Pluk de nacht
Pluk de Nacht (pronounced [ˌplʏɡ də ˈnɑxt]) is an Open Air Film Festival based in Amsterdam. Every summer the Open Air Film Festival Amsterdam presents a selection of unreleased independent arthouse cinema, documentary, animation and shorts, attracting both film enthusiasts and professionals. Films are projected in the open air on a beautiful old harbour location in the centre of Amsterdam. Admission to all festival activities and screenings is free. The Open Air Film Festival Amsterdam was founded in 2003 by a group of young film professionals. Dissatisfied by seeing wonderful works of cinematic art not being picked up by Dutch distributors and cinemas, they started a film festival aimed at finding new audiences for these films. = The first edition of the festival started on Friday the 15th of August. During eight days the following films were screened: A Cold Summer (Paul Middleditch) Verboden te Zuchten (Alex Stockman) Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean) Plus-minus Null (Eoin Moore) Durval Discos (Anna Muylaert) = The second edition took place from 5 till the 29th of August 2004. The following films were screened: Dandelion (Mark Milgard) Aaltra (Benoît Delépine) Cinemania (Angela Christlieb) Time Code (Mike Figgis) Four Shades of Brown (Tomas Alfredson) Prey for Rock & Roll (Alex Steyermark) Böse Zellen (Barbara Albert) Struggle (Ruth Mader) Lift (Marc Isaacs) = The third edition of the festival started on 25 August 2005. During 11 days the following films were screened: Waar is mijn jas? / nou, dat was het dan (Dick Rijneke) Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows) Last life in the universe (Pen-ek Ratanaruang) Ronda Nocturna (Edgardo Cozarinsky) Fred (Wilbert Bank) Die souvenirs des herrn X (Arash T. Riahi) Midwinter's Night Dream (Goran Paskaljevic) Official website