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 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 Dutch soil. We gather film students, professionals (every edition is…
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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 at Stukafest

On February 2, 2012 Breaking Ground presented a program of two Dutch student films during the cultural studentdorm festival in Utrecht - Stukafest. During this festival visitors were able to enter the houses of different students and witness different cultural activities like theatre, literature, musical performances, poetry, cabaret and many more.

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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.

Blog

Our blog: a weekly post on filmmakers and films by young talent we think you should know too.