Naya – Der Wald hat tausend Augen

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the Netherlands | 24' | 02/2021 | documentary

The short documentary NAYA - Der Wald hat tausend Augen follows the life of Naya, a wolf that walked from East Germany to Belgium tagged with a GPS collar. The first wolf in Belgium in a hundred years, she suddenly makes headlines – but then her presence takes a mysterious turn. This voyeuristic visual collage of wildlife and surveillance camera imagery captivatingly explores the relationship between humans and this iconic wild animal.

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Sebastian Mulder

Biography

Sebastian Mulder (Nijmegen NL, 1994) explores the relationships between humans and other nature, and the influence of technology on these relationships. In his experimental and poetic documentaries, he questions our world’s future. His graduation film for his audiovisual media degree at the University of Arts in Utrecht, Nature: All Rights Reserved (2016),  was screened at Palm Springs, Ji.hlava and awarded Best European Student film at Go Short. He recently finished NAYA – Der Wald hat tausend Augen (2021). Additionally, Sebastian teaches at photography museum FOAM and Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam, conducting film and photography workshops and tours.

Filmography

  • Nature: All Rights Reserved – 2017 – graduation film, short doc
  • Naya – Der Wald hat Tausend Augen – 2021 – short doc
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Crew

Director: Sebastian Mulder
Producer: [boondocs]: Jasper Boon
Sound Design: Jacob Oostra
Editor: Nina Graafland
Composer: Eren Önsoy
Motion Graphics: Amos Mulder
Grading: Michiel Rummens
Post-Production: Amator, Jan Jaap Kuiper
Research: Bente Mars
Line-producer: Bente Mars

Festivals

  • Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, the Netherlands (14 – 18 April, 2021)
    National Competition Special Mention
  • Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Canada (29 April – 9 May, 2021)
    Official Short Film Selection
  • Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Egypt (19 – 25 May, 2021)
    Short Documentary Competition     Special Mention
  • VIENNA SHORTS – International Short Film Festival, Austria (27 May – 1 June, 2021)
    Fiction & Documentary Competition Special Mention
  • Aegean Film Festival, Greece (9 – 25 July, 2021)
    International Competition Won: Best Short Film
  • DOKUFEST – International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (6 – 14 August, 2021)
    Short Documentary Competition
  • Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina (13 – 20 August, 2021)
    European Shorts
  • Go Short Arnhem, Netherlands (9 – 12 September, 2021)
    Gouden Hert Competition Won: Best Non-fiction Short
  • Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy, Finland (16 – 26 September, 2021)
    Official Selection
  • Lille International Short Film Festival, France (17 – 26 September, 2021)
    International Competition
  • Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico (17 – 26 September, 2021)
    Short Documentary Competition
  • Nederlands Film Festival, Netherlands (24 September – 2 October, 2021)
    Gouden Kalf Competitie & Debuut Competitie
  • PROVINZIALE – Filmfest Eberswalde, Germany (9 – 16 October, 2021)
    Documentary Competition
  • CineEco – International Environmental Film Festival of Serra da Estrela – Seia, Portugal (9 – 16 October, 2021)
    Competition
  • Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan (15 – 31 October, 2021)
    International Short Film Competition Special Mention
  • EKOFILM International Film Festival, Czech Republic (20 – 23 October, 2021)
    Short Film Competition
  • Film Festival Cologne, Germany (21 – 28 October, 2021)
    Look program
  • Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain (23 – 30 October, 2021)
    Time of History Competition
  • Un Festival C’Est Trop Court, France (8 – 15 October, 2021)
    Experimental Competition
  • West Lake International Documentary Festival, China (22 – 25 October, 2021)
    IDF Competition
  • Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden (25 – 31 October, 2021)
    International Docurama
  • FestCurtasBH – Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil (4 – 14 November, 2021)
    Creating Images Section
  • Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (9 – 14 November, 2021)
    International Competition Won: Prix George For The Best Documentary Form
  • Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia (10 – 21 November, 2021)
    Short Film Competition
  • Rencontres Internationales Du Documentaire De Montréal, Canada (13 – 17 November, 2021)
    Official Selection
  • Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany (16 – 21 November, 2021)
    Competition Won: A38 Production-Grant Kassel-Halle
  • Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania (16 – 21 November, 2021)
    International Competition
  • Festival Dei Popoli, Italy (20 – 28 November, 2021)
    Official Selection
  • dokumentART, Germany (23 – 27 November, 2021)
    Competition Won: Latücht Award given by the MV Filmförderung
  • Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Belgium (4 – 11 December, 2021)
    Special program
  • Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China (6 – 9 December, 2021)
    Official Selection
  • Hishorts! Xiamen Short Film Festival, China (12 – 21 December, 2021)
  • Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (12 – 18 January, 2022)
    International Competition Won: Best Short Film in the International Competition
  • Premiers Plans Film Festival, France (24 – 30 January, 2021)
    Diagonale Competition
  • Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, United States (18 – 27 February, 2022)
  • Dhaka International Short and Independent Film Festival, Bangladesh (25 February – 4 March, 2022)
    Official Selection
  • Tampere Film Festival, Finland (9 -13 March, 2022)
    International Competition
  • Pendance Film Festival, Canada (10 – 13 March, 2022)
  • Glasgow Short Film Festival, United Kingdom (23 – 27 March, 2022)
    Bill Douglas Award Competition

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Press materials

EPK: Click here

Stills, poster & director’s photo: Click here

Dialogue list English: Click here

Downloadable trailer: Click here

Press quotes

“Even by just taking the disembodied point of view of automatic cameras, ‘Naya’ covers an almost incredible amount of ground, and not only geographically: in addition to the relationship between humans, nature and technology, it deals with the effects of commercialism and capitalism, with animals’ rights and the increasingly hard-to-justify issue of hunting.”
Naya – Der Wald hat tausend Augen – Homo Lupo Lupus Est – Vladan Petković

 

 

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