 2021 | 21:20 – 23:00h | Get your tickets right here! Location: Podium Mozaïek, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Click HERE for more info Film director: Izumi Ohtomi | Year: 2020 | Runtime: 15 min Genre: Fiction short film | Subtitle(s): English | Language(s): Japanese DUTCH PREMIERE Synopsis “SHIBUYA, TOKYO 16:30” is a drama about Aoi, an aspiring filmmaker/ assistant director who visits the office of Toriumi, an independent … Read More
2020 HoFF Jury: Cyrus Esfandiari
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2020 HoFF Jury: Aramis Garcia Gonzalez
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2020 HoFF Jury: Dana Linssen
Photo credits: © Geert Snoeijer ENG | Dana Linssen is a long-term film critic for the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Currently, she is a quartermaster for Film Forward a new talent and skills development organization for film and audiovisual creators in the Netherlands. With Jan Pieter Ekker she programs the Critics’ Choice at the International Film Festival Rotterdam where … Read More