Willem van der Zanden Trailers
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Willem van der Zanden was born in the city of Breda, the Netherlands on the 5th of July 1995. After attending primary school in the small town of Bavel and spending 7 years at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Breda, he started studying at the AKV St. Joost in Breda where he slowly shaped his craft. His work is very observing and often focuses on his own life or fragments of it. He personally believes his film Qu'est-ce Que C'est? to be one of the most valuable films he has made so far as it helped him discover a big part of his style. His latest film, the graduation project A Little Testament, is a close and hyper-personal examination of his struggle with depression as well as a universally applicable view on the difficulties and anxieties of becoming an adult.
Most Popular Willem van der Zanden Trailers
Total trailers found: 15
05 July 2021
Plot TBA. Set to be a fictitious film in the vein of A Little Testament where actors are not or rarely seen and only heard through voice-over.
29 August 2017
A poetic, semi-autobiographical short film of the sun setting over a village, shot from behind the curtains of a small, dimly lit room.
04 September 2016
An experimental docu-fiction short from hours of collected material shot by the director. Different scenes, from drunk parties with friends to shots of the Dutch landscape during a train ride, are cut together to see if a narrative story can be constructed from nothing but randomly shot footage.
12 December 2017
A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors.
03 July 2019
A free-flowing, poetic short film filled with expressionist imagery, old photos and abstract moments, led by a voice-over in which the director tells us personal memories of his youth and his recent life in the hopes of sketching a clear image of the complex struggle of growing from an innocent child to a weary adult.
15 June 2016
A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.
29 November 2017
An ambient representation of depression with a slowly fading score building towards an uncertain climax.
23 October 2015
A short, poetic documentary of an old woman and the loneliness that surrounds her after her husband was sent to a nursing home.
19 September 2017
A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life on earth and ones place among it.
14 March 2018
A misty midnight. Music plays in one house, in the other, a man brushes his teeth. More and more sounds are heard yet the darkness hardly reveals where it's all coming from.
22 October 2017
An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlist to cross the boundaries of fiction and documentary.
07 September 2017
A short documentary concerning a group of friends who get together, eat shawarma and drink beer. They talk utter nonsense at times, yet they couldn't be happier.
15 June 2025
When the catering of a film set has canceled, one of the runners is burdened with the task of fixing lunch against impossible odds.
11 July 2019
A 90-second short showing a fairytale-like story of an abandoned art academy and the students who once resided there.
