Go Short X Verre Binding
The Verre Binding Film Council is proud to present a special selection of films for Go Short Arnhem, part of the Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. The festival for short films will land at Focus Filmtheater from 9 to 11 October.
With five short films from the Netherlands, Congo, Switzerland and Belgium, the Film Council has curated a diverse programme filled with stories about hope, love and the longing for a home.
About the Verre Binding film council
The Verre Binding Film Council consists of people from Arnhem, both from here and from far away, who come together through their shared love of film. Together, they select films from different parts of the world: stories that surprise, move and invite audiences to look at the world and at one another from a broader perspective.
The films are free to attend for COA card holders and Ukrainians with temporary protected status.
Tickets via Focus.
Films
My Homeland
Tabarak Abbas, Switzerland, 13 m.
Baghdad, early 90s, in a reality where humans have given way to cyborgs, a young couple and their newborn baby try to flee their country where war has just broken out. This animated film tells a true story and plunges viewers into a futuristic world.
Voice messages from my mom
Elinice Adeyemi, The Netherlands, 15 m.
Inspired by Chantal Akerman’s News From Home, this intimate short film follows a Nigerian student in the Netherlands as she receives a series of WhatsApp voice messages from her mother. Through these messages, a tender yet tense portrait of love, sacrifice, and distance unfolds.
Zombies
Baloji Tshiani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, 14 m.
A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinhsasa, Zombie goes from the culture of the hair salon to a futuristic clubbing, from the urban parade to the glory of a dictator in campaign to a modern western. And interrogates the almost carnal relationship we have with our phones, outgrowths of the hand giving us the talent of digital ubiquity…
Thank you for your patience
Simon van der Zande, The Netherlands, Belgium, 17 m.
From a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel – a Congolese immigrant – gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.
Bes
Ayla Çekin Satijn, The Netherlands, 7 m.
Asli – a young, Turkish, lesbian woman – returns to the village where she was born to attend the henna-party of her childhood friend. She fears not being accepted, but when she sees her old friends again, she comes to realize that she herself suffers from prejudice.
Total duration: approximately 66 minutes.