Video Catalogue - Nederlands Film Festival

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Video Catalogue
2008
COLOPHON
The Holland Film Meeting 2008 is supported by:
The MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Dutch Film Fund, HGIS-Cultuurmiddelen
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Binger Filmlab
Erich Pommer Institut
EAVE
Holland Film
Kodak
MEDIA Desk Nederland
NPO/RNW Sales
Screen International
Variety
City of Utrecht
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Magyar Filmunió
Film Fund Rotterdam
Bord Scannán na hEireann/Irish Film Board
MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Flanders Audiovisual Fund
Film Fund Luxembourg
Swedish Film Institute
Fortissimo Films
Cinelink (Sarajevo Film Festival)
CoBoO Fund
Holland Subtitling
Holland Harbour Productions
NVF
NVS
Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten
Waterland Film & TV
Production
Jana Hardt, Coördinator Video Library
Fred de Haas, Benelux Screenings & Industry Office
Design
Nico Komen
Cover Design
POOL Worldwide
GENERAL INFORMATION
Welcome in the Video Library of the 2008 Holland Film Meeting.
The Video Library is the place to bring recent films from the Benelux to the attention
of buyers, commissioning editors, festival directors and sales agents. It presents a
variety of recent Benelux Film- and TV productions, Netherlands Film Festival- and
special programme selections, available for screening in one of the 20 screening
booths.
Every professional visitor receives a catalogue, which lists approximately 180 titles.
These titles include especially films that were selected for one of the 2008 Netherlands
Film Festival programs. The festival competition films are marked by the NFF logo in
the catalogue. Besides, we offer this year a great amount of student films. Most of the
available titles are English subtitled or English spoken.
By looking through the films of the catalogue, which can only be obtained from the
Video Library-desk in “De Boerderij” room, at the Karel V Hotel, you can decide which
films you would like to see.
Please write down your selection on the questionnaire available at the video-library
desk. (A maximum of three titles each time). After handing in this form and your
festival badge at the desk, you will be given the requested title(s). On returning the
title(s) you will get your badge back.
For the guests of the Holland Film Meeting, there is a computer available in the
Industry Office, the room next to the Video Library, with internet access.
The Video Library is open daily between 9 am and 9 pm
(Except on Saturday Sept. 27: it will close at 7:30 pm and on the closing day Monday
Oct. 1: it will close at 4 pm.)
Fred de Haas and Jana Hardt and their staff will be present during the Holland Film
Meeting to assist you.
We wish you an enjoyable and inspiring stay at the Video Library and hope that you
will find the films that you are looking for, and will be surprised by the professional
qualities of the available product.
Fred de Haas
Supervisor Video Library
Jana Hardt
Co-ordinator Video Library
Contents
Short Films
2
Feature Films
63
Short Documentaries
83
Feature Length Documentaries
130
Additional Titles
153
Index on title
175
Index on directors
181
Index on producers
188
Index on sales agents
193
Contents | 1
Short Films
5 Walks. Hercynia Silva
Video no. 313
Director: Anna Abrahams
The Netherlands 2008
Original language: English
English video available
Genre: Documentary
Length: 16'
In five short chapters - Army of Ghosts, Sacred
Tree, King of the Forest, Enchantment, Lost the cultural significance of one of the last
remaining sections of primeval forests in
Northern Europe is investigated. Black-andwhite images, relevant quotations and historical
photographs visualise the myths, fauna and
manifestations of this Hercynia Silva, as Julius
Caesar labelled the impenetrable primeval
forest - from the winding paths from ancient
times to the higways of today.
Production:
Rongwrong
Haarlemmer Houttuinen 287
1013 GM Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6260275
+31.20.6260275
[email protected]
www.rongwrong.net
Sales:
De Filmbank
Postbus 74782
1070 BT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6125184
[email protected]
www.filmbank.nl
Contact: Claartje Opdam
Short Films | 3
Adam
Video no. 359
Director: Sidney Vollmer
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
In a futuristically furnished room, a boy lives on
pills that are handed to him mechanically. His
only contact is a sterile computer that he has to
knock data in. The room has no windows or
doors. Is this a reflection of paradise? Then, the
boy becomes aware of himself and starts
looking for the exit. Will he manage to escape
his hermitage?
Production:
Dutch Courage Film
Nieuwe Koekoekstraat 18
3514 EE Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.6.51313127
[email protected]
www.dutchcouragefilm.com
Contact: Sidney Vollmer
Sales:
Same as Production
4 | Short Films
Ami
Friends
Video no. 512
Director: Dominique Bongers
Original language: no dialogue
Genre: Animation
Length: 3'
Black-and-white animation in which a fluffy
ball looks for a friend. The animals in the forest,
drawn in clear black lines, are all afraid of the
little fox. After various experiences, the animal
meets someone, after all.
Academy:
Academie voor Beeldende
Kunsten St. Joost
Postbus 90116
4800 RA Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5250302
+31.76.5250325
[email protected]
www.stjoost.nl
Contact: Dominique Bongers
[email protected]
Short Films | 5
The Attic
Video no. 564
Director: Jantien Borsboom
Genre: Animation
Length: 3'
Graphic animation in which a bluebottle
explores the attic of a house. A spider's web,
composed of firm white lines, causes the
necessary tension. While the fly tries to escape,
the spider closes in.
6 | Short Films
Academy:
Kunsten St. Joost
Postbus 90116
4800 RA Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5250302
+31.76.5250325
[email protected]
www.stjoost.nl
Contact: Jantien Borsboom
[email protected]
Big Buck Bunny
Video no. 593
Director: Sacha Goedegebure
Original language: Dutch
Genre: Animation
Length: 10'
One beautiful morning, a huge fat rabbit wakes
up in a natural, gorgeous environment. In high
spirits, he sniffs a bunch of flowers and
cheerfully plays with a butterfly. Until three
nasty rodents, with an evil squirrel as their
leader, start tormenting him, and none too
gently either. The rabbit is a soft character in
heart and soul, but if they want a fight, they can
have it!
Production:
Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57a
1018 AD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.707700
[email protected]
www.blender.org
Contact: Ton Roosendaal
[email protected]
www.bigbuckbunny.org
Short Films | 7
Bollywood Bijlmer
Video no. 704
Director: Melinda Jansen
Genre: Drama
Length: 35'
Marius kwam als minderjarige asielzoeker uit
een Afrikaans land naar Nederland en woont al
jaren bij een pleeggezin in Amsterdam
Zuidoost. Hij is verliefd op een Hindoestaans
meisje bij hem in de klas: Lakshmi. Hij heeft
dagdromen over haar, maar wordt anderzijds
gekweld door nachtmerries uit zijn kindertijd.
Op school heeft hij grote moeite met het geweld
en pesten. Zowel het pesten als de nachtmerries
escaleren, totdat hij zo over z'n toeren raakt dat
hij van school en huis wegloopt. Vinden hij en
het meisje elkaar? Bollywood Bijlmer sluit aan
bij de stijgende populariteit in Nederland van
de Hindi-film en de Indiase cultuur. In de film
wordt een dramatisch verhaal, doorspekt met
romantiek, afgewisseld met grootschalige
dansscènes. De film biedt een mix van de
droomwereld die zo eigen is aan Bollywood en
van de dagelijkse realiteit van het leven in een
grote- stadswijk in Nederland, met al zijn
culturen, levensstijlen en tegenstellingen.
www.stichtingjam.nl/bollywoodbijlmer
8 | Short Films
Production:
Stichting Jam
Amsteldijk 126
1078 RS Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6220183
www. stichtingjam.nl
Contact: Rob van Waaijen
[email protected]
Brand
Burn
Video no. 561
Director: Niels Bourgonje
Genre: Drama
Length: 19'
The deeply religious Agi is expelled by her
parish when her husband has taken his life.
When in the middle of the night a strange man
knocks on her door, we gradually learn more
about the facts surrounding his death.
Production:
Apples & Oranges
Vogelkersstraat 27
6523 KJ Nijmegen
Nederland
℡ +31.24.8485151
[email protected]
Contact: Janneke Bruinewoud
Sales:
Niels Bourgonje
Zanddwarsstraat 1
1011 HM Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4227214
[email protected]
www.nielsbourgonje.com
www.branddefilm.nl
Short Films | 9
Brat
Video no. 103
Director: Berend Boorsma, Roel Boorsma
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
Short film with sparse dialogue tells about an
illegal Polish seasonal worker. The boy works
on the land of a sullen farmer, who bosses him
around in bad English. Soon, he is allowed to
work with the forklift truck in the barn. At
night, moved, he listens to old telephone
messages from his brother. It seems that
previously the latter got the same 'promotion'.
It turns out that the seasonal worker has a
hidden agenda.
Production:
Fu Works
Postbus 37743
1030 BG Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3445160
+31.20.6353060
[email protected]
www.fuworks.nl
Contact: Sanne Veldhoven
[email protected]
Sales:
Same as Production
10 | Short Films
Coffee
Video no. 608
Director: Cigdem Türek
Genre: Experimental
Length: 4'
Short film brings together two worlds by means
of different objects. Spread out in a large white
space, we see photographs, clothes and also
coffee pass by.
Academy:
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5711600
+31.20.5711654
[email protected]
www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl
Contact: Cigdem Turek
[email protected]
Short Films | 11
Comburo
Video no. 380
Director: Cédric Debled
Genre: Animation
Length: 7'
To keep his family warm in their prehistoric
home, a man is forced to chop down the tree of
life. While nature turns against man, the family
tries to survive.
12 | Short Films
Academy:
Kunsten St. Joost
Postbus 90116
4800 RA Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5250302
+31.76.5250325
[email protected]
www.stjoost.nl
Contact: Cedric Debled
[email protected]
De onbaatzuchtigen
The Altruists
Video no. 707
Director: Koen Dejaegher
Belgium 2008
Genre: Drama
Length: 14'
In a world where people's happiness is based on
their right to freely sell and buy relatives, Franz
sells his brother and uses the money to buy
himself a girlfriend.
Academy:
RITS Erasmushogeschool
Brussel
Antoine Ansaertstraat 70
B-1000 Brussel
Belgium
℡ +32.2.5071411
+32.2.5071456
[email protected]
www.ehb.be
Contact: Koen Dejaegher
[email protected]
Short Films | 13
Deranged
Video no. 602
Director: Bogomir Doringer
Genre: Dance
Length: 3'
Black hair winds around a white, dancing body.
Andreas Kuck's choreography was shot in a
single take and produces an alienating effect.
The short film is part of an interactive
installation.
14 | Short Films
Academy:
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5711600
+31.20.5711654
[email protected]
www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl
Divine Intervention
Video no. 355
Director: Sandesh de Rijk
Genre: Drama
Length: 8'
A young woman enters a church, where she
starts praying out loud. A young poet comforts
her and tries to win her heart by means of
religious rituals. An elderly priest watches them
with a smile.
Academy:
National Film Television School
Station road
Beaconsfield 1018 RS
United Kingdom
[email protected]
Contact: Sandesh de Rijk
[email protected]
Short Films | 15
Don-E
Video no. 369
Director: Kevin Boitelle
Genre: Drama
Length: 20'
A group of friends decide to celebrate a party on
a campsite in the Netherlands as it is done in
Spanish seaside resorts. They arrange beautiful
girls, a DJ, beer and a foam cannon for a
thrilling night.
16 | Short Films
Production:
Opslaan Als
Ginkelstraat 7
5911 EP Venlo
Nederland
[email protected]
Contact: Emma Curvers
Drang
Urgence
Video no. 625
Director: Sacha Polak
Genre: Drama
Length: 27'
Jessie, a young girl, fills her life with a search
for love. Boyfriends come and go, but
meanwhile Jessie is more interested in her
neighbour and his pigeons. Personal moments
reveal her uncertainty.
Academy:
Nederlandse Film en Televisie
Academie (NFTA)
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5277333
+31.20.5277344
[email protected]
www.filmacademie.nl
Contact: Marlou Rutten
[email protected]
Short Films | 17
De ein fan `e wrâld
To the End of the Road
Video no. 304
Director: Mirjam de With
Original language: Dutch, Frisian
Genre: Drama
Length: 23'
When Jeffrey's father takes him to an unknown
aunt in Friesland, Jeffrey has to get used to his
new environment, where he does not
understand anybody. The other campers all
have their individual stories.
18 | Short Films
Academy:
Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussel
Paleizenstraat 70
1190 Vorst
Belgium
℡ +32.2.222501100
[email protected]
Contact: Mirjam de With
[email protected]
Het elixer
The Elixir
Video no. 96
Director: Wilfred Ottenheijm
Genre: Animation
Length: 6'
For the first time, author Mark Retera's popular
comic hero Dirkjan has been given a voice.
From now on, his characteristic small head, pot
belly and big shoes are accompanied by a fairly
high-pitched voice with a soft g. In the
beginning of this short animation, the
unfortunate Dirkjan walks through the desert.
In flashback, we learn why he ended up in the
foreign legion. A story about love, a beautiful
woman and an obtrusive colleague.
Production:
Mooves
Retiefstraat 75A
1092 VZ Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.24.3608037
+31.24.3244167
[email protected]
www.mooves.nl
Contact: Jantiene de Kroon
[email protected]
Sales:
SND Films
Postbus 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4040707
+31.20.4040708
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
www.dirkjandefilm.nl
Short Films | 19
Exploded View
Video no. 379
Director: Annette Apon
Genre: Experimental
Length: 7'
The High Speed camera films thousand frames
per second, forty times faster than normal.
Played at standard speed, we see the
movements slowed down forty times. As her
first subject of study, director Annette Apon
filmed a service by tennis player Philippe
Niewerth. This typically lasts for about six
seconds; slowed down and repeated, from
different camera angles, it turns into a sevenminute film.
20 | Short Films
Production:
Van der Hoop Filmproducties
Van der Hoopstraat 80 HS
1051 VK Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6829982
+31.20.6881434
[email protected]
www.vanderhoopfilm.nl
Contact: Leen van den Berg
FAL
Video no. 530
Director: Hans van Nuffel
Belgium 2007
Original language: Flemish
Genre: Drama
Length: 13'
A Congolese man delivers a Porsche for the
deceased father of a rich Flemish kid. The
meeting ends in a fierce confrontation, marked
by weapons, and one in particular: the FAL.
Both men's lives are connected with guns, but
they have completely different implications for
them.
Production:
CAVIAR
Havenlaan 75
10oo Brussel
Belgium
℡ +32.2.423 23 00
[email protected]
www.caviar.be
Contact: Hans Van Nuffel
Short Films | 21
FF Praten
Video no. 567
Director: Kay Schuttel
Genre: Experimental
Length: 6'
When the texts of chat sessions are said out
loud by adolescents at a kitchen table, it is clear
that an online chat is something else than a
dialogue. Pronouncing all the emoticons
produces an alienating effect.
22 | Short Films
Academy:
Koninklijke Academie van
Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag
Prinsessegracht 4
2514 AN Den Haag
Nederland
℡ +31.70.3455810
+31.70.3561165
[email protected]
www.kabk.nl
Contact: Kay Schuttel
[email protected]
Filmstreet
Video no. 709
Director: Pedram Rahmany
Genre: Experimental
Length: 25'
It is about the behavior specific for youth
between 16 and 25 years old, coming as a
reaction to certain social events, Filmstreet
aims at creating a stimulating mix of fiction and
reality (the thematic scenes) and reality (the
reactions of bystanders).
What is so exciting and stimulating for the
viewer is the fact that the film is about
"actual behavior" -- they react
autentically.
Production:
Pedram Rahmany
Middelweg 203
8021CM Zwolle
Nederland
℡ +31.38.7074108
[email protected]
www.filmstreet.nl
Contact: Pedram Rahmany
www.filmstreet.nl
Short Films | 23
Finale
Final
Video no. 234
Director: Patrick Minks
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
A man walks into an empty snooker club, orders
a beer from the woman behind the bar and goes
to the toilet. In the subsequent dream scene, the
man is smartly dressed for a final. The
bartender, wearing a cocktail dress, stands by
him in this exciting moment before the vital
snooker game. Back in the empty club, the
player puts down the balls. A little later, he is
again the finalist, with the woman by his side.
He has lost, but does not give up.
Production:
Timecut Films
Zeeburgerpad 53
1019 AB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.16328580
[email protected]
Contact: Patrick Minks
Sales:
Same as Production
24 | Short Films
Flessenpost
Message in a Bottle
Video no. 710
Director: Ron Wanders
Genre: Animation
Length: 6'
A simple story about getting a boat in a bottle
with a couple of strange and dreamy plottwists
Production:
CABK ArtEZ Academie Zwolle
Postbus 1020
8001 BA Zwolle
Nederland
℡ +31.38.4270500
+31.38.4270565
[email protected]
www.cabk.nl
Contact: Ron Wanders
[email protected]
Short Films | 25
Gaandeweg
Away
Video no. 632
Director: Margot Schaap
Genre: Drama
Length: 23'
In short film a girl packs her stuff to move into
lodgings. Meanwhile, she looks around at her
younger brothers and sisters. While observing
them, Sophie bids farewell to her familiar life.
26 | Short Films
Academy:
Academie (NFTA)
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5277333
+31.20.5277344
[email protected]
www.filmacademie.nl
Contact: Tom van Hezik
[email protected]
Getijden
Tides
Video no. 60
Director: Karel Doing
Genre: Experimental
Length: 13'
A portrait of the seasons in eight parts, each
consisting of a compilation of associative
images, accompanied by different sound and
music scores. Nature is presented in sometimes
alienating shapes, in which people play an
extraordinary role. The eight parts vary in
colour, structure, picture quality, editing and
atmosphere, but together make up an eternal
cycle.
Production:
Doing Film
Walenburgerweg 90a
3033 AH Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.4654481
+31.10.4654481
[email protected]
www.luna.doing.nl
Sales:
De Filmbank
Postbus 74782
1070 BT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6125184
[email protected]
www.filmbank.nl
Short Films | 27
Grafiet
Graphite
Video no. 644
Director: Eva de Winkel
Genre: Animation
Length: 5'
Animation in which a woman on a field of grass
is drawing in her sketchbook. The drawn figures
seem to take over the animation and continue
drawing in an Escher-like style.
28 | Short Films
Academy:
Willem de Kooning Academie
Blaak 10
3011 TA Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.2414750
+31.10.2414766
[email protected]
www.wdka.nl
Contact: Eva de Winkel
[email protected]
Grandma's House
Video no. 344
Director: Arend Steenbergen
Genre: Drama
Length: 9'
English-spoken short film is a modern
adaptation of the story of Little Red Riding
Hood. A dreamy thirteen-year-old girl puts on
her red hoodie, hits the street and looks around
in amazement. In a car park, she meets a man.
When the girl arrives at her grandmother's
house, she does not find her, but she does find
the man from the park. Where is grandma? And
what happens to small girls when they grow up?
Production:
Mountain View Pictures
Ramon Hamilton
27567 Fantastic Lane
CA 91384 Castaic
USA
[email protected]
Sales:
Arend Steenbergen
De Wittenstraat 11A
1052 AJ Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6121899
[email protected]
Short Films | 29
Heartbeat
Video no. 67
Director: Edwin van Viegen
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
Grandfather Joost Prinsen taught his
granddaughter Senna from a young age to enjoy
everyday sounds: boats on the water, car horns,
clicking heels, drills, tinkling glasses. When he
has to spend his birthday in hospital, she puts
on her rollerskates and records a symphony of
urban sounds, so he can make a trip across
Rotterdam one more time.
30 | Short Films
Production:
bAMbOefilm
Lloydstraat 15C
30324 EA Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.7857703
[email protected]
www.bamboefilm.nl
Contact: Edwin van Viegen
Het is niet grappig, het is kunst
It's not Funny, It's Art
Video no. 399
Director: Job Roggeveen, Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins
Genre: Animation
Length: 2'
Short animated film about Blanca, who tries to
fathom art. When a painting makes her laugh
out loud, her father reprimands her: 'It is not
funny, it is Art', he says. Blanca feels it is quite
complicated. So when is something art? How do
you have to look at it? And is it allowed to touch
art, for example? When she fails to figure it out,
she decides to imitate museum visitors. With
great consequences.
Production:
Job, Joris & Marieke
Hooghiemstraplein 15
3514 AX Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.7854990
[email protected]
www.jobjorisenmarieke.nl
Contact: Marieke Blaauw
Short Films | 31
I Wish I Could Share the Happiness of Being Alone...
Video no. 178
Director: Aaron Rookus
Genre: Drama
Length: 19'
The life of an infatuated, autistic writer who
dreams of a career as a writer and of the girl
living across the street is told against various
backgrounds. Tristan is rendered differently
each time, while never leaving his room.
32 | Short Films
Academy:
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
Utrecht
Postbus 2471
1200 CL Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6836464
+31.35.6836480
Contact: Miga Bär
Jolanda 23
Video no. 63
Director: Pim Zwier
Genre: Documentary
Length: 10'
A black-and-white fur is carefully washed. The
cow moos softly. Now and then, we hear the
farmer's reassuring words. After the washing,
the animal is skilfully trimmed. Next, the spickand-span cow has to stand on a platform with
its front hoofs. It takes four grown-ups to do
this correctly. Even in the world of the cattle
farmer, a certain aesthetic ideal appears to be
desired.
Production:
Fictievevrijheid
Zeeburgerdijk 73-b
1094 AB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6938875
+31.20.6938875
[email protected]
Contact: Pim Zwier
[email protected]
Sales:
De Filmbank
Postbus 74782
1070 BT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6125184
[email protected]
www.filmbank.nl
Short Films | 33
Julia / Guiliana
Video no. 328
Director: Manon Bovenkerk
Genre: Animation
Length: 9'
Personal ode to the cinema of the 1960s and to
Monica Vitti, the Italian actress who broke
through in that era. She is represented in blackand-white
drawings.
