GASP (Trailer)

short film | 15 mins | 2012
Written & Directed by Eicke Bettinga
 
Official Selection 65th Festival de Cannes – in Competition – nominated for Palme d’or

 
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“Eicke Bettinga touches on the big, abstract themes of solidarity, of human connection,
of isolation, numbness and sacrifice.”
— NISIMAZINE CANNES EDITION

“GASP ist ein Kleinod, ein subtiler intellektueller Schocker…”
— FILMDIENST

Festivals: Cannes 2012 (Official Selection), San Francisco International Film Festival 2013, Nashville 2013,
Huesca 2013, Bilbao 2012, Hof 2012, Dresden 2013, Max Ophüls Saarbrücken 2013, Cambridge 2013,
Outfest LA 2013, Signes de Nuit Paris, Barcelona, Puerto Rico, Izmir, Istanbul, Saguenay, etc.

 

TOGETHER (Trailer)

short film | 14 mins | UK/GER
Written & Directed by Eicke Bettinga

Premiered at Cannes Critic’s Week 2009 – in Competition

Featuring Matt Smith

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“How fine is the line that separates an unilateral embrace from a struggle? Eicke Bettinga reinvents
the elaboration of a loss, starting from suffused grief to explode in a climax where the only language
that still seems to have any meaning is that of the body.”
— MILANO FILM FESTIVAL

“Together focuses the narrative on an emotional build-up rather than on momentous explanations and futile
dialogue. Gazes, pauses, and gestures reveal more about the relationships than words could suggest”
— NISIMAZINE CANNES

Festivals: Cannes 2009 (Critics’ Week), Edinburgh 2009, Montréal 2009, São Paulo 2009, Jersey 2009
Seville 2009, Encounters Bristol 2009, Milan 2010, Emden 2010, Regensburg Short Film Week 2010
Cine Fiesta 2010, Singapore 2010, Aix-en-Provence 2010 (Tous Courts), Espinho Portugal 2011
Iraq 2011, British Short Film Berlin 2012

 

SHEARING (Excerpt)

short film | 12 mins | UK
Written & Directed by Eicke Bettinga

Nominated for Cannes Cinéfondation Award 2002 – Official Selection
Winner ‘Gold Plaque’ – Chicago International Film Festival

Featuring Michelle Fairley

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Festivals: Cannes (Cinéfondation), Edinburgh, Chicago, Aspen, Brest, Brussels, Camerimage Lodz,
Golden Lion Taipei, Emden, etc.

 

Double Happiness (Excerpt)

short film | 25 mins | UK
Written & Directed by Eicke Bettinga

Featuring Benedict Wong & Esther Hall

 

TRUST.Wohltat (Excerpt)

TV-Film | 60 mins | GER
Directed by Eicke Bettinga
Commissioned by ZDF ‘Das Kleine Fernsehspiel’

Offical Selection – Montréal World Film Festival
Future Award – Kinofest Lünen 2007

“Eine kühle Zukunftsvision vom Schlage eines Films wie ‘Gattaca'”
— MONSTERSANDCRITICS

“Dem Regisseur Eicke Bettinga ist es gelungen, innerhalb von 60 Minuten eine Liebesgeschichte
mit den Mitteln des Science Fiction-Genres komplex und stilsicher zu erzählen.”
— JURY KINOFEST LÜNEN