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Opmaak 1 - EYE International
CATALOGUE 2009
INDEX
Foreword
FEATURE FILMS
Amsterdam
Ataraxia - Poodle shaving for the Blind
Blindspot
Bollywood Hero
Cakeman
Carmen of the North
Coach
Crepuscule
Dazzle
Desperate
Frogs & Toads
Happy End
Hunting and Sons
The Indian
Julia’s Heart
Life in one day
Linoleum
The Multi Culti Story
My Dad’s a Detective! The Mysterious Island Fort
De Punt
Ruta del Jaca
School’s Out
Scum
The Secret Book of Nicolas
Shylock
The Silent Ones
Sniff the Dog
Stella’s War
The Storm
Taxandria
Three Hearts
Two eyes staring
White Fish
White Light
Winter Silence
Winterland
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INT. CO-PRODUCTIONS
The Aviatrix of Kazbek
C’est déjà l’été
Eep!
The last days of Emma Blank
Nothing Personal
Spy of Orange
Winter in Wartime
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INT. CO-PRODUCTIONS MINORITY PART
The Alasness of Things
Chnchik
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Cut Loose
Face
Fish tank
Fresh sea water
Gigante
The Happiest Girl in the World
Jermal
Lost Persons Area
My Queen Karo
Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Storm
Wind Journeys
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DOCUMENTARIES
After the rape
Babaji, an Indian Love Story
A Better Life
Beyond the Game
Bloody Mondays and Strawberry Pies
Boris Ryzhy
Bridging the Gap
Calling E.T.
Carmen meets Borat
Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia
Contract hotels-Djangan Loepah!
Crips
Dew
Episode 3 - ‘Enjoy Poverty’
The Farmer who wanted to emigrate…
Fear
Forgotten Space
The girl that no longer wants to stay
Home Recordings
In the Holy Fire of Revolution
The Last Days of Shishmaref
Leyla and Mecnun abroad
The Mamas and the Papas
The New Rijksmuseum
Oblivion
On the way to school
Outfoxed
Prisoners of the Ground
Reflections
Reliance - an African Saga
Remembering Holland…
SWEETY, the friends, betrayal and
murder of Maja Bradaric
Tiengemeten 1996-2009
Transit Dubai
Varese, the one all alone
The World behind our Food
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
About love; Mr. and Mrs. Chan
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Best In Town
Pyotr – letters from the Gulag
The Secret of Boccherini
Snowblind. Ultima Thule
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SHORT FILMS
#37
About Fish and Revolution
Akiko
Among Gods
Backtrack
Brat
Breath
Circus
Cry & Laugh
Dao
Final
Heavenly Soap
The last day
Lucide
Mama Superfreak
Opening Night
Raw Honey
Reef
Sand
Some Things Are Really Simple
Success
Vera
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ANIMATED FILMS
The 7 brothers
After the Great Flood
Eyes of the Lighthouse
Fences
The Juggler
Pose
Self-Portrait
Super
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IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
Flowing
Fucsia the Mini-witch
Gangsta Boys
The Hell of ‘63
The Human Race
Joy
Meat
The odd one out
R U There
Shocking Blue
Smoke and Ochre
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COLOPHON
Holland Film
Claudia Landsberger
Marlies Baltus
Translation
Nicholas Cunningham
Annette Eskénazi
Design/Layout
Floppy Design
Print
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FOREWORD
Holland Film exists as a one-stop shop that offers
a wide range of services to the global film community. We promote our broad range of homegrown product to buyers worldwide, as well as
keep the global industry updated on all aspects
of the Dutch industry. We match-make international companies with suitable co-production
partners and we are always willing to advise
international producers and talent of the benefits of filming in the Netherlands.
Our promotion of Dutch film is continued at all
of the prestigious festivals within the film calendar, such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Toronto,
and we are a leading voice within European Film
Promotion, which supports the work of all of
Europe’s national film promotional bodies. Our
films continue to pick up hosts of international
awards and we will never tire of reminding the
international film community of Holland’s illustrious record at the Oscars, having picked both
nominations and statues alike on several occasions
The 2009 Holland Film catalogue gives full and
comprehensive details about the bumper crop of
high quality features, shorts (narrative well as
experimental) and feature-length documentaries
that have issued from The Netherlands over the
past year. We also detail the many and varied
films currently in production. As importantly, the
catalogue is a record of, and a testament to, the
works and talents of Dutch directors and producers, both established and emerging, whose
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ambitious and thought-provoking films seek and
deserve attention from international festivals,
distributors and audiences alike.
So, read on and take in the impressive breadth of
Dutch features and shorts, documentaries, animation, action titles, films for younger audiences
and prime arthouse fare – films that are characterised both by an unquenchable curiosity and an
adherence to the highest levels of style and professionalism.
To mention a few we have the new feature THE
STORM by Academy Award® Nominee Ben
Sombogaart (TWIN SISTERS), the debut feature TWO
EYES STARING by Elbert van Strien, the new feature
of acclaimed director Alex van Warmerdam, THE
LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK. The doc CARMEN MEETS
BORAT by Mercedes Stalenhoef screened already
in the Competition Program of the International
Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in
November 2008.
As ever, we very much look forward to answering
your enquiries and to seeing many of these
Dutch films screened in cinemas across the world
to wide and discerning audiences.
Wishing you a happy and prosperous
Holland Film year.
The Holland Film Team
Claudia Landsberger - Managing Director
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FEATURE FILMS
FEATURE FILMS
AMSTERDAM
Ivo van Hove
85’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: AMSTERDAM
Prod: Amsterdam Film Company
in cooperation with Lagestee
Film and Palentino Pictures
Co-prod: NPS
Sc: Jeroen Planting, developed
in cooperation with Gerardjan
Rijnders
D.O.P.: Marc Felperlaan
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch/English/
German/French/Moroccan
(English subtitles)
Cast: Mimoun Oaissa (KICKS,
SCHNITZEL PARADISE), Marisa Tomei
(LOVERBOY), Omar Metwally
(RENDITION, MUNICH).
An urban-city film that deals with the most basic aspects of human behaviour prejudice, intolerance, sexual passion, survival, hope and disillusion.
Ivo van Hove:
First feature film.
AMSTERDAM is the mythical name for a modern European city, an urban kaleidoscope in which the film’s characters try to change their lives. But for them, the Lagestee Film
city turns out to be a cesspool of vice.
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The lives of an American couple, a Dutch family, two French homosexuals, a
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body’s search for happiness.
Un film sur la ville qui aborde les aspects fondamentaux du comportement
humain : préjugés, intolérance, passion, survie, espoir et désillusion.
AMSTERDAM est le nom mythique d’une ville européenne moderne, kaléidoscope
urbain dans lequel les personnages du film tentent de changer leurs vies. Mais
la ville s’avère pour eux une antre du vice. Les vies d’un couple américain, une
famille néerlandaise, deux homosexuels français, deux frères marocains et une
famille allemande finissent par se croiser quand tous sont impliqués dans un
étrange accident de la circulation, un moment fort qui suspend la quête du
bonheur de tous les protagonistes.
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ATARAXIA – POODLE SHAVING FOR THE BLIND
Sander Blom
83’ / video / colour
Genre: feature
Original title: ATARAXIA – POODLE
SHAVING FOR THE BLIND
Prod: seriousFilm
Sc: Sander Blom
D.O.P.: Vladas Naudzius
Completed: December 2009
Language: a.o. Dutch (English
subtitles)
Cast: tba
An essential guide to living. How to survive the boredom of paradise, penile
shrinkage, treacherous breakfasts. And much more besides.
ATARAXIA - POODLE SHAVING FOR THE BLIND is an essential manual for surviving the
business of day to day living. Using wildly varying locations and perspectives,
advice is offered for each and every one of life’s predicaments: how to prevent
your shrinking penis from killing you; how best to obtain canned food from
the Gods; how, being a wasp, one should deal with the forbidding and sudden
windowpane. Problems you never even knew existed (until now) will be
resolved.
Sander Blom:
First feature film.
ON LOOKING FOR FACES IN THE CLOUDS
(2008, short), MEASUREMENT TO
KNOWLEDGE (2007, short), ETNA
(2006, short), PACK UP YOU TROUBLES (1998, short), AN ANDALUSIAN
MOUSE (1998, short), SEEING IS
BELIEVING (1996, short).
seriousFilm
Ph: +31 6 2073 7277
(Marc Thelosen)
[email protected]
www.seriousfilm.nl
Un guide de vie indispensable. Comment survivre à l’ennui du paradis, au
rapetissement pénien et aux petits déjeuners traîtres. Et encore bien plus.
ATARAXIA - POODLE SHAVING FOR THE BLIND est un manuel indispensable pour survivre au quotidien. Depuis des lieux et points de vue variés, il offre des conseils
adaptés à tous les aléas de la vie : comment éviter que le rapetissement pénien
vous tue ; le meilleur moyen d’obtenir des boîtes de conserve des dieux ; comment une guêpe doit-elle se comporter face à la menace d’une vitre apparaissant soudain. Les problèmes dont vous ignoriez (jusqu’ici) l’existence seront
résolus.
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FEATURE FILMS
BLINDSPOT
Ad Bol
80’ / video / b&w
Genre: psychological drama
Original title: BLINDSPOT
Prod: Eager Films
Sc: Ad Bol, Johnny Melville
D.O.P.: Jan van den
Nieuwenhuijzen
Completed: September 2008
Language: English/German/
Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Johnny Melville (CASTINGX),
Micky Hoogendijk (DEUCE
BIGALOW, ALIBI), Maike Möller.
Ad Bol:
Second feature film.
SWEET BETTY (2007, short),
CASTINGX (2005, feature).
A man is sucked into the psychological web of two women on the run both
from themselves and from their past.
Anya dons a blindfold to dance mysteriously in her private atelier. Suddenly
she awakes, screaming. Her husband comforts her - another nightmare – and
implores her to see a specialist. She shrugs off the idea. She enters a warehouse under the watchful eye of Theodore, a distinguished middle-aged man.
Upstairs in the studio she preens in her sexy underwear. A knock at the door
startles her. She opens it and Theodore barges in, holding a Colt revolver to
her head…
Eager Films
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[email protected]
www.eagerfilms.com
Un homme aspiré dans la toile psychologique de deux femmes qui se fuient
elles-mêmes ainsi que leur passé.
Anya se bande les yeux pour danser mystérieusement dans son atelier.
Soudain, elle se réveille en hurlant. Son mari la réconforte – un autre
cauchemar – et la supplie de consulter un spécialiste. Elle refuse. Elle entre
dans un magasin sous l’œil vigilant de Theodore, un homme distingué d’un
certain âge. Dans l’atelier, elle se pavane dans sa lingerie sexy. Elle sursaute
quand on frappe à la porte. Elle ouvre, Theodore fait irruption et lui braque
un colt contre la tête.
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BOLLYWOOD HERO
Diederik van Rooijen
85’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: BOLLYWOOD HERO
Prod: IDTV Film
Sc: story based on the experiences of Egbert-Jan Weeber
D.O.P.: Lennert Hillege
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch/English/Hindi
(English subtitles)
Cast: Egbert-Jan Weeber (ALIBI,
VIVERE), Ishwari BoseBhattacharya, Akhilosh Kumar.
Diederik van Rooijen:
Second feature film.
a.o. STELLA’S WAR (2009, feature),
DUMMY (2006, short), MASS (2005,
short), THE MESSENGER (2005,
When a young actor goes to India to play in a Bollywood film, he discovers the short), ZULAIKA (2003, feature),
harsh realities of life.
BABYPHONED (2002, short).
When Dutch actor Nick travels to Bombay to find himself he discovers the simple truth that he is nothing other than a spoilt and selfish guy whose good
looks have always protected him from the hard reality of life. His attitude
changes completely, however, after witnessing the death of a small girl, and he
embarks upon a journey of self-discovery, desperate to free himself from the
egoism that has hitherto dominated his life.
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
Lorsqu’un jeune acteur part en Inde pour jouer dans un film de Bollywood, il
découvre les dures réalités de la vie.
Lorsque le jeune acteur néerlandais Nick part à Bombay pour se retrouver, il
découvre qu’il n’est au fond rien d’autre qu’un enfant gâté, un égoïste que sa
beauté a toujours protégé de la dure réalité de l’existence. Cependant, son
attitude change totalement après qu’il a été témoin de la mort d’une fillette,
et il s’embarque dans un voyage introspectif, déterminé à se libérer de l’égoïsme qui a dominé sa vie jusqu’ici.
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CAKEMAN
Annemarie van de Mond
80’ / video / colour
Genre: crime comedy
Original title: TAARTMAN
Prod: Zoo Pictures
Sc: Pieter Bart Korthuis
D.O.P.: Hidde Boorsma
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Jaap Spijkers (TWIN SISTERS,
ZUS & ZO), Tjitske Reidinga
(HAPPY FAMILY, YES NURSE! NO
NURSE!), Betty Schuurman (WHERE
IS WINKY’S HORSE?, TWIN SISTERS),
Marcel Musters (DUNYA & DESIE,
BLACK BOOK).
A small-town confectioner becomes embroiled in a drug-deal when the debts
of his shopaholic wife treathen to ruin his livelihood.
Annemarie van de Mond:
HANNAHANNAH (2007, feature),
BITE! (2003, short).
Zoo Pictures
When his shop is about to be seized by the tax authorities, Ben is offered a
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tion outside the village. It seems a simple undertaking and the solution to all
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Ben´s problems. But fate thinks otherwise, and he is swept up into a maelstrom
of catastrophic events that lead him to the brink of ruin, forcing him to be the
man he never dared to be.
Un pâtissier provincial se retrouve impliqué dans un trafic de drogue quand les
dettes de sa femme accro au shopping menacent de ruiner son gagne-pain.
Quand le fisc menace de saisir sa pâtisserie, on propose à Ben de passer de la
drogue et de livrer dix kilos de coke dans un endroit reculé en bordure de son
village. Cela semble une entreprise simple et la solution à tous ses problèmes.
Mais le sort en a décidé autrement et il est pris dans un tourbillon d’événements catastrophiques qui le conduisent au bord de la ruine et le forcent à
devenir l’homme qu’il n’avait jamais osé être.
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CARMEN OF THE NORTH
Jelle Nesna
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: musical love drama
Original title: CARMEN VAN HET
NOORDEN
Prod: Fu Works, In-Soo productions
Sc: Maarten van Hinte, Karin
van der Meer, Jelle Nesna
D.O.P.: tba
Completed: September 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Tygo Gernandt (SCHNITZEL
PARADISE, GODFORSAKEN!), Sanguita
Akkrum.
set photo
CARMEN OF THE NORTH is inspired by the book, the opera and the 1919 Dutch film
‘Een Carmen van het Noorden’.
For police inspector Joz, intimacy is intrinsically linked with the violent end to
his parents’ relationship. He is therefore insecure when it comes to love. When
he meets the beautiful and tempting murder suspect Carmen, his suspicions
about her intensify – as does his infatuation for her. He puts aside all principles, leaves his fiancée and loses his job. But when he realises that Carmen values freedom more than anything else, he becomes the man he does not want
to be...
Jelle Nesna:
First feature film.
Fu Works
Ph: +31 20 344 5160
F: +31 20 635 3060
[email protected]
www.fuworks.nl
CARMEN OF THE NORTH s’inspire du roman, de l’opéra et du film néerlandais de
1919 « Een Carmen van het Noorden ».
Pour l’inspecteur de police Joz, l’intimité est intrinsèquement liée à la fin violente de la relation de ses parents. Du coup, il manque d’assurance en matière
d’amour. Quand il rencontre la belle et attirante Carmen, suspectée de
meurtre, ses soupçons sont renforcés – ainsi que sa toquade pour elle. Il abandonne tous ses principes, quitte sa fiancée et perd son travail. Mais quand il
comprend que, pour Carmen, la liberté passe avant tout, il devient l’homme
qu’il ne veut pas être…
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COACH
Joram Lürsen
85’ / video / colour
Genre: tragicomedy
Original title: COACH
Prod: Stormy Minutes Society
Co-prod: VARA
Sc: Frank Ketelaar
D.O.P.: Lex Brand
Completed: February 2009
Language: Dutch/Moroccan
(English subtitles)
Cast: Anneke Blok (TIRAMISU, LOVE
IS ALL), Mamoun Elyounoussi
(WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE?,
POLLEKE), Mark Rietman (WAITER,
FAMILY), Abdelftah Ahmed Salah
(SHOUF SHOUF HABIBI!, POLLEKE).
A guilt-ridden well-to-do Dutch woman finds both purpose and pain when she
becomes life coach to a Moroccan teenager.
Suzanne, the guilt-ridden well-to-do wife of Leon and mother to sixteen yearold Sophie, signs up as a mentor to Soukri, a teenage Moroccan boy. After a
tough start, Suzanne grows into her role, supporting Soukri in his secret ambition to be an actor. That is against the will of his father, a mechanic, who
wants his son to take over his garage. Nor is Leon so keen on the new situation, particularly when love begins to bloom between Soukri and Sophie…
Joram Lürsen:
a.o. LOVE IS ALL (2007, feature), IN
ORANGE (feature, 2004).
Stormy Minutes Society
Ph: +31 20 420 0100
F: +31 20 638 6303
[email protected]
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Une Néerlandaise aisée, accablée d’un sentiment de culpabilité, trouve un but
et le chagrin lorsqu’elle devient le mentor d’un adolescent marocain.
Suzanne, la femme aisée qui éprouve un sentiment de culpabilité de Leon et
mère de Sophie, âgée de seize ans, devient le mentor de Soukri, un adolescent
marocain. Après des débuts difficiles, Suzanne s’habitue à son rôle et soutient
Soukri qui rêve en secret de devenir acteur. Cela s’oppose à la volonté de son
père, un mécanicien qui veut qu’il reprenne son garage. Leon n’apprécie pas
non plus la nouvelle situation, encore moins quand Sophie et Soukri tombent
amoureux…
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CREPUSCULE
Maartje Seyferth & Victor Nieuwenhuijs
72’ / 35mm / b&w
Genre: drama
Original title: CREPUSCULE
Prod: Moskito Film
Sc: Victor Nieuwenhuijs, Maartje
Seyferth
D.O.P.: Victor Nieuwenhuijs
Completed: January 2009
Language: no dialogue
Cast: Nellie Benner, Titus
Muizelaar.
An introverted girl opens up in front of her mirror, dreams up a gun and dusk
becomes darkness.
In CREPUSCULE (the moment when dusk fades into night) darkness descends on a
silent and beautiful girl. She enters the city closed and introverted. But alone
in her room, she has no shame in front of the mirror. Working at a gas-station
nobody seems to consider her. Yet an older man does notice her and therefore
embodies a threat. The girl dreams up a gun, dusk becomes darkness, the jazzy
music shifts into something more ominous and the city begins to ooze disquiet.
Maartje Seyferth &
Victor Nieuwenhuijs:
LULU (2005, feature), VENUS IN
FURS (1995, feature) Awards:
Award for Creative Quest and
True Professional Properties St.
Petersburg Int. FF, Silver Award
Lighting by Australian Society of
Cinematographers.
Moskito Film
Ph: +31 6 5478 3528
[email protected]
www.moskitofilm.com
Une jeune fille introvertie s’ouvre devant son miroir, imagine un pistolet et le
crépuscule se transforme en obscurité.
Dans CREPUSCULE, l’obscurité tombe sur une belle fille silencieuse. Elle entre dans
la ville, renfermée et introvertie. Mais, seule dans sa chambre, elle n’a pas de
honte devant son miroir. Elle est pompiste et personne ne semble faire cas
d’elle. Cependant, un homme plus âgé la remarque et incarne donc un danger.
La jeune fille imagine un pistolet, le crépuscule se transforme en obscurité, la
musique jazzy devient plus inquiétante et la ville commence à respirer l’inquiétude.
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DAZZLE
Cyrus Frisch
84’ / video / colour
Genre: romantic/psychological/social drama
Original title: OOGVERBLINDEND
Prod: Stichting Filmkracht, Cyrus
Frisch
Sc: Cyrus Frisch
D.O.P.: Cyrus Frisch
Completed: January 2009
Language: English
Cast: Rutger Hauer (BRIDE FLIGHT,
SOLDIER OF ORANGE), Georgina
Verbaan (ALIBI, AMAZONS).
Cyrus Frisch:
BLACKWATER FEVER (2008, feature),
WHY DIDN’T ANYBODY TELL ME IT
WOULD BECOME THIS BAD IN
An unexpected telephone conversation sparks a short-lived romance within an
inhumane world.
AFGHANISTAN (2007, feature),
FORGIVE ME (2001, feature).
Stichting Filmkracht
DAZZLE tells the story of passionate love between two people who long for a
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Through a twist of fate a man in Argentina and a young woman in
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Amsterdam find themselves connected by telephone. They share a sense of
horror about the world around them, from which their conversation provides a
welcome escape. Despite the physical distance between them they develop a
strong bond. But even the passion ignited between them cannot avert a tragic
ending.
Une conversation téléphonique inattendue déclenche une brève idylle dans un
monde inhumain.
DAZZLE raconte l’histoire d’une passion entre un homme et une femme qui
désirent ardemment une vie plus belle. Par un coup du sort, un homme, en
Argentine, et une jeune femme, à Amsterdam, se retrouvent en communication. Ils partagent la même horreur du monde environnant à quoi leur conversation leur offre une échappatoire bienvenue. Malgré la distance physique qui
les sépare, ils tissent des liens puissants. Mais même la passion qui les
enflamme ne pourra pas conjurer une fin tragique.
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DESPERATE
Dave Schram
110’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: youth film
Original title: RADELOOS
Prod: Shooting Star Film
Company, Bridge Entertainment
Group
Sc: Maria Peters
D.O.P.: Erwin Steen
Completed: October 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Marius Gottlieb
(CHARACTER), Marloes van der
Wel, Robin Martens, Roos Smit.
Dave Schram:
Second feature film.
TIMBOEKTOE (2007, feature).
After the death of his father and rejection by his girlfriend, who can the
devastated Paco turn to in his hour of need?
Yara is a beautiful teenager with a crush on her classmate, Paco. Paco has a
girlfriend and considers Yara just a friend. When her mother arranges for her
to audition for a modelling agency, Yara develops some strange dietary habits
- maybe Paco will think she’s more attractive if she’s skinnier. When Paco’s
father suddenly dies, his entire world crashes around him. And when his girlfriend leaves him, who can Paco turn to in this desperate hour?
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Après la mort de son père et l’abandon par sa petite amie, vers qui Paco peutil se tourner dans ces moments difficiles ?
Yara est une belle adolescente amoureuse de son camarade de classe Paco, qui
a une petite amie et considère Yara comme une simple camarade. Quand sa
mère lui décroche un rendez-vous dans une agence de mannequins, Yara
entreprend un régime – peut-être que Paco la trouvera plus jolie si elle
maigrit. Lorsque le père de Paco meurt brusquement, son monde s’effondre
complètement. Et quand sa petite amie le quitte, vers qui pourra-t-il se tourner
dans ce moment difficile ?
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FROGS & TOADS
Simone van Dusseldorp
70’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: youth film
Original title: KIKKERDRIL
Prod: Lemming Film
Co-prod: BosBros. Film-TV
Productions, KRO
Sc: Simone van Dusseldorp
D.O.P.: Daniel Bouquet
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Nino Morris den Brave,
Whitney Franker (ABI), Juul
Vrijdag (LOVE IS ALL, SEA OF
SILENCE), Georgina Verbaan (ALIBI,
ERIC IN THE LAND OF INSECTS).
Six year-old Max and his girlfriend Jesse go on a musical adventure through
nature to find frogspawn.
Six year-old Max must undertake an important mission: to find some
frogspawn for his older brother. Together with his girlfriend Jesse he journeys
over fields, past farms and animals and through a forest that eventually leads
to his grandma’s home. During his magical adventure through nature he is
continually entertained and encouraged with cheerful children’s songs.
