In 2012, Morgan KNIBBE (1989, Netherlands) graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy with his short experimental film A Twist in the Fabric of Space. This critical film on overcommunication received immediate recognition from the Dutch film industry. In 2014, he made Shipwreck and Those Who Feel the Fire Burning. Both focus on the European refugee crisis in the Mediterranean area. Shipwreck won the Silver Leopard in Locarno.

Morgan Knibbe

Dutch documentary maker witnesses the disaster with a ship full of refugees off the coast of Lampedusa. Surrounded by journalists he seeks his own means of filming.

IFFR 2015

Shipwreck, 

As Long As It Takes: Short

Shipwreck

A disturbing documentary concerning the soldiers present at ground zero during the American nuclear trials in the 1950s.

IFFR 2018

Voices

Atomic Soldiers, The

Voices Short

The Atomic Soldiers

David Verbeek

In the maze of streets, parking lots and alleyways in Taipei, an eight-year-old girl enjoys herself late one evening with her kite. A photographer takes a picture of her. When he gets back home, it makes him think. Moving, beautifully filmed meditation about alienation, loneliness and the bond between photographer and subject.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Morgan Knibbe

Filmography

Morgan Knibbe at IFFR

Shipwreck

The Atomic Soldiers

An Impossibly Small Object