The Dutch Touch 2 - EYE International

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Catalogue
Features: New Arrivals
Features: Highlights
Shorts: New Arrivals
Shorts: Highlights
Documentaries: New Arrivals
Documentaries: Highlights
New media
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Contact
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Index
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Colofon
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New Media
Features
Shorts
Documentaries
New media
Children’s films as priority
Docs
Introduction
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Shorts
Preface
Features
Children’s films
from the Netherlands
Introduction
The Dutch
Touch 2
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In Spin Ritalin
Doggie
Picknick with cake
Penknife
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PREFACE
The Dutch
Touch 2
Over the past 20 years Dutch feature
films and documentaries for children
have become a household name. They
have become so popular internationally,
at festivals and at markets, that we felt
the need to publish our first edition of
The Dutch Touch in 2012. The booklet
contained a short overview of the sector
with emphasis placed on the groundbreaking films and the key filmmakers
of the Dutch children’s film industry. We
added a comprehensive list of all Dutch
children's films as a kind of catalogue of
Dutch films for kids from 1989.
This was the year that Ben Sombogaart
made My Father Lives in Rio, a film that
was generally regarded as marking a
turning point in the industry, nationally and internationally. It was an adult
way of telling the story of a child and
his problems. Many successful features
would follow and it did not take long for
documentaries for children to be introduced. Over 200 documentaries have been
produced in the past fifteen years and
have found their way around the world.
In The Dutch Touch 2 we take a look
behind the scenes: the history, structures
and policies that support the Dutch
youth film culture and interviews with
filmmakers playing key roles in the
success of Dutch children's film. Besides
feature films, documentaries and shorts
a new genre is becoming more and more
important: New Media projects. From
original apps to games to web based
series.
This booklet includes a concise catalogue
with the highlights of the past twenty
years and some facts and figures
regarding the formal side of this industry.
With this overview and the extensive
background information about the Dutch
children’s film industry, we hope we can
serve you better than ever in selecting
great films by very talented Dutch film
makers.
Claudia Landsberger
Head of EYE International
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
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About the
Dutch Touch
A successful youth film culture has existed
in the Netherlands for years
‘We, here at the TIFF Kids International
Film Festival in Toronto, Canada have
been longtime supporters and fans
of the great quality of children’s films
coming out of the Netherlands, and 2014
is no exception. As leaders in children’s
entertainment, we are thrilled to be able
to screen the local and international
premieres of many fantastic Dutch
features and shorts, as it is films like
these that help make TIFF Kids such
an international festival,’ as said by the
festival’s director, Elizabeth Muskala.
And not only in Canada are Dutch
children’s films held in high esteem; all
around the world they are well-received,
selected for important film festivals and
regularly awarded prizes. This is not
surprising, as a successful youth film
culture has existed in the Netherlands for
years. Making films for children is seen
as equally valuable as making films for
adults. There is an impassioned group
of talented filmmakers, screenwriters
and producers, who believe in children’s
cinema and have become specialised in
the field. They are actively stimulated
by several subsidy funds and public
broadcasters.
Social
Developments
The fact that children’s cinema is held
in high regard in the Netherlands is a
direct result of the social developments
rooted in the late 1970s. Children were
taken more seriously and given a bigger
say in their own lives. Consequently
books, television programmes and films
for children gained in importance. The
subsidy funds strove for more quality and
this was reflected on the programmes
aired on television. Drama productions
and documentaries were made especially
for children with ‘the reality of everyday
life’ as its core. A critical mirror was held
up to the viewer and the programmes
were accessible for parents and children
alike.
Public broadcasters also found it
important for new talent to get the
chance to prove itself. Many young
directors and writers made their dramaor documentary debuts in children’s
television and regularly devised new,
innovative formats. The successful
programmes and series that they made,
caused a revolution in the television world
and irrevocably changed the manner
in which stories are told and conveyed.
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- ABOUT THE DUTCH TOUCH
The wealth of experience that these
young makers gained, resulted in a fresh
new way of working with and directing
children.
An active policy of
stimulating quality
youth productions
An important stimulator of these
developments was and still is the Media
Fund that, ever since its founding in
1988, has conducted an active policy of
stimulating qualitative youth productions
for television. The fund has always
reserved a significant, standard sum for
youth drama and documentaries, which
brings a return of a large amount of
high-quality productions for television.
By displaying quality, the fund hopes
that children will learn to recognise
Frogs & Toads
high-quality films and television
programmes. Ultimately children will
learn to make more selective choices
in their viewing behaviour; a concept
which corresponds fully with that of the
autonomy of the child.
The initiatives in Dutch children’s
television had a strong influence on
children’s cinema. Because of their
considerable level of quality, television
programmes and films for children took
up an increasingly more important place
in the media world of the 1980s. This
resulted in producers and directors being
motivated to broaden their horizons
and implementing their expertise on
feature films. Initially this meant the
making of films based on popular,
long-running television series, and when
the Netherlands Film Fund started taking
a more active stance in the matter in the
1990s, it became an independent genre.
The qualitative Dutch children’s cinema
was born.
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Winter in wartime
Pecker
Anything goes
Dutch productions
distinguish
themselves
This also resulted in the first international
children’s film festival in the Netherlands.
In the late 80s a club of passionate
children’s film enthusiasts wanted youth
productions to acquire a more serious
role and sought for a broader range
of films on the big screen for children
to enjoy. The children’s film festival
Cinekid is founded. The organisers
hope simultaneously to create a meeting
ground for local and international
film professionals by organising an
international film market for youth
cinema during the festival. Since then
Girls
Cinekid has blossomed into a full-fledged
media festival that has now existed for
over twenty-five years. The festival no
longer only shows international and
local films and television programmes,
but also sports a media lab for new
media. Furthermore Cinekid strives to
keep the festival accessible to children
throughout the Netherlands and to that
effect organises screenings in schools and
other programmes in various locations
nationwide.
Success abroad
The high quality of Dutch children’s
cinema didn’t go unnoticed abroad
either. From the early 90s on, youth and
children’s films from the Netherlands
managed to achieve more and more
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Winky’s horse
success at international festivals. The
Dutch productions distinguished
themselves from other productions by
how children and their problems were
taken seriously. The stories were told
from the child’s perspective and were
firmly rooted in real life. Their feelings
and relationships with adults and each
other were conveyed in a realistic manner,
which allowed both children and adults
to identify with the films’ characters. In
addition Dutch children’s films reflected
a society that was becoming ever more
multi-cultural and were praised for being
both fun and informative. The Dutch
proved to be apt in combining humour
and emotion, a combination that also
had an international appeal, resulting in
film programmers from across the globe
wanting to screen Dutch children’s films.
The Dutch proved
to be apt in combining
humour and emotion
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Feature film
Passionate filmmakers are involved
in making films for children
In the shaping of youth film culture in
the Netherlands, a number of passionate
filmmakers were involved, who can
be regarded as the pioneers of Dutch
children’s film.
In the 1950s and 1960s Henk van der
Linden was the first filmmaker to
concentrate entirely on the production
of children’s films. Van der Linden is
a versatile character: not only did he
write, produce and direct his films; he
also operated the camera, built the sets
and was responsible for the editing.
Between 1951 and 1985 he made one,
and sometimes even two films per
year. This has resulted in an impressive
oeuvre of 37 children’s feature films
as well as numerous short films and
documentaries, with which he managed
to put Dutch youth cinema on the map.
From the 1970s onwards Karst van der
Meulen played an important role in the
professionalising of children’s film. He
wanted the making of cinema for children
Eep
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The flying liftboy
to be taken seriously and so budgeted
his films as if they were regular films,
requested substantial amounts of subsidy
and attracted professional crews. And
in order to reach a broad audience, he
implemented a revolutionary idea; he
approached famous actors and television
personalities for roles in his films. Van der
Meulen wanted to confront his audience
with emotions of others and with that
intention introduced social themes to
his films. Finally the target audience was
taken seriously.
In the 1980s producer Burny Bos and
filmmaker Ben Sombogaart are pivotal
to a new way of making films. They
decided that films should be accessible
for the whole family: both for adults as
for children. Where Sombogaart was
labelled ‘the new Bergman of children´s
cinema’, Bos went down a completely
different route. He had revolutionary
plans and aspired to a new way of looking
at the production of youth cinema: bigger,
more mature, more American. Bos felt
this didn’t have to come at the expense of
quality.
‘Films should
be accessible for
the whole family’
With his views he opened the door for
a new type of Dutch children’s film: the
family film. With the adaptation of the
popular Dutch children’s book The flying
liftboy (1998) Bos attained his goal: the
breakthrough of Dutch family film in
cinemas.
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- FEATURE FILM
Fuchsia
Commerce versus
social engagement
When at the dawn of the 21st century
an alternative way of financing films
was introduced, the Dutch film industry
made a giant leap forward – on that also
profited children’s film. Whereas before
then it was tough going financing a family
film, from then on it was an altogether
smoother affair. Children’s cinema gained
in professionalism and once and for all
found its place with makers and audience
alike.
The range of Dutch youth film was rather
broad in the early 2000s. There was a
clear difference in approach between
big, commercial films, often based on
well-known books, and auteur’s cinema,
in which the authenticity of the maker
is of vital importance. The commercial
productions were predominant, because
the safe path was more often chosen.
Still there were filmmakers that did wish
to concentrate on original stories. The
motivation in doing so is often to tackle a
socially-engaged subject.
Children’s
cinema gained in
professionalism
Film producer Leontine Petit of
Lemming Film also saw the importance
of emphasising serious themes in
children’s films and of authentic stories.
Petit found it important for children to
be offered diversity and thought it time
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- FEATURE FILM
Kauwboy
Authentic stories
that complement
the family films
for original children’s stories to stake
their place in the total spectrum of youth
films. Together with the Media Fund, the
Netherlands Film Fund and the public
broadcasters, she initiates the project
Cinema Junior, which gives writers and
directors the opportunity to conceive
authentic stories that complement the
family films prevalent in cinemas.
Bonkers
Fidgety Bram
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Short film
Filmmakers developed their own way
of making children’s film
The endeavour for more uniqueness
and quality in children’s television in
the 1980s resulted in numerous drama
productions, mainly in series and
short films. Through short film public
broadcasters provided young talent
with the opportunity to experiment with
children’s film. Filmmakers developed
their own way of making children’s film
and of how to give children directions.
Besides the many ‘separate’ films, a
number of large-scale programmes
for short films are initiated. In 2001
the public broadcasters launch the
cooperative project KORT!, together with
the Netherlands Film Fund, the Media
Fund and CoBO (Co-production Fund for
Domestic Broadcasting). The aim was to
stimulate the production of short films in
the Netherlands and every year ten short
Absoluty Afro
Holi
Salam
Munya in me
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- SHORTS
Donkey girl
films were produced, which were screened
at festivals and aired on television. In
this project several short children’s films
were produced. The films were often a
springboard for talented filmmakers and
were awarded many prizes.
Furthermore the Media Fund felt the
importance and urgency of having stories
told about multi-cultural society and
wished to stimulate culturally diverse
writing talent. Through the programme
Kind en Kleur, talented writers were
given advice and guidance by renowned
screenwriters, directors and producers
for producing short children’s drama.
Presently the project for the realisation of
culturally diverse youth drama is known
as Nu of Nooit! Yearly the project Nu of
Nooit! allows for the realisation of six
short films for children.
‘Having stories
told about the
multi-cultural society’
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Documentary
Youth documentary has developed an identity
of its own in the Netherlands
Youth documentary developed an
identity of its own when the International
Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
decided to devote a separate section of its
programme to this genre. Ever since the
founding of the festival at the end of the
1980s, IDFA has reserved a place for youth
documentary. In 1998 youth documentary
became a special section of the festival
programme. The following year Cinekid
also created a regular festival section
especially for youth documentaries.
Professionalisation
Because both the quality and quantity
were not of an exceptional standard,
Cinekid and IDFA decided that the
genre needed a boost. In order to be
able to programme better children’s
documentaries at their festivals, they
felt the genre would benefit from
more recognition among filmmakers.
Furthermore makers needed to be
stimulated to portray the personal stories
The Hide out
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- DOCUMENTARY
Flying Anne
of children at a higher quality, instead of
the reportage-like productions that where
common at the time. In 1999, together
with the Media Fund, they initiated
the Kids & Docs workshop. To date this
initiative has proved to be a driving force
behind the success of the genre.
In the Kids & Docs workshop directors
work intensively on the development
of a film plan for a youth documentary
under the guidance of experienced
documentary filmmakers. Much time
is spent on research, the development
of a relationship with the main
character and telling the story in a
cinematically interesting way. Filmmaker
and project are matched up with a
public broadcasting corporation,
that subsequently also helps with
the development of the plan. At the
workshop’s conclusion the film plans
can be submitted for realisation at the
committee of the Media Fund. The bar
is set high: the goal of the Kids & Docs
workshop is to increase the level of
quality of both the individual filmmaker
as youth documentary as a whole. The
filmmakers must first work out a plan
for a documentary with an artistic and
personal style; exactly what do they
want to convey and how do they plan on
visualising this? This is new. Whereas
previously it was often a case of ‘just start
shooting and we’ll see what we end up
with’, here a professional way of making
documentaries is stimulated. By now
it has become a successful institution
in the Netherlands, which generates
high-quality documentaries and
well-educated filmmakers.
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- DOCUMENTARY
Lydia stays
Television and
education
In 2010 the public broadcasting
corporation NCRV took the initiative to
launch a special programme for youth
documentary. For years NCRV had been
airing the programme Dokument in
which both self-produced and acquired
documentaries are shown and thus the
broadcasting corporation boasted a
wealth of experience and expertise. After
several Dokument-makers participated in
the Kids & Docs workshop, NCRV became
hooked on the genre and has been airing
many children’s documentaries ever
since as Dokument Junior. The added
advantage of this is the continuity that
it brings: now those makers that have
become acquainted with and gripped by
the genre have a platform. Filmmakers no
longer have to limit themselves to one-off
attempts and in the meantime a new
generation of youth documentary makers
has emerged.
Due to the increasing interest of schools
to show documentaries as a part of
their curriculums, children’s channel
Zapp changed its television schedule a
couple of years ago and decided to air
youth documentaries in the mornings.
Since then teachers were able to show
the films in the classroom. Still however
it proved difficult to incorporate these
moments into all school schedules.
Teachers indicated that they would
rather watch these documentaries at
the times that most suit them. But this
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Online platform for
youth documentaries
was easier said than done. Because
of the differentiated broadcasting
environment in the Netherlands, the
films were produced under the guidance
of various broadcasting corporations
and therefore often hard to find. The
public broadcasting corporation VPRO
had a long tradition of making children’s
documentaries and presided over an
extensive film archive. The broadcasting
corporation wished to open up this
archive for the public and with this goal
took the initiative in 2011, together with
- DOCUMENTARY
children’s channel Zapp, for an online
platform for youth documentaries.
Zapp Echt Gebeurd (zappechtgebeurd.nl)
became an internet platform spanning
all public broadcasting corporations
open to everyone containing many
of the documentaries produced in
the Netherlands. On the website the
documentaries are presented with
a special frame so as to make them
attractive and clear to children. The
documentaries are listed according to
theme, are provided with an introduction
by a reporters’ theme of enthusiastic
children and are accompanied by a
special learning letter downloadable for
teachers. In this way the documentaries
can be seen both at home and at school on
a smart board at any given moment.
Wool fever
Johan
Through Ellen’s ears
Delete
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New Media
By taking part children can experience the subject
In the world of new media too
productions for youngsters play an
ever more important role. Children
and especially adolescents opt less for
the traditional media channels and
spend a large chunk of their time on the
internet, where the new media manifest
themselves most clearly.
Cross media
New media is in fact an overlapping
term for a broad spectrum of digital
productions – games, apps, tools,
processes and installations with one
important, common characteristic:
interactivity. For children this is a very
important aspect; they don’t have to
watch something passively but can
take part in the story. And new media
productions can thus make a story
personal for children. By partaking in the
story, the child can experience the subject
matter first hand.
ibb & obb
In the Netherlands many new media
productions are so-called ‘cross-media
productions’; they are linked to a
traditional medium. For example an
online component or application is
added to a children’s programme or
series. The idea is that a child may have
seen something on television or heard
something from friends or at school
and would like to know more about the
subject. It is now possible to actively learn
about the subject online. Children thus
have several media at their disposal to
experience a story.