Max, six ans, et son amie Jesse s’embarquent dans une aventure musicale pour
trouver des œufs de grenouille.
Simone van Dusseldorp:
Second feature film.
a.o. DOGGIE (2007, short) Awards:
Scandinavian Region Skåne
Short Film Prize BUFF, 1st Prize
Cairo Int. FF for Children,
Children’s Jury Prize Youth Film
Competition Kurzfilmtage
Oberhausen, DEEP (2006, feature) Awards: Best Feature Film
& Best Actress Geneve Tout
Ecran Int. FF, GEHEIMEN VAN HET
SCHOOLPLEIN (2003, youth tv
series), GEHEIME GEDACHTEN (2001,
youth tv series).
Max, six ans, doit entreprendre une mission importante : trouver des œufs de
grenouille pour son frère aîné. Avec son amie Jesse, il parcourt des champs, des
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FEATURE FILMS
HAPPY END
Frans Weisz
95’ / 35mm / colour
set photo
One hour above ground is worth more than an eternity underneath it.
HAPPY END is the third part of Frans Weisz’s family trilogy. The drama picks up
eighteen years later with the patriarchal Simon mortally ill. The family meets
at his bedside to decide what to do. Somebody mentions euthanasia, but the
family cannot and will not talk about that subject. In order to put his father
out of his pain, Isaac disconnects the tubes, but to everyone’s surprise Simon
doesn’t pass away – he recovers.
Une heure sur terre vaut mieux qu’une éternité sous terre.
HAPPY END forme le troisième volet de la trilogie familiale de Frans Weisz. Le
drame reprend dix-huit ans après, quand le patriarcal Simon est mortellement
malade. La famille se réunit à son chevet pour décider que faire. Quelqu’un
évoque l’euthanasie, mais la famille ne peut pas et ne veut pas en entendre
parler. Pour soulager la douleur de son père, Isaac débranche les tuyaux, mais
à la surprise générale, Simon ne meurt pas – il guérit.
Holland Film
Genre: drama/arthouse
Original title: HAPPY END
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV
Drama
Co-prod: NPS
Sc: Judith Herzberg
D.O.P.: Richard van Oosterhout
Completed: March 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Pierre Bokma (BLOOD
BROTHERS, CLOACA), Kitty Courbois
(POLLEKE, QUI VIVE), Edwin de
Vries (THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN,
LEFT LUGGAGE), Rijk de Gooyer
(QUI VIVE, LAST CALL).
Frans Weisz:
a.o. BOY ECURY (2003, tv feature
film), QUI VIVE (2001, feature),
POLONAISE (1989, feature),
HAVINCK (1987, feature), A HOT
SUMMER NIGHT (1982, feature),
CHARLOTTE (1980, feature)
Awards: Bavarian
Awards for Best Script and Best
Actress, RED HAIRED SIEN (1975,
feature), THE BURGLAR (1972,
feature), ILLUSION IS A GANGSTER
GIRL (1967, feature).
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Ph: +31 20 666 1892
F: +31 20 346 3748
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
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HUNTING AND SONS
Sander Burger
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: psychological drama
Original title: HUNTING & ZN.
Prod: NFI Productions
Sc: Sander Burger, Dragan
Bakema, Maria Kraakman
D.O.P.: Sal Kroonenberg
Completed: April 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Dragan Bakema (HOW TO
SURVIVE MYSELF?, VOX POPULI),
Maria Kraakman (GUERNSEY, ILES
FLOTTANTES).
The impact of pregnancy and impending parenthood on a happy young couple.
Recently married, a young man and woman lead a happy and respectable
everyday life. They seem delighted with their illusionary IKEA-existence until
cracks begin to show. Suddenly, everything that appears normal is turned on
its head.
HUNTING AND SONS will be an artistic film that delivers a razor sharp account of a
bleak and soul-destroying Holland. The film will be a study of triviality and
everyday superficiality, covering an existential panic.
L’effet de la grossesse et de la parentalité imminente sur un jeune couple
heureux.
Sander Burger:
a.o. PANMAN: RHYTHM OF THE PALMS
(2007, feature) Awards: Best
Narrative Feature Hollywood
Black Film Festival 2008, Best
Original Score Brooklyn
International Film Festival,
OLIVIER ETC. (2006, feature), KOEN!
(2004, short), ONS WATERLOO
(2003, doc).
NFI Productions
Ph: +31 10 221 1344
F: +31 10 221 1345
[email protected]
www.nfi.nu
Récemment mariés, un jeune homme et une jeune femme mènent une vie
heureuse et respectable. Ils paraissent ravis de leur existence illusoire à la IKEA,
jusqu’à ce qu’elle commence à se fissurer. Soudain, tout ce qui paraît normal
est bouleversé.
HUNTING AND SONS sera un film d’art offrant un portrait incisif d’une Hollande
monotone et abrutissante. Le film sera une étude de la banalité et de la superficialité du quotidien qui masquent une panique existentielle.
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THE INDIAN
Ineke Houtman
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: family
Original title: DE INDIAAN
Prod: BosBros. Film-TV
Productions
Co-prod: Lemming Film, VPRO
Sc: Nynke Klompmaker
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep
Completed: September 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Matthias den Besten,
Bastiaan Ragas, Angelique de
Bruijne, Hans Dagelet.
Koos desperately wants to resemble his imposing, white dad but that is difficult as he is small and dark.
Koos, a boy not yet eight, very much wants to look like his impressive, Dutch
father - not an easy thing to do as Koos, adopted from Peru, is rather small
and of dark complexion. One day he sees a Peruvian boy playing a strange
kind of music outside the supermarket and discovers that he, like the boy, is of
Indian origin. From that day on, despite his Dutch parents, he tries his very
best to be a true Indian...
Ineke Houtman:
a.o. WHEN NIGHT FALLS (2004, feature), POLLEKE (2003, feature),
DAISY: SCRATCHES IN THE TABLE
(1998, feature).
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Koos veut désespérément ressembler à son impressionnant papa blanc, mais
c’est difficile car il est petit avec la peau sombre.
À moins de huit ans, Koos veut ressembler à son impressionnant père néerlandais – c’est difficile à réaliser vu que Koos, un Péruvien adopté, est plutôt
petit et a la peau sombre. Un jour, il voit un jeune Péruvien qui joue une
musique étrange devant le supermarché et il découvre qu’il est d’origine indienne, comme lui. À partir de ce jour, malgré ses parents néerlandais, il fait de
son mieux pour être un vrai Indien…
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FEATURE FILMS
JULIA’S HEART
Peter de Baan
85’ / video / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: JULIA’S HART
Prod: IDTV Film
Co-prod: VPRO
Sc: Peter de Baan, Mirjam
Oomkes
D.O.P.: Lennert Hillege
Completed: November 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Sanne den Hartogh
(HANNAHANNAH, STELLENBOSCH),
Willemijn Kressenhof, Koen
Wouterse (WALTZ, LIVE!), Marielle
van Sauers (DIAL 9 FOR LOVE,
DOCHTER).
When Julia dies and her heart is donated, Thomas moves heaven and earth to
find it again.
Peter de Baan:
THE PRINCE AND THE GIRL (2007, tv
series), ALL SOULS: VAN 12 HOOG
(2005, short), DE KROON (2004, tv
series), KLEM IN DE DRAAIDEUR
(2003, tv series).
After Julia’s death in a traffic accident her heart is transplanted into the body
of another woman. Her devastated boyfriend, Thomas, embarks on a quest to
find this person within whom her heart now resides. En route he discovers that
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hearts beat faster when a loved one is near but when he finds the woman
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who carries Julia’s heart, tragedy strikes again. The new heart cannot cope
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with the surfeit of emotion and she dies in his arms…
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À la mort de Julia, son cœur est donné, et Thomas remue ciel et terre pour le
retrouver.
Julia meurt dans un accident et son cœur est transplanté dans le corps d’une
autre femme. Son petit ami Thomas est brisé et part en quête de la personne
qui possède maintenant son cœur. Ce faisant, il découvre que les cœurs battent
plus vite à proximité d’un être aimé, mais quand il trouve la femme avec le
cœur de Julia, la tragédie frappe encore. Le nouveau cœur ne peut pas supporter le trop-plein d’émotions et elle meurt dans ses bras…
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FEATURE FILMS
LIFE IN ONE DAY
Mark de Cloe
110’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: HET LEVEN UIT EEN DAG
Prod: Dutch Mountain Movies
Co-prod: NPS
Sc: Mark de Cloe
D.O.P.: Jasper Wolf
Completed: March 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Matthijs van de Sande
Bakhuyzen (BLOOD BROTHERS, XTC
JUST DON’T DO IT), Lois de Jong,
Tygo Gernandt (SCHNITZEL PARADISE,
GODFORSAKEN!), Hadewych Minis
(KILLER BABES, NADINE).
In the belief that they can prolong their unspeakable love, a girl and boy flee
to hell.
Benny is born into a world in which human life lasts only one day, and consequently everything only happens one unique time. In his adolescence he meets
Gini, and in the glow of their only experience of alcoholic intoxication they
feel the intense joy of sex in all its purity and lose their hearts to one another.
Fearful that their love may wither away, they decide to re-ignite it in hell and
cold-bloodedly murder the blind man who brought them together…
Mark de Cloe:
First feature film.
a.o. ZOMERDAG (2006, short tv
film), FALSE WALTZ (2005, theatre
adaptation) Awards: Prix Italia,
BOY MEETS GIRL STORIES (2002, 34
short films), MERCEDES (2001,
short), MOËT & CHANDON (1999,
short), GITANES (1997, short)
Awards: Best Short Film Avanca
Film Festival, MISS BLANCHE (1994,
short), LUCKY STRIKE (1992, short).
Persuadés qu’ils ne pourront faire durer leur amour indicible, un garçon et une
Dutch Mountain Movies
fille s’enfuient en enfer.
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Benny est né dans un univers où la vie humaine ne dure qu’un jour, de sorte
que chaque événement n’arrive qu’une seule fois. Adolescent, il rencontre Gini [email protected]
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et, dans la sensation de chaleur de leur unique expérience de l’ivresse, ils
éprouvent la joie intense de l’amour physique dans toute sa pureté et tombent
amoureux. Craignant que leur amour ne cesse, ils décident de le raviver en
enfer et ils assassinent de sang froid l’aveugle qui les avait mis en contact.
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FEATURE FILMS
LINOLEUM
Marcel Visbeen
75’ / video / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: LINOLEUM
Prod: Selwyn Film
Sc: Anke Boerstra, Marcel
Visbeen
D.O.P.: Mick van Rossum
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Ricky Koole (WHITE LIGHT,
SPORTSMAN OF THE CENTURY),
Romijn Conen (HOW TO SURVIVE
MYSELF?, THE HORROR BUS), Anke
Engels (KICKS, THE CAVE), Martijn
Nieuwerf (TIRAMISU, WOLFSBERGEN).
Two brothers realise that the recent death of their father is not the only loss
they have to deal with.
After the death of their father two brothers – and their wives - are forced to
spend some days together to make the funeral arrangements. It soon becomes
apparent, however, that it wasn’t for nothing that the brothers were
estranged, and their father’s death becomes a catalyst for many old grievances
to surface. Honesty doesn’t always turn out to be a virtue, especially when
dealing with issues like love and guilt.
Marcel Visbeen:
First feature film.
a.o. PUBLIC ENEMY (2005, tv film).
Selwyn Film
Ph: +31 10 477 0505
[email protected]
www.selwynfilm.nl
Deux frères comprennent que la mort récente de leur père n’est pas la seule
perte qu’ils doivent surmonter.
Après la mort de leur père, deux frères - et leurs épouses – sont forcés de passer quelques jours ensemble pour organiser l’enterrement. Cependant, il
devient vite clair qu’ils ne s’étaient pas éloignés l’un de l’autre sans raison, et
la mort du père sert de catalyseur pour faire remonter à la surface de nombreux vieux griefs. Il s’avère que la franchise n’est pas toujours une vertu,
surtout en matière d’amour et de culpabilité.
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FEATURE FILMS
THE MULTI CULTI STORY
Joost Ranzijn
90’ / video / colour
Genre: musical film
Original title: DE MULTI CULTI STORY
Prod: Zig Zag Film
Sc: Jane Waltman
D.O.P.: Coen Stroeve, Mirco
Maassen
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Mariëlle Woltring, Dionne
Verwey, Babette Holtman,
Samba Schutte.
Joost Ranzijn:
Second feature film.
a.o. VROEGER BESTAAT NIET MEER
(2001, tv drama), HAN DE WIT
(1990, feature), MAN IN DE WAR
Against a musical backdrop, two girl gangs, the racist “Whites” and the radical (1984, short).
“Multis” fight their ethnic conflict.
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Two girl gangs, the racist “Whites” and the radical “Multis” terrorise the
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event she meets a boy named Mohamed and falls in love. When the two gangs
square up for a final battle, Jenny promises to stop the fight – but the gangs
are full of too much hate.
Dans un décor musical, deux gangs de filles, les racistes « Whites » et les radicales « Multis » se livrent leur bataille ethnique.
Deux gangs de filles, les racistes « Whites » et les radicales « Multis » terrorisent une ville néerlandaise. Elles expriment leur conflit racial par des chansons et des danses. Jenny passe son temps à aller et sortir de prison ; pour se
racheter, elle nettoie des statues. Pendant une fête, elle rencontre Mohamed
et en tombe amoureuse. Lorsque les deux gangs se mettent en position pour la
bataille finale, Jenny promet d’arrêter le combat – mais les gangs ont trop la
haine.
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MY DAD’S A DETECTIVE! - THE MYSTERIOUS
ISLAND FORT
Will Wissink
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: family/adventure
Original title: MIJN VADER IS EEN
DETECTIVE! – HET GEHEIMZINNIGE
FORTEILAND
Prod: A’dam Films
Sc: Zebi Damen
D.O.P.: Will Wissink
Completed: March 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Cees Geel (SIMON, STORM
BOUND), Tygo Gernandt (SCHNITZEL
PARADISE, GODFORSAKEN!), Camilla
Siegertz, (WITH GREAT JOY, FAR
FROM FAMILY), Peer Mascini (BLIND
DATE).
When sleuth Sam helps his bungling detective father with a case, he and his
friends land in a hair-raising adventure.
Will Wissink:
Second feature film.
DROPOUTS (1999, feature).
Awards: Best European
Screenplay Int. FF Moravia,
Special Jury Award Troia Int. FF.
Max isn’t as good a detective as he thinks. His son Sam’s a better sleuth.
Together with his tomboy neighbor and a rich baron’s son, Sam helps Max
search for a stolen rare parrot. When a band of criminals kidnaps Max, the kids
tail them in a speedboat and strand on a remote island fort. Something’s being A’dam Films
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lain who guards the fort day and night.
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Lorsque le fin limier Sam aide son incapable détective de père, ses amis et luimême atterrissent dans une histoire ahurissante.
Max n’est pas aussi bon détective qu’il n’imagine. Son fils Max s’en tire mieux.
Avec sa voisine, un garçon manqué, et le fils d’un riche baron, Sam aide Max à
rechercher un perroquet rare dérobé. Lorsqu’une bande de truands enlève
Max, les gamins les poursuivent en hors-bord et atterrissent dans une forteresse isolée sur une île. On y cache quelque chose… Pendant qu’ils débrouillent
le mystère, ils sont poursuivis par un sinistre malfrat qui garde la forteresse
jour et nuit.
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DE PUNT
(working title)
Hanro Smitsman
90’ / video / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: DE PUNT
Prod: Staccato Films, Guapo
Productions
Sc: Carel Donck, Sylvia
Pessireron
D.O.P.: Joost Rietdijk
Completed: February 2009
Language: Dutch/Malaysian
(English subtitles)
Cast: Terence Schreurs (LIFE IN
ONE DAY, FAR FROM FAMILY), Anis de
Jong, Gerson Oratmangoen
(WIJSTER), Martin Schwab (FAR
FROM FAMILY).
Thirty years on, five people involved in a famous hijack meet on a television
show. But one is carrying a gun…
In 1977, the Dutch government ended the ‘De Punt’ train hijack by force. Six
hijackers and two hostages lost their lives. The events live on in the collective
memory of the Dutch people.
Thirty lears later, some of the major protagonists – hijacker, victim, minister,
marksman, father of killed hijacker – confront each other during a television
programme. Nobody knows that one of them carries a gun…
Trente ans après, cinq participants à un détournement célèbre se retrouvent
sur un plateau de télévision. Mais l’un d’eux est armé...
Hanro Smitsman:
SKIN (2008, feature) Awards:
Reflet d’Or for Best Film Geneva
Int. FF, CONTACT (2007, short)
Awards: a.o. Golden Bear Berlin
Int. FF, ENGEL EN BROER (2004,
short), DAJO (2003, short), AHMED
WAS HERE (2000, short) Awards:
Student Academy Award®
Nomination.
Guapo Productions
Ph: +31 20 737 0154
[email protected]
www.guapoproductions.nl
En 1977, les autorités néerlandaises ont mis fin par la force à l’attaque d’un
train à « De Punt ». Six terroristes et deux otages y trouvèrent la mort.
L’événement survit dans la mémoire collective des Néerlandais.
Trente ans après, certains des protagonistes : terroriste, victime, ministre, tireur
d’élite, père du pirate tué – s’affrontent durant une émission de télévision.
Personne ne sait que l’un d’eux est armé…
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RUTA DEL JACA
Kris Kristinsson
72’ / video / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: RUTA DEL JACA
Prod: Circe Films
Co-prod: Stichting Mamacita
Sc: Kris Kristinsson
D.O.P.: Kris Kristinsson
Completed: January 2009
Language: English/Spanish
(English subtitles)
Cast: Matt Lorenz, Pietro Sibille,
Rosalinda Guerrero, Sonia
Morales.
Kris Kristinsson:
First feature film.
As Matt journeys through Peru, following in the footsteps of his dead parents,
the mystery of their death slowly unravels.
Circe Films
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[email protected]
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Twenty years after the disappearance of his parents Matt, a young American,
travels through Peru to discover what happened. In the civil war between communist rebels and government troops 70.000 people died or disappeared. His
quest leads him to a world where guinea pigs are sacred and singers are saints.
As his investigation reaches a climax, the truth comes as a shock. In Ruta del
Jaca there is no clear distinction between fiction and documentary footage.
Tandis que Matt traverse le Pérou, sur les traces de ses parents morts, le mystère de leur mort s’éclaircit lentement.
Vingt ans après la disparition de ses parents, Matt, un jeune Américain, traverse le Pérou pour découvrir la vérité. Pendant la guerre civile entre les
rebelles communistes et les troupes gouvernementales, 70 000 personnes ont
péri ou disparu. Ses recherches le conduisent dans un univers où les cobayes
sont sacrés et les chanteurs des saints. Au comble de son enquête, la vérité est
choquante. Dans Ruta del Jaca il n’y a pas de distinction nette entre la fiction
et les métrages documentaires.
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SCHOOL’S OUT
Diede in ‘t Veld
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: youth film
Original title: SPANGAS WERKWEEK
Prod: NL Film & TV
Sc: Anya Koek
D.O.P.: Han Wennink
Completed: December 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Jasper Gottlieb (AMAZONS,
CHARACTER), Marius Gottlieb
(DESPERATE, OFF-SIDE), Tim Murck,
Gaby Blaaser.
Using bricks of uncertainty, homesickness, sorrow and infatuation, ten school
students build a sturdy house of friendship.
Ten students spend a week in the Ardennes to work on a worthy cause – to
build a holiday home for children who otherwise would never go on holiday.
They are accompanied by a German teacher with a lot of experience within
the construction trade. Initially, they are all highly motivated, but under strict
supervision their own personal agendas quickly emerge. Only after having
faced their own problems can they bond effectively and bring the building
project to a great conclusion.
Diede in ’t Veld:
First feature film.
a.o. SPANGAS (2007, tv series), THE
DENTIST (2004, short), PETSTORY
(2004, short), SLEEPING IN CHELSEA
(2003, short).
NL Film & TV
Ph: +31 20 574 7626
F: +31 20 574 7627
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
Utilisant des briques d’incertitude, de nostalgie, de chagrin et de toquade, dix
lycéens construisent une solide maison de l’amitié.
Dix lycéens passent une semaine dans les Ardennes pour se consacrer à une
digne cause – construire une maison de vacances pour des enfants qui ne partiraient autrement jamais en vacances. Un professeur d’allemand, constructeur
émérite, les accompagne. Au départ, ils sont tous très motivés, mais à y
regarder de plus près, leurs objectifs personnels ressortent vite. Ils ne peuvent
s’unir efficacement et mener le projet à bonne fin qu’après avoir affronté leurs
propres problèmes.
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SCUM
Heinrich Dahms
90’ / video / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: SCHOFT
Prod: BuzzMedia Network
Sc: Heinrich Dahms
D.O.P.: Johan Bosgraaf
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch/Berber (English
subtitles)
Cast: Jurriaan Fuchs, Jill
Velleman, Larbi Salah, Wouter
Wiele.
Heinrich Dahms:
a.o. SURVIVING (2007, short feature), CITY WOLF (1989, feature),
DUNE SURFER (1990, feature), AU
PAIR (1990, feature).
The opposite of tolerance is...
Hassan has a bright future ahead and a girlfriend who loves him. After a night
of sex, drugs and rock & roll Ed, on the other hand, discovers that life is not
much fun either drunk or sober. Hassan wakes up having made decisions that
will alter the course of his life. Ed wakes up with a hangover and a blind
determination to get more beer. The paths of both men are about to cross
irrevocably.
BuzzMedia Network
Ph: +31 35 772 5225
[email protected]
www.buzzmedia.net
Le contraire de la tolérance, c’est…
Hassan a un brillant avenir devant lui et une petite amie qui l’aime. En
revanche, après une nuit de sexe, drogue et rock & roll, Ed découvre que la vie
n’est pas drôle qu’on soit ivre ou à jeun. Hassan se réveille après avoir pris des
décisions qui changeront sa vie. Ed se réveille avec la gueule de bois et déterminé à boire plus de bière. Les chemins de ces deux hommes sont sur le point
de se croiser irrévocablement.
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THE SECRET BOOK OF NICOLAS
Martijn van Nellestijn
95’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: family/adventure
Original title: SINTERKLAAS EN HET
GEHEIM VAN HET GROTE BOEK
Prod: SRSP Films
Sc: Martijn van Nellestijn
D.O.P.: Ruben Sluijter
Completed: October 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Pamela Teves, Richard de
Ruijter, Erik-Jan Slot, Inge
Ipenburg.
Martijn van Nellestijn:
First feature film.
When St Nicolas falls off a roof and ends up in hospital, the evil Dr. Brain
devises a plan to steal his secret book…
SRSP Films
Ph: +31 6 1164 8848
[email protected]
www.sinterklaasdefilm.nl
When good old Saint Nicolas has to recuperate in the hospital after an accident, the evil Dr. Brain takes her chance to execute a very nasty plan. Together
with her helpers she wants to steal the money for this year’s children gifts and
leave with the St Nicolas’ secret book. When news of this breaks out, the
whole country becomes agitated and urges Nicolas’ helpers to rescue the book.
Their subsequent adventures lead them to sunny Curacao!
Quand saint Nicolas tombe d’un toit et se retrouve à l’hôpital, la méchante Dr
Brain imagine un plan pour dérober son livre secret…
Quand le bon vieux saint Nicolas doit se remettre d’une chute à l’hôpital, la
méchante Dr Brain saisit l’occasion d’exécuter un très vilain plan. Avec ses
acolytes, elle veut voler l’argent des cadeaux pour les enfants et partir avec le
livre secret de saint Nicolas. Quand la nouvelle se répand, le pays entier est en
effervescence et exhorte les assistants de saint Nicolas à sauver le livre. Les
aventures qui s’ensuivent les conduisent sous le soleil de Curaçao.
