films/documentaries
Buitenspel/Offside
12 min Digibeta
Dutch spoken, English subtitles
A seemingly average sports spectator takes in a soccer match with other fans. Through voiceover, however, we learn that Arjan Erkel has lived through extraordinary circumstances, having been held hostage in Dagestan for 606 days. He conveys how patterns became rituals, giving him strength in his fight against the loneliness, insecurity and boredom of the ordeal.
Offside is part of EPTAS (Every picture tells a story), an initiative by the Dutch Filmfund to make short documentaries for the cinema.
- written and directed by
- Dorothée Meddens
- camera
- Jeffrey de Regt & Aage Hollander
- sound
- Jillis Molenaar
- editor
- Katarina Turler
- sounddesign
- Frank Weyzig
- music
- Frank Weyzig & Remco Helbers
- soundmix
- Tom Bijnen
- producers
- André Bos & Hans Mulder
Screenings
2007 4th International Sportsfilm Festival ATLANT, Lipetsk Russia
2007 11mm Shortkicks Filmfestival, Berlin, Germany
2007 CIFF, Cyprus International Film Festival, Cyprus
2006 Portobello Filmfestival, London, United Kingdom
2006 San Gio Festival, Verona, Italy
2006 Sedicorto, International Film Festival Forlì, Italy
2006 DOXA, Documentary Filmfestival Vancouver, Canada
2006 Documenta Madrid, Spain
2005 Premiere at The Netherlands Filmfestival, Utrecht, the Netherlands