Events



Breaking Ground's goal is to present student filmmakers and their films. This is why BG organizes its own events and programs for several other festivals. Here you'll find all of them. Would you like us to watch your film to maybe program it, please submit it.



Breaking Ground EU

From February 22nd Breaking Ground NL will be called Breaking Ground EU.

Breaking Ground EU is a revamped edition of Breaking Ground NL, which will show more European student films, next to the best Dutch student shorts. The evening features guests including the film students, who will shine a light on their films…
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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 a student section at the festival and BG and GS…
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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 film. In this week they get no time to rest:…
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Breaking Ground NL

From February 22nd Breaking Ground NL will be called Breaking Ground EU.

Breaking Ground EU is a revamped edition of Breaking Ground NL, which will show more European student films, next to the best Dutch student shorts. The evening features guests including the film students, who will shine a light on their films…
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Nordic Delight

Experience the culture of Northern Europe at Nordic Delight Festival. Mostly new and upcoming artists will be performing on stage. Besides pop music, discover many Scandinavian delights, such as film, stand-up comedy, fashion, design and of course the Northern European cuisine. We have selected a fabulous location to reinforce the experience. Nordic Delight tickles your…
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BG at Stukafest

Take off your coat – and stinky socks – and get ready to be surprised. Cozy, messy student rooms are transformed into mini-stages with music, dance, comedy, theatre, literature, poetry and much more!

During this Dutch nation-wide student festival Breaking Ground will take place in one of those many student houses in the big…
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Breaking Ground at Pera Museum

Merhaba! In the weekend of 22 and 23 December of this year, Breaking Ground will present a programme in the wonderful Pera Museum in Istanbul during their programme "The Shortest Day on Earth". In collaboration with EYE, BG and Pera we have selected a recent programme of some of the best short Dutch student films: More











BG Pitch

Breaking Ground will annually organize a pitch competition for filmstudents in which they get the chance to win prize money and assistance from a filmprofessional to help them produce their film.

For the first edition of the pitch competition, Breaking Ground selected six filmmakers who get the chance to present their ideas to a…
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Solar Cinema - European Tour

CosyMo's Solar Cinema is a little bus with a screen on its back that runs on solar power. In the summer of 2010 and 2011 CosyMo travelled through Europe to screen 'green films' to the European public. Breaking Ground jumped the ride and showed a selection of green films made by students.
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BG @ student film festivals

Breaking Ground often travels abroad to screen a selection of the best Dutch student films at other student film festival in Europe: FAMUFest in Prague, Czech Republic, Early Melons in Bratislava, Slovakia (16-20 March 2011), International Student Film Festival Belgrade in Serbia (17-20 March 2011) and The Beginning in St. Petersburg, Russia (10-16 September 2011).
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BG @ Flachland Fest

Why not make a festival for Dutch and Flemish upcoming talent in one of the most creative cities in Europe, the founder of Flachland Fest, thought. And so he did. In Berlin. And of course Breaking Ground was there as well!

In 2010 Breaking Ground selected a wide programm of great Dutch,…
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Three Day Film

After the succes of the Go Short Student Campus, Breaking Ground and Cinestud started talking about organizing the same sort of thing on the oldest student film festival in the world: Cinestud. Ten student filmmakers got together to make four short films, accompanied by talented director Danyael Sugawara, producer Paul Ruver, writer Philip Delmaar and…
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Students

The upcoming European film talent we think is worth following. Discover the new Lars von Trier or Pedro Almodóvar.

Films

Films by young filmmakers that caught our eye and we would love you to see as well.

News

News about us, our partners, the film world, other film festivals and announcements.