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FEATURE FILMS
SHYLOCK
Michal Shabtay
68’ / video / colour and b&w
Genre: docudrama
Original title: SHYLOCK
Prod: De Productie
Sc: Michal Shabtay, Gareth
Armstrong
D.O.P.: Tarek
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch/English/
Hebrew/Turkish (English subtitles)
Cast: Cahit Ölmez (06/05 THE
SIXTH OF MAY), Adelheid Roosen
(BRITTLE, THE PENKNIFE).
Michal Shabtay:
a.o. ISLAMIC ART IN EUROPE (2008,
doc/art), NORTHSEA (1977,
doc/art), LANDSCAPE 1,2 AND 3
An exploration of the tragic, funny and often unbearable life of theatre’s most (1979, doc/art), MARSHALART
famous Jew.
(1991, doc/art), THE HENNY PENNY
PICTUREBOOK (1992, doc/art), GOD
SHYLOCK, as seen through the eyes of Tubal, the Merchant of Venice’s only
SEEKERS (2003, doc/art), DEI OOK
friend, this “one-man film” conjures up a whole cast of other characters: from (2003, doc), 50 YEARS SBK (2004-6,
doc).
Portia to Pontius Pilate, from the merchant to Adolph Hitler, from Dracula to
the Wandering Jew.
De Productie
With a leer, a wink and a shrug, Tubal charts the concept of Shylock throughPh: +31 10 476 3388
out history, and traces the intolerance towards the ‘stranger’ in Europe. He
F: +31 10 282 7921
talks about Shakespeare, theatre, xenophobia, history and ideas.
[email protected]
www.deproductie.nl
Une étude de la vie tragique, drôle et souvent insoutenable du Juif le plus
célèbre de la dramaturgie.
SHYLOCK tel que le voit Tubal, le seul ami du Marchand de Venise. Ce « film en
solo » fait apparaître toute une série d’autres personnages : de Portia à Ponce
Pilate, du marchand à Adolf Hitler et de Dracula au Juif Errant.
Avec un regard mauvais, un clin d’œil et un haussement d’épaules, Tubal
retrace le concept de Shylock à travers l’histoire et détermine l’origine de l’intolérance envers « l’étranger » en Europe. Il parle de Shakespeare, du théâtre,
de la xénophobie, de l’histoire et des idées.
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THE SILENT ONES
Ricky Rijneke
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: DE STILLEN
Prod: Rotterdam Films
Sc: Ricky Rijneke
D.O.P.: tba
Completed: December 2009
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
Cast: Orsi Tóth (Tabló, Delta).
Ricky Rijneke:
First feature film.
WING, THE FISH THAT TALKED BACK
(2007, short).
Three young adolescents consider their lives and realise that anything and
everything is possible – a fleeting but momentous assessment.
Rotterdam Films
Ph: +31 10 465 8565
F: +31 10 465 8392
[email protected]
www.rotterdamfilms.com
In the early morning two young adolescents – brothers - wander over the mud
flats, almost dry because of the low tide. They hang out. The landscape is
empty and serene. A passer-by looms up out of the mist, a girl, breaking the
stillness. One brother leaves, the other accompanies her further onto the mud
flats. The tension is tangible, the languid tranquillity can be disturbed at any
moment. A poetic film about a seemingly innocent and quiet day.
Trois préadolescents se penchent sur leurs vies et se rendent compte que tout
est possible – une conclusion éphémère mais capitale.
Au petit matin, deux frères préadolescents se promènent dans les bancs de
boue, presque secs car c’est la marée basse. Ils traînassent. Le paysage est vide
et serein. Un passant surgit du brouillard : une fille qui rompt la tranquillité.
L’un des frères s’en va, l’autre pousse plus loin sur les bancs de boue avec elle.
La tension est tangible, la tranquillité langoureuse peut être brisée à tout
moment. Un film poétique sur une journée apparemment innocente et paisible.
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FEATURE FILMS
SNIFF THE DOG
Steven de Jong
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: family
Original title: SNUF DE HOND IN
OORLOGSTIJD
Prod: Steven de Jong Producties,
Bridge Entertainment Group
Sc: Jasper Beerthuis
D.O.P.: Nils Post
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch/Frisian (English
subtitles)
Cast: Sanneke Bos, Bas Muijs,
Rense Westra, Steven de Jong
(KAMELEON 2, STORM BOUND)
Orphan Tom and his dog Sniff help liberate a Frisian village during World War II.
Friesland 1945. His parents killed in the bombing of Rotterdam, Tom is living in
his uncle’s farm in Friesland to hide from the enemy. When he arrives, he is
given a beautiful German Shepherd to keep him company, and the two
become inseparable. But as the battlelines approach ever more near, Tom and
his Jewish friend, Mirjam, who is also hiding on the farm, must embark upon
the adventure of a lifetime to help the Canadian forces free their country.
Steven de Jong:
STORM BOUND (2007, feature),
KAMELEON 2 (2005, feature), THE
SKIPPERS OF THE KAMELEON (2003,
feature), DE FÛKE (2000, feature),
DE GOUDEN SWIPE (1995, feature)
Sales: Bridge Rights
Ph: +31 35 688 2835
F: +31 35 688 2800
[email protected]
www.bridgeonline.nl
L’orphelin Tom et son chien Sniff participent à la libération d’un village frison
pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.
La Frise en 1945. Comme ses parents sont morts pendant le bombardement de
Rotterdam, Tom s’est réfugié dans la ferme frisonne de son oncle. À son
arrivée, on lui offre un superbe berger allemand pour lui tenir compagnie et ils
deviennent inséparables. Mais, à mesure que les lignes de combat se rapprochent, Tom et Mirjam, son amie juive aussi réfugiée dans la ferme, doivent
se lancer dans une aventure extraordinaire pour aider les soldats canadiens à
libérer leur pays.
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FEATURE FILMS
STELLA’S WAR
Diederik van Rooijen
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: psychological thriller
Original title: STELLA’S OORLOG
Prod: Waterland Film
Co-prod: NCRV Television
Sc: Hugo Heinen
D.O.P.: Lennert Hillege
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Maartje Remmers, Javier
Guzman, Teun Kuilboer, Thijs
Römer (THREE HEARTS, 06/05 THE
SIXTH OF MAY).
After Stella’s husband returns from a peace mission, everything she believes in
begins to disintegrate. So she starts her own war.
Stella waves to Jurre as he leaves on a peace mission. She worries, but she can
phone and write to him. She even fantasises about a second child. After all,
he’s only gone for a few months.
After Stella’s brother, who is serving with him, is killed in an ambush, Jurre
comes home early, acting strangely, unapproachable, withdrawing from his
friends, refusing help.
The peace mission has turned into a war, but this time in the desert of Stella’s
terraced house.
Diederik van Rooijen:
a.o. BOLLYWOOD HERO (2009, feature), DUMMY (2006, short), MASS
(2005, short), THE MESSENGER
(2005, short), ZULAIKA (2003, feature), BABYPHONED (2002, short).
Waterland Film
Ph: +31 20 682 2164
F: +31 20 682 3061
[email protected]
www.waterlandfilm.nl
Après que son mari est revenu d’une mission de maintien de la paix, tout ce en
quoi Stella croit s’effrite. Alors, elle commence sa propre guerre.
Stella dit adieu à Jurre qui part en mission de maintien de la paix. Elle s’inquiète, mais elle ne peut ni écrire ni téléphoner. Elle fantasme même sur un
deuxième enfant. Il ne part que quelques mois.
Après que la mort du frère de Stella, en mission avec lui, dans une embuscade,
Jurre revient plus tôt. Il a un comportement bizarre, est inabordable, renfermé,
refuse toute aide.
La mission pacifique s’est transformée en guerre, mais ici dans le désert de la
maison mitoyenne.
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FEATURE FILMS
THE STORM
Ben Sombogaart
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: DE STORM
Prod: NL Film & TV
Sc: Rik Launspach, Marjolein
Beumer
D.O.P.: Piotr Kukla
Completed: September 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Sylvia Hoeks (DUSKA, EIS
FREI), Barry Atsma (MORRISON GETS
A BABY SISTER, NIGHTRUN), Dirk
Roofthooft (SEA OF SILENCE,
MAGONIA), Monic Hendrickx
(NADINE, ZUS & ZO).
Ben Sombogaart:
a.o. BRIDE FLIGHT (2008, feature),
One woman swims against the tide, back into the disaster area. Her name is
CRUSADE IN JEANS (2006, feature),
Julia. She is looking for her baby.
PLUK AND HIS TOW TRUCK (2004,
feature), TWIN SISTERS (2002, feaDuring a terrible storm, the dikes of Zeeland are breached in a hundred places, ture) Awards: Academy Award®
and Julia’s farm is flooded. She is rescued by the young Aldo, but is nevertheNomination Best Foreign
less inconsolable. Her baby son was left behind in the water.
Language Film, THE FLYING LIFTBOY
(1998, feature) Awards:
So begins a long search – against the flow of evacuees – into the submerged,
Audience Award Montreal Int.
surreal landscape of animal and human corpses. The chance of survival is
Children’s FF, THE BOY WHO STOPPED
microscopically small, yet Julia sees signs that her son is still alive. But where?
TALKING (1996, feature) Awards:
And with whom?
a.o. Unicef Award Berlin Int. FF
and CIFEJ Award Laon and
Une femme nage à contre-courant, elle retourne dans la zone sinistrée. Elle
Golden Spire San Francisco Int.
s’appelle Julia ; elle cherche son bébé.
FF, THE PENKNIFE (1990, feature)
Awards: a.o. First Prize film festiPendant une terrible tempête, les digues de Zélande sont rompues à des cenvals of Vienna, Essen, Tel Aviv,
taines d’endroits et la ferme de Julia est inondée. Elle est sauvée par le jeune
Montevideo, MY FATHER LIVES IN
Aldo, mais reste inconsolable car son bébé est resté dans l’eau.
Elle part le chercher - à contre-courant du flot d’évacués – dans le paysage sur- RIO (1989, feature).
réaliste de cadavres d’hommes et d’animaux. Les chances de survie sont minusNL Film & TV
cules, mais Julia voit des signes que son fils vit encore. Mais où ? Et avec qui ?
Ph: +31 20 574 7626
F: + 31 20 574 7627
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
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FEATURE FILMS
TAXANDRIA
Mark Weistra
85’ / video / colour
Genre: psychological thriller
Original title: TAXANDRIA
Prod: NFI Producties
Sc: Mark Weistra, Mark Sloof
van Toor
D.O.P.: Luuk Zonnenberg
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Mark Sloof van Toor,
Arent-Jan Linde (SCHNITZEL
PARADISE, JOHAN), Rifka Lodeizen
(NADINE, SIMON), Sophie van Oers
(GANGSTA BLUES).
Mark Weistra:
First feature film.
A.O. TODAY (2003, short).
Following a family funeral, a young man begins to lose his mind.
Six people, one location. Grandma is dead. The family is gathering to prepare
for the funeral and the reading of the will, but father doesn’t show up.
Everybody else, however, seems to have their own very special reason to be
present, reasons that lead the main character towards insanity. TAXANDRIA is a
surrealist, dramatic thriller with its own deliberate slow tempo - a very visual
film that poses a series of questions, many of which it refuses to answer.
NFI Producties
Ph: +31 10 221 1344
F: +31 10 221 1345
[email protected]
www.nfi.nu
À la suite d’un enterrement familial, un jeune homme commence à perdre la
tête.
Six personnes, un seul lieu. Grand-mère est morte. La famille se réunit pour se
préparer aux funérailles et à la lecture du testament, mais le père reste absent.
Cependant, tous les autres semblent avoir une raison personnelle spécifique
d’être présent, des raisons qui conduisent le protagoniste à la folie. TAXANDRIA
est un thriller dramatique surréaliste, au rythme délibérément lent – un film
très visuel qui pose une série de questions mais refuse de répondre à nombre
d’entre elles.
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FEATURE FILMS
THREE HEARTS
Thijs Römer
83’ / video / colour
Genre: passionate roadmovie
Original title: HET WAPEN VAN
GELDROP
Prod: Column Film
Co-prod: AVRO
Sc: Thijs Römer
D.O.P.: Thomas Kist N.S.C
Completed: October 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Thijs Römer (CAPTAIN ROB
AND THE SECRET OF PROFESSOR
LUPARDI, 06/05 THE SIXTH OF MAY),
Katja Schuurman (NO TRAINS NO
PLANES, COOL!), Tara Elders (06/05
THE SIXTH OF MAY, PHILEINE SAYS
SORRY), Huub Stapel
(GODFORSAKEN!, JOHAN).
A murderous housewife, a psychotic maniac and a dreamy girl embark upon
an adventurous odyssey.
Joke leaves her children - and her dead husband – and drives away. Maddox
stands on an empty road, barefoot, praying. A car approaches. She spreads her
arms and closes her eyes. John is running for his life when he sees a strange
scene: a car before a woman, her arms spread wide. Without hesitation, he
jumps in the car. Together they drive to Geldrop, the village with three hearts
in its coat of arms, each in search of redemption and liberation.
Thijs Römer:
First feature film.
Column Film
Ph: +31 20 572 2700
F: +31 20 572 2701
[email protected]
www.columnfilm.com
Une femme au foyer meurtrière, un psychotique maniaque et une fille rêveuse
se lancent dans une odyssée.
Joke quitte ses enfants – et son mari mort – et démarre. Maddox est en prière
sur une route déserte, pieds nus. Une voiture approche. Elle étend les bras et
ferme les yeux. John s’enfuit pour sauver sa peau et voit une scène étrange :
une voiture devant une femme aux bras étendus. Sans hésiter, il saute en
voiture. Ils roulent ensemble à Geldrop, le village avec trois cœurs dans ses
armoiries, chacun en quête de rédemption et de libération.
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FEATURE FILMS
TWO EYES STARING
Elbert van Strien
120’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: psychological thriller
Original title: ZWART WATER
Prod: Accento Films
Sc: Elbert van Strien, Paulo van
Vliet
D.O.P.: Guido van Gennep
Completed: May 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Barry Atsma (MORRISON GETS
A BABY SISTER, LEPEL), Hadewych
Minis (LIFE IN ONE DAY, NADINE),
Isabelle Stokkel, Bart Slegers
(STORM BOUND).
When nine-year-old Lisa discovers that her sinister new friend is a ghost, her
family is put in mortal danger.
When Christine inherits the parental home, she and her family decide to move
there. One day Lisa, her nine-year-old daughter, discovers a strange and sinister girl, Karen, secretly living in the cellar. Karen tells her that she is the dead
twin sister of Lisa’s mother, who poisoned her when they were nine. When
Lisa’s father begins to suspect his wife of hiding a terrible secret, the consequences are deadly…
Lorsque Lisa, neuf ans, découvre que sa nouvelle amie sinistre est un fantôme,
sa famille est en danger de mort.
Quand Christine hérite de la maison familiale, elle décide avec sa famille d’y
emménager. Un jour, Lisa, sa fille de neuf ans, découvre une fille étrange et
sinistre, Karen, qui vit en secret dans la cave. Karen lui dit qu’elle est la sœur
jumelle morte de la mère de Lisa, qui l’a empoisonnée quand elles avaient
neuf ans. Lorsque le père de Lisa commence à soupçonner sa femme de dissimuler un terrible secret, cela a des conséquences mortelles...
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Elbert van Strien:
First feature film.
STILL WORLD (2005, short), THE
HIDDEN FACE (2004, short),
Awards: Silver Méliès Espoo Ciné
Int. FF, Hans Christian Andersen
Award Odense FF, FORBIDDEN EYES
(2002, short) Awards: Silver
Méliès Fantastisk FF Sweden,
Kodak Award BIFFF, THE SPANISH
HORSE (1999, short),
MARIONETTENWERELD (1993, short)
Awards: Nomination Student
Academy Award®.
Accento Films
Ph: +31 20 344 4588
F: +31 20 344 4587
[email protected]
www.accentofilms.nl
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FEATURE FILMS
WHITE FISH
Remy van Heugten
76’ / video / colour
Genre: drama/thriller
Original title: WITVIS
Prod: IDTV Film
Co-prod: AVRO
Sc: Luuk van Bemmelen
D.O.P.: Mark van Aller
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Mads Wittermans (STORM
BOUND, GODFORSAKEN!), Marcel
Hensema (WILD ROMANCE, SIMON).
Remy van Heugten:
WILLEMSPARK (2006, tv series),
SHAHRAM & ABBAS (2006, short),
OVER ROZEN (2004, graduation
film).
After his father’s accident, Stijn rejects the world of parties. Until he and his
brother discover a drugs haul at sea…
Brothers Hans and Stijn run a fishing company, together with their father.
Hans is the responsible one, Stijn rebels against the fishing life. After the
father dies through Stijn’s negligence, Stijn rejects his excessive lifestyle and
commits to the company. But times are hard, and when the brothers find a
large quantity of coke, they decide to sell the drugs. It seems a solution to
their financial problems until the police, and the original owners of the drugs,
come after them.
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
Après l’accident de son père, Stijn abandonne le monde des fêtes. Jusqu'à ce
que son frère et lui découvrent de la drogue en mer...
Les frères Hans et Stijn, et leur père, sont pêcheurs. Hans est sérieux, Stijn se
rebelle contre la vie des pêcheurs. Après qu’une négligence de Stijn a causé la
mort du père, Stijn abandonne ses excès et se consacre à l’entreprise. Mais les
temps sont durs et quand les frères découvrent une grosse quantité de
cocaïne, ils décident de la vendre. Cela semble résoudre leurs difficultés financières jusqu’à ce que la police et les propriétaires de la drogue les poursuivent.
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FEATURE FILMS
WHITE LIGHT
Jean van de Velde
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: WIT LICHT
Prod: The Entertainment Group
Films
Sc: Jean van de Velde
D.O.P.: Theo van de Sande ASC
Completed: December 2008
Language: Dutch/English/
Swahili/Luganda (English subtitles)
Cast: Marco Borsato, Ricky Koole
(THE DRESS, SPORTSMAN OF THE
CENTURY), Siebe Schoneveld (LOVE
IS ALL, PLUK AND HIS TOW TRUCK),
Andrew Kintu (THE LAST KING OF
SCOTLAND).
A man is forced to face a very different Africa from that he was born into.
After his wife dies suddenly life becomes hard for Eduard Zuiderwijk. The
restaurant owner, raised in East Africa, is now left to bring up his young son
Thomas on his own. Thomas seeks solace with his friend Abu, the son of one
of the black staff of the restaurant. When Abu is kidnapped with a dozen
other kids, Eduard’s search takes him into the farthest corners of the jungle at
which point he is confronted with an almost unrecognisable Africa...
Un homme est contraint à affronter une Afrique fort différente de celle où il
était né.
Après la mort soudaine de sa femme, la vie devient difficile pour Eduard
Zuiderwijk. Le restaurateur, qui a grandi en Afrique orientale, se retrouve seul
pour élever son jeune fils Thomas. Thomas cherche la consolation auprès de
son ami Abu, le fils d’un employé noir du restaurant. Quand Abu est kidnappé
avec une douzaine d’autres enfants, les recherches d’Eduard le conduisent au
fin fond de la jungle et il doit alors faire face à une Afrique quasiment méconnaissable...
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Jean van de Velde:
a.o. FLORIS (2004, feature), LEAK
(2000, feature), ALL STARS (19992001, tv series) Awards: Emmy
Award International Drama,
Silver Rose Montreux Best
Comedy, ALL STARS (1997, feature), LITTLE BLOND DEATH (1993,
feature).
The Entertainment Group
Films
Ph: +31 35 625 6000
F: +31 35 625 6060
[email protected]
www.theentertainmentgroup.nl
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FEATURE FILMS
WINTER SILENCE
Sonja Wyss
70’ / video / colour
Genre: experimental drama
Original title: WINTERSTILTE
Prod: SNG Film
Sc: Sonja Wyss
D.O.P.: Peter Brugman
Completed: September 2008
Language: German (English subtitles)
Cast: Gerda Zangger (A PERFECT
SPY), Sandra Utzinger (JIMMIE),
Brigitta Weber, Sarah Bühlmann
(JIMMIE, DILEMMA), Katalin Liptak
(GRAN CANARIA).
A widow and her four daughters, tormented by years of mourning, encounter
the mysterious deer-men who change their lives irrevocably.
In a snowed-in log cabin, a widow lives with her four grown-up daughters, all
of whom have their own desires for love and intimacy. Their strong Catholic
faith and the mourning that has tormented them for years have condemned
them to a life of chastity.
But when the mysterious deer-men appear their lives are changed forever.
Une veuve et ses quatre filles, affligées par des années de deuil, rencontrent
les mystérieux hommes-cerfs qui changent irrévocablement leurs vies.
Sonja Wyss:
First feature film.
a.o. THE CROW (2002, short), HIGH
TIMES (2001, short), TO DATE
(1999, short), HELLO MISS STIRNIMAA
(1999, short), PURITY (1998,
short), GET OFF MY BACK (1996,
short).
SNG Film
Ph: +31 20 686 7837
F: +31 20 682 4367
[email protected]
www.sngfilm.nl
Dans une cabane en rondins bloquée par la neige, une veuve vit avec ses quatre filles adultes qui soupirent toutes après l’amour et l’érotisme. Leur vive foi
chrétienne et le deuil qui les a affligées pendant des années les ont condamnées à une vie chaste.
Mais quand les mystérieux hommes-cerfs paraissent, leurs vies changent définitivement.
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FEATURE FILMS
WINTERLAND
Dick Tuinder
90’ / video / colour
Genre: comedy/fantasy
Original title: WINTERLAND
Prod: Column Film, Silent Woods
Industries
Sc: Dick Tuinder
D.O.P.: Stijn van Santen
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch/English/
French/Japanese (English subtitles)
Cast: Tara Elders (VOX POPULI,
INTERVIEW), Tom Jansen (VOX
POPULI), Kiriko Mechanicus, Stijn
Westenend.
A true story that never happened.
According to the press release, WINTERLAND is a film. But in reality, it is a portrait of its egomaniacal creator, Dick Tuinder, who stands to lose control over
the whole thing. When his actors mysteriously disappear from the set, he has
to tap into all his resources to conjure everything back: walking trees, talking
stones, flying eyes, a wall that separates the real from the virtual world and
Sally Dewinter, just to mention a few ingredients within the magical potion.
Dick Tuinder:
First feature film.
a.o. THE CURE (2007, short),
JOURNAL D’UN SAMOURAI (2007,
short), FUNNY DEWDROP (2007,
short), THE GARDEN OF NOTHING
(2007, short), MOST THINGS NEVER
HAPPEN (2005, short), RIMBAUD’ IN
AMSTERDAM (2003, short), ARTHUR
DAUPIN’S ANATOMY OF TIME (1995,
short), DOWNSTAIRS (1995, short),
GOLD (1993, short).
Une histoire vraie qui n’est jamais arrivée.
Selon le communiqué de presse, WINTERLAND est un film. Mais en réalité, c’est
un portrait de son créateur maniaco-narcissique, Dick Tuinder, qui risque fort
de perdre la maîtrise de tout le projet. Lorsque ses acteurs disparaissent mystérieusement du plateau, il doit puiser dans toutes ses ressources pour tout
faire réapparaître : des arbres marcheurs, des pierres parleuses, des yeux
volants, un mur qui sépare le monde réel du monde virtuel et Sally Dewinter,
pour ne citer que quelques ingrédients de sa potion magique.
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Column Film
Ph: +31 20 572 2700
F: +31 20 572 2701
[email protected]
www.columnfilm.com
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THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK
Ineke Smits
105’ / 35mm / colour and b&w
Genre: drama
Original title: DE VLIEGENIERSTER
VAN KAZBEK
Prod: Isabella Films (NL), Fu
Works (NL)
Co-prod: Serendipity (BE), Volya
Films (NL)
Sc: Arthur Japin
D.O.P.: Piotr Kukla
Completed: Spring 2009
Language: Dutch/German/
Georgian (English subtitles)
Cast: Madelief Blanken (PAPA’S
KLEINE MEID, MUSICAL ‘THE SOUND OF
MUSIC’), Zura Zhghenti (BLUE
BIRD), Kakha Kintsurashvili (ON
NINTH SKY, CHAIKA).