Characteristic for Dutch productions is
that the game, app or tool often aims to
make a difficult subject accessible and
tries to get children to think about what
the story’s subject actually implies. The
power of interactivity is that it is possible
to make dilemmas tangible for children.
Foto: Harrie van den Berg
Papiria
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Stimulating children
In comparison with other countries, the
Netherlands had access to the internet
at a very early stage. Currently almost
everyone has an internet connection and
the Netherlands is at the cutting edge
of the development of the possibilities
of new media. The various methods for
implementing new media are constantly
evolving.
Source of inspiration
What sets Dutch new media apart from
foreign new media is that here too
children are taken seriously and that the
different programmes stay close to their
level of understanding and experience.
Often the makers collaborate with
children and from an early phase children
take part in development and testing.
Whereas in other countries there is a
clear hierarchy and children are guided
in or shielded from the use of new media,
children in the Netherlands are seen more
as an autonomous source of inspiration
for others. Children are closely listened
to and this reflects in the new media
developments. Above all the strength of
new media is that they stimulate children
to do things themselves. They can take
action and form part of the solution.
Picknick with cake
High quality
Explore it!
In the Netherlands there is a vast amount
of new media productions being made.
This is partly due to the fact that there are
subsidy funds, such as the Media Fund,
that stimulates innovative media with
financial support. This fund has also
been stimulating new media culture with
the public broadcasting corporations
for years and their joint vision on the
target audience results in a high quality
of productions. In education in the
Netherlands new media play a large part
as well. Not only are there many courses
with new media as their main subject, but
in many regular courses new media form
a natural, integral part of the curriculum
as well. This ensures that interactivity
automatically plays a very important role,
that students are able to use all forms
of media and are able to think past the
well-worn, traditional paths.
World of difference
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- THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND
Children’s films
as priority
Strong support from
the Netherlands Film Fund
The Netherlands Film Fund considers
films for children, youth and family as
one of its priorities. These films can
boast both successful domestic and
international track records. Almost one
quarter (23%) of all Dutch films released
over the past ten years in the Netherlands
have been children’s and family films,
and together they drew almost half
(45%) of the total number of visitors to
Dutch film in Dutch cinemas. In 2013
the top 10 Dutch films at the domestic
box office included four films aimed at
children, youth and families. Internationally, Dutch films within this sector
are widely appreciated and acclaimed,
a fact underlined by their many festival
selections and awards.
Children’s films with their compelling
scripts offer a young audience the
opportunity to experience stories and
themes related to their own lives and
world, themes such as school, friendship,
parents and animals. And they offer
numerous opportunities to apply related
educational materials on contemporary,
historical and universal themes. The Film
Fund also offers children a broader view
on the world by supporting distribution
schemes that bring high quality European
children’s films to the cinema. And to
give children outside the Netherlands
the opportunity to enjoy the Dutch films
through its support for international
dubbing costs.
25%
23%
45%
26%
25% of all films
supported by Film Fund
are children’s
& family films
23% of all Dutch films
released over the last
ten years are children’s
& family films
45% of all cinema
admissions for Dutch
film are children’s
& family films
26% of all films
supported by Film Fund
are children’s &
family films
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- THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND
Wiplala
Films made
as co-productions
Dutch children’s films made as co-productions are expected to benefit
from the newly launched € 20 Million
Netherlands Film Production Incentive
scheme offering a 30% cash rebate on
Dutch spend for film productions in the
Netherlands.
In 2014 the Co-Development Children’s
Film Fund will be launched by The
Netherlands Film Fund and Germany’s
Mitteldeutsche (MDM) regional fund in
order to bankroll script development on
films for young audiences. Both sides
will contribute to the new initiative and
it is expected that more German regional
funds will come on board in the near
future.
The Germans like the Dutch system,
all the way back to our Cinema Junior
funding scheme. Launched in 2003,
Cinema Junior launched the careers of
such films as Bonkers (Martin Koolhoven,
284,170 visitors, 57 international festivals,
international awards, 108 international
sales), Kauwboy (Boudewijn Koole, 27,000
visitors, 101 international festivals, 23
international awards, 21 international
sales) and Fidgety Bram (Anna van der
Heide, 130,000 visitors, 9 international
festivals).
In 2013 both The zigzag kid (Vincent Bal)
and Miffy the movie (Hans Perk) were
selected for TIFF kids in Toronto,
The zigzag kid was also selected for Berlin
Generation the same year. Finn (Frans
Weisz) and A Christmoose story (Lourens
Blok) were selected for Berlinale 2014.
Secrets of war (Dennis Bots) was selected
for TIFF 2014, as were Finn, Regret! (Dave
Schram), Pim & Pom, the big adventure
(Gioia Smid).
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Nena
Tripple double
Regret
Confetti Harvest
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CATALOGUE
Feature films
New
Arrivals
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- NEW ARRIVALS
Wiplala
2014 / 93 min
Director: Tim Oliehoek
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: Bos Bros
Festival contact: Bos Bros
Sales: In the Air
Johannes discovers a little creature in the
kitchen cupboard, hidden behind a jar of
peanut butter. His name is Wiplala and has
magical powers. Then Wiplala accidentally
Tamara Bos
scriptwriter of a.o. Wiplala,
Winky’s horse, Minoes,
Fidgety Bram
I find it important that children’s films
are of the same quality as films made
for adults, because it’s beneficial to their
development. Just like good literature,
good films give an insight in the thoughts
and experiences of others. It may sound
soft, but I truly believe this contributes to a
better world.
Children are open-minded and therefore
‘learn’ whatever you put in front of them,
whether it’s pure entertainment or not.
Unfortunately not everyone sees the educational value of youth film.
I attempt to make stories that are fun and
educational, full of ideas and tools with
which to be able to handle life better. I’m
usually very optimistic about humanity
transforms the Blom family to little people,
as little as himself. It marks the beginning of
a exciting adventure. Will Wiplala manage to
transform them back to normal-sized people?
in my work. For example I prefer to create
a world in which people’s conflicts are
caused by misunderstandings instead of
by characters that are purely evil. I dislike dividing the world into good and evil,
because I don’t believe in it. I think it’s a
lot more beautiful if you show people’s
inabilities. Like a conflict between adults
and children, where they have conflicting
interests or don’t understand each other. In
my stories I wish to give children an insight
into people’s motivations, so that you better comprehend why people do what they
do. And that everyone is only trying their
hardest.
I think my childhood was the most thrilling
time of my life. Being able to regard the
world without prejudice and the fact that
everything is new. It’s something I find
beautiful and it’s such a shame that we
lose that. But at the same time it’s extra
special to be given the opportunity to write
for that group of young people. If you do it
well, they’ll never forget it!
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Confetti harvest
2014 / 100 min
Director: Tallulah H. Schwab
Script: Chris Westendorp
Producer: Column Film
Festival contact: Column Film
Sales: Column Film
Young Katelijne grows up in a strict
protestant peasant family. As the only girl
among six brothers she is hardly involved
with farm work and is continually left out
of day-to-day conversations. So she lets
her imagination run free by indulging in
biblical stories, gossip and even fairy tales,
although these are forbidden as they keep her
away from the Truth. During her brother’s
wedding, however, she literally overwhelms
her family with literature, saying goodbye to
her childhood.
Secrets of war
2014 / 95 min
Director: Dennis Bots
Script: Karin van Holst Pellekaan
Producer: Rinkel film, Bijker Film & TV
Festival contact: Rinkel film
Sales: Sola Media
It’s 1943, but for friends Tuur and Lambert
(12), the German occupation is merely
inspiration for their exciting cave-war games.
Then the Jewish Maartje joins their class.
Tuur distances himself from Lambert when
he discovers his own father is a member of
the resistance, while Lambert's father is a
member of the Dutch fascist party. Maartje
is arrested after Lambert tells his father
about her hidden pig. Lambert makes up for
his betrayal by helping Tuur and his family
escape to Belgium.
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Nena
2014 / 90 min
Director: Saskia Diesing
Script: Saskia Diesing, Ester Gerritsen
Producer : Saskia Diesing
Festival contact: KeyFilm
Sales: KeyFilm
Summer 1989, and cracks are appearing in
the Wall. Europe is holding its breath to see
what autumn will bring. When her disabled
father attempts suicide, Nena (16) is hurt to
the core. Meanwhile she is falling deeply in
love for the first time - with Carlo, whose own
father has just come out of the closet. While
discovering her own lust for life, she comes
to realize that the life of her father Martin is
growing ever bleaker.
Boys
2014 / 78 min
Director: Mischa Kamp
Script: Chris Westendorp, Jaap Peter Enderlé
Producer: Pupkin Film
Festival contact: Pupkin Film
Sales: M-Appeal Sales
Sieger is training for the national relay
championships when he meets the intriguing
and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that
develops seems nothing out of the ordinary,
but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings
for Marc, engaging in a lonely struggle with
himself. But then it emerges that Marc is also
in love with him…
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Supernova
2014 / 100 min
Director: Tamar van de Dop
Script: Tamar van de Dop
Producers: Revolver Media, IJswater Films
Festival contact: Revolver Media
Sales: Wide
Meis lives in the back of beyond and aspires
to a wonderful and stirring life, but all that
happens is - nothing at all. She dreams of
a young car driver called ‘Brad’, whom she
would like to take care of and maybe make
love to. One night, deliverance finally arrives.
Outside her house, a car is enveloped in
a cloud of dust. Inside lies the solution
incarnate, all crumpled up. He is around 19
and his name could very well be Brad.
Life according
to Nino
2014 / 80 min
Director: Simone van Duseldorp
Script: Urzula Antoniak
Producer: Family Affairs, Waterland Film
Festival contact: Family Affairs
Sales: Attraction Distribution
Life is good for eight-year old Nino with a
terrific older brother Lucas (14), a wise father
(Bruno) and an angel of a mother (Marla).
But when Marla suddenly dies in an accident,
Bruno can’t cope with her death. Lucas joins
an anarchic organization of teenagers. And
Nino - he is now alone. So when he discovers
that he understands the language of animals,
he is more relieved than surprised. Now at
least he can talk with his pet rabbit Bobby…
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Pim & Pom, the big
adventure
2014 / 70 min
Director: Gioia Smid
Script: Fiona van Heemstra, Tingue
Dongelsmans
Producer: Flinck Film
Festival contact: Pim & Pom BV
During a picnic, two nieces plan to ‘kidnap’
Pim and Pom. The cats escape, but they must
survive by roaming the streets. When they
meet a gang of alley cats, Pim falls under the
spell of the gangleader, but Pom doesn’t want
to obey the rules of the gang, so she leaves.
But then Pom finds out that their worried
owner is searching for them. Can everybody
be happily re-united, and can the alley cats
help achieve this?
Tripple double
2014 / 65 min
Director: Paco Vink, Albert van ‘t Hooft
Script: Arnout Roijken, Michiel Snijders
Producer: Il Luster
Festival contact: Il Luster
The pets would like to celebrate Animal St
Nicholas. Under the guidance of the energetic
Fretje, they make their own wish list. And
because the holiday is readily approaching,
Fretje, together with his friends Takkie the
stick insect and Kari the canary, decide to
deliver the list to St Nicholas themselves.
They experience an adventurous journey on
their way to St Nicholas’ boat.
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Mister Twister on
stage
2014 / 90 min
Director: Barbara Bredero
Script: Tijs van Marle
Producer: PVPictures
Festival contact: PVPictures
Sales: Dutch Features
Mister Twister’s class is working on a school
play. Everyone is enthusiastic, until they find
out that the play the headmaster has chosen
his terribly boring. What’s more, the play has
to be performed in the nearby elderly home;
quite a creepy location. Mister Twister tries
to solve these problems and manages to give
the play a twist like no one but Mister Twister
can.
Boy 7
2014 / 90 min
Director: Lourens Blok
Script: Marco van Geffen, Philip Delmaar
Producer: Lemming Film
Festival contact: Lemming Film
A boy wakes up in a crowded metro train.
How he got there is a total mystery to him,
just like who he is or where he is from. With
the help of passer-by Lara, he tries to find out
the answers to these riddles. But the more he
discovers, the more dangerous the situation
becomes for the both of them. Will he risk his
life for the truth?
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Loonies II
2014 / 90 min
Director: Johan Timmers
Script: Karin van Holst Pellekaan, Martin van
Waardenberg
Producer: Topkapi Films
Festival contact: Topkapi Films
Sales: Topkapi Films
Nursing Home Zonnedael has been shut
down and the psychiatric in-patients Bep
Brul, the Major, Fats, Mrs. de Haas and Dr.
Doolittle are re-introduced into society
against their wishes. The kind Nurse ten
Hoeven is grieving as her main purpose in
life has gone. To make matters worse, she is
kidnapped. When the patients hear of this
they immediately embark on a mad and risky
rescue mission, which reveals the incredible
truth behind the kidnapping.
Witches don’t exist
2014 / 83 min
Director: Aramis Tatu
Script: Adel Adelson, Mustapha Boudellah, Trui
van de Brug
Producer: AM Pictures
Festival contact: AM Pictures
Sales: AM Pictures
At full moon a secret council of witches that
protect the world from evil comes together.
But one of the five witches has bad intentions.
When the witch council expels her, the circle
of five is broken and the forces of the witches
are incomplete. A new Star Witch needs to
be found. The search leads to Katie who
discovers just how strong her powers are.
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Painkillers
2014 / 99 min
Director: Tessa Schram
Script: Maria Peters
Producer: Shooting Star
Festival contact: Shooting Star
Sales: Mountain Road
Casper lives alone with his mother. He has
a passion for music and plays the piano
as much as possible. He has never met
his father, but when his mother becomes
seriously ill, he goes in search of him. Casper
would do anything to make his mother better
and to build a relationship with his father. But
it all turns out to be a lot more difficult than
Casper thought…
Dummie the mummy
2014 / 80 min
Director: Pim van Hoeve
Ten-year-old Goos would love to be braver and
have more friends. When he vocalises this
wish during a thunderstorm, an old mummy
comes to life. Goos finds the sorry pile of rags
on his bed and manages to cheer the mummy
up. Goos’ father allows Dummie to stay and
the two become the best of friends. Goos
brightens up and learns almost as much from
Dummie as the mummy does from him.
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
T.I.M.
2014 / 90 min
Director: Rolf van Eijk
Script: Bastiaan Tichler
Producer: Dutch Mountain Film
Festival contact: Dutch Mountain Film
Sales: Dutch Mountain Film
Eleven-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his
outdated house robot T.I.M. When his father
replaces the faulty robot, Tibor manages to
save T.I.M. from destruction. Together they
set out for the mythical robot maker Hector
Sammler, who is rumoured to live in the far
north in an ancient lighthouse. During their
adventurous quest through unchartered
territory, T.I.M. continues to fall apart and
their journey ends in a race against the clock
to reach Hector in time.
Rhubarb
2014 / 70 min
Director: Mark de Cloe
Script: Maarten Lebens
Producer: NL Film
Festival contact: NL Film
Sales: NL Film
Winnie (12) and Siem (12) meet when their
parents fall in love in the playground of
their school. They quickly form a ‘patchwork
family’. Siem and Winnie get on really well
and are looking forward to the upcoming
wedding of their parents. But when irritations
and bickering start to take over between
their parents, Siem and Winnie’s faith in a
new happy family takes its first knock. They
decide to help their parents out by making
an ‘instruction video’ for them with useful
relationship tips.
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Scrap wood war
2014 / 85 min
Director: Margien Rogaar
Sales: Pupkin Film
At summer club, best friends Ziggy and Bas
(12) are on opposing sides for the first time
in their lives. Different secondary schools,
different parental expectations and now
falling in love with the same girl lead to
all-out war between them. They begin to fight.
Initially, tougher Bas fights hard, but soon has
doubts about the row. Meanwhile, the gentle
Ziggy gradually toughens up and becomes
determined to win…
Sickos
2014 / 92 min
Director: Lodewijk Crijns
Script: Lodewijk Crijns
Producer: Bos Bros
On the fourth floor of a hospital live the
‘baldies’. Or at least, that’s where they should
be. Especially at night, the young cancer
patients grab any opportunity they can to
sneak out to the other wards to spy on their
doctors or race their wheelchairs along the
corridors. Two of the boys have had a leg
amputated, and all of their lives are in danger.
But at these moments none of that matters.
These facts can be dealt with later.
