Homegrown produce in the spotlight at Rotterdam

28/01/2010

Much like last year, this year’s line-up of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which kicked off yesterday evening, is full of features and shorts made in the Netherlands.

The Dutch-Belgian co-production C’est Déjà L’été (see news) from Dutch director Martijn Maria Smits will vie for one of the three Tiger Awards in the main competition. The Tiger Short Film Competition counts no less than four local contenders.

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Three Dutch features and three documentaries are presented in the Bright Future section. The features are Mark de Cloe’s Shocking Blue, a tragic coming-of-age drama; Hunting and Sons [+see also:
trailer
film profile] from director Sander Burger, about a couple who can’t deal with the woman’s pregnancy; and Jaap van Heusden’s Win/Win, a drama set in the financial world.

Andréa Seligmann Silva and Mieke Bal’s Separations; Astrid Bussink’s Mijn Enschede and Heavenly Life on Earth from director Jesse de Jong are the Bright Future documentaries.

Two more local productions are presented in the Spectrum section: Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs’ Meat, about the sexual fantasies of a butcher, and the IFFR closing film The Aviatrix of Kazbek [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (see news), a WWII-set story with a leading role for Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca, from 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Oleg Mutu
film profile].