Breaking Ground is a platform for European film students and their films. We search for and present to you the best upcoming film talent from Europe. Besides that we connect student to each other and the professional film industry. This website is our showcase.

Latest Films

Liquid Sun

The Irish economy has grown rapidly in the past twenty years but is about to collapse due to the recent economic crisis. The consequences are…

Tape Generations

Large groups of tape rolls go through a long process of development and degeneration. The extremely slow paced life of these objects is being revealed…

Baart

Baart (misspelling of the Dutch word for beard) is a short film about Jip, an 8-year-old boy with a big imagination. Jip wants his father…

Breaking Ground NL

Breaking Ground NL is a bi-monthly platform for Dutch film students. It takes place at one of the most prestigious venues in The Netherlands: the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam. Every two months we screen a selection of the best or most interesting films from…
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Breaking Shorts

Breaking Shorts is the student competition of Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (GS). Together with Go Short, Breaking Ground thinks that student films are often just as interesting or well made as 'normal' short films. This is why Go Short decided to include…
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Go Short Student Campus

From the first edition of the Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Breaking Ground co-produces the Go Short Student Campus.

The campus is a 6-day-long-workshop about filmmaking. We gather 15 student filmmakers from all over Europe to work together on a short…
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Holland Doc 24

Holland Doc 24 is the documentary platform of the Dutch Public Broadcasters. With great programming and a wonderful website that functions as an archive for at least Dutch documentaries it is a very important platform for documentary filmmakers.

In 2009 Holland Doc 24 asked…
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