Black-and-white
photographs show modernistic architecture.
Although the film is only composed of still
images, character and environment merge
miraculously owing to the moving film camera,
which alternately glides across the drawings
and photographs.
Production:
Impakt Works
[email protected]
Sales:
De Filmbank
Postbus 74782
1070 BT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6125184
[email protected]
www.filmbank.nl
34 | Short Films
July
Video no. 643
Director: Maarten Witte, Annebelle van Zweden
Genre: Drama
Length: 3'
Cheerful and colourful animated film in which
two figures walk in a flowery landscape to music
by Leaf.
Academy:
Blaak 10
3011 TA Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.2414750
+31.10.2414766
[email protected]
www.wdka.nl
Contact: Maarten Witte
[email protected]
Short Films | 35
Kubus
Video no. 647
Director: Laurens 't Jong
Original language: No dialogue
Genre: Animation
Length: 9'
A cube-shaped castle in the air floats across
space. A man lives on the cube in solitude, while
the elements scourge him. The moment he has
had enough, he realises he is not alone.
36 | Short Films
Academy:
Blaak 10
3011 TA Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.2414750
+31.10.2414766
[email protected]
www.wdka.nl
Contact: Laurens ’t Jong
[email protected]
De legende van Buchi Fil
The legend of Buchi Fil
Video no. 706
Director: German Gruber
Genre: Drama
Length: 21'
Curaçao, 1775. Buchi Fil the strongest slave of
Kenepa refuses to exchange his pride for the
approval of the owner. The right-hand of the
owner, Bomba Jendi, would like to break Buchi
Fil, but he is to strong. Until Bomba Jendi
discovers his weakness and than…
Academy:
Hogeschool v.d. Kunsten
Utrecht- Kunst, Media &
Technologie
Postbus 2471
1200 CL Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6836464
+31.35.6836480
[email protected]
Contact: Lilly de Haan
[email protected]
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The Lost Days of Claire Obscure
Video no. 642
Director: Charlotte van Otterloo
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
A writer frenetically tries to put her story on
paper. While the days fly by, she gets bogged
down in shreds of thoughts.
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Academy:
Blaak 10
3011 TA Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10. 2414750
+31.10. 2414766
[email protected]
www.wdka.nl
Contact: Charlotte van Otterloo
[email protected]
Mona. A Ghost Story
Video no. 467
Director: Terry O'Leary
Genre: Drama
Length: 8'
A young woman on the subway listens to a
conversation on her iPod between herself and
her boyfriend, Marc. Something is not right.
Have they split up? Her thoughts are with Marc
every second. At a sidewalk café, she spots him
with another girl. Why is he with her? Isn't she
his only and true love? Her emotions get to her.
Until Marc also gets on the tram and she will
meet him again. She smiles: Now is the time.
Production:
Mindset Producties
℡ +31.6.29516200
[email protected]
www.mindsetproducties.nl
Contact: Chung Dang
Short Films | 39
My Dear Grandma
Video no. 266
Director: Marta Abad Blay
Genre: Animation
Length: 5'
Grandma is having a rough time. She runs back
and forth as a drudge between a crying baby, his
mother who is on the phone (and wants
grandma to refill her coffee) and his father who
reads the paper (and continually needs a light).
Nobody says anything, but grandma is driven
up the wall by the sounds and dreams of a quiet
summer's day. In partly coloured black-andwhite drawings, this short animation shows the
essence of what psychologists call the 'grandmaas-a-slave-syndrome'.
Production:
Nederlands Instituut voor
Animatiefilm
Postbus 9358
5000 HJ Tilburg
Nederland
℡ +31.13.5324070
+31.13.5800057
[email protected]
www.niaf.nl
Contact: Ursula van den Heuvel
[email protected]
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
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Narozeniny
The Birthday
Video no. 719
Director: Vladimir Murtin
Genre: Drama
Length: 15'
Production:
TRIGA
Contact: Vladimir Murtin
[email protected]
An old lady is alone in her house and she
doesn’t want to open the door for anybody. It is
a birthday and she is preparing the feast.
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Overgave
Dispossession
Video no. 624
Director: Joanna Wesseling
Genre: Documentary
Length: 22'
Documentary about six nuns who quietly live
together in the country. Their austere life is
presented in a peaceful portrait. We see the
nuns in their daily rituals and activities.
Academy:
Academie (NFTA)
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5277333
+31.20.5277344
[email protected]
www.filmacademie.nl
Contact: Danial Aiss
[email protected]
Sales:
Companyfilms
Schoolstraat 7
2511 AW Den Haag
Nederland
℡ +31.6.24528447
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Overleven
Surviving
Video no. 723
Director: Heinrich Dahms
Genre: Drama
Length: 52'
Luna(16)lives with her mother and 6yr old
brother,Bas,in a dreary housing estate.
When Luna stands up for herself against teen
gang member, Laura, she becomes the victim of
the gang’s persecution. The gang leaders exploit
the situation and she is forced to give in to their
demands. Feeling unloved and abandoned,
Luna finds the strength to survive and discovers
love in a surprising place.
Production:
BuzzMedia Network
Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 44
1221 AH Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.7725225
[email protected]
www.buzzmedia.net
Contact: Michele Aime
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Phantom of the Cinema
Video no. 451
Director: Erik van Schaaik
Genre: Animation
Length: 11'
The film “Phantom of the Cinema” keeps
getting stuck. While the operator tries to restart
it, the audience notices, through the screen, the
silhouettes of the unsuspecting employees. They
see a romance between the operator and the
lavatory attendant and the manager's indelicate
hobby. This shadow play on the flat plane
contrasts with the other computer-animated
images, which have depth and shadows.
Production:
il Luster Producties
Herenweg 45
3513 CB Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.2400768
+31.30.2400768
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
Contact: Chris Mouw
Sales:
Same as Production
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Point Off U
Video no. 544
Director: Steven Janssens
Belgium 2007
Genre: Drama
Length: 13'
The point of view of a man living in a Flemish
city is what this short film is about. From a
concealed position in his grubby room, he
observes the hard life as it passes before him in
front of his house. Street kids picking a quarrel
with passers-by, a squabbling couple - every
character is marked by indifference in this raw
and cynical film.
Production:
vonLondonn Group
Herdersstraat8 bus 4
9100 Sint-Niklaas
Belgium
℡ +32.48.6165271
Contact: Steven Janssens
Thefilmer17@gmail .com
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Pony Express
Video no. 724
Director: Lieven van Droogenbroeck
Belgium 2007
Genre: Drama
Length: 23'
Gewend aan een luizenleventje als rentenier
wordt Felix (54) door zijn vriendin Clara
uitgestuurd om zijn beide volwassen kinderen,
Andrea en Diego, een niet nader gespecifieerde
boodschap over te brengen. Deze opdracht
bevalt hem allerminst en met zichtbare tegenzin
begeeft hij zich op weg.
Aangekomen bij de woonst van zijn dochter
Andrea, blijkt deze afwezig en wordt Felix door
zijn schoonzoon Michel en zijn kleinzoon
Timon ontvangen. De omgang met dit tweetal
verloopt moeizaam en Felix versjteert de boel
door al spelend met zijn kleinzoon een kadertje
te breken. Wanneer Michel zijn zoon hierom
berispt, slaagt Felix er tot Timons ontzetting
niet in om de schuld op zich te nemen.
Het bezoek gaat finaal de mist in wanneer Felix
tijdens het gesprek met zijn dochter de moed
ontbeert om haar de reden van zijn bezoek op te
biechten. Geërgerd door de prietpraat en de
misplaatste opmerkingen die deze opdist, wijst
Andrea Felix terecht en houdt het gesprek voor
bekeken.
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Production:
Cinnamon
Lucas Munichstraat 10
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
℡ +32.90.2352420
+32.9.3837320
[email protected]
http://www.cinnamonentertainment.be
Contact: Leen Derveaux
Rif
Reef
Video no. 446
Director: Eric Steegstra
Genre: Drama
Length: 12'
For his third short puppet film, Eric Steegstra
created a mesmerising underwater world full of
translucent
deep-sea
creatures
and
multicoloured surprises. Two frogmen come
across a small green fish, which keeps evading
his attackers, and various marine animals, from
jellyfish to manta rays. In this colourful
underwater world, the light, sound and depth of
field are inspired by deep-sea footage.
Production:
John Croezen Cartoon
Meeuwerderweg 37A
9724 EM Groningen
Nederland
℡ +31.50.3184487
+31.50.5257072
www.johncroezen.nl
Contact: John Croezen
[email protected]
www.freemwerk/rif
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Ruwe Honing
Raw Honey
Video no. 112
Director: Annick Vroom
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
A tense father and mother prepare a visit to
their son, whose birthday it is. The father is sent
out to find a gift. When he comes home, his wife
points out that he has chosen something
inappropriate. That would only scare their son.
They will have to bring something else. Their
teenage daughter decides to stay home. It is
soon clear that things are not going smoothly
with the son and this family.
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Production:
Armadillo Film
Postbus 51056
1007 EB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4715215
+31.84.8333438
[email protected]
www.armadillofilm.nl
Contact: André Bos
Sarah Ann
Video no. 73
Director: Pim Zwier
Genre: Experimental
Length: 10'
On 8 May 1885, a 22-year-old woman jumped
from the very tall Clifton Suspension Bridge
near Brighton. Her suicide attempt failed
because the wind got a hold of her clothes and
she landed in the relatively soft mud beside the
water. She promptly became a living legend.
The filmmaker unfolds this story with the help
of historical newspaper articles that are read
out, thus accompanying black-and-white
images of the bridge in question.
Production:
Fictievevrijheid
Zeeburgerdijk 73-b
1094 AB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6938875
+31.20.6938875
[email protected]
Contact: Pim Zwier
Sales:
De Filmbank
Postbus 74782
1070 BT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6125184
[email protected]
www.filmbank.nl
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De tijd
Video no. 329
Director: Bart Vegter
Genre: Experimental
Length: 10'
In this experimental short film - a Fourier
Transformation in 3D - artist Bart Vegter makes
forms change. Diagonals in black-and-white
fade, via accentuated triangles, into a play of
multi-coloured conical shapes and dead straight
lines, which lighten, disappear and emerge
again from a dark background, until at the end
the base remains.
Production:
Stichting Picos de Europa
Lloydstraat 17 g
3024 EA Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.4256558
+31.10.4253933
[email protected]
Sales:
De Filmbank
Postbus 74782
1070 BT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6125184
[email protected]
www.filmbank.nl
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Together Again
Video no. 95
Director: Martijn Veldhoen
Genre: Experimental
Length: 10'
Wordless circular story about a man who loses
his lover. In his dark room, surrounded by a
chaotic collection of photographs and clippings,
he tries to come to grips with what has
happened. As in a dream, a series of
associations makes him relive the meeting, the
relationship and the separation, while
fragments from the past repeatedly come
dashing into the present.
Production:
Dutch Mountain Movies BV
Van Hallstraat 52
1051 HH Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6881843
+31.20.6863574
[email protected]
www.dutchmountainmovies.com
Contact: René Huybrechtse
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Traces
Video no. 192
Director: Sandesh de Rijk
United Kingdom 2008
Genre: Drama
Length: 20'
A cold winter on the English coast is the
backdrop of a short film in which a woman tries
to get over a lover's death. She is observed by a
photographer, who approaches her.
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Academy:
Station road
Beaconsfield 1018 RS
United Kingdom
[email protected]
Contact: Sandesh de Rijk
[email protected]
Two Ambassadors
Video no. 102
Director: Peter Sterk, Fedor van Rossem
Original language: Dutch, French, English
Genre: Documentary
Length: 30'
Production:
Extra Strong Productions
Lange Lauwerstraat 3
Peter and Fedor are two program makers on
3512VG Utrecht
their return. They go to Africa to make a clip for
Nederland
Oxfam novib. The subject is fair trade. One off
Contact: Peter Sterk
the millennium goals. Full off prejudices and
[email protected]
reluctantly they travel to Tanzania. When
they’re there things go wrong immediately,
Fedor loses his suitcase and the rental car is not
totally full off petrol. Armed with a small
camera, some balloons and pens they hike into
the hills looking for sad faces. While their
fantasy goes wild they life with the poor family
off Doto. They get to know the people and total
integration seems inevitable. In the mean time
Peter and Fedor are blinded by greed. Fedor
starts selling Oxfam balloons on a local market
while Peter is sponsoring child labour for his
own benefits. Because they can’t stand each
other they ruin their own businesses. When
eventually their car seems to be stolen they’ve
had enough. Hitchhiking and without any good
clip they travel homewards.
Sales:
Same as Production
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Uitzicht
Sight
Video no. 636
Director: Rogier Hesp
Genre: Drama
Length: 22'
Sam has all but abandoned her life as a
professional swimmer following her boyfriend's
car accident. He lies in a coma, without any
chance of recovery. The hope Sam cherishes
hampers her future life.
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Academy:
Academie (NFTA)
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5277333
+31.20.5277344
[email protected]
www.filmacademie.nl
Contact: Charlotte Scott-Wilson
[email protected]
Vera
Video no. 109
Director: Thomas Korthals Altes
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
Elegant, short film introduces the lonely,
contact-craving museum attendant Vera. One
cold winter night, after another day of silently
watching visitors in the museum, she finds a
sleeping drifter in her doorway. She decides to
take pity on him. First, she gives him a blanket
and a thermos of tea; not much later the key to
her house. Using chocolate as her main means
of
communication,
she
unchains
an
extraordinary dialogue.
Production:
Nijenhuis & de Levita Film en
TV BV
Emmalaan 21
1075 AT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5747626
+31.20.5747627
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
Contact: Mariska Verheijen
Sales:
Same as Production
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Vier Ogen
Four Eyes
Video no. 458
Director: Feike Santbergen
Genre: Drama
Length: 11'
Steven hides with his sister in the woods behind
the parental home to spend a few last moments
together before they have to go. Soft and
dreamy images show their final moments, until
it becomes clear what Steven has to bid farewell
to.
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Academy:
Technologie
Postbus 2471
1200 CL Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6836464
+31.35.6836480
[email protected]
Waterstand
Tide
Video no. 621
Director: Dries Meinema
Genre: Drama
Length: 24'
In the village Roel comes from nothing seems to
have changed when he returns there. All of his
friends still live there. But has Roel changed or
have he and his friends drifted apart?
Academy:
Academie (NFTA)
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5277333
+31.20.5277344
[email protected]
www.filmacademie.nl
Contact: Dries Meinema
[email protected]
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Whiplashed
Video no. 459
Director: Arnoud Rijken
Genre: Animation
Length: 6'
Animated film incorporates real film excerpts
with identifiable actors, which have been
processed and coloured with a computer. At
night, a man is in a car that has crashed into a
tree. A woman is stooped forward across the
wheel, bleeding. He cannot recall what has
happened. In the ambulance and later in
hospital, his memory comes back in fragments,
punctuated by light flashes of headlights,
hallways and lightning.
Production:
Herenweg 45
3513 CB Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.2400768
+31.30.2400768
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
Contact: Chris Mouw
Sales:
NPO/RNTV
Postbus 222
1200 JG Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6724268
+31.35.6724486
[email protected]
www.rntv.nl
Contact: Aad van Ierland
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Woman
Video no. 68
Director: Kim Engelen
Original language: Dutch, French
Genre: Drama
Length: 7'
What does woman want? What does woman
feel? What moves woman? Three random
moments with three women at three different
life stages looking for the answer, presented in
suggestive imagery. We see a woman in a
dredging dock, a woman on a chair in a hangar
and a woman in bed and taking a bath. An
uncompromising craving for love unites them.
There is not a man in sight; his absence is
tangible.
Production:
Arizona Films
Voorhaven 10
3024 RM Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.4772720
[email protected]
www.arizonafilms.nl
Contact: Caty Palmen
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Zand
Sand
Video no. 303
Director: Joost van Ginkel
Genre: Drama
Length: 21'
Truck driver Luuk transports sand in a huge
lorry. With his massive truck, he drives through
a residential street to pick up his daughter who
lives with his ex-wife. She can ride with him and
help him load and unload the sand. And they
dance in the sand together. But where did she
get those bruises? When Luuk takes her back,
he gives her a cell phone. So she can call him.
Production:
Stichting Zand
Dorpsstraat 47
3732 HH De Bit
Nederlands
Contact: Helen Zwaan
Sales:
SND Films
Postbus 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4040707
+31.20.4040708
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
Contact: Sidney Neter
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Zen
Video no. 396
Director: Julius Dettmer
Genre: Animation
Length: 2'
Tautly drawn animation in which a monk enters
a garden with a rake. To stirring music, he rakes
the pebble-filled garden into simplistic
patterns. Content, he observes that he has made
a lot of progress and has completely calmed
down.
Academy:
Kunsten St. Joost
Postbus 90116
4800 RA Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5250302
+31.76.5250325
[email protected]
www.stjoost.nl
Contact: Julius Dettmer
Julius [email protected]
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Zo zwart als inkt
Black as Ink
Video no. 243
Director: Willemiek Kluijfhout, Marloes Albers
Genre: Animation
Length: 4'
'Why don't you write a story?', Muis asks. 'It
doesn't really take a whole lot: a couple of
sheets of paper, a pen, an inkpot and some
other things. And the girl draws tables, lamps,
nails, mice and 1001 other things. And then she
turns it into a story. In the end, night falls and
makes everything as black as ink.' Thus, this
animated fairytale about a small innocent girl
ends as it began.
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Production:
Stichting Trueworks
Domselaerstraat 32
1093 MA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6185266
[email protected]
www.true-works.nl
Contact: Reinette van de Stadt
[email protected]
Feature Films
Alibi
Video no. 7
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Genre: Drama
Length: 85'
Lying is Youssef's second nature and Rick,
manager of an agency dealing in alibis, instantly
recognises this gift. Using the most cunning
tricks and a huge arsenal of clothes and
accessories, Rick and his associates enable
adulterers and other sly dogs to do whatever
they please, undisturbed. It all seems one big
game and Youssef feels like a fish in water.
Until he falls in love with waitress Andrea, who
hates liars. When he also has to help Rick in his
adultery, it becomes too personal for him and
things get out of hand. After a fierce fight
between him and his boss, the two are arrested.
This is where this romantic comedy, set against
sunny Amsterdam, begins. Youssef describes
everything
that
preceded
during
his
interrogation. Director Johan Nijenhuis has
chosen an unreliable narrator. And even though
the police officers that listen to Youssef's story
do not believe the first thing about it, they cling
to every word.
www.alibifilm.nl
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Production:
Nijenhuis & de Levita Film en
TV BV
Emmalaan 21
1075 AT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5747626
+31.20.5747627
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
Contact: Mariska Verheijen
Alles is liefde
Love Is All
Video no. 5
Director: Joram Lürsen
Genre: Drama
Length: 120'
'Love is like St. Nicholas. You have to believe in
it. Otherwise, it will come to nothing.' Romantic
comedy with a host of Dutch stars interweaves
different storylines about (lack of) love, against
the background of Amsterdam in the St.
Nicholas period. The saintly man is preparing
for his entry, but suddenly dies. His mysterious,
last-minute replacement does not behave like a
normal St. Nicholas, which causes a lot of
mayhem among the inhabitants of downtown
Amsterdam. From crown prince Valentijn to
shopping mall assistant Kiki, from pool
attendant Victor to divorced mother Klaasje,
but also their children, parents and other
relatives: everybody learns something about
themselves in this unusual St. Nicholas week
and gets caught up in the (im)possibilities of
love. Director Joram Lürsen brings all
vicissitudes to a happy conclusion with an
accurate eye for timing, without forgetting that
love often has a melancholic edge.
Production:
IDTV Film
Postbus 37782
1030 BJ Amsterdam Zuidoost
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3143322
+31.20.3143300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
Contact: Lennie van Scheppingen
Sales:
Same as Production
www.allesisliefde.nl
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Blind Date
Video no. 213
Director: Stanley Tucci
USA 2008
Genre: Drama
Length: 83'
The second of three American remakes of films
by deceased Dutch director Theo van Gogh,
following “Interview” in 2007 (directed by Steve
Buscemi) and preceding “1-900” (director John
Turturro). In “Blind Date”, a clumsy magician
and his wife repeatedly pretend they have a
blind date with each other to revive their
relationship. Using personal ads, which act as
punctuation between the various scenes, they
choose different roles. They always meet in the
conjurer's theatre, where their awkward
conversations soon go off the rails. They do not
know how to cope with the loss of their
daughter, who was killed in an accident and
now comments on the events in the voice-over.
Patricia Clarkson plays the role that was
originally performed by Renée Fokker; director
Stanley Tucci plays the male lead, which in the
original version was played by Peer Mascini who has a supporting role here, beside people
like Georgina Verbaan and Thijs Römer.
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Production:
Column Film
Warmoesstraat 149-151
1012 JC Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5722700
+31.20.5722701
[email protected]
www.columnfilm.com
Contact: Gijs van de Westelaken
Sales:
Cinemavault Releasing
International Inc.
175 Bloor street East, South
Tower, Suite 1011
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3R8
Canada
℡ +1.416.3636060
+1.416.3632305
[email protected]
www.cinemavault.com
Contact: Ruby Rondina
Bloedbroeders
Blood Brothers
Video no. 14
Director: Arno Dierickx
Genre: Drama
Length: 95'
The plot of this equable thriller is based on true
events. The hot summer of 1960 is rather
uneventful for the two bored rich man's sons
Arnout and Victor, until they, along with their
docile classmate Simon, decide to give shelter to
petty thief Ronnie in the attic of their father's
capital villa. Initially, the schoolboys consider
hiding Ronnie a nice pastime, but as summer
progresses, the boy becomes an ever greater
nuisance and a millstone around their necks.