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Finn
2013 / 90 min
Director: Frans Weisz
Script: Janneke van der Pal
Festival contact: Flinck Film
Nine-year-old Finn lives with his father in the
countryside. He would like to make music,
but his father wants him to play football, just
like all the other boys. Near an abandoned
farm, Finn meets an old man who plays
the violin so beautifully that he is totally
enchanted. While his father thinks he is
playing football, Finn is secretly going to the
farm to practise. Is Finn the only one who
understands how enchanting music can be?
Or is something else going on?
Bobby and the
ghosthunters
2013 / 90 min
Director: Martin Lagestee
Script: Nancy Stevelinck, Martin Dewitte, Wijo
Koek, Martin Lagestee
Producer: Lagestee Film
Festival contact: Lagestee Film
Sales: T Films
Sanne (13) joins her father on a ghost-hunting
mission on the steamship Rotterdam. When
the ghost of young Bobby tells Sanne he
would really like to see his mother one more
time before passing through to the hereafter,
Sanne decides to help him and the other
ghosts in solving their earthly problems. But
that’s easier said then done...
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
A Christmoose story
2013 / 85 min
Script: Marco van Geffen, Daan Bakker
A giant moose crashes through the roof of
Max’s garage! A moose that talks! A moose
that claims to work for Santa! While the
moose recuperates and bonds with Max,
Max’s neighbour is chasing him for his
beautiful antlers… In the meantime Max
and Moose have to find Santa, or no one will
receive a Christmas gift this year! Is Max able
to get Moose and Santa flying again?
Mister Twister goes
camping
2013 / 81 min
Class 6b is going camping, led by Mees Kees
and Mrs. Dreus. But after Dreus strains her
back all responsibility suddenly rests on the
shoulders of Kees. When things go wrong, he
begins to doubt himself. But he soon learns
that it is not about making mistakes, but
about how to solve them.
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FEATURE FILMS
- NEW ARRIVALS
Regret!
2013 / 95 min
Director: Dave Schram
Script: Maria Peters, Dick van den Heuvel
Producer: Shooting
Jochem’s classmates bully him all the time.
His friend David doesn’t join in, but he is
scared to say anything. On the face of it
Jochem doesn’t seem to let the harrassment
get to him, but one morning the headmaster
tells the class that he didn’t come home after
a party. David feels guilty. Together with a
friend, he sets out to find Jochem and tell
him they are sorry. But during their search,
they find Jochem’s bagpack in a lake.
Miffy the movie
2013 / 70 min
Director: Hans Perk
Script: James Still, Fine Trossel
Producer: Telescreen Filmproducties
Festival contact: Telescreen Filmproducties
Sales: 6 Sales
Miffy and her friends (and her dog Snuffy
too) set out on a treasure hunt through the
zoo. Father and Mother Bunny give them five
riddles hidden within a song, about a colour,
a shape, a movement, a number and a sound.
In finding the answers, Miffy and her friends
learn how to find creative ways to work
together and to reward each other for a job
well done. And in the end, they are rewarded
with an even bigger surprise.
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CATALOGUE
Feature
films
Highlights
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FEATURE FILMS
- HIGHLIGHTS
Kauwboy
One day Jojo finds a jackdaw, and
decides to take care of it even though
his father disapproves. When his
father finds out they have a huge
argument and the jackdaw flies away.
Taking chances
Kiek is worried as her father works in a
war zone. To lengthen the odds of her
father getting hurt, she comes up with
a strange and unique idea.
Cool kids don’t cry
Akkie loves soccer. When she is
diagnosed with leukemia she is
no longer able to play soccer. Only
through her love for a boy in her class,
can she accept the inevitable.
SWCHWRM, my adventures
Swchwrm (9) has only one ambition:
to become a writer of books that
leave people astounded. He writes
an adventure that moves even the
seemingly impenetrable Queen to
tears.
Alfie the little werewolf
During the night Alfie becomes 7
years of age he turns into a little
werewolf. But Alfie doesn’t want to
be a werewolf. He’s afraid his foster
parents won’t want him anymore.
Tony 10
Tony’s father used to be a humble
crane driver, but suddenly becomes
Secretary of State. As a result Tony’s
parents get divorced. Tony asks the
Dutch Queen to help him out.
2012 / 87 min
Director: Boudewijn Koole
Script: Jolein Laarman, Boudewijn
Koole
Producer: Waterland Film
Festival contact: Waterland Film
2012 / 87 min
Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk
Script: Lotte Tabbers
2012 / 90 min
Director: Dennis Bots
Script: Karen van Holst Pellekaan
Producer: Rinkel Film, Bijker
Festival contact: Rinkel Film
Sales: High Point Media
2012 / 85 min
Director: Froukje Tan
Script: Helena van der Meulen
Festival contact: Flinck Film
2012 / 90 min
Director: Joram Lürsen
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: BosBros
Festival contact: BosBros
2012 / 85 min
Script: Mieke de Jong
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FEATURE FILMS
2012 / 80 min
Director: Anna van der Heide
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: BosBros
2012 / 93 min
Director: Maria Peters
Script: Mirjam Oomkes, Willemine
van de Wiel
Sales: MountainRoad Entertainment
Group
2012 / 88 min
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Script: Wijo Koek
Producer: Nijenhuis & Co
Festival contact: Nijenhuis & Co
2012 / 85 min
Director: Will Wissink
Script: Zebi Damen
Producer: A’dam Films
Festivals contact: A’dam Films
2012 / 90 min
Director: Vincent Bal
Script: Vincent Bal
Producer: BosBros
2012 / 81 min
Script:Tijs van Marle
Festival contact: PV Pictures
- HIGHLIGHTS
Fidgety Bram
Fidgety Bram thinks a lot about the
world around him and can’t sit still.
But his old-fashioned teacher doesn’t
care about Bram’s internal, mobile,
unfocussed world and does whatever
it takes to make him do things right.
Mike says goodbye!
Mike is hospitalized for many months
and wants to go home. But his mother
never shows up to take him home
and Mike is sent off to a children’s
institution. How will he manage to get
home?
Bennie Brat
Benjamin ‘Bennie’ Brat is a bit of a
naughty boy who has only one wish:
he wants his dad to come home when
Saint Nicolas comes to bring his
presents. When he learns that his wish
cannot be fulfilled, he cooks up a plan.
My dad’s a detective - the battle
Sam and his friends help Sam’s father,
who is a detective. They enter with
their band into a talent contest and
are swept up into an increasingly
fierce competition. Then, right before
the final, one of them is kidnapped.
The Zigzag Kid
Because Nono is constantly getting
into trouble, he is sent away to his
uncle. But when he meets master-burglar Felix Glick, he enters a world of
disguises, chases, and adventure.
Mister twister, class of fun
Tobias is pretty smart and cheerful,
but Miss Sanne could never see it.
She could just see his problems. The
arrival the new teacher couldn’t have
come at a better time for Tobias.
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FEATURE FILMS
- HIGHLIGHTS
Bon voyage
Grandfather is very ill and is very
determined in ignoring his disease.
The family members each have to find
a way of coping with this.
Penny’s shadow
The black stallion Shadow survived an
accident years ago in which his rider,
Kai’s mother, died. Years later Kai
runs a farm where young people come
for riding holidays. For Kai, the arrival
of Lisa will change everything.
The strongest man in Holland
Luuk’s mother raised her son on her
own, and would tell him the most
amazing stories about his father. Then
Luuk’s mother finally tells him the
truth.
Furious
Sven (15) wants to be a movie director.
He asks Roosmarijn to participate in
his first feature film. But under no
circumstances can she know about
the beatings Sven receives at home.
Chubby drums
Dik is a happy, honest and slightly
overweight boy who has moved
to Thin City. Dik is having trouble
blending in and is, for the first time,
aware of his own body.
Fuchsia the miniwitch
Fuchsia is allowed to go to witches’
school. There, Fuchsia learns how
to make wind and conjure with the
clouds. But her magic quite often has
unexpected results.
2011 / 82 min
Director : Margien Rogaar
Sales: Pupkin Film
2011 / 100 min
Director: Steven de Jong
Script: Lars Boom
Prod: Two Young Rights
Festival contact: Steven de Jong
Producties
2011 / 90 min
Director: Marc de Cloe
Script: Maarten Lebens, Pietr Bart
Korthuis
Producer: NL Films
Festivals contact: NL Film
2011 / 93 min
Script: Maria Peters, Dick van den
Heuvel
Sales: Shooting Star
2010 / 85 min
Director: Arne Toonen
Script: Luuk van Bemmelen, Mischa
Alexander, Wijo Koek
Producer: Eyeworks Film & TV
Festival contact: Eyeworks Film & TV
2010 / 88 min
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Script: Sander de Regt
Producer: NL Film & TV
Festival contact: NL Film & TV
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FEATURE FILMS
2010 / 93 min
Script: Frank Ketelaar
2010 / 78 min
Director: Simone van Dusseldorp
Script: Marco van Geffen, Anna van
der Heide
2010 / 85 min
Festivals contact: Lemming Film
2009 / 70 min
Script: Simone van Dusseldorp
2009 / 100 min
Prod: Shooting Star
2008 / 90 min
Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: BosBros
Festivals contact: BosBros
- HIGHLIGHTS
The magicians
Ben learns tricks from a master
magician. But after a special trick his
friend Sylvie disappears forever, and
Ben has to find out what is real and
what is illusion.
The secret letter
11-year old Eva is fed up with all the
tension at home. She decides to run
away and hide at her best friend’s house.
But she finds a secret letter and gets
caught by a criminal organisation.
Eep!
Birdie is a little girl with wings instead
of arms, who is found by Warre and
Tine. While Tine does her best to raise
Birdie as a normal little girl, Birdie
inevitably flies away to the South.
Frogs & toads
Six year-old Max must find some
frogspawn for his older brother.
Together with his girlfriend Jesse he
journeys over fields and through a
forest and they discover all kinds of
animals.
Lover or loser
Eva meets Ricardo, a streetwise
hustler who cheers her up. But instead
he drags her to a sex club where she’s
held prisoner. Mees, on whom she has
a crush, decides to rescue her.
How to survive myself?
Thirteen-year old Rosa finds
it difficult to live with her new
step-father. She creates an overly-confident version of herself and
begins to exhibit increasingly extreme
behaviour.
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FEATURE FILMS
- HIGHLIGHTS
Morrison gets a baby sister
Five-year old Morrison is not that
happy that his mother is having a new
baby. After the baby is born, Morrison
runs away. And he takes his newborn
sister with him.
Winter in wartime
Michiel is eager to do something
during the World War. He is asked to
deliver a letter, but goes wrong and
Michiel soon learns there’s only a
small distinction between good and
evil.
Desperate
Yara is a beautiful teenager with a
crush on her classmate, Paco. When
her mother arranges for her to
audition for a modelling agency, Yara
develops some strange dietary habits.
Sniff the dog
After his parents are killed during
World War II, Tom moves to his
uncle’s farm to hide from the enemy.
He is given a beautiful German
Shepherd to keep him company, and
the two become inseparable.
The letter for the king
16-year-old Tiuri receives an order
from a dying knight to deliver a letter
to the King in the utmost secrecy. But
under no circumstances may the letter
fall into the wrong hands.
Dunya & Desie in Morocco
Moroccan Dunya and Dutch Desie
are best friends. Dunya’s family
wants her to get married and Desie
wants to meet her biological father.
They decide to go to Morocco to find
answers.
2008 / 70 min
Script: Sjoerd Kuyper
Producer: BosBros
2008 / 103 min
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Script: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de
Jong, Martin Koolhoven
Prod: Isabella Films, Fu Works
Sales: High Point Media Group
2008 / 110 min
2008 / 100 min
Script: Jasper Beerthuis
Producer: Steven de Jong Producties,
Bridge Entertainment Group
Producties
2008 / 110 min
Director: Pieter Verhoeff
Script: Maarten Lebens, Pieter
Verhoeff
Producer: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Festival contact: Eyeworks Film &
TV Drama
2008 / 90 min
Director: Dana Nechushtan
Script: Robert Alberdingk Thijm
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FEATURE FILMS
2007 / 100 min
Script: Mischa Alexander, Steven
de Jong
Producer: De Scheepsjongens van de
Bontekoe CV
Producties
Sales: Steven de Jong Producties
2007 / 90 min
Script: Bart Juttmann , Rolf Visser
Producer: AAA Pictures
Festivals contact: AAA Pictures
Sales: AAA Pictures
2007 / 90 min
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: BosBros
2007 / 105 min
2006 / 108 min
2006 / 120 min
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Script: Ben Sombogaart , Bill Haney,
Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Chris
Craps
Producer: Kasander Film
Festivals contact: Kasander Film
Sales: Celsius Entertainment
- HIGHLIGHTS
Bontekoe’s young sailors
Three teenagers from a Dutch harbour
town set out to sea as members of
Captain Bontekoe’s crew. The ship is
bound for exotic lands and every day
introduces the boys to new challenges.
The seven of daran
‘the battle of Pareo Rock’
Jimmy goes to Africa with his mother.
A mysterious talking giraffe tells him
about an upcoming battle between two
quarrelling African tribes. Jimmy has to
stop the battle.
Where is winky’s horse?
Winky must take care of St Nicholas’
horse. What she really wants is to
ride the horse, but that’s not allowed
because the horse is too big. Then
Winky does something very naughty.
Timbuktu
Isa and Kars parents bought a
camping site in France so they have to
move to France. They find it difficult
to adjust. Especially when war is
declared to their camping site.
XTC, just don’t do it
Melissa is thrilled but scared to be
chosen to dance in a new rap video.
One of the cast members wants to
help her calm down and offers her a
pill. And before she knows it, she’s
hooked.
Crusade in jeans
Fifteen year old Dolf breaks into his
mother’s advanced physics laboratory
which holds an experimental time
machine. Dolf accidentally sends
himself to the 13th century.
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FEATURE FILMS
- HIGHLIGHTS
Bonkers
Bonnie is living with her sweet but
unusual mother. Luckily grandma is
always around to look after things. But
when grandma has a traffic accident,
everything changes.
Kameleon 2
Again the two twin boys are the
local heroes. The inhabitants of the
village threaten to fall victim to a
moneyhungry real estate developer
and the twins come to rescue.
The horror bus
Bullied at school, eleven-year old
Onnoval writes ghost stories in
which he takes revenge on the other
children. But then a classmate gets his
hands on his stories.
Schnitzel paradise
Nordip takes a job washing up in
a hotel. Here he meets Agnes, the
owner’s niece and intended successor
of the hotelowner. They start a secret
relationship, but get stuck between
two cultures.
Winky’s horse
When 6-year old Winky moves to a
new town, she meets a couple who
own a pony. They teach Winky how
to ride. Now Winky is desperate for a
pony of her own.
Lepel
Lepel flees from his mean
grandmother Koppenol. He hides
out in the local department store and
becomes friends with Pleun. Together
they start looking for a new mother.
2005 / 84 min
2005 / 90 min
Script: Steven de Jong, Jean Ummels
Producer: Kameleon Produkties
Producties
2005 / 100 min
Director: Pieter Kuijpers
Script: Burny Bos, Pieter Kuijpers
Producer: BosBros
2005 / 82 min
Script: Marco van Geffen
Sales: MDC International
2005 / 96 min
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: BosBros
2005 / 92 min
Director: Willem van de Sande
Bakhuyzen
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FEATURE FILMS
2004 / 76 min
Director: Mijke de Jong
Script: Helena van der Meulen
TV Drama
2004 / 97 min
Director: Gidi van Liempd
Script: Cecilie Levy, Gidi van Liempd
TV Drama
2004 / 93 min
Scenario: Frank Ketelaar
Festivals contact: Topkapi Films
2004 / 90 min
Director: Ben Sombogaart & Pieter
van Rijn
Script: Tamara Bos
Producer: BosBros
2003 / 105 min
2003 / 100 min
Script: Steven de Jong, Jean Ummels
Producer: Kameleon Produkties
Producties
- HIGHLIGHTS
Bluebird
Thirteen year old Merel is is being
bullied by classmates for no apparent
reason. As the bullying escalates,
Merel pulls away from her family, and
pushes her in the wrong direction.
Eric in the land of insects
Eric is a dreamer who prefers to
fantasise. He discovers a magic
world filled with adventure when he
unexpectedly ends up among the
insects, in an old painting.
In orange
Eleven-year old Remco is a very
talented soccer player with only one
dream, to play for the Dutch national
team. But Remco’s world falls apart
when his dad dies.
