EYE International Film Catalogue 2015

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FOREWORD
FEATURE FILMS
30 Milligram
100 Eyes
Dancing on the Volcano
Dummie the Mummy
Homies
How to Avoid Everything
Jack’s Birthday Wish
Ladies 4
Little Gangster
Lost in Laos
Mister Twister on Stage
Monkey Business
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
Painkillers
Prince
Railmovie
Sunny Side Up
Undercover
Viper’s Nest
Waldstille
The Wolf’s Game
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MAJORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS
The Admiral
André Hazes, the Biopic
Beyond Sleep
Boy 7
Clean Hands
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
The Escape
Full Contact
Gift from the Heart
History’s Future
In the Heart
J. Kessels
Kidnap
Life According to Nino
Miracle Monks
Our Sun
Public Works
Rendez-Vous
Schneider vs. Bax
The Sky Above Us
The Surprise
The Sword of D’Artagnan
Triple Trouble
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Ventoux
Wiplala
Zurich
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MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS
The Ardennes
Belgica
Blessed Benefit
Brand New U
Bull Down!
Cafard
Cherry Tree
The Commune
False Witness
Francofonia
Galloping Mind
Humidity
Intimacy
Land and Shade
The Lobster
Mammal
Math Sucks
Paradise Trips
Prejudice
Road to La Paz
The Summer of Sangaïlé
Under the Pyramid
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IN PRODUCTION
As if I’m Crazy
Brimstone
Cobain
Dead and Beautiful
Disappearance
Mr. Frog
Out of Love
Owls & Mice
A Real van Meegeren
When My Father Became a Bush
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DOCUMENTARIES
Alice Cares
Around the World in 50 Concerts
Banana Pancakes and the Children of Sticky Rice
Between the Devil and the Deep
Bezness as Usual
Cheesehead Blues
The Chimpanzee Complex
Don’t Lose Heart
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The Dutch Church of Bloemendaal
Ego
Erbarme Dich
The Garage
Gay Wedding Fair
Georgica
Ghosts from the Past
Home
I Don’t Belong Here
Imperfect Harmony
Killer Slope
The Mission
Naziha’s Spring
Only the Best for Our Son
Pekka
People in Berlin
The Perfect Horse
Rebellious City
Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT
A Shtetl in the Caribbean
Solo out of a Dream
Stand by Your President
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
Transit Havana
What Went Wrong Where?
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ANIMATED SHORTS
Blue Moon
Deadly Drive-in Disaster
Dog-e
Full Feather Jacket
Loss
A Single Life
Splintertime
Under the Apple Tree
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COLOPHON
EYE International
Claudia Landsberger
Nathalie Mierop
Translations
Nicholas Cunningham
Design & Layout
Floppy Design
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
The Alchemist
Chellina / Da Beast
The Chinese Are Coming
Giovanni and the Water Ballet
Locked up Lions
Losers
My Dearest F#cking Phone
Nothing Left Unsaid
So Help Me God
This Summer Is Mine
You’ve Got a Problem
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SHORT FILMS
All Those Sunflowers
Empty
Expose
A Hole in My Heart
Home Suite Home
In the Pit
Der Kaiser
Malaguti Phantom
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Spotters
Symmetry
Das Wad
Wild Dog
Print
Ecodrukkers Nieuwkoop
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FOREWORD
EYE International is very pleased to present the
new EYE International Film Catalogue, Films
from the Netherlands 2015. The catalogue strives
to give information and full details about the latest features, shorts (narrative as well as experimental and animated) and feature-length and
short documentaries. It is a record of the works
and talents of Dutch directors and producers,
both established and emerging, whose films
deserve attention from international festivals,
distributors and audiences alike.
This year we are very pleased to serve you new
films by such interesting and prolific directors as
Alex van Warmerdam (BORGMAN) with SCHNEIDER
VS. BAX; Boudewijn Koole (KAUWBOY) with BEYOND
SLEEP; David Verbeek (HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD)
with FULL CONTACT and Peter Greenaway with
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO, just to name a few.
The promotion of Dutch film is continued at all
of the prestigious festivals, such as Berlin,
Sundance, Clermont Ferrand, Cannes, Locarno,
Venice, San Sebastian and Toronto. Our films
continue to pick up many international awards,
Dutch children's and youth films are a good
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example of our highlights and currently winning
awards all over the world.
EYE International exists as a one-stop shop that
offers a wide range of services to the global film
community. We promote our broad range of
home-grown products to festival programmers,
journalists and buyers worldwide, as well as keep
the global industry updated on all aspects of the
Dutch industry. We match-make international
companies with any Dutch talent and are always
willing to advise international producers of the
benefits of filming in the Netherlands.
As ever, we very much look forward to collaborating with you and to seeing many of these Dutch
films screened in festivals and cinemas across the
world to wide and enthusiastic audiences.
Wishing you a happy and prosperous Dutch New
Film Year.
Claudia Landsberger
and the EYE International Team
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
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FEATURE FILMS
FEATURE FILMS
30 MILLIGRAM
100 EYES
Melvin Simons
Thijs Bayens
Iris dreams of learning the craft of filmmaking in Rio de
Janeiro. Her father Pavo seems to have no artistic ambitions until he starts to work on a film about his own
childhood. He enlists the Brazilian 'cinema novo' director Oscar and invests all he has. Iris feels attracted to
Oscar. When he leaves she realizes that Pavo worked on
the film to make her see that art creates selfish monsters unable to choose anything or anyone but art itself.
100’ / DCP / colour
The ongoing crisis sent society spiraling downward.
Already known for their progressive thinking, the Dutch
government passed a law stating that all people born
between ’45 and ’55 should be euthanized, ‘to give their
grandchildren the future that was removed from them.’
Two men are tasked with the implementation of this
law. Although clearly understaffed, they at least try to
take pride in their work. But as the assignments
increasingly take their toll emotionally, tension rises…
and their work suffers.
Genre: drama
Original title: 30 MILLIGRAM
Prod: Filmband
Sc: William Spaaij, Rogier
Kahlmann
D.O.P.: Michel Edelenbosch,
Dennis Roelofs
Completed: May 2014
Language: Dutch
Cast: William Spaaij, Dieter
Jansen, Johhny Kraaijkamp
(LITTLE CRUMB), Tom Jansen.
Genre: drama
Original title: 100 EYES
Prod: Making Of Foundation
Sc: Thijs Bayens
D.O.P.: Richard van
Oosterhout, Maarten van
Rossem, Josje van Erkel,
Alex Wuijts
Completed: September 2015
Language: Dutch
Cast: Kiki van Deursen
(MANSLAUGHTER, GODFORSAKEN),
Raymond Thiry (BETWEEN 10
AND 12, WOLF), André Gago
(CINZAS, VIDAS DE SAL).
Thijs Bayens:
First feature film.
FALLING (1998, doc).
Making Of Foundation
Ph: +31 6 2127 1555
info@makingofthemovie.nl
www.makingofthemovie.nl
Sales: Dutch Features
Global Entertainment
Ph: +31 35 677 4777
pim@dutchfeatures.com
www.dutchfeatures.com
PRIMAL INSTINCTS (2011, short),
TRIADE (2010, short).
Filmband
marlyn@filmband.net
www.filmband.net
Melvin Simons:
First feature film.
NO GUTS! (2013, short), THINK
DIFFERENT (2012, short),
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FEATURE FILMS
DANCING ON THE
VOLCANO
DUMMIE THE MUMMY
Pim van Hoeve
Adriënne Wurpel
Imagine this. Your name is Gus, you’re dead normal
and you live in the most boring village in the whole wide
world. But you walk into your bedroom one day and
there’s an actual Egyptian mummy sitting on your bed.
What do you do? Well, first you jump out of your skin of
course. Then you close your eyes, count to ten, count to
twenty… but it doesn’t help. The mummy is still there…!
Maarten is an ordinary 16-year-old. He likes to hang
around in the park, listen to music, play videogames
and dance as much as possible. Preferably with his
dance partner Roxanne. But almost nobody, especially
not Roxanne, knows he has a metabolic disease that
could end his life. Despite the concerns of his parents,
Maarten wants to live life to the fullest. But with his
body failing him more and more, maybe the time has
come to accept he is not ordinary.
Genre: drama
Original title: DANSEN OP DE
VULKAAN
Prod: Dansen op de Vulkaan
Foundation
Sc: Nils Verkooijen, Sjors
Mans, Adriënne Wurpel
D.O.P.: Tibor Dingelstad
Completed: October 2014
Language: Dutch
Cast: Nils Verkooijen (COOL
KIDS DON’T CRY, REGRET),
Marcel Musters (ACCUSED,
VIPER’S NEST), Bas van
Prooijen (BOBBY AND THE GHOST
HUNTERS, SECRETS OF WAR).
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Genre: family comedy
Original title: DUMMIE DE
MUMMIE
Prod: PV Pictures
Co-prod: Nickelodeon
Sc: Tijs van Marle
D.O.P.: Guido van Gennep
Language: Dutch
Cast: Roeland Fernhout (SCRAP
WOOD WAR), Jennifer Hoffman
(BROS BEFORE HOS), Ton Kas
(MATTERHORN, MIRACLE MONKS),
Julian Ras (SCRAP WOOD WAR).
Pim van Hoeve:
a.o. SNOWFEVER (2004, feature),
I LOVE TO LOVE (2003, feature)
Award: Best Young Director
Flash FF.
PV Pictures
Ph: +31 35 677 4776
mail@pvpictures.nl
www.pvpictures.nl
Ph: +31 35 677 4777
Adriënne Wurpel:
First feature film.
Festivals: Frank Hansen
Ph: +31 6 5331 6879
frank.hansen@fonq.nl
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FEATURE FILMS
HOMIES
HOW TO AVOID
EVERYTHING
Jon Karthaus
Michiel ten Horn
Thirty-two-year-old waster and eternal student Thijs
leads a slovenly and relaxed life of beer, chicks and the
occasional shift at a tedious media megastore. When he
visits his sister's house to do some washing, instead of
his usual encounter with her semi-perfect family, he
meets Lisa, the baby-sitter: a mature sixteen-year-old
with exorbitant ambitions. Without intending to, Lisa
has a profound effect on Thijs, revealing a deeply
ingrained dissatisfaction with his own passive behaviour.
Just as Timo is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend by convincing her of his new and improved life, he and his
friends get caught up in a drugs war. To stay alive, four
ordinary guys need to sell 22 kilos of drugs within a week!
Genre: comedy
Original title: HOMIES
Prod: Just Productions
Co-prod: Johnnywood
Productions, RTL
Entertainment
Sc: Jon Karthaus
D.O.P.: Max Maloney
Completed: January 2015
Language: Dutch/English/
Russian
Cast: Robert de Hoog (LOVE
ETERNAL, NOVA ZEMBLA), Gijs
Naber (HOW TO AVOID
EVERYTHING, JACK’S BIRTHDAY
WISH), Manuel Broekman (GIFT
FROM THE HEART, FRESHERS),
Tibor Lukács (LADIES 4).
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Jon Karthaus:
First feature film.
a.o. NO GUTS! (2013, short).
Just Productions
Ph: +31 6 5434 8448
frank@justproductions.nl
www.justproductions.nl
Genre: tragicomedy
Original title: AANMODDERFAKKER
Prod: Pupkin Film
Co-prod: AVROTROS
Sc: Anne Barnhoorn
D.O.P.: Jasper Wolf
Language: Dutch
Cast: Gijs Naber (LOFT, THE
HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING), Roos
Wiltink (THE DARK HOUSE),
Martijn Hillenius (BASTA,
PRETTY SICK AND TWISTED),
Anniek Pheifer (DEAD END,
FIRST MISSION).