What is more, their father tells them the family
is going on a holiday to the Italian isle of Capri.
The three boys convene and without wasting
too many words agree on a gruesome solution.
This brings the story to its ending, but tempo
and setting do not change: the summer remains
sunny, the pinball machine serves its purpose
and in the shade the friends play some hip
songs.
Production:
Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV
Ambonplein 67
1094 PW Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6163231
+31.20.4893980
[email protected]
www.rinkelfilm.com
Contact: Edwin van Meurs
[email protected]
Sales:
Non Stop Entertainment
Döbelnsgatan 24
113 52 Stockholm
Sweden
℡ +46.8.6739980
+46.8.6739988
[email protected]
www.nonstopsales.net
www.bloedbroedersdefilm.com
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De brief voor de koning
The Letter for the King
Video no. 81
Director: Pieter Verhoeff
Genre: Youthfilm
Length: 108'
Coming-of-age adventure film, adapted from
Tonke Dragt's book. The young Tiuri has to do
one last test of competence before he will be
knighted. But then a dying knight calls in his
help to deliver a secret letter to the king of
neighbouring country Unauwen. This mission
takes Tiuri on a swirling journey, on horseback
and foot, through changing landscapes and
dangerous circumstances. He is accompanied
by his guide Piak and receives help from all
sorts of unexpected quarters.
They conquer all obstacles and manage to keep
the letter from the vicious and sly customer
Slupor and deliver it to the king, preserving
both countries from a huge catastrophy.
Meanwhile, Tiuri demonstrates he fully
possesses the qualities that his king thinks a
knight needs: honesty, loyalty, helpfulness and
bravery.
In 1963, Tonke Dragt's book was proclaimed
Best Youth Book of the Year and recently it was
awarded the “Griffel der Griffels” as the Best
Youth Book of the last fifty years.
www.debriefvoordekoningdefilm.nl
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Production:
Eyeworks Egmond Film and
Television
Anthony Fokkerweg 61
1059 CP Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6661892
+31.20.3463738
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
Contact: Melissa van Middelaar
Calimucho
Video no. 83
Director: Eugenie Jansen
Original language: Dutch, German, French, Arabic
Genre: Drama
Length: 93'
In
several
respects,
Circus Harlekino
experiences a turbulent summer. Dicky and her
brother-in-law Willy are in a pretty kettle of
fish. Dicky's sister has passed on and left little
Timo behind. Dicky raises Timo as if it were her
own child, but father Willy and his family had
rather seen him put up in a boarding school.
Dicky has no rights, so she has to stand by and
watch how Willy makes one wrong choice after
the other and everybody keeps meddling.
Meanwhile, she starts entertaining amorous
feelings for tent builder Tarek.
Shot in documentary style, this drama deals
with complicated mutual relationships in an
unusual environment. Played by real circus
performers, the story portrays life in a
contemporary circus, onstage and offstage.
From knife throwers to a lama between white
caravans and a pack of dogs that is taken out in
pouring rain. With synthesizer music and
songs, three German-speaking musicians from
the circus tell the background story of the
leading characters.
Production:
Circe Films
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 77
1012 DC Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6253591
+31.20.6250025
[email protected]
www.circe.nl
Contact: Anne Visschedijk
[email protected]
Sales:
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Dunya & Desie
Video no. 10
Director: Dana Nechushtan
Original language: Dutch, Arabic
Genre: Youthfilm
Length: 90'
In the film sequel to the successful TV series,
bosom friends Dunya and Desie find themselves
at a crossroads in their lives. The cheerful
design of the credits still shows the young girls'
carefree world. But they have finished high
school now and have to decide how to organise
their future lives. Their friendship is under fire
as a result of the objections that Dunya's
Moroccan parents have to the libertine Desie,
but also due to big dilemmas: Dunya is told that
a meeting has been arranged in Morocco with a
future husband and Desie turns out to be
pregnant - the most obvious action is an
abortion. The two friends find each other again
in Morocco and their joint trip teaches them a
lot about the values of friendship and family, as
well as respect for the goals in life the girls
choose for themselves. The roles in this comic
and touching road movie are played by the
same actors as in the series: Maryam Hassouni
and Eva van de Wijdeven.
www.dunyaendesiedefilm.nl
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Production:
Lemming Film
Tolstraat 137A
1074 VJ Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6610424
+31.20.6610979
[email protected]
www.lemmingfilm.com
Contact: Joost de Vries
Sales:
Delphis Films
225 Roy St. East, #200
Montreal, QC H2W 1M5
Canada
℡ +1.514.8433355
+1.514.8439574
[email protected]
www.delphisfilms.com
Mafrika
Surprise
Video no. 217
Director: Paul Ruven
Genre: Drama
Length: 90'
Fifteen years after making a film about Africa,
the successful but deeply cynical director of
commercials Frank Meutstege is honoured in,
sure enough, Africa. He hates the continent that
he consistently calls 'Mafrica' and tries to get
away from it as soon as possible - also because
his future bride is waiting for him on a safer
continent. But things work out differently. A
fifteen-year-old African girl claims to be Frank's
daughter. She begs him to follow her to her
mother's hut, where he shot the film years ago.
He grudgingly follows her on a dangerous
journey across the country. Frank is robbed of
his things ('Strengthening bias here, mate!'),
but also gets acquainted with his potential
daughter and a warmer side of himself.
In this road movie, the eternal cynic is won over
by the Africans he initially despised. He scatters
around prejudice so unsparingly that it becomes
hilarious. The gorgeous scenery and cheerful
African music contribute to this spiteful
character's lessons of life.
Production:
Van Hallstraat 52
1051 HH Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6881843
+31.20.6863574
[email protected]
Contact: René Huybrechtse
Sales:
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Feature Films | 71
Omet
Video no. 722
Director: Ibo Kurdo
Genre: Drama
Length: 89'
The screenwriter Yaro flees together with his
wife Hale from Iraq to the Netherlands in the
hope of making a movie about a boy called
Temo. Temo, a ten year old boy had (in real life)
survived a massacre in the desert of Iraq. Temo
looks like Yaro’s missing small brother Miro.
Yaro’s attempts, during twelve years, to make a
film ended with no results. Finally he meets Els,
a young employee of a film production
company. He falls in love with her and his hope
to realise his film grows, but he also gets a lot of
problems with his wife. Beside these problems,
they already had some like don’t having
children. Hale doesn’t know that she can’t get
children with Yaro. He knows about his
handicap but doesn’t tell her. He even blames
her for this. Hale tries to find out why she never
gets pregnant. When she discovers the truth,
that Yaro is cause of their childlessness, she
takes revenge. The loneliness in their lives is a
huge. They can’t live with each other but also
not without each other. A bitter, poetical and
humour full affair follows, shadowed by the
ghosts of his dead father, Temo and his missing
small brother Miro.
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Production:
Selman Productions
Willem Noorlanderkade 4
1025 MN Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6328427
[email protected]
www.selmanweb.nl
Contact: Ibrahim Selman
Panman - Rhythm of the Palms
Video no. 335
Director: Sander Burger
Genre: Drama
Length: 90'
Harry Daniel used to be a steel drum legend on
St. Maarten, but nowadays he plays as a
background piece in a tourist hotel. What went
wrong? Jacko, or Jacques, explains in the voiceover how his music teacher and hero went down
and how he experienced the same problems as
his master.
In the early eighties, Harry Daniel becomes a
famous musician. He wins competitions by
playing Beethoven on the Caribbean drum and
makes successful records. He also teaches
children how to play the instrument. But his
wife and muse gets tired of the fact that music
always comes first, his brother Raf gets addicted
to drugs and youngsters prefer to listen to
American hip-hop. Daniel is afraid that the steel
drum, 'the symbol of freedom for black people',
as he calls it, threatens to disappear along with
the ailing Afro-Caribbean culture.
The Dutch-Antillean drama, alive with
Caribbean music, was shot in 2005 and already
clinched international awards.
Production:
St. Maarten Independent
Theatre Foundation
Point Blanche
Gold Finch Road 34
Philipsburg
St. Maarten
Dutch Antilles
℡ +59.9.5805200
Contact: Ian Valz
[email protected]
www.panmandefilm.com
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The Seven of Daran - The Battle of Pareo Rock
Video no. 265
Director: Lourens Blok
Original language: English, Dutch
Genre: Youthfilm
Length: 86'
“The Battle of Pareo Rock” is the first in a series
of 7 international family films.
All parts refer to the old myth of “The Seven of
Daran”.
‘The Battle of Pareo Rock’ tells the story of
Jimmy, an 11-year old European boy who goes
to Africa with his mother, a executive charged
with establishing a golf resort.
One day Jimmy gets lost in the town market
where he encounters a mysterious white baby
giraffe: one of the seven magical animals of
Daran: Seraf.
Seraf tells Jimmy about the battle between rival
indigenous tribes fighting over the land. And
that he cannot easily avoid this tribal battle.
Together with Charita, a poor African girl,
Jimmy embarks on an adventurous and magical
trip through Africa, where they must overcome
many obstacles.
Fortunately they have help, from Seraf, but also
from a precious medallion.
Throughout their trip, they discover that they
can only achieve their goal if they truly believe
in themselves and don’t let anybody or anything
get in their way….
www.thesevenofdaran.com
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Production:
AAA-Pictures
De Oude Molen 1A
1184 VW Ouderkerk a/d Amstel
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3059107
+31.20.3059109
[email protected]
www.aaa-pictures.com
Contact: Felice Bakker
[email protected]
Sing for Darfur
Video no. 232
Director: Johan Kramer
Original language: Spanish, English, Japanese,
Chinese,German, Dutch
Genre: Drama
Length: 78'
Production:
Christel Palace
Herengracht 328
On the day that a major benefit concert for
1016 CE Amsterdam
Darfur takes place in Barcelona, the inhabitants
Nederland
of this Spanish city are chiefly occupied with
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themselves. A short-tempered guy curses
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everyone crossing his path. A little later, we see
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him at work as a living statue. Meekly, he poses
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Contact: Jony van Hees
for a picture with a tourist - who we then follow
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to the shopping streets. A youthful thief robs
her purse and runs through the alleys. The
camera follows. On a scooter, the purse is taken
to a suspicious-looking character, who is
primarily interested in a concert ticket he finds
in the purse.
After these people, we follow countless other
characters and their stories. We follow them for
a few streets or catch only snippets of
conversations. Sometimes the topic is Darfur,
but usually the urbanites are engaged in their
cell phones, work and daily worries. “Sing for
Darfur” is played by 67 actors from eleven
countries. In grainy black-and-white, with a
virtuoso photography. In the background, we
hear music that befits each story line; thumping
beats, a gentle tune or deafening guitars.
www.singfordarfur.org
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TBS
Nothing to Lose
Video no. 6
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Genre: Drama
Length: 87'
In this pursuit drama with a striking
soundtrack, director Pieter Kuijpers examines
the volatile mind-set of a man who is detained
during Her Majesty's Pleasure (TBS). Johan van
der S. (Theo Maassen) is sentenced to life
detention on the “long stay” ward of a clinic.
Unable to resign himself to this verdict, he
escapes to look for his mother. She can testify
that he is not guilty of the sex murder of his
little sister and that he only killed his father to
protect his sister. Soon, police are hot on his
heels, so Johan takes thirteen-year-old Tessa
(Lisa Smit) hostage. Together, they drive to
Belgium. Johan leaves a trace of brute violence shown afterwards each time - meanwhile doing
his sincere best to be sweet to the vulnerable
adolescent girl. Because the film consistently
shows the story from Johan's perspective, the
spectator, too, hovers between compassion and
fear for this sinister man.
www.tbsdefilm.nl
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Production:
Pupkin Film
Willemsparkweg 66-I
1071 HK Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4895088
+31.20.4895087
[email protected]
www.pupkin.com
Contact: Sander van Meurs
[email protected]
Sales:
High Point Media Group
Suite 16, Deane House Studios,
Greenwood Place
London NW5 1LB
United Kingdom
℡ +44.20.74246870
+44.20.75863117
[email protected]
www.highpointfilms.co.uk
Timboektoe
Video no. 231
Director: Dave Schram
Genre: Youthfilm
Length: 104'
After their father suffers a burn-out, Kars and
Isa's parents change course and buy a run-down
campsite in France. Isa and Kars have the
feeling they are moving to Timbuktu and will
lose everything they have built up. But they do
not complain for long, because they soon make
new friends and together they help make the
campsite a success. There is another Dutch boy
that lives in the village, Jules, with his dog
Frodo. He is embarrassed about his father, who
after his wife's decease developed a drinking
problem.
The manager of the rivalling Paradiso campsite
makes every effort to undermine the
competition. He does not even recoil from arson
and murder. The thrilling youth film swiftly
addresses different themes, from friendship and
awakening love to treason, underhanded
rivalry, mystery, homosexuality and heroic
rescue. Adapted from a work by the successful
writer of youth books, Carry Slee.
Production:
Bridge Entertainment Group
Postbus 217
1200 AE Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6882888
+31.35.6882800
[email protected]
www.bridgeonline.nl
Contact: Daniëlle Raaphorst
Sales:
Same as Production
www.timboektoedefilm.nl
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Tiramisu
Video no. 8
Director: Paula van der Oest
Genre: Drama
Length: 90'
On stage, Anne shines in her next character
part, but her private life looks less prosperous.
She is in heavy weather financially, and she has
a hard time getting older and stomaching her
ex-husband's relationship with a perfect young
woman. Will Anne have to sell her houseboat
that holds tons of personal memories? A new,
dull accountant tries to straighten out her
bookkeeping. He gets fascinated with Anne's
free attitude to life and in turn she feels a
certain appreciation for him. For both people,
the confrontation eventually has positive
repercussions on their bogged down lives.
“Tiramisu” is a subtle tragicomedy, driven by
the actors' performances. The soft clash
between the bookkeeper and the actress is
represented in sharp detail. The film is a plea
against narrow prejudice, without lapsing into
clichés or mawkishness.
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Production:
IDTV Film
Postbus 37782
1030 BJ Amsterdam Zuidoost
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3143322
+31.20.3143300
[email protected]
www.motelfilms.nl
Contact: Lennie van Scheppingen
[email protected]
Sales:
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Ver van familie
Far from Family
Video no. 160
Director: Marion Bloem
Original language: Dutch, English
Genre: Drama
Length: 149'
It is 1986. In the Netherlands, the Indonesian
grandma Em, the daughter of a German man
and a Javanese mother, is on her deathbed. But
grandma Em does not want to leave before
having spoken to her American granddaughter
Barbie about some unsolved family mysteries.
In 1945, after the Japanese occupation, freedom
fighters declared Indonesia independent. In the
following years, many people emigrated from
the former Dutch colony to the Netherlands.
Most of them had never been here. Those
unable to settle in went to other countries, like
the US. Such as Buddy, grandma Em's son and
Barbie's father.
Barbie, invariably with a cigarette in her mouth
and a guitar on her back, comes to Holland to
see her grandma, but other relatives want to
prevent their meeting. All family members have
their individual secrets. During Barbie's
complicated search for grandma Em, we hear
Barbie's sensitive guitar songs. The film also
portrays the 1970s and 1980s, presented in
flashbacks.
Production:
Rocketta Film
Lauriergracht 116
1016 RR Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4897733
+31.20.4897734
[email protected]
www.rocketta.nl
Contact: Eline van Hagen
[email protected]
www.vervanfamilie.nl
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Vox Populi
Video no. 88
Director: Eddy Terstall
Genre: Drama
Length: 97'
Jos is a seasoned politician, with a midlife
crisis, of a very politically correct party that is in
bad shape. When his daughter Zoë starts a
relationship with Sjef, a young military
policeman, Jos is introduced to his new in-laws'
popular logic. This has drastic consequences for
his political behaviour and his private life.
Sjef's father Nico, from the old Amsterdam
Jordaan quarter, is a car dealer who hates
politicians. He has a big heart, but also a very
peculiar sense of justice and logic. Sjef's
brother-in-law has the intention to make Jos'
party the biggest in the country. Jos opens up
more and more to 'the voice of the people' and
starts incorporating his in-laws' standpoints in
politics. This soon makes him climb in the polls,
which greatly pleases this conceited man.
www.voxpopuli.nl
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Production:
Spaghetti Film B.V.
Korte Papaverweg 7a-e
1032 KA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4192021
+31.20.4192031
[email protected]
www.spaghetti.nl
Contact: Lianne Alink
Winterstilte
Winter Silence
Video no. 432
Director: Sonja Wyss
Original language: German
Genre: Drama
Length: 70'
A small village is located in a snow-covered
mountain landscape. Here, a family lives with
four blooming daughters. Silently, they perform
the daily routine of their austere life. One day,
their father is killed in an accident, which marks
the turning point in the women's thus far
humdrum lives. Mysterious deer-men turn up
around the house, bringing about a tension that
is doomed to be discharged. From then on, the
activities in and around the house attain a
sensual charge, like the voluptuous kneading
and beating of the bread dough. The film tells
the story without words, with a camera that
moves slowly and attentively across the hushed
scenery. Fabulous, almost mystical images
naturally blend with the plain registration of the
carefully choreographed daily chores.
Production:
SNG Film BV
Postbus 59081
1040 KB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6867837
+31.20.6824367
[email protected]
www.sngfilm.nl
Contact: Digna Sinke
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Het Zusje van Katia
Katia's Sister
Video no. 11
Director: Mijke de Jong
Original language: Dutch, Russian
Genre: Drama
Length: 85'
When she is asked in school: 'What do you want
to be?', she answers: 'Simple. Katia's sister.'
This is how the young girl sees herself and is
seen by others; we never hear her own name.
We watch her life from her perspective; the
camera keeps close to her and follows her
around. In the apartment where she lives with
her mother, who works as a prostitute, her elder
sister Katia and her increasingly absent-minded
grandma, and in the street, where evangelist
John is the only one who really devotes time to
her. Her family comes from Russia and often
plays thunderous Russian music. She prefers to
listen to Dutch children's pop music, while she
tidies up and cleans the house, discreetly
keeping the household going. Meanwhile, her
mother finds a new boyfriend somewhere and
Katia thinks she can make some easy money by
stripping - she even takes her little sister to the
club. The latter takes it all as it comes. But what
she likes best is huddle together with Katia in
bed, lying against her long blonde hair.
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Production:
Keyman Film
Parkstraat 43
3581 PE Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.2321384
[email protected]
Contact: Hans de Wolf
[email protected]
Short Documentaries
Aan ons den arbeid
Ours is the Labour
Video no. 189
Director: Jeroen van Bergeijk
Original language: Dutch, Berber
Genre: Documentary
Length: 49'
In the 1970s most of the Dutch population still
ate rusk—a peculiar toast-like bread—for
breakfast. Rusk was produced at Hooimeijer's
in Barendrecht. The factory needed workers—a
lot of them. The Dutch wouldn’t do such work
anymore, but luckily the first Moroccan “guest
workers” arrived.
That first generation of Moroccans is now
retiring. How do they look back on their lives in
The Netherlands? With that question in mind,
Van Bergeijk sought out a number of
Moroccans who had worked for decades at the
baker, where his father was managing director.
Ours Is the Labour is a melancholy portrait of
the 1970s, when Third World immigrants were
still warmly welcomed, as well as an oral history
of the mores of the shop floor. In the now
abandoned rusk factory, Van Bergeijk has his
father, the Moroccan workers, and their Dutch
supervisors tell how things were in those days.
Young, illiterate Moroccans did the heavy, dirty
work in the factory. “I used to say that I wished
I had only Moroccans working for me,” says a
former supervisor. Gradually things changed,
and as they got older the heavy work took its
toll. Many ended up on disability. Automation
made others redundant.
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Production:
Diafragma Films
Bergsingel 119A
3037 GC Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.4659566
[email protected]
www.diafragmafilms.nl
Contact: Joop de Jong
[email protected]
Sales:
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About Sugarcane and Homecoming
Video no. 701
Director: Shaul Kesslassi
Original language: Portuguese
Genre: Documentary
Length: 54'
“About Sugarcane and Homecoming” tells the
story of a growing number of people in the
North Eastern part of Brazil, on a quest for
identity and faith. People born into Catholicism
who are claiming they are a part of Judaism.
They congregate and create a community that is
becoming a sub culture of Judaism. A Jewish
community that follows traditional Jewish
religion and rites, practices Jewish family and
communal life, but is not recognized by the
Jewish establishment worldwide. They all hold
the conviction that they are descendants of
Jews forced to convert to Catholicism after the
expulsion from Spain in 1492 and the forced
conversion in Portugal.
Production:
Nefesh
Olympiakade 47/3
1076 Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.19354158
[email protected]
www.nefesh.nl
Contact: Shaul Kesslassi
Sales:
Ruth Diskin Films LTD
5, Issachar St.