Only the power of imagination can conquer reality.
On the island of Texel, Marie dreams of mountains. She loves dancing, but the
village community expects her to behave. She wants to be an independent
woman, but is the only girl in a large family. Only when she meets the
Georgian Goga and Irakli can she break away from the suffocating reality by
learning to trust her fantasies. THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK is a modern, universal tale
of three young people who meet amid the atrocities of war.
Seul le pouvoir de l’imagination peut vaincre la réalité.
Sur l’île de Texel, Marie rêve de montagnes. Elle adore danser, mais la communauté villageoise attend d’elle qu’elle soit sage. Elle veut être une femme
émancipée, mais c’est la seule fille d’une famille nombreuse. Elle ne peut
échapper à l’étouffante réalité qu’après la rencontre des Géorgiens Goga et
Irakli, qui lui apprennent à se fier à son imagination. THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK est
un conte moderne, universel, sur trois jeunes qui se rencontrent au milieu des
atrocités de la guerre.
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Ineke Smits:
Second feature film.
a.o. TRANSIT DUBAI (2008, doc),
BLACK GOLD UNDER NOTECKA FOREST
(2005, short doc), PUTIN’S MAMA
(2003, short doc) Awards: Best
Dutch Documentary in National
Programme HotDocs Int. FF,
MAGONIA (2001, feature) Awards:
Golden Tulip Istanbul Int. FF,
NOSTALGIA (1999, short doc, codirected by Tato Kotetishvili)
Awards: Grand Prize Taiwan Int.
Documentary Festival, ROSE,
VIOLET AND LILY (1992, short).
Isabella Films
Ph: +31 20 422 9199
F: +31 20 423 1125
[email protected]
www.isabellafilms.com
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C’EST DÉJÀ L’ÉTÉ
Martijn Smits
90’ / video / colour
Genre: docudrama
Original title: C’EST DÉJÀ L’ÉTÉ
Prod: De Productie (NL)
Co-prod: Tarantula Films (BE)
Sc: Martijn Smits, Bastiaan
Kroeger
D.O.P.: Benito Strangio
Completed: Summer 2009
Language: French/Dutch (English
subtitles)
Cast: tba
Martijn Smits:
First feature film.
A father, daughter and son, try to survive their daily lives.
De Productie
Ph: +31 10 476 3388
F: +31 10 282 7921
[email protected]
www.deproductie.nl
C’EST DÉJÀ L’ÉTÉ TELLS the story of a family barely able to survive. Jean has been
fired from his job but is too ashamed to tell his kids. Marie has a baby - she
seems to be having sex with everybody in town except her boyfriend. Eric
should go to school, but prefers to spend his time with friends with their
mopeds, pranks and fake guns. The three only seem able to communicate
when they need something from each other.
Un père, sa fille et son fils tentent de survivre au quotidien.
C’EST DÉJÀ L’ÉTÉ raconte l’histoire d’une famille qui parvient à peine à survivre.
Jean a perdu son travail mais a trop honte pour le dire à ses enfants. Marie a
un bébé – on dirait qu’elle couche avec tout le monde sauf avec son petit ami.
Eric devrait aller à l’école mais il préfère traîner avec ses copains en mob, à
faire des bêtises avec des faux pistolets. Les trois personnages ne semblent
capables de communiquer que quand ils doivent se rendre service.
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EEP!
Rita Horst
85’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: family
Original title: IEP!
Prod: Lemming Film (NL)
Co-prod: NPS (NL), A Private
View (BE)
Sc: Mieke de Jong
D.O.P.: Theo Bierkens
Completed: October 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Huub Stapel (THE PREACHER,
SEA OF SILENCE), Joke Tjalsma (DE
DALTONS), Diederik Ebbinge.
Is it a girl or is it a bird? Whatever it is, everybody wants her.
Birdie is a little girl with wings instead of arms, who is found in the woods by
Warre and Tine. While Tine does her best to raise Birdie as a normal little girl,
the creature inevitably flies away to the South. Tine is inconsolable, and so she
embarks, with Warre, on an exhilarating journey to find her lost friend…
Est-ce une fille ou un oiseau ? Quoi qu’il en soit, tout le monde la veut.
Birdie est une petite fille avec des ailes au lieu de bras, que Warre et Tine
découvrent dans la forêt. Tandis que Tine fait de son mieux pour élever Birdie
comme une petite fille normale, la créature s’envole inévitablement vers le
sud. Tine est inconsolable, et elle s’embarque avec Warre dans un voyage
grisant pour retrouver son amie perdue…
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Rita Horst:
Second feature film.
ROMEO (1991, feature), DE
DALTONS (1999, tv series) Awards
a.o. Prix Jeunesse, Honour
Nipkov and Emmy Award
Nomination, KNOFJE (2001, tv
series) Awards: Prix Jeunesse.
Sales: Delphis Films
Ph: +1 514 843 3355
F: +1 514 843 9574
[email protected]
www.delphisfilms.com
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THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK
Alex van Warmerdam
95’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: comedy
Original title: DE LAATSTE DAGEN
VAN EMMA BLANK
Prod: Graniet Film (NL)
Co-prod: La Parti (BE)
Sc: Alex van Warmerdam
D.O.P.: Tom Erisman
Completed: May 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: Marlies Heuer (ALL SOULS,
06/05 THE SIXTH OF MAY), Annet
Malherbe (GRIMM, THE DRESS),
Eva van de Wijdeven (DUNYA &
DESIE, NIGHTRUN), Gène Berrvoets
(DUSKA, NO TRAINS NO PLANES).
The wicked matriarch Emma Blank awaits her death. As do her servants.
In a large country home, the sick Emma Blank is cared for by her personnel:
Haneveld the head housekeeper, Bella the cook, Gonnie the maid and Meier
the man-servant. But despite her desperate need for loving care, Emma is a
steely, avaricious dictator whose demands become ever more absurd, to the
extent that her staff are driven to distraction. When they discover that they
stand to inherit nothing, however, they drop their mask of pretence and plan
revenge.
La méchante matriarche Emma Blank attend sa mort. Ses domestiques aussi.
Dans une grande demeure à la campagne, Emma Blank, malade, est soignée
par son personnel : le majordome Haneveld, la cuisinière Bella, la bonne
Gonnie et l’homme à tout faire Meier. Mais, malgré son besoin désespéré de
soins attentionnés, Emma est un tyran inflexible et avare dont les exigences
sont toujours plus absurdes, au point que son personnel devient fou. Quand ils
comprennent qu’ils n’hériteront rien, ils cessent de faire semblant et préparent
leur vengeance.
Holland Film
Alex van Warmerdam:
WAITER (2006, feature), GRIMM
(2003, feature), LITTLE TONY
(1998, feature), THE DRESS (1996,
feature) Awards: Fipresci Prize
Venice Int. FF, THE NORTHERNERS
(1992, feature) Awards: a.o.
Felix for Best New European
Film, Best European Art
Direction, Best European Music,
Golden Rose Bergamo Int. FF,
ABEL (1986, feature) Awards:
Critics’ Prize Venice Int. FF, THE
TOWNEE (1984, short), GRANITE
(1982, tv film), SEE THE MAN FALL
(1980, tv film), STRIPTEASE (1979,
short), ENTREE BRUSSELS (1978,
short).
Sales: Fortissimo Films
Ph: +31 20 627 3215
F: +31 20 626 1155
[email protected]
www.fortissimo.nl
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NOTHING PERSONAL
Urszula Antoniak
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: NOTHING PERSONAL
Prod: Rinkel Film & TV
Productions (NL)
Co-prod: Family Affairs (NL),
Fastnet Films (IE), VPRO (NL)
Sc: Urszula Antoniak
D.O.P.: Daniel Bouquet
Completed: April 2009
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
Cast: Lotte Verbeek (LEFT),
Stephen Rea (THE REAPING, THE
CRYING GAME).
A young woman is saved from suicide but before she can catch up with life
again, she has to rework her death.
Anne is trying to escape her grief, so she hits the road as a drifter. When she
meets Martin she knows she has found a soul-mate. Martin offers her a deal:
she can stay and work on his farm in exchange for food. She agrees, but on
one condition: he can’t ask her any personal questions. Nor can he reveal anything personal about himself. But how can you live without asking questions,
or express feelings without using words?
Urszula Antoniak:
First feature film.
DUTCH FOR BEGINNERS (2007, short),
BIJLMER ODYSSEE (2004, short).
Rinkel Film & TV Productions
Ph: +31 20 616 3231
F: +31 20 489 3980
[email protected]
www.rinkelfilm.com
Une jeune femme est sauvée du suicide mais, avant qu’elle puisse reprendre le
fil de sa vie, elle doit retravailler sa mort.
Pour échapper à son chagrin, Anne décide de devenir routarde. Quand elle
rencontre Martin, elle sait qu’elle a trouvé l’âme sœur. Martin lui propose un
marché : elle peut rester à la ferme et travailler en échange de nourriture. Elle
accepte à une condition : il ne doit ni lui poser de questions personnelles ni lui
révéler quoi que ce soit de personnel sur lui. Mais comment peut-on vivre sans
poser de questions ou exprimer ses sentiments muettement ?
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SPY OF ORANGE
Tim Oliehoek
92’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: action comedy
Original title: SPION VAN ORANJE
Prod: Fu Works (NL), IDTV Film
(NL)
Co-prod: In-Soo Productions
(NL), VARA (NL), A Private View
(BE)
Sc: Tijs van Marle
D.O.P.: Rolf Dekens
Completed: February 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Cast: a.o. Paul de Leeuw (LOVE IS
ALL, YES NURSE! NO NURSE!), Nellie
Frijda (FLODDER, ALICE IN
GLAMOURLAND), Najib Amhali
(SHOUF SHOUF HABIBI!, BASED ON A
NOVEL), Jennifer Hoffman.
A couturier must protect the Netherlands from his evil twin brother.
Tim Oliehoek:
Second feature film.
ALL SOULS ‘BETSY’ (2005, short),
TOO FAT TOO FURIOUS (2005, feature), THE HORSELESS PRINCE (2003,
short), THE CHAMP (2002, short)
Awards: Student Academy
Award® Nomination 2003,
Un couturier doit protéger les Pays-Bas de son frère jumeau malfaisant.
ISABELLE (2001, short), BENNIE
Les Pays-Bas sont menacés de destruction et François, un couturier, est leur seul (2000, short), INNAMORATA (1999,
défenseur. Le terroriste dont il nous protège est son propre frère jumeau mal- short), VERKNIPT (1998, short).
faisant, et le maladroit François doit devenir un espion discret pour contrecarrer ses projets - et sauver sa mère qui a cruellement été kidnappée par le frère Fu Works
sadique. Encore faut-il savoir si François causera plus de dégâts que son frère ? Ph: +31 20 344 5160
F: +31 20 635 3060
[email protected]
www.fuworks.com
With the Netherlands under threat of destruction, the couturier Francois is its
only defender. The terrorist he guards us against is his own evil twin brother,
and the clumsy Francois must become a stealthy spy in order to stop his plans and to save his mother who has been cruelly kidnapped by the sadistic sibling.
The question is, will Francois actually cause more damage than his brother?
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WINTER IN WARTIME
Martin Koolhoven
103’ / 35mm / colour
In order to become an adult, it’s necessary to experience loss of innocence.
Genre: war/adventure
Original title: OORLOGSWINTER
Prod: Isabella Films (NL), Fu
Works (NL)
Co-prod: Prime Time (BE),
Omroep Max (NL)
Sc: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de
Jong, Martin Koolhoven
D.O.P.: Guido van Gennep NSC
Completed: November 2008
Language: Dutch/English/
German (English subtitles)
Cast: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick
van Wageningen (THE NEW WORLD
TULSE LUPER SUITCASE: A LIFE IN
SUITCASES, TOTAL LOSS), Jamie
Campbell Bower (SWEENEY TODD,
ROCKNROLLA), Raymond Thiry (THE
LETTER FOR THE KING, NORTHERN LIGHT).
Holland. January 1945. People are heading east to feed their families.
Adolescent Michiel is eager to do something for the resistance and finally feels
that he is taken seriously when his neighbour Dirk asks him to deliver a letter.
But Dirk is caught and the letter’s recipient is shot by the Germans. Michiel
soon learns there’s only a small distinction in between good and evil. He
grows, now lonely but independent. He will never be the same again.
Martin Koolhoven:
a.o. HAPPY FAMILY (2006, feature),
BONKERS (2005, feature) Awards:
Audience Award Cinekid Int. FF,
SCHNITZEL PARADISE (2005, feature),
THE SOUTH (2003, feature)
Awards: Best Actress Rouen
Nordic Film Festival for Monic
Pour devenir adulte, il faut expérimenter la perte de l’innocence.
Hendrickx, THE CAVE (2001, feature), AMNESIA (2001, feature),
Janvier 1945, aux Pays-Bas. Les gens partent vers l’est pour nourrir leurs
familles. Michiel, un adolescent, veut absolument aider la résistance et se sent SUZY Q (1999, feature) Awards:
enfin pris au sérieux quand son voisin Dirk lui demande de remettre une lettre. Fipa d’Argent Fiction Biarritz FF,
Fipa d’Or Script Biarritz FF, Fipa
Mais Dirk est arrêté et les Allemands abattent le destinataire de la lettre.
d’Or Male Leading Part Biarritz
Michiel apprend vite qu’il n’y a qu’une petite distinction entre le bien et le
FF.
mal. Il grandit, maintenant seul mais indépendant. Il ne sera plus jamais le
même.
Isabella Films
Ph: +31 20 422 9199
F: +31 20 423 1125
[email protected]
www.isabellafilms.com
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THE ALASNESS OF THINGS
Felix van Groeningen
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: DE HELAASHEID DER
DINGEN
Prod: Menuet (BE)
Co-prod: IDTV Film (NL)
Completed: September 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Little by little Gunther is turning into an utterly useless drunk - just like his
father and uncles. Can Gunther somehow escape his futile destiny?
Petit à petit, Gunther devient un ivrogne bon à rien – exactement comme son
père et ses oncles. Gunther pourra-t-il échapper à son vain destin ?
Felix van Groeningen:
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE (2007, feature), STEVE + SKY (2004, feature),
50CC (2000, short).
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
CHNCHIK
Aram Shahbazyan
Director Aram Shahbazyan
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: CHNCHIK
Prod: Isabella Films (NL)
Co-prod: Armna LLC (AM), Zero
Fiction Film (DE), Ventura film
(CH)
Completed: August 2009
Language: Armenian (English
subtitles)
Aram Shahbazyan:
First feature film.
A drama, common to all mankind, of a “God’s fool” girl that lives in a sinful
society that both abuses and, eventually, executes her.
Le drame, concernant toute l’humanité, d’une croyante fanatique, qui vit dans
une société de pécheurs qui la maltraite et finit par l’exécuter.
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Isabella Films
Ph: +31 20 422 9199
F: +31 20 423 1125
[email protected]
www.isabellafilms.com
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CUT LOOSE
Jan Verheyen
110’ / video / colour
Genre: drama/tragicomedy
Original title: LOS
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV drama
(BE)
Co-prod: BosBros Film-TV
Productions (NL)
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Tom, an idealistic journalist, is about to settle down with his girlfriend when
his life and views are shaken up by the beautiful refugee Nadia.
Tom, un journaliste idéaliste, est sur le point de se ranger avec sa petite amie
quand sa vie et ses projets sont bouleversés par la belle réfugiée Nadia.
Jan Verheyen:
a.o. BUITENSPEL (2005, feature),
TEAM SPIRIT (2000, feature).
BosBros. Film-TV Productions
Ph: +31 20 524 4030
F: +31 20 524 4040
[email protected]
www.bosbros.com
FACE
Tsai Ming-liang
120’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: VISAGE
Prod: JBA Production (FR)
Co-prod: Tarantula (BE),
Homegreen (TW), Circe Films
(NL)
Completed: Winter 2009
Language: French/Chinese
(English subtitles)
Director Tsai Ming-liang
Things go disastrously wrong as a famous filmmaker attempts to direct a
Salome-themed musical comedy in the Louvre.
Les choses tournent très mal quand un cinéaste célèbre essaie de mettre en
scène au Louvre une comédie musicale sur le thème de Salomé.
Holland Film
Tsai Ming-liang:
a.o. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE
(2006, feature), THE WAYWARD
CLOUD (2004, feature).
Sales: Fortissimo Films
Ph: +31 20 627 3215
F: +31 20 626 1155
[email protected]
www.fortissimo.nl
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FISH TANK
Andrea Arnold
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: FISH TANK
Prod: Kasander Film (UK)
Co-prod: Kasander Film (NL)
Completed: May 2009
Language: English
Andrea Arnold:
a.o. RED ROAD (2006, feature),
WASP (2003, short).
Second feature by Academy Award® winner Andrea Arnold (WASP, short) who
also won the Jury Prize at Cannes for her debut feature RED ROAD.
Kasander Film
Ph: +31 10 433 3043
Second long métrage d’Andrea Arnold, récompensée par un Oscar (WASP, court F: +31 10 433 3061
métrage), qui a aussi remporté le Prix du Jury à Cannes pour son premier long [email protected]
métrage RED ROAD.
www.kasanderfilm.nl
FRESH SEA WATER
Paz Fábrega
80’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: AGUA FRIA DE MAR
Prod: Les films du Requin (FR)
Co-prod: Isabella Films (NL),
Temporal Films (CR), Pimienta
(MX)
Completed: August 2009
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
Paz Fábrega:
First feature film.
A film about the stubbornness of spoiled little girls who no longer seem so little when carry with them the heartbreak of growing up.
Un film sur l’obstination des petites filles gâtées qui ne semblent plus si petites
quand elles trimbalent les peines inhérentes à la croissance.
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Isabella Films
Ph: +31 20 422 9199
F: +31 20 423 1125
[email protected]
www.isabellafilms.com
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GIGANTE
Adrián Biniez Pauluk
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: GIGANTE
Prod: Fernando Epstein (UY)
Co-prod: a.o. Motel Films (NL),
Pandora Films (DE), Rizoma
Films (AR)
Completed: January 2009
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
After a security guard discovers a cleaning woman through his surveillance
cameras, he must decide whether to give up his new obsession, or confront it.
Après qu’un vigile a découvert une femme de ménage à travers sa caméra de
vidéosurveillance, il doit décider d’abandonner sa nouvelle obsession ou de
l’affronter.
Adrián Biniez Pauluk:
8 HORAS (2006).
Motel Films (IDTV Film)
Ph: +31 20 314 33 22
F: +31 20 314 33 00
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
Radu Jude
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: CEA MAI FERICITA
FATA DIN LUME
Prod: Hi-Film Productions (RO)
Co-prod: Circe Films (NL)
Completed: December 2008
Language: Rumanian (English
subtitles)
When a young filmmaker tries to direct a musical comedy about Salome in the
Louvre, the experience turns out to be a disaster.
Quand un jeune cinéaste tente de réaliser une comédie musicale sur Salomé,
au Louvre, l’expérience s’avère catastrophique.
Holland Film
Radu Jude:
First feature film.
ALEXANDRA (2007, short), THE TUBE
WITH A HAT (2006, short).
Circe Films
Ph: +31 20 625 3591
F: +31 20 626 0025
[email protected]
www.circe.nl
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JERMAL
Ravi Bharwani
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: JERMAL
Prod: Orlow Seunke, Shanty
Harmayn (ID)
Co-prod: a.o. Motel Films (NL)
Completed: January 2009
Language: Indonesian (English
subtitles)
Years after an assault on his wife’s lover, loner Didi meets the son he never
knew he had, and eventually learns to accept his past.
Ravi Bharwani:
a.o. THE RAINMAKER (2004, feature), VIVA INDONESIA (2001, feature).
Motel Films (IDTV Film)
Des années après sa brutale agression de l’amant de sa femme, le solitaire
Ph: +31 20 314 33 22
Didi rencontre le fils qu’il ignorait avoir, et il finit par apprendre à accepter son F: +31 20 314 33 00
passé.
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
LOST PERSONS AREA
Caroline Strubbe
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: LOST PERSONS AREA
Prod: Minds Meet (BE)
Co-prod: Artemis (BE), De
Productie (NL), UJ
Budapestfilmstudios (HU)
Completed: March 2009
Language: Dutch/English/
Hungarian (English subtitles)
Caroline Strubbe:
First feature film.
The offbeat but happy lives of Tessa (9) and Hungarian engineer Sobolz take a
sudden turn when her father has an accident at work.
De Productie
Ph: +31 10 476 3388
Les vies excentriques mais heureuses de Tessa (9 ans) et de l’ingénieur hongrois F: +31 10 282 7921
[email protected]
Sobolz prennent une tournure inattendue quand son père a un accident du
www.deproductie.nl
travail.
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MY QUEEN KARO
Dorothée van den Berghe
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: MY QUEEN KARO
Prod: Caviar Films (BE)
Co-prod: IDTV Film (NL),
Tarantula (BE)
Completed: Spring 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Dorothée van den Berghe:
Second feature film.
In a 1970s Amsterdam commune, a nine year old child is witness to the shifting GIRL (2002, feature).
idealism of the age.
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
Dans une commune des années 1970 à Amsterdam, un enfant de neuf ans est
F: +31 20 314 3300
témoin de l’idéalisme en mutation de cette période.
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
REYKJAVIK–ROTTERDAM
Oskar Jonasson
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: thriller
Original title: REYKJAVIKROTTERDAM
Prod: Blueeyes productions (IS)
Co-prod: Rotterdam Films (NL)
Completed: September 2008
Language: Icelandic/Dutch/
English (English subtitles)
Recently out of jail, Kristofur takes to the sea one last time but soon finds out
that some so-called mates do not deserve his trust.
Récemment sorti de prison, Kristofur prend la mer une dernière fois mais
découvre vite que certains de ses prétendus amis ne méritent pas sa confiance.
Holland Film
Oskar Jonasson:
a.o. PEARLS AND SWINE (1997, feature), REMOTE CONTROL (1992, feature).
Rotterdam Films
Ph: +31 10 465 8565
F: +31 10 465 8392
[email protected]
www.rotterdamfilms.com
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STORM
Hans Christian Schmid
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: political thriller
Original title: STORM
Prod: 23/5 Filmproduktion (DE)
Co-prod: IDTV Film (NL), Zoo
Pictures (NL), Zentropa Germany
(DE), Zentropa Denmark (DK)
Completed: February 2009
Language: English/Serbian
(English subtitles)
A female prosecutor at a tribunal in The Hague must convince a young
Bosnian woman to testify against an alleged war criminal.
Une femme procureur au tribunal de La Haye doit convaincre une jeune
Bosniaque de témoigner contre un criminel de guerre présumé.
Hans Christian Schmid:
REQUIEM (2006, feature), DISTANT
LIGHTS (2003, feature), 23 (1998,
feature).
Sales: TrustNordisk
Ph: +45 3686 8788
F: +45 3677 4448
[email protected]
www.trustnordisk.com
WIND JOURNEYS
Ciro Guerra
110’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: LOS VIAJES DEL
VIENTO
Prod: Ciudad Lunar
Producciones (CO)
Co-prod: Volya Films (NL)
Completed: Spring 2009
Language: Spanish/Anduine
(English subtitles)
An old musician returns his accordion to his master, destined never to play it
again, accompanied by a protégé hungry to learn his musical secrets.
Un vieux musicien rend son accordéon à son maître, qui ne devait plus en
jouer, accompagné par un protégé avide d’apprendre ses secrets musicaux.
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Ciro Guerra:
a.o. LA SOMBRA DEL CAMINANTE
(2006, feature).
