10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
Also this year the festival will offer more than only the film screenings. With an amazing “festival” lounge at The Movies with a bar from Anna Bay Club and some spectacular masterclasses, workshops and nice get togethers this year will be a festival like no other.
Pelukula den Bario – Friday April 5 & Saturday April 6
Come and enjoy a special FREE outdoor screening at one of our Sentro di Bario’s(community centers).
Free admission
FRI 5 APR 19:00 • COMMUNITY CENTER FUIK
SAT 6 APR 19:00 • COMMUNITY CENTER SER’I PAPAYA
Film Quiz – Tuesday April 9
The CIFF Film Quiz is the official warm-up for the Film Festival and takes place on Tuesday 9 April. Quizmaster Maarten Schakel treats you to a night filled with fun trivia about the festival, Hollywood, fragments, movies past & present and much more. Gather your team of max 5 film enthousiasts and win fun prizes. Sign up now at ciff.curacaopubquiz.com
We start right on time! Fee ANG 15 per team
TUE 9 APR 19:30-22:30 • GRAND CAFÉ MAHAAI, MAHAAIWEG 32
Studio Caribe Happy Hour – Tuesday April 9
The Dutch Filmfonds is offering local filmmakers the opportunity to participate through Studio Caribe in a program that aims to develop and produce short films from the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Filmmakers from the CAS and BES islands can apply for Studio Caribe starting from April15th, 2024. They will host a happy hour (free admission, but sign up: https://www.filmfonds.nl/aanmelden-borrel-studio-caribe) during the Fest.
Free admission, but sign up via this link.
TUE 9 APR 17:30 • RUSTIQUE KURA HULANDA
Dennis Aalse Youth Orchestra – Wednesday April 10 & Saturday April 13
The Dennis Aalse Youth Orchestra will be performing at our opening night on Wednesday 10 April from 19:00 until 20:00 at the entrance of The Movies Otrobanda. On Saturday evening the Dennis Aalse Youth Orchestra will play some of the greatest movie soundtracks. Seating is limited so do feel free to bring your own folding chair!
Free admission
WED 10 APR 19:00 • THE MOVIES OTROBANDA
SAT 13 APR 19:00 • FOUNTAIN SQUARE RENAISSANCE MALL
The Curaçao Film Office was installed mid 2017 with the task of developing and promoting the film industry In Curaçao. We consider networking to be a crucial part of this development. Therefore we would like to invite all local and international guests of the Curaçao International Film Festival to this special edition of our happy hour on Thursday the 11th of April from 17:30 to 20:00 to get together and connect.
THU 11 APR 17:30-20:00 • LOCATION RENAISSANCE RIFFORT TBA
Yellow Robin Award Show + Surprise Film – Saturday April 13
An evening full of surprises! Join us to applaud the Yellow Robin Award winners of 2024 before we start that one film we keep a secret.
SAT 13 APR 18:30 • THE MOVIES OTROBANDA – 1
MASTER CLASS: KOOLHOVEN’S CHOICE STEPHEN SPIELBERG including the screening of 1 film
Film director Martin Koolhoven shares his passion for Stephen Spielberg. He walks us through the films that were important to him and why these films were (and are!) so important in film history. He explains how some scenes made such an impression on him, and he puts himself in the role of the director: why did the director choose this approach and how does it affect our experience of the film? This Master Class will be in English. Martin Koolhoven: “With more than $10 billion in box office receipts, Steven Spielberg is the most successful director of all time. However, there is also a lot to be said about this filmmaker artistically. Anyway, in my early teens he was a star in a way that usually only actors are. As with Hitchcock and later Tarantino, a new movie of his was: “the new Spielberg,” no matter who else was in it. This played an important role in my process of understanding how movies were made. I will talk more about that this evening by going through and discussing my favorite Spielberg movies and scenes. From the period when I discovered Spielberg comes Poltergeist, the movie he officially only produced, but where everything shows that his influence went much further than normal fora producer. Anyone who sees the movie will think more of Spielberg than of the other work of director To be Hooper. Why this is, I will explain in the introduction. Poltergeist is in everything a typical Spielberg movie, with a dead-normal family getting into a special (and scary)situation.
Fee: ANG 27, 50. Tickets available on March 30th at The Movies Otrobanda and online.
THU 11 APR 18:30 THE MOVIES OTROBANDA 1
WORKSHOP STORYTELLING MARTIN KOOLHOVEN
Storytelling is a popular word, but what does it really mean? Storytelling is about how you communicate a message. When you tell a message as a story, people remember it. But how do I tell a story? What exactly is a story? What does a story need to satisfy? In short, when is a story a story? These seem like simple questions, but do you know the answer? Should there be drama, plot, emotion? And why is it important to have these kinds of ingredients if you want to get a message across? For example, within the organization in which you work, or to customers.
In Storytelling, Martin Koolhoven explains, partly by means of movie clips, which characteristics a story has to fulfill in order to leave a lasting impression. Every task, project or organization needs a story. For employees, customers or the public. Storytelling is crucial in any business process. For organizations that want to make their communication more effective.
Fee: ANG 18, 50. Tickets available on March 30th at The Movies Otrobanda and online.
Kids’ only workshop – Sunday April 14
Kids turn into artists working with crafts including light and shadow/optical illusions, storytelling, puppet-making, creating mini movie scenes. Recommended for kids aged 6-12 in Papiamento & Dutch. Presented by Stichting Kindermuseum Curaçao. Sign up needed via this link.
Fee: ANG 25 (including material). Sign up needed, pay at the door.
SUN 14 APR 10:00 – 13.00 • RENAISSANCE BALLROOM
Best of Fest
Sunday is your chance to catch up. The most popular films of the festival return one more time for you to enjoy. Titles will be announced on our CIFF’swebsite, social media, and at the Central Box Office of The Movies Otrobanda
Fee: ANG 18.50. Tickets available on March 30th at The Movies Otrobanda and online
SUN 14 APR 18:00 • THE MOVIES OTROBANDA