P.O.Box 7153
91071 Jerusalem
Israel
℡ +972.2.6724256
[email protected]
www.ruthfilms.com
Contact: Ruth Diskin
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Camera's voor de onzichtbaren
Cameras for the Invisible Ones
Video no. 705
Director: Mark Verkerk
Original language: Dutch, English, Karen
Genre: Documentary
Length: 57'
Karin Kuiper, widow of the celebrated Dutch
author Karel Glastra van Loon, travels to the
Thai-Burma border to continue his work of
supporting Burma’s forgotten refugees. On July
1, 2005, Karel Glastra van Loon, one of the
Netherlands’ most acclaimed authors, died
tragically of a brain tumour. Two and a half
years earlier, Karel and his young family had
spent 3 months in the small frontier town of
Mae Sot, on Thailand’s western border with
Burma, researching what turned out to be, his
last novel, ‘The Invisible Ones’. The novel was
the first in a project initiated by the
Netherlands Refugee Foundation to link Dutch
writers with forgotten refugee groups. And
although Karel managed to finish his book
before he died, his further plans to provide
refugees with digital cameras were left
unrealised. In March 2008, Karin returns to
Mae Sot determined to realise Karel’s plan.
Along the way she retraces the steps he took
researching ‘The Invisible Ones’. The film
weaves these emotional scenes, together with
radio broadcasts recorded by Karel during his
stay, and passages from his book, to provide a
powerful insight into the complex issues facing
the Burmese people.
Production:
EMS Films
Amperestraat 10
1221 GJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.6.52317560
+31.35.6835306
[email protected]
www.emsfilms.com
Contact: Ton Okkerse
[email protected]
Sales:
Ton Okkerse
Meeuwenlaan 29
3443 BB Woerden
Nederland
℡ +31.348.412230
+31.35.6216059
[email protected]
www.emsfilms.nl
Carneval in Mestreech 't sjoenste leedsje
Carnival in Maastricht
Video no. 248
Director: Paula Rennings
Original language: Dutch (dialect)
Genre: Documentary
Length: 52'
Carnival in Maastricht is serious business. This
also holds true for the carnival songs. Annie van
Loo, the first female writer of native Maastricht
songs, explains what a good song is made of,
while participants in the colourful parade say
what their 'sjoenste leedsje' (favourite song) is.
In a poll held a few years ago by “De
Limburger” daily, 'Karneval in Mestreech' from
1947 was pronounced the best all-time song.
But also songs with titles like 'Jij bent mijn
nichtje', 'Mijn fietsje' and 'Ik heb iets aan mijn
trommeltje', are popular. Besides Van Loo,
other prominent representatives of the carnival,
like the Master of Ceremonies and the chairman
of the Music Committee, talk about the
traditions of carnival and how they are
currently under pressure under the influence of
the multicultural society. Interviews alternate
with gaudy images of the procession.
Production:
P & P regisseurs
Zwanebloem 17
4823 MV Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5439047
[email protected]
www.ppregisseurs.nl
Contact: Pieter Vlamings
Come Back Kate
Video no. 46
Director: Quirine Racké, Helena Muskens
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
In 1993, after a career spanning fifteen years,
Kate Bush permanently distanced herself from
her pop star status. She withdrew to an isle in
the Thames and severed all contact. Still, she
lives on in the minds of countless admirers.
The mosaic documentary “Come Back Kate”,
constructed from small portraits of Bush fans,
gives a face to this adoration. Julie performs a
tribute act and Melanie arranges listening
sessions in Death Valley. Fred averted his
tendency to stalk Bush by writing a biography,
which reveals forefather Henry Bush's bizarre
cause of death. Peter, professor of philosophy,
received a most charming reaction after
pointing out a spelling mistake in one of Bush's
lyrics, 'and that broke the spell'. Human contact
broke the charm of the mythical figure. Cynthia
does not call herself a 'Kate fan' but a 'Kate
fanatic'. When she was diagnosed with cancer,
she was afriad she would never be able to hear a
new Bush album again. But in late 2005, she
got well and Bush broke a twelve-year silence
with her new double album “Aerial”.
Production:
Snow White Films
Postbus 16513
1001 RA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4210072
+31.20.4222531
[email protected]
Contact: Quirine Racké
[email protected]
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De huizen van Hristina
The Houses of Hristina
Video no. 48
Director: Suzanne Raes
Original language: Dutch, English, Bulgarian
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
She works there, but does not feel at home.
Bulgarian Hristina, just thirty, does cleaning
work in Amsterdam canal-side houses. The
communication with the occupants takes place
through well-meant but impersonal notes, in
which people put questions about Hristina's
well-being and directions concerning her
domestic tasks. The personal interest is not
sincere, Hristina realises. Her patrons, who
prefer not to meet her when coming home, are
only interested in efficient and cheap work.
Although the residents' presence is tangible,
Hristina feels desolate and lonely. In the film,
her customers only appear as shadows.
To do something she is passionate about,
Hristina is permitted to take artistic pictures in
the houses she works at. To observe is her role
in life, she imagines. “De huizen van Hristina” is
the symbolic story of an immigrant who, despite
doing her share, does not really belong.
Production:
IDTV Docs
Postbus 12010
1100 AA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3143100
+31.20.3143450
[email protected]
www.idtvdocs.nl
Contact: Willemien van Aalst
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
Contact: Angelia Ragghoe
Dear Oprah: Non-voting America's Wildest Dream
Video no. 465
Director: Kasper Verkaik
Genre: Documentary
Length: 52'
The turnout at American elections is
traditionally one of the lowest in the world:
around sixty percent. Filmmaker Kasper
Verkaik wants to know why. He travels all over
the United States, looking for the motives of
non-voters. They vary from indifference and
lack of trust to more practical arguments: in
some poor neighbourhoods, it is made very
hard for people to vote. Verkaik also meets the
man who set up an organisation to urge TV icon
Oprah Winfrey to stand for office. She
responded she does not want to get involved in
politics, but nonetheless Verkaik sees an
important task for Oprah. She could convince
her viewers to register to vote. Dear Oprah is
not only an investigative road movie (with an
important part for the occasionally unreliable
camper), but also a plea, a letter in sound and
image, to one of America's leading opinion
makers.
Production:
Submarine
Rapenburgerstraat 109
1011 VL Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3301226
+31.20.3301227
[email protected]
www.submarine.nl
Contact: Yaniv Wolf
[email protected]
Dûnsje op de fulkaan
Dancing on the edge of the volcano
Video no. 218
Director: Simon Haringa
Original language: Dutch, Frisian, English
Genre: Documentary
Length: 55'
The Frisian filmmaker Simon Haringa looks
back on Queen's Birthday 1986 with a group of
gay men. It was a time when Amsterdam was
considered the gay capital of the world. True to
tradition, the international gay scene gathered
along the Amstel river to dance and drink
exuberantly. The video footage of the men,
often clothed in leather, is a wonderful trip
down memory lane. 'Look at those big
moustaches!' But it is not just a case of pure
nostalgia. After all, this era was not as cheerful
as it seems. One third of the men captured in
the video eventually died of the consequences of
AIDS. The threat of the 'mysterious disease' lay
like a veil over the partying masses. The careless
years of emancipation and free love turned into
a period that was characterised by uncertainty,
panic and death. Candidly, the men talk about
their first confrontation with the affliction,
about the question whether one should do a test
or not, about being HIV-positive, about dancing
on the volcano.
TV Company:
Omrop Fryslân
Postbus 7600
8903 JP Leeuwarden
Nederland
℡ +31.58.2997799
+31.58.2997750
[email protected]
www.omropfryslan.nl
Eeuwige moes
Eternal Mash
Video no. 136
Director: Catherine van Campen
Genre: Documentary
Length: 54'
A greatly magnified terminator seed floats
across the screen, against a black background.
The seed owes its name to the DNA
manipulation which makes it sterile after
flowering only once. If master grower Ruurd
Walrecht had not spent his entire life
preserving traditional plant species, we would
no longer have any knowledge of this
terminator seed. Nor of eternal mash, a rare
perennial cabbage species. Walrecht fought for
his 'Primeval Field' for forty years, but recently
he suddenly abandoned his life's work and
moved to Sweden, leaving kindred stay-behinds
baffled. Still cherishing Walrecht's ideals, these
people tell about the mythical grower, while
being filmed in their peaceful, harmonious
existence in the country as nomads or so-called
crofters. On the voice-over, Walrecht himself
talks about his work and the vital importance of
the genetic wealth of plants for future food
supplies. With abundant visual attention for
obscure vegetables.
Production:
Zuidenwind Filmprodukties
Postbus 4673
4803 ER Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5140871
+31.76.5201910
[email protected]
www.zuidenwind.nl
Contact: Joost Seelen
[email protected]
Sales:
10 Francs
28, rue de l’equerre
75019 Paris
France
℡ +33.1.48744377
[email protected]
www.10francs.fr
Emoticons
Video no. 44
Director: Heddy Honigmann
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
Five girls, from various social strata and
different age groups, with one striking
denominator: to them, the Internet is almost
more important than the real world. Heddy
Honigmann introduces each girl via the
Internet screen where they have the courage to
be themselves. Next, we see the girls in their
real environment and we hear their poignant
stories: Saskia is pestered, Sanne is depressed,
Samantha has been raped, Zineb has lost the
chance of a residence permit and Inge lost her
mother to breast cancer. On the Internet, they
find people who make them feel secure, they
play online games, often violent ones, they chat
with distant relatives or they help other people.
Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann interviews the
girls and captures their meetings - virtual and
real - with Internet friends. This yields touching
scenes, like when Sarah will shortly see her chat
friend for the first time, an event that has been
giving her the jitters for weeks. The filmmaker
manages to make the girls drop their guard,
something they usually only do in the seclusion
of the digital world.
Production:
VOF Appel & Honigmann
Sarphatipark 130-hs
1073 EE Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6790352
+31.20.6790352
[email protected]
Contact: John Appel
[email protected]
Far Away Future
Video no. 408
Director: Frank Dorren
Original language: Himba
Genre: Documentary
Length: 34'
Teenage girls Nana and Gaja live in northern
Namibia, in Kaokoland. Their tribe lives in
barren conditions in an arid landscape.
Traditional clothing and ancient traditions are
considered of paramount importance. But the
modern era has arrived here, too, exemplified
by photographing tourists and numerous tribe
members who move to the city.
The two friends see different futures for
themselves. Nana wants to tend goats, start a
family and faithfully wait for her father to
return from the city. Nana: 'Here in the village I
can become a woman. I don't have to do
anything for it, it just happens. I only have to
wait.'
Gaja wants to become happy in the city. And
become a nurse, or a saleswoman. It seems to
be really easy over there; becoming happy.
Gaja: 'The city is like the rest of the world. The
people that go there stay there. In the city, I can
be whatever I want.'
While we follow the girls and the villagers in
their daily lives, Gaja and Nana poetically
describe their future and their ideas of
happiness.
Production:
Auvimedia
Hoofdstraat 101
2202 EW Noordwijk
Nederland
℡ +31.6.54324560
www.auvimedia.nl
Contact: Frank Dorren
[email protected]
Flikker
Queer
Video no. 59
Director: Arthur Bueno, Rob de Vries
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
As a young man, Rob de Vries displayed an
early interest in filmmaking with his 8mm
camera, and in male love. He preferred this type
of love to the conventional straight life he led in
his marriage. In the late seventies, he left
Rotterdam for the then dazzling city of
Amsterdam, where the young gay movement
grew explosively. Along with all sorts of artists
and militant gays, he travelled across the
country to protest against homophobia. And he
captured everything on film. Sometimes in a
documentary style, sometimes he opted for
fiction, as in his short films about coming out or
the queer-bashing theme.
Incorporating this historical footage and his
own stories, De Vries leads us through a
fascinating private life, portraying an important
period in gay emancipation in the seventies and
eighties, a time when people in the Netherlands
were still only mildly tolerant towards gays. The
film starts with De Vries' first steps in cinema
(atmospheric images of a Rotterdam bridge in
the style of Joris Ivens), followed by his own
wedding film and images of performances by
artists with colourful names like Het Valse
Nichtenkoor and Tedje en de flikkers.
Production:
Arthur Bueno AV
Anna Paulownastraat 30d
3014 JE Rotterdam
Nederland
[email protected]
www.arthurbueno.nl
Contact: Arthur Bueno
Sales:
Same as Production
Geen zorgen om morgen
No Worries About Tomorrow
Video no. 711
Director: Wouter de Kuyper
Genre: Documentary
Length: 24'
Don’t worry about tomorrow (Geen Zorgen Om
Morgen) is an integer documentary about an
eccentric man Willem Blootvoet. His home is an
old trailer placed on a farmyard in a polder.
When the evening falls, he drives around the
city of Amsterdam with his classical old blue car
and makes a living out of collecting valuable
stuff that has been thrown away by the people
of the city. He sells this interesting collection of
second hand stuff on Waterloo Square in
Amsterdam. Only the municipal community has
placed trash containers and Willem’s way of
living is brought into danger by this
measurement.
Academy:
Technologie
Postbus 2471
1200 CL Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6836464
+31.35.6836480
[email protected]
Contact: Wouter de Kuyper
[email protected]
Het geheim van Boccherini
The Secret of Boccherini
Video no. 627
Director: Carine Bijlsma
Genre: Documentary
Length: 24'
Documentary about cellist Anner Bijlsma and
his strong predilection for composer Luigi
Boccherini. Full of passion, he talks about the
composer and his music. Joined by his
daughter, also the director of the film, he travels
to the palace where Boccherini composed his
music.
Academy:
Academie (NFTA)
Markenplein 1
1011 MV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5277333
+31.20.5277344
[email protected]
www.filmacademie.nl
Contact: Rosan Boersma
[email protected]
Herman Brood. A star like me
Video no. 713
Director: Peter Scholten
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
Een gepokt en gemazeld popidool van 31 jaar
gaat na zijn eerste grote succes zijn reputatie
schaamteloos waarmaken. Hij beheerst het vak
en spreekt de taal. Aangeboren, aangeleerd of
misschien aangewaaid? een zoektocht naar zijn
imago geeft het antwoord.
Production:
seriousFilm
Andrej Sacharovstraat 27
3065 EC Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.4470812
+31.84.7257401
[email protected]
www.seriousfilm.nl
Contact: Marc Thelosen
[email protected]
Hoger dan de Kuip
In the Shadow of a Mosque
Video no. 185
Director: Ingeborg Jansen
Original language: Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
'Everybody has a right to his own religion and
place of worship, but this goes too far', a
Feyenoord fan thinks, who moved to the south
side of the city for love of his team. 'We have
only one temple by the Meuse, and that is De
Kuip.'
This soccer temple will soon meet with
competition, because at a stone's throw from
the Feyenoord stadium the largest mosque of
Europe is under construction. Not everyone is
happy with it. Customers at the ladies'
hairdresser's discuss the erection of the mosque
extensively. Some feel strongly about it, others
treat it light-heartedly. In the street, local
politicians distribute leaflets that make a stand
against the islamisation of Holland. Muslim
immigrants, on the other hand, look forward to
the completion of the mosque.
“Hoger dan De Kuip” presents a profile of the
inhabitants of a Rotterdam working-class
district, where many different cultures live next
to each other, without having any real contact.
Humour is not lacking, though. An elderly
woman is not afraid of the inevitable rise of
Islam: 'I'll just put on a headscarf, too. That will
save me a trip to the hairdresser's.'
Production:
Willemskade 22
3016 DM Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.2331400
+31.10.2331401
[email protected]
www.hollandharbour.nl
Contact: Nadadja Kemper
In Birma
Inside Burma
Video no. 296
Director: Karin Junger
Original language: Burmese, Dutch
Genre: Documentary
Length: 54'
In September 2007, Buddhist monks in Burma
rose up against the junta. The peaceful protests
were brutally crushed and the country was
closed to the press. Fascinated by the monks
and their resistance, filmmaker Karin Junger
and camerawoman Birgit Hillenius traverse this
country 'that doesn't want to be filmed.'
Officially, monks are not allowed to speak out
on political issues, but now they consider it
their moral duty. 'We feel the urge to testify to
what is really happening', Sayadaw U Kovida
comments from New York. He had to flee his
native country because he refused to accept
food from a soldier. By refusing gifts, Buddhist
monks demonstrate they reject the regime. This
causes a dilemma for the junta. The monks are
held in high regard, which makes it hard to
openly punish them. They are punished
nonetheless. They are captured, forced to work
or killed. This makes the Burmese that talk to
Junger and do have the courage to express
criticism all the more impressive.
Production:
stichting made in holland films
Kruitberg 4026
1104 CA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4700673
+31.20.3657110
[email protected]
Contact: Karin Junger
IndoNu
IndoNow
Video no. 714
Director: Peter Bouman, Carol Burgemeestre
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
The movie covers four generations of
Indonesian Dutch exploring roots, identity and
future.
The 50 minute long documentary IndoNu
covers 4 generations of Indonesian Dutch,
the group that developed in the colonial era and
after
the
Japanese
occupation
and the Bersiap period repatriated to the
Netherlands.
The documentary is about roots, identity and
future of the first wave of etnic immigrants in
the Netherlands.
Themes from this movie include the influence
of
the
Japanese
occupation
and
the Bersiap on the first generation from in
Indonesia cultural transferal, integration,
‘Indisch’ old and ‘Indisch’ young and the
influence
of
the
‘Indische’
history
on the Dutch culture.
Indonesian Dutch can be read as Indo’s
Production:
Stichting Cerita Fakta
Tino Pattipilohy
Hof van Versailles 33
1064 NX Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.42812869
[email protected]
Contact: Tino Pattipilohy
www.indomovie.nl
Ivo, de ongeautoriseerde biografie van een gorilla
Ivo, The Unauthorized Biography of a Zoo Gorilla
Video no. 412
Director: Annick van Wijk
Original language: Dutch, German, Spanish
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
The situation is precarious for the number of
gorillas living in the wild worldwide. To
preserve the species from becoming extinct, all
hope is placed in the reproduction of congeners
living in zoos. In Europe, there are more than
four hundred of the latter, a number the zoos
hope to maintain. Ivo is one of the males
scheduled to produce offspring.
As a baby, his mother rejected him in Munich,
which is why a zookeeper took care of him at
her home in the first weeks. After Munich, he
stayed in zoos in Tenerife, Amsterdam and
Berlin. Ivo never produced any progeny. He did
collect hordes of female fans, who follow him
around Europe, filming and drawing him.
This biopic examines the track record of a
gorilla that has a hard time settling in with his
own species. Zookeeper Reimon tries his best to
put Ivo 'to work'. Meanwhile, we also get to
know his fans and caretakers in the four zoos
where Ivo stayed over the past years. Together
with their stories, photographs, archive and
recent footage of Ivo and his (female) admirers
present an intriguing portrait.
www.ivofilm.nl
Production:
Nat Zand
Kloveniersburgwal 47
1011 JX Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4289585
[email protected]
Contact: Annick van Wijk
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
Jan Mesdag zingt Brel
Jan Mesdag sings Brel
Video no. 223
Director: Emma Westermann
Genre: Documentary
Length: 59'
The career of singer and entertainer Jan
Mesdag was on a rollercoaster in the mid1980s. He divided his time between the theatres
of New York - his great love - and Amsterdam.
In the Netherlands, he performed in all major
venues and sang with well-known artists. He
even secured a role in the musical Cats. But
then he fell ill. Infected with HIV, which was
still largely a mystery back then. There was no
treatment for the disease yet, and the young
Mesdag was heading for a certain death. He had
one last wish: to sing the songs of Jacques Brel.
Mesdag: 'The people around me always said you
can't touch Brel.' But now that he was dying
everybody supported his plan to record a CD
with Brel songs.
In the documentary, friends, colleagues and
family talk about Mesdag, who passed away in
1988. About his talent and ambition. About his
illness and the fulfilment of his last wish.
Including archive footage of concerts,
photographs and old interview extracts, in
which Mesdag talks about his imminent death.
Obviously complemented by songs performed
by Mesdag.
Production:
Dyzlo Film
Wittevrouwenstraat 3
3512 CS Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.7525421
[email protected]
www.dyzlofilm.nl
Contact: Lazlo Tonk
www.janmesdag.nl
Landschappen waar niemand van weet (II)
Landscapes Unknown (II)
Video no. 45
Director: Melle van Essen, Riekje Ziengs
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
Every artist looks at the environment
differently, draws inspiration from it. A painter,
a photographer and a graphic artist from
various parts of the world talk about their art
and explain how they look. Using an intriguing
photography and editing, this film captures the
world of each artist concerned.
The Amsterdam-based painter Frans Walon is
alternately sitting in the red-light district
sketching whores and tourists or drawing in his
crammed house. His works are everywhere.
'Some people can draw well, but it doesn't have
a soul. They don't go far enough.' Graphic artist
Jan Hendrix works in Mexico. He hikes through
nature with his camera. 'Every landscape has a
certain factor of human intervention.' He
transforms these immediate images through
dissection and reduction into essential, abstract
shapes, which he uses in his silk screens. Malick
Sidibé makes photo portraits in Mali. He
believes in beauty. Finds the best sides of
people he portrays and gives them something to
hold: radios or briefcases, for example. Sidibé
searches the road for images.
Production:
Allegri Film
Oosterdokskade 5 kamer 808
1011 AD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6254451
+31.20.6390130
[email protected]
www.allegrifilm.com
Contact: Joop van Wijk
[email protected]
Sales:
Molenwiek Film
Van Diemenstraat 410-412
1013 CR Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6252296
+31.20.6251489
[email protected]
www.molenwiek.nl
De match
The Match
Video no. 69
Director: Kees Hin
Genre: Documentary
Length: 52'
In 2002, the Zeeland village of Sint Philipsland
was shocked by the murder of an old woman,
who was killed in her house. Detectives opted
for a new, controversial mode of investigation:
DNA research. Eighty boys and men were asked
to submit samples of their saliva. This
eventually produced a culprit. The investigated
men introduced in this film were left with
mixed feelings. One by one, filmmaker Kees Hin
calls them into the interrogation room again to
talk about the DNA investigation. One appeared
to be 'very level-headed', while the other
suddenly started doubting his innocence: 'Could
I have done it in a fit of insanity?' Sometimes
there are long silences, but Hin never interrupts
them. The homicide itself is tersely announced
in a news item. Scenes with the men are
interspersed with footage of the panoramic,
Zeeland landscape. Sometimes in split screen,
occasionally accompanied by unreal sounds.