Volya Films
Ph: +31 10 415 2651
F: +31 10 437 5934
[email protected]
www.volyafilms.com
Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
DOCUMENTARIES
AFTER THE RAPE
Catherine Ulmer
73’ / video / colour
Original title: AFTER THE RAPE
Prod: Cobos Films
Sc: Catherine Ulmer
D.O.P.: Pedro Jimenez
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Urdu (English subtitles)
Catherine Ulmer:
Second feature length documentary.
MY CAREER IN THE CHURCH (2006,
doc), WE WERE ALL ON THAT TRAIN
(2004, doc), COMPAÑEROS (2004,
short doc), DESPOBLADO (2003,
short doc), LA VIE EN 8MM (2003,
doc series), LA VIE SANS TOI (2001,
short doc).
A documentary about Islamic feminism, its modes of expression and a necessary course of action.
A one-woman revolution in Pakistan.
After the rape, she could have lived in shame or commited suicide. But
Mukhtaran Mai decided to open a school for girls. She had the extraordinary
insight that only a change of mentality could break the traditional rules. Now,
female victims of abuse are coming from all over the country to seek
Mukhtaran Mai’s support. Her fight has given them their voice back – and their
rights. “Violence only can end with culture and education”.
Cobos Films
Ph: +31 20 320 3368
[email protected]
www.cobosfilms.nl
Un documentaire sur le féminisme islamique, ses modes d’expression et une
ligne de conduite nécessaire.
La révolution d’une femme au Pakistan.
Après son viol, elle aurait pu vivre dans la honte ou se suicider. Mais
Mukhtaran Mai a décidé d’ouvrir une école de filles. Elle prend conscience que
seule l’évolution des mentalités pourrait briser le système traditionnel.
Maintenant, les femmes victimes de sévices viennent de tout le pays demander
le soutien de Mukhtaran Mai. Son combat leur a rendu leur voix – et leurs
droits. « C’est uniquement par la culture et l’éducation que la violence pourra
cesser ».
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Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
BABAJI, AN INDIAN LOVE STORY
Jiska Rickels
71’ / video / colour
Original title: BABAJI, AN INDIAN
LOVE STORY
Prod: Dieptescherpte
Sc: Jiska Rickels
D.O.P.: Martijn van Broekhuizen
Completed: December 2008
Language: Hindu/English
(English subtitles)
Every day Babaji descends into his self-made grave, waiting for death to reunite him with his wife.
We enter the life of Babaji through observations of his daily life - in the morning when he washes himself in the river, while putting flowers on his wife’s
grave or when curing people from diseases. Or when he is lying in his grave,
just waiting. Slowly we get to know more about this old man and his relationship with his wife. The colourful mosaic of a life emerges, in which love, death
and the passing of time are essential elements.
Jiska Rickels:
Second feature length documentary.
4 ELEMENTS (2006, doc) Awards:
a.o. Best Cinematography
Chicago Int. FF, Special Jury
Mention Message to Man Int. FF,
SEVKO (2005, short doc), ELECTRIEK
(2004, short), HIMMELFILM (2004,
short doc), UNTERTAGE (2003,
short doc) Awards: Special Jury
Mention Karlovy Vary Int. FF,
Documentary Award Message to
Man Int. FF.
Dieptescherpte
Ph: +31 20 689 2588
[email protected]
Chaque jour, Babaji descend dans la tombe qu’il a creusée pour attendre que
la mort le réunisse avec sa femme.
Nous abordons la vie de Babaji en observant son quotidien – quand il se lave
dans la rivière le matin, quand il fleurit la tombe de sa femme ou lorsqu’il
soigne des malades. Ou quand il se couche dans sa tombe, juste pour attendre.
Lentement, nous finissons par en apprendre davantage sur ce vieillard et sa
relation avec sa femme. Il en émerge la mosaïque pittoresque d’une vie dans
laquelle l’amour, la mort et l’écoulement du temps sont des éléments essentiels.
Holland Film
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DOCUMENTARIES
A BETTER LIFE
Karin Junger
80’ / video / colour
Original title: EEN BETER LEVEN
Prod: IDTV Docs
Sc: Karin Junger
D.O.P.: Brigit Hillenius, Peter
Lataster, Adri Schrover, Edwin
Donders
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Arabic/Berber/Dutch
(English subtitles)
Moroccan fathers and sons living in the Netherlands tell how migration profoundly reshaped the lives of two generations.
The fathers are now old. Their sons are the frequent subject of controversy in
Dutch society. Here, both tell their stories - how migration a long time ago
affected subsequent generations. In the search for prosperity the price for a
better life was often high: loneliness, humiliation, backbreaking work, alienation from loved ones. This film nevertheless shows the profound influence of
a father’s life on that of his son, and attempts to start a dialogue between the
two radically different generations.
Des pères et des fils marocains vivant aux Pays-Bas racontent comment l’émigration a profondément transformé la vie de deux générations.
Karin Junger:
a.o. GANGSTA BLUES (2005, feature), GREAT! (2003, short)
Awards: Silver Bear Berlin Int. FF,
MALLE APPIE (2003, short doc),
LISTEN! (2002, short doc), MAMA
BENZ & THE TASTE OF MONEY (2001,
doc), GOD IS MY CO-PILOT (2000,
short doc), CHICKIES, BABIES &
WANNABEES (1999, doc), ACT OF
LOVE (1992, short doc), MIXED
FEELINGS (1991, short doc)
Awards: Special Jury Prize Parnu
Int. Anthropology Festival,
Birthplace UNKNOWN (1988, doc)
Awards: Joris Ivens Award IDFA.
IDTV Docs
Ph: +31 20 314 3100
F: +31 20 314 3450
[email protected]
www.idtvdocs.nl
Maintenant, les pères sont vieux. Leurs fils soulèvent souvent des controverses
dans la société néerlandaise. Ici, ils racontent chacun leur histoire – l’impact de
l’émigration ancienne sur les générations suivantes. À la recherche de la
prospérité, le prix payé pour une vie meilleure était souvent élevé : solitude,
humiliation, travail éreintant, éloignement des êtres aimés. Néanmoins, le film
montre l’influence profonde de la vie d’un père sur celle de son fils, et
il s’efforce d’amorcer un dialogue entre deux générations radicalement différentes.
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DOCUMENTARIES
BEYOND THE GAME
Jos de Putter
75’ / video / colour
Original title: BEYOND THE
GAME
Prod: Dieptescherpte
Sc: Jos de Putter
D.O.P.: Richard van Oosterhout
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: English/Dutch/
Chinese/Norwegian/Spanish/
French/Korean (English subtitles)
Jos de Putter:
a.o. IN MEMORIAM: ALEXANDER
LITVINENKO (2007, short doc)
Awards: Director’s Award
Chicago Documentary FF, Special
Mention Banff, BEFORE THE FLOOD
(2006, short doc), HOW MANY
ROADS (2006, doc), ALIAS KURBAN
Set in the world of cyber games, this film follows two champion players en
SAÏD (2004, doc), DANS, GROZNY
route to the 2007 World Championships.
DANS (2002, doc), BROOKLYN
STORIES (2002, short doc), NOR HIS
Sky is 19, comes from China, and is the world Warcraft champion. Grubby is 20, DONKEY (2000, short doc), THE
MAKING OF A NEW EMPIRE (1999,
from the Netherlands and is the former Warcraft world champion. These two
protagonists avoid each other as much as possible during the year, so that their doc), NAGASAKI STORIES (1995,
eventual encounter at the world championships can rightly be called the ìclash short doc), SOLO, THE LAW OF THE
FAVELA (1994, short doc) Awards:
of the titan’s.
Joris Ivens Award IDFA, IT’S BEEN
BEYOND THE GAME portrays the lives of these two top players, stars and role
A LOVELY DAY (1993, doc) Awards:
models, on the way to their final duel.
Dutch Film Prize for Best Debut,
Situé dans l’univers des jeux vidéo en ligne, ce film suit deux joueurs chevronBest Film of the year by the
nés en route pour le Championnat du Monde 2007.
Dutch Film Critics Association.
Sky, 19 ans, Chinois, est champion du monde du jeu Warcraft. Grubby, 20 ans,
Néerlandais, est l’ancien tenant du titre. Ces deux protagonistes s’évitent le
plus possible pendant l’année, pour que leur rencontre lors du championnat
mondial soit un vrai « combat titanesque ».
BEYOND THE GAME présente les vies de ces deux joueurs d’élite, vedettes et exemples de leurs congénères, en route pour leur duel final – des concurrents qui
entrent en lice comme les bandits armés d’un western hypermoderne.
Holland Film
Sales: Films Transit
International
Ph: +1 514 844 3358
F: +1 514 844 7298
[email protected]
www.filmstransit.com
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DOCUMENTARIES
BLOODY MONDAYS & STRAWBERRY PIES
Coco Schrijber
87’ / video / colour
Original title: BLOODY MONDAYS
& STRAWBERRY PIES
Prod: Bonanza Films
Co-prod: IKON
Sc: Coco Schrijber
D.O.P.: Martijn van Broekhuizen
Completed: October 2008
Language: Dutch/English/
French/Arabic (English subtitles)
Coco Schrijber:
Second feature length documentary.
WONDERFUL WORLD (2004, short
doc) Awards: a.o. Best Director
Granada FF, Special Award Best
Documentary Brussels FF, Award
for the entire production San
A film about boredom and the lost skill of being idle and loafing around.
Francisco Golden Gate
Documentary and Fiction
The intriguing emotion boredom forces us to consider why we live the way we do. Festival, Jury Award Houston
Beauty, love, work... sometimes things just aren’t worth getting out of bed for. Worldfest Int. FF, Films4lives
Award at Document 4 Int.
Using a mix of characters that include a Wall Street stockbroker, a 95-year old
Human Rights Documentary FF,
female spy and a desert nomad, this film offers profound boredom as a soluFIRST KILL (2001, doc) Awards:
Press Award Netherlands FF, NOT
tion to the emptiness of our existence. As Nietzsche said: He who entrenches
BIG ENOUGH (1997, short doc),
himself against boredom entrenches himself against himself.
LUNCH IN BUDAPEST (1996, short
The voice-over of the universally bored human being is performed by John
doc), AN ORDINARY FAMILY (1996,
Malkovich.
short doc), IN MOTION (1994,
short doc).
Un film sur l’ennui et le talent perdu d’être oisif et de fainéanter.
L’ennui, ce sentiment fascinant, nous oblige à réfléchir sur notre vie.
La beauté, l’amour, le travail… parfois, rien ne vaut la peine de se lever.
Par divers personnages, parmi lesquels un agent de change de Wall Street, une
espionne de 95 ans et un nomade du désert, ce film propose l’ennui comme
une solution au vide de notre existence. Comme disait Nietzsche : Qui se
préserve de l’ennui se préserve de lui-même.
Le commentaire off de l’être humain universellement en proie à l’ennui est
interprété par John Malkovich.
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Bonanza Films
Ph: +31 20 626 3801
F: +31 20 627 0695
[email protected]
www.bonanza.nl
Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
BORIS RYZHY
Aliona van der Horst
59’ / video / colour
Original title: BORIS RYZHY
Prod: Zeppers Film & TV
Co-prod: VPRO
Sc: Aliona van der Horst
D.O.P.: Maasja Ooms, Aliona van
der Horst
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008/
Silver Wolf Competition
Language: Russian (English subtitles)
Aliona van der Horst:
a.o. VOICES OF BAM (2006, doc, codirected by Maasja Ooms),
RELIEVED (2004, short doc), THE
HERMITAGE DWELLERS (2003, doc),
AFTER THE SPRING OF ‘68, A STORY
ABOUT LOVE (2001, short doc).
A film about poetry, the Russian mafia, suicide, love, and the Perestroika years.
Why did the acclaimed Russian poet Boris Ryzhy take his own life at the tender
age of 26? The director’s quest to answer this question takes her to the notorious industrial city of Yekaterinenburg, where Boris grew up. Through interviews with neighbours, family and friends she pieces together a picture of the
poet’s complex life. What emerges is a haunting film – with a smattering of
tragi-comic moments – about Boris’ love for life. Through his poems, pain is
transformed into grace.
Sales: NPO / RNW Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3561
F: +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
Un film sur la poésie, la maffia russe, l’amour et les années de la perestroïka.
Pourquoi le poète russe reconnu Boris Ryzhy s’est-il suicidé à seulement 26
ans ? La recherche d’une réponse à cette question conduit la réalisatrice dans
la métropole industrielle d’Iekaterinbourg, où grandit Boris. En interviewant
ses voisins, sa famille et ses amis, elle reconstitue une image de la vie compliquée du poète. Cela aboutit à un film obsédant - avec quelques passages
tragi-comiques – sur l’amour que Boris avait pour la vie. À travers ses poèmes,
la douleur se métamorphose en grâce.
Holland Film
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DOCUMENTARIES
BRIDGING THE GAP
Corinne van Egeraat
84’ / video / colour
Original title: BRIDGING THE GAP
Prod: IJswater Films
Co-prod: Humanist Broadcasting
Foundation
Sc: Corinne van Egeraat
D.O.P.: Hans Bouma
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Dutch/French/English
(English subtitles)
Corinne van Egeraat:
Second feature length documentary.
SPEEDING ON THE VIRTUAL HIGHWAY
(2007, doc), LORD OF THE JUNGLE
(2000, short doc), COWBOYS IN
KOSOVO (2004, short doc).
An idealistic and ambitious young Dutchman is thrown headlong into the com- Sales: NPO / RNW Sales
plex African aid industry.
Ph: +31 35 677 3561
F: +31 35 677 5318
Daniel has been selected for a demanding UN training assignment, fighting
[email protected]
poverty and preserving the rain-forest of Cameroon. His project deals with nat- www.nposales.com
ural products, such as fruits, nuts and honey, for which there is a huge market,
but no laws to control the trade. The resource that could provide an income
for thousands of poor forest inhabitants is now a source of conflicting interests
and corruption.
How will Daniel’s idealism survive this confrontation with stark reality?
Un jeune Néerlandais idéaliste et ambitieux est parachuté précipitamment
dans la complexe industrie humanitaire africaine.
Daniel a été sélectionné pour un stage exigeant aux Nations Unies, pour combattre la pauvreté et protéger la forêt tropicale camerounaise. Son projet concerne les produits naturels, comme les fruits, les noix et le miel. Le marché est
gigantesque, mais aucune loi ne contrôle le commerce. Les ressources qui pourraient faire vivre des milliers d’habitants pauvres des forêts sont maintenant
une source d’intérêts antagoniques et de corruption.
Comment l’idéalisme de Daniel survivra-t-il à cette confrontation à la réalité
brutale ?
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Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
CALLING E.T.
Prosper de Roos
70’ / video / colour
Original title: CALLING E.T.
Prod: Zeppers Film & TV, PLU
Films
Sc: Prosper de Roos
D.O.P.: Rob Hodselmans
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: English/Italian/
Dutch/Russian (English subtitles)
How would we present ourselves if we were to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? Would we speak as one world?
Just imagine that we were to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.
Now, in our lifetime! There is a small group of people who are seriously considering this unlikely scenario. Their daily life is spent looking for signals from
extraterrestrial civilisations and wondering how we, earthlings, should present
ourselves if we were to make real contact. There is a protocol for the big
moment - the decision to speak as one world. But can we manage to do that?
Prosper de Roos:
First feature length documentary.
POSTCARDS FROM THE CONTINENT
(2006, short doc), M THE FONTGIBU
& THE PLUM PUDDING (2005, short),
FUNNY FARMS (2004, short doc),
25/01/95 (2003, short doc), X
(2002, short doc), A NIGHT WITH
MICHAEL (1998, short doc).
Zeppers Film & TV
Ph: +31 20 675 8594
F: +31 20 679 3929
[email protected]
www.zeppers.nl
Comment nous présenterions-nous si nous entrions en contact avec une intelligence extraterrestre ? Nous exprimerions-nous comme un seul monde ?
Imaginez que nous entrions en contact avec une intelligence extraterrestre.
Aujourd’hui, de notre vivant ! Un petit groupe d’individus envisagent sérieusement ce scénario improbable. Ils passent leurs journées à guetter des signaux
de civilisations extraterrestres et à se demander comment nous, les terriens,
nous devrions nous présenter si nous établissions réellement le contact. Il y a
un protocole pour le grand moment – la décision de nous exprimer comme un
seul monde. Mais en sommes-nous capables ?
Holland Film
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DOCUMENTARIES
CARMEN MEETS BORAT
Mercedes Stalenhoef
85’ / video / colour
Original title: CARMEN MEETS
BORAT
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film
(NL)
Co-prod: IKON (NL), BBC (GB),
YLE (FI), SBS (AU), Sub Cult Ura
(RO)
Sc: Mercedes Stalenhoef
D.O.P.: Erik van Empel
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008/Joris
Ivens Competition
Language: Rumanian (English
subtitles)
How a Romanian gypsy girl and her village changed after the arrival of ‘Borat’
Mercedes Stalenhoef:
Second feature length documentary.
I NEVER WANT TO BE FAMOUS (2005,
doc) Awards: Golden Calf as
Special Jury Award Netherlands
FF, nominated for Prix Italia and
Prix Europa.
CARMEN MEETS BORAT is a film about a small cog in a big wheel. A gypsy village is
suddenly confronted with a massive dilemma after its inhabitants are portrayed as the backward people from Kazhakstan in the film BORAT. Carmen sees
how the village, and the people around her, change irrevocably - and knows
Pieter Van Huystee Film
her future is set to alter dramatically as well. A hilarious film with very serious Ph: +31 20 421 0606
undertones.
F: +31 20 638 6255
[email protected]
Le bouleversement provoqué par l’arrivée de « Borat » dans la vie d’une
www.pvhfilm.nl
Tzigane roumaine et de son village.
CARMEN MEETS BORAT est un film sur un petit rouage d’une grande machine. Un
village tzigane est soudain face à un dilemme énorme après que le film BORAT
a dépeint ses villageois comme les habitants attardés du Kazakhstan. Carmen
voit comment le village, et son entourage, se transforment irrévocablement –
et elle sait que son avenir va aussi changer radicalement. Un film hilarant, avec
des accents très sérieux en profondeur.
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Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
CHECKPOINT DREAMYOURTOPIA
Peter Wingender
90’ / video / colour
Original title: CHECKPOINT
DREAMYOURTOPIA
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV
Drama, Armada Productions,
Screentime Entertainment
Sc: Peter Wingender
D.O.P.: Agnes de Ruijter
Completed: Spring 2009
Language: English/Dutch
(English subtitles)
Peter Wingender:
First feature length documentary.
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Ph: +31 20 666 1892
F: +31 20 346 3748
The discovery of DADARA’S American Dream at the 2008 Burning Man Festival. [email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
What does it mean to be alive in 2008 AD? DADARA provokes the ‘Burners’ by
forcing them to go through the whole procedure of crossing a border. Line up,
fill out the immigration forms, don’t speak or smoke. Go through the interrogation room, where officers are nasty and can be bribed with dream dollars.
You can’t make it into dreamland without a passport and a visa... is this just a
‘default world’?
La découverte du Rêve Américain de DADARA au Festival de l’Homme Brûlant
2008.
Que signifie vivre en l’an 2008 de notre ère ? DADARA provoque les « Brûleurs
» en les contraignant à se soumettre à la procédure du passage d’une
frontière : faire la queue, remplir le dossier d’immigration, interdiction de parler et de fumer. Passer par la salle des interrogatoires où les fonctionnaires
sont malfaisants et peuvent être soudoyés avec des dollars imaginaires.
Impossible d’entrer dans le pays de rêve sans passeport ni visa… est-ce uniquement un « monde par défaut » ?
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DOCUMENTARIES
CONTRACT HOTELS-DJANGAN LOEPAH!
(DON’T FORGET)
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
80’ / video / colour and b&w
Original title:
CONTRACTPENSIONS-DJANGAN
LOEPAH! (NIET VERGETEN)
Prod: Scarabeefilmproducties
Nederland
Sc: Hetty Naaijkens-Retel
Helmrich, Jasper Naaijkens
D.O.P.: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
Hetty Naaijkens-Retel
Helmrich:
First feature length documentary.
After the war, 300.000 Indonesians were repatriated to the Netherlands and
placed in foul boarding houses - an unpleasant and unforgettable experience.
Scarabeefilmproducties
Nederland
Ph: +31 13 530 0276
The Dutch considered people “from the tropics” dirty, assuming they had come F: +31 13 530 0277
straight from the jungle. “You must be glad to finally live in a brick house,”
[email protected]
one of the newcomers was told, to his dismay. They also received insulting les- www.scarabeefilms.com
sons in personal hygiene – “as if I don’t know how to brush my teeth!.” The
filmmaker interviews many of these repatriates about their unpleasant introduction to Dutch life, and to the residents who witnessed their arrival. Archive
footage underlines the stories.
Après la guerre, 300 000 Indonésiens ont été rapatriés aux Pays-Bas et installés
dans des pensions sordides – une expérience désagréable et inoubliable.
Les Néerlandais considéraient les arrivants des tropiques comme malpropres,
s’imaginant qu’ils sortaient de la jungle. Un nouveau venu fut indigné d’entendre : « Vous devez être content d’habiter enfin dans une maison en briques. »
Ils reçurent aussi des cours d’hygiène - « comme si je ne savais pas me laver les
dents ! » Le réalisateur interviewe de nombreux rapatriés sur leur introduction
à la vie néerlandaise, et aux autochtones qui assistèrent à leur arrivée. Des
métrages d’archives soulignent les récits.
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DOCUMENTARIES
CRIPS
Joost van der Valk
80’ / video / colour
Original title: CRIPS
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film
D.O.P.: Joost van der Valk,
Marco Nauta
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch/Sranantongo
(Surinamese)/English (English
subtitles)
Joost van der Valk:
First feature length documentary.
a.o. HAAGSE SJONNIE (2006, short
doc), SKIING AS RELIGION (2003,
video diary).
A documentary about the Crips, a violent Dutch gang living in The Hague.
The members of the notorious Crips gang, mainly Surinam men, make a living
out of armed robbery but seek salvation through rap music. The film shows
their culture of violence, brotherhood and loyalty but also reveals the sensitive
side of men whose love for their families is paramount. This is expressed
through their wish - and struggle - to beat crime with rhyme.
Pieter van Huystee Film
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
F: +31 20 638 6255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
Un documentaire sur les Crips, un gang néerlandais violent vivant à La Haye.
Les membres du gang notoire des Crips, principalement des Surinamiens,
vivent de vols à main armée mais cherchent le salut par le rap. Le film montre
leur culture faite de violence, fraternité et loyauté, mais il révèle aussi le côté
sensible de ces hommes pour qui l’amour de leur famille est primordial. Cela
s’exprime par leur désir - et lutte - pour combattre le crime par le rythme.
Holland Film
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DOCUMENTARIES
DEW
Ben Jurna & Carrien Dijkstra
72’ / video / colour
Original title: DAUW
Prod: Caraut AV Productions
Sc: Ben Jurna
D.O.P.: Carrien Dijkstra
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Ben Jurna & Carrien Dijkstra:
First feature length documentary.
Caraut AV Productions
Ph: +31 6 2292 5482
[email protected]
www.dauwdoc.nl
DEW is a film about art and its origins, and the maverick Dutch artist Marc
Mulders.
A controversial artist, Mulders reflects on the seasons in his paintings, but in
his photography and collages he gives an outlet – a countenance – to the clash
between spirituality and the fake reality of the TV world, or the ‘iconclash’ as
he calls it. DEW does not deal in narrative or linger on Mulder’s youth – it is
instead an exploration of his dilemmas, his craft and his place within the artistic tradition. It is therefore a film about engagement and intimacy.
DEW est un film sur l’art et ses origines, et sur l’artiste non-conformiste Marc
Mulders.