Pluk and his tow truck
Pluk is a little boy with a beautiful red
truck and a soft heart for animals.
He finds out the Turtle Garden is
threatened with demolition, and must
find a solution to rescue the animals.
Peter Bell 2: The hunt for the tsar
crown
Thanks to Peter Bell and his infamous
‘Gang of the Black Hand’, the
villainous newspaper tycoon Stark is
safely locked behind bars. But even
from prison Stark still rules.
The skippers of the Kameleon
Two twin boys, about 12 years old,
are the local heroes of a small village.
When a mysterious series of robberies
plague the town, they solve the crime
and take after the criminals.
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- HIGHLIGHTS
Polleke
11 years old Polleke is in love with
Mimoen, a Moroccan boy who lives
opposite to her. But his parents
force him to stop seeing her because
they don’t share the same cultural
background.
Young Kees
Young Kees has a strong imagination
and dreams about things that he
could never achieve in real life. Then
a desperately intense adolescent
romance hastens changes his life.
Peter Bell
Set in early 30’s Peter Bell is a 10-year
old rascal who has his own little
army ‘Gang of the Black Hand’. One
day their adventures appear in the
newspaper headlines.
Minoes
Tibbe, a shy junior journalist, meets
the extraordinary Miss Minoes,
who claims she used to be a cat. As
she supplies him with scoops from
the cats, he decides to make her his
assistant.
The black meteor
15-year old Felix becomes friends with
the black South-African soccer player
Steve Mokone. Felix gets trapped
between the narrow-minded milieu
of the provincial town and the star
player’s sophisticated attitude to life.
Missing link
Rick is growing up with his mother
and never knew his father. One day
after a fight with his mom he runs
away from home and discovers the
true identity of his missing father.
2003 / 95 min
Director: Ineke Houtman
Sc: Rob Arends, Maarten Lebens
TV Drama
2003 / 96 min
Director: André van Duren
Script: Bob In’t Hout, Maarten Lebens
Producer: Sigma Pictures
Festivals contact: Sigma Pictures
Sales: Sigma Pictures
2002 / 110 min
2001 / 88 min
Director: Vincent Bal
Script: Tamara Bos, Vincent Bal,
Burny Bos
Producer: BosBros
2000 / 108 min
Director: Guido Pieters
Script: Kees van Beijnum
Producer: Sigma Pictures
Festival contact: Sigma Pictures
Sales: TrustNordisk
1999 / 90 min
Director: Ger Poppelaars
Script: Timo Veltkamp
Producer: Theorema Films
Festivals contact: Dutch Mountain Film
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1999 / 119 min
1998 / 110 min
Script: Burny Bos
Producer: BosBros
1998 / 85 min
Script: Rob Arends, Maarten Lebens
TV Drama
1997 / 80 min
Director: Peter van Wijk
Script: Peter van Wijk
Producer: Molenwiek Film
Festival contact: Molenwiek Film
Sales: Molenwiek Film
1996 / 108 min
Script: Lou Brouwers
Producer: BosBros
1995 / 115 min
Director: Esmé Lammers
Script: Esmé Lammers
Producer: First Floor Features
Festivals contact: Cupola Stories &
Pictures
Sales: Cupola Stories & Pictures
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Little crumb
Kruimeltje (Little Crumb) is a
10-year old street rascal, raised
by bad-tempered Mrs Koster. But
because of his humour, persistence
and lust for life he knows how to
survive.
The flying liftboy
11-year old Abeltje who gets a job as the
cool little lift-boy at a department store.
But Abeltje presses the wrong button
and flies through the roof into the wide
world.
Daisy- scratches in the table
Madelief’s grandma has died and
Madelief wants to know all about
her. She finds a mysterious shed in
the garden and sets off to unravel
grandma’s secret.
The dandelion game
12-year old Maurits mourns the death
of his mother. His father is not able
to offer him any solace. But when
he meets Moniek, he finds tender
friendship and love with her.
The boy who stopped talking
Memo who lives in Turkey. When
war threatens, his father decides
to move to the Netherlands. Memo
doesn’t want to leave, so arriving in
the Netherlands he decides to stop
talking.
Long live the queen
Sarah’s father is a mystery. When
Sarah finds out he is an international
chess champion, she is determined
to learns how to play chess. With a
special set where the pieces come to
life.
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The purse snatcher
Alex is very close to his Grandma.
When Grandma is robbed, the robbers
start blackmailing Alex. They force
him to steal handbags from old ladies,
otherwise they’ll hurt his grandma.
The penknife
Mike and Tim are best friends. When
Tim is moving to another town, Mike
discovers he still has Tim’s penknife.
He wants to return the knife and starts
a lonely search to find his friend.
My father lives in Rio
Liesje’s father lives in Rio. One day she
decides to buy a plane ticket to visit
him. But as it turns out, her father
is not living in Rio, but is in Holland,
serving a prison time for smuggling.
Mieke de Jong
Screenwriter of a.o. Lepel,
Bonkers, Winter in
wartime, Tony 10
I write scripts for children's
films but I hate childish films. A good children's film is a good film for everybody, not
just for children. I want my films to be about
something substantial. I am convinced
that you can tell every story to children, as
long as you use a child's perspective. The
subject can be very serious, but when you
tell from the point of view of a child and
you stay within his logic, the young public
will understand what they are looking at.
I wrote about war, about a mother with a
bipolair disorder, or child's abuse. I cannot
always give a happy end at every children's
film, but at least I write a hopeful end. And,
how serious the subject can be, never
underestimate the importance of humor!
1995 / 94 min
Prod: Shooting Star
Festivals contact: Shooting Star
1992 / 90 min
Script: Sjoerd Kuyper
Producer: BosBros
1989 / 100 min
Scenario: Burny Bos en Ben
Somboogaart
Producenten: PV Pictures
Festival contact: PV Pictures
Sales: PV Pictures
When I write for children I want the story to
be both amusing and moving - the golden
combination.
Due to thinking in target audiences, youth
cinema has changed and has professionalised. It’s now clearer for whom a film
is made and that’s why they are drawing
more viewers.
I believe we make really strong children’s
films in the Netherlands and that they
boast a lot of originality. There is a tradition in Netherlands of taking youth films
seriously. Dutch films are humourous and
moving and are have something universal
about them.
Cinekid is really important for Dutch youth
film. Around the world people know the festival and want to go there. It’s an attractive
festival for both children and parents and
for professionals. In other countries the
scale of children’s festivals is a lot smaller.
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Short films
New
Arrivals
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SHORT FILMS
Simone van Dusseldorp
Director of a.o. Life
According to Nino , The
Secret Letter, Frogs
& Toads, Doggie, The
monstrous toilet, My crazy nanny!
I can only direct with the idea that a child
should be able to understand. Whenever I
make something, I think back to what I used
to enjoy or what my children enjoy. But I
don’t want to be educational. I look at the
child in me, at what used to interest me as
a child. These can be really banal or very
pompous things. And I also believe that
things don’t always have to be hunky-dory
- NEW ARRIVALS
in youth films. Children find struggle and
conflict interesting. You shouldn’t burden
children with very heavy stuff, but the
story doesn’t have to be all sappy either,
because children know the world isn’t like
that.
Working with children really is something
you have to learn. You need to make as
many hours as possible. I really learned a
lot working for TV Because I was allowed to
make many programmes and experiment,
so I could educate myself. How you
approach children is something you grow
into. I tumbled into every pitfall there is and
eventually find my own way of directing.
Go Daan Go!
2014 / 15 min
Regie: Mari Sanders
Scenario: Lianne Damen
Producers: KRO / IJswater Film
Festival contact: IJswater Film
Sales: KRO
Nine-year-old Daan becomes interested in
swimming when he finds his mother’s old
medals in the attic. But for his mother his
new passion is literally heart-rending. She
doesn’t want Daan to start training, until he
is proven to be free of the heart problems she
had. But Daan can’t wait that long. Before the
results are in, he starts working on his big
dream: participating at the Olympic Youth
Games.
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Marc Jacobs
2014 / 15 min
Regie: Sam de Jong
Scenario: Lianne Damen
Producers: NTR / 100% Halal
Festival contact: 100% Halal
Sales: 100% Halal
Nine year old Soufyane, son of a Moroccan
father and Dutch mother, lives with his
mother and sister. His father, whom he never
Steal
2014 / 2 min
Regie: Mascha Halberstad
Scenario: Mascha Halberstad
Producers: Viking Film
Festival contact: Viking Film
Sales: Viking Film
A boy is playing soccer in his neighbourhood.
He dribbles, headbutts, slide and… scores! All
of a sudden a UFO hangs above the field. Is
the UFO after the boy or the ball?
sees, invites him on a journey to Morocco.
Soufyane is thrilled and prepares for the trip.
He has to get a pair of Marc Jacobs sunglasses.
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- NEW ARRIVALS
Dog-e
2014 / 2 min
Regie: Patrick Raats
Scenario: Patrick Raats & Dick
Bouquet
Producers: Valk Producties
Festival contact: KLIK!
Distribution Service
Sales: SND Films
Sophie and Sven play the game ‘Dog-e’. At
night, when they are in bed, the game comes
to life on their father’s iPhone and iPad.
The iPad turns into Rascal-e and the iPhone
becomes Dog-e. This leads to a spectacular
chase through the living room and the
kitchen.
Anything
goes
2013 / 22 min
Director: Steven Wouterlood
Script: Maarten van Voornveld,
Chiel van der Wolf en Steven
Wouterlood
Producers: VPRO / Bind Film
Festival contact: Bind Film
Sales: Bind Film
Just after moving to Amsterdam, elevenyear-old Tygo from Brabant gives a school
presentation on Carnival. He talks about the
rules of Carnival, or rather the lack of rules,
because during Carnival everything goes. And
Tygo dreams of becoming a majorette.
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Point taken Swim or sink
2014 / 10 min
Director: Michiel Vaanhold
Script: Michiel Vaanhold, Jaakko
Toivonen
Producers: NTR / BosBros
Sales: BosBros
A dance film in which eight adolescent boys
meet in a deserted and dried up indoor water
park. The boys are absorbed in a game in
which they continually challenge each other
to take things a step further.
Waiting for
Marissa
2013 / 25 min
Director: Rolf van Eijk
Script: Zoubaid Sheik Joesoef
Producers: NTR / Dutch
Mountain Film
Festival contact: Dutch Mountain
Film
Anil and Adam meet one another in a glade in
the woods. Initially they eye each other with
suspicion. It appears they have both arranged
to meet the same girl, Marissa. Whom shall
she choose? Until the girl shows up, the boys
are condemned to each other.
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- NEW ARRIVALS
Johnny
Bakru
2013 / 25 min
Script: Drama Queens
Producers: VPRO / Revolver
Media
Festival contact: Revolver
Media
Sales: Revolver Media
Ten-year-old Rose leads a happy life until the
charming pub singer Johnny Ster appears and
Rose’s mother falls head over heels in love
with him. Rose sees Johnny as a bakru trying
to bewitch her mother. It’s up to Rose to fend
off this bakru spirit.
Salam
2013 / 25 min
Script: Floor Paul
Producers: KRO / IJswater Films
Festival contact: IJswater Films
Sales: NPO Sales
Ara and Mo are ‘blood brothers’. They live
in a centre for asylum seekers and dream
of a shared future in the Netherlands. But
suddenly Mo and his family are gone. Does
this mean Ara needs to go through life
without friends.
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Munya in me
2013 / 20 min
Director: Mascha Halberstad
Script: Fiona van Heemstra
Producers: VPRO / Viking Film
Festival contact: Viking Film
Sales: SND Films
Heavy Munya is ten years old. On her daily
route to the Turkish supermarket she tries
but fails to avoid the group of bullies. Until
one day she realises that she shouldn’t hide at
all. She should allow herself to be seen…
The boy who
thought he
was good as
he was
2013 / 25 min
Director: Tami Ravid
Script: Roslin Prager
Producers: KRO / IDTV Drama
Festival contact: IDTV Drama
Sales: KRO
Latif enjoys playing his keyboard and it
often takes him into his own fantasy world.
In school he is also easily distracted and his
grades are suffering. His parents think he
should take medication, but isn’t he fine just
the way he is?
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As boys grow
2013 / 5 min
Director: Charlotte van Ottenloo
Producers: Lemming Film /
Viking Film
Sales: Lemming Film
Whenever Ben spots a cute girl, all the
musicians in his body come together for a
parade in his nose. What starts as a concert
of upbeat funky jazz music, ends in a big
sneeze - every time! Ben is ashamed and
feels lonely.....until the day he notices a cute
girl sneezing so loud like he has never seen
before.
Pony place
2013 / 10 min
Director: Joost Reijmers
Script: Thomas van der Ree
Producers: NTR / Topkapi Films
Sales: SND Films
When young Emma isn’t allowed to take her
iPad on holiday with her, she hands the care
for her digital horse paddock over to her
grandma Koba. Grandma and grandpa dive
into the world of their granddaughter.
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Short films
Highlights
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- HIGHLIGHTS
Mimoun
When the young boy Mimoun needs
to get his hands on some money to
buy his big love Soraya a gift, he seems
to get dragged into the criminal wake
of his older brother Ab.
Sweet love
Mini Movie Musical and an epic love
story in a city where all the candy is in
the hands of one man. The candy
factory owner, the mayor and even
the policemen, all parts are played by
children.
Anouar and the moon
At the home of Iranian Anouar (10) the
curtains are closed day and night and
his mother lies in bed all day. To get
the light back in the house and to give
his little sister comfort, he decides to
catch the moon for her.
The datcha
Jordy is an eleven year old boy who’s
mother went back to her homecountry Russia. Jordy devises a masterplan
to get her back. He builds a Russian
house, a datcha, in the backyard of
their house.
Yim and Yoyo
Yim has no friends in school and is
alone quite often. At home he has the
biggest adventures with his imaginary
friend Yoyo, the panda bear he has
been drawing for years.
Smoke like a Turk
It’s time for a party, because Cihan,
a Turkish boy, is about to be circumcised. Cihan isn’t quite sure what to
expect, but becomes more and more
convinced of the significance of the
event.
2012 / 26 min
Director: Tallulah H. Schwab
Script: Cecilie Levy
Producers: VPRO / Bind Film
Festival contact: Bind Film
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 24 min
Director: Albert Jan van Rees
Script: Martijn Hillenius
Producers: VPRO / Family Affairs
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 25 min
Director: Michiel van Jaarsveld
Script: Amarins Romkema
Producers: NTR / IJswater Films
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 25 min
Director: Nina Spiering, Mirka Duijn
Script: Nina Spiering, Mirka Duijn
Producers: EO / Revolver Media
Festival contact: Revolver Media
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 24 min
Director: Anna van Keimpema
Script: Marianne Riphagen
Producers: KRO / Volt Films
Festival contact: Volt Films
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 10 min
Director: Remy van Heugten
Script: Mustafa Duygulu
Sales: IJswater Films
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2011 / 10 min
Director: Sanne Vogel
Script: Sanne Vogel
Producers: NTR / IDTV Film
Festival contact: IDTV Film
Sales: SND Films
2011 / 15 min
Director: Mirjam de With
Script: Hakima Elouarti
Producers: VPRO / Family Affair Films
Festival contact: Family Affair Films
Sales: NPO Sales
2011 / 15 min
Director: Michiel van Jaarsveld
Script: Amarins Romkema
Producers: BOS / IJswater Films
Sales: NPO Sales
2011 / 15 min
Director: Simine van Dusseldorp
Script: Glynis Terborg
Producers: EO / Talent United
Festival contact: Talent United
Sales: NPO Sales
2011 / 15 min
Director: Boris Paval Conen
Script: Zoeteke Lugthart
Sales: NPO Sales
2011/ 3 min
Director: Bastiaan Schravendeel
Script: Bastiaan Schravendeel
Producers: il Luster Films
Festival contact: il Luster Films
Sales: il Luster Films
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Small
Noortje, a 12-year old girl, experiences her first massage, but she is not
yet prepared to feel the hands of a
stranger on her skin.
Mina Minoes
Little stubborn Mina is crazy about
Minnie Mouse. She puts on her black
ears to school everyday. Her mother and
teacher want her to act normal and think
she should dress the same as the other
children.
Papa’s tango
Hannah loves to dance and adores
her father. Her father is homesick and
wants to go back to his family and
friends in Argentina. But leaving the
Netherlands also means saying good
bye to his daughter.
My crazy granny!