The stories reveal a great deal about the
investigation, but also show how close-knit a
community like this still is today.
Production:
Van der Hoopstraat 80 hs
1051 VK Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6829982
+31.20.6881434
[email protected]
Meester Ben
Master Ben
Video no. 343
Director: Vuk Janic
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
Ben has worked as a teacher in the
Schilderswijk quarter of The Hague for thirtythree years. Primary school Het Palet has seven
hundred pupils, five of whom originally come
from the Netherlands. Filmmaker Vuk Janic
follows the enthusiastic teacher in performing
his school duties, but especially at
extracurricular activities. With affable patience,
he gets acquainted with all the foreign names
on the first day of school, he praises the
attending parents during a parents' evening, he
makes house calls, discusses problematic cases
with behavioural experts and along with his
pupils buys fish for the class aquarium. He does
everything
with great
dedication and
commitment, which repays itself in motivated
children and a sound relationship with the
fathers and mothers, who are not always easy to
get on with. The documentary zooms in on two
pupils: the introverted girl Rajina, who has just
had a difficult period with her mother ('I can't
go to her with love') and the intractable
Abdellah, who does not like the fact he sees so
little of his father. Under teacher Ben's loving
supervision, they complete the year with
success, too.
Production:
IDTV Docs
Postbus 12010
1100 AA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3143100
+31.20.3143450
[email protected]
www.idtvdocs.nl
Contact: Willemien van Aalst
Sales:
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Mijn moeder, de actrice Willeke van Ammelrooy
My Mother, actress Willeke van Ammelrooy
Video no. 301
Director: Denise Janzée
Genre: Documentary
Length: 48'
Denise Janzée portrays her famous mother, the
actress Willeke van Ammelrooy, to get to know
her better. In the conversations they have in
front of the camera, Janzée confronts her
mother with the fact she never really showed
her emotions in real life. 'I've seen you cry only
once', Denise says. That was at her father's
funeral, who committed suicide. The interviews
are illustrated with relevant scenes from the
many films Van Ammelrooy played in. For
example, we see how she says goodbye to her
film lover when he is arrested. Her look tells us
she is through with the relationship, now that
she has no use for this man anymore. She tells
her daughter that in real life she is just as
opportunistic. Janzée also followed her mother
on the set of an American movie and at home in
France, where she lives with opera singer Marco
Bakker. Although Van Ammelrooy candidly and
sincerely answers her daughter's questions, it is
clear that emotionally she remains aloof in front
of the camera.
Production:
Zeppers Film & TV
Johannes Verhulststraat 174
1075 HC Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6758594
+31.20.6793929
[email protected]
www.zeppers.nl
Contact: Willemijn Cerutti
[email protected]
Moon en het wolvenmeisje
Moon and the Wolfgirl
Video no. 717
Director: Sarah Mathilde Domogala
Genre: Documentary
Length: 15'
Moon is a ten year old girl. And Moon writes
books. About a world where children can
transform into animals and where magic and
dark secrets reign. And she writes about
Shadow. A girl who can transform into a wolf.
Until Shadow, to her own dismay, eats her best
friend.
Production:
100% Halal
Oosteinde 9-11
1017 WT Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6391402
+31.20.6265258
[email protected]
www.100procenthalal.nl
Contact: Gijs Kerbosch
[email protected]
Sales:
Same as Production
www.100procenthalal.nl/moon
N-ID: the stigma of the negro identity
Video no. 720
Director: Roland Gunst
Belgium 2007
Original language: Dutch, French, English
Genre: Documentary
Length: 15'
"What is a nigger/negro? A human being or an
invention of man? Who is the nigger/negro?
How can we unmask the nigger/negro?
The level of respect one shows for someone
else's identity is a barometer for the level of
success of that intracultural or intercultural
relation.'
Production:
Roland Gunst
Steendam 104
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
℡ +32.49.4231729
Contact: Roland Gunst
[email protected]
Nachtwerkers
Nightworkers
Video no. 583
Director: Maurice Castagna
Genre: Documentary
Length: 23'
Observing documentary shows what happens
when a large part of Holland is asleep. Almost
wordless impression of workers in a gas station,
a hotel, a hospital and a deserted train station.
Academy:
Technologie
Postbus 2471
1200 CL Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6836464
+31.35.6836480
[email protected]
[email protected]
Nestblijvers
Nest Clingers
Video no. 279
Director: Juul Bovenberg
Genre: Documentary
Length: 56'
'I still live like my parents', Egbert says while
washing a handkerchief. 'If things are fine at
present, why change anything?' The aged
Egbert still lives on the farm where he was born,
alone nowadays. A day out in Amsterdam is a
big adventure. He gapes at everything in the
Bijenkorf shopping mall and compares city
apartments to henhouses.
This poetic and sometimes oppressive
documentary portrays the daily lives of three
adults who have always stayed in the parental
home - like nidicolous birds. In addition to
Egbert, they are the youthful looking Heleen,
who goes on a holiday to Tunisia with her
mother, and Michel from Amsterdam, who
tucks in his 100-year-old mother. The three
birds have different explanations for their
lifelong stay in the nest. Heleen simply failed to
meet a suitable party. Boredom and loneliness
are strangers to her. Monotony does not pass
Michel by, considering the platitudes in his
conversation. And Egbert's old nest breathes
intense desolation.
Production:
IJswater Films
Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-4
1079 LD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4421760
+31.20.4421725
[email protected]
www.ijswater.nl
Contact: Marc Bary
No More Heroes - De fotograaf Kees Tabak
Video no. 130
Director: Saskia Vredeveld
Genre: Documentary
Length: 52'
Pop photography was still in its infancy when
music freak Kees Tabak started capturing punk
bands with his camera. In those (enviable) days,
journalists and photographers regularly hung
out with bands for a couple of days. Like Tabak,
who made gorgeous portraits of Tom Waits and
The Ramones, simply while touring, against the
background of gas stations.
In the eighties, he saw all big stars through his
lens. Sometimes by accident, like Madonna, just
before she got famous. Still, he turned his back
on his great love when his work got harder and
harder due to restrictions. But not forever.
Director Saskia Vredeveld, also responsible for
scenario and camera, followed Tabak when,
after watching the series “American Music” by
famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, he
decided to make the Dutch equivalent. She
filmed him when he portrayed bands like Moke,
The Golden Earring and Within Temptation,
meanwhile delving into Tabak's past. This
portrait of one of the pioneers of Dutch pop
photography at the same time portrays its
history.
Production:
Bonanza Films
Sumatrakade 689-691
1019 PV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6263801
+31.20.6270695
[email protected]
www.bonanza.nl
Contact: Harmen Jalvingh
De onverboden stad
The Unforbidden City
Video no. 385
Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
Original language: Chinese
Genre: Documentary
Length: 58'
Director Floris-Jan van Luyn returns to the
neighbourhood in Beijing where he used to live
in the 1990s as a correspondent for “NRC
Handelsblad”. This old quarter, with its narrow
passages and alleyways, is about to be
demolished, because a little further down the
road the futuristic looking National Theatre has
been built. Van Luyn portrays the district and
his former neighbours in calm, scrupulous
images, which offer a chance to observe the
details. A beer seller on a bike acts as our guide
and introduces us to a few inhabitants. We
watch them in their daily activities, while in
voice-over we hear them talk about their life in
Beijing, the changing times and their uncertain
future. Some are satisfied; others take
everything as it comes. But in conversations in
the street or drinking a glass around a table,
some people also complain about the increased
house prices, the meagre reimbursement of
moving expenses and the quality of politicians.
Meanwhile, one after the other building is
systematically demolished.
Production:
Submarine
1011 VL Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3301226
+31.20.3301227
[email protected]
www.submarine.nl
Contact: Yaniv Wolf
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Een oude vriend van het Chinese volk
An Old Friend of the Chinese People
Video no. 597
Director: René Seegers
Original language: Dutch, English, French, Chinese
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
The Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens
(1898-1989) received the honorary title 'Old
friend of the Chinese people' from the Chinese
communist regime. One of the reasons was the
fact that in 1938 he gave the communists the
camera that captured the first footage of Mao
Zedong. Ivens made several films about China,
notably the twelve-hour picture “Hoe Yukong
de bergen verzette”, a tribute to Mao's Cultural
Revolution, which China itself called a
'catastrophe' shortly after. Directed by René
Seegers, actor Jeroen Willems follows in Ivens'
footsteps, in an attempt to understand why
Ivens never reconsidered his positive coverage.
Willems talks to experts and former associates
of Ivens, including an interpreter, a
pharmacist's assistant from the film (who
explains how Ivens directed him) and writer Bai
Hua, whom Ivens claimed as his best friend.
Archive footage includes fragments from Ivens'
work and interviews with the filmmaker, who
asserts: 'A political truth filmed at one moment
can completely change, even in its opposite, in
the next.'
Production:
Lowland Services bv
Jacob Obrechtplein 2
1071 KS Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6718284
[email protected]
Contact: Rene Seegers
Public Figures
Video no. 725
Director: Eric Olofsen
Belgium 2007
Original language: no Dialogue
Genre: Documentary
Length: 10'
The film was shot from a moving metro car
while entering the station, using a digital highspeed camera.
The result is an endless shot of people on a
subway platform passing by in slow motion.
The tranquil movement of the camera and
stillness of the people portrayed, give room for a
hypnotic chain of thoughts and associations.
The platform seems to have transformed into a
stage where everyday people's small gestures
and simple routines turn into a performance.
Production:
Ravit Bechor
Fanniusscholtenstraat 64-3
1051 GA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.47286963
www.erikolofsen.com
Contact: Ravit Bechor
[email protected]
Sacramentsdag en de tranen van de koning
Corpus Christi and the Tears of the King
Video no. 411
Director: Claudia Hoedemaker
Genre: Documentary
Length: 37'
On Corpus Christi, a festival in honour of the
Eucharist, celebrated on the Thursday after
Trinity Sunday, a procession is held carrying
the Holy of Holies. This film follows a few
inhabitants of the village of Limbricht before
and on this day.
Using coloured sawdust, people lay out a multicoloured 'carpet', which the procession strides
over to the sounds of a brass band. The local
rifle club Sint Salvius traditionally accompanies
the procession, which is concluded by
koningsschieten, in which people try to shoot a
wooden bird from a pole. The person firing the
decisive shot may call himself King for a year.
The current King, Peter, can even acquire the
honorary title of Emperor if he manages to take
down the bird for the third consecutive time.
That has not happened since 1923. Nervously,
Peter asks the priest to put in a good word for
him, but the clergyman says he is unable to
'force things'. The tension mounts to fever
pitch.
The documentary shows how shared traditions
keep a small community together. In line with
Michiel van Erp's work, the film zooms in on
sympathetic human traits.
Production:
C*View productions
Bataviastraat 49
3531 XB Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.6.29417734
Contact: Claudia Hoedemaker
[email protected]
Sasja en Natasha
Video no. 370
Director: Leen van den Berg
Original language: Dutch, Russian
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
Sasja, originally a Ukrainian from Kiev, lives
and works in The Hague. Years ago, she came to
Holland on a scholarship. She decided to stay
and make a career for herself. Her best friend
Natasha chose a different life. She is a music
teacher living with her boyfriend in Kiev and
expecting their first child. Natasha: 'Sasja has
always been the gutsy one.'
With the birth of Natasha's baby in sight, Sasja
travels to her native country to visit her parents
and friend. On this occasion, the emigrant
finally takes stock. With her friend and parents,
she brings back memories of days gone by. After
the Orange Revolution, the Ukraine changed
fast: from a socialist culture, in which these
women grew up, to a capitalist society, within a
few months.
In the Netherlands, people ask every day where
Sasja comes from: 'People constantly alert me
to the fact that this is not my home.' But she no
longer belongs in Kiev either: 'You go
somewhere and think: I belong here, just like
that tree over there. But then it turns out that is
no longer the case.'
Production:
Van der Hoopstraat 80 hs
1051 VK Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6829982
+31.20.6881434
[email protected]
Schroefjes, machines en geluk
Screws, Machines and Happiness
Video no. 510
Director: Ruben Pest
Genre: Documentary
Length: 15'
Documentary is exclusively set in a factory
where mentally-challenged people work and
meet. Friendships originate, dreams take shape
and daily life is discussed, while screws are
tightened and stuff is packed up.
Academy:
Kunsten St. Joost
Postbus 90116
4800 RA Breda
Nederland
℡ +31.76.5250302
+31.76.5250325
[email protected]
www.stjoost.nl
Contact: Ruben Pest
[email protected]
Silent Snow
Video no. 38
Director: Jan van den Berg
Original language: Greenlandic
Genre: Documentary
Length: 14'
Uummannaq is the most beautiful place on
earth, Pipaluk Hammeken thinks. She should
know, because she lives in the capital, littered
with colourful houses, of Northwest Greenland,
where the first sun can be seen earlier every
year, because the icebergs shielding it shrink
year by year. Pipaluk explains how the life of the
one thousand inhabitants, who depend on seal
hunting and fishing, is threatened by pollution
by the industrialised world. 'The most
poisonous waste is dumped at the cleanest place
on earth.' The poison accumulates in the fish
and the seals - the people's staple diet. The
camera follows Pipaluk and her family on a trip
that becomes ever harder due to the thinning
ice: with huskies across endless white plains to
the village where her friend Sarah lives.
Production:
DRS Film
Prins Hendriklaan 63
3551 GE Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.2514154
+31.30.2514001
[email protected]
www.drsfilm.nl
Contact: Jan van den Berg
Sales:
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Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
Contact: Aad van Ierland
www.silentsnow.org
Sjieke pakken, natte gronden
Fancy Suits, Wet Grounds
Video no. 514
Director: Jef Monté
Genre: Documentary
Length: 17'
After being closed for years, the Biesbosch area
is returned to nature and the natural flow of the
water. Archive footage and recent shots have
been cross-edited, examining similarities
between then and now.
Production:
Dieper Beeld
℡ +31.6.48252709
[email protected]
www.dieperbeeld.nl
Contact: Jef Monte
Slotakkoord. Sterven in Nederland
Second Thoughts
Video no. 663
Director: Eugène Paashuis
Genre: Documentary
Length: 49'
The patients in nursing home Tabitha are no
longer capable of taking charge over their own
lives. This has consequences for everyday life,
but also for the end of their lives. More than
twenty years ago, patient Bram de Gooijer (73)
and his wife drew up a euthanasia statement. 'If
I will arrive at a mental state in which
restoration to a reasonable state is not to be
expected ... I want euthanasia to be executed on
me', he wrote in 1985, in full possession of his
faculties. Now, De Gooijer is a mere shadow of
his former self and the first deliberations about
euthanasia have begun. Nonetheless, he seems
to suggest that he would like be treated if he
gets ill. But his wife insists that he does not
know what he says and his suffering should be
ended. The doctor falls back on his professional
code: in case of doubt, choose for the patient.
But for which patient, the past or present one?
TV Company:
VPRO TV
Postbus 11
1200 JC Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6712911
+31.35.6712254
[email protected]
www.vpro.nl
Contact: Judith van den Berg
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1202 JJ Hilversum
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Staphorst in tegenlicht
Video no. 182
Director: Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal,
Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Original language: Dutch (dialect)
Genre: Documentary
Length: 54'
'Staphorst' is proverbial for 'strictly Reformed
and closed'. This made it rather unusual that
documentary-makers Van Rouveroy & Van
Rouveroy were allowed to shoot a portrait of
this village community over a longer period of
time. Of course, the church remained off-limits
during the service, but a sound recording
captures a reproachful sermon by the minister.
As head of the SGP (Reformed Party) and an
alderman's father, the minister also has a finger
in the political pie, which touches on a sore
issue. At council meetings, councillors from
non-confessional parties raise objections to this
marriage of religion and government. Other
agenda items are the cursing ban and the
observance of Sunday's rest.
This is interlarded with the vicissitudes of the
Kok family, who face moral and religious
dilemmas. The father is seriously ill, the son
prefers night life to church and the traditionally
dressed mother has her private thoughts. Their
conversion from Historic Calvinism to NeoCalvinism is a crucial option.
www.staphorstintegenlicht.nl
Production:
Noctiluca
Contact: Maarten van
Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
[email protected]
Tania Kross. Klassieke muziek voor iedereen
Tania Kross. Classical Music for Everyone
Video no. 453
Director: Martijn Stoppels
Genre: Documentary
Length: 16'
Documentary about the successful mezzosoprano Tania Kross, who wants to share her
passion for classical music with everybody. She
is followed while promoting the music and her
own festival Kross'in Gouda.
Production:
Studio Martijn Stoppels
Brouwersgracht 24
2512 ER Den Haag
Nederlands Film Festival
℡ +31.6.19850813
[email protected]
Contact: Martijn Stoppels
De virtuele wereld van Micha Klein
Micha Klein, Speeding on the Virtual Highway
Video no. 39
Director: Corinne van Egeraat
Genre: Documentary
Length: 53'
'It's a shame that they bluntly label us as the
hedonistic drug generation. We've really
accomplished great and innovative things.' For
Micha Klein, the nineties were a time of house
music, love, drugs and his birth as the prodigy
of digital art. Director Corinne van Egeraat
composed a portrait of this master at the art of
living from three hundred hours of archive
footage, interviews and images she made in the
year she closely followed Klein and his muse,
former model Afke Reijenga. She explains how
his career started - how he captured the time
spirit at the right moment in his then still
groundbreaking, wholly digital images and
films. Except as an artist, Klein developed as a
VJ and standard bearer of the party scene,
particularly on the party island of Ibiza. In the
twenty-first century, Klein changed tack
somewhat with his now commercially
successful studio, which not everybody around
him appreciates.
Production:
Submarine
1011 VL Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3301226
+31.20.3301227
[email protected]
www.submarine.nl
Contact: Yaniv Wolf
[email protected]
Wat ik met de natuur heb?
Video no. 731
Director: Jolande des Bouvrie
Genre: Documentary
Length: 14'
How random passers-by
describe nature.
experience
and
Production:
Studio des Bouvrie
Van Hallstraat 212f
1051 HL Amsterdam
Nederland
Contact: Jolande des Bouvrie
[email protected]
We Will Block You
Video no. 732
Director: Suzanne Hogendoorn
Genre: Documentary
Length: 51'
Two young dutch activists were followed
through
the
G8
protest
in
Rostock/Heiligendamm
2007.
This
documentary gives you an inside in what really
happens at the protests, the emotions of the
protesters, the preparations and discussions.
The film will lead you through the defeats and
victories of the blockades in the fields around
Heiligendamm
Production:
Vrij Media Collectief
www.vrijmediacollectief.com
Contact: Suzanne Hogendoorn
[email protected]
Westerbork meisje
Westerbork Girl
Video no. 733
Director: Steffie van den Oord
Original language: English, German, Dutch
Genre: Documentary
Length: 48'
When there is something on TV about the
holocaust, Hannelore Cahn has to watch it. She
is 83 now, lives in the US, speaks English with
an American accent and put a couple of allAmerican children into the world. World War II
ended long ago, but in Hannelore's life it left
deep scars. In Westerbork, the transit camp
near the Dutch-German border, she waited for
deportation to the extermination camps. Being
a performer in the camp revue, she had a
privileged position. While masses of other
people passed the camp and went to their death
by train, Hannelore could stay. In the camp she
entered into a marriage of convenience.
Strangely enough, especially because she was
spectacularly smuggled from the camp by the
Jewish actor Rob de Vries, the love of her life,
but returned one week later on her own
volition.
Rob's son Edwin visits Hannelore. Louis de
Wijze, who worshipped Hannelore as her fellow
prisoner, performs songs from the Westerbork
revue.
Production:
DNU Film
Postbus 78010
1070 LP Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4229469
+31.20.4229468
[email protected]
Contact: Rolf Orthel
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
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Yuri
Video no. 576
Director: Willem Baptist
Genre: Documentary
Length: 8'
Portrait of former ballet dancer Yuri. His walls
are full of self-made collages of photographs,
pictures, posters and magazines. Yuri tells
about his career with the Russian state ballet
and about his current lifestyle.
Production:
Kaliber Film
Talmastraat 11c
3038 SL Rotterdam
Nederland
[email protected]
Contact: Willem Baptist
Sales:
Kaliber Film
Talmastraat 11c
3038 SL Rotterdam
Nederland
Zonen van de zee
Sons of the Sea
Video no. 47
Director: Arjanne Laan
Original language: Dutch, English, Spanish
Genre: Documentary
Length: 54'
Portrait of the fishermen in a Galician coastal
town, where people still suffer the consequences
of the catastrophe with the oil tanker Prestige in
2002. Removing the oil that washed ashore is a
hellish job. And the sea knows it. In voice-over,
the ocean has a (woman's) voice, telling what
she sees every day and what she holds inside,
something she has lived for for centuries. The
camera passes over the surface of the sea, or
takes a plunge. This is also how the days in the
seaside village come and go, just like the
fishermen. Many sailors emigrated to
Rotterdam in the sixties and seventies, where
they now live in the Zeemanshuis (sailors'
home). They read from letters from those days:
'We set course to Rio de Janeiro. I will write
again when I get there.' Through the window,
the Erasmus Bridge is visible in the dusk.
Production:
BosBros. Film-TV Prod.