Mulders, un artiste controversiste, réfléchit aux saisons dans ses tableaux, mais
dans ses photographies et collages, il donne un exutoire – et son soutien - au
clash de la spiritualité et de la réalité factice de la télévision, ou « iconoclash »
selon son expression. DEW n’use pas de la narration et ne s’attarde pas sur sa
jeunesse – c’est plutôt une reconnaissance de ses dilemmes, de son métier et
de sa place dans la tradition artistique. C’est donc un film sur l’engagement et
l’intimité.
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Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
EPISODE 3 – ‘ENJOY POVERTY’
Renzo Martens
90’ / video / colour
Original title: EPISODE 3 ‘ENJOY POVERTY’
Prod: Renzo Martens Menselijke
Activiteiten (NL)
Co-prod: Inti Films (BE)
Sc: Renzo Martens
D.O.P.: Renzo Martens
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008/First
Appearance Competition
Language: French/English
(English subtitles)
Renzo Martens:
Second feature length
documentary.
EPISODE 1 (2003, doc).
Renzo Martens launches an emancipation project that helps the Congo’s poor
benefit from Africa’s most lucrative export: filmed poverty.
Using investigative journalism, satire and self-criticism, the ingeniously
provocative and surprising EPISODE 3 - ‘ENJOY POVERTY’ examines the emotional
and economic value of Africa’s fastest growing and most lucrative export product: filmed and photographed poverty. Over two years Martens undertakes an
epic journey to reveal the systems and structures that inevitably keep Africa
poor. Deep in the interiors of Congo he launches an emancipatory program
designed to help the poor benefit from ‘their’ poverty.
Renzo Martens Menselijke
Activiteiten
Ph: +32 476 608093
[email protected]
www.intifilms.com
Renzo Martens lance un projet émancipateur d’aide aux pauvres Congolais
pour profiter de leur produit d’exportation le plus lucratif : la pauvreté filmée.
Par le journalisme d’investigation, la satire et l’autocritique, le provocateur et
surprenant EPISODE 3 - ‘ENJOY POVERTY’ étudie la valeur émotive et économique
du produit d’exportation africain à la croissance la plus rapide et le plus
lucratif : la pauvreté en image. Pendant deux ans, Martens a entrepris un voyage épique pour dévoiler le système qui perpétue la pauvreté de l’Afrique. Au
fin fond du Congo, il lance un programme émancipateur conçu pour aider les
pauvres à bénéficier de « leur » pauvreté.
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE FARMER WHO WANTED TO EMIGRATE...
Geertjan Lassche
85’ / video / colour
Original title: DE BOER DIE ZOU
GAAN EMIGREREN...
Prod: EO, Netwerk, Geertjan
Lassche
Sc: Geertjan Lassche
D.O.P.: Menno Mennes
Completed: IDFA NOV 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Geertjan Lassche:
First feature length documentary.
An old and traditional dairy farmer is so sick of the rigid agricultural regulations in the Netherlands that he decides to emigrate to France.
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A traditional Dutch dairy farmer decides, at the end of his life, to emigrate to
France to escape the Netherlands’ rigid agricultural regulations. He takes with
him all his livestock, his blind farm-hand and his new girlfriend. Although his
planned emigration seems doomed to failure, tension mounts right up to the
end. Will he go or won’t he? A hilarious, dramatic and moving portrait of one
of the last free-thinking farmers within today’s Netherlands.
Un vieil éleveur traditionnel de vaches laitières est tellement lassé par les
règles rigides aux Pays-Bas qu’il décide d’émigrer en France.
À la fin de sa vie, un éleveur néerlandais traditionnel décide d’émigrer en
France pour fuir les règles agricoles néerlandaises rigides. Il emporte tout son
bétail, son ouvrier agricole aveugle et sa nouvelle petite amie. Quoique son
projet d’émigration semble voué à l’échec, la tension monte jusqu’à la fin.
Partira-t-il ou non ? Un portait hilarant, dramatique et émouvant de l’un des
derniers éleveurs libres penseurs des Pays-Bas actuels.
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DOCUMENTARIES
FEAR
Michiel van Erp
90’ / video / colour
Original title: ANGST
Prod: De Familie
Co-prod: NPS
Sc: René van ’t Erve
D.O.P.: Jelle Odé
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Michiel van Erp:
a.o. FUNFAIR BEHIND THE DIKES
(2006, doc), PRINCE OF HEARTS
(2003, doc).
A collage of characters try to overcome their personal anxiety disorders in the
crowded city of Amsterdam.
De Familie
Ph: +31 20 663 3303
F: +31 20 468 8008
[email protected]
www.defamilie.net
Today, more patients with anxiety disorders seek professional help than those
who suffer from depression, making anxiety the number one mental illness in
the Netherlands. This film will show how a small number of those patients
attempt to overcome their fears, in order to get on with their lives in the cosmopolitan city that is today’s Amsterdam.
Un collage de personnages qui s’efforcent de surmonter leurs névroses d’angoisse personnelle dans la foule de la ville d’Amsterdam.
Aujourd’hui, un plus grand nombre de patients souffrant de névroses d’angoisse consultent des professionnels que de malades dépressifs, ce qui fait de
l’angoisse la maladie mentale principale aux Pays-Bas. Ce film montre comment un petit nombre de patients tentent de surmonter leurs angoisses afin
de reprendre le fil de leur vie dans la ville cosmopolite qu’est actuellement
Amsterdam.
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DOCUMENTARIES
FORGOTTEN SPACE
Allan Sekula & Noël Burch
90’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: FORGOTTEN SPACE
Prod: Doc.Eye Film (NL)
Co-prod: WILDart Film (AT)
Sc: Allan Sekula, Noël Burch
D.O.P.: Wolfgang Thaler
Completed: September 2009
Language: English/Dutch/
Spanish (English subtitles)
How cargo containers changed the world into a global economy.
Allan Sekula and Noël Burch explore the sea, the ‘forgotten space’ which
forms the arena for the globalisation of freight transport and labour. The film
is a visual and analytical essay about the triumphal progress of container-transport logistics and the way in which it influences local communities, workers,
farmers and consumers.
The documentary moves between four ports and their hinterlands: Rotterdam,
Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Bilbao, and follows the containers’ journey to
inland factories in China, and to distribution centres all over the world.
Allan Sekula:
a.o. LOTTERY OF THE SEA (2006,
doc), GALA (2005, short doc),
TSUKIJI (2001, short doc).
Noël Burch:
a.o. MACHOS AND MATRIARCHS
(1998, short doc), SENTIMENTAL
JOURNEY (1994, doc), ONE WAY
TICKET (1993, feature), NOVICAT
(1965, short).
Doc.Eye Film
Ph: +31 20 686 5687
F: +31 20 686 7413
[email protected]
www.doceyefilm.nl
Comment les conteneurs de fret ont transformé le monde en économie mondiale.
Allan Sekula et Noël Burch explorent la mer, cet « espace oublié » qui constitue
l’arène de la mondialisation du transport du fret et du travail. Ce film est un
essai analytique sur la révolution logistique du transport en conteneurs et sur
son influence sur les communautés, travailleurs, agriculteurs et consommateurs
locaux.
Le documentaire navigue entre quatre ports et leurs arrière-pays : Rotterdam,
Los Angeles, Hong-Kong et Bilbao. Il suit les conteneurs dans les usines chinoises et les centres de distribution mondiaux.
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE GIRL THAT NO LONGER WANTS TO STAY
Saskia Vredeveld
80’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: HET
MEISJE DAT
NIET MEER WIL LOGEREN
Prod: Zeppers Film & TV
Sc: Saskia Vredeveld
D.O.P.: Melle van Essen
Completed: November 2009
Language: South African
(English subtitles)
The dreams of children to escape the dull, everyday reality of the South
African townships, if only for a moment.
South Africa has experienced democracy for nearly ten years but still more
than sixty percent of the population live in slums. Crime flourishes here. There
is hardly any talk of community spirit. Everyone steals from everyone and people barricade themselves into their poor, miserable, shabby properties.
The dreams of children become a metaphor for the future of a country that is
trying to pull itself out of a quagmire of poverty, violence, drunkenness and
Aids.
Saskia Vredeveld:
Second feature length documentary.
a.o.TABACCO ROAD (2006, short
doc), SELF PORTRAIT, ROGER BALLEN
(2002, short doc), BIJLMER BLUES
(2002, short doc), OUT OF EDEN
(2001, doc), OVER THE EDGE (1999,
short doc), LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL
WORLD (1997, short doc), NEVER
AGAIN (1993, short doc), HOMESICK
OF SOUTH AFRICA (1988, short doc).
Zeppers Film & TV
Ph: +31 20 675 8594
F: +31 20 679 3929
[email protected]
www.zeppers.nl
Les rêves d’enfants d’échapper, ne serait-ce qu’un instant, à la morne réalité
quotidienne des banlieues noires d’Afrique du Sud.
L’Afrique du Sud fait l’expérience de la démocratie depuis plus de dix ans, mais
plus de soixante pour cent de la population vit encore dans des bidonvilles où
la criminalité prospère. La solidarité y est quasiment inexistante, tout le monde
se vole, les gens se barricadent chez eux dans leurs cabanes misérables.
Les rêves des enfants deviennent une métaphore de l’avenir d’un pays qui s’efforce de s’extraire du bourbier de la misère, de la violence, de l’alcoolisme et
du sida.
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DOCUMENTARIES
HOME RECORDINGS
Mari Soppela
75‘ / video / colour
Original title: HOME RECORDINGS
Prod: LPMA Productions (NL),
Neon Media (NL), Vega Film (CH)
Co-prod: SF Schweizer
Fernsehen (CH), YLE Co-productions (FI)
Sc: Mari Soppela
D.O.P.: Ruzbeh Babol
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Dutch/English/Finnish
(English subtitles)
An intimate documentary about a marriage that is about to be tested.
Filmmaker Mari is forty, and Finnish, and married to composer Leo - Dutch and
ten years her senior. Both are home-based freelancers who lead an outwardly
settled life with their children in Amsterdam. One moment they’re running the
household, raising the kids, the next doing their creative work or the little
things we all do to maintain relationships.
One day, however, things begin to unwind and they find themselves entering
the twilight zone of zero tolerance.
Mari Soppela:
Second feature length documentary.
FAMILY FILES (2002, doc) Awards:
Best Nordic Documentary
Nordisk Panorama, Main Prize
Tampere Int. FF.
LPMA Productions
Ph: +31 20 880 1128
F: +31 20 880 1128
[email protected]
www.lpma.nl
Un documentaire intime sur un mariage qui va être mis à l’épreuve.
La cinéaste quadragénaire finlandaise Mari est mariée au compositeur Leo : un
Néerlandais de dix ans son aîné. Ce sont tous deux des travailleurs indépendants à domicile qui mènent apparemment une vie stable avec leurs enfants, à
Amsterdam. Ils alternent les soins du ménage et l’éducation de leurs enfants
avec leurs travaux créatifs et les petites attentions habituelles pour entretenir
les liens.
Cependant, un jour, la situation se détend et ils se retrouvent dans la zone
floue de la tolérance zéro.
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DOCUMENTARIES
IN THE HOLY FIRE OF REVOLUTION
Masha Novikova
113’ / video / colour
Original title: IN
HET HEILIGE
VUUR VAN REVOLUTIE
Prod: NOVDOC, VPRO
Sc: Masha Novikova
D.O.P.: a.o. Andrei Pitinov, Igor
Minakov
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Russian (English subtitles)
A unique insight into Russian opposition to Putin’s regime.
What is it like to be opposed to the current Russian regime? It is not so obvious who is who, and who belongs to which party. The people do not trust you,
the regime persecutes you and your fellow comrades betray you. The passersby in the streets of Moscow do not have the first idea why you are demonstrating. Nobody needs your so called revolution. Why would you want to
burn in the holy fire?
Masha Novikova:
a.o. ANNA, SEVEN YEARS ON THE
FRONTLINE (2008, doc), IN MEMORANDUM: ALEKSANDR LITVINENKO
(2007, doc, co-directed with Jos
de Putter), BETWEEN HEAVEN AND
EARTH (2007, doc, co-directed
with Frank van den Engel), THREE
COMRADES (2006, doc).
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Un regard unique sur l’opposition russe au régime de Poutine.
Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire d’être opposé au régime russe actuel ? On a du
mal à distinguer qui est qui, et qui appartient à quel parti. Les gens se méfient
de vous, le régime vous persécute et vos camarades vous trahissent. Dans les
rues de Moscou, les passants n’ont aucune idée que vous êtes en train de manifester. Personne ne veut de votre soi-disant révolution. Pourquoi voudriezvous donc brûler dans le feu sacré ?
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF
Jan Louter
93’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: THE LAST DAYS
SHISHMAREF
Prod: Miroir Film
Co-prod: LLiNK
Sc: Jan Louter
D.O.P.: Melle van Essen
Completed: September 2008
Language: English/Inupiaq
(English subtitles)
A community faces extinction in the face of global warming.
A documentary about the first actual victims of global warming, the inhabitants of the Alaskan island of Shishmaref. Each year, winter storms batter the
island, depositing great tracts of land into the ocean. It is predicted that in ten
years time the island will have disappeared completely. The resident Inupiaq
community is facing a forced move to the mainland.
The film will follow their concrete and irreversible drama and address the universal themes of identity and transcendence.
OF
Jan Louter:
a.o. THE MOVE, 15 YEARS ON (2007,
doc), LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (2004,
doc), A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND
(2001, doc) Awards: Special
Mention International
Documentary AFI Int. FF, HET
DEBUUT (1999, doc), THEY
DESTROYED ALL THE ROSES (1997,
doc), DE VERHUIZING (1992, doc).
Miroir Film
Ph: +31 10 465 1778
F: +31 10 465 1778
[email protected]
Une communauté est en voie de disparition face au réchauffement planétaire.
Un documentaire sur les premières victimes concrètes du réchauffement planétaire, les habitants de l’île de Shishmaref, en Alaska. Chaque année, les tempêtes hivernales s’abattent sur l’île, déposant d’immenses pans de terre dans
l’océan. On prévoit que d’ici dix ans, l’île aura totalement disparu. La communauté des Inupiaks, qui y habite, sera forcée de déménager sur le continent.
Le film suivra leur drame concret et irréversible, et abordera les thèmes universels de l’identité et de la transcendance.
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Holland Film
DOCUMENTARIES
LEYLA AND MECNUN ABROAD
Zeynep Özkaya
76’ / video / colour
Original title: LEYLA
EN
MECNUN
IN DEN VREEMDE
Prod: Xeynia Productions
Co-prod: Nederlandse Moslim
Omroep NMO
Sc: Zeynep Özkaya
D.O.P.: Zeynep Özkaya
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Turkish (English subtitles)
Zeynep Özkaya:
First feature length documentary.
HILAL’S HAIR (2005, short doc)
A film about my mother’s everlasting love for my father and the consequences
of their migration from Turkey to the Netherlands.
Xeynia Productions
Ph: +31 6 2110 4522
[email protected]
While visiting the village where my mother and father were born, I found a
stack of old letters that contained love songs written from each to the other.
These letters and songs reveal their passionate love, played out between
Turkey and the Netherlands. Until now, there were many gaps in this story
which I, as the youngest born, could not fill in…
Un film sur l’amour infini de ma mère pour mon père, et les conséquences de
leur émigration de Turquie aux Pays-Bas.
Lors de ma visite dans le village natal de ma mère et de mon père, j’ai trouvé
un tas de vieilles lettres avec des chansons d’amour qu’ils s’écrivaient mutuellement. Ces lettres et chansons révèlent leur amour passionné qui s’exprimait
entre la Turquie et les Pays-Bas. Jusqu’ici, leur histoire comportait de nombreuses lacunes que je ne pouvais pas combler, vu que je suis leur dernière
née…
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS
Janine Bakker
87’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: DE ROZE WOLK
Prod: Paul de Bont Producties
Sc: Janine Bakker
D.O.P.: Fried-Jan van den
Eerenbeemt
Completed: September 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Janine Bakker:
First feature length documentary.
UNWANTED PARENTS (2003, short
doc), DREAM CASTLES (2002, short
doc).
A lesbian and a gay couple decide to have a baby together and to share the
upbringing.
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The film starts with their desire to become parents and follows them during
the pregnancy, the birth and their first months as parents. It shows their struggle when they encounter Iris, the child’s biological mother, who feels unsure
about sharing the baby, and reveals Patrick’s sense of isolation when all the
attention is focused on the pregnancy.
Un couple de lesbiennes et d’homosexuels décide d’avoir un enfant et de
l’élever ensemble.
Le film commence par leur désir d’être parents et les suit pendant la grossesse,
l’accouchement et les premiers mois de parentalité. Il montre leurs difficultés
quand ils rencontrent Iris, la mère biologique, qui n’est pas sûre de vouloir
partager le bébé, et il révèle le sentiment d’isolement de Patrick quand toute
l’attention se concentre sur la grossesse.
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE NEW RIJKSMUSEUM
Oeke Hoogendijk
110’ / video / colour
Original title: HET NIEUWE
RIJKSMUSEUM
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film
Sc: Oeke Hoogendijk
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Dutch/English/
Spanish (English subtitles)
Oeke Hoogendijk:
Second feature length documentary.
THE HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE (2002,
short doc), THE SAVED (1998, doc)
A documentary about the fascinating and complicated process of rebuilding
Holland’s most famous museum, the Rijksmuseum.
Pieter van Huystee Film
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
F: +31 20 638 6255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
THE NEW RIJKSMUSEUM shows the intense behind-the-scenes activity during the
museum’s demolition and restoration, and all of the political and financial
wrangling one associates with such an undertaking. We also witness the people involved with the project - their effort, their joy, their struggle, as well as
their love of art and an unwavering dedication to Holland’s most famous and
illustrious museum.
Un documentaire sur le processus fascinant et complexe de la reconstruction
du musée néerlandais le plus célèbre, le Rijksmuseum.
THE NEW RIJKSMUSEUM montre les activités intenses réalisées en coulisses pendant
la démolition et la restauration du musée, ainsi que toutes les querelles politiques et financières associées à une telle entreprise. Nous sommes aussi
témoin des intervenants sur ce projet : leurs efforts, leur satisfaction, leur combats ainsi que leur amour de l’art et leur dévouement absolu au musée le plus
célèbre et illustre des Pays-Bas.
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DOCUMENTARIES
OBLIVION
Heddy Honigmann
93’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: EL OLVIDO
Prod: Cobos Films (NL)
Co-prod: IKON TV (NL), ZDF-ARTE
(DE)
Sc: Heddy Honigmann in collaboration with Judith Vreriks & Sonia
Goldenberg
D.O.P.: Adri Schrover
Completed: September 2008
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
Heddy Honigmann:
a.o. OBLIVION (2008, doc) Awards:
Silver Dove, Fipresci Prize and
Oecumenical Award Leipzig
Festival for Documentary &
Animated Films 2008, FOREVER
Heddy Honigmann’s long awaited return to Peru in a film about poverty and
(2006, doc), DAME LA MANO (2003,
poetry in a country plundered by the powerful. A film where the powerless
doc), GOOD HUSBAND, DEAR SON
resist being consigned to oblivion.
(2001, doc), PRIVATE (2000, doc),
CRAZY (1999, doc), 2 MINUTES OF
SILENCE, PLEASE (1998, doc), THE
OBLIVION takes us to the forgotten city of Lima and introduces us to its forgotten people. As we wander through the city streets, we visit old restaurants and UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA (1997,
small shops. We enter a few smart bars and sit down in plazas to watch and
doc), O AMOR NATURAL (1996, doc),
observe. We meet moving characters who use poetry, juggling, dreams and
METAL AND MELANCHOLY (1992, doc).
creativity to resist being consigned to oblivion by those who have sworn for
Her films received major awards
centuries that they love their people, but who in reality despise them.
and important retrospectives.
Le retour longtemps attendu d’Heddy Honigmann au Pérou dans un film sur la
pauvreté et la poésie dans un pays pillé par les puissants, où les impuissants
résistent à tomber dans l’oubli.
OBLIVION nous emmène dans la ville oubliée de Lima et nous présente ses habitants oubliés. En flânant, nous allons dans de vieux restaurants et des petites
boutiques. Nous entrons dans quelques bars chics et nous nous asseyons dans
des places pour observer. Nous rencontrons des personnages touchants utilisant la poésie, la jonglerie, les rêves et la créativité pour échapper à l’oubli
imposé par ceux qui jurent depuis des siècles qu’ils aiment leur peuple mais qui
le méprisent en réalité.
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International Inc.
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[email protected]
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DOCUMENTARIES
ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL
Orhan Eskikoy & Ozgur Dogan
90’ / video / colour
Original title: OP
WEG NAAR
SCHOOL
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film
(NL)
Co-prod: Perisan Film (TR)
Sc: Orhan Eskikoy
D.O.P.: Orhan Eskikoy
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008/Joris
Ivens Competition
Language: Kurdish/Turkish
(English subtitles)
One year in the life of a young Turkish teacher on his first job – teaching in a
Kurdish village.
A fly-on-the wall documentary shot mainly in the classroom. When Emre
arrives to teach in an impoverished Kurdish village, the total lack of running
water is the least of his problems. The children do not speak Turkish and he
cannot speak Kurdish. But despite bouts of frustration, anger and loneliness –
as well as feeling like a foreigner in his own country – Emre is determined to
accomplish his task, and accepts a little help from his mother along the way.
Orhan Eskikoy & Ozgur
Dogan:
First feature length documentary.
TOGETHER (2006, short doc),
SUFFERING (2004, short doc),
MOTHERS AND CHILDREN (2004,
short doc), EACH DREAM IS A
SHATTERED MIRROR (2001, short
doc).
Pieter van Huystee Film
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
F: +31 20 638 6255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
Un an de la vie d’un jeune enseignant turc lors de son premier poste dans un
village kurde.
Un documentaire dans le style de l’observateur caché, tourné principalement
dans la classe. Quand Emre arrive pour enseigner dans un pauvre village kurde,
l’absence totale d’eau courante est le moindre de ses soucis. Les enfants ne
parlent pas turc et il ignore le kurde. Mais malgré des périodes de frustration,
de colère et de solitude – comme le sentiment d’être un étranger dans son
pays – Emre est déterminé à accomplir sa tâche et, en chemin, il accepte l’aide
de sa mère.
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DOCUMENTARIES
OUTFOXED
Tijs Tinbergen
75’ / video / colour
Original title: ROTVOS!
Prod: Selfmade Films
Sc: Tijs Tinbergen
D.O.P.: Jan Musch
Completed: Summer 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Tijs Tinbergen:
First feature length documentary.
Selfmade Films
Ph: +31 20 305 8555
F: +31 20 305 8550
[email protected]
www.selfmadefilms.nl
Who determines the fate of the fox? Man or the fox itself?
When Holland banned fox-hunting in 2002, the wily canine seized its chance
and infiltrated new habitats. This led to consternation among farmers, but also
among many conservationists who, while initially enthusiastic, soon saw how
this predator threatened other protected species such as wading birds.
In 2006, the Dutch government gave way to pressure and legalised fox-hunting
again. So what does this mean? Is man deciding the fox’s fate or will its
instinct for survival prove stronger than people may suspect?
Qui décide du sort du renard ? L’homme ou le renard lui-même ?
Après l’interdiction de la chasse au renard aux Pays-Bas, en 2002, ce rusé en a
profité pour infiltrer de nouveaux habitats. Les éleveurs étaient consternés,
ainsi que de nombreux écologistes qui, malgré leur enthousiasme initial, ont
constaté que ce prédateur menaçait d'autres espèces protégées comme les
échassiers.
En 2006, le gouvernement néerlandais a cédé aux pressions et de nouveau
autorisé la chasse au renard. Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? L'homme décide-t-il
de son sort ou son instinct de survie est-il plus fort qu’on ne pense ?
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DOCUMENTARIES
PRISONERS OF THE GROUND
Stella van Vorst van Beest
80’ / video / colour
Original title: PRISONERS OF THE
GROUND
Prod: Volya Films
Sc: Stella van Vorst van Beest
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep
Completed: March 2009
Language: Finnish (English subtitles)
A film about surviving the dark and longing for the light, a film in the shape
of a Finnish Tango.