Saäda is thrilled her grandma from
Surinam is moving to Holland, only
weeks before her birthday. But due to
her dementia grandma seems to be
confused, making Saäda think her
granny is crazy!
Mister Braker
When Ramon (11) is on survival camp
with his older brother he suspects that
their camp leader, Mister Braker, is a
werewolf. But Ramon’s brother isn’t
interested in the horror fantasies of
his little brother.
Now you know it anyway
At a flea market, Robin tries to sell
her own made-up stories. Meanwhile,
all the main characters listen in,
anxiously and intensely.
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Back and forth day
Through the eyes of 8 year-old Linus
we experience the day that his mother,
and her new boyfriend, come to
collect her stuff.
Broken moon
When a father and his six-year old son
fly to the half-broken moon in order to
repair it, they discover that mother is
there too.
Pecker
A little pecker hops onto an infant ox.
The ox tries to get rid of that annoying
pecking bird, he doesn’t succeed. But
when the pecker disappears, his life
becomes unbearable!
Missing
A 7-year old girl is taken to school by
her mother. She will go on a school
trip with her class. But bringing
her daughter to school isn’t a very
ordinary occasion for the mother.
Jacco’s film
Jacco (10) talks about his friends, girlfriends, interests, everyday activities
and the wonders of nature. To Judge
by his behaviour, he is an extremely
talented, loved and in every respect
successful young man.
Swimming paradise
Two ten-year-old girls spend a day at
an indoor water park. In the wave pool
they are distracted by teenaged girls
with actual breasts and older boys
who blockade the slide.
2010 / 10 min
Director: Mirjam de With
Script: Martine Nijhoff
Producers: Family Affair Films:
Festival contact: Family Affair Films
Sales: Family Affair Films
2010 / 11 min
Director: Arno Dierickx
Script: Rogier Cornelisse en Arno
Dierickx
Producers: NTR / Caramel Pictures
Festival contact: Caramel Pictures
Sales: Caramel Pictures
2010/ 3 min
Director: Erik van Schaaik
Script: Erik van Schaaik
Producers: The Drawing Room
Festival contact: The Drawing Room
Sales: The Drawing Room
2009/ 12 min
Director: Jochem de Vries
Script: Jochem de Vries
Producers: True Works
Festival contact: True Works
Sales: Premium Films
2009/ 25 min
Director: Daan Bakker
Script: Daan Bakker and Sammy
Reijnaert
Producers: Netherlands Film and
Television Academy
Festival contact: Daan Bakker
Sales: Daan Bakker
2009 / 10 min
Director: Lodewijk Crijns
Script: Lotte Tabbers, Anne Barnhoorn
Producers: BosBros
Sales: BosBros
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2009/ 10 min
Director: Froukje Tan
Script: Inge Hardeman
Producers: IJswater Films
Sales: SND Films
2009 / 15 min
Director: Ties Schenk
Script: Marielle van Sauers
Producers: Pupkin Film
Sales: Pupkin Film
2009/ 15 min
Director: Nathalia Alonso Casale
Script: Roslin Prager
Producers: SNG Film
Festival contact: SNG Film
Sales: SNG Film
2009 / 17 min
Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
Script: Tjyying Liu
Producers: Family Affairs
Sales: Family Affairs
2009 / 14 min
Director: Remy van Hugten
Script: Gert Altena
Producers: VPRO / Pupkin Film
Sales: Pupkin Film
2007 / 10 min
Director: Anna van der Heide
Script: Lotte Tabbers
Producers: NTR / Eyeworks
Festival contact: Eyeworks
Sales: Eyeworks
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Father’s day
When little Keetje wants to surprise
her father with a fathers daybreakfast, she’s confronted with
herself in a painful way.
Bente wants a father
Bente is almost ten and a child of two
white mothers. For her birthday she has
only one wish: her African father. This
wish is not easily granted, so she decides
to go in search for him herself.
Hammada
Hammada walks away from home
after an argument with his father. Will
a special encounter at the river show
him the way back?
Monkey king
Anna and her Chinese grandpa
understand one another without
really speaking each other’s language.
Together with the Monkey King they
go on a journey in an attempt to
prevent grandpa’s impending death.
Wet
Marvin dreads school camp because
he still wets the bed. But when he gets
up at night because he has wet his bed
again, it turns out he is not alone.
Missie Poo 16
In her video diary Rosan (14) talks
about light, everyday things. But soon
it becomes apparent that her webcam
recordings are the only way for her to
show her emotions.
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Doggie
When little Dédé says something,
no one listens to him. One day
Dédé befriends a dog and from that
moment on he no longer talks, but
barks instead.
Breath
Twelve-year-old Erik goes swimming
with Sofie and her father. Sofie fancies
Erik, but he is actually more interested in her father.
Chicken!
Hicham doesn’t like the chicken that
his mother prepares. While with
his friends Wesley and Rajeev, he
discovers that chicken can be really
tasty. It’s time for Hicham to take
action.
Firuze
Firuze is a seven-year-old girl who
leads a happy life with her parents.
She loves her Barbie dolls and is passionate about jazz dance. But then he
grandmother from Turkey arrives…
Ebony
The twelve-year-old Surinamese girl
Ebony accidentally causes a row
between her parents. Ebony thinks
she saw her father with another
woman and tells her mother.
Free as a bird
Out of sheer necessity, 8 year-old Roy
overcomes his shyness during the
search for his grandfather’s most
prized possession from Surinam.
2007 / 10 min
Producers: NTR / Lemming Film
Sales: Lemming Film
2007 / 10 min
Director: Margien Rogaar
Script: Tjyying Liu
Producers: NTR / Bos Bros
Sales: Bos Bros
2007 / 14 min
Director: Remy van Heugten
Script: Gert Altena
Producers: NTR / Pupkin Film
Sales: Pupkin Film
2007 / 15 min
Director: Hilt Lochten
Script: Nurgul Ozkanli-Kasikci
Sales: KRO / IJswater Films
2007 / 16 min
Script: Zulile Blinker
Producers: VPRO / JensenFrisbee
Festival contact: JensenFrisbee
Sales: JensenFrisbee
2007/ 15 min
Director: Melinda Jansen
Script: Jeanine Cronie
Producers: KRO / Rinkel Film
Festival contact: Rinkel Film
Sales: Rinkel Film
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2006 / 11 min
Director: Jelmar Hufen
Script: Jelmar Hufen
Producers: Kairos Films
Festival contact: Kairos Films
Sales: Kairos Films
2006 / 10 min
Script: Paula Udondek
Sales: NPO Sales
2006 / 15 min
Director: Hanro Smitsman
Script: Elissa Capelle
Producers: EO / Guapo Productions
Festival contact: Guapo Productions
Sales: Guapo Productions
2006 / 14 min
Director: Ties Schenk
Script: Rosalin Prager
Producers: VPRO / Lemming Film
Sales: NPO Sales
2006 / 11 min
Script: Sabrina Sugiarto
Sales: NPO Sales
2006 / 10 min
Director: Dorothee van den Berghe
Script: Klaartje Dullemond
Producers: NTR / Pupkin Film
Sales: Pupkin Film
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For a few more marbles more
Four children are driven off their
favourite playground by two alcoholics. There is only one solution they
can think of: getting the help of a
‘dangerous’ boy who lives a couple of
streets further on.
Dobli
Recently Dobli has been forced to
share the affection of his parents with
his baby brother Sem. Dobli finds this
difficult and sees Sem as his big rival,
the intruder.
Martijn-Kerem
When you are half Turkish - half Dutch
for which country do you choose?
That’s the question for Martijn-Kerem
an eight year old half Turkish-half
Dutch boy.
Donkey girl
Farouzi (12), a Dutch-Arabic girl is
daydreaming while she at work at a
fishery. One day a girl comes by on a
scooter. The arrival of this self-willed
girl makes Farouzi go after her and
search for luck.
The monstrous toilet
When Esther’s father has to work late,
she is forced to go to Mrs Richmond
after school. Esther is petrified,
because Mrs Richmond’s toilet has
already swallowed numerous children
whole.
Absolutely afro
Hanneke is twelve years old and
ashamed of her frizzy, African hair.
She makes numerous attempts to
straighten her hair so that she can go
to school with a different hairdo.
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Holi
Vanita doesn’t like the father of her
friend Romero. When she goes to play
with him and they head to the market,
she manages to escape. She ends up
in the middle of the colourful Holi
festival.
Engel and Broer
In a dump two children re-enact their
parents’ divorce, which leads to an
unexpected conclusion.
Sweet tomato
One morning the adopted MinGu
finds a ‘sweet tomato’. The taste stirs
a memory in him that won’t let him
go. He goes out in search of the fruit’s
origin.
Queen in the attic
For a poetry contest at school, Lies
writes a poem about her grandma; the
attic queen. Her poem is the winning
entry, but the girl next door Bernizcha
gets a visit from the real queen.
Dajo
Ten-year-old Rutger hates the
constant coming and going of her
mother’s lovers. He buries all of their
presents in the forest. But then he is
given a puppy.
Father and daughter
A Father says goodbye to his young
daughter and leaves. In time the
daughter grows old, but within her
there is always a deep longing for her
father.
2006 / 10 min
Director: Marco van Geffen
Script: Seema Ouweneel
Producers: OHM / Lemming Film
Sales: Lemming Film
2004/ 10 min
Script: Anjet Daanje
Sales: SND Films
2004 / 8 min
Director: Paul Rigter
Script: Paul Rigter
Producers: KRO / Topkapi Films
2004 / 15 min
Director: Sytske Kok
Script: Mylene Gordinou de
Gouberville
Producers: KRO / Phanta Vision
Festival contact: Phanta Vision
Sales: Phanta Vision
2003/ 10 min
Script: Anjet Daanje
Sales: SND Films
2000 / 9 min
Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit
Script: Michaël Dudok de Wit
Producers:CinéTé Filmproductie
Festival contact: CinéTé Filmproductie
Sales: CinéTé Filmproductie
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CATALOGUE
Documentaries
New Arrivals
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DOCUMENTARIES
Meike Statema
Head of education
and programmer
children's documentaries
IDFA
What is most valuable about a youth
documentary is what it can do with a child,
as regards to experience, knowledge and
insights. That it gives you insight into
different situations or that it’s similar to
you and that that does something with you.
Move you or make you angry or happy.
Drama can do that too, but the idea that
something really happened, brings it closer.
- NEW ARRIVALS
In Dutch youth documentaries every
single theme in a child’s world is open
to discussion. Identity, children’s rights,
family, love, sexuality, gender, illness,
death, divorce, friendship, bullying, street
culture. Everything goes, as long as
it’s told in a natural and beautiful way.
Particular to Dutch youth documentaries is
that visually they are quite stunning, with a
lot of attention going into cinematography
and editing. Abroad youth documentaries
are so successful because the Dutch
directness is acceptable coming from
children and because of the high level of
filmic quality.
Ninnoc
2014 / 15 min
Director: Niki Padidar
Producer: Zuidenwind
Filmprodukties / NTR
Festival contact: Zuidenwind
Filmprodukties
Sales: Zuidenwind
Filmprodukties
Ninnoc (13) is a sensitive, beautiful and
special girl. She analyses the world in her
own typical manner; she is a talented dancer
and excels at school. But being sensitive also
has a downside. At her last school Ninnoc
was excluded by her class and always alone.
And now Ninnoc has decided to hide her
sensitivity in order to survive in her new class.
When it all gets too much for her, Ninnoc
retreats into her own world.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Johan
2014 / 16 min
Director: Sjoerd Niekamp
Producer: Cerutti Film / NCRV
Festival contact: Cerutti Film
Sales: NPO Sales
Johan (12) dreams to go out and discover the
world. He decides to join a camping trip: a
survival week in the woods. Being the new kid
at camp, he finds it tough to secure his place
in the group. When night falls he suffers a
pitch black attack of homesickness. Johan
fights an internal struggle to overcome his
fears, leave his comfort zone and become a
valuable member of the scouting group.
My dearest
f#cking
phone
2014 / 15min
Director: Eef Hilgers
Producer: Een van de jongens
/IKON
Festival contact: Een van de
jongens
Sales: Een van de jongens
Claudia (14) can’t live without her telephone.
Throughout the day she keeps a close eye
on Instagram and Facebook and she follows
several blogs of people around the world, to
whom she looks up. But she herself has made
sure she is hard to find online. When Claudia
goes on holiday, this makes her nervous: two
weeks without internet! But this holiday ends
up being a turning point for Claudia.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Losers
2014 / 16 min
Director: Arianne Hinz
Producer: KRO-NCRV /
Hazazah Pictures
Festival contact: KRO-NCRV
Sales: KRO-NCRV
Mathilde, Elian and Isabel have all lost
something different - but did it feel the same?
Can looking at one type of loss teach us about
other types? The film ‘Losers’ follows these
children through different situations and
experiences as they talk about what it feels
like to lose.
Veni Vidi
Vissie
2014 / 15 min
Director: Margot Schaap
Producer: BALDR Film / VPRO
Festival contact: BALDR Film
Sales: BALDR Film
During diving practice Hugo doesn’t think
twice before doing a double-somersault
from the seven metre high diving board, and
because of his favourite Wii game ‘Endless
Ocean’ he is an expert in the underwater
world. But in his normal life, Hugo finds
it harder to find his way. Now that he is
attending secondary school, he is determined
to swim with the other children of his school.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Chellina /
da beast
2014 / 15 min
Director: Zoeteke Lugthart
Producer: Hazazah Pictures
/ AVRO
Festival contact: Hazazah
Pictures
Sales: Hazazah Pictures
Chellina is 15 and multiple kickboxing
champion. After the first time Chellina stood
in the ring, she was certain: this is where she
belongs. Despite the fact that kickboxing is
an extreme sport when Chellina is in the ring
she feels no fear or pain and wins one title
after another. Because of her strength girls
keep canceling fights on the last minute.
Unfortunately there is nobody left to fight in
her age category and Chellina is too young to
become a pro. Will she continue kickboxing
or give up? .
Giovanni and
the water
ballet
2014 / 15 min
Director: Astrid Bussink
Producer: Een van de jongens
/ NCRV
jongens
Ten-year-old Giovanni has a dream: he wants
to participate in the Dutch Synchronised
Swimming Championships. His dream isn’t
embraced by everyone, because synchronised
swimming is seen as a real girl’s sport. But
Giovanni chooses his own path and his
friend Kim understands him. When they are
together they chatter happily.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
In, Spin,
Ritalin
2014 / 18 min
Director: Susan Koenen
Producer: Hollandse Helden
/ NCRV
Festival contact: Hollandse
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
Nike is a disarming and streetwise girl of
seven. At home and at school she has to take
Ritalin for her ADHD. But if she had it her
way, she would stop taking it immediately.
Nike doesn’t want to be different to her
friends. And the pills even taste bad too.
But a child isn’t allowed to make important
decisions herself. Parents do that. After a
lot of persuading, Nike is allowed to go a
school day without Ritalin. She hopes to show
everyone that she doesn’t need pills.
Hanna’s party
2014 / 15 min
Director: Rachel Visscher
Producer: Rachel Visscher
Festival contact: Rachel
Visscher
Sales: Rachel Visscher
For the last couple of years Hanna has thrown
a party on a little island in the Oostvaarderplassen. Because of the overwhelming
success, she does the same this year.
Throwing parties and receiving gifts are an
important part of the friendship between
Hanna and her friends. And there are no
boys invited to this party! The worlds of boys
and girls of ten and eleven are still too far
removed.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Black and
white
2014 / 15 min
Scenario & Regie: Susan
Koenen
Producer: IKON
Festival contact: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Jason is in his last year of primary school and
used to be bullied because other children
found him different. He prefers acting and
singing to football. But Jason isn’t planning
on changing himself. He sees class as a game
of chess: the white pieces are his friends and
the black pieces are the enemy. And he has
to attempt to reach the other side. When
Jason gets a major part in the school musical
and has to work together with the entire
class, something happens which sets all the
different pieces in motion.
Gabriel
reports the
world cup
2014 / 15 min
Regie: Els van Driel
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Because of the 2014 World Cup, the life of
the Brazilian Gabriël is turned upside down.