P.O. Box 15850
1001 NJ Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.5244030
+31.20.5244040
[email protected]
www.bosbros.nl
Contact: Arjanne Laan
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Als we het zouden weten
If We Knew
Video no. 34
Director: Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster
Original language:
Genre: Documentary
Length: 78'
Many babies are born without a hitch in the
Netherlands. Unfortunately, this does not go for
every child. The filmmakers visited the
intensive care unit of the UMC hospital in
Groningen, where prematurely born babies are
treated by a committed medical team, which
discusses every patient individually. Does the
child have a chance of a decent life? And what is
fundamentally the definition of a decent life?
Very rarely, the doctors resort to active
euthanasia, by means of the 'Groningen
Protocol' that was developed here. This 'playing
for God' has elicited criticism worldwide.
However: 'It's easy to start a treatment, but it's
tough to decide not to insert the tube', a doctor
explains. The camera accurately captures all
emotions and considerations. Also those of the
parents. Their hope, their grief, the shock when
the baby passes on. The filmmakers respectfully
film their emotions. As they do the contrast
between the tiny babies and the medical
equipment surrounding them. In the
background, we hear saxophone sounds played
by Candy Dulfer.
Production:
Lataster&Films
3e Oosterparkstraat 228
1092 EK Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6925767
lataster&[email protected]
Contact: Petra Lataster-Czisch
[email protected]
Sales:
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1202 JJ Hilversum
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Bambara Blues
Video no. 40
Director: Jacqueline van Vugt
Original language: Bambara
Genre: Documentary
Length: 70'
Ami Diarra is a griot in Kayes in Mali. She acts
as an unofficial civil servant. At important
events like baptisms, weddings or funerals, she
sings about the event and the people involved.
Furthermore Ami, who sits in a wheelchair due
to child polio, is a driving social force. The
documentary follows her when with unbridled
dedication she tries to organise an information
and publicity manifestation about Aids. She
tries to obtain permits, calls on everybody to
join in, places an order for posters and makes
people arrange chairs and microphones.
Meanwhile, she openly speaks to everyone
about the disease, the circumcision of women
and prostitution. And she occupies herself with
training the orphan girl Mi, who will succeed
her as a griot. Apart from presenting a portrait
of Ami, the film describes the difficulties faced
by women in Mali and surrounding countries
and the strength with which they fight these
problems.
www.bambarablues.com
132 | Feature length Documentaries
Production:
Viewpoint Productions
Nieuwendammerdijk 538
1023 BX Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6363678
+31.20.6367716
[email protected]
www.viewpointdocs.com
Contact: Astrid Willemsteijn
[email protected]
Sales:
Illumina Films
Leidsestraat 106/3
1017 PG Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6248395
+31.20.3308155
[email protected]
Contact: Robin Brinster
Chicagoblok - Verhalen uit de lift
Chicagoblok - Stories from the Elevator
Video no. 882
Director: Ingeborg Jansen
Original language: Flemish, Thai, French, English
Genre: Documentary
Length: 65'
With its twenty-plus floors, the Chicagoblok
high rise in Antwerp has a bad reputation in the
city. But the residents think quite differently
about it. The retired Louis has lived here for
three years with his Thai wife. He is not proud
of his place, but he mingles quite nicely with the
other people. After his wife had left him, Rudi
ended up in this council housing project. 'I'm
surrounded by negroes. They live at night and
make a racket.' Single Sandra is ashamed of her
neighbourhood and longingly awaits the arrival
of her new, Moroccan husband, whom she
found on the Internet. African Yves is proud of
his block of flats. He feels safe and does not
understand the criticism. Yassin, too, calls it a
'chill' neighbourhood. New resident Edith is
delighted: 'I'm in heaven!' Finally, she feels at
home.
The filmmaker follows the residents from the
elevator into their apartments and also registers
life around the block. Fanatical kids that play
soccer, the arrival of the ice-cream man and
rapping friends in the night air.
Production:
Willemskade 22
3016 DM Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.2331400
+31.10.2331401
www.hollandharbour.nl
Contact: Ron van Boxtel
[email protected]
Dauw
Dew
Video no. 431
Director: Ben Jurna, Carrien Dijkstra
Genre: Documentary
Length: 72'
Marc Mulders is a much-discussed artist. He
was at one time rejected at the art academy due
to his emotional immaturity, which expressed
itself in idealism. Now, he regularly gets
commissions and made the stained glass
window 'Een tuin van glas' to commemorate
Queen Beatrix' 25th jubilee. He can vent his
idealism in his work at Artenzo, a studio for
mentally challenged artists. In Dauw, Mulders
is followed for four seasons, each period being
introduced by poetic nature images. Long,
contemplative scenes with the artist at work are
alternated with registrations of visits to
expositions,
varnishing
days
and
art
manifestations, and Artenzo. Sometimes
directly, sometimes in voice-over, Mulders talks
about his career, about Catholicism as a source
of inspiration, about his painting techniques,
the use of material and his vision of art in
general.
www.dauwdoc.nl
Production:
Caraut AV producties
Van Swindenstraat 122
3514 XX Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.6.22925482
[email protected]
Contact: Carrien Dijkstra
The Dictator Hunter
Video no. 35
Director: Klaartje Quirijns
Original language: English, French, Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Length: 74'
If you kill someone, you go to prison, whereas
dictators with thousands of victims to answer
for can often live freely in the lap of luxury.
Indefatigably, human rights lawyer Reed Brody
of Human Rights Watch fights this rank
injustice. He previously played an important
role in the process against the Chilean dictator
Pinochet. “The Dictator Hunter” follows his
hunt for Pinochet's African counterpart:
Hissène Habré, from 1984 to 1990 president of
Chad. For seven years now, Brody has been
supporting a group of victims' relatives who
want to bring Habré to trial. The lawyer serves a
higher purpose: international law. He is
prepared to sacrifice a lot for this, even
privately. Director Klaartje Quirijns follows him
to Africa, Europe and the US. A crucial event is
a meeting of the African Union. If the leaders,
including equally controversial men like
Mugabe and Khadafi, decide to prosecute
Habré, this class of tyrants can no longer do
whatever they please unpunished.
Production:
Pieter van Huystee Film & TV
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4210606
+31.20.6386255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
Contact: Curien Kroon
[email protected]
Sales:
Films Transit Inc.
252 Gouin Boulevard East
Montreal, Quebec H3L 1A8
Canada
℡ +1.514.8443358
+1.514.844729
[email protected]
www.filmstransit.com
www.thedictatorhunter.com
Joaquin Sabina - 19 días y 500 noches
Joaquin Sabina - 19 Days and 500 Nights
Video no. 62
Director: Ramón Gieling
Original language: Spanish
Genre: Documentary
Length: 83'
They still carry his house keys with them,
Joaquin Sabina's old friends. It does not matter
that the Madrid-based singer, who is adored
throughout the Spanish-speaking community,
changed the locks to his house years ago. After
the brain haemorrhage that hit him in 2001,
Sabina suddenly could not bear the dozens of
friends anymore that invaded his house. This
was a raw deal for them, as the interviews
reveal that director Ramón Gieling had with
them. As in Gieling's previous documentaries,
he created a cinematographic form for the
interviews, which he consistently applies.
Friends and former lovers are introduced in a
minutely reconstructed copy of the living room
they were expelled from. In the real living room,
they used to lead a loose life without thinking
about the health risks.
The film shows Sabina during a performance in
the arena in Madrid where he likes to watch
bullfights. How deep his music affects people is
clear from the confession of a nationalistic
Spanish woman: she considers him a dirty, leftwing swine, but knows all his records by heart.
www.joaquinsabina.nl
Production:
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4210606
+31.20.6386255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
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See You in Vegas
Video no. 41
Director: Antoinette Beumer, Maaik Krijgsman
Genre: Documentary
Length: 81'
Magician Hans Klok, who for years ended his
Dutch shows with the catchphrase 'See you in
Vegas', sincerely believes in his American
dream. Documentary makers Beumer and
Krijgsman follow the enthusiastic performer in
the period he struggled free from the Dutch
polder to go and hit the big times in desert city
Las Vegas - the capital of entertainment. It
surprises nobody in the illusionist's entourage
that the road to the international top is strewn
with unexpected setbacks and tough decisions.
Still, Klok's own brother has to swallow his
pride when he is laid off as the manager,
because it is impossible for Hans to refuse an
exclusive contract with Joop van den Ende's
Stage Entertainment.
Despite all the glamour and glitter, Hans Klok
remains a healthy Dutch guy in this portrait,
who is prepared to pull out all the stops. It is
self-evident that a lot is still left to the
imagination.
Production:
Selfmade Films
Oranje Nassaulaan 7
1075 AH Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3058555
+31.20.3058550
[email protected]
www.selfmadefilms.nl
Contact: Jan de Ruiter
Sales:
SND Films
Postbus 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4040707
+31.20.4040708
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
www.seeyouinvegas.nl
The Last Days of Shishmaref
Video no. 89
Director: Jan Louter
Original language: English, Inupiaq
Genre: Documentary
Length: 95'
'The modern era has put us in a vulnerable
position', one of the main characters sighs in
this documentary that focuses on a small island
community in northern Alaska. The Eskimo
does not refer to the arrival of iPods or cell
phones. Or to the fact that his children prefer to
only eat junk food. He talks about the farreaching consequences of global warming. Due
to the Arctic ice melt, the island's coastline is
gradually washed away. In less than fifteen
years, the entire island will be wiped off the
map. While the wind sweeps across the vast
snowy landscape and the huskies howl, the
islanders go about their daily routine. They
hunt for reindeer and visit the launderette or
bingo night. The stories and reflections by
different Eskimo families introduce the
spectator to a way of life that after four
thousand years is threatened with extinction.
After all, the fact that the nightmare
surrounding them is slowly pushing to the
surface becomes painfully clear.
www.thelastdaysofshishmaref.net
Production:
Miroir Film
Rodenrijsestraat 55B
3037 NC Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.10.4651778
+31.10.4651778
[email protected]
Contact: Renske Meertens
Megumi
Video no. 57
Director: Mirjam van Veelen
The Netherlands, Japan 2008
Original language: Japanese
Genre: Documentary
Length: 63'
Thirty-one years ago, the Japanese Megumi
Yokota was kidnapped on her way home from
school. The then thirteen-year-old girl was
taken to North Korea. She was allegedly forced
to teach Japanese to spies there. Filmmaker
Mirjam van Veelen looked for the story behind
Megumi. It is told by her parents, whose
composed smile visibly betrays a deeply felt
pain. Megumi's brothers and the former
principal also talk about the events and about
Megumi. The North Korean authorities
meanwhile put out a statement that she
committed suicide, but none of the people
involved accepts this story. They collect
evidence of her existence in North Korea and
keep pressurising the Japanese government.
The filmmaker's search itself is also included, in
the form of an actress paying a visit to Niigata,
the Yokotas' hometown.
Production:
Mirfilm
3e Kostverlorenkade 4
1054 TN Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6189171
[email protected]
Contact: Mirjam van Veelen
Sales:
Lombardo Films
Crusiusstrasse 1
D – 80538 München
Germany
℡ +49.89.21667636
[email protected]
www.lombardofilms.com
Het moeras
The Swamp
Video no. 70
Director: BarBara Hanlo
Genre: Experimental
Length: 61'
Impressionistic, nightmarish images of a
traveller in the Danube delta who looks for 'the
man in the house behind the swamp' from the
story of the same name by Dutch author A.
Alberts. When he moors at an island with a
house on it that used to be the executed dictator
Ceausescu's country cottage, reality and
imagination converge at this remarkable place.
The occupant is disturbed by the unwanted
guest. When it gets dark, he disappears into the
house. He is watched through the slightly open
door. In the end, he sits down to dinner and it
turns out the table has been set for three. The
invisible third person is the host's imaginary
lover. Loneliness and booze prevail. When the
traveller's delirium is at its height, the swamp
becomes the dominant factor.
Production:
Purple Earth Productions
WG Plein 7
1054 RA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6834372
+31.20.6834372
[email protected]
Contact: BarBara Hanlo
[email protected]
Sales:
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El Olvido
El Olvido - Oblivion
Video no. 186
Director: Heddy Honigmann
Original language: Spanish
Genre: Documentary
Length: 93'
For a long time now, Peru has been governed by
presidents who came into power through semidemocratic elections or corruption. Although
these men promised in their inaugural speeches
they would support the people, the Peruvians
are mainly forgotten. As are the inhabitants of
the capital Lima.
An elderly bartender mixes a classic cocktail.
He has made this Pisco Sour for many
presidents now. 'Behind the bar, you hear a lot,
but you can also feel impotent. You can't change
anything about the situation.' Many inhabitants
of Lima originally come from the Andes
Mountains. Hoping for a better life, they moved
to the city - ending up in poverty, after all. But
they are resourceful. Children do acrobatics at
the traffic lights, while others shine shoes for
hours. Like fourteen-year-old Henry, who
contrasts sharply with the teenagers playing
with their cellphones beside him.
Honigmann visits both the city centre and the
slums where many young artists live.
Restrained registrations alternate with the
telling conversations that Honigmann has with
people.
Production:
Cobos Films BV
Nicolaas Witsenkade 18-D
1017 ZS Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3203368
+31.20.5304787
[email protected]
www.cobosfilms.nl
Contact: Carmen Cobos
[email protected]
Sales:
Films Transit Inc.
Canada
℡ +1.514.8443358
+1.514.844729
[email protected]
Recycle
Video no. 56
Director: Mahmoud Al Massad
The Netherlands, Jordan, Germany 2008
Original language: Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Length: 80'
In 2006, Al Zarqawi, an important leader of AlQaida, was killed by American troops. Al
Zarqawi was originally from the poor Jordanian
town of Zarqa, where he was not exactly known
as a strictly religious man. Still, he became an
extremist here, like many other men from the
region.
The filmmaker descended on Zarqa for this
unpredictable and humane film and followed a
former mujahedin in his search for work to
support his family. This Abu Amar lacks
business instinct, so his book about the jihad
fails to find a publisher. There is nothing left for
him but go to the city with his sons and collect
cardboard. Amar tells about his memories of Al
Zarqawi and his view of the state of affairs in
the Middle East. He also discusses the subject
with friends. 'The solution is in economy,
democracy and freedom of speech, one of them
asserts. 'If you're suppressed and can't express
yourself, you turn to violence to convey your
ideas.' And Amar also struggles with reconciling
his religion with the everyday reality.
Production:
iSee Film
Pauwstraat 7
3512 TG Utrecht
Nederland
℡ +31.30.2381781
+31.30.2400490
[email protected]
Contact: Mara Mouwen
Sales:
Wide Management
40 bis, rue Sainte-Anne
75002 Paris
France
℡ +33.1.53950464
+33.1.53950465
[email protected]
www.widemanagement.com
De roze wolk
The Mamas and the Papas
Video no. 397
Director: Janine Bakker
Genre: Documentary
Length: 79'
In The Hague, the gay couple Patrick and
Edward live next door to the married lesbian
couple Iris and Manon. They are friends and all
four want to have children. And why should you
not, if you fancy your own sex, have your own
family? Edward: 'I also want to be able to
extend my line, leave something behind.'
In the Netherlands, more than 20,000 children
have homosexual parents. Since anonymous
donors are illegal, it happens more and more
that lesbian couples ask a (gay) friend or couple
not only to be a donor, but also actively play the
father's role.
And this is exactly the plan of the two couples
from The Hague. We see them doing a
pregnancy test, at the first ultrasound, in their
daily activities and furnishing the two baby's
rooms. They describe extensively how they
envisage the care for the baby and who will be
the biological parents and why, and that they
will all be mothers and fathers. Even Patrick,
who has only been together with Edward for ten
months, so he is not very close to the girls yet.
Production:
Paul de Bont Producties
Utrechtseweg 133
1213 TP Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6319012
+31.35.6319013
[email protected]
www.pauldebontproducties.nl
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
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Satellite Queens
Video no. 36
Director: Bregtje van der Haak
Original language: English, Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Length: 60'
Fawzia, Muna, Farah and Rania are the four
anchorwomen of the highly popular MBC talk
show Kalam Nawaem. In this pan-Arabic show,
which is broadcast weekly via satellite and
reaches some two million viewers all over the
world, the ladies address controversial issues
like homosexuality, masturbation, incest and
terrorism. The articulate and charismatic
hostesses, coming from Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon and Palestine, are followed at work,
but also at home. In the studio dressing rooms,
they have hearty discussions with the producer
about the course the show should pursue. At
home, the women talk about their life style, the
excitement around the programme and the
impact it has on society. All four consider their
work a contribution to the shift in the
traditional Arab world to a more open and
democratic
society.
Meanwhile,
the
documentary shows that every new show
creates a stir in the street.
Production:
Submarine
1011 VL Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3301226
+31.20.3301227
[email protected]
www.submarine.nl
Contact: Yaniv Wolf
[email protected]
Sales:
Films Transit Inc.
Canada
℡ +1.514.8443358
+1.514.844729
[email protected]
Sozdar, zij die haar belofte nakomt
Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise
Video no. 188
Director: Annegriet Wietsma
Original language: Dutch, German, Turkish, Kurdish
Genre: Documentary
Length: 70'
'If freedom were easily obtainable, it would be
unnecessary for so many people to die for its
sake.' Says Nuriye Kesbir, also known as
Sozdar, a PKK leader and champion of the
Kurdish fight for independence and the
emancipation of women. The filmmaker uses
her film to try and unravel why someone like
Hannie Schaft became a WW II resistance hero,
whereas Sozdar is branded one of the most
dangerous women in Europe.
At the age of twelve, Kesbir and her family fled
to Germany, after they had been driven from
their village by Turkish soldiers. In the late
eighties, she saw that the Kurds were still
oppressed, so she decided to stand up and do
something for 'humanity' and her people. In
1991, she joined the guerillas for the first time
and moved into the mountains to fight.
Annegriet Wietsma got in touch with Kesbir as
early as 2001, when she had been imprisoned in
the Netherlands on suspicion of terrorist
activities. Incorporating some of Kesbir's
letters, archive footage of guerrillas in the
mountains and interviews with relatives and
friends, the committed Wietsma tells Kesbir's
eventful story.
Production:
Bonanza Films
Sumatrakade 689-691
1019 PV Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6263801
+31.20.6270695
[email protected]
www.bonanza.nl
Contact: Harmen Jalvingh
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
Talking Guitars
Video no. 43
Director: Claire Pijman
Genre: Documentary
Length: 73'
With a coy smile, master guitar craftsman Flip
Scipio listens to famous musicians explain he
can handle any custom order. Experts claim he
can even make driftwood sing. People talk in
crescendo terms about him, but he is modesty
itself. He once took up this work because he
liked playing around with wood. When you
watch him work with steam and mould, you
understand the special sensation he says he has
when feeling wood bend in his hands.
'Suddenly, your guitar is threedimensional
instead of flat.' Paul Simon was so deeply
impressed with the work-in-progress guitar that
Scipio gave him to try out, that he forbade him
to change anything. And it was Scipio who was
called in to completely readjust one of Keith
Richard's favourite guitars for the coming
European tour. This documentary introduces
several musicians who entrust their beloved
instrument to him and demonstrate the guitars
that Scipio built or revamped.
www.talkingguitars.nl
Production:
Stichting Docu Shot
2e Jan van der Heijdenstraat 1
1073 VE Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6732932
+31.20.6710225
[email protected]
www.docushot.nl
Contact: Sven Sauer
That's Life
Video no. 437
Director: Sander Veeneman
Genre: Documentary
Length: 60'
Five to ten years ago, photographer and
filmmaker Sander Veeneman portrayed three
children in Mozambique, South Africa and
Peru. They should now have grown into young
adults. What have they developed into? Have
they managed to build up a future for
themselves and their family? And what are their
dreams for the future? He visits them with a
film camera and sometimes as the only data
their name and age. Especially the girl from
Mozambique is hard to trace. After looking here
and there, he finds a young woman, but is she
the girl in the photograph? The boy from Peru is
not doing so well. His Indian tribe is severely
struck by TBC and hepatitis. In South Africa,
Veeneman finds out that 'his' boy has become a
lively lad who loves sport.
The road movie documentary shows what their
everyday lives look like today, the primary
perspective being these people's inner strength
and not so much the poverty that surrounds
them.
Production:
First8
Nieuwe Leliestraat 14-bg
1015 SP Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4215533
[email protected]
Contact: Leonie van Hoevell
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
Tussen hemel en aarde
Between Heaven and Earth
Video no. 730
Director: Frank van den Engel, Masja Novikova
Original language: Uzbek, Russian
Genre: Documentary
Length: 72'
When Achat and Tursun Ali were seven and saw
a tightrope walker perform for the first time,
they lost their hearts to the circus. Together,
they became his apprentices and each started
his own family circus. The film extensively
shows what binds them: the awe-inspiring
exertions with weights, the blood-curdling
tightrope walks, the slithery grappling and the
fascinated, joyful looks of the spectators. The
soundtrack enhances the idyllic atmosphere.
But there is a sharp edge to it, too; during their
extravaganzas, the artists risk everything.
Due to the turbulent political situation their
country Uzbekistan has been in for some time
now, the friendship between the two
patresfamilias is under pressure. After a
dramatic event, Tursun Ali decides to renounce
politics. Achat stays the course, even after a
two-year prison sentence and a case of arson in
his house.