The lyrics of the Finnish Tango are the inspiration for this film, telling of the
desire to escape from dark and daily reality. On a journey through Finland we
are finally led out of a deep depression when light appears on the horizon –
we are taken from a black winter towards the promise of a light-filled paradise. The individual fantasies, memories and philosophies of each character in
the film help design a guide to living: a guide to surviving the dark.
Un film sur la survivance à l’obscurité et la soif de lumière, tourné sous la
forme d’un tango finlandais.
Stella van Vorst van Beest:
First feature length documentary.
GRENZELOOS KIJKEN (2004, short
doc), 4 SEASONS: LITHUANIA IN SUPER
8 (2003, short doc), PORK (2002,
short doc), WHEN THE NEIGHBOUR
SINGS (2002, short), IT’S NOT GONNA
WORK... (2000, short doc),
BUILDING BLOCKS (2000, short doc),
THE UMBRELLA FACTORY (1998,
short doc), MELANCHOLIA I (1994,
short doc), HOOK VAN HOLLANDMOSCOW (1993, short doc), TWO
SERIOUS MEN (1992, short doc).
Volya Films
Ph: +31 10 415 5621
F: +31 10 437 5934
[email protected]
www.volyafilms.com
Ce film s’inspire des paroles du tango finlandais, racontant le désir d’échapper
à la sombre réalité quotidienne. Parcourant la Finlande, nous finissons par être
tirés d’une profonde dépression lorsque la lumière apparaît à l’horizon – on
nous conduit hors d’un hiver noir vers la promesse d’un paradis inondé de
lumière. Les imaginations, souvenirs et philosophies individuels de chaque personnage contribuent à créer un guide de vie : un manuel pour survivre à l’obscurité.
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DOCUMENTARIES
REFLECTIONS
Dick Rijneke
72’ / video / colour
Original title: REFLECTIONS
Prod: Rotterdam Films
Sc: Mildred van Leeuwaarden
D.O.P.: Dick Rijneke
Completed: November 2008
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
Dick Rijneke:
THAT’S IT !!! (2005, doc), THE
BRIDGEKEEPER (1996, short doc),
PINKEL (1982, doc), GREETINGS FROM
ROTTERDAM (1980, short doc).
Funny encounters in and around the waterways of Europe.
Rotterdam Films
Ph: +31 10 465 8565
F: +31 10 465 8392
[email protected]
www.rotterdamfilms.com
In REFLECTIONS the curious Wik wanders through six European cities within the
Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and United Kingdom. While travelling he has all
sorts of unexpected, surprising and sometimes funny encounters in and around
the water.
Des rencontres curieuses à l’intérieur et autour des voies navigables d’Europe.
Dans REFLECTIONS, le curieux Wik se promène à travers six villes européennes aux
Pays-Bas, en Belgique, en Irlande et en Grande-Bretagne. Tout en voyageant, il
fait toutes sortes de rencontres inattendues, surprenantes et parfois amusantes
sur l’eau et près de l’eau.
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DOCUMENTARIES
RELIANCE – AN AFRICAN SAGA
Sarah Vos
75’ / video / colour
Original title: RELIANCE - AN
AFRICAN SAGA
Prod: Eyeworks Egmond Film
Sc: Sarah Vos
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep
Completed: May 2009
Language: English/Wolof
(English subtitles)
Three young Gambian bankers run a microfinance institute in the Gambia,
heralding the emergence of a new African business elite.
Running a microfinance bank in a third world country is not an easy job. It
requires high level management and skilled employees, rarely found in local
areas. Recently three young Gambian bankers in their twenties, who studied
economics in London and want to do good for their country, started up the
first microfinance institute in the Gambia. RELIANCE – AN AFRICAN SAGA tells the
story of this new upcoming African business elite from within.
Sarah Vos:
Second feature length documentary.
a.o. BIG BROTHER IN THE MIDDLE
EAST (2004, short doc) Awards:
Nipkow Award, WELCOME TO
HOLLAND - CAMPUS VUGHT (2003,
doc) Awards: Honourable
Mention Nipkow Award,
BLUHENDE LANDSCHAFTEN (2002,
short doc).
Eyeworks Egmond Film
Ph: +31 20 666 1892
F: +31 20 346 3748
[email protected]
www.eyeworks.tv
Trois jeunes banquiers gambiens dirigent un établissement de microcrédit en
Gambie, signe précurseur de l’émergence d’une nouvelle élite professionnelle
en Afrique.
Diriger une banque de microcrédit dans un pays du Tiers Monde n’est pas une
tâche aisée. Cela exige des compétences de gestion élevées et un personnel
qualifié, rarement disponibles au niveau local. Récemment, trois banquiers
gambiens d’une vingtaine d’années, qui ont fait des études d’économie à
Londres et veulent rendre service à leur pays, ont créé le premier établissement
de microcrédit de Gambie. RELIANCE – AN AFRICAN SAGA raconte, de l’intérieur,
l’histoire de la nouvelle élite commerciale montante d’Afrique.
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DOCUMENTARIES
REMEMBERING HOLLAND…
Jan Wouter van Reijen
90’ / video / colour
Original title: DENKEND AAN
HOLLAND…
Prod: Doc.Eye Film
Sc: Jan Wouter van Reijen, Jaap
van Hoekwijk
D.O.P.: Jan Wouter van Reijen
Completed: January 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Jan Wouter van Reijen:
a.o. GAGGED (2005, short),
DOMBURG (2005, short doc),
DREAM HOUSE (2004, doc), KINETIC
(2003, short), I HAVE TO SEE… I
HAVE TO SEE IT ALL (2001, doc),
CADENCE (1986, short doc), GOD IN
FRANCE (1976, short doc).
What does one see when looking at a river?
REMEMBERING HOLLAND… is a journey through the perception and imagination of
painters, poets and writers who re-create the River Waal into works of art.
Dealing with the countless different ways in which the river can be observed, it
focuses on the interaction between perception and creativity, showing how
artists use this process to express what is important to them in their work.
Instead of a narrative structure, it is the compression of images that gives the
film its strength and meaning.
Doc.Eye Film
Ph: +31 20 686 5687
F: +31 20 686 7413
[email protected]
www.doceyefilm.nl
Que voit-on quand on regarde un fleuve ?
REMEMBERING HOLLAND…est un voyage à travers la perception et l’imagination de
peintres, poètes et écrivains qui recréent le Waal dans des œuvres d’art.
Traitant des innombrables façons d’observer le fleuve, il se concentre sur l’interaction de la perception et de la créativité, montrant comment les artistes
exploitent ce processus pour exprimer ce qui est important pour eux dans leur
œuvre.
Au lieu d’une structure narrative, c’est la concentration des images qui donne
au film sa force et son sens.
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DOCUMENTARIES
SWEETY, THE FRIENDS, BETRAYAL AND
MURDER OF MAJA BRADARIC
Menna Laura Meijer
92’ / video / colour
Original title: SWEETY,
THE
FRIENDS, BETRAYAL AND MURDER OF
MAJA BRADARIC
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film,
Mint Film
Co-prod: BNN
Sc: Menna Laura Meijer
D.O.P.: Bert Haitsma
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Close friends of the murdered Maja Bradaric ask how this crime could have
happened before their eyes.
In November 2003, at the age of sixteen, Maja Bradaric was murdered by her
best friends. In this film these same friends ask themselves how this was
allowed to happen. SWEETY, THE FRIENDS, BETRAYAL AND MURDER OF MAJA BRADARIC is a
documentary about the intense dynamics within that group of young people,
where much more was going on than they could ever understood…
Des amis proches de Maja Bradaric, victime d’un meurtre, se demandent comment ce crime a pu arriver sous leurs yeux.
Menna Laura Meijer:
First feature length documentary.
SEXY (2007, short doc), BOYS
(2005, short doc), REAL MEN
(2004, short doc), GIRLS (2003,
short doc), BEFORE I DIE (2002,
short doc), TAGS (1993, short
doc).
Pieter van Huystee Film
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
F: +31 20 638 6255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
En novembre 2003, Maja Bradaric, âgée de seize ans, a été tuée par ses
meilleurs amis. Dans ce film, ces mêmes amis se demandent comment cela a pu
arriver. SWEETY, THE FRIENDS, BETRAYAL AND MURDER OF MAJA BRADARIC est un documentaire sur la dynamique intense au sein de ce groupe de jeunes, où il se passait bien plus de choses qu’ils n’auraient jamais pu comprendre…
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DOCUMENTARIES
TIENGEMETEN 1996-2009
(working title)
Digna Sinke
90’ / video / colour
Original title: TIENGEMETEN
1996-2009 (working title)
Prod: SNG Film
Sc: Digna Sinke
D.O.P.: Jan Wich, Goert Giltaij
Completed: October 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Digna Sinke:
a.o. Atlantis (2008, feature),
TIENGEMETEN 2001-2006 (2006,
doc), BROSSA (2005, doc),
TIENGEMETEN PART 1 (2001, doc),
BELLE VAN ZUYLEN/MADAME DE CHARRIÈRE (1995, feature) Awards:
Main prize Mannheim/Heidelberg Int. FF.
On the island of Tiengemeten wild nature has been allowed to flourish.
The island of Tiengemeten was once reclaimed from the sea and reshaped to
provide fertile agricultural land. In the 1990s a decision was made to let the
vagaries of nature loose on the island.
The remodelling process began in 2006. Asphalt roads were removed, creeks
were dug, trees were excavated, new trees were planted and dikes were
heightened or levelled. The film shows the changing landscape.
SNG Film
Ph: +31 20 686 7837
F: +31 20 682 4367
[email protected]
www.sngfilm.nl
Sur l’île de Tiengemeten, on a permis à la nature sauvage de prospérer.
L’île de Tiengemeten a jadis été conquise sur la mer et réaménagée pour
fournir des terres agricoles fertiles. Dans les années 1990, on a décidé de laisser
toute latitude aux caprices de la nature sur l’île. Le processus de réaménagement a débuté en 2006. On a supprimé des routes asphaltées, creusé des
criques, déterré des arbres ; on a planté de nouveaux arbres et rehaussé ou
nivelé des digues. Le film montre l’évolution du paysage.
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DOCUMENTARIES
TRANSIT DUBAI
Ineke Smits
72’ / video / colour
Original title: TRANSIT DUBAI
Prod: Volya Films
Co-prod: NPS
Sc: Ineke Smits
D.O.P.: Edwin Verstegen, Melle
van Essen
Completed: IDFA Nov 2008
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
Who lives in Dubai? We find out through the eyes of four photography students.
In the heart of the Middle East a new modern city, Dubai, is growing rapidly.
Although Sheik Mohammed’s brain-child has not evolved from the express
needs of its inhabitants, no city can originate and exist without citizens.
Through snapshots of the lives of many residents the film goes beyond the
city’s shiny façade, and we gradually discover that Dubai is nothing other than
an optical illusion, one completely devoid of any homely sense.
Qui vit à Dubaï ? Nous le découvrons à travers les yeux de quatre étudiants en
photographie.
Au cœur du Moyen-Orient, une nouvelle ville moderne, Dubaï, se développe
rapidement. Bien que le projet conçu par le Cheikh Mohammed n’ait pas
émané des besoins explicites des citadins, une ville ne peut jamais naître et
exister sans habitants. À travers des aperçus de la vie de nombreux habitants,
le film va au-delà de la façade brillante de la ville et nous découvrons petit à
petit que Dubaï n’est qu’une illusion d’optique, totalement dépourvue de tout
sens de la convivialité.
Holland Film
Ineke Smits:
First feature length documentary.
a.o. THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK (2009,
feature), BLACK GOLD UNDER
NOTECKA FOREST (2005, short doc),
PUTIN’S MAMA (2003, short doc)
Awards: Best Dutch
Documentary in National
Programme HotDocs Int. FF,
Special Jury Mention Zagreb Int.
FF, MAGONIA (2001, feature)
Awards: Golden Tulip Istanbul
Int. FF, NOSTALGIA (1999, short
doc, co-directed by Tato
Kotetishvili) Awards: Grand
Prize Taiwan Int. Documentary
Festival, ROSE, VIOLET AND LILY
(1992, short).
Volya Films
Ph: +31 10 415 2651
F: +31 10 437 5934
[email protected]
www.volyafilms.com
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DOCUMENTARIES
VARESE, THE ONE ALL ALONE
Frank Scheffer
70’ / video / colour and b&w
Original title: VARESE,
THE ONE
ALL ALONE
Prod: KTV/Kasander (NL)
Co-prod: Idéale Audience (FR)
Sc: Frank Scheffer
D.O.P.: Melle Damen, Reinier
van Brummelen
Completed: February 2009
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
A film that unveils the mystery behind the visionary composer Edgard Varèse,
an alchemist of sound.
A journey into the life and work of the French/American composer Edgard
Varèse (1883-1965) whose music instilled in Frank Scheffer a fascination for
20th century music. Varèse considered music to be “organized sound” and it
became clear to director Scheffer that the composer not only meant to categorize natural sounds into a structure, but to look for a schedule that recognised
the historical patterns of this structure - literally music of a new order, born
out of live matter.
Frank Scheffer:
a.o. TEA (2005, doc), A LABYRINTH
OF TIME (2004, doc), FRANK ZAPPA PHASE II, THE BIG NOTE (2002, doc),
THE ROAD (1997, doc), CONDUCTING
MAHLER (1996, doc), HELICOPTER
STRING QUARTET (1996, doc), THE
NATURE OF SPACE (1993, doc).
The Kasander Film Company
Ph: +31 10 433 3043
F: +31 10 433 3061
[email protected]
www.kasanderfilm.nl
Le film dévoile le mystère du compositeur visionnaire Edgard Varèse, un
alchimiste du son.
Un voyage dans la vie et l’œuvre du compositeur franco-américain Edgard
Varèse (1883-1965), dont la musique a inspiré à Frank Scheffer une fascination
pour la musique du XXe siècle.
Varèse considérait la musique comme un « son organisé » et le réalisateur
Scheffer a compris que le compositeur ne voulait pas seulement catégoriser les
sons naturels dans une structure, mais aussi rechercher un cadre identifiant les
schémas historiques de cette structure – une musique littéralement d’un ordre
nouveau, née d’un matériau vivant.
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE WORLD BEHIND OUR FOOD
Walther Grotenhuis
85’ / video / colour
Original title: DE WERELD
ACHTER ONS ETEN
Prod: Kleine Beer Films (NL)
Co-prod: IKON (NL), Lichtpunt
(BE)
Sc: Walther Grotenhuis
D.O.P.: a.o. Andre Luis da
Cunha, Adri Schrover
Completed: December 2009
Language: Mehinaku/
Portuguese/Swahili/English/
Philippine/Dutch (English subtitles)
The whole world is represented on our dinner plate, but is getting it there
changing our world irrevocably?
Only a few years ago the sweet Greek grape announced the end of the summer. Red cabbage, stews and carrots signalled winter’s arrival. But things have
changed drastically. Now, we can have it all, whenever we want it. Seasons no
longer matter. Why? We see globalisation on our plates but we know so little
about the food we eat. Where does it come from? Whose hands has it touched? How far has it travelled? What are the stories behind these products?
Walther Grotenhuis:
Second feature length documentary.
A.O. THE COOL RAGE OF BERNHARD
WILLEM HOLTROP (2007, short doc),
AIDS: A WOMAN’S STORY (2004,
short doc), MOTORMANIA (2002,
short doc), TAJIRI’S LABYRINT (2000,
short doc), DOUBLELIFE (1997,
short doc), THE ELECTRONIC CURTAIN
(1996, short doc), THE ROSESELLER
(1994, short doc), A TRUTH WITH
MANY FACES (1983, doc).
Le monde entier est représenté dans notre assiette, mais l’importation des den- Kleine Beer Films
Ph: +31 20 625 5442
rées change-t-elle irrévocablement notre monde ?
F: +31 20 620 2426
[email protected]
Il y a quelques années, les raisins sucrés grecs annonçaient la fin de l’été. Le
www.kleinebeerfilms.com
chou, les ragoûts et les carottes signalaient l’arrivée de l’hiver. Mais ça a radicalement changé. Aujourd’hui, on peut tout avoir, quand on veut. Les saisons
n’importent plus. Pourquoi ? Nous voyons la mondialisation dans nos assiettes
mais nous ignorons presque tout des denrées que nous mangeons. D’où viennent-elles ? Quelles mains les ont manipulées ? Quelle distance ont-elles parcouru ? Quelles histoires y a-t-il derrière ces produits ?
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SHORT
DOCUMENTARIES
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
ABOUT LOVE; MR. AND MRS. CHAN
Ting Chan
25’ / video / colour
Original title: ABOUT LOVE; MR.
AND MRS. CHAN
Prod: Moonfilm Productions
Language: Dutch/Chinese
(English subtitles)
Ting Chan:
First short documentary.
Director Ting Chan questions her parents about their arranged marriage in
China and their integration into Dutch society and culture.
Moonfilm Productions
Ph: +31 20 627 4270
[email protected]
www.moonfilm.nl
La réalisatrice Ting Chan interroge ses parents sur leur mariage arrangé en
Chine et leur intégration dans la société et la civilisation néerlandaises.
BEST IN TOWN
Edward Cook
15’36“ / video / colour and b&w
Original title: BÆJARINS BEZTU
Prod: Ed-It productions
Language: Icelandic (English
subtitles)
Edward Cook:
First short documentary.
Bæjarins Beztu’s customers vary from bums to Bill Clinton. In this documentary
we discover the secret of this tiny 70-year-old hot dog stand.
Ed-It productions
Ph: +31 6 4271 9379
[email protected]
www.edwardcook.nl
Les clients de Baejarins Betzu vont des clochards à Bill Clinton. Ce documentaire nous fait découvrir le secret de cette minuscule baraque de hot-dogs septuagénaire.
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PYOTR – LETTERS FROM THE GULAG
Jan Jaap Kuiper
24’ / video / colour
Original title: PJOTR – BRIEVEN
UIT DE GOELAG
Prod: Netherlands Film and
Television Academy
Language: Russian (English subtitles)
Jan Jaap Kuiper:
PYOTR - LETTERS FROM THE GULAG is
his graduation film.
In 1937 Pyotr was transported to a Russian labour camp. His daughter and
granddaughter piece together his fate, his letters from the camp their starting
point.
En 1937, Pyotr fut expédié dans un camp de travail russe. Sa fille et sa petitefille reconstituent son destin à partir des lettres envoyées depuis le camp.
Sales: NPO / RNW Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3561
F: +31 35 677 5318
[email protected]
www.nposales.com
THE SECRET OF BOCCHERINI
Carine Bylsma
24’ / video / colour
Original title: HET GEHEIM VAN
BOCCHERINI
Prod: Netherlands Film and
Television Academy
Language: Dutch/English
(English subtitles)
Carine Bylsma:
THE SECRET OF BOCCHERINI is her
graduation film.
Cellist Anner Bylsma´s passion for the music of forgotten composer Luigi
Boccherini compels her to visit his abandoned palace to unravel the secrets sur- Netherlands Film and
rounding him.
Television Academy
Ph: +31 20 527 7392
La passion de la violoncelliste Anner Bylsma pour la musique du compositeur
F: +31 20 527 7344
oublié Luigi Boccherini la force à visiter son palais abandonné pour éclaircir les [email protected]
secrets qui l’entourent.
www.filmacademie.nl
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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
SNOW BLIND. ULTIMA THULE
Anna Abrahams
15’ / 35mm / b&w
Genre: experimental doc
Original title: SNOW BLIND. ULTIMA
THULE
Prod: Rongwrong Foundation
Language: English
Anna Abrahams:
a.o. DIY (2008, short), 5 WALKS.
HERCYNIA SILVA (2008, short).
Dating from 300 BC to the late 19th century, three historical accounts of Arctic
travellers in search of the unknown, told in different shades of white.
Rongwrong Foundation
Ph: +31 6 2498 8884
[email protected]
De 300 av. J.-C. à la fin du XIXe siècle, trois récits historiques de voyageurs dans www.rongwrong.net
l’Arctique en quête d’inconnu, racontés en différentes nuances de blanc.
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SHORT FILMS
#37
Joost Rekveld
29’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: abstract film
Original title: #37
Prod: Filmstad Produkties
Language: no dialogue
Joost Rekveld:
a.o. #23.2 (2002, animation),
SCAPE (2001, animation).
#37 is an abstract film made on the computer. It shows how moments of order
and symmetry originate from chaotic movements in an unexpected manner.
Filmstad Produkties
Ph: +31 70 346 8284
[email protected]
www.filmstad.com
#37 est un film abstrait réalisé sur ordinateur. Il montre comment des instants
d’équilibre et de symétrie émergent inopinément de mouvements incohérents.
ABOUT FISH AND REVOLUTION
Margien Rogaar
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: OVER VIS EN
REVOLUTIE
Prod: BosBros. Film-TV
Productions
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Two worlds collide at the riverside. Gerard’s marriage is boring, his friends are
non-existent and all the fish he catches are just too small.
Margien Rogaar:
a.o. BREATH (2008, short), MAYBE
SWEDEN (2006, feature).
BosBros. Film-TV Productions
Deux univers se heurtent au bord de l’eau. Le mariage de Gerard est
Ph: +31 20 524 4030
ennuyeux, ses amis inexistants et les poissons qu’il attrape vraiment trop petits. F: +31 20 524 4040
[email protected]
www.bosbros.com
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SHORT FILMS
AKIKO
Michaël Sewandono
10’27“ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: AKIKO
Prod: Lev Pictures
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Michaël Sewandono:
a.o. WAIT - “THE OUTSIDER” (2008,
short), WAIT - “END OF THE
WORLD” (2007, short).
When Akiko emerges from an infinite, black and empty space, she realises that
the world is less pure than she supposed it to be.
Lev Pictures
Ph: +31 20 581 8515
Lorsqu’Akiko émerge d’un espace infini, noir et vide, elle se rend compte que
F: +31 20 581 8516
le monde est moins pur qu’elle ne l’imaginait.
[email protected]
www.levpictures.com
AMONG GODS
Jan Karel Lameer
4’30“ / 35mm / colour
Genre: nature
Original title: TUSSEN DE GODEN /
PARMI LES DIEUX
Prod: Jan Karel Lameer
Language: no dialogue
Jan Karel Lameer:
a.o. LAPLAND AURORA (2007,
short), FIRE IN THE SKY (2005,
short).
Timelapse photo animation of the sky and the stars over a 24-hour period in
the French Alps.
Animation photo en temps condensé du ciel et des étoiles durant 24 heures
dans les Alpes françaises.
Holland Film
Jan Karel Lameer
[email protected]
www.timelapse.nl
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BACKTRACK
Henk Haselager & Michael Helmerhorst
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: TERUGWEG
Prod: IJswater Films
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Henk Haselager & Michael
Helmerhorst:
a.o. SOUVENIR (2007, short).
Trying to find their way home after being dumped at a gas station in the middle of the night, two girls are dramatically parted.
Deux filles, qui essayent de retrouver le chemin de leur maison après avoir été
abandonnées dans une station-service en pleine nuit, sont tragiquement
séparées.
Sales: SND Films
Ph: +31 20 404 0707
F: +31 20 404 0708
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
BRAT
Berend & Roel Boorsma
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: BRAT
Prod: Fu Works
Language: Polish/English/Dutch
(English subtitles)
Berend & Roel Boorsma:
PSALM 69 (2007, short).
Angry and confused after the death of his brother on a Dutch farm, Polish student Karek confronts the farmer he blames for his loss.
Furieux et troublé après la mort de son frère dans une ferme néerlandaise, l’étudiant polonais Karek affronte l’agriculteur qu’il rend responsable de sa
perte.