A new rail line is being developed straight
through his neighbourhood. Houses are
being demolished, entire families are forced
to move and even the children’s local football
pitch will soon disappear. For Gabriël this is a
nightmare. Gabriël is angry at the inequality
in his city and puts self-made footage of
bulldozers tearing down his neighbourhood
on a blog. By becoming a journalist he tries to
stand up for his rights.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Haiduc
2014 / 15 min
Regie: Annelies Kruk en Anneke de
Lind van Wijngaarden
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
His nickname Haiduc means gangster and it
matches Nicu’s tough character. He lives in
a rough world; he ran away from home aged
seven, spent years literally underground, in
the sewers of Bucharest, and is addicted to
drugs. Now he lives with Raluca. She keeps an
eye on the boys that, just like Nicu, came from
the streets. He has a bed and is given meals.
But the drugs have all but ruined his body and
he has to decide: stop or become even sicker.
How Ky
became Niels
2014 / 15 min
Regie: Els van Driel
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Ky has been unhappy for years because she
has a girl’s body. Last summer Ky finally
managed to tell her parents she wants to
become a boy. And she wants a different
name: Niels. Together with her friend Sterre,
who used to be called Tibor and therefore has
a boy’s body, they tell their new secondary
school class that they are transgender
children. It is the beginning of a new life as
Niels.
73
DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Tough cookies
(series)
2014 / 12 x 25 min
Director: div regisseurs
Producer: IDTV docs / VPRO
Festival contact: IDTV docs
Sales: NPO Sales
Doing the laundry, ironing, helping someone
out of bed, cheering them up, making sure
there’s food on the table… These are not
things you often think about as a kid. Yet for
many kids it’s a daily job. At home they help
care for their ill or disabled father, mother,
brother or sister. Tough Cookies delves into
their lives full of responsibilities, which they
shoulder with perseverance, humor and love.
We stay
friends
(series)
2014 / 6 x 5 min
Director: div regisseurs
Producer: Een van de jongens /
BNN-VARA
jongens
Doing the laundry, ironing, helping out of
bed, cheering others up and taking care of
dinner… Not the first things that come to
mind when thinking of a child. But for many
children this is part of their daily routines.
They help out at home with the care of their
sick or handicapped father, mother, brother or
sister. This documentary series portrays their
lives full of responsibilities; burdens they
carry with determination, humour and love.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
A home for
Lydia
2013 / 17 min
Director: Eline Helena
Schellekens
Producer: KRO
Festival contact: KRO
Sales: KRO
Lydia’s mother is from Cameroon, her father
from Nigeria, but she and her brother were
born in the Netherlands. None of them have a
Dutch residence permit, and that’s a concern
for Lydia. After they’ve moved for the seventh
time Lydia is sick and tired of it. She doesn’t
want to have to make new friends again. Lydia
tells her story partly in the expressive and
moving songs that she made in improvisation
sessions with musician Sean de Vries.
Little Miss
Piggy
2013 / 18 min
Director: Ellen Vloet
Producer: Cerutti Film / VPRO
Festival contact: Cerutti Film
& TV
Sales: NPO Sales
Little Miss Piggy is the story of Brechtje Jans
(11) who is raised on a farm. It used to be
part of Brechtjes everyday life, but the girl is
growing up and starting to turn away from
the agrarian lifestyle. Where she used to
love the pigs, she now finds working in the
stables boring and smelly. And the farm is far
removed from the village, away from the ‘real
life.’ Her daily bicycle trips back and forth to
school add to her sense of isolation.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
4 Ever
2014 / 15 min
Director: Reber Dosky
Producer: Conijn Film / Human
Festival contact: Conijn Film
Sales: Conijn Film
Vera has to miss her best friend Arbesa. A few
years ago Arbesa got deported to Kosovo with
her family by the Dutch government. Arbesa
is born in the Netherlands and lived here
for eleven years. Her presence that became
naturally for Vera, abruptly ended. They
keep contact through Skype. How do they
experience their friendship when they are
now living in two completely different worlds
so far away from each other?
New
2013 / 20 min
Director: Eefje Blankevoort
Producer: Witfilm / NCRV
Festival contact: Witfilm
Sales: NPO Sales
Eight-year-old Congolese Tanans grew
up in a refugee welcome zone in Uganda.
Together with his family he has come to
the Netherlands as an ‘invited refugee’. In
the refugee camp, they were selected by the
UNHCR to be resettled in the Netherlands and
start a new life here. For the first time he lives
in a beautiful house, tries to find his balance
on a bike, speaks Dutch. But above all, he tries
to make sense of this strange, new world.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Through
the fire
2013 / 16 min
Director: Miguel Narings
Producer: AVRO
Festival contact: AVRO
Sales: AVRO
Armando wanted to be a stuntman since
the age of six, and dreams of a career in
Hollywood. With his family he travels
to various towns during the summer to
demonstrate spectaculair stuntshows.
Now he’s going to drive through a sea of
fire. But at the last minute he pulls out –
apparently, he’s not the daredevil he thought
he was after all. Life’s not easy with a father
who is also a stuntman.
Straight with
you
2013 / 19’
Director: Daan Bol
Producer: Vossen Films/ VPRO
Festival contact: VPRO
Sales: VPRO
Eleven-year-old Melvin has a secret: he is not
into girls. Although his family knows, he’s
afraid to tell his schoolmates, as he thinks
they might start bullying him. What should
he do when the coolest girl in his class sends
him a love letter? What does it mean to be
different? What is it like to have a secret? And
how do you really know who you are?
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Tonight we’ll
become
women
2013 / 15 min
Director: Josefien Hendriks
Producer: OHM / Witfilm
Festival contact: Witfilm
Sales: Witfilm
Neighbors and best friends Ismini (13)
and Komal (12) regularly sleep over at one
another’s houses. They know everything
about one another. But of course they don’t
know everything about life yet, so there’s a lot
to talk about. During a long night together,
Ismini and Komal will cover all the issues
teenage girls think about, and they will begin
the transformation into young women. The
girls are filmed from above while they discuss
all kinds of topics in voice-over.
Hear this!
2013 / 16 min
Director: Soulaima El Khaldi
/ BOS
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
10-year-old Tristan has deaf parents, and
Tristan and his little sister can both hear.
They communicate effortlessly with their
parents and their mostly deaf friends. They
can live with it just fine, but it’s hard for
Tristan to take the fact that his soccer club
doesn’t want his father to train Tristan’s
non-deaf team. After all, his father is on the
Dutch national soccer team for the deaf and
he knows everything about the game.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
You
should’ve
been there
2013 / 17 min
Director: Anneloor van Heemstra
& Susanne Helmer
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
The 17-year-old Willem is the mastermind
behind the successful, four-headed band
Palio Superspeed Donkey. Already at the
age of 14 they were picked up by the media.
They’ve now joined a well-known record label
and have their own manager. The producer
wants to record a successful CD with them,
but Willem is determined to keep in control
of his music at all costs.
Once upon a
tree
2013 / 15 min
Director: Marleen van der Werf
Producer: Human
Festival contact: Human
Sales: Human
Eleven-year-old Filine’s favorite tree stands in
the middle of the woods: a huge old oak. She
love to climb in it and looks out at the world
and to examines the lives of various insects
on the tree itself. The young nature lover
notices that several trees have been cut down.
She is very worried they will they cut down
her favorite tree too. Filine comes up with a
creative plan to save the rest of her beloved
woods from destruction.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Through
the looking
glass
2013 / 20 min
Director: Martijn Blekendaal
Producer: AVRO
Festival contact: AVRO
Sales: NPO Sales
Even though Marijn is only 12, he has known
for years that he wants to be an artist. Marijn
is a promising talent and has vision, so he
gets admitted to a preparatory course at the
Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. It’s an
exciting time for him, as he starts preparing
for his first big exam. The fact that his work
will be judged by real experts is great, but at
the same time it’s complicated. Will his work
be good enough?
Language is
not really my
thing
2013 / 15 min
Director: Xander de Boer
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
Dennis is thirteen years old and has trouble
finding the right words. Dennis has a severe
language disorder which prevents him
from saying what he really thinks and to
understand what people ask him. He is a
handsome boy and spends hours in front of
the mirror modelling his blond locks. By the
looks of him there’s nothing wrong with him,
but when he has to tell a story he often fails to
find the right words.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Wool fever
2013 / 15 min
Producer: Zeppers Film & TV / NCRV
Festival contact: Zeppers Film & TV
Sales: NPO Sales
Every year in May, a small village in the
Dutch countryside is turned upside down.
Everybody is seized by parade fever. The
village has the largest wool parade in the
world! The wool parade is popular with the
youth and for months, everyone goes out of
their way to win the coveted first prize. The
rivalry is huge; they are both determined to
beat the other group. What started off as fun
seems to lead up to a true “battle of the sexes”.
Jamey’s fight
2013 / 15 min
Director: Denise Janzée
Producer: ZeeFilm / NCRV
Festival contact: NCRV
Sales: NCRV
Jamey (16) has had a stammer since age four
and doesn’t know any different. He’s tried any
number of things, but nothing helped. Still
he manages to pluck up courage once more
to clear the last hurdle and overcome his
stammer, since he wants to apply to a sport
academy where he will have to teach classes.
81
DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Youssef
please say
NO!
2013 / 15 min
Director: Marjolijn Heijnen
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
Fourteen-year-old Youssef is always busy. He
dashes from one appointment to the next.
He has to work, take care of his brothers, do
volunteer work in the community centre and
practise sports. Youssef always wants to help
everyone and disappoint nobody.
So he says YES to everything. Because of these
activities his homework often gets sidelined.
A talk to his mentor makes Youssef realise
that he really needs to make a decision if he is
to reach his ultimate goal: to become a judge.
Feifei - hide
and seek
2013 / 15 min
Director: Els van Driel
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Feifei is an 8-year-old Chinese boy, born in the
Netherlands, who officially doesn’t exist. He
is undocumented, together with his mother.
He is an illegal resident. His friend Mees
thinks it is totally weird that Feifei doesn’t
have a passport. Feifei himself also doesn’t
understand a thing about all this paperwork,
but he hopes that a special Children’s
Regulation will give him the papers he needs
to start a normal life in a decent house.
82
DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Merlijn and
the red apple
2013 / 20 min
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Merlijn (11) is a happy, smart boy with a head
full of ideas. He is the self-crowned king of
his room and has a best friend who is always
there for him. But there’s one big problem:
Merlijn is autistic and unable to attend
school. A classroom full of children is too
crowded for him. That’s why he hasn’t gone to
school for years now. What kind of education
will help children like Merlijn?
Imraan is
freed
2013 / 15 min
Director: Els van Driel
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Imraan is only ten years old when he leaves
the house of his parents in the countryside
of India. He goes to Delhi to find work so he
can bring money to his parents and pay off
the debts of their hospital bills. But he has to
work until late at night and gets bad food. He
is never allowed to leave the workplace and
also gets beaten up. He misses his mother,
who is ill. What will Imraan’s future look like?
83
DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Queen - letter
to the queen
2013 / 15 min
Director: Anneloor van
Heemstra
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
Queen is a 10-year-old girl that is close to
becoming homeless and having to live on the
streets together with her Nigerian mother.
Queen is an ‘illegal alien’ in The Netherlands.
They are extremely poor by Dutch poverty
standards and often have nothing to eat. She
writes a letter to our ‘alien’ queen Maxima,
who was born in Argentina: where will she
stay over at Christmas and New Year’s eve?
Paulina
2013 / 10 min
Director: Frans Bromet
Producer: Bromet & Dochters
/ NCRV
Festival contact: Bromet &
Dochters
Sales: Bromet & Dochters
Paulina (12) moved from Poland to the
Netherlands five years ago. Her parents,
brother and sister have difficulties with the
Dutch language. Not Paulina, so she helps
her father with the administration of his
construction company and she is constantly
busy with translation work at home too. She
enjoys helping others, but sometimes it gets
on her nerves. She would really like to just
play outside or hang out at the shopping
centre sometimes.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Room for
myself
2013 / 25 min
Producer: Bromet & Dochters
/ NCRV
Festival contact: Bromet &
Dochters
Sales: Bromet & Dochters
Orhan is an eleven-year-old Turkish boy, who
lives with his parents, brother and sister in
Amsterdam. When Orhan wants to be by
himself, he goes into the bedroom they all
share. But he is constantly disturbed in there
as people walk in and out all the time. That is
really annoying when he is writing in his diary
or trying to hide the money he has saved up.
Orhan is saving for a computer that he will
put in his own little bedroom. Because Orhan
is getting his own room.
Joëlla - Best
friends
forever
2013 / 15 min
Director: Eefje Blankevoort
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
At first glance Joëlla (13) seems perfectly
normal. She is in her first year of secondary
school and loves to dance. But Joëlla is
different; she has FAS, Foetal Alcohol
Syndrome. During her pregnancy her mother
consumed a lot of alcohol, which resulted
in Joëlla’s brain being different to those of
healthy children. Because of the ‘fault’ in her
brain, Joëlla finds it difficult to remember
things. And it’s hard for her to make friends
too. But Joëlla isn’t planning on giving up.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- NEW ARRIVALS
Louis
the ferris
wheel kid
2013 / 17 min
Director: Tara Fallaux
Producer: 100% Halal Productions
/ NTR
Festival contact: 100% Halal
Productions
Sales: 100% Halal Productions
Louis is the child of a traveling carnival
family. This year he will go to high school and
not only has to leave behind his old school,
but his home as well. Home for Louis is the
amusement park, where he knows everyone
Menna Laura Meijer
Director of a.o. Girls, Boys
and Sexy.
I want children to enjoy a
documentary. Although
I know that children essentially dislike
watching documentaries… So something
inside should sparkle to grip that
audience. Actually it’s the same as when
you want children to eat vegetables; you
and everyone knows him. But now he has to
leave this all behind and live in a home with
other carnival kids on weekdays. And Louis is
going to miss his much younger little brother
the most.
put together something fun on the plate. We
make something fun, something creative
and challenging, and something that is
enjoyable for children.
In my opinion children’s documentaries
should be on television everyday. They do
make a difference, because children will
pick up something from then anyway.
Therefore I also think that filmmakers
should be creative and try to be innovative
and distinctive.
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Tommie
2 Brothers
I'm agirl
Mookie
87
CATALOGUE
Documentaries
Highlights
88
DOCUMENTARIES
- HIGHLIGHTS
Sounds for Mazin
Mazin has been deaf since birth,
but soon he’s going to get a cochlear
implant. He is very excited about
this, and a bit scared.The implant will
radically change his world in more
ways than one.
Little Mo
Mo is a twelve-year-old rebel from a
working-class neighbourhood and is
not afraid of anyone. But as he’ll be
going to high school next year he has
to change his behavior to work on a
better future.
Taking the plunge
Kaleigh is 10 years old and can’t
swim yet, even though most of her
peers can. There’s a special reason
why Kaleigh didn’t manage to get a
certificate. But this time she’s sure it’s
going to work out.
The hideout
Coming-of-age film about four boys
from a small village in the Netherlands.
Their friendship is analyzed down to
the minutest detail in their hut they
built themselves and which the boys
use as their club house.
Just a girl, you know
Thirteen-year-old Maria has got her
own YouTube channel, where she
shares her vlogs, shoplogs and video
clips. Is Maria losing herself in the
digital world, or will she find her own
voice?
Jan’s mom
The mother of 11-year-old Jan is in
prison. If there’s something he wants
to ask or tell his mother, he records
these things with a voice recorder.
Most of all Jan wants to ask his mother
how she’s really doing.
2012 / 19 min
Director: Ingrid Kamerling
Producer: Hollandse Helden / EO
Festival contact: Hollandse Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
Director: Sjoerd Oostrik
Producer: BALDR Film / VPRO
Festival contact: BALDR Film
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 16 min
Director: Michiel Brongers
Producer: Selfmade Films / NCRV
Festival contact: Selfmade Films
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
Producer: KRO
Festival contact: KRO
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 20 min
Director: Eef Hilgers
Producer: St Joost Academy
Festival contact: Eef Hilgers
Sales: Eef Hilgers
2012 / 16 min
Director: Anneloor van Heemstra
Producer: Hollandse Helden / NCRV
Sales: NPO Sales
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DOCUMENTARIES
2012/ 30 min
Director: Marijn Frank
Producer: Dahl TV & Blazhoffski
/ VPRO
Sales: Dahl TV & Blazhoffski
Festival contact: VPRO Sales
2012 / 17 min
Director: Anne Kleisen
Producer: Blackframe / BOS
Festival contact: Blackframe
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 /15 min
Director: Janetta Ubbels
Producer: Bananaz / NTR
Festival contact: Bananaz
Sales: Bananaz
2012 / 17min
Director: Annelies Kruk
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 19 min
Director: Neske Beks
Filmproductions / NCRV
Filmproductions
Sales: Zuidenwind
Filmproductions
- HIGHLIGHTS
Bente’s voice
Bente auditions for the TV show The Voice
Kids because she’s desperate to become
a singer. But when she is selected she’s
forced to make adult choices. And at
school she’s suddenly popular.
