Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival 2024 - Network Round Features

1. The Model Maker - Constant Willems
Director/Writer: John Post
Writer: Jeroen Post
Producer: PMP - Post Media Producties
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Synopsis: n December 2017, Model maker Constant Willems embarked on a captivating mission-to recreate Zutphen as it stood in 1485. The overarching goal is ambitious: to recreate not just the old city but also the Nieuwstad, the Spittaalstad, and a segment of the surrounding environment, all meticulously scaled down to 1:500. To bring Zutphen from 1485 to life in miniature form, Constant engages in extensive research, collaborating closely with city archaeologist Michel Groothedde and building historian Jeroen Krijnen.

3. Bespoke ART
Director/Writer/Producer:Jingjing Chen
Writers: MM,
Producer: Feiyu Li
Country of Origin: China
Synopsis: When bespoke becomes a label for optimized service, the human race is no longer content with customizing things; it begins to customize humans. One by one, the perfect service, the perfect children, the intricate global fertility chains, and the women therein fade out from the documentary footage, while director Jingjing steps into the spotlight from behind the camera. She becomes a Thai surrogate in captivity, but also a surrogacy agent who achieved upward social mobility; she turns into a selfless and hypocritical American surrogate mother – a product of technology born through surrogacy herself; she even tries to play an elite black lesbian at the very top of the feminist chain of contempt, only to collapse in on herself.