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Fu Works
Ph: +31 20 344 5160
F: +31 20 635 3060
[email protected]
www.fuworks.nl
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SHORT FILMS
BREATH
June te Spenke
9’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: BREATH
Prod: June te Spenke
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
June te Spenke:
STOPPEN (2006, short).
A particularly hard day in the life of Isabel (14), whose difficult relationship
with her mother results in her isolation at school.
June te Spenke
Ph: +31 6 2060 7275
[email protected]
www.madeinjune.nl
Une journée particulièrement rude de la vie d’Isabel (14 ans), dont les rapports
difficiles avec sa mère se traduisent par son isolement à l’école.
CIRCUS
Ruben Broekhuis
9’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: feelgood
Original title: CIRCUS
Prod: Doenk, White Bull Film
Language: no dialogue
Ruben Broekhuis:
a.o. WHY ‘PETER RUNNER’ CAN RUN
(2007, short doc), NIGHTSHIFT
NINJA’S (2007, short).
A fifteen year old boy discovers the positive influence of the extraordinary
people he meets on the street.
Un garçon âgé de quinze ans découvre l’influence positive des individus extraordinaires qu’il rencontre dans la rue.
Holland Film
White Bull Film
Ph: +31 10 412 6506
[email protected]
www.whitebullfilm.com
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CRY & LAUGH
Robbert-Jan Vos
1’50“ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: CRY & LAUGH
Prod: Dwarv
Language: no dialogue
Robbert-Jan Vos:
a.o. ATTACHED TO OMAR’S LIFE FOR 7
MINUTES (2006, short), I PREY
(2005, short).
A man desperately wants to make himself laugh, but…
Un homme veut désespérément se faire rire, mais…
Robbert-Jan Vos:
Ph: +31 6 2466 9771
[email protected]
DAO
Marleen Jonkman
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: comedy/drama
Original title: DAO
Prod: IDTV Film
Language: English
Marleen Jonkman:
a.o. IEDEREEN DIE IETS BETEKENT
(2008, short), DAUGHTER (2005,
short).
A young Thai woman arrives in Holland to join a man she barely knows. But
the new scents, tastes and habits make her feel rootless.
Une jeune Thaïlandaise arrive en Hollande pour retrouver un homme qu’elle
connaît à peine. Cependant, elle se sent déracinée du fait des odeurs, des
goûts et des coutumes inconnus.
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IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
Holland Film
SHORT FILMS
FINAL
Patrick Minks
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: FINALE
Prod: Timecut Films
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Memories and dreams intertwine as a man plays a frame of snooker. He loses
again, but this time he is determined not to give in.
Les souvenirs et les rêves s’entremêlent quand un homme fait un billard. Il
perd encore, mais cette fois, il est résolu à ne pas céder.
Patrick Minks:
LIFE AFTER MRS. DE NIJS (2003,
short), MAKING BOSS HITS MAN
(2001, mockumentary), 100%
(1999, short).
Timecut Films
Ph: +31 6 1632 8580
[email protected]
www.timecutfilms.nl
HEAVENLY SOAP
Laura Beijn
7’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: HEMELSE ZEEP
Prod: AirRebels
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Laura Beijn
First short fiction film.
After a great night out Sophie’s world has changed. Or is it she that has
changed?
AirRebels
Ph: +31 6 2464 7750
[email protected]
www.airrebels.com
Après une soirée en ville géniale, le monde de Sophie a changé. Ou bien est-ce
elle qui a changé ?
Holland Film
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SHORT FILMS
THE LAST DAY
Saskia Diesing
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: DE LAATSTE DAG
Prod: Lemming Film
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Saskia Diesing:
a.o.TAXI 655 (2008, short), NIEUWE
SCHOENEN (2004, short).
When N loses everything he has ever fought and suffered for, his downfall is
inevitable. But his loss liberates him from a heavy burden...
Lorsque N perd tout ce pour quoi il a jamais lutté et souffert, il s’effondre
inévitablement. Mais sa perte le libère d’un lourd fardeau...
Lemming Film
Ph: +31 20 661 0424
F: +31 20 661 0979
[email protected]
www.lemmingfilm.com
LUCIDE
Ferry van Schijndel
8’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: thriller
Original title: LUCIDE
Prod: Studio Rev
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Ferry van Schijndel:
First short fiction film.
Lost in a bizarre unconscious state, Jimmy fights to regain control over his
dreams in order to get a grip on his chaotic life.
Studio Rev
Ph: +31 10 481 0321
[email protected]
www.studiorev.nl
Ayant sombré dans un étrange état d’inconscience, Jimmy lutte pour reprendre
la maîtrise de ses rêves afin d’avoir prise sur sa vie chaotique.
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SHORT FILMS
MAMA SUPERFREAK
Bea de Visser
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: art
Original title: MAMA SUPERFREAK
Prod: Anotherfilm
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Bea de Visser:
a.o. ROSES AND FALL (2006, short),
THE SECOND MEMORY (2004, short).
In this free adaptation of one of Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo’s superior monologues, Bea de Visser balances cinematography with the realism of performance art.
Anotherfilm
Ph: +31 10 244 9874
[email protected]
www.anotherfilm.org
Dans cette adaptation libre des brillants monologues du lauréat du prix Nobel
Dario Fo, Bea de Visser crée un équilibre entre cinéma et arts du spectacle réalistes.
OPENING NIGHT
Tim Leyendekker
5’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: OPENING NIGHT
Prod: Absent Without Leave
Language: no dialogue
Tim Leyendekker:
a.o. (HECTAREN)(2001, short), HOW
THE WEST WAS WON AND WHERE IT
GOT US (2003, short).
And then a voice said: “Hope comes in many forms. But tonight, you’re on
your own.”
Absent Without Leave
Ph: +31 6 1965 0300
[email protected]
Alors, une voix déclara : « L’espoir se présente sous des formes diverses. Mais ce www.absentwithoutleave.org
soir, tu dois te débrouiller tout seul. »
Holland Film
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SHORT FILMS
RAW HONEY
Annick Vroom
10’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: RUWE HONING
Prod: Armadillo Film
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Annick Vroom:
a.o. HÖHENLUFT (2005, dance),
R.I.P. (2005, dance).
It’s his birthday. And they want it to be nice. But a family still struggles with
the decision to take their mentally ill son back home.
C’est son anniversaire. Et ils veulent être sympa. Mais une famille est encore
aux prises avec la décision de reprendre chez soi son fils malade mental.
Armadillo Film
Ph: +31 20 471 5215
F: +31 84 833 3438
[email protected]
www.armadillofilm.nl
REEF
Eric Steegstra
12’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: RIF
Prod: John Croezen
Language: no dialogue
Eric Steegstra:
METRO (1999, animation), USIKU
(1996, animation).
Two frogmen discover a small green fish that can evade all predators, as well
as all other marine animals, from jellyfish to manta rays.
Sales: NPO / RNW Sales
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F: +31 35 677 5318
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www.nposales.com
Deux hommes-grenouilles découvrent un petit poisson vert qui peut éviter
tous les prédateurs comme tous les autres animaux marins, des méduses aux
raies cornues.
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SHORT FILMS
SAND
Joost van Ginkel
20’38” / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: ZAND
Prod: Helen Zwaan, Joost van
Ginkel
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Joost van Ginkel:
a.o. IN THE DESERT (2005, short
doc), RAT AHOY (2004, short).
Luuk seems to be a good father for his daughter Isabel. But is this the truth? A
compelling and romantic story about a truck driver and his daughter who both Sales: SND Films
like the feel of sand.
Ph: +31 20 404 0707
F: +31 20 404 0708
Luuk paraît un bon père pour sa fille Isabel. Mais est-ce vrai ? Un récit roman- [email protected]
tique captivant sur un routier et sa fille qui aiment tous deux toucher le sable. www.sndfilms.com
SOME THINGS ARE REALLY SIMPLE
Hester Overmars
8’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: SOMMIGE DINGEN ZIJN
HEEL EENVOUDIG
Prod: Szutkowski AV
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Freediver Wout arrives home unannounced. He is confronted by a strange and
alienating truth: an unknown man is cooking for his wife and child.
Wout, qui fait de la plongée sous-marine, rentre chez lui à l’improviste. Il
découvre une vérité inconfortable : un inconnu cuisine pour sa femme et son
enfant.
Holland Film
Hester Overmars:
a.o. MARTHA VONK GOES ISTANBUL
(2007, short), FUHRE MICH (2005,
short).
Szutkowski AV
Ph: +31 10 476 5677
[email protected]
http://szutkowski.eu
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SUCCESS
Diederik Ebbinge
8’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: comedy
Original title: SUCCES
Prod: IDTV Film
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Diederik Ebbinge:
NUDE (2006, short).
After the most successful day of his professional life, Jos should have thought
twice before dropping into the cafe to celebrate…
Après le jour le plus faste de sa vie professionnelle, Jos aurait dû réfléchir à
deux fois avant d’aller au café pour fêter ça...
Sales: SND Films
Ph: +31 20 404 0707
F: +31 20 404 0708
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
VERA
Thomas Korthals Altes
10’30“ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: VERA
Prod: NL Film & TV
Language: no dialogue
Thomas Korthals Altes:
KRAMERS CRISIS (2003, short).
A lonely woman meets a homeless man, overcomes her fear and starts up a
relationship – all through the medium of chocolate.
NL Film & TV
Ph: +31 20 574 7626
F: +31 20 574 7627
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
Une femme esseulée rencontre un sans-abri, surmonte sa peur et entame une
relation – le tout par le biais du chocolat.
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ANIMATED FILMS
ANIMATED FILMS
THE 7 BROTHERS
Paul & Kaj Driessen
12’20“ / 35mm / colour
Original title: THE 7 BROTHERS
Prod: CinéTé Filmproduktie
Language: international (English
subtitles)
The seven Grimm brothers are looking for inspiration. But the stories they are
writing (live-action) end differently from the (animated) fairy-tales we know
today.
Les sept frères Grimm cherchent l’inspiration. Mais les histoires qu’ils écrivent
(tournage en réel) finissent autrement que les contes (séquences d’animation)
que nous connaissons aujourd’hui.
Paul Driessen: a.o. 2D OR NOT
2D (2003, animation), 3 MISSES
(1998, animation).
Kaj Driessen: a.o. OPEN MINDED
(2003, animation), JANECK (1998,
animation).
Sales: SND Films
Ph: +31 20 404 0707
F: +31 20 404 0708
[email protected]
www.sndfilms.com
AFTER THE GREAT FLOOD
Floris Kaayk
9’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: AFTER
FLOOD
Prod: seriousFilm
Language: English
THE
GREAT
Floris Kaayk:
METALOSIS MALIGNA (2006, animation), THE ORDER ELECTRUS (2005,
animation).
A post-apocalyptic vision of mankind’s future, a dark parable in which mutated Sales: NPO / RNW Sales
limbs search in vain for the bodies to which they were previously attached.
Ph: +31 35 677 3561
F: +31 35 677 5318
Une vision post-apocalyptique de l’avenir de l’humanité, une sombre parabole [email protected]
où des membres ayant mutés recherchent en vain les corps auxquels ils étaient www.nposales.com
précédemment rattachés.
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ANIMATED FILMS
EYES OF THE LIGHTHOUSE
Pedro Serrazina
14’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: EYES OF THE
LIGHTHOUSE
Prod: Photon Films
Language: no dialogue
Pedro Serrazina:
a.o. A DISTANT SONG (2001, live
action), WITHIN (1998, animation).
A lighthouse-keeper and his daughter live apart on a small island. Before he
can resolve the family conflict he must face his traumatic past.
Un gardien de phare et sa fille vivent séparément sur une petite île. Avant de
pouvoir régler le conflit familial, il doit affronter son passé traumatique.
Photon Films
Ph: +31 10 213 0441
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
FENCES
José Vonk
6’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: FENCES
Prod: H & W Company
(Composer is Hans Muller)
Language: no dialogue
José Vonk:
a.o. SHORT CIRCUIT (2005, animation), TRAFFIC (2004, animation).
A short abstract handmade work, that harkens back to the origins of film, in
which optical illusions are created by exploring graphic fence-and-wheel structures.
H & W Company
Ph: +31 294 257755
F: +31 294 257750
[email protected]
www.hw-company.nl
Court métrage abstrait fait main, remontant aux origines du cinéma et dans
lequel les illusions d’optique sont créées par l’exploration des structures
graphiques de délimitation circulaire.
Holland Film
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ANIMATED FILMS
THE JUGGLER
Roelof van den Bergh
4’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: JONGLEUR
Prod: il Luster Films
Language: no dialogue
Roelof van den Bergh:
NOTICE (2004, animation), HELL
(2003, animation).
An allegorical tale in which a juggler must balance the most important people
that he has encountered in his life on a set of spinning plates.
il Luster Productions
Ph/F: +31 30 240 0768
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
Un conte allégorique dans lequel un jongleur doit équilibrer les principaux
individus qu’il a rencontrés dans sa vie sur des assiettes tournantes.
POSE
Lucette Braune
6’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: POSE
Prod: il Luster Productions
Language: no dialogue
Lucette Braune:
BEK (2004, animation).
Mannequin puppets pose as they have always done: perfect, flawless and
beautiful. But when a fly intrudes upon their space, everything falls apart.
il Luster Productions
Ph/F: +31 30 240 0768
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
Des mannequins d’étalage posent comme toujours : parfaits, impeccables et
superbes. Mais lorsqu’une mouche envahit leur espace, tout s’effondre.
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SELF-PORTRAIT
Thomas Coltof
4’ / 35mm / colour
Original title: ZELFPORTRET
Prod: il Luster Films
Language: no dialogue
Thomas Coltof:
IF THE SHOE FITS (2005, animation).
The famous artist Rembrandt is losing control of his self-portrait, to the extent
where it is literally taking over his life.
il Luster Productions
Ph/F: +31 30 240 0768
[email protected]
www.illuster.nl
Le célébrissime artiste Rembrandt perd la maîtrise de son autoportrait, au
point que celui-ci prend littéralement le contrôle de sa vie.
SUPER
Johan Klungel
8’20“ / 35mm / colour
Original title: SUPER
Prod: Lawson Extremely
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Johan Klungel:
FAUNA SUTRA (2004, animation).
One day while grocery shopping a man gets seduced into the world of supermarket packaging and realises that everything isn’t as pretty as it looks.
Lawson Extremely
Ph: +31 6 2428 4466
[email protected]
www.LawsonExtremelyLimited.com
Un jour, pendant ses courses, un homme est entraîné dans l’univers de l’emballage en supermarché. Il comprend que tout n’est pas aussi joli qu’en
apparence.
Holland Film
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IN PRODUCTION FEATURE FILMS
IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
FLOWING
Danyael Sugawara
120’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: ALLES STROOMT
Prod: IDTV Film
Completed: Fall 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
As a mother and her 18-year old son become more isolated, they suffer the
inevitable pain of loss. But true love can conquer all.
Plus une mère et son fils de 18 ans sont isolés, plus ils ressentent l’inévitable
douleur de la perte. Mais le vrai amour peut tout surmonter.
Danyael Sugawara:
First feature film.
a.o. HOMEMADE (2007, short doc),
THE QUIET ONE (2004, short).
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
FUCSIA THE MINI-WITCH
Johan Nijenhuis
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: children
Original title: FOEKSIA DE MINIHEKS
Prod: NL Film & TV
Completed: December 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Johan Nijenhuis:
a.o. ALIBI (2008, feature), ZOO
RANGERS IN SOUTH AMERICA (2007,
feature), ZOO RANGERS IN INDIA
(2006, feature).
A great adventure can sometimes hatch from the smallest egg. As wizard
Kwark [Quark] finds out when he finds an egg in the Witches’ Wood.
Une grande aventure peut parfois surgirent d’œufs minuscules. Comme le
découvre le magicien Kwark (Quark) quand il trouve un œuf dans la Forêt des
Sorcières.
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NL Film & TV
Ph: +31 20 574 7626
F: +31 20 574 7627
[email protected]
www.nlfilm.tv
Holland Film
IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
GANGSTA BOYS
Paul Ruven
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: comedy
Original title: GANGSTERBOYS
Prod: Talent United
Completed: Winter 2009
Language: Dutch/Turkish
(English subtitles)
Paul Ruven:
a.o. SURPRISE! (2008, feature),
FILMPJE (1995, feature).
Director Paul Ruven
When two Turkish proto-gangsters botch their first job and upset a real gangster, they face a dilemma: should they really be gangsters at all?
Lorsque deux proto-gangsters bâclent leur boulot et fâchent un vrai gangster,
ils doivent affronter un dilemme : devraient-ils réellement être des gangsters ?
THE HELL OF ’63
Talent United
Ph: +31 20 688 1843
F: +31 20 686 3574
[email protected]
www.talentunitedfilm.tv
(working title)
Steven de Jong
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: adventure/drama
Original title: DE HEL VAN ’63
(working title)
Prod: Steven de Jong, Klaas de
Jong
Completed: December 2009
Language: Dutch/Frisian (English
subtitles)
Steven de Jong:
a.o. STORM BOUND (2007, feature),
KAMELEON 2 (2005, feature)
During the legendary skating marathon, four competitors conquer not only
Bridge Entertainment
the treacherous conditions but also broken hearts, low self-esteem, lack of perPh: +31 35 688 2810
severance and conflicting egos.
F: +31 35 688 2800
[email protected]
Pendant le légendaire marathon sur glace, quatre concurrents surmontent les
conditions traîtresses, leurs peines de cœur, leur mésestime de soi, leur manque www.bridgeonline.nl
de persévérance et les conflits personnels.
Holland Film
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IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
THE HUMAN RACE
Jorien van Nes
80’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: black comedy
Original title: THE HUMAN RACE
Prod: Submarine
Completed: December 2009
Language: Dutch/English/
Gambian (English subtitles)
Director Jorien van Nes
Jorien van Nes:
First feature film.
When a brilliant but diabolical game-show turns into a smash hit worldwide
the contestants realise there is only one true freedom: the freedom to die.
Submarine
Ph: +31 20 330 1226
F: +31 20 330 1227
Quand un jeu télévisé génial mais diabolique fait un tabac mondial, les concur- [email protected]
rents comprennent qu’il n’y a qu’une seule liberté : la liberté de mourir.
www.submarine.nl
JOY
Mijke de Jong
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: JOY
Prod: IDTV Film
Completed: January 2010
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Director Mijke de Jong
Joy was abandoned as a child and grew up in several rescue homes for children. Now, all she wants is a reunion with her biological mother…
Enfant, Joy a été abandonnée et a grandi dans plusieurs foyers d’accueil.
Maintenant, tout ce qu’elle veut est d’être réunie avec sa mère biologique…
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Mijke de Jong:
a.o. KATIA’S SISTER (2008, feature),
STAGES (2007, feature).
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
Holland Film
IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
MEAT
(working title)
Maartje Seyferth & Victor Nieuwenhuijs
85’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: VLEES
Prod: Moskito Film
Completed: January 2010
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Maartje Seyferth & Victor
Nieuwenhuijs:
LULU (2005, feature), VENUS IN
FURS (1995, feature).
The warm living flesh of a shop assistant proves desperately attractive to both
the butcher and the inspector who must investigate his murder.
La chaude chair vivante d’un vendeur s’avère extrêmement attrayante pour le
boucher comme pour l’inspecteur qui doit enquêter sur ce meurtre.
Moskito Film
Ph: +31 6 5478 3528
[email protected]
www.moskitofilm.com
THE ODD ONE OUT
Johan Timmers
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: VREEMD BLOED
Prod: IDTV Film
Completed: January 2010
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Director Johan Timmers
A child growing up in a violent environment learns how to overcome all social
disadvantages by developing an independent mind.
Un enfant qui grandit dans un milieu violent apprend à surmonter tous les
désavantages sociaux en développant un esprit indépendant.
Holland Film
Johan Timmers:
First feature film.
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
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IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
R U THERE
David Verbeek
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: R U THERE
Prod: IDTV Film
Completed: January 2010
Language: English
Director David Verbeek
After witnessing an accident a professional gamer slowly extricates himself
from the virtual world he inhabits to re-discover his real and physical life.
Après avoir assisté à un accident, un gamer professionnel s’extirpe lentement
du monde virtuel qu’il habite pour redécouvrir sa vie réelle et physique.
David Verbeek:
a.o. SHANGHAI TRANCE (2007, feature), SUICIDEHOLIDAY (2005,
short).
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
SHOCKING BLUE
Mark de Cloe
90’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: SHOCKING BLUE
Prod: Waterland Film
Completed: November 2009
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
Mark de Cloe:
Second feature film.
a.o. LIFE IN ONE DAY (2009, feature), BOY MEETS GIRL STORIES
(2002, 34 short films).
Loss, love and impotence within the Dutch tulip fields. Can a man bear the
guilt after causing the death of his best friend?
Perte, amour et impuissance dans les champs de tulipes néerlandais. Un
homme peut-il assumer la culpabilité d’avoir causé la mort de son meilleur
ami ?
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Waterland Film
Ph: +31 20 682 2164
F: +31 20 682 3061
[email protected]
www.waterlandfilm.nl
Holland Film
IN PRODUCTION - FEATURE FILMS
SMOKE AND OCHRE
Paula van der Oest
100’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: SMOKE AND OCHRE
Prod: IDTV Film, RIBA Film
Completed: January 2010
Language: English
Director Paula van der Oest
Although she was welcome everywhere, she never found a home. A woman is
unable to find what her restless soul seeks.
Elle était la bienvenue partout, mais elle n’a pourtant jamais trouvé sa place.
Une femme est incapable de trouver ce que son âme agitée recherche.
Holland Film
Paula van der Oest:
a.o. TIRAMISU (2008, feature),
ZUS & ZO (2001, feature).
IDTV Film
Ph: +31 20 314 3322
F: +31 20 314 3300
[email protected]
www.idtvfilm.nl
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IN PRODUCTION - INT. CO-PRODUCTIONS
TRAMONTANA
Ramon Gieling
75’ / 35mm / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: TRAMONTANA
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film
Co-prod: tba
Completed: Summer/Autumn
2009
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
Director Ramon Gieling
In the Spanish village Cadaqués, the Tramontana wind is seen not as a natural
phenomenon but as a personal grievance from somebody against the villagers.
Dans le village espagnol de Cadaqués, la tramontane n’est pas considérée
comme un phénomène naturel mais comme un grief personnel de quelqu’un
contre les villageois.
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Ramon Gieling:
a.o. EN UN MOMENTO DADO (2004,
doc), DEATH WITHOUT END (1999,
feature).
Pieter van Huystee Film
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
F: +31 20 638 6255
[email protected]
www.pvhfilm.nl
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If We Knew (1 x 75’ / 1 x 52’)
A passionate film about
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premature newborns, facing
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The Houses of Hristina (50’)
A Portrait of a cleaning woman
turned photographer that tells
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The Lost Colony (1 x 52’/1 x 70’ )
A touching documentary on
the oldest and once most
advanced primate laboratory in
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Sozdar (1 x 70’)
A portrait of one of the leaders
of the Kurdish resistance
movement PKK - a determined
Kurdish woman who ended up
on a road of no return because
of her personal choices.
For a Few Marbles More (1 x 11’)
Four ten–year-olds are kicked
out of their favorite playground
by two aggressive drunkards,
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Between Heaven and Earth
(1 x 57’/ 1 x 72’)
An Uzbekistan Family History
Two circus artists and childhood friends who are forced to
choose between continuing the
old circus tradition and politics.
Reef (1 x 12’)
In his 3rd short puppetry
film Eric Steegstra creates
an enchanting, colourful and
magic underwater world.
Best Short Netherlands Film
Festival 2008
I Wanna Be Boss (1 x 52’)
This film portrays five smart,
hardworking, competitive and
creative 17-year-old students
during their graduation year
at the Bashu Middle School #2
in China.
Boris Ryzhy (1 x 54’)
A film on poetry, the Russian
Mafia, suicide, love and the
tragedy of the Perestroika
years. A portrait of a young
21st-century poet for whom life
became unbearable.
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