Sarah’s night
Sarah can’t seem to fall asleep. She and
her little brother live with foster parents
as her mom is very sick and hasn’t been
able to take care of her since she was five.
Can she stay in her foster home?
Delete
The father of 15-year-old Jurre has
Alzheimer’s, a disease that is taking bites
out of his memory. Jurre is afraid that in
the end his father will forget him.
Father wanted: with a piggy nose
13-year-old Jaël is the child of an
anonymous donor. She’ll be allowed to
make contact with him when she turns
16, but she doesn’t want to wait that long.
Did she get her upturned nose from her
father?
All of me
Diede and Emma are best friends, they
share almost everything. But Diede has a
secret: she’s clairvoyant. And she’s afraid
to tell Emma as she doesn’t want Emma to
think she’s nuts.
Mookie
Mookie is a very cute and cheerful
Antillean/Surinamese boy who bursts of
imagination. But sometimes he’s not well
as he has a chronic disease that can leave
him tired and sore.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- HIGHLIGHTS
Cap or kippah
Bram (14) keeps it a secret at his high
school that he is Jewish. He grew up in
a small village where he was seriously
bullied about it, so decided not to tell
it anymore. And now he lives in two
worlds.
When I look into the mirror
15-year-old Dilan was badly burned by
a flame from a fire brazier. Her good
looks were changed forever in just
three seconds. Can she accept that her
face and life will never be the same
again?
Dancing in style
14-year-old Eugène loves ballroom
dancing since he was 6. He’s been
teased about it for years, but he’s fed
up with being laughed at and decides
to show his classmates what he can do.
Bullied: Lwiza
Lwiza has been bullied since she
was in the first class. She doesn’t
understand why and with a camera
in her hand, she asks the children
from her class what they think about
bullying.
Bullied: Justin
Justin has been bullied at school
for years. Why do they always pick
on him? At his new school, things
are a little better, but he’s still being
bullied. Justin thinks it’s because he is
a ‘softie’.
Nadia’s tics
Nadia is a bright and openhearted
young lady, but there’s also something
special about her. She candidly
explains how she struggles with her
obsessivecompulsive neuroses and
anxieties.
2012 /15 min
Director: Susanne Engels
Producer: Zuidenwind Filmprodukties
/ Joodse Omroep
Filmprodukties
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
Director: Saskia Gubbels
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
Director: Xander de Boer
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
Producer: Bromet & Dochters / NCRV
Festival contact: Bromet & Dochters
Sales: NPO Sales
2012 / 15 min
Producer: Bromet & Dochters / NCRV
Festival contact: Bromet & Dochters
Sales: NPO Sales
2011 / 18 min
Director: Laetitia Schoofs
Producer: Key Docs / BOS
Sales: Key Docs
Festival contact: NPO Sales
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DOCUMENTARIES
2011 / 15 min
Director: Annelies de Wit
Producer: Selfmade Films /
NCRV
Festival contact: Selfmade Films
Sales: NPO Sales
2011 / 17 min
Director: Saskia Gubbels
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
2010 / 21 min
Director: Catherine van Campen
Filmproductions / NCRV
Filmproductions
Sales: NPO Sales
2010 / 19 min
Director: Willem Baptist
Producers: Kaliber Film / VPRO
Festival contact: Kaliber Film
Sales: NPO Sales
2010 / 15 min
Director Hilt Lochten
Producer: KRO/RKK
Festival contact: KRO/RKK
Sales: NPO Sales
2010 / 16 min
/ NCRV
Helden
Sales: NPO Sales
- HIGHLIGHTS
My granny Lien
Christel loves her 84-year-old Granny
Lien, who’s getting senile. Her
grandmother took care of her for years
and Christel wonders how it will be once
Lien no longer knows her.
Eleven-year-old Ellen is deaf, just like her
parents and most of her family, and only
communicates through sign language.
But she would like to attend a normal
high school for hearing.
Flying Anne
Anne suffers from Gilles de la Tourette’s
syndrome. Anne sometimes finds it hard
to cope with her illness, especially in
school. She’s afraid that others will bully
her or laugh at her.
I’m never afraid!
Eight-year-old Mack is is big a motocross
fan since the age of three. He was born
with a congenital heart condition and
things looked really bad for him. But
Mack is a tough guy who’s never afraid.
2Brothers
Eleven-year-old Rino and his
nine-year-old brother Nik have a strong
bond. Nik has a neuromuscular disease
and is wheelchair-bound. But the boys
always look for ways to try and play
together.
I am a girl
13-year-old Joppe is a typical adolescent
girl; fascinated by boys and make-up. But
Joppe used to be called Job and was born a
boy. And now she’s in love with Bart. Will
she tell him the truth?
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DOCUMENTARIES
- HIGHLIGHTS
A dress for Anuschka
9-year-old Anuschka father is
getting married to stepmother Kitty.
Anuschka dreams about having a
fantastic dress for the wedding. But
the family has hardly enough money
to live on.
Living in 2 houses: Renee
Julia’s parents got divorced and her
life has changed a lot. She lives partly
with her father and partly with her
mother. Her family is much bigger
now and therefore her family life is
much more vibrant.
We are boys
Jim and Sam have been friends and
are inseparable. But after the summer
vacation, Jim will be going to high
school. Sam thinks that they will stay
friends forever, but Jim is not entirely
convinced.
Plank
Because his father did not keep
his word about paying for soccer,
15-year-old Dutch-Moroccan Nassim
started skating — it is free, after all,
and you can do it anywhere.
Laura & Anne 4-Ever
Laura ‘s best friend Anne died six
months ago of leukaemia. Laura was
convinced she would recover and
explains what Anne meant to her and
what she continues to mean.
Pets in pots
Marth is a 13 year-old-girl who has a
great fascination for animals, whether
alive or dead. She strongly believes
that only animals understand her. In
her bedroom she is keeping her dead
animals in pots.
2010 / 16 min
Sales: NPO Sales
2010 / 16 min
Producer: Bromet & dochters / NCRV
Festival contact: Bromet & dochters
Sales: NPO Sales
2009 / 16 min
Director Tomas Kaan
Producers: 100% Halal / VPRO
Sales: NPO Sales
2009 / 15 min
Director Billy Pols
Producers: Hazazah Pictures / NTR
Festival contact: Hazazah Pictures
Sales: Hazazah Pictures
2008 / 23 min
Producer: KRO/RKK
Festival contact: KRO/RKK
Sales: NPO Sales
2008 / 15 min
Director: Simonka de Jong
Producer: Pieter van Huystee Film&TV
/ OHM
Festival contact: Pieter van Huystee
Film&TV
Sales: NPO Sales
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DOCUMENTARIES
2006 / 24 min
Director: Anneke de Lind van
Wijngaarden
Producer Doña Anna Productions
/ VPRO
Sales: NPO Sales
2006 / 6 x 25 min
Producer: Submarine / VPRO
Sales: Submarine
2005 / 25 min
Director: Anneloek Sollart
Producer: VPRO
Sales: NPO Sales
2005 / 15 min
Director: Wilma Ligthart
Producer: Lemming Film / VPRO
Sales: NPO Sales
2005/ 29 min
Director: Katinka de Maar
Producer: VPRO
Sales: VPRO Sales
2004 / 16 min
Producer: NCRV
Sales: NPO Sales
- HIGHLIGHTS
How Nikita got herself a horse
Nikita was terribly bullied in primary
school. But when her mother gave Nikita
a horse the animal marked a change in
her life. Nikita worked miracles with the
beautiful black stallion.
Naked
A six part series in which children tell us
their funny and personal stories about the
changes their bodies are going through.
The documentary footage has been
playfully animated with a computer.
Raw (series: Surviving in
the Netherlands)
Tom is only allowed to eat raw food, like
carrots, apples and nuts. His mother
thinks all food should be eaten as nature
intended it, as she is convinced that
eating raw is healthier,
Ayla, the tsunami girl
During the Christmas holidays, Ayla and
her family were staying in a seaside hotel in
Sri Lanka when the tsunami of 2004 hit the
coast. She is still dealing with the trauma
on a daily basis.
Busje (series: Surviving in
the Netherlands)
Henk, Jeremy, Abdel-Aziz, Segino en
Oumaina have to travel to school with a
special bus every day. They don’t always
like it, because the children are not always
nice to each other.
Nima
Nima is a Somali teenager, who lives in a
centre for refugees, after she had fled for
the war in her country. She hopes she can
stay here for good as here she is having
fun with her friends and she attends
school.
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DOCUMENTARIES
- HIGHLIGHTS
Girls
Three boys (aged 14) talk about what
they understand least and what
fascinates them most: girls. The three
boys have been friends since first
grade. Sex and girls are their favourite
topic of conversation.
My father lives in Venezuela
(series: And rightly so!)
Roxana’s father has been in prison in
Venezuela for two years after being
arrested for drug smuggling. She
speaks about how she kept in contact
and how much she has missed him.
Laura is my father
(series: Unexpected blow)
Alisa’s father wanted to be a woman.
Alisa approved and they agreed about
a name. But her friends at school and
the people in the village don’t know
what to think of it.
Search for Loedertje
Willemijns whole neighbourhood was
wiped out by a firework explosion.
She lost her house and all her things,
but most importantly she lost her cat
Loedertje. She goes back to the area to
look for him.
The day I decided to be Nina
The eleven-year-old Guido was born as
a boy, but feels like a girl. Guido calls
himself Nina now. As long as he can
remember, he has played with girl’s
toys and wanted to wear dresses.
Tommie
Tommie’s father has passed away.
He was a composer and Tommie
discoveres a string quartet that his
father composed before his birth. ‘For
Tommie,’ it says. Tommie hears it for
the first time.
2003, color, video, 25 min
Director: Menna Laura Meijer
Producer: IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
2003 / 25 min
Director: René Roelofs
Sales: NPO Sales
2003 / 15 min
Director: Juul Bovenberg
Producer: Lemming Film / IKON
Sales: NPO Sales
2001 / 16 min
Director: Juul Bovenberg
Producer: NCRV
Sales: NCRV
2000 / 15 min
Director: Ingeborg Jansen
Sales: NPO Sales
2000 / 20 min
Director Boudewijn Koole
Producer: VPRO
Sales: VPRO Sales
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CATALOGUE
New Media
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NEW MEDIA
Kika & Bob
Online game
2014 & 2007
Concept & design: Submarine,
Ranj
Producer: Submarine
Sales: Superights
Interactive web games connected to the
animation series Kika and Bob. Firefighter
Bob and the girl Kika travel the world trying
to get home and save Kika’s kitten Tiger.
In line with the tv-series, players travel the
world, making sure Kika & Bob survive a
series of hazards and dangers, with the goal of
rescuing Kika’s cat from the church spire.
Small steps in
a big war
Interactive webcomic
2014
Concept & design comic:
Gustavo Garcia, Ivan Petrus
Adriaenssens, Maarten van
der Duin
Producer: NTR, Submarine
Sales: Superights
On the basis of letters, diary entries, archive
material and dramatised scenes, different
events from the First World War are told and
experienced. All stories in the series and
situations in the comics are based on people
and events from the past that actually existed
or took place. In the comics the player has
to make his own decisions, which allows the
events to be re-experienced first hand.
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NEW MEDIA
Cinekid
AppLab
Application
2013
Concept & design: Marco
Coenradie
Producer: Cinekid
Sales: Cinekid
A mobile application with a selection of apps
that have been evaluated and recommended
by Cinekid, which functions as a tool
for finding beautiful, creative, safe and
high-quality apps for young children. This
app allows fine-tuned searches for age-appropriate apps in different categories and
themes. The categories correspond with
specific developmental phases. Clips and
reviews of the apps can also be viewed.
Explore it!
Tablet-app
2013
Commissioning editor NTR: Loes
Wormmeester
Concept app: Anneke Dorsman,
Astrid Poot
Design: Fonkmobile
Sales: NTR
Explore it! is part of a science tv-series.
The tablet-app takes science into your own
household. How can you make scientific
inquiries yourself? With the app families can
do experiments on their own kitchen table.
Not in the app, but in real life, with their own
hand and senses. The app guides the process
and is used as a visual log.
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NEW MEDIA
The
Wonderkamers
Museum game
Foto: Gerrit Schreurs
A museum game that leads young visitors
through the world of fine art, haute couture,
architecture and the decorative arts. Art
comes to live through this interactive game
2013
Concept & design: Kiss the Frog,
Kossman.deJong
Producer: Kiss the Frog
Sales: Gemeentemuseum Den
Haag
because the visitors of the museum become a
curator by putting together an art exhibition.
They learn about art in a playfully way.
Bounden
Physical and
digital game
2014
Concept & design: Game Oven
Producer: Game Oven, Dutch
National Ballet
Sales: Game Oven
A whimsical dancing game for two players,
with choreography by the Dutch National
Ballet. Twist and twirl elegantly, or get
entangled with a friend. Holding either end
of a device, you tilt the device around a virtual
sphere following a path of rings. You swing
your arms and twist your body, and before you
know it, you are already dancing.
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NEW MEDIA
On the ground
reporter
Educational game
2013 & 2010
Concept & design: Butch &
Sundance Media
Producer: Butch & Sundance
Media
Sales: Uitgeverij Deviant
Interactive quests for student, who are
sent as a reporter to different parts of the
Netherlands, as well as foreign countries
with the assignment to only return with a
good story. During the trip the students will
learn about different cultures, democracy, or
media dynamics. The game helps students to
develop a broad, unprejudiced, and open view
on the world.
The world of
difference
Serious game
2013
Concept & design: Monkeybizniz
Producer: Monkeybizniz, MCC
Flevoland
Sales: Monkeybizniz, MCC
Flevoland
The World of Difference is a place where
young people can share their (imminent)
grief. A virtual world to help them deal with
their grief, fear and other worries, but also to
encourage them to remember and rejoice.
In addition, it is an online platform to keep
and share memories with other young people
reminding them that they are not alone.
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NEW MEDIA
ibb & obb
Video game
2013
Concept & design: Sparpweed
Producer: Sparpweed /
Codeglue
Sales: Sparpweed
A two player cooperative game set in a puzzle
filled world where gravity goes both up and
down. In a colorful adventure the players
become ibb and obb. Everything revolves
around the interaction between the two, both
on and off the screen.
Picnic with
cake
Interactive game and
animation series
2012
Concept & design: Jorrit de
Vries, Gijs Kattenberg, Karel
Brascamp
Producer: Submarine
Sales: Superights
Website with interactive game connected
to the tv-series Picnic with cake. Mr. and
Mrs. Dog baked two delicious cakes for a
picnic with all their animal friends. But once
they arrive at the picnic spot….The cakes
are missing! The heart of the website is an
interactive story world where children can
join the animals enjoying the Picnic with
Cake and jump between characters and
switch perspectives.
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NEW MEDIA
Papiria
Museum game
2012
Concept & game design: Kiss the
Frog, Platvorm
Producer: Kiss the Frog
Sales: Children’s books museum
Foto: Harrie van den Berg
Papiria is a museum game about books and
words. A terrible beast consumes the words
he finds, leaving behind only blank paper and
interrupted stories. Visitors to the exhibition
are trusted with the urgent task to stop the
monster before Papiria is destroyed. The only
way they can do this is to create new stories,
by writing their own with the words they find
and collect around the museum.
Animaltracker
Interactive identificationkey (app & website)
2012
Commissioning editor NTR: Loes
Wormmeester
Concept key: Anneke Dorsman,
Hansjorg Ahrens, Berry van der Hoorn
Design: Dawn / IJsfontein
Sales: NTR
Which animals live in your garden? With the
Animal Tracker, an interactive animal identification key tied in to the television series,
children discover the varied animal world in
their own back gardens. Children can find
out the animals’ names and their characteristics for themselves. The identification works
based on characteristics that are relevant for
children, such as colour, number of legs or
wing shape.
Film Producers
Netherlands
Film roducers Netherlands is the association of film producers
in the Netherlands. ur aim is to stimulate and support a dynamic
and creative film industry. any of our members are e perienced
in international co productions.