Production:
Zeppers Film & TV
1075 HC Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6758594
+31.20.6793929
[email protected]
www.zeppers.nl
Contact: Jorinde Sorée
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
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De verloren kolonie
The Lost Colony
Video no. 54
Director: Astrid Bussink
Original language: Russian, Abkhaz
Genre: Documentary
Length: 90'
The plaster is falling from the walls; the bars of
the cages are rusty. Desolation everywhere in
the Suchum Primate Centre. Still, scientists in
this institute in Abkhazia, which was founded in
1927, used to carry out advanced research of the
life of primates. During the violent separation of
Georgia from the Soviet Union in 1992/1993,
this pride of the country - the Americans built
laboratories after their model - could not be
saved. The ape colony fled into the forest and
has not been seen ever since. Nevertheless, one
of the staff members faithfully takes food to the
inhospitable area where he thinks they still live.
The food is eaten, which is sufficient proof to
him.
Director Astrid Bussink stumbled upon this
subject in a newspaper article about
experiments to crossbreed man and monkey.
Black-and-white archive footage shows how
primates are dissected and swung around in a
large machine. The research focuses on cancer
and space travel. The documentary follows the
build-up to and the progress of the symposium
that was organised in honour of the eightieth
jubilee of the Centre and that will hopefully
launch a new beginning.
Production:
Zeppers Film & TV
1075 HC Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6758594
+31.20.6793929
[email protected]
www.zeppers.nl
Contact: Willemijn Cerutti
Sales:
NPO/RNW Sales
Postbus 26444
1202 JJ Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6773760
+31.35.6775318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
www.lostcolony.nl
Het verloren paradijs
Paradise Remembered
Video no. 350
Director: Jan Wouter van Reijen
Genre: Documentary
Length: 62'
As a child, you take your time to watch the
melting snow for minutes. Or to examine
seemingly worthless treasures a little closer. A
top, for example, or a lock that has been
snipped through. Or to immensely enjoy a
coupe of ice cream, like the young woman in the
film still does. As a girl, her father already took
her to an ice-cream parlour, where she spooned
up her first strawberry sherbet. And she still
frequents her familiar parlour. 'How many icecream parlours does Holland actually have?',
she wonders. One sunny summer, she starts
looking for the answer. She calls on all parlours
that are named after Venice - from Leeuwarden
to Utrecht and from Zeist to Oss. Every time she
eats, clearly enjoying it, a fancy ice cream.
Products with resounding names like Coupe Da
Vinci, Coupe Amarena or Melone. Meanwhile,
she tells with wonder about the history of the
places she visits. We also see images of the
roads that lead to the different ice-cream
parlours. A crash barrier, a vast polder, bridges
and trains. Sometimes, she gets off to peer at
the Dutch scenery.
Production:
Jan Wouter van Reijen
Johannapark 1
1054 KB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6837762
[email protected]
Sales:
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De vijfde bruid
The Fifth Bride
Video no. 215
Director: Rogier Timmermans
Genre: Documentary
Length: 68'
'Some people go to Lourdes, I went to Anton
Heyboer', filmmaker Rogier Timmermans' aunt
Petra summarises. 'I ended up with him and
was cured. Without Ton, I wouldn't have been
around anymore'. In the eighties, Petra was the
fifth and last woman to join the fine artist
Anton Heyboer's harem, where she encountered
the authenticity she had vainly sought in
society: 'Everyone tends to play roles there'.
Timmermans intended to make a portrait of his
aunt, who runs a gallery across from Heyboer's
closed commune in Den Ilp. The challenging
film process forces the filmmaker to take a
closer look at his family, which leads to a
confrontation with his father. He also pays a
visit to his grandmother - Petra's mother and
collector of Heyboer's work - in Limburg. The
relationship his grandma has with Heyboer
surprisingly makes the pieces of the puzzle fit.
Shortly after Rogier's often postponed meeting
with Anton, the artist passes away. It turns out
that in the course of the shooting process,
Rogier's bond with Petra has been
strengthened.
Production:
Springfilm
Jan Evertsenstraat 759
1061 XZ Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.3306394
+31.20.6184368
[email protected]
www.springfilm.nl
Contact: Jacco Groen
Zwarte ogen
Black Eyes
Video no. 433
Director: Jan Bosdriesz
Original language: Dutch, Russian, Romanian, Latvian
Genre: Documentary
Length: 97'
Over the years, filmmaker Jan Bosdriesz
collected curious souvenirs from various
countries that he cherishes. He wonders about
their history. One of his favourite items is the
Russian LPs by Pyotr Leschenko from the 1930s
that he once inherited from his father. While
Bosdriesz travels to Russia to learn more about
the life of the singer whose music was forbidden
in Soviet Russia, the turbulent history of the
filmmaker's family is also addressed.
During his trip, Bosdriesz talks to people who
knew Leschenko. The film gradually unravels
Leschenko's life by means of interviews,
concerts, archive footage and a search through
archives. In the background, we hear
Leschenko's often tango-like love songs. Back
home, Bosdriesz talks to his half sisters and
unearths stories about his mother and her two
husbands by means of photographs and
recollections. It turns out that the Bosdriesz
history, too, abounds with rich, but tragic
events.
Production:
SNG Film BV
Postbus 59081
1040 KB Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6867837
+31.20.6824367
[email protected]
www.sngfilm.nl
Contact: Digna Sinke
Sales:
Boutique Films
Calle del Ansar 56-30 A
28047 Madrid
Spain
℡ +34.91.4798021
Contact: Rafael Molina
[email protected]
Additional Titles
Bikkel
Video no. 270
Director: Leo de Boer
Genre: Documentary
Length: 90'
The chronic kidney patient Bart de Graaff
(1967-2002) spent a shocking amount of time
in medical spheres, but he was also active in the
theatre, became a popular TV personality and
initiated a national TV channel.
“Bikkel” (after his nickname) is a reconstruction
of the short, intensive life of Bart de Graaff, who
after an unfortunate infection in his childhood
sustains permanent kidney damage. After a
kidney transplant, a new life phase dawns at the
age of 29, but soon things go wrong again. Right
in the face of all these setbacks, he founds the
national TV channel BNN.
Bart's mother, sister, father, fellow-patient and
former girlfriend look back on the adventures of
an extraordinary man, who retained a childlike
aura as a result of his growth disorder. The film
includes some sound fragments of Bart himself.
Excerpts from cartoons of his hero Tintin, as
well as due impressions and archive footage,
illustrate the biography. A moving story about
someone who in a last desperate effort fights for
a worthy and meaningful life.
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Production:
Noordermarkt 37-39
1015 NA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.17479860
+31.20.6386255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
[email protected]
Shylock
Video no. 582
Director: Michal Shabtay
Genre: Documentary
Length: 68'
Of all the memorable characters from the plays
by Shakespeare, Shylock is one of the most
intriguing. The film “Shylock” is an examination
of the tragic, droll and often unbearable life of
the most famous Jew in theatre history. We see
him through the eyes of Tubal, the only other
Jew in Shakespeare 's “The Merchant of
Venice”. It is at the same time a philosophical
and cinematographic study of our view of
strangers through the ages. In this 'one-man
film' with Cahid Ölmez, a colourful group of
characters passes by: from Portia to Pontius
Pilate, from the merchant Antonio to Adolph
Hitler and from Dracula to the Wandering Jew.
But Tubal, Shylock's only friend, is the leading
character. With a wink, a grin and a shrug,
Tubal maps out how the perspective of Shylock
has developed over the centuries. He talks
about Shakespeare himself, about drama, about
history and about ideas. In the film, Gareth
Amstrong's solo performance of the play is
combined with the “The Merchant of Venice” in
the adaptation and direction of TGA/Olana
Mafalaani.
Production:
De Productie
Paradijslaan 106-108
3034 SR Rotterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.14535162
+31.84.8731525
[email protected]
www.deproductie.nl
Contact: René Goossens
[email protected]
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El Camino del Deseo
Road of desire
Video no. 708
Director: Eva Cools
Belgium 2008
Genre:
Length: 23'
Ana, a young Spanish woman, hitch hikes near
a desolate highway in the middle of the night.
She lives in a world of truckers, highway
restaurants and passing strangers. Ana is
lonely, until she is taken up by a rock band that
introduces her to a world of decadence.
Ana has found a way to escape to a new world,
leaving her life in Spain far behind.
Production:
Emerald
Antoon Sanderusstraat 44
B-9000 Gent
Belgium
Contact: Xavier Rombaut
[email protected]
Of Cats and Woman
Video no. 721
Director: Jonas Govaerts
Belgium 2008
Genre: Short
Length: 9'
Of Cats and Women is a short film directed by
Jonas Govaerts, about a woman consumed by
jealousy. To get back at her ex-lover and his
new girlfriend, she decides to kidnap their cat...
Based on the short story by Scottish writer
Laura Hird..
Production:
Potemkino
Timmerhoutkaai 7
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
℡ +32.47.6211250
[email protected]
www.potemkino.com
Contact: Peter de Maegd
Tunnelrat
Video no. 729
Director: Raf Reyntjens
Belgium 2008
Original language: English, German
Genre: Short
Length: 20'
Ypres salient, 1917. World War 1 is in a
deadlock. Allied and German tunnelers are
digging tunnels to blow up enemy’s trenches.
Simultaneously both sides specialize in tracing
and destroying
these
enemy
tunnels.
John Atkins, an allied tunneler, is digging a
tunnel underneath no-man’s land when the roof
collapses and a German listener falls through.
They’re locked up, sharing the same fate,
confronted with their common enemy: war
itself.
Production:
Potemkino
Timmerhoutkaai 7
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
℡ +32.47.6211250
[email protected]
www.potemkino.com
Contact: Peter de Maegd
Godenzoon
God-Given
Video no. 27
Director: Wolke Kluppell
Genre: Drama
Length: 40'
A former soccer talent sits in front of the TV set,
unshaved, zapping. His complaining wife does
the laundry. Their little daughter has Down
Syndrome and is taunted in the street. But there
is something absurd in the air: the living room
floor has a large hole in it and the news
mentions a hail of bread. And then suddenly a
black baby falls from heaven. This gives the
white parents a feeling of fear, but also renewed
hope. As the rapper sings: 'Sometimes
something has to happen, before something
happens.'
Production:
Ijswater Films
1079 LD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4421760
[email protected]
Contact: Marc Bary
Sales:
SND Films
Postbus 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
Nederland
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+31.20.4040708
[email protected]
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Land van onze grootouders, waar herinneringen liggen
Land of Our Grandparents, where memories lie…
Video no. 716
Director: Alexander Goekjian, Kay Mastenbroek
Original language: English, Turkish
Genre: Documentary
Length: 61'
Traces of a genocide are buried deep in the
mountains of Eastern Anatolia and in the
memories of Turks and Kurds. To speak openly
of the deportation and killing of the Armenians
from this area in 1915 is considered an insult to
the Turkish nation.
But for Ugur Üngör, a Dutch-Turkish scholar,
and Alexander Goekjian, an AmericanArmenian filmmaker, it doesn't matter. They're
going on a road-trip through the land of their
grandparents and through their forbidden
memories of the Armenian Genocide. An
unsuspecting Turkish soundman joins them on
their journey.
Why are they taking the risk? For the sake of
history, or family? Justice, or guilt? Truth, or
ambition?
Production:
Electrical Films and Zelovics
Productions
Oosterdokskade 5 Unit 810
1011 AD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.02.4680883
[email protected]
www.electricalfilms.nl
Contact: Kay Mastenbroek
Sales:
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Adriaan
Adrian
Video no. 702
Director: Mischa Kamp
Genre: Drama
Length: 50'
Adriaan is a drama series for pre-school
children, introducing spirituality.
Every episode starts with 5 year old Adrian
saying: “I’m Adrian and my dog just died.”
Adrian tries to get over the death of his dog
Spottie in his own way, with help of his friend
Teun, his father and mother and Mrs. Rabbers.
Production:
Eyeworks Egmond Film &
Television
Anthony Fokkerweg 61
1059 CP Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.02.6661892
+31.20.3463738
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
Contact: Hans de Wolf
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Kwestbaar Begin
On the Edge of Life and Death
Video no. 715
Director: Rob Hof
Genre: Documentary
Length: 52' and 58'
On the Edge of Death and Life explores
decision-making and ethical questions of
doctors and parents in a Dutch neonatology
department concerning the early birth of
premature children.
The Netherlands is the first country in the
world where a protocol defines the minimum
number of weeks a newborn child should have
to start intensive care treatment. The protocol
does so because of ethical reasons. A child and
its parents should be protected against
irresponsible treatment, treatment which leads
in a great number of cases to handicapped or
the death of children at the cost of a lot of
suffering. Treatment only starts when babies
have reached at least 25 weeks of age.
On the Edge of Death and Life deals with the
frontiers of medical science. Where does science
have to give up and let go in a time that
everything seems possible?
Production:
Hoffilm
Le Corbusierstraat 12
3822 EA Amersfoort
Nederland
℡ +31.33.4563482
+31.33.4550528
[email protected]
www.hoffilm.eu
Contact: Rob Hof
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Angelique & Titia
Video no. 703
Director: Claudia Tellegen
Genre: Documentary
Length: 67'
Angelique is 22 and has Down syndrome. She
lives with her mother Titia. The bond between
Angelique and her mother is very strong.
“Angelique is my guardian angel” Titia says.
Their lives are about to change drastically,
because mother Titia is homesick for her native
country Suriname. She longs to spend the rest
of her life in her motherland. She knows this is
not an option for Angelique. In Suriname, the
care for mentally handicapped people is not
good.
For Angelique, the solution is simple: she finds
herself old enough to move out and live in a
group home. When the decision has been made
and the practical preparations for Angelique’s
move are underway, it is time for mother and
daughter to say goodbye.
A film about the special bond between an
daughter and her mother, about loving and
letting go.
Production:
NCRV
P.O.Box 25000
1202 HB Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.671 9911
+31.35.671 9285
www.ncrv.nl
Contact: Mrs. Yolande van der Blij
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¡Cuba RebelióN!
Video no. 700
Director: Sander de Nooij, Alessio Cuomo
Original language: Cuban
Genre: Music and Arts
Length: 52'
Cuba RebelioN is not another film about Cuba
and Salsa Music or Cuba and Cigars.
It’s film about Cuban underground punk-rock
and metal musicians who rebel against the
Castro-regime and shows the daily struggle of
artists who dare to make a statement with their
songs. And it features great music - the kind you
won’t expect.
Filmmakers/musicians Alessio Cuomo and
Sander de Nooij went to Cuba with their camera
and their guitars and secretly filmed a new
generation of young artists who are against the
communist regime and want to make a change,
even at the risk of imprisonment.
Gorki Luis Águila Carrasco from the punk-rock
band Porno Para Ricardo became very popular
with
anti-communist
songs
like
‘El
Commandante’ and ‘El Cake’.
In 2003, when Gorki had just produced an
award-winning video and was announced as the
third most popular rockstar in Cuba, he was
suddenly arrested on charges of drug
trafficking. Human Rights organisations say
that his arrest is just a way to silence him for
political reasons. After two years Gorki was
released, but he is still blacklisted. The film
follows Porno Para Ricardo, the metalband
Escape and the rap/rock band QVA Libre,
featuring concert footage and interviews with
these musicians. It shows the painful reality of
artists who can’t express themselves publicly.
Production:
Column Producties
Van Eeghenstraat 92
1097 GL Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.572 2700
+31.20.572 2701
[email protected]
www.columntv.nl
Contact: Natasja Möhrs
Sales:
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Tegenlicht: Papa is een Martelaar
Backlight: Daddy is a Martyr
Video no. 728
Director: Daisy Mohr
Original language: Arabic, English
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
We follow Dalal Mouazzi as she grapples with
the death of her martyred husband. While Dalal
is proud of the way Ibrahim died, his loss has
left a painful void in the life of her and her five
children.
The film offers a unique insight into a Shiite
Muslim community and shows how Hezbollah
takes care of this family. Regarded a terrorist
organization by many Western countries, they
also offer spiritual and social support. With a
well-trained staff, their social programs offer
some of the best welfare services in Lebanon;
the essence of Hezbollah’s power. We witness
how Dalal’s children – the ideal future martyrs are socialized by Hezbollah and their
community to love and respect the concept of
Jihad. This support creates a moral sense of
indebtedness. We see how the Party of God
encourages its followers to become martyrs by
glorifying the Jihad and creating a sense of
loyalty by providing social support. This cycle of
martyrdom is crucial to Hezbollah’s survival
and future strategy.
Production:
VPRO
P.O.Box 11
1200 JC Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6712212
+31.35.6712252
[email protected]
www.vpro.nl
Contact: Doke Romeijn
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Mr Rakowski
Video no. 718
Director: Jan Diederen
Genre: Documentary
Length: 75' and 55'
There are many holocaust survivor stories
which focus on the familiar pain, guilt and
shame suffered by survivors. This is not one of
them. This is the story of 90-year old Sam
Rakowksi, a Jewish man who by any measure,
would be considered for the highest honor that
mankind can bestow for bravery and
perseverance. Yet as a father this man is
tragically flawed, and his highly successful 55year old son, Richie, is still desperate to
understand why.
This film documents Richie’s attempts to bridge
the gulf between himself and his father. In
doing so it not only explores the universal and
timeless theme of the father-son relationship, it
also probes the gray area between the
debilitating aftereffects of psychological trauma
and the apparent inescapability of inherited
characteristics. It asks some uncomfortable
questions, such as: Can a holocaust survivor’s
horrendous experiences be the sole cause of, or
even justify, unacceptable behavior as a parent?
Can the child of a Holocaust survivor ever view
their parent as anything other than a Holocaust
survivor?
The result is a deeply moving and surprisingly
optimistic portrait of a severely problematic
father and son relationship, compounded by the
father’s traumatic experiences during the
Holocaust.
Production:
Jan Diederen
Centuurbaan 410 III
1074 EA Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6764094
[email protected]
Contact: Jan Diederen
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Stolen Children
Video no. 726
Director: Ivanka Bakker
Original language: Dutch, Italian
Genre: Documentary
Length: 50'
This documentary portrays two mothers who
are fighting for the right to keep their children
after an international separation.
Miranda is a ‘kidnapper”- she took her daughter
back from Italy to the Netherlands without the
consent of Noa´s father. Jeanette is a victim of
kidnapping - her two young daughters did not
return to The Netherlands after a holiday in
Egypt with their Egyptian father.
With globalization, international marriages and
international divorces are increasing. The
conflict about parental rights in case of a
divorce is a growing issue. Both parents want
equal parental rights. According to The The
Hague convention it is called ‘international
kidnapping’ if one parent takes the child to
another country without consent of the other
parent. But reality is more complex than a
convention. Law systems differ per country and
can contradict one another. Parents can lose
themselves in endless lawsuits. In the end the
child is the victim.
Production:
Paul de Bont Productions
Berkenlaan 3
1213 SR Hilversum
Nederland
℡ +31.35.6319012
+31.35.6319013
[email protected]
Contact: Paul de Bont
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Moordwijven
Killer Babes
Video no. 15
Director: Dick Maas
Genre: Drama
Length: 100'
Although they have had their looks drastically
changed for their wealthy husbands, three
bored millionaire's wives threaten to be
swapped for younger rivals, after all. The first
victim of nagging suspicion is Kitty, married to
a record industry bigwig. She uses an extensive
checklist to tally how suspicious her husband's
behaviour is. In the long term, this might well
cause some ruffles in her luxurious life. She
decides to set a hired gun, who adores Cliff
Richard and has a deformed face, on him. But
the hitman does not do the job without a
struggle. What follows is a satirical farce that is
alternately reminiscent of “Gooische Vrouwen”,
“A Fish Called Wanda”, “The Naked Gun 33
1/3” and Dick Maas' own “Flodder” films.
The director makes use of his familiar
trademarks: cynical gallows humour, flat
characters, bright colours, spectacular stunts
and a break-neck tempo. The intended title “De
Botox Methode” was changed by order of the
pharmaceutical company Allergan.
www.moordwijvendefilm.nl
Production:
Parachute Pictures
NZ. Voorburgwal 333
1012 RM Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.6273394
[email protected]
Sales:
TFILMS
39 Val Sainte Croix
L-1371 Luxembourg
℡ +352.45.2122
+352.26.441612
[email protected]
Contact: Heinz Thym
The many faces of Rene de Koning
Video no. 734
Director: 48 hour film project
Genre: Short films
Rene de Koning, Museum Kurator, was the
required character which all teams had to
include in their short films in the 2007 Utrecht
48 Hour Film Project. They also had to include
the required prop – a broom – and the required
line of dialogue “Is this the way you want it?/Is
dit hoe je het hebben wilt?”. The teams received
these instructions on Friday evening, along with
a randomly selected genre per team, and had to
finish their masterpiece in just 48 hours.
Production:
Chris Parker & Richard Schut
[email protected]
Contact: Chris Parker
[email protected]
The many faces of Anne Kattenkruid
Video no. 735
Director: 48 hour film project
Genre: Short films
Anne Kattenkruid, painter, was the required
character which all teams had to include in their
short films in the 2008 Amsterdam 48 Hour
Film Project. They also had to include the
required prop – a monkey – and the required
line of dialogue “Welke rol heb jij heirin
gehad?”/ “What part did you have in this?”. The
teams received these instructions on Friday
evening, along with a randomly selected genre
per team, and had to finish their masterpiece in
just 48 hours.
Production:
Chris Parker & Richard Schut
[email protected]
Contact: Chris Parker
[email protected]
Het wapen van Geldrop
3 Hearts
Video no. 161
Director: Thijs Römer
Genre: Drama
Length: 85'
'This is not an everyday story. So that you know.
