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If you don’t think films completed from conception to end in a weekend are worth watching, then don’t read this.
“Le lait, le lait,” the words haunted me after viewing the 19 short movies; all fruit of the 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) held recently in Amsterdam, and soon to be held again in Utrecht. 
Nineteen teams worked over the weekend of 25-27 May to complete short films (4-7 minutes long) of a selected genre ranging from comedy to horror. All of the teams had to include the phrase ‘Water bij de wijn doen’ (to compromise, back out, moderate) in their script somewhere. Le lait, le lait: where will they find it?
The resulting shorts were then premiered at Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam the following week, after which the audience and a panel of judges voted for their favourite films.
'Le lait, le lait', about two aliens grounded on earth, in search of milk to fuel their spacecraft’s ascent back into the galaxy, may not have won the ‘Best Film’ award but had the audience giggling the whole way through, and walked off with the Audience Choice award along with the short 'Baxt'.
Baxt: facin' up to it.
Other award-winning films, all of which you can view on YouTube, include the 'Best Film' award winner, enigmatic film 'Room 303' and 'Jammer man' – in the Superhero category. The 'hero' in this case was seen by some viewers as a kind of ‘stalker’ with superpowers, who could perhaps have prevented the murder of Theo van Gogh. 
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