Eliane Esther Bots
Directing
Biography
Eliane Esther Bots (1986, The Netherlands) graduated in 2016 cum laude at the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her films have been screened at national and international festivals such as ‘Berlinale’, Berlin (DE), ‘Cinema du Reel’, Paris (FR), ‘New York Film Festival’ (USA), ‘International short film festival Oberhausen’ (DE), ‘Go Short’, Nijmegen (NL), ‘International short film festival Curta Cinema’, Rio de Janeiro (BR), Flatpack Film festival, Birmingham (UK), Kassel Dokfest (DE). She has been a programmer for the Go Short Film festival, Nijmegen (NL) and works as a lecturer ‘Moving image’ at the University of the Arts in Utrecht (NL).
Known For
Five girls take the viewer on a journey through their parents’ experiences of the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Cloud Forest
A short experimental film about the piercing experiences of three interpreters of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague and their position as a channel between speakers and listeners, witnesses and defendants, judges and attendees.
In Flow of Words
Coming from another country, there is a quest for belonging and an (im)possibility to completely feel at home.