Aimie Willemse

Directing

Aimie Willemse

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Since graduating from Visual Communication and Media Design from Abertay in 2011, Aimie Willemse has written and directed several short films across Scotland throughout her filmmaking career. Since moving to Glasgow, Aimie has been constantly challenging herself; creating new and compelling stories that will transport her audiences to new worlds through clear vision and collaboration. Her most recent short films “The Distances Between” and “Control” are perfect examples of how she experiments in different genres; one is a dialogue heavy and character driven piece while the other focuses on combining mesmerising choreography and silent narrative together. These shorts are seemingly polar oppo…

Known for

Behind the camera

Unravelling poster
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Fiona tries to care for her chronically ill grandmother Maeve as she struggles to retain her autonomy. As her invisible illness begins to physically manifest into a malignant entity, Fiona is forced to confront her worse fears.

Unravelling

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Control poster
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Locked in a dance of mesmerising mimicry, a prisoner has to fight against her captor’s mysterious powers of possession in order to save her life.

Control

2016

Control poster
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Locked in a dance of mesmerising mimicry, a prisoner has to fight against her captor’s mysterious powers of possession in order to save her life.

Control

2016

Control poster
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Locked in a dance of mesmerising mimicry, a prisoner has to fight against her captor’s mysterious powers of possession in order to save her life.

Control

2016

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A girl exploring an abandoned tunnel alone, hears someone…or something else in the dark with her. This film is part of Depict, Watershed’s international short film online competition challenging filmmakers to create 90 second ultra-short masterpieces. The focus is on uncovering emerging international filmmaking talent, which shows originality, imagination and the ability to engage in just a minute and a half.

Echo

2019

Goes Without Saying poster
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An anxious girl is agonizing over writing the perfect text when her nagging inner voice decides to get involved and pays her a visit.

Goes Without Saying

2017

Goes Without Saying poster
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An anxious girl is agonizing over writing the perfect text when her nagging inner voice decides to get involved and pays her a visit.

Goes Without Saying

2017

Goes Without Saying poster
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An anxious girl is agonizing over writing the perfect text when her nagging inner voice decides to get involved and pays her a visit.

Goes Without Saying

2017

All the Reasons Behind a Kiss poster
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A theater student presents her new play about LGBT characters in a zombie apocalypse and is criticized for wanting to be inclusive, yet she has a personal reason for being inclusive.

All the Reasons Behind a Kiss

2019

Through Your Eyes poster
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A young lady working at a home call centre receives a call from a man asking her about the weather outside.

Through Your Eyes

2019

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Left alone with her estranged grandmother, a perceptive nine-year-old sees her become something monstrous, navigating a night of fear, confusion, and the thin line between love and survival

Sundowning

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