IN FLOW OF WORDS
Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands 2021 | 23 Min. | OmeU
15.05. | 3pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
PART OF THE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME ISA II
Austrian Premiere
In presence of Eliane Esther Bots
In The Hague, three interpreters of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia take their position as mediators between the parties. They were born in the former Yugoslavia and experienced the war first hand. They must keep their memories and feelings to themselves, no matter whether the people whose statements they translate are accused of committing war crimes or are the victims of the same.
IN FLOW OF WORDS reflects the discrepancy between the emotional and psychological impact of narratives of violence that interpreters must deal with objectively, and, contrary to their position at the tribunal, places their voices and experiences center stage.
Director: Elaine Esther Bots
Camera: Daniel Donato
Sound: Sergio Gonzalez Cuervo
Production: Manon Bovenkerk
presented by
AWARDS
Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (4 – 14 August, 2021), Pardi di Domani, Won: Best Direction Prize – BONALUMI Engineering & Short Film candidate for the European Film Awards
Hamptons International Film Festival, United States (7 – 13 October, 2021), Short Film Competition, Won: Best Short Documentary
GwangHwaMun International Short Film Festival, South-Korea (14 – 19 October, 2021), International Competition, Won: Special Jury Award
Cinema Verite – International Documentary Film Festival, Iran (9 – 16 December, 2021), Short Film Competition Special Jury Prize
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France (28 January – 5 February, 2022), International Competition, Won: Award for Best Documentary
SCREENINGS
New York Film Festival, United States (24 September – 10 October, 2021)
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (1 – 11 October, 2021)
Chicago International Film Festival, United States (13 – 24 October, 2021)
Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain (23 – 30 October, 2021) Time of History
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden (25 – 31 October, 2021)
Curta Cinema – Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (3 – 10 November, 2021)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (9 – 14 November, 2021)
AFI Fest, United States (10 – 14 November, 2021)
Kinemastik International Short Film Festival, Malta (14 – 21 November, 2021)
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania (16 – 21 November, 2021)
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Netherlands (17 – 28 November, 2021)
Festival on Wheels, Turkey (26 November – 8 December, 2021)
Beirut Shorts International Film Festival (30 November – 3 December, 2021)
Aguilar Film Festival, Spain (3 – 12 December, 2021)
Watch Docs International Film Festival, Poland (10 – 19 December, 2021)
Roots Film Festival, the Netherlands (18 December, 2021)
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Netherlands (12 – 16 January, 2022)
Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Miradasdoc, Spain (28 January – 5 February, 2022)
Filmer le travail, France (4 – 13 February, 2022)
Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland (23 February – 6 March, 2022
BIOGRAPHY
Eliane Esther Bots (1986, The Netherlands) graduated cum laude from the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her films have been screened at ‘IDFA’ (NL) ‘Berlinale’, Berlin (DE), ‘Cinema du Reel’, Paris (FR), ‘New York Film Festival’ (USA), ‘International short film festival Oberhausen’ (DE), ‘Go Short’, Nijmegen (NL), Kassel Dokfest (DE). She works as a lecturer ‘Moving image’ at the University of the Arts in Utrecht (NL).
FILMOGRAPHY
In Flow of Words (2021), 22 min.
The Channel (2020), 35 min (film performance)
Cloud Forest (2019), 18.20 min.
The Brick House (2017) 15.49 min.
We can’t come from nothing, (2015) 30.52 min.
Conversations (2014), 21.07 min.
The Visionary (2013) 17 min. (installation)
The dome & The cone of silence (2012) 16.50 min.
The captain and the boy (2012) 9.14 min.
Gulo (2011) 15 min.
