Sand - (complete short film)
2017 - 4:52
SICAF, International Animation Festival, Seoul, South Korea
July 2017
Short of the Year, Spring selection, Promofest, Spain
July 2017
Special Jury Mention
Dutch Film Festival, Golden Calf competition, Utrecht, Netherlands
September 2017
Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
September 2017
Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, July session, Bucharest, Romania
July 2017
Miami Independent Film Festival, August selection, Miami, USA
August 2017
Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw,
Poland
October 2017
KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 2017
Braunschweig International filmfest, Braunschweig, Germany
October 2017
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA
October 2017
Nominated Best Short
Best Animation July
Tucson Film & Music Festival, Tucson, USA
October 2017
International Festival of Animated Films TOFUZI, Batumi, Georgia
October 2017
Multivision Animation Arts Festival,
st. Petersburg, Russia
October 2017
Conway Film Festival, Conway, USA
September 2017
Curtas Film Fest, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain
October 2017
Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montréal, Canada
November 2017
London International Animation Festival, London, UK
December 2017
Red Rock Film Festival, Cedar City, USA
November 2017
November 2017
Animation Marathon, Athens, Greece
Film Front, Novi Sad, Serbia
October 2017
FICPA, Pasto, Colombia
October 2017
November 2017
Tirana Interantional Film Festival, Tirana, Albania
Bogotá short film festival BOGOSHORTS, Bogotá, Colombia
December 2017
Eindhovens Film Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
December 2017
International Animation Film Festival Gdansk, Poland
November 2017
Bucharest Short Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
December 2017
November 2017
Ouchy Awards, first selection for 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland
Video Babel, Cusco, Peru
December 2017
RAW Science Film Festival, Santa Barbara, USA
January 2018
Artfools international Film Festival, Larissa, Greece
February 2018
Anima, Brussels Animation Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
February 2018
Micro & Films, Aubenas, France
March 2018
Best Professional Short Film
Best Animation Film
Monstra, Lisbon, Portugal
March 2018
Working Title Film Festival, Vicenza, Italy
April 2018
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany
March 2018
El día se hace corto, Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela
February 2018
Cine Lebu Festival Internacional, Lebu, Chili
February 2018
Short to the Point, December selection, Bucharest, Romania
December 2018
Best Anim. December
March 2018
Athens AnimFest, Athens, Greece
Independent Days International Filmfest, Karlsruhe, Germany
April 2018
Indy Film Fest, Indiana, USA
April 2018
Tallahassee Film Festival, Tallahassee, USA
March 2018
Animation Dingle, Dingle, Ireland
March 2018
April 2018
February 2018
Shortcutz, Amsterdam, Netherlands
FestMedallo, Medellín, Colombia
Boomtown Film and Music Festival, Beaumont, USA
April 2018
April 2018
Monstra on the Loose, 8 locations in Portugal
May 2018
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
May 2018
Sorsi Corti, Short Film and Wine Festival, Palermo, Italy
April 2018
Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
Prix des Lycéens
April 2018
Festival du Film Court d’Angoulême, Angoulême, France
Tlanchana Fest, Metepec, Mexico
April 2018
June 2018
Rebel Film Festival, PLymouth, UK
June 2018
deadCenter Film Festival, Oklahoma City, USA
May 2018
Altered Esthetics Film Festival, Minneapolis, USA
June 2018
Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee, USA
June 2018
British Animation Film Festival, London, UK
July 2018
Manlleu Film Festival, Manlleu, Spain
June 2018
Transilvania Shorts, Târgu Mureș, Romania
July 2018
Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Seattle, USA
July 2018
Open Eyes FilmFest, Marburg, Germany
Best Animation Film
July 2018
Short Film Breaks, Bucharest, Romania
August 2018
Wiz-Art International Short FIlm Festival, Lviv, Ukraine
Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
August 2018
Animaze, Montreal, Canada
August 2018
3rd place Best Animation
Moscow Shorts, Moscow, Russia
September 2018
Festival de Cine de Madrid, Madrid Spain
October 2018
Miami Short Film Festival, Miami, USA
November 2018
Best Animation August
Rome International Film Festival, Rome, USA
November 2018
Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, USA
November 2018
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA
November 2018
CinemaForum, Warsaw, Poland
November 2018
Best Animation Film
January 2019
Shortcutz Annual Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands
March 2019
Ouchy Awards, Lausanne, Switzerland
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany
March 2019
Siciliambiente, San Vito Lo Capo, Italy
July 2019
Best Animation Film
Manifesto Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 2019
Shortcutz at Film by the Sea, Vlissingen, Netherlands
September 2019
Animest, Dutch animation retrospective, Bucharest, Romania
November 2020
Sand
2017 - 4:52 min
You get up at five, eat your vitamins, take some water with your coffee, work for a few hours, eat your omegas and flavonoids, work a little more, get some exercise and then take a shower. But don’t bother trying to wash the sand out of your hair.
Director, script, animation, music, editing
Arjan Brentjes
Narrated by
Bart van der Schaaf
This film was supported by
The Netherlands Film Fund