If you don't understand it at times, you'll just
have to rely on... well...it'll be fine', says Joke in
the voice-over. Joke is quite a normal woman
with a family in Leidschendam. 'I put my
children to bed, as I'm supposed to', she
emphasises. Still, Joke makes a non-standard
choice, which makes her end up in a car late at
night. By a confluence of events, she meets two
other drifters on a remote road. The strange girl
is silent; the man wants to go to Geldrop. The
three young strangers make a symbiotic road
trip through both a fairy-like and a
hyperrealistic Holland. Nobody asks any
questions, although in time some things are
revealed about the characters. About their
motives to choose anonymously for the road
and look for deliverance.
Thijs Römer's feature debut. His scenario is full
of imaginative, visual excursions and perverse
dialogues, like: 'How many advertising
campaigns do you know? Only fifteen?!' 'But I
do know twenty-two different horse species.'
Production:
Column Film
Warmoesstraat 149-151
1012 JC Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.6.53461357
+31.20.5722701
[email protected]
www.columnfilm.com
Contact: Natasja Möhrs
Sales:
Same as Production
www.hetwapenvangeldrop.nl
Terugweg
Backtrack
Video no. 110
Director: Henk Haselager, Michael Helmerhorst
Genre: Drama
Length: 10'
In the middle of the night, Luna and her friend
Evy are thrown out of the car by her boyfriend
after a flaming row. How will they get to the
party now? They initially think he will come
back, but their hope evaporates. Should they go
back home then? Hitching a ride is the only
option left. The cars at the gas station across the
road are going in the right direction, but it is
very dangerous to cross the highway, Evy
thinks. Still, Luna takes the risk. On the other
side, everything is cold and dark.
Production:
Ijswater Films
1079 LD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4421760
[email protected]
Contact: Marc Bary
Sales:
SND Films
Postbus 15703
1001 NE Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4040707
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Ooit
Once
Video no. 31
Director: Jaap van Heusden
Genre: Drama
Length: 39'
Order. That is what the mentally-challenged,
34-year-old Jos feels comfortable with. He lives
with his mother. Helped by his instructions
book - have a pee, wash hands, read book - he
manages reasonably well, but mummy still has
to wash his buttocks. On his birthday, his
regimented life is turned into havoc, to his great
alarm. What are the things he can actually do all
by himself?
Production:
Ijswater Films
1079 LD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4421760
[email protected]
Contact: Marc Bary
Sales:
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1001 NE Amsterdam
Nederland
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[email protected]
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Onder de Tafel
Under the Table
Video no. 30
Director: Sach Polak
Genre: Drama
Length: 39'
Jacob faces the tough task to keep his father,
who suffers from Korsakoff's syndrome, from
drinking. Hoping his father will start
remembering things again, he decides to take
him to the holiday bungalow they spent a
vacation in twenty years ago. In vain. They
spend their days as complete strangers. When
the father finally hits the botttle, Jacob takes a
radical decision.
Production:
Ijswater Films
1079 LD Amsterdam
Nederland
℡ +31.20.4421760
[email protected]
Contact: Marc Bary
Sales:
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1001 NE Amsterdam
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3 Hearts
48 hour film project 2007
48 hour film project 2008
171
3
169
170
A
Aan ons den arbeid
Adam
Adriaan
Adrian
Alibi
Alles is liefde
Ami
Angelique & Titia
The Attic
Away
84
85
4
161
161
64
65
131
5
163
6
26
B
Backlight: Daddy is a Martyr
Backtrack
Bambara Blues
Between Heaven and Earth
Big Buck Bunny
Bikkel
The Birthday
Black as Ink
Black Eyes
Blind Date
Bloedbroeders
Blood Brothers
Bollywood Bijlmer
Brand
Brat
Burn
165
172
132
148
7
154
41
62
152
66
67
67
8
9
10
68
9
C
Calimucho
Cameras for the Invisible Ones
Carnival in Maastricht
Chicagoblok - Stories from the Elevator
Coffee
Comburo
Come Back Kate
Corpus Christi and the Tears of the King
¡Cuba RebelióN!
69
86
86
87
87
133
133
11
12
88
116
164
Film Index | 175
D
Dauw
De onbaatzuchtigen
Deranged
Dew
The Dictator Hunter
Dispossession
Divine Intervention
Don-E
Drang
Dunya & Desie
134
89
13
90
14
134
135
42
15
16
17
91
70
E
Eeuwige moes
El Camino del Deseo
Het elixer
The Elixir
Emoticons
Eternal Mash
Exploded View
Exploded View
92
18
156
19
19
93
92
20
20
F
FAL
Fancy Suits, Wet Grounds
Far Away Future
Far from Familiy
FF Praten
The Fifth Bride
Filmstreet
Final
Finale
Flessenpost
Flikker
Four Eyes
Friends
21
120
94
79
22
151
23
24
24
25
95
56
5
G
Gaandeweg
Getijden
Godenzoon
God-Given
Grafiet
Grandma's House
Graphite
H
176 | Film Index
26
96
97
27
159
159
28
29
28
Heartbeat
Hoger dan de Kuip
The Houses of Hristina
30
98
31
99
89
I
If We Knew
In Birma
In the Shadow of a Mosque
IndoNow
IndoNu
Inside Burma
It's not Funny, It's Art
Ivo, The Unauthorized Biography of a Zoo Gorilla
32
131
100
99
101
101
100
31
102
102
J
Jan Mesdag Sings Brel
Joaquin Sabina - 19 Days and 500 Nights
Jolanda 23
Julia / Guiliana
July
103
103
136
136
33
34
35
K
Katia's Sister
Killer Babes
Kubus
Kwestbaar Begin
82
168
36
162
L
Land of Our Grandparents, where memories lie…
Landscapes Unknown (II)
The Letter for the King
The Lost Colony
Love Is All
160
160
104
104
138
37
68
149
38
65
M
Mafrika
The Mamas and the Papas
The many faces of Rene de Koning
The many faces of Anne Kattenkruid
Master Ben
De match
71
143
169
170
106
105
Film Index | 177
The Match
Meester Ben
Megumi
Message in a Bottle
Micha Klein, Speeding on the Virtual Highway
Het moeras
Mona. A Ghost Story
Moon and the Wolfgirl
Moordwijven
Mr Rakowski
My Dear Grandma
My Mother, Actress Willeke van Ammelrooy
105
106
139
25
124
107
140
39
108
108
168
166
40
107
N
N-ID
Nachtwerkers
Narozeniny
Nest Clingers
Nestblijvers
Nightworkers
No Worries About Tomorrow
Nothing to Lose
109
110
41
111
111
110
112
96
76
O
Of Cats and Woman
An Old Friend of the Chinese People
El Olvido
El Olvido - Oblivion
Omet
On the Edge of Life and Death
Once
Onder de Tafel
De onverboden stad
Ooit
Ours is the Labour
Overgave
Overleven
157
114
141
141
72
162
173
174
113
173
114
84
42
43
P
Paradise Remembered
Point Off U
Pony Express
Public Figures
73
150
44
45
46
115
Q
Queer
178 | Film Index
95
R
Raw Honey
Recycle
Reef
Rif
Road of Desire
De roze wolk
Ruwe Honing
48
142
47
47
156
143
48
S
Sand
Sarah Ann
Sasja and Natasha
Sasja en Natasha
Satellite Queens
Screws, Machines and Happiness
Second Thoughts
The Secret of Boccherini
See you in Vegas
Shylock
Sight
Silent Snow
Sing for Darfur
Sons of the Sea
Sozdar, She Who Lives Her Promise
Stolen Children
Surprise
Surviving
The Swamp
116
60
49
117
117
144
118
118
121
97
137
74
155
54
119
75
120
121
129
145
145
122
167
71
43
140
T
Talking Guitars
Tania Kross. Classical Music for Everyone
TBS
Terugweg
That's Life
The Altruists
Tide
Tides
De tijd
Timboektoe
Tiramisu
146
123
123
76
165
172
147
13
57
27
50
77
78
Film Index | 179
To the End of the Road
Together Again
Traces
Tunnelrat
Two Ambassadors
18
51
52
158
148
53
U
Uitzicht
Under the table
The Unforbidden City
Urgence
54
174
113
17
V
Ver van familie
Vera
De verloren kolonie
Vier Ogen
De vijfde bruid
Vox Populi
79
55
149
150
56
151
124
80
W
Waterstand
We Will Block You
Westerbork Girl
Westerbork meisje
Whiplashed
Winter Silence
Winterstilte
Woman
171
125
57
126
127
127
58
81
81
59
Y
Yuri
128
Z
Zand
Zen
Zo zwart als inkt
Zonen van de zee
Het Zusje van Katia
Zwarte ogen
60
61
62
129
82
152
180 | Film Index
Marta Abad Blay
My Dear Grandma
Anna Abrahams
Marloes Albers
Zo zwart als inkt
Janine Bakker
De roze wolk
Willem Baptist
Yuri
Jan van den Berg
Silent Snow
Leen van den Berg
Sasja en Natasha
Jeroen van Bergeijk
Aan ons den arbeid
Carine Bijlsma
Marieke Blaauw
Marion Bloem
Ver van familie
Lourens Blok
Kevin Boitelle
Don-E
Dominique Bongers
Ami
Berend Boorsma
Brat
Roel Boorsma
Brat
Jantien Borsboom
The Attic
Jan Bosdriesz
Zwarte ogen
Peter Bouman
IndoNu
Niels Bourgonje
Brand
Jolande des Bouvrie
Juul Bovenberg
Nestblijvers
Manon Bovenkerk
Julia / Guiliana
Arthur Bueno
Flikker
Carol Burgemeestre
IndoNu
Sander Burger
40
3
62
143
128
119
117
84
97
31
79
74
16
5
10
10
6
152
101
9
125
111
34
95
101
73
Director Index | 181
Astrid Bussink
De verloren kolonie
Catherine van Campen
Eeuwige moes
Maurice Castagna
Nachtwerkers
Heinrich Dahms
Overleven
Cédric Debled
Comburo
Koen Dejaegher
De onbaatzuchtigen
Julius Dettmer
Zen
Arno Dierickx
Bloedbroeders
Carrien Dijkstra
Dauw
Karel Doing
Getijden
Sarah Mathilde Domogala
Bogomir Doringer
Deranged
Frank Dorren
Far Away Future
Lieven van Droogenbroeck
Pony Express
Corinne van Egeraat
Frank van den Engel
Kim Engelen
Woman
Melle van Essen
Ramón Gieling
Joost van Ginkel
Zand
Sacha Goedegebure
Big Buck Bunny
German Gruber
Roland Gunst
N-ID
Bregtje van der Haak
Satellite Queens
BarBara Hanlo
Het moeras
Simon Haringa
182 | Director Index
149
92
110
43
12
13
61
67
134
27
108
14
94
46
124
148
59
104
136
60
7
37
109
144
140
91
Rogier Hesp
Uitzicht
Kees Hin
De match
Claudia Hoedemaker
Heddy Honigmann
Emoticons
El Olvido
Vuk Janic
Meester Ben
Ingeborg Jansen
Hoger dan de Kuip
Eugenie Jansen
Calimucho
Melinda Jansen
Bollywood Bijlmer
Steven Janssens
Point Off U
Denise Janzée
Mijke de Jong
Het Zusje van Katia
Laurens 't Jong
Kubus
Karin Junger
In Birma
Ben Jurna
Dauw
Shaul Kesslassi
Willemiek Kluijfhout
Zo zwart als inkt
Thomas Korthals Altes
Vera
Johan Kramer
Sing for Darfur
Pieter Kuijpers
TBS
Ibo Kurdo
Omet
Wouter de Kuyper
Arjanne Laan
Zonen van de zee
Peter Lataster
Petra Lataster-Czisch
Jan Louter
54
105
116
93
141
106
133
99
69
8
45
107
82
36
100
134
85
62
55
75
76
72
96
129
131
131
138
Joram Lürsen
Alles is liefde
Floris-Jan van Luyn
De onverboden stad
Mahmoud Al Massad
Recycle
Dries Meinema
Waterstand
Patrick Minks
Finale
Jef Monté
Vladimir Murtin
Narozeniny
Helena Muskens
Come Back Kate
Dana Nechushtan
Dunya & Desie
Johan Nijenhuis
Alibi
masha Novikova
Hans van Nuffel
FAL
Terry O'Leary
Mona. A Ghost Story
Paula van der Oest
Tiramisu
Eric Olofsen
Public Figures
Steffie van den Oord
Westerbork meisje
Joris Oprins
Wilfred Ottenheijm
Het elixer
Charlotte van Otterloo
Eugène Paashuis
Ruben Pest
Claire Pijman
Talking Guitars
Sacha Polak
Drang
Klaartje Quirijns
The Dictator Hunter
Quirine Racké
Come Back Kate
Suzanne Raes
65
113
142
57
24
120
41
88
70
64
148
21
39
78
115
127
31
19
38
121
118
146
17
135
88
89
Pedram Rahmany
Filmstreet
Paula Rennings
Sandesh de Rijk
Divine Intervention
Traces
Arnoud Rijken
Whiplashed
Job Roggeveen
Aaron Rookus
Fedor van Rossem
Two Ambassadors
Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Paul Ruven
Mafrika
Feike Santbergen
Vier Ogen
Erik van Schaaik
Margot Schaap
Gaandeweg
Peter Scholten
Dave Schram
Timboektoe
Kay Schuttel
FF Praten
René Seegers
Eric Steegstra
Rif
Arend Steenbergen
Grandma's House
Peter Sterk
Two Ambassadors
Martijn Stoppels
Eddy Terstall
Vox Populi
Rogier Timmermans
De vijfde bruid
Stanley Tucci
Blind Date
Cigdem Türek
23
150
87
15
52
58
31
32
53
122
122
71
56
44
26
98
77
22
114
47
29
53
123
80
151
66
Coffee
Mirjam van Veelen
Megumi
Sander Veeneman
That's Life
Bart Vegter
De tijd
Martijn Veldhoen
Together Again
Pieter Verhoeff
Kasper Verkaik
Mark Verkerk
Edwin van Viegen
Heartbeat
Sidney Vollmer
Adam
Saskia Vredeveld
Rob de Vries
Flikker
Annick Vroom
Ruwe Honing
Jacqueline van Vugt
Bambara Blues
Ron Wanders
Flessenpost
Joanna Wesseling
Overgave
Emma Westermann
Annegriet Wietsma
Seger van Wijk
Exploded View
Annick van Wijk
Eva de Winkel
Grafiet
Mirjam de With
Maarten Witte
July
Sonja Wyss
Winterstilte
Riekje Ziengs
Annebelle van Zweden
July
Pim Zwier
11
139
147
50
51
68
90
86
30
4
112
95
48
132
25
42
103
145
20
102
28
18
35
81
104
35
Jolanda 23
Sarah Ann
33
49
100% Halal
AAA-Pictures
Allegri Film
Apples & Oranges
Brand
Arizona Films
Woman
Armadillo Film
Ruwe Honing
Arthur Bueno AV
Flikker
Auvimedia
Far Away Future
bAMbOefilm
Heartbeat
Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten St. Joost
Ami
The Attic
Comburo
Zen
Bonanza Films
Zonen van de zee
Timboektoe
BuzzMedia Network
Overleven
C*View productions
CABK ArtEZ Academie Zwolle
Flessenpost
Caraut AV producties
Dauw
CCCP
Christel Palace
Sing for Darfur
Cinnamon
Pony Express
Circe Films
Calimucho
Cobos Films BV
El Olvido
Column Film
Blind Date
¡Cuba RebelióN!
188 | Producer Index
108
74
104
9
59
48
95
94
30
5
6
12
118
61
112
145
129
77
43
116
25
134
38
75
46
69
141
66
164
Diafragma Films
Aan ons den arbeid
Dieper Beeld
DNU Film
Westerbork meisje
Doing Film
Getijden
DRS Film
Silent Snow
Dutch Courage Film
Adam
Mafrika
Together Again
Dyzlo Film
Emerald
El Camino del Deseo
EMS Films
Extra Strong Productions
Two Ambassadors
Eyeworks Egmond Film and Television
Adriaan
Fictievevrijheid
Jolanda 23
Sarah Ann
First8
That's Life
Fu Works
Brat
Coffee
Deranged
Hoger dan de Kuip
IDTV Docs
Meester Ben
IDTV Film
Alles is liefde
Tiramisu
IJswater Films
Nestblijvers
Godenzoon
Terugweg
Onder de tafel
Ooit
171
84
120
127
27
119
4
71
51
103
156
86
53
68
161
33
49
147
10
11
14
133
99
89
106
65
78
111
159
171
174
173
Producer Index | 189
Whiplashed
Blender Institute
Big Buck Bunny
iSee Film
Recycle
Job, Joris & Marieke
John Croezen Cartoon
Rif
Kabaal Producties
Bollywood Bijlmer
Kaliber Film
Yuri
Keyman Film
Het Zusje van Katia
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag
FF Praten
Hogeschool v.d. Kunsten Utrecht- Kunst, Media & Technologie
Nachtwerkers
Vier Ogen
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht
Lataster&Films
Lemming Film
Dunya & Desie
Lowland Services bv
stichting made in holland films
In Birma
Mindset Producties
Mona. A Ghost Story
Mirfilm
Megumi
Miroir Film
Mooves
Het elixer
Mountain View Pictures
Grandma's House
Nat Zand
Divine Intervention
Traces
Nederlands Instituut voor Animatiefilm
My Dear Grandma
Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie (NFTA)
44
58
7
142
31
47
8
128
82
22
96
37
110
56
32
131
70
114
100
39
139
138
19
29
102
15
52
40
Drang
Gaandeweg
Overgave
Uitzicht
Waterstand
Nijenhuis & de Levita Film en TV BV
Alibi
Vera
Noctiluca
Omrop Fryslân
Opslaan Als
Don-E
P & P regisseurs
Parachute Pictures
Moordwijven
De roze wolk
Stolen Children
Bikkel
The Dictator Hunter
De Productie
Shylock
Potemkino
Of Cats and Woman
Tunnelrat
Pupkin Film
TBS
Het moeras
Rinkel Film & TV Productions BV
Bloedbroeders
RITS Erasmushogeschool Brussel
De onbaatzuchtigen
Rocketta Film
Ver van familie
Rongwrong
Selman Productions
Omet
seriousFilm
Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussel
SNG Film BV
Winterstilte
Zwarte ogen
Snow White Films
17
26
42
54
57
64
55
122
91
16
87
168
143
167
154
135
136
155
157
158
76
140
67
13
79
3
72
98
18
81
152
Producer Index | 191
Come Back Kate
Spaghetti Film B.V.
Vox Populi
Springfilm
De vijfde bruid
Stichting Aves
Stichting Docu Shot
Talking Guitars
Stichting Picos de Europa
De tijd
Stichting Trueworks
Zo zwart als inkt
Stichting Zand
Zand
Studio des Bouvrie
Studio Martijn Stoppels
Submarine
De onverboden stad
Satellite Queens
Timecut Films
Finale
Stichting Cerita Fakta Tino Pattipilohy
IndoNu
TRIGA
Narozeniny
De match
Sasja en Natasha
Viewpoint Productions
Bambara Blues
VOF Appel & Honigmann
Emoticons
vonLondonn Group
Point Off U
VPRO TV
Vrij Media Collectief
We Will Block You
Grafiet
July
Kubus
Impakt Works
Julia / Guiliana
Zeppers Film & TV
88
80
151
73
146
50
62
60
125
123
90
113
144
124
24
101
41
105
117
132
93
45
121
165
126
28
35
36
34
107
148
10 Francs
Eeuwige moes
92
100% Halal
108
Big Pete bv
Zonen van de zee
Niels Bourgonje
Brand
Boutique Films
Zwarte ogen
Timboektoe
Arthur Bueno
Flikker
Cinemavault Releasing International Inc.
Blind Date
Circe Films
Calimucho
Cobos Films BV
El Olvido
Companyfilms
Overgave
Delphis Films
Dunya & Desie
Diafragma Films
Aan ons den arbeid
Dutch Courage Film
Adam
Mafrika
De Filmbank
Getijden
Julia / Guiliana
De tijd
Films Transit Inc.
The Dictator Hunter
Satellite Queens
Fu Works
Brat
Joost van Ginkel
Zand
High Point Media Group
TBS
IDTV Docs
Meester Ben
IDTV Film
Alles is liefde
Tiramisu
Illumina Films
136
129
9
152
77
95
66
69
141
42
70
84
4
71
3
27
34
50
135
144
10
60
76
106
65
78
Sales Index | 193
Bambara Blues
Kaliber Film
Yuri
Lombardo Films
Megumi
Molenwiek Film
Nijenhuis & de Levita Film en TV BV
Vera
Non Stop Entertainment
Bloedbroeders
NPO/RNW Sales
Adriaan
Angelique & Titia
¡Cuba RebelióN!
Kwestbaar Begin
Mr Rakowski
My Dear Grandma
Silent Snow
Stolen Children
That's Life
Westerbork meisje
Ton Okkerse
De roze wolk
Het moeras
RNTV
Whiplashed
SND Films
Het elixer
Godenzoon
Terugweg
Ooit
Onder de tafel
Snow White Films
Come Back Kate
Independent Theatre Foundation St. Martin
Arend Steenbergen
Grandma's House
194 | Sales Index
132
128
139
104
55
67
161
131
163
164
89
102
161
160
166
40
119
121
145
167
147
165
127
86
143
140
150
44
58
19
159
172
173
174
88
73
29
Peter Sterk
Two Ambassadors
53
Submarine
De onverboden stad
Timecut Films
Finale
Wide Management
Recycle
Zeppers Film & TV
De verloren kolonie
Pim Zwier
Jolanda 23
Sarah Ann
113
24
142
148
149
33
49
Sales Index | 195

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