Michiel ten Horn:
Second feature film.
a.o. FINGERS (2013, short),
GUILTY MOVIE (2012, short), THE
DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END
(2012, feature), 7 MINUTES IN
HEAVEN (2011, short), ALEX IN
AMSTERDAM (2009, TV film),
ARIE (2009, short), BOTTLED
(2008, short).
Pupkin Film
Ph: +31 20 489 5088
info@pupkin.com
www.pupkin.com
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FEATURE FILMS
JACK’S BIRTHDAY WISH
LADIES 4
Anne de Clercq
Maurice Trouwborst
The immature Wyne (32) starts a football team to rebel
against her friends whose lives have become dull and
boring since giving birth or becoming pregnant.
However, after a series of unexpected events, Wyne
finds herself in danger of losing everything she holds
dear...
Only-child Jack has two mothers, and all he wants for
his birthday is a baby brother. But he gets a giant rabbit
instead. Jack’s had enough, so he dons a pair of rabbit
ears and refuses to remove them until he gets a baby
bro. When he finds out where he himself came from –
he was ordered online – he is ecstatic. Easy! But slowly
he realises it’s not so simple to put in an order for a
baby brother.
Genre: family
Original title: JACK BESTELT EEN
BROERTJE
Prod: 2CFILM
Co-prod: KRO, Just productions
Sc: Anne Barnhoorn
D.O.P.: Ezra Reverda
Language: Dutch
Cast: Georgina Verbaan (THE
SURPRISE, HEART STREET), Jelka
van Houten (A CHRISTMOOSE
STORY, JACKIE), Tygo Gernandt
(RECKLESS, BOY 7), Patrick
Stoof (MIKE SAYS GOODBYE).
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Genre: comedy
Original title: DAMES 4
Prod: CTM Pictures
Sc: Lotte Tabbers
D.O.P.: Menno Mans
Completed: November 2014
Language: Dutch
Cast: Hannah van Lunteren
(THE NEW MOTHER), Jennifer
Hoffman (SPY OF ORANGE),
Ryanne van Dorst.
Maurice Trouwborst:
First feature film.
a.o. URFELD (2006, TV film),
LADYBIRD (2006, short), JEF
(2006, short).
CTM Pictures
Ph: +31 35 647 4040
pictures@ctm.nl
www.ctmpictures.nl
Anne de Clercq:
First feature film.
a.o. SARAH & HE (2007, short).
2CFILM
info@2cfilm.nl
www.2cfilm.nl
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FEATURE FILMS
LITTLE GANGSTER
Arne Toonen
LOST IN LAOS
Jonathan Kray & Vincent Lodder
After Coen receives a disturbing call from an Asian clinic telling him that his brother is very ill, he is unable to
make contact. The next day, however, he receives a
video from his brother saying that all is well and that
he’s back on the road. After a while even these videos
stop and his brother goes officially missing. Eventually,
after weeks of uncertainty and nightmares Coen seeks
closure by deciding to follow the same trail as his brother…
Rik (11) and his dad Paul are bullied by the kids in their
neighbourhood. Rik wishes his dad would be tougher.
Inspired by a mafia movie he saw on TV, Rik fantasizes
about being the son of a mafia boss. Everybody would
show him respect. So when his dad is promoted and
they move to a new town, Rik decides to tell everybody
his dad really is a mafia boss – but what happens when
his lies turn against him?
Genre: family, comedy
Original title: DE BOSKAMPI’S
Prod: Shooting Star
Filmcompany
Co-prod: Hazazah Pictures
Sc: Lotte Tabbers
D.O.P.: Rutger Storm
Completed: spring 2015
Language: Dutch
Cast: Henry van Loon, Thor
Braun, René van ‘t Hof.
Genre: drama, road movie
Original title: LOST IN LAOS
Prod: Frank’s Garage
Sc: Jonathan Kray, Vincent
Lodder
D.O.P.: Jonathan Kray
Laotian
Cast: Jonathan Kray, Vincent
Lodder (SEXTET, BROS BEFORE
HOS), Rob Yee, Paul John
McCormack.
Jonathan Kray & Vincent
Lodder:
First feature film.
Frank’s Garage
Ph: +31 6 2152 4811
frank@franksgarage.nl
www.franksgarage.nl
Awards: a.o. Best International
Short Cleveland IFF, Best
International Short Kerry FF,
Best Short Emden FF.
Shooting Star
Ph: +31 20 624 7272
info@shootingstar.nl
www.shootingstar.nl
Arne Toonen:
a.o. BLACK OUT (2011, feature),
CHUBBY DRUMS (2010, feature)
Awards: a.o Best European
Film and Audience Award
Schlingel Chemnitz Int. FF for
Children and Young Audience,
DROP DEAD! (2009, short)
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FEATURE FILMS
MR. TWISTER ON STAGE
MONKEY BUSINESS
Barbara Bredero
Johan Nijenhuis
MONKEY BUSINESS (3D) brings us back to the time before
education was compulsory. Many young children did
not go to school and were exploited in factories. When
orphan Tom manages to escape his orphanage to go to
school, Jet lets him hide at their farm. It is the start of a
summer full of new friendships, lots of mischief and
exciting adventures – while all the time trying to keep
Tom out of the orphanage.
90’ / DCP 3D / colour
The big end-of-term play is approaching. Tobias is
somewhat anxious, but with Mees Kees at the helm,
everything should be just fine. The class look forward to
rehearsing in the afternoons and to making beautiful
scenery – until they find out that Dreus has chosen a
terribly boring medieval play. Moreover, it is to be
staged in a dusty room within a nearby retirement
home. But Mees Kees wouldn’t be Mees Kees if he
didn’t put his own twist on things…
Genre: family comedy
Original title: MEES KEES OP DE
PLANKEN
Prod: PV Pictures
Co-prod: TROS
Sc: Tijs van Marle
D.O.P.: Coen Stroeve
Language: Dutch
Cast: Willem Voogd, Sanne
Wallis de Vries, Felix Osinga,
Brent Thomassen (before mentioned cast also featured in
MR. TWISTER AND MR. TWISTER
GOES CAMPING).
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Barbara Bredero:
a.o. MR. TWISTER GOES CAMPING
(2012, feature) Award:
Audience Award LUCAS Int.
Children’s FF, MR. TWISTER:
CLASS OF FUN (2012, feature)
Awards: a.o. Best of Fest Award
and Children’s Jury Prize
Chicago Int. Children’s FF.
Genre: family
Original title: APENSTREKEN
Prod: 2Houses
Co-prod: Farmhouse Film,
Johan Nijenhuis & Co
Sc: Lars Boom, Maarten Lebens
D.O.P.: Maarten van Keller
Completed: July 2015
Language: Dutch
Cast: Sanne Vogel (LOVING
IBIZA), Mike Weets (THE BLITZ),
Loek Peters (SECRETS OF WAR,
COOL KIDS DON’T CRY).
Johan Nijenhuis:
a.o. TUSCAN WEDDING (2014, feature), LOVING IBIZA (2013, feature),
BENNIE BRAT (2011, feature)
Award: Best Film Kryla Int.
Children’s FF, FUCHSIA THE
MINIWITCH (2010, feature) Awards:
a.o. Best Children’s Movie 6+
Giffoni FF, ALIBI (2008, feature),
ZOOP IN SOUTH AMERICA (2007,
feature), ZOOP IN INDIA (2006, feature), ZOOP IN AFRICA (2005, feature), FULL MOON (2002, feature),
COSTA! (2001, feature).
Farmhouse Film
www.farmhousefilm.nl
Johan Nijenhuis & Co
www.nijenhuisenco.nl
Sales: Mountain Road
Entertainment Group
Ph: +31 6 5394 8986
danielle@incrediblefilm.nl
www.mountainroad.nl
PV Pictures
Ph: +31 35 677 4776
mail@pvpictures.nl
www.pvpictures.nl
Ph: +31 35 677 4777
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FEATURE FILMS
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
THING IN THE WORLD
PAINKILLERS
Tessa Schram
Danyael Sugawara
Casper never knew his father and lives with his mother.
He loves to spend his spare time playing the piano and
he’s really happy when he is accepted into the youth
orchestra. Especially when he becomes friends with
orchestra member Anouk who knows what he’s going
through when, suddenly, he discovers that his mother is
seriously ill. She has cancer. Afraid of what might happen to her, Casper and his best friend Pim decide to
search for his father.
Sam and Do are struggling with love. They have been
together for five years, enjoying their lives and more
than happy. Although they are opposites, they complement and bring out the best in each other. But when Do
gives birth to their son Max, their world is turned
upside down. Doubt, different views on parenting and
unfinished things from the past cause a growing rift in
their relationship. Will love survive after the arrival of
their baby?
Genre: drama
Original title: HET MOOISTE WAT
ER IS
Prod: OAK Motion Pictures
Co-prod: EO
Sc: Jolein Laarman
D.O.P.: Ton Peters
Language: Dutch
Cast: Maarten Heijmans
(RAMSES), Sallie Harmsen (THE
HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING), Johanna
ter Steege (LILET NEVER
HAPPENED), Nadia Amin (THE
INTRUDER).
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Genre: highschool drama
Original title: PIJNSTILLERS
Prod: Shooting Star
Filmcompany
Co-prod: KRO
Sc: Maria Peters, Tessa
Schram
D.O.P.: Thijmen Doornik
Language: Dutch
Cast: Gijs Blom (BOYS, SICKOS),
Susan Radder (KAUWBOY,
QUIZ), Birgit Schuurman (BLACK
OUT, LOTUS).
Tessa Schram:
First feature film.
LOST AND FOUND (2012, short),
SAMMIE IS MISSING (2011, short).
Shooting Star
Ph: +31 20 624 7272
info@shootingstar.nl
www.shootingstar.nl
Entertainment Group
Ph: +31 6 5394 8986
www.mountainroad.nl
Danyael Sugawara:
FAITH (2012, short), AFTER YOU
(2011, short), UPSTREAM (2009,
feature) Awards: Golden Calf
Audience Award Netherlands
FF, Best Debut Brussels IFF.
OAK Motion Pictures
Ph: +31 20 717 3504
contact@oakmotionpictures.com
www.oakmotionpictures.com
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FEATURE FILMS
PRINCE
RAILMOVIE
Sam de Jong
Eddy Terstall & Eric Wünsch
Liza was three years old when she was abandoned by
her father Mauro. When she is about to be a parent herself, she tries to contact him, but her efforts are in vain.
But one day, Mauro approaches her and invites her to
visit him in Venice. He takes her on a musical voyage
along the route of the Orient Express: an emotional
road trip through the Balkans. Liza discovers why her
father contacted her: he is terminally ill.
A thrilling love story about Ayoub (17) who has been
crazy about Laura since he first saw her. The only problem is her engagement to the baddest boy in town. As
he pursues the means to conquer her heart he runs into
Kalpa, a self obsessed hustler. Through Kalpa's influence his world starts to fall apart and during the course
of one hallucinatory night, Ayoub must become a man
in order to save what is truly valuable to him.
Genre: drama
Original title: PRINS
Prod: 100% Halal
Co-prod: Vice
Sc: Sam de Jong
D.O.P.: Paul Ozgur
Language: Dutch
Cast: Ayoub Elasri, Sigrid ten
Napel (SUMMER, EVEN COWBOYS
GET TO CRY), Jorik Scholten,
Elsie de Brau.
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Sam de Jong:
First feature film.
a.o. MALAGUTI PHANTOM (2014,
short), MARC JACOBS (2013,
short), MAGNESIUM (2012, short)
Awards: a.o. Best Student Film
Hollyshorts FF, Audience
Award Beijing Int. Student FF.
Genre: drama, adventure
Original title: RAILMOVIE
Prod: Submarine, Fu Works,
OneBigAgency
Sc: Eddy Terstall
D.O.P.: Gábor Deák
Completed: February 2015
Language: English
Cast: Beppe Costa (VALENTINO,
TO BE KING), Roberta Petzoldt
(DEAL), Nikola Rakocevic.
Eddy Terstall:
a.o. DEAL (2012, feature),
TITTEN (2011, short), VOX
POPULI (2008, feature), SEXTET
(2007, feature), SIMON (2004,
feature) Awards: a.o. Golden
Calf Best Director, Best Film
and Audience Award
Netherlands FF, Best Actor
Tribeca FF, RENT-A-FRIEND
(1999, feature), BASED ON THE
NOVEL (1998, feature), BABYLON
(1997, feature), BASTARDS AND
BRIDESMAIDS (1996, feature).
Eric Wünsch:
DEAL (2012, feature).
Submarine
Ph: +31 20 330 1226
info@submarine.nl
www.submarine.nl
Sales: East West Film
Distribution
Ph: +43 1 5249 3103
sasha@eastwest-distribution.com
www.eastwest-distribution.com
100% Halal
Ph: +31 20 639 1402
contact@100procenthalal.nl
www.100procenthalal.nl
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FEATURE FILMS
SUNNY SIDE UP
UNDERCOVER
Lourens Blok
Boris Paval Conen
When young female police officer Nurgül Özdemir is
assigned an undercover mission in Amsterdam she
must leave behind her homesick father and dependent
mother in an attempt to find out what she wants with
her life. In Amsterdam, Nurgül gets to play a key role in
the exposure of a drug dealer but during the mission
finds out secrets about her long lost brother - and the
real reason why she was sent to Amsterdam…
Daan and Judith form the perfect couple: young, attractive, full-blooded Amsterdammers. For their sixth
anniversary, they decide on a romantic weekend on an
island off the north coast. But they have chosen the
wrong weekend. Once a year, the islanders celebrate
Sunderum, a traditional event at which outsiders are
not welcome. The islanders politely ask the couple to
leave, but when they refuse, the torment begins. Cracks
in their relationship gradually come to light and old
demons start to resurface…
Genre: thriller
Original title: SUNNY SIDE UP
Prod: Pupkin Film
Co-prod: BNN
Sc: Willem Bosch
D.O.P.: Jacco van Ree
Language: Dutch
Cast: Egbert-Jan Weeber
(HEART STREET, SAINT), Hannah
Hoekstra (APP, HEMEL), Ko
Zandvliet (BOYS, EVEN
COWBOYS GET TO CRY).
Genre: thriller, drama
Original title: UNDERCOVER
Prod: Dutch Mountain Film
Co-prod: KRO, NCRV
Sc: Boris Paval
Conen
D.O.P.: Lennart Verstegen
Language: Dutch/Turkish/
English
Cast: Meral Polat (FIDGETY
BRAM, ODD ONE OUT), Nasrdin
Dchar (THE INTRUDER, WOLF),
Romijn Conen (EXIT, SISTER),
Ali Ben Horsting (LIVE!, HEMEL).
Boris Paval Conen:
a.o. BETWEEN ENTRANCE AND
EXIT (2013, short), EXIT (2013,
feature), MISTER BRAKER (2012,
short), FIRST MISSION (2010,
feature), MIGRATING BIRD (2009,
short), CAR MEN (2006, short)
Awards: a.o. Prix Italia, Grand
Prize IF Films on Art, DILEMMA
(2005, short) Awards: a.o.
Grand Prize Tehran Short FF.
Dutch Mountain Film
Ph: +31 20 688 1843
info@dutchmountainfilm.nl
www.dutchmountainfilm.nl
ture), STAY! (2011, feature)
Awards: Amnesty Int. Award
Giffoni FF, Best Children’s Film
Hamburg FF, Don Quijote
Award LUCAS Int. Children’s
FF, THE SEVEN OF DARAN (2008,
feature) Awards: Best Feature
Sprockets IFF Toronto, Best
Feature Cairo IFF, LOVE, DEATH
AND AIR GUITAR (2006, short).
Pupkin Film
Ph: +31 20 489 5088
info@pupkin.com
www.pupkin.com
Lourens Blok:
a.o. BOY 7 (2014, feature),
FRESHERS (2014, feature), A
CHRISTMOOSE STORY (2013, fea-
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FEATURE FILMS
VIPER’S NEST 2
WALDSTILLE
Will Koopman
Martijn Maria Smits
Ben, a truck driver, returns from Spain to spend the
weekend together with his girlfriend Tinka and their little son. That night the couple get drunk at a party and
quarrel in the car on the way home. Things get so badly
out of hand that Ben causes a collision in which Tinka
is killed. Two years later, Ben returns home to confront
his embittered parents-in-law who have taken care of
his son…
When Claire returns from Burkina Faso, she is totally
transformed and her girlfriends barely recognize her.
Cheryl discovers Martin is cheating on her yet again and
for her, this time it’s the last straw: she files for divorce.
Anouk, also unhappy with her love life, threatens to
develop an eating disorder. Roelien, however, accepts
Evert’s wedding proposal. Then, a fatal and thoroughly
bizarre accident transports the girlfriends to the snowy
mountaintops of Austria…
Genre: comedy
Original title: GOOISCHE
VROUWEN 2
Prod: Talpa Fictie
Sc: Frank Houtappels
D.O.P.: Tom Erisman
Language: Dutch/English
Cast: Linda de Mol (VIPER’S
NEST, THE DARK HOUSE), Tjitske
Reidinga (VIPER’S NEST, THE
RENOVATION), Susan Visser
(VIPER’S NEST, TAPED), Lies
Visschedijk (SOOF, IT’S ALL SO
QUIET).
EYE International
L’ÉTÉ
(2010, feature), ANVERS
(2009, short) Awards: Golden
Calf Best TV Drama
Netherlands FF, FIPA d’Or
Grand Prize, OTZENRATH: LAST
DAY (2006, short).
Genre: drama
Original title: WALDSTILLE
Prod: Circe Films
Sc: Martijn Maria Smits
D.O.P.: Frank van den Eeden
Language: Dutch
Cast: Thomas Ryckewaert
(KENAU).
Circe Films
Ph: +31 20 625 3591
films@circe.nl
www.circe.nl
Martijn Maria Smits:
FOR EMILIA (2014, TV film),
UNDER THE WEIGHT OF CLOUDS
(2012, TV film), C’EST DÉJÀ
Will Koopman:
a.o. THE RENOVATION (2012,
feature), VIPER’S NEST (2011,
feature), THE DARK HOUSE
(2009, feature).
Talpa Fictie
Ph: +31 35 533 3539
adoff@talpa.tv
www.talpa.tv
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FEATURE FILMS
THE WOLF’S GAME
Thomas Korthals Altes
Anger percolates through society when Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh is killed on an Amsterdam street by a
man police describe as a Muslim extremist. The murder
adds new fuel to the public debate over ultra-conservative Islam within Europe's most liberal society. The
Secret Service is now awake and the agent Ellen Maas
will delve deeply to find out the truth and to do the best
for the country - even if these two concerns prove contradictory.
Genre: drama
Original title: 2/11 – HET SPEL
VAN DE WOLF
Prod: Column Film
Co-prod: VPRO
Sc: Theodor Holman, Gijs van
de Westelaken
D.O.P.: Thomas Kist
Arabic
Cast: Susan Visser (VIPER’S
NEST, TAPED), Johan Leysen
(THE AMERICAN, GLUCKAUF),
Pierre Bokma (BORGMAN, QUIZ),
William Hope (ALIENS,
HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER 2).
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Thomas Korthals Altes:
DEAR CELINE (2012, feature),
FINNEMANS (2010, short), VERA
(2008, short).
Column Film
Ph: +31 20 572 2700
info@columnfilm.com
www.columnfilm.com
Sales: Media Luna New
Films
Ph: +49 221 5109 1891
info@medialuna.biz
www.medialuna.biz
EYE International
THE ADMIRAL
ANDRÉ HAZES,
THE BIOPIC
Roel Reiné
Diederik Koopal
The turbulent life story of famous Dutch singer André
Hazes is told through three important stages of his life;
his rough upbringing in the 60’s, his breakthrough in
the 80’s and the months leading up to his untimely
death in 2004.
Length tbc / DCP / colour
Genre: biopic
Original title: BLOED, ZWEET &
TRANEN
Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676) was one of the principal
and most passionate innovators in the history of combat engineering, and consequently became a naval hero
in Holland. As the deeply torn Netherlands is attacked
from all sides, and seems on the verge of civil war, one
man tries to fight for the interests of his country:
Michiel de Ruyter. But in the eyes of those in power, his
successes have made him too popular. Michiel therefore is sent on a deadly mission…
Genre: historical drama
Original title: MICHIEL DE RUYTER
Prod: Farmhouse Film (NL)
Co-prod: Ciné Cri de Coeur (BE)
Sc: Lars Boom, Alex van Galen
D.O.P.: Roel Reiné
Cast: Frank Lammers (THE
MARATHON, GANG OF OSS),
Charles Dance (GAME OF
THRONES), Will Bowden (THE
DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN), Derek
de Lint (A CHRISTMOOSE STORY,
BLACKBOOK).
Prod: Lemming Film (NL)
Co-prod: A Private View (BE)
Sc: Frank Ketelaar
D.O.P.: Bert Pot
Completed: March 2015
Language: Dutch
Cast: Martijn Fischer (MISTER
TWISTER GOES CAMPING),
Hadewych Minis (BORGMAN),
Matheu Hinzen, Marcel
Hensema (FAREWELL TO THE
MOON), Raymond Thiry
(BETWEEN 10 AND 12).
Diederik Koopal:
THE MARATHON (2012, feature).
Lemming Film
Ph: +31 20 661 0424
info@lemmingfilm.com
www.lemmingfilm.com
(2012, feature), SCORPION KING:
BATTLE FOR REDEMPTION (2011,
feature), WOLF (2010, feature),
DEATH RACE 2 (2010, feature),
BEAR (2009, feature), THE
MARINE II (2009, feature),
PRIMAL/THE LOST TRIBE (2008,
feature).
Farmhouse Film
Ph: +31 51 153 9510
info@farmhousefilm.nl
www.farmhousefilm.nl
Sales: Arclight Films
Ph: +1 818 426 6359
clay@arclightfilms.com
www.arclightfilms.com
Roel Reiné:
a.o. DEAD IN TOMBSTONE (2013,
feature), DEATH RACE: INFERNO
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BEYOND SLEEP
BOY 7
Boudewijn Koole
Lourens Blok
When Sam (18) regains consciousness in the middle of
a crowded subway, he does not know how he got there,
where he came from or what his name is. He frantically
searches for his identity, desperately examining the
contents of his backpack. Little by little he begins to
realize that his life is in great danger…
A young man’s mythical quest for a stone that fell from
the sky. He searches, stumbles and suffers as he traverses the sadistic universe of Northern Europe, finding
redemption only on the very edge of madness. BEYOND
SLEEP is based on the Dutch iconic novel Nooit meer
slapen by W.F. Hermans, which has sold more than two
million copies.
Genre: book adaptation,
drama
Original title: BEYOND SLEEP
Prod: KeyFilm (NL)
Co-prod: Neofilm (NO)
Sc: Boudewijn Koole
D.O.P.: Melle van Essen
Language: English
Cast: Reinout Scholten van
Aschat (BORGMAN, THE
HEINEKEN KIDNAPPING), Pål
Sverre Hagen (KRAFTIDIOTEN),
Anders Baasmo Christiansen
(KRAFTIDIOTEN), Thorbjørn Harr
(ZWEI LEBEN).
Boudewijn Koole:
a.o. KAUWBOY (2012, feature)
Awards: a.o. Grand Prix
EYE International
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk
Award for Best Youth Film and
Best First Feature Award Berlin
IFF, Special Mention Buenos
Aires IF, EFCA Award and Film
& Kino Award Kristiansand Int.
Children’s FF, European Film
Academy Young Audience
Award and European Film
Academy European Discovery
of the Year, OFF GROUND (2013,
short), MAITE (2009, TV film).
Genre: teen thriller
Original title: BOY 7
Co-prod: Proton Film (HU), A
Private View (BE)
Sc: Marco van Geffen, Philip
Delmaar, based on the book by
Mirjam Mous
D.O.P.: Jasper Wolf
Language: Dutch
Cast: Matthijs van de Sande
Bakhuyzen (DUSK), Ella-June
Henrard (LOVE IS THE WORD),
Tygo Gernandt (RECKLESS),
Halina Reijn (GIFT FROM THE
HEART).
Lourens Blok:
a.o. SUNNY SIDE UP (2014, feature), FRESHERS (2014, feature),
A CHRISTMOOSE STORY (2013,
feature), STAY! (2011, feature)
Awards: Amnesty Int. Award
Giffoni FF, Best Children’s Film
Hamburg FF, Don Quijote
Award LUCAS Int. Children’s
FF, THE SEVEN OF DARAN (2008,
feature) Awards: Best Feature
Sprockets IFF Toronto, Best
Feature Cairo IFF, LOVE, DEATH
AND AIR GUITAR (2006, short).
Lemming Film
Ph: +31 20 661 0424
www.lemmingfilm.com
Sales: Attraction
Distribution
Ph: +1 514 846 1222 info@attractiondistribution.ca
www.attractiondistribution.ca
KeyFilm
Ph: +31 20 423 1596
info@keyfilm.nl
www.keyfilm.nl
Sales: TrustNordisk
Ph: +45 3 686 8788
info@trustnordisk.com
www.trustnordisk.com
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CLEAN HANDS
EISENSTEIN IN
GUANAJUATO
Tjebbo Penning
Peter Greenaway
1931. Eisenstein, the greatest filmmaker of all time, at
that heaven-sent age of 33, loses his virginity in
Guanajuato, Mexico during a ten-day love affair. Maybe
not Ten Days that Shook the World, but Ten Days that
Shook Eisenstein.
110’ / DCP/ colour
Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband
Eddie’s flourishing drug business. When his dealing
takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to
protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his
wife inside the ‘family’.
Genre: crime drama
Original title: SCHONE HANDEN
Prod: Phanta Film (NL)
Co-prod: Eyeworks Film & TV
Drama (BE), Mulholland
Pictures (NL)
Sc: Carl Joos
D.O.P.: Danny Elsen
Completed: June 2015
Language: Dutch
Cast: Thekla Reuten
(ATLANTIC., THE DINNER), Jeroen
van Koningsbrugge (A
CHRISTMOOSE STORY, LOVE IS
THE WORD).
Athens Int. Film and Video
Fest., MY 9/11 (2006, short
doc) Awards: 3rd prize Short
Doc Athens Ohio FF, Student
Jury Prize Doc en Courts,
MORLANG (2001, feature)
Awards: Best Debut Film &
Best Actor Cairo IFF, Best
Thriller Houston IFF.
Genre: love story
Original title: EISENSTEIN IN
GUANAJUATO
Prod: Submarine (NL)
Co-prod: Fu Works (NL),
Paloma Negra (MX), Edith Film
(FI), Potemkino (BE)
Sc: Peter Greenaway
D.O.P.: Reinier van
Brummelen
Completed: early 2015
Language: Spanish/English/
Russian
Cast: Elmer Bäck, Rasmus
Slätis, Jacob Örman, Luis
Alberti.
Peter Greenaway:
a.o. GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN
COMPANY (2012, feature), THE
MARRIAGE (2009, doc),
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE (2008,
doc), NIGHTWATCHING (2007,
feature), WRITING ON THE WATER
(2005, short), THE TULSE LUPER
SUITCASES (2004, feature).
Submarine
Ph: +31 20 330 1226
info@submarine.nl
www.submarine.nl
Sales: Rezo Films
Ph: +33 1 4246 9603
infosrezo@rezofilms.com
www.rezofilms.com
Phanta Film
Ph: +31 20 626 0255
film@phantavision.com
www.phantavision.com
Tjebbo Penning:
a.o. GREAT KILLS ROAD (2009,
feature) Awards: Best Director
and Best Drama NYC
Downtown FF, 3rd Prize
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THE ESCAPE
FULL CONTACT
Ineke Houtman
David Verbeek
FULL CONTACT is a film about a UAV pilot who takes out
targets in the Afghan/Pakistani border area while sitting
in the Creech Air Force Base in the Nevada desert, just
outside of Las Vegas. Both at work and in his private
life, Ivan feels the need to be in control. Which is why
he is a lonely character, because to surrender to love
would mean giving up the control he craves.
Julia promised her deceased brother Jimmy that she’d
live a glorious life of adventure and excitement. Twenty
years on, she has failed: a boring job, a terraced house,
2 kids and a decent husband who tries to bring order to
the house with schedules and charts. But it is not too
late to make up for lost time. On the 20th anniversary of
Jimmy’s death, after a big row with her husband, Julia
decides to make radical changes to her life...
Genre: drama
Original title: DE ONTSNAPPING
Prod: Mountain Road
Entertainment Group (NL),
Incredible Film (NL)
Co-prod: Marmelade Films
(BE)
Sc: Mirjam Oomkes, Olga
Ponjee
D.O.P.: Jeroen de Bruin
Completed: April 2015
Cast: Isa Hoes (QUEEN OF
AMSTERDAM, WENTWORTH),
Edwin Jonker, Rik Mayall
(BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES),
Matthijs van de Sande
Bakhuyzen (KENAU, BLOOD
BROTHERS).
EYE International
Ineke Houtman:
a.o. THOSE WERE THE DAYS
(2014, feature), MY GRANDPA
THE BANKROBBER (2010, feature)
Awards: a.o. UNICEF Prize
Vienna IFF for Young People,
THE INDIAN (2009, feature)
Awards: a.o. Best Film BUFF
FF, 2nd place Adult Jury Prize
Chicago Int. Children’s FF,
SILENT NIGHT (2004, feature),
POLLEKE (2003, feature)
Awards: a.o. Best Feature and
Best Screenplay Rimouski FF,
Jury Award Ale Kino! Int.
Young Audience FF.
Genre: drama
Original title: FULL CONTACT
Co-prod: Nukleus Film (HR)
Sc: David Verbeek
Language: French/English/
Arabic
Cast: Grégoire Colin (JE M’APPELLE HMMM…), Lizzie Brocheré
(LA MARQUE DES ANGES),
Slimane Dazi (ONLY LOVERS
LEFT ALIVE).
David Verbeek:
a.o. HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD
(2013, feature), IMMORTELLE
(2013, short), CLUB ZEUS (2011,
feature) Awards: Return of the
Tiger Award IFF Rotterdam, R
U THERE (2010, feature),
SHANGHAI TRANCE (2008, feature), MELODY Z (2007, short),
SUICIDE HOLIDAY (2005, short),
BEAT (2004, feature).
Lemming Film
Ph: +31 20 661 0424
www.lemmingfilm.com
Sales: BAC Films
Ph: +33 1 5353 5252
sales@bacfilms.fr
www.bacfilms.com
Mountain Road
Entertainment Group
Ph: +31 6 5394 8986
www.mountainroad.nl
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GIFT FROM THE HEART
HISTORY’S FUTURE
Kees van Nieuwkerk
Fiona Tan
After losing his memory following a mugging, a man
known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves home and
sets out on a journey. As he travels from country to
country, through a series of strange, illuminating and
sometimes comic encounters, MP gains insight into the
complexity of life in the 21st Century West.
Brothers Tom and Niek run the family costume shop.
Former soapstar Tom takes nothing seriously. Niek, on
the other hand, is a workaholic, and has recently separated from his wife. As the brothers prepare for the busy
holiday season, attractive Julia walks through the door
with an offer they can’t refuse - to participate in a
ground-breaking ad campaign. The brothers find themselves in a whirlwind of family issues, national cultural
matters and romance, after which neither will ever be
the same.
Genre: romantic comedy
Original title: PAK VAN MIJN HART
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV
Drama (NL)
Co-prod: Living Stone (BE),
RTL Entertainment (NL),
Inspire Pictures (NL)
Sc: Jacqueline Epskamp
D.O.P.: Daan Nieuwenhuijs
Cast: Chantal Jansen (SOOF,
LOVE IS ALL), Fedja van Huêt
(ACCUSED, THE ZIGZAG KID),
Halina Reijn (BOY 7, ISABELLE).
Benja Bruijning (HEART STREET,
THE FAMILY WAY).
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Genre: drama
Original title: HISTORY’S FUTURE
Prod: Family Affair Films (NL)
Co-prod: Rohfilm (DE), Vico
Film–Cormac Fox (IE),
Antithesis Films (NL)
Sc: Fiona Tan, Jonathan
Romney
D.O.P.: Vladas Naudzius
Completed: May 2015
Language: English/German/
French/Dutch
Cast: Mark O’Halloran
(CALVARY, A KISS FOR JED
WOOD), Denis Lavant (XI YOU,
MARUSSIA), Anne Consigny
(THE DIVING BELL AND THE
BUTTERFLY), Hristos Passalis
(BLACK FIELD, DOGTOOTH).
Fiona Tan:
First feature film.
Family Affair Films
Ph: +31 20 707 1713
info@familyaffairfilms.nl
www.familyaffairfilms.nl
Sales: Mongrel Media
Ph: +1 416 516 9775
info@mongrelmedia.com
www.mongrelmedia.com
Kees van Nieuwkerk:
TALL TALES (2010, feature).
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Ph: +31 20 666 1892
vincent.fielmich@eyeworks.tv
www.eyeworks.tv
Entertainment Group
Ph: +31 6 5394 8986
www.mountainroad.nl
EYE International
IN THE HEART
J. KESSELS
Nicole van Kilsdonk
Erik de Bruyn
J. KESSELS is both a hilarious road movie and a bittersweet trip down memory lane, a crazy ride in a flameadorned Toyata Kamikaze from provincial Holland to
Hamburg’s Reeperbahn and back. And a hallucinatory
trip through the mind of an author, who no longer
knows if his novel is a product of his own imagination,
or if he is actually living it.
Masha, a 37-year-old biologist, meets general practitioner Luuk (47) at the butterfly garden where she
works. The two are irresistibly attracted to one another
and fall in love. Luuk’s daughters find it hard to accept
their father’s new girlfriend and they struggle with
divided loyalties. Their mother refuses to accept the
new situation as well. Nevertheless, despite all the tensions within the family, Luuk and Masha decide to
build a new life together. At which point tragedy
strikes…
Genre: drama
Original title: ONDER HET HART
Prod: Waterland Film (NL)
Co-prod: A Private View (BE)
Sc: Peer Wittenbols
D.O.P.: Richard van
Oosterhout
Completed: December 2014
Language: Dutch
Cast: Kim van Kooten (THE
FAMILY WAY), Koen de Graeve
(LIFE ACCORDING TO NINO), Lies
Visschedijk (SOOF), Frank
Lammers (THE MARATHON).
Genre: black comedy
Original title: J. KESSELS
Prod: CTM Pictures (NL)
Co-prod: CZAR TV (BE)
Sc: Jan Eilander
D.O.P.: Danny Elsen
Completed: autumn 2015
Language: Dutch/German
Cast: Fedja van Huêt
(ACCUSED, SOOF), Frank
Lammers (THE ADMIRAL, THE
MARATHON).
Erik de Bruyn:
a.o. GUITARBOYS (2013, doc),
THE PRESIDENT (2011, feature),
NADINE (2007, feature), WILD
MUSSELS (2000, feature)
Awards: a.o. Critics Award
Moscow IFF.
CTM Pictures
Ph: +31 35 647 4040
pictures@ctm.nl
www.ctmpictures.nl
feature), SECURITY (2009, TV
film), HOW TO SURVIVE MYSELF
(2008, feature), JOHAN (2004,
feature) Awards: Best Film
Houston FF, Best Director
Palm Beach FF, MAKING WAVES
(2003, TV film) Award: Golden
Calf Best TV Drama
Netherlands FF, MORNING
SWIMMERS (2001, TV film).
Waterland Film
Ph: +31 20 763 0663
mail@waterlandfilm.nl
www.waterlandfilm.nl
Nicole van Kilsdonk:
a.o. TAKING CHANCES (2011,
feature), HEADING WEST (2010,
EYE International
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KIDNAP – BO’S MOST
EXCITING HOLIDAY EVER
Diederik Ebbinge
LIFE ACCORDING
TO NINO
Simone van Dusseldorp
The sudden death of his mum turns the family life of 8year-old Nino upside down. With his dad suffering from
depression and his big brother in a street gang, Nino is
left to his own devices. But Nino has a special talent: he
can talk to animals! His pet rabbit Bobby can offer him
comfort, but when will Nino get his family back?
Bo is the only child of rich parents, and goes to the best
international boarding school in Europe. But when he
is kidnapped at the beginning of the school holiday, his
rich, safe and secluded world is turned upside down.
However, during their cross-country trip back to the
Netherlands to meet the ransom deadline, Bo and his
abductor Fred, a lovable loser, forge a strange friendship…
Genre: family, comedy
Original title: KIDNEP
Prod: Topkapi Films (NL)
Co-prod: The Storytellers Film
& TV (NL), Menuet (BE), Mona
Film Produktion (AT)
Sc: Karen van Holst Pellekaan
D.O.P.: Dennis Wielaert
Language: Dutch
Cast: Martin van Waardenberg
(THE MARATHON, THE LOONIES),
Teun Stokkel (THE NEW WORLD),
Steven Van Watermeulen
(CONFETTI HARVEST), Ruth
Becquart (SED LEKS, MADLY IN
LOVE).
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Diederik Ebbinge:
MATTERHORN (2013, feature)
Awards: a.o. Audience Award
IFF Rotterdam, Audience
Award, Russian Film Critics
Award and Best Film Award of
the Russian Filmclub
Association Moscow IFF, Best
Debut Film IFF Valladolid,
SUCCESS (2008, short) Award:
Best Short Film Fernand
Raynaud Award ClermontFerrand Int. Short FF.
Genre: family
Original title: HET LEVEN VOLGENS NINO
Prod: Family Affair Films (NL),
Waterland Film (NL)
Co-prod: Savage Film (BE),
NTR (NL)
Sc: Urszula Antoniak
D.O.P.: Lennert Hillege
Language: Dutch
Cast: Rohan Timmermans,
Koen de Graeve (WITH FRIENDS
LIKE THESE, THE MISFORTUNATES),
Arend Bouwmeester, Rifka
Lodeizen (BOYS, HEMEL).
Simone van Dusseldorp:
a.o. THE SECRET LETTER (2010,
feature) Award: Jury Award
Buenos Aires IFF for Children
and Youth Nueva Mirada,
FROGS & TOADS (2009, feature)
Awards: a.o. Golden Cairo
Award Cairo IFF, Audience
Award Kristiansand Int.
Children’s FF, DEEP (2005,
feature) Awards: a.o. Best Film
Tout Ecran FF Geneva.
Family Affair Films
Ph: +31 20 707 1713
Sales: Attraction
Distribution
Topkapi Films
Ph: +31 20 303 2494
info@topkapifilms.nl
www.topkapifilms.nl
EYE International
MIRACLE MONKS
OUR SUN
Johan Timmers
Joost van Ginkel
We follow six characters who have nothing more in
common than their alien status, who have moved, voluntarily or involuntarily, to Amsterdam. Yet they influence each other’s lives inexorably: in the darkest of
times, love and friendship appear to be the drivers that
offer each a future of hope and happiness. OUR SUN
takes us to worlds that exist in the shadows of our own
lives and is a raw and poetic ode to the human capacity
for survival.
Five monks live harmoniously in the monastery but suddenly their peace is disturbed by a gang of construction
workers. The leader of the church sold the monastery to
the town council, and now their beloved home is destined to become a spa! The monks’ desperate attempts
to stop this situation seem in vain, but then - a miracle!
The monastery is saved. But that is just the start of their
troubles…
Genre: comedy
Original title: WONDERBROEDERS
Prod: Eyeworks Film & TV
Drama (NL)
Co-prod: Eyeworks (BE),
Inspire Pictures (NL), RTL
Entertainment (NL)
Sc: Martin van Waardenberg,
Johan Timmers
Language: Dutch
Cast: Martin van Waardenberg
(THE MARATHON), Thomas Acda
(CHEZ NOUS, THE MARATHON),
Ton Kas (MATTERHORN, THE
DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END),
Egbert-Jan Weeber (FIDGETY
BRAM, STAY!).
EYE International
Johan Timmers:
a.o. LOONIES 2 (2014, feature),
THE ODD ONE OUT (2010,
feature), DOBLI (2006, short),
THE CATCHER (2003, TV film).
Genre: mosaic drama
Original title: OUR SUN
Prod: PRPL (NL), Bastide
Films (NL)
Co-prod: GötaFilm (SE), Film I Väst
(SE), KaBoAl Pictures (BU)
Sc: Joost van Ginkel
D.O.P.: Andréas Lennartsson
Completed: spring/summer
2015
Language: English/Bulgarian/
French/Swedish/SerbianBosnian
Cast: Anjela Nedyalkova (AVÉ),
Jasna Djuricic (WHITE WHITE
WORLD), Issaka Sawadogo
(THE INVADER), Magnus Krepper
(DAYBREAK), Boris Isakovic
(CIRCLES).
Joost van Ginkel:
170HZ (2011, feature) Awards:
Aluminium Gryphon (16+)
Giffoni FF, Audience Award
FEST Int. Youth FF Espinho,
KISS (2009, short), SAND (2008,
short) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix
Int. Short FF Courts Devant,
Best Foreign Film Miami Short
FF.
PRPL
Ph: +31 20 737 0189
info@prpl.nl
www.prpl.nl
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama
Ph: +31 20 666 1892
vincent.fielmich@eyeworks.tv
www.eyeworks.tv
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PUBLIC WORKS
RENDEZ-VOUS
Joram Lürsen
Antoinette Beumer
Simone (34) needs a change. Together with her husband Eric and their two children, she buys a decrepit
mansion in the south of France, her intention to turn it
into a home and B&B. As the chaos of the renovation
builds, Simone embarks on a thrilling affair with one of
the French construction workers, the gorgeous twentyyear-old Michel. Slowly she loses control of her life and
the perfect French dream turns into her worst nightmare.
1888: Lutheran Vedder must give up his home in central
Amsterdam to allow construction of the new Victoria
Hotel. His cousin Anijs, a provincial pharmacist, is in a
fix after illegal medical practices and is looking for a
way out not only for himself and his wife but for a
colony of peat-cutters to whom he promised a future in
the US. Vedder and Anijs must therefore devise a
scheme that will fully benefit everybody. But with tragic
consequences.
Genre: modern historical
drama
Original title: PUBLIEKE WERKEN
Prod: Topkapi Films (NL)
Co-prod: Menuet (BE), I’m Film
(HU), Mythberg Films (HU),
VPRO (NL)
Sc: Frank Ketelaar
D.O.P.: Mark van Aller
Language: Dutch
Cast: Gijs Scholten van Aschat
(THE POOL, MANSLAUGHTER),
Jacob Derwig (THE FAMILY WAY,
THE DINNER), Rifka Lodeizen
(BOYS, LIFE ACCORDING TO
NINO).
Joram Lürsen:
a.o. RECKLESS (2014, feature),
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THE FAMILY WAY (2012, feature),
ALFIE, THE LITTLE WEREWOLF
(2011, feature) Awards: a.o.
Best Children’s Film Tallinn
Black Nights, THE MAGICIANS
Audience Award Copenhagen
Int. Children's FF Buster,
Special Jury Prize Montréal Int.
Children's FF, Audience Award
Kristiansand Int. Children’s FF,
LOVE IS ALL (2007, feature), IN
ORANGE (2004, feature) Awards:
a.o Jury Special Mention and
Audience Award Hamburg FF,
Audience Award Kristiansand
Int. Children’s FF.
Genre: thriller
Original title: RENDEZ-VOUS
Prod: Millstreet Films (NL)
Co-prod: FBO Films (BE)
Sc: Marjolein Beumer, Dorien
Goertzen
Language: Dutch/French/
English
Cast: Pierre Boulanger (MONTE
CARLO), Loes Haverkort (GIFT
FROM THE HEART), Mark van
Eeuwen (KIDNAPPING FREDDY
HEINEKEN), Peter Paul Muller
(VIPER’S NEST).
Antoinette Beumer:
SOOF (2013, feature), JACKIE
(2012, feature) Awards:
Audience Award
Dortmund/Cologne Int.
Women’s FF, Golden Arena
Best Film and Young
Cinephiles Award Pula FF,
LOFT (2012, feature), THE
HAPPY HOUSEWIFE (2010, feature).
Millstreet Films
Ph: +31 6 4626 6566
info@millstreetfilms.nl
www.millstreetfilms.nl
Topkapi Films
Ph: +31 20 303 2494
www.topkapifilms.nl
EYE International
SCHNEIDER VS. BAX
THE SKY ABOVE US
Alex van Warmerdam
Marinus Groothof
Every day Ana, Sloba and Bojan put their lives at great
risk, simply by going to work. Their jobs are in or next to
the national television building in Belgrade which,
because of the war, has become a strategic target for
NATO bombings. All three force themselves to deal with
the fear in order to hold on to their ordinary lives. But
the concept of “ordinary” ceased to exist some time ago.
On his birthday, hit man Schneider’s target is Ramon
Bax, a writer. It’s an easy job. It’ll be over before noon.
Schneider reluctantly accepts. Bax is recovering from a
night of drugs and alcohol. When his daughter
Francisca arrives, depressed and unhappy, they quarrel
and she starts to cry. Bax suppresses his discomfort
with vodka, a joint and some haphazardly chosen pills.
What seems a simple hit job for Schneider turns out to
be a lot more complicated…
Genre: crime
Original title: SCHNEIDER VS. BAX
Prod: Graniet Film (NL)
Co-prod: CZAR TV (BE), VARA
(NL)
Sc: Alex van Warmerdam
D.O.P.: Tom Erisman
Completed: spring/summer
2015
Language: Dutch
Cast: Tom Dewispelaere
(BORGMAN), Alex van
Warmerdam (THE LAST DAYS OF
EMMA BLANK), Maria Kraakman
(SCRAP WOOD WAR, HUNTING &
SONS), Annet Malherbe
(ACCUSED, BORGMAN).
EYE International
Genre: drama
Original title: THE SKY ABOVE
US
Prod: CTM LEV Pictures (NL)
Co-prod: Art & Popcorn (RS),
Entre Chien et Loup (BE),
Heretic (GR)
Sc: Marinus Groothof
D.O.P.: Ruben Impens
Language: Serbian
Cast: Boris Isaković (ORDINARY
PEOPLE), Nada Sargin (NOT THE
END), Nikola Rakocevic
(WARRIOR OF SATAN).
Marinus Groothof:
First feature film.
a.o. MIRRORING (2011, short)
Award: Best Experimental Film
Belgrade Doc and Short FF,
SUNSET FROM A ROOFTOP (2009,
short), MORNING TO NOON (2008,
short).
CTM Pictures
Ph: +31 35 647 4040
pictures@ctm.nl
www.ctmpictures.nl
Alex van Warmerdam:
a.o. BORGMAN (2013, feature)
Awards: a.o. Best Film Sitges
Int. Fantastic FF, Golden
Tower Award Best Film Palić
European FF, THE LAST DAYS
OF EMMA BLANK (2008, feature)
Awards: European Cinema
Award Venice IFF, WAITER
(2006, feature), GRIMM (2003,
feature).
Graniet Film
Ph: +31 20 606 0630
info@granietfilm.nl
www.granietfilm.nl
Sales: Fortissimo
Ph: +31 20 627 3215
info@fortissimo.nl
www.fortissimo.nl
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THE SURPRISE
THE SWORD OF
D’ARTAGNAN
Mike van Diem
Dennis Bots
Against her family’s wishes, strong-willed Isabel (11)
takes over her ailing grandfather’s search for musketeer
D’Artagnan’s legendary lost sword. Joined by her cousin
Rik (13) and friend Jules (12), her only clue is a secret
code that can only be broken if they act like true musketeers. The thrilling search takes them through caves
and castles, but they soon discover they are not the only
ones looking. Can Isabel find the sword and reunite her
divided family in the process?
An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to
have his life terminated. While selecting his coffin he
meets a young woman who has signed up for the same
arrangement. But when the couple fall in love, getting
out of the contract proves troublesome…
Genre: drama
Original title: DE SURPRISE
Prod: N279 Entertainment
(NL), FATT Productions (NL),
Spinnaker Productions (NL)
Co-prod: Prime Time (BE),
Fastnet Films (IE), Riva (DE)
Sc: Mike van Diem
D.O.P.: Rogier Stoffers
Language: Dutch/English/Hindi
Cast: Jeroen van
Koningsburgge (HEAVEN ON
EARTH, LOFT), Georgina
Verbaan (FAMILY WAY, LOTUS),
Jan Decleir (NOVA ZEMBLA,
LOFT), Henry Goodman
(NOTTING HILL, TAKING
WOODSTOCK).
Mike van Diem:
30
a.o. CHARACTER (1997, feature)
Awards: a.o. Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language
Film, Grand Prix Los Angeles
IFF, Grand Jury Prize AFI
Fest., ALASKA (1989, short)
Awards: Student Academy
Award for Best Foreign Film,
Golden Calf Best Short
Netherlands FF.
Genre: family
Original title: CODE M
Prod: Bijker Film & TV (NL)
Co-prod: Elbe Stevens Films
(NL), Living Stone (BE)
Sc: Tijs van Marle, Karen van
Holst Pellekaan
D.O.P.: Dennis Wielaert
Language: Dutch
Cast: Nina Wyss (RHUBARB),
Joes Brauers (SECRETS OF
WAR), Senna Borsato (WITCHES
DON’T EXIST), Derek de Lint (A
CHRISTMOOSE STORY).
Dennis Bots:
a.o. SECRETS OF WAR (2014,
feature) Awards: Golden Calf
Special Jury Award
Netherlands FF, Jury Prize
Chicago Int. Children's FF,
COOL KIDS DON’T CRY (2012,
feature) Awards: a.o. Audience
Award TIFF Kids IFF.
Bijker Film & TV
Ph: +31 20 226 0100
harro@bijker.tv
www.bijker.tv
Sales: Sola Media
Ph: +49 71 1479 3666
post@sola-media.com
www.sola-media.com
N279 Entertainment
Ph: +31 20 422 9199
info@n279entertainment.com
www.n279entertainment.com
FATT Productions
www.fatt.nl
Sales: Content Media
Ph: +44 20 7851 6500
london@contentmediacorp.com
www.contentmediacorp.com
EYE International
TRIPLE TROUBLE
VENTOUX
Albert 't Hooft & Paco Vink
Nicole van Kilsdonk
A feel good film about four men, old friends, who
decide to climb Mont Ventoux on their bikes, as they
did 30 years before. On the way to the top they talk,
mainly looking for answers to questions from the past
and the present. And they do what men do so well, alternating between heavy seriousness and airy trivialities.
Every year Saint Nicolas hands out presents to all good
children. Three young pets, a ferret, a canary and a stick
insect, decide that they too deserve gifts and set out
therefore on an adventurous journey to bring their wish
lists to Saint Nick. Overcoming many obstacles en
route, including a busy road, a scary but sweet young
puppy and a thieving rat, they learn an important lesson: the best present you can give and receive is friendship.
Genre: animation, family
Original title: TRIPPEL TRAPPEL
DIERENSINTERKLAAS
Prod: il Luster (NL)
Co-prod: Vivi Film (BE)
Sc: Arnoud Rijken & Michiel
Snijders
Language: Dutch (English dub
available)
Cast: Hans Somers, Georgina
Verbaan (THE MARATHON,
LOTUS), Rijnder van der Naalt,
Bartho Braat.
Short Golder Kuker Animation
FF, Audience Award Holland
Animation FF, Best 2D
Animation Neum Animated FF,
LITTLE QUENTIN (2010, animated
short).
Genre: feel good bicycle
film
Original title: VENTOUX
Prod: KeyFilm (NL)
Co-prod: Prime Time (BE)
Sc: Nicole van Kilsdonk, Bert
Wagendorp
D.O.P.: Anton Mertens
Language: Dutch
Cast: Kasper van Kooten (ALL
STARS 2: OLD STARS, THE
LOONIES), Wilfried de Jong (THE
BEAST IN ME), Wim Opbrouck
(IT’S ALL SO QUIET, ISABELLE),
Leopold Witte (VIPER’S NEST).
feature) Awards: a.o. EFCA
Award BUFF FF, Best Film
Stuttgart Children’s FF,
HEADING WEST (2010, feature),
HOW TO SURVIVE MYSELF (2008,
feature), JOHAN (2004, feature)
Awards: Best Film Houston FF,
Best Director Palm Beach FF,
MAKING WAVES (2003, TV film)
Award: Golden Calf Best TV
Drama Netherlands FF,
MORNING SWIMMERS (2001, TV
film).
KeyFilm
Ph: +31 20 423 1596
info@keyfilm.nl
www.keyfilm.nl
a.o. IN THE HEART (2014, feature), TAKING CHANCES (2011,
Il Luster
Ph: +31 30 240 0768
info@illuster.nl
www.illuster.nl
Sales: Attraction
Distribution
Albert ‘t Hooft & Paco Vink:
First feature.
a.o. FALLING FLOYD (2013, animated short) Awards: a.o. Best
EYE International
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WIPLALA
ZURICH
Tim Oliehoek
Sacha Polak
When love of her life Boris, a lorry driver, gets killed in
an accident Nina finds out that he's been leading a double life. As it turns out he was married to someone else
throughout their relationship and had a second family.
The shock of both the sudden loss and the long-lasting
deceit causes her to lose all equilibrium. Struggling
with her emotions she runs away and ends up within
the anonymous truckers' scene.
He is only 10 cm tall but he is not a gnome, rather a
Wiplala. A Wiplala can tinkle - in his language that is
'magic' - but he keeps forgetting how tinkling works
exactly and how things can often go wrong. His most
disastrous tinkling act is when he transforms the mansized Blom, his daughter Nella Della and son Johannes
into little people, also 10 cm tall. And so begins an exciting adventure. Can they ever be made ‘normal’ again?
Genre: family
Original title: WIPLALA
Prod: BosBros (NL)
Co-prod: Ciné Cri de Coeur
(BE), Samsa Film (LU)
Sc: Tamara Bos
D.O.P.: Rolf Dekens
Language: Dutch
Cast: Géza Weisz (GIFT FROM
THE HEART, BLACK BOOTY),
Sasha Mylanus, Kee Ketelaar
(TAKING CHANCES), Peter Paul
Muller (ALL STARS 2: OLD
STARS, LOVE IS ALL).
feature), TOO FAT TOO FURIOUS
(2005, feature).
Genre: drama
Original title: ZURICH
Prod: Viking Film (NL)
Co-prod: Rohfilm (DE), A
Private View (BE)
Sc: Helena van der Meulen
Language: Dutch/German/
English
Cast: Wende Snijders, Sascha
Alexander Gersak (TORE
TANZT), Barry Atsma (KENAU, IN
YOUR NAME), Martijn Lakemeier
(IT’S ALL SO QUIET, WINTER IN
WARTIME).
Sacha Polak:
NEW BOOBS (2013, doc), HEMEL
FIPRESCI Award Berlin IFF,
Grand Jury Prize Créteil
Women’s IFF, Ecumenical Jury
Prize Molodist IFF, BROTHER
(2011, short), UNDER THE TABLE
(2008, short), DRANG (2008,
short), EL MOURABBI (2007,
short) Award: Prix Special
Collegien FF Cinesonne.
Viking Film
Ph: +31 20 625 4788
marleen@vikingfilm.nl
www.vikingfilm.nl
BosBros
Ph: +31 20 534 4030
info@bosbros.com
www.bosbros.com
Sales: Attraction
Distribution
Ph: +1 514 846 1222
info@attractiondistribution.ca
Tim Oliehoek:
QUEEN OF AMSTERDAM (2013,
feature), PIZZAMAFFIA (2011,
feature), SPY OF ORANGE (2009,
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EYE International
THE ARDENNES
BELGICA
Robin Pront
Felix van Groeningen
Director Robin Pront
Genre: drama, thriller, black
comedy
Prod: Savage Film (BE),
Eyeworks (BE)
Co-prod: PRPL (NL), Bastide
Films (NL)
Language: Flemish/French
Completed: summer 2015
PRPL
Ph: +31 20 737 0189
info@prpl.nl
www.prpl.nl
Genre: drama
Prod: Menuet (BE)
Co-prod: Topkapi Films (NL),
Pyramide (FR)
Language: Dutch
BLESSED BENEFIT
Genre: comedy, drama
Prod: Twenty to Twenty Vision
(DE)
Co-prod: Habbekrats (NL), Yo
Image (JO)
Language: Arabic
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Sales: The Match Factory
Ph: +49 221 539 7090
info@matchfactory.de
www.the-match-factory.de
BRAND NEW-U
Mahmoud Al Massad
Topkapi Films
www.topkapifilms.nl
Simon Pummell
Habbekrats
Ph: +31 20 330 0324
info@habbekrats.nl
www.habbekrats.nl
Genre: psychological thriller
Prod: Hot Property Films (UK)
Co-prod: Rinkel Film (NL), SP
Films (IE)
Language: English
Rinkel Film
www.rinkelfilm.com
Ph: +49 221 539 7090
www.the-match-factory.com
EYE International
BULL DOWN!
CAFARD
Gabriel Mascaro
Jan Bultheel
Genre: drama
Prod: Desvia (BR)
Co-prod: Viking Film (NL),
MalbichoCine (UY)
Language: Portuguese
Completed: May 2015
Viking Film
Ph: +31 20 625 4788
www.vikingfilm.nl
Genre: animation, psychological drama
Prod: Todondo Films (BE)
Superprod (FR), Tarantula (BE)
Language: Dutch/French/
Russian/English
Completed: May 2015
CHERRY TREE
Topkapi Films
Ph: +31 20 303 2494
www.topkapifilms.nl
THE COMMUNE
David Keating
Thomas Vinterberg
Director Thomas Vinterberg
Genre: horror
Prod: Fantastic Films (IE)
Co-prod: House of Netherhorror
(NL)
Language: English
EYE International
House of Netherhorror
www.houseofnetherhorror.nl
Sales: MPI Media Group
sales@mpimedia.com
www.mpimedia.com
Genre: drama
Prod: Zentropa Entertainment
19 (DK), Zetropa Int. Sweden
(SE)
Co-prod: Topkapi Films (NL)
Language: Danish
Topkapi Films
www.topkapifilms.nl
Sales: TrustNordisk
Ph: +45 3686 8788
rikke@trustnordisk.com
www.trustnordisk.com
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FALSE WITNESS
FRANCOFONIA
Iglika Triffonova
Aleksandr Sokurov
Genre: drama
Prod: Klas Film (BG)
Co-prod: Phanta Film (NL),
Filmlance (SE)
Language: December 2014
Completed: English
Phanta Film
Sales: Eastwest
Filmdistribution
Ph: +43 15 2493 1034
sasha@eastwest-distribution.com
www.eastwest-distribution.com
Genre: documentary essay
Prod: Idéale Audience (FR),
zero one film (DE)
Co-prod: N279 Entertainment
(NL)
Language: Russian/English/
French/German
GALLOPING MIND
Genre: drama
Prod: Savage Film (BE)
Co-prod: Phanta Film (NL),
Eyeworks (BE), Climax (BE), UJ
Budapest Film Studio (HU)
Language: English/Hungarian
Completed: May 2015
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Sales: Films Boutique
Ph: +49 30 6953 7850
info@filmsboutique.com
www.filmsboutique.com
HUMIDITY
Wim Vandekeybus
N279 Entertainment
Nikola Ljuca
Phanta Film
Ph: +31 20 626 0255
film@phantavision.com
Genre: drama, mystery
Prod: Dart Film (RS)
Co-prod: Lemming Film (NL)
Language: Serbian
Lemming Film
www.lemmingfilm.com
Sales: Soul Food Films
Ph: +381 11 267 2004
sonja.topalovic@soulfoodfilms.com
www.soulfoodfilms.com
EYE International
INTIMACY
LAND AND SHADE
Tom Cullen
César Augusto Acevedo
Director Tom Cullen
Genre: drama
Prod: Faceless Features (UK),
Barnsbury Film (UK)
Co-prod: Mulholland Pictures
(NL)
Language: English/Welsh
Production still
Mulholland Pictures
www.mulhollandpictures.com
Sales: Jinga Films
Ph: +44 20 7287 0050
jr@jingafilms.com
www.jingafilms.com
Genre: drama
Prod: Burning Blue (CO)
unafilm (DE), Ciné-Sud
Promotion (FR)
Language: Spanish
Topkapi Films
Ph: +31 20 303 2494
www.topkapifilms.nl
THE LOBSTER
MAMMAL
Yorgos Lanthimos
Rebecca Daly
length tbc / DCP / colour
Genre: drama
Prod: Element Pictures (IE)
Co-prod: Lemming Film (NL)
Language: English
EYE International
Lemming Film
www.lemmingfilm.com
Sales: Protagonist Pictures
Ph: +44 20 7734 9000
info@protagonistpictures.com
www.protagonistpictures.com
Genre: drama
Prod: Fastnet Films (IE)
Co-prod: Rinkel Film (NL),
Calach Films (LU)
Language: English
Completed: May 2015
Rinkel Film
www.rinkelfilm.com
Sales: Picture Tree
International
Ph: +49 30 4208 248-14
pti@picturetree-international.com
www.picturetree-international.com
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MATH SUCKS (WORKING TITLE)
PARADISE TRIPS
Kasia Roslaniec
Raf Reijntjens
Genre: drama
Prod: Mañana Film (PL)
Co-prod: OAK Motion Pictures
(NL)
Language: Polish/English
OAK Motion Pictures
www.oakmotionpictures.com
Sales: FDM Sales
Ph: +1 323 330 9920
info@freestyledigitalmedia.tv
www.freestyledigitalmedia.tv
Genre: drama
Prod: Caviar (BE)
Co-prod: IJswater Films (NL)
Language: Dutch/Flemish/
English
IJswater Films
Ph: +31 20 442 1760
films@ijswater.nl
www.ijswater.nl
PREJUDICE
ROAD TO LA PAZ
Antoine Cuypers
Francisco Varone
Genre: drama, family
Prod: Wrong Men (BE, LU)
Co-prod: CTM Pictures (NL)
Language: French
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CTM Pictures
Ph: +31 35 647 4040
pictures@ctm.nl
www.ctmpictures.nl
Genre: drama, comedy
Prod: Gema Films (AR)
Co-prod: Habbekrats (NL), H&U
(DE), Concreto (AR)
Language: Spanish
Habbekrats
Ph: +31 20 330 0324
info@habbekrats.nl
www.habbekrats.nl
EYE International
THE SUMMER OF SANGAÏLÉ UNDER THE PYRAMID
Alanté Kavaïté
Axel Petersén
Genre: drama
Prod: Fralita Films (LT)
Co-prod: Viking Film (NL), Les
Films d’Antoine (FR)
Language: Lithuanian
EYE International
Viking Film
Ph: +31 20 625 4788
www.vikingfilm.nl
Genre: thriller, adventure
Prod: Idyll (SE)
Co-prod: Family Affair Films
(NL)
Language: Swedish/Arabic/
English/Danish
Family Affair Films
Ph: +31 20 707 1713
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IN PRODUCTION
IN PRODUCTION
AS IF I’M CRAZY
Frank Lammers
Genre: drama
Original title: OF IK GEK BEN
Prod: IJswater Films (NL)
Co-prod: Pellicola (NL)
Language: Dutch
Frank Lammers:
First feature film.
IJswater Films
Ph: +31 20 442 1760
films@ijswater.nl
www.ijswater.nl
Young and successful artist Benjamin is rendered shocked and confused when
he ends up in an involuntary clinic following his conviction for rape and
attempted homicide - because he remembers nothing of what happened…
BRIMSTONE
Martin Koolhoven
Genre: thriller, western
Original title: BRIMSTONE
Prod: N279 Entertainment (NL)
Co-Prod: Prime Time (BE), Pandora
(DE), The Film Farm (CA), Illusion
(SE), Jean Vigo (IT)
Martin Koolhoven:
a.o. WINTER IN WARTIME (2008, feature),
HAPPY FAMILY (2006, feature).
Director Martin Koolhoven
A dark, violent and epic western about a young woman and her family whose
lives change drastically when a diabolical preacher comes to town.
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N279 Entertainment
Ph: +49 221 422 9199
www.the-match-factory.com
EYE International
IN PRODUCTION
COBAIN
Tomas Kaan
Genre: drama
Original title: COBAIN
Prod: Circe Films
Language: Dutch
Completed: May 2016
Tomas Kaan:
a.o. GREENLAND (2014, feature), WE
ARE 18 (2012, doc), DAYS OF GRASS
(2011, TV film).
Circe Films
Ph: +31 20 625 3591
films@circe.nl
www.circe.nl
When his drug-addicted, newly pregnant, mother refuses to clean up her act,
Cobain (15) decides to save his unborn brother.
DEAD & BEAUTIFUL
David Verbeek
Genre: action, thriller
Original title: DEAD & BEAUTIFUL
Co-prod: Les Petit Lumières (FR),
China Blue Films (CN)
Language: English
David Verbeek:
a.o. HOW TO DESCRIBE A CLOUD (2013,
feature), IMMORTELLE (2013, short),
CLUB ZEUS (2011, feature) Awards:
Return of the Tiger Award IFF
Rotterdam, R U THERE (2010, feature).
A group of young international nouveau riches turn into vampires after a night
out, but jealousy, vanity and lust threaten to expose them to the outside world.
EYE International
Lemming Film
Ph: +31 20 661 0424
www.lemmingfilm.com
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IN PRODUCTION
DISAPPEARANCE
Boudewijn Koole
100’ / DCP/ colour
Genre: drama
Original title: VERDWIJNEN
Prod: Waterland Film (NL), Sweet
Films (NO)
Language: Dutch/English/Norwegian
Completed: end 2015
Boudewijn Koole:
a.o. KAUWBOY (2012, feature), OFF
GROUND (2013, short), MAITE (2009, TV
film).
Roos travels to Norway to tell her family about her illness but old enmities make
it impossible to talk. Only an unavoidable confrontation can bring about
change.
Waterland Film
Ph: +31 20 763 0663
MR. FROG
Anna van der Heide
90’ / DCP / colour/
Genre: family
Original title: MEESTER KIKKER
Prod: BosBros (NL)
Co-prod: Prime Time (BE)
Language: Dutch
Anna van der Heide:
FIDGETY BRAM (2012, feature) Awards:
a.o. Honour Prize Young Jury and
Special Mention Professional Jury Tel
Aviv Int. Children’s FF, Best Feature
Film Tokyo Kinder FF.
Sita adores her schoolteacher Mr. Frans, who sometimes changes into a frog.
But the animal world is not without its dangers...
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BosBros
Ph: +31 20 534 4030
info@bosbros.com
www.bosbros.com
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IN PRODUCTION
OUT OF LOVE
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito
Genre: drama
Original title: OUT OF LOVE
Prod: Topkapi Films
Language: English/Dutch
Completed: winter 2015
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito:
First feature film.
PARA (2013, short), ENTRE NOSOTROS
(2011, short) Award: Fipa d’Argent
FIPA IFF Biarritz, STAY, AWAY (2009,
short) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix Films
d’Écoles Premiers Plans Fest,
LA SALIDA (2008, short).
Varya and Nicolae can’t live with, and can’t live without, one another.
Topkapi Films
Ph: +31 20 303 2494
www.topkapifilms.nl
OWLS & MICE
Simone van Dusseldorp
Genre: family
Original title: UILENBAL
Prod: Lemming Film
Language: Dutch
Simone van Dusseldorp:
a.o. THE SECRET LETTER (2010, feature), FROGS & TOADS (2009, feature),
DEEP (2005, feature).
Lemming Film
www.lemmingfilm.com
Trying to retrieve the pellet an owl must have made of her little mouse Peepeep,
Meral learns what friendship is really about.
EYE International
Sales: Attraction Distribution
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IN PRODUCTION
A REAL VAN MEEGEREN
Rudolf van den Berg
Genre: historical drama
Original title: EEN ECHTE VAN MEEGEREN
Prod: Rinkel Film (NL)
Co-prod: Fu Works (NL), Cadenza
Films (NL), Tarantula (LU), Nukleus
(HR)
Language: English
Rudolf van den Berg:
a.o. SÜSKIND (2012, feature), TIRZA
(2010, feature), THE HERMIT OF
AMSTERDAM (2002, feature).
An exceptionally talented but highly narcissistic painter takes revenge on the
hostile art world by creating a series of 'new' paintings of Vermeer.
Rinkel Film
Ph: +31 20 616 3231
info@rinkelfilm.com
www.rinkelfilm.com
WHEN MY FATHER BECAME A BUSH
Nicole van Kilsdonk
Genre: family
Original title: TOEN MIJN VADER EEN
STRUIK WERD
Prod: Lemming Film
Language: Dutch
a.o. TAKING CHANCES (2011, feature),
HEADING WEST (2010, feature), HOW TO
SURVIVE MYSELF (2008, feature).
Before Toda’s father becomes a bush (don’t ask), he was a pastry chef.
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Ph: +31 20 661 0424
www.lemmingfilm.com
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DOCUMENTARIES
DOCUMENTARIES
ALICE CARES
Sander Burger
AROUND THE WORLD
IN 50 CONCERTS
Heddy Honigmann
In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra toured the
whole world to celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50 concerts spread over 6 continents. In this film we see how
unbridled passion and love for music brings musicians
and concert-goers together. Documentary maker Heddy
Honigmann lands with the orchestra in Buenos Aires,
Soweto and St. Petersburg and shows how the ensemble
succeeds in gaining the hearts of people from different
cultural backgrounds, touching unexpected emotions
and helping to overcome the pain of living.
Original title: OM DE WERELD
50 CONCERTEN
Prod: Cobos Films
Sc: Heddy Honigmann
D.O.P.: Goert Giltay
Language: English/Dutch/
Russian
IN
In order to meet future care demands for an elderly
population suffering from the twin perils of loneliness
and dementia, the ‘carebot’ Alice has been developed.
Can a robot establish a ‘human’ relationship with
someone and thus replace a ‘real’ person made of flesh
and blood? In this documentary we see how three
women, all getting on in years, actually develop a deep
fondness for this robot girl…
.
Original title: IK BEN ALICE
Prod: KeyDocs
Sc: Sander Burger
D.O.P.: Sal Kroonenberg
Language: Dutch
Heddy Honigmann:
a.o. MEMORIES ON FIRE (2012,
short doc), AND THEN ONE DAY
(2010, short), EL OLVIDO (2008,
doc) Awards: a.o. Silver Dove,
Fipresci Award and
Eocumenical Award Leipzig
Festival for Documentary &
Animated Films, FOREVER
(2006, doc) Awards: Golden
Calf Best Doc and Dutch Film
Critics Award Netherlands FF,
DAME LA MANO (2003, doc),
GOOD HUSBAND, DEAR SON
(2001, doc).
Cobos Films
Ph: +31 20 320 3368
ccobos@cobosfilms.nl
www.cobosfilms.nl
Sales: NPO Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3760
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
www.npo.nl
Sander Burger:
a.o. WILL (2012, short), HUNTING
& SONS (2010, feature), THE
PANMAN: RHYTHM OF THE PALMS
(2007, feature), KOEN! (2004,
short), PISKA FRESKU (2003,
feature).
KeyDocs
Ph: +31 20 422 2607
info@keydocs.nl
www.keydocs.nl
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DOCUMENTARIES
BANANA PANCAKES AND THE
CHILDREN OF STICKY RICE
BETWEEN THE DEVIL
AND THE DEEP
Daan Veldhuizen
Heinrich Dahms
Three interwoven storylines bound by a single theme:
abalone poaching. An immersive dive into the lives of
five characters in a small South African fishing community that is suspended in a limbo between its traditional
lifestyle and a corrupt and brutal enforcement apparatus deployed to counter the illicit supply of abalone to
China, where this endangered marine snail is prized as
an aphrodisiac and status symbol.
Original title: IN DIEPE
WATEREN
Traditional farmers within a remote village in Laos
meet the outside world via the tourists that visit them.
While backpackers are searching for an authentic culture, their presence brings development to the eager
inhabitants. Two worlds meet at the crossroads of their
respective desire; one longing for authenticity, the other
for modernity. They embrace each other’s lifestyle and
culture, but as soon as they realize that their desires are
contradictory, the story turns back on itself.
Original title: BANANA
PANCAKES AND THE CHILDREN
OF STICKY RICE
Prod: Viewpoint Productions
Sc: Daan Veldhuizen
D.O.P.: Daan Veldhuizen
Language: English/Laotian
Buzzmedia
Ph: +31 35 772 5225
info@buzzmedia.net
www.buzzmedia.net
Prod: Buzzmedia (NL)
Co-prod: Visualantics (BE)
Sc: Heinrich Dahms
D.O.P.: Johan Bosgraaf
Language: Afrikaans
Heinrich Dahms:
First feature length documentary.
a.o. SCUM (2010, feature),
SURVIVING (2008, short).
Viewpoint Productions
Ph: +31 20 636 3678
docs@viewpointdocs.com
www.viewpointdocs.com
Sales: Illumina Films
Ph: +31 20 624 8395
info@illuminafilms.nl
www.illuminafilms.nl
Daan Veldhuizen:
Second feature length documentary.
STORIES FROM LAKKA BEACH
(2011, doc), TINI TINOU (2009,
short doc), VERSUS (2007,
short).
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DOCUMENTARIES
BEZNESS AS USUAL
CHEESEHEAD BLUES
Alex Pitstra
Jan Doense
Documentary about the blues, set in Clarksdale,
Mississippi - birthplace of the Delta blues and second
home of Theo Dasbach of the Rock & Blues Museum.
Original title: CHEESEHEAD
BLUES
Prod: Film Events
Sc: Jan Doense, Ot Louw
D.O.P.: Suzanne Arts
Like his Swiss half-sister Jasmin, Dutch filmmaker Alex
Pitstra is the child of a European mother and a Tunisian
playboy father. The majority of their lives their father
was absent, but after more than twenty years Alex
invites Jasmin to travel to Tunisia with him. They want
to reconnect with their Tunisian roots and find out how
their father and his family relate to the 'bezness' phenomenon of North-African men roaming beaches and
hotels, trying to seduce western women.
Original title: BEZNESS AS
USUAL
Film Events
Ph: +31 20 623 0121
jan@filmevents.nl
Jan Doense:
a.o. NOISE (2011, short), FAR
AWAY (2004, short), R.I.P.
(2001, short) Award: Crystal
Skull Award Screamfest Los
Angeles.
Selfmade Films
Ph: +31 20 606 0789
info@selfmadefilms.nl
www.selfmadefilms.nl
Prod: Selfmade Films
Sc: Alex Pitstra
D.O.P.: Tadeusz Kieniewicz
Swedish/German/Arabic
Alex Pitstra:
DIE WELT (2011, feature)
Awards: Jury Prize Best
Feature Berkshire IFF, Grand
Prix Students’ Jury Int.
Independent FF Bordeaux.
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE CHIMPANZEE
COMPLEX
DON’T LOSE HEART
Hella de Jonge
Marc Schmidt
When her 88-year-old father moved home, estranged
daughter Hella de Jonge acquired the legacy of her great
aunt who survived the Nazi terror along with Hella’s
parents. This inspires her to investigate the history of
her family. With the aid of photos and documents, a
videotape of Hella’s mother’s testimony made as part of
Steven Spielberg’s Shoah project, conversations and visits to places with painful memories, the father and
daughter begin to heal their fractured relationship.
Original title: VERLIES NIET DE
MOED
After years in solitary captivity, the chimpanzees in a
Dutch rescue centre must learn to live with members of
their own species again. The caretakers who oversee
this process continuously encounter a paradox within
their work: is it possible to think beyond the boundaries
of our human perspective when trying to understand
another species? As people they try to let the animals be
animals again but emotional confrontations and ethical
considerations emphasize the ambiguous relationship
between man and primate.
Original title: HET CHIMPANSEE COMPLEX
Prod: Basaltfilm (NL)
Co-prod: Mira Film (CH)
Sc: Marc Schmidt
D.O.P.: Marc Schmidt, Rogier
Timmermans
Lithuanian/French/Spanish
Marc Schmidt:
a.o. MATTHEW’S LAWS (2012,
doc) Awards: a.o. Grand Prix
Visions du Réel, Best Int.
EYE International
Feature Rencontres Int. du
Documentaire de Montréal,
Grand Jury Award Open City
Docs Fest London, BIDCATCHER
(2007, short doc) Award: Best
Doc Tampere FF.
Sales: NPO Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3760
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
www.nposales.com
Prod: De Roje Hel
Sc: Hella de Jonge
D.O.P.: Paul Schuurman
Language: Dutch
Hella de Jonge:
De Roje Hel
Ph: +31 6 5183 3485
helladejonge@planet.nl
www.helladejonge.nl
Basaltfilm
Ph: +31 10 412 6946
simone@basaltfilm.nl
www.basaltfilm.nl
Sales: Autlook Films
Ph: +43 72 034 6934
welcome@autlookfilms.com
www.autlookfilms.com
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE DUTCH CHURCH
OF BLOEMENDAAL
EGO
Ester Gould
Sarah Vos & Sander Snoep
When I was little I wanted nothing other than to
become one thing: Rowan, my beautiful sister, who was
two years my senior. With her unique personality and
self-confidence the world was her oyster, until her enormous ego was shattered at the age of 32…
Original title: EGO
Prod: Zuidenwind
Filmprodukties
Sc: Ester Gould
D.O.P.: Jean Counet
A film about the successful and prosperous villagers of
Bloemendaal, a city in the Netherlands. All are members of the Protestant Church and all live within a
municipality where the outward appearance of happiness and prosperity is frantically maintained. Until a
new, rebellious and wayward pastor comes in, who has
decided it is time to expose the pain and discomfort
behind the facade of prosperity.
Original title: DE KERK VAN
BLOEMENDAAL
Prod: Zeppers (NL)
Co-prod: IKON (NL)
Sc: Sarah Vos
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep
Language: Dutch
Zuidenwind Filmprodukties
Ph: +31 76 514 0871
info@zuidenwind.nl
www.zuidenwind.nl
Ester Gould:
a.o. CATHLEEN’S TURN (2012,
short doc), STARRING DAVID
(2011, short doc), SHOUT (2010,
doc), 50 CENT (2007, short
doc).
Zeppers
Ph: +31 20 675 8594
info@zeppers.nl
www.zeppers.nl
Sarah Vos:
a.o. CURAÇAO (2011, doc),
RELIANCE, AN AFRICAN SAGA
(2009, doc), WELCOME TO
HOLLAND (2003, doc).
Sander Snoep:
a.o. CURAÇAO (2011, doc).
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DOCUMENTARIES
ERBARME DICH - MATTHÄUS
PASSION STORIES
THE GARAGE
Catherine van Campen
Ramon Gieling
A film about how people deal with the financial crisis.
We encounter the professional and personal stress of
the salesman - and the financial considerations of his
clients. We see how the car becomes a source of discord
between the man (who wants it big with all the trimmings) and the woman (who wants it small, clean and
efficient). And we unravel the personal story of a family,
highlighting the stark contrast between the ways we
assess ‘work' in the Netherlands.
A labyrinthine narrative in which people such as Peter
Sellars, Emio Greco, Simon Halsey and painter Rinke
Nijburg relate their special relationship with the music
of Bach, with Pieter Jan Leusink's Bach Choir &
Orchestra providing the score and a group of homeless
people serving as their audience.
Original title: ERBARME DICH
Prod: KeyDocs
Sc: Ramon Gieling
D.O.P.: Goert Giltay
Ramon Gieling:
a.o. HOME (2014, doc), BLIND
FORTUNE (2012, doc), ABOUT
CANTO (2011, doc), GREAT
LENGTHS (2010, short),
TRAMONTANA (2009, feature),
JOAQUIN SABINA, 19 DIAS Y 500
NOCHES (2008, doc) Award:
Best Doc Cinestrat Alicante &
Buenos Aires, EN UN MOMENTO
DADO (2004, doc), THE
PRISONERS OF BUÑUEL (2000,
doc).
EYE International
KeyDocs
Ph: +31 20 422 2607
info@keydocs.nl
www.keydocs.nl
Sales: Doc & Film
International
Ph: +33 1 4277 5687
doc@docandfilm.com
www.docandfilm.com
Original title: DE GARAGE
Prod: Zuidenwind
Filmprodukties
Sc: Catherine van Campen
D.O.P.: Jean Counet
Language: Dutch
(2009, short doc), ETERNAL
MASH (2008, short doc).
Ph: +31 76 514 0871
info@zuidenwind.nl
www.zuidenwind.nl
Catherine van Campen:
JOAN’S BOYS (2013, short doc),
PAINFUL PAINTING (2011, short
doc), FLYING ANNE (2010, short
doc) Awards: a.o. Best Short
Doc Visions du Réel, Audience
Award IFF Boston, DRONA AND I