Members
BALDR Film, Bijker Film & TV, BosBros, Cadenza Films, Circe Films, Richard Claus
& Co. / Cool Beans, CTM Pictures, Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, Family Affair Films,
Farmhouse TV & Film, Fu Works, Graniet Film, Johan Nijenhuis & Co, Jos Stelling
Films, Keren Cogan Films, KeyFilm, Lemming Film, Mountain Road Entertainment
Group, Mulholland Pictures, Phanta Film, Pupkin Film, PVPictures, Rinkel Film,
Rotterdam Films, Sigma Pictures Productions, Sluizer Films, SNG Film, Submarine,
Talent United, Topkapi Films, Volya Films, 24 FPS Features
Board members
Marc van Warmerdam (Chairman, Graniet Film), Ate de Jong (Mulholland Pictures),
Marleen Slot (Viking Film), Maarten Swart (Eyeworks), Sander Verdonk (CTM
Pictures), Joost de Vries (Lemming Film)
Contact
Marjan van der Haar (Managing Director)
Film Producers Netherlands
Korte Zoutkeetsgracht 2, 1013 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mobile +31 317 90 017, Office +31 20 27 00 1
[email protected], www.filmproducenten.nl
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CONTACT PRODUCERS
100% Halal
+31 20 6391402
[email protected]
www.100procenthalal.nl
BosBros
+31 20 5244030
[email protected]
www.bosbros.com
Cupola Stories & Pictures
+3120 620 4992
[email protected]
www.cupola.nl
AAA Pictures
+31 20 305 9107,
[email protected]
www.aaa-pictures.com
Bromet & dochters
+3120 436 3594
[email protected]
www.bromet.nl
Dahl TV
+3120 630 1080
[email protected]
www.dahl.nl
A'dam Films BV
+3120-4899022
[email protected]
www.amsterdamfilms.nl
Butch and Sundance Media
[email protected]
www.butchandsundance.nl
Dutch Mountain Film
+31 20 688 1843
[email protected]
www.dutchmountainfilm.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Cerutti Films
+31 (0)6-50208648
[email protected]
www.ceruttifilm.nl
AM Pictures
+31 (0) 6 417 491 95
[email protected]
www.am-pictures.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Cinekid
+31 20 531 78 90
[email protected]
www.cinekid.nl
BALDR Film
+31 20 3032670
[email protected]
www.baldrfilm.nl
CinéTé Filmproduktie BV
+31 20 6855339
[email protected]
www.cinete.nl
Bananaz
+316 44042556
[email protected]
www.bnnz.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
BIND Film
+3120 364 0030
[email protected]
www.bindenwillink.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Bijker Film & TV
Ph. +31 20 2260100
[email protected]
www.bijker.tv
Blackframe
+3120 3318635
[email protected]
www.blackframe.nl
BlazHoffski Productions B.V.
+31 20 3018450
[email protected]
www.blazhoffski.nl
Circe Films
+31 20 6253591
[email protected]
www.circe.nl
Een van de jongens
+31 20 894 36 28
[email protected]
www.eenvandejongens.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Column Film
+31 20 572 2700
[email protected]
www.columnfilm.com
Conijn Film
+31 6 412 352 89
[email protected]
www.conijnfilm.com
Corrino Films
+31 20 4233002
[email protected]
www.corrino.com
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
+31 20 3463700
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
Family Affair Films
Ph. +31 20 7071713
[email protected]
www.familyaffairfilms.nl
Farmhouse TV & Film
+31 511539510
[email protected]
www.farmhousefilm.nl
Flinck Film BV
+31 20 570 31 30
[email protected]
www.flinckfilm.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Fu Works
+31 20 5307110
[email protected]
www.fuworks.com
Game Oven Studios
+31 6 4967 8083
[email protected]
www.gameovenstudios.com
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CONTACT PRODUCERS
Hazazah Pictures
+31 20 4226422
[email protected]
www.hazazahpictures.com
KeyFilm
+31 20 4231596
[email protected]
www.keyfilm.nl
Pieter van Huystee Film
+31 20 421 0606
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
Hollandse Helden
+31 20 33 17 417
[email protected]
www.hollandsehelden.nl
KeyDocs
+31 20 4222607
[email protected]
www.keydocs.nl
IDTV Drama
+31 20 3143100
[email protected]
www.idtvdocs.nl
Kiss the Frog
+ 31 15 2400 100
[email protected]
www.kissthefrog.nl
IDTV Docs
+31 20 3143100
[email protected]
www.idtvdocs.nl
Lagestee Film BV
+31 20 6273374
[email protected]
www.lagesteefilm.nl
Rachel Visscher
+316 1402 4391
[email protected]
www.rachelvisscher.com
Lemming Film
+31 20 6610424
[email protected]
www.lemmingfilm.com
Revolver Amsterdam
+31 20 8208987
[email protected]
www.revolver.nl
IJswater Films B.V.
+31 20 4421760
[email protected]
www.ijswater.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Pupkin Film
+31 20 4895088
[email protected]
www.pupkin.com
PVPictures
+31 35 6774776
[email protected]
www.pvpictures.nl
il Luster B.V.
+31 30 2400768
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
Molenwiek Film
+31 20 6252296
[email protected]
www.molenwiek.nl
Isabella Films
+31 20 4229199
[email protected]
www.isabellafilms.com
Monkeybizniz
+31 30 214 52 25
[email protected]
www.monkeybizniz.com
Selfmade Films
+31 20 6060789
[email protected]
www.selfmadefilms.nl
Mountain Road
Entertainment Group
+31 35 6235559
[email protected]
www.mountainroad.nl
Shooting Star Film Company BV
+31 20 6247272
[email protected]
www.shootingstar.nl
Johan Nijenhuis & Co BV
+31 20 7601960
[email protected]
www.nijenhuisenco.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Kaliber Film
[email protected]
www.kaliberfilm.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
NL Film & TV
+31 20 5747626
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
Kasander Film
+31 10 4333043
[email protected]
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Phanta Film
+31 20 6260255
[email protected]
www.phantavision.com
Rinkel Film BV
+31 20 616 32 31
[email protected]
www.rinkelfilm.com
Sigma Pictures
+31 20 5353320
[email protected]
www.sigmapictures.com
SNG Film
+31 20 6867837
[email protected]
www.sngfilm.nl
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CONTACT PRODUCERS
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Sparpweed
+31 643755618
[email protected]
www.sparpweed.com
Volt Films
+31 20 8932332
[email protected]
www.voltfilms.nl
Steven de Jong Productions
+31 515 558558
[email protected]
www.stevendejongfilms.nl
Vossen Films
+316 44042556
[email protected]
Submarine BV
+31 20 3301226
[email protected]
www.submarine.n
Talent United Film & TV
+31 20 4129644
[email protected]
www.talentunited.nl
Telescreen Filmproducties
+31 35 699 9999
[email protected]
www.telescreen.nl
The Drawing Room
+316 242 844 66
[email protected]
www.drawingroom.nl
Theorema Films /
Feature Partners
31 20 670 7536
[email protected]
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Topkapi Films
+31 20 3032494
[email protected]
www.topkapifilms.nl
Valk Producties
[email protected]
www.valkproducties.nl
Filmproducenten
Nederland
Viking Film
+31 20 6254788
[email protected]
www.vikingfilm.nl
Waterland Film
+31 20 7630663
[email protected]
www.waterlandfilm.nl
Witfilm
+31 20 6885049
[email protected]
www.witfilm.nl
Zeppers Film & TV
+3120 6758594
[email protected]
www.zeppers.nl
Zuidenwind Filmproductions
+31 76 5140871
[email protected]
ww.zuidenwind.nl
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CONTACT BROADCASTING COMPANIES
AVRO
+31 35 671 7238
[email protected]
www.avro.nl
IKON
+31 35 672 7272
[email protected]
www.ikon.nl
NTR
+31 35 677 9333
[email protected]
www.ntr.nl
BNN
+31 35 655 5333
[email protected]
www.bnn.nl
Joodse Omroep
+31 35 677 1777
[email protected]
www.joodseomroep.nl
TROS
+31 35 671 5715
[email protected]
www.tros.nl
BOS
+31 35 677 1611
[email protected]
www.bosrtv.nl
KRO
+31 35 671 3911
[email protected]
www.kro.nl
VARA
+31 35 671 1911
[email protected]
www.vara.nl
EO
+31 35 647 4747
[email protected]
www.eo.nl
Omroep Max
+31 35 677 5409
[email protected]
www.omroepmax.nl
VPRO Television
+31 35 6712911
[email protected]
www.vpro.nl
Human
+31 35 672 2020
[email protected]
www.human.nl
NCRV
31 35 672 6890
[email protected]
www.ncrv.nl
CONTACT SALES AGENTS
6 Sales
+34 49 1172 3734
[email protected]
www.6sales.es
M-Appeal
+49 30 61 50 75 05
[email protected]
www.m-appeal.com
T Films
+352 621 36 52 72
[email protected]
www.tfilms.lu
Attraction Distribuution
+1 514 846 1222
[email protected]
attractiondistribution.ca
MountainRoad Entertainment Group
+3135 623 5559
[email protected]
www.mountainroad.nl
TrustNordisk ApS
+45 3686 8788
[email protected]
www.trustnordisk.com
Celsius Entertainment
+44 2071931801
[email protected]
www.celsiusentertainment.com
NPO Sales
+31 35 677 3561
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
VPRO Sales
+31 35 6712212
[email protected]
www.vpro.nl
Dutch Features
+31 35 677 4777
[email protected]
www.dutchfeatures.com
SND Films
+31 20 404 0707
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
Wide
+33 1 53 95 04 64
[email protected]
www.widemanagement.com
Highpoint Media Group
+44 20 7424 6870
[email protected]
www.highpointmediagroup.com
Sola Media
+49 711 479 36 66
[email protected]
www.sola-media.net
In the air
+3120 524 4038
[email protected]
www.ita-rights.com
Superights
+33(0) 9 60 111 333
www.superights.net
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Little miss piggy
Bounden
108
Index
2Brothers
4 Ever
A Christmoose story
A dress for Anuschka
A home for Lydia
Absolutely afro
Alfie the little werewolf
All of me
Animaltracker
Anouar and the moon
Anything goes!
As boys grow
Ayla, the tsunami girl
Back and forth day
Bennie Brat
Bente wants a father
Bente’s voice
Black and white
Bluebird
Bobby and the ghosthunters
Bon voyage
Bonkers
Bontekoe’s young sailors
Bounden
Boy 7
Boys
Breath
Broken moon
Bullied: Justin
Bullied: Lwiza
Busje
Cap or kippah
Chellina / Da beast
Chicken!
Chubby drums
Cinekid applab
Confetti harvest
Crusade in jeans
91
75
35
92
74
63
38
89
100
58
52
56
93
60
39
61
89
71
45
34
40
44
43
98
29
26
62
60
90
90
93
90
69
62
40
97
25
38
43
Daisy- Scratches in the table
Dajo
Dancing in style
The boy who thought he was
good as he was
Delete
Desperate
Dobli
Dog-e
Doggie
Donkey girl
Dummie the mummy
Dunya & Desie in Morocco
Ebony
Eep!
Engel & Broer
Eric in the land of insects
Explore it!
Father and daughter
Father wanted: with a piggy nose
Father’s day
Feifei - Hide and seek
Fidgety Bram
Finn
Firuze
Flying Anne
For a few more marbles more
Free as a bird
Frogs & toads
Fuchsia the miniwitch
Furious
Gabriel reports the world cup
Giovanni and the water ballet
Girls
Go Daan go!
Haiduc
Hammada
Hanna's party
Hear this!
47
64
90
55
89
42
63
52
62
63
31
42
62
41
64
45
97
64
89
61
81
39
34
62
91
63
62
41
40
40
71
69
94
50
72
61
70
77
109
INDEX
Holi
How Ky became niels
How Nikita got herself a horse
How to survive myself?
I am a girl
I’m never afraid!
Ibb & obb
Imraan is freed
In orange
In, spin, ritalin
Jacco’s film
Jamey's fight
Jan’s mom
Joëlla - Best friends forever
Johan
Johnny Bakru
Just a girl, you know
Kameleon 2
Kauwboy
Kika & Bob
Language is not really my thing
Laura & Anne 4-Ever
Laura is my father
Lepel
Life according to Nino
Little Crumb
Little Miss Piggy
Little Mo
Living in 2 houses: Renee
Long live the queen
Loonies II
Losers
Louis the ferris wheel kid
Lover or loser
Marc Jacobs
Martijn-Kerem
Merlijn and the red apple
Miffy the movie
Mike says goodbye!
64
72
93
41
91
91
100
82
45
70
60
80
88
84
67
54
88
44
38
96
79
92
94
44
27
47
74
88
92
47
30
68
85
41
50
63
82
36
39
Mimoun
Mina Minoes
Minoes
Missie Poo 16
Missing
Missing Link
Mister Braker
Mister Twister goes camping
Mister Twister on stage
Mister Twister, class of fun
Monkey King
Mookie
Morrison gets a baby sister
Munya in mij
My crazy granny!
My dad’s a detective - The battle
My dearest f#cking phone
My father lives in Rio
My father lives in Venezuela
My granny Lien
Nadia’s tics
Naked
Nena
New
Nima
Ninnoc
Now you know it anyway
On the ground reporter
Once upon a tree
Painkillers
Papa’s tango
Papiria
Paulina
Pecker
Penny’s shadow
Peter Bell
Peter Bell 2:
the hunt for the tsar crown
Pets in pots
58
59
46
61
60
46
59
35
39
29
61
89
42
55
59
39
67
48
94
91
90
93
26
75
93
66
59
99
78
31
59
101
83
60
40
46
45
92
110
INDEX
Picnic with cake
Pim & Pom, The big adventure
Plank
Pluk and his tow truck
Point taken - sink or swim
Polleke
Pony place
Queen - letter to the queen
Queen in the attic
Raw
Regret!
Rhubarb
Room for myself
Salam
Sarah’s night
Schnitzel paradise
Scrap wood war
Search for Loedertje
Secrets of war
Sickos
Small
Small steps in a big war
Smoke like a Turk
Sniff the dog
Sounds for Mazin
Steal
Straight with you
Supernova
SWCHWRM, my adventures
Sweet love
Sweet tomato
Swimming paradise
T.I.M.
Taking chances
Taking the plunge
The black meteor
The boy who stopped talking
The dandelion game
The datcha
The day I decided to be Nina
The flying liftboy
The hideout
100
28
92
45
53
46
56
83
64
93
36
32
84
54
89
44
33
94
25
33
59
96
58
42
88
50
76
27
38
58
64
60
32
38
88
46
47
47
58
94
47
88
The horror bus
The letter for the King
The magicians
The penknife
The purse snatcher
The secret letter
The seven of Daran
‘The battle of Pareo Rock’
The skippers of the Kameleon
The strongest man in Holland
The wonderkamers
The world of difference
The zigzag kid
Through the fire
Through the looking glass
Timbuktu
Tommie
Tonight we'll become women
Tony 10
Tough cookies (series)
Tripple double
Veni Vidi Vissie
Waiting for Marissa
We are boys
We stay friends (series)
Wet
When I look into the mirror
Where is Winky’s horse?
Winky’s horse
Winter in wartime
Wiplala
Witches don’t exist
XTC, just don’t do it
Wool fever
Yim en Yoyo
You should've been there
Young Kees
Youssef please say no!
44
42
41
63
48
48
41
43
45
40
98
99
39
91
76
79
43
94
77
38
73
28
68
53
92
73
61
90
43
44
42
24
30
43
80
58
78
46
81
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COLOFON
The Dutch Touch 2 is a publication of
EYE International.
The Dutch Touch is supported by:
Editor: Esther Schmidt
Editor in chief: Claudia Landsberger
Thanks to
Anneke Dorsman, Paulien Dresscher,
Bruno Felix, Annette Haverkamp, Kaisa
Kriek, Anna Pedroli, Remco Pijpers, Astrid
Poot, Monique Ruinen, Meike Statema,
Sabine Veenendaal.
And the interviewed experts, producers,
festivals, broadcasting companies.
Graphic Design: Jannemieke Oostra
Print: Eco Drukkers
Edition: 1000
Copyright:
All photographs are the copyright
property of the producers of the
concerning productions. Besides the
filmcredits, all texts are written by Esther
Schmidt; all rights reserved.
Publisher: EYE International
Contact
EYE International
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[email protected]
www.international.eyefilm.nl
© EYE International 2014
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