Films



Breaking Ground offers young filmmakers a stage to present themselves and their work. Below you'll find the films we have programmed at one of our festivals or events sofar. Please note this is not yet again another video channel, this is a showcase of interesting films. Would you like us to take an interest in your film, please submit it.



Director: János Richter
ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media
Year of production 2010
Genre Documentary
Length 23'01"

Guañape Sur

A barran rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guanape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive fr the harvest of the birds'excrement.



Director: Binyam Berhane
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
Year of production 2011
Genre Documentary
Length 30'00

Kiipa Papa

Charles was living happily in the small Swedish town of Hagfors with his girlfriend Dagmara and their two children. Dagmara and the two children are deported to Russia. Charles is left behind with an order for deportation to Ivory Coast.



Director: Marèl Jap-Sam
Willem de Kooning Academie
Year of production 2011
Genre Fiction
Length 12'00''

Broertje (Brother of mine)

Max (5) loves nothing more then to play outside with his older brother, Roman. Catching frogs on the meadow, watching the cows or jumping in the mud. Only now Max slowly starts to realize Roman is not there anymore. And the later in the day it gets the harder Max has to try to keep
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Director: Jan-Joost Verhoef
ArtEZ Zwolle
Year of production 2011
Genre Animation
Length 4'50''

Plunge

A man sits in his chair behind his computer screen in the dark. He plunges into his own digital world which is a mixture of his fears and impulses fed by modern technology and advertising. Faced with his fear of death he awakes startled out of his comatic state. He wakes up in a place where everyone is connected with everyone while completely ignoring each other. His excessive behavior leads to a further descent into the world of his passions and desires;
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