_{You Can't Automate Me by Katarina Jazbec}

3 Dutch Shorts in the International Competition

Three Dutch shorts are selected for the International Competition at Bogoshorts: Lost on Arrival*, Harmonia and You Can't Automate Me. Lost on Arrival by PolakVanBekkum is a short experimental documentary, which had its world premiere at IDFA 2020. It had its international premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded 2021 and was recently selected for dokumentART festival in Neubrandenburg. After retiring, a man wants to return to the Caribbean island where he once lived. But advancing dementia ruins his plans. He moves there but never really arrives.

Harmonia is a graduation film for the Netherlands Film Academy directed by Thom Lunshof. Festival distribution is handled by Kapitein Kort. Earlier this year the short was selected for the International Competition at FEST New Directors New Films 2021 in Portugal. A mysterious voice invades a university campus. It is looking for unity and connection in a world trapped in egoism, where everyone is pursuing their own individual goals. Simultaneously we follow Philine in her obsessive battle to earn a spot in the competition boat of the university’s rowing club.

You Can't Automate Me is directed by Katarina Jazbec. The film had its world premiere at IFFR 2021. Further selections include FEKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival 2021, where it won the FIPRESCI's Critics Award and Niederrhein Film Festival 2021, where it won the Jury and Audience Awards. Before container-ships leave port, lashers secure the containers using heavy metal bars. They are the last port workers to do such dangerous jobs surrounded by self-driven vehicles and remotely operated cranes. At night shifts, while they wait for a ship, each body tells its own story: from grieving for a colleague who died on the job to just keep going. Stowaway animals appear as visions of a more natural world.

Dutch (Co-)Productions Screening at Bogoshorts

Furthermore, there are several Dutch short films screening out of competition at Bogotá Short Film Festival. When I Explode by Angelo Raaijmakers and Volya Films screens as part of the Fánatico Freak Fantástico programme.

As part of the children's programme, called ChiquiSHORTS, The Cloudmaker* by Hanna van Niekerk and Hazazah Pictures screens. Festival distribution is handled by Kaboom Distribution. 

Furthermore, Girlsboysmix by Lara Aerts and Prospektor screens in the Colecciones: Diversxs (LGBTIQ+) programme and Dutch minority co-production Little Ox* by Raf Wathion, Patrick Vandebroeck and co-producer SeriousFilm screens in the Colecciones: ZOO-lógico programme.

For more information on the Bogotá Short Film Festival, click here.
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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund