CLAN (2016)

23 min / Director, Writer
Graduation film at the Netherlands Film Academy, July 2016.

Online premiere: confirmed for summer 2018 on film platform KINOSCOPE.

Festival distribution by Some Shorts. To request a screener, please contact Wouter Jansen at info@someshorts.com

Story

A tight-knit group of people live and work at a derelict farm. No one knows the woman in a black raincoat who has been wandering around their land all day. At first, they don't worry about her. But the closer she gets, the more she starts to get in their way.

Festival selections & awards

• World premiere at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival,
  Pardi di Domani International Short Film Competition.

• Silkroad International Film Festival 2017, Dublin, Ireland.
  Winner: Best Student Fiction Award.

• Nahal Student Short Film Festival 2018, Iran, International Competition.
  Winner: Best International Short Film Award.

• Split Film Festival – International Festival of New Film 2017, Croatia, International Competition.
  Winner: Honourable Mention.

• La Guarimba International Film Festival 2017, Italy, International Competition.
  Winner: Best Fiction Film Award.

• Showcased at The Best Short Films of Locarno, Phi Centre 2016, Montréal, Canada.

• Netherlands Film Festival 2016, Student Film Competition.

• NDU International Film Festival 2016, Lebanon, International Competition.

• Leeds International Film Festival 2016, United Kingdom, Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition.

• Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017, United Kingdom, International Competition.

• Busan International Short Film Festival 2017, South Korea, International Competition.

• International Young Directors' Film Festival 2017, Xi'an, China.

• 35th Huesca International Film Festival 2017, Spain, International Competition.

• Atlántida Film Fest 2017, Shorts Programme.

• Eurasia International Film Festival 2017, Kazakhstan, International Short Film Competition.

• Westbeach Film Festival 2017, The Netherlands.

• Shorts México 2017, Mexico, International Competition.

• Go Debut 2017 European Film Festival, Latvia, Short Film Competition.

• 58th BRNO16 International Film Festival 2017, Czech Republic, International Competition.

• International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2017, International Competition.

• Festival Tous Courts 2017, France, International Short Competition.

• Amami International Student Film Festival 2018, Japan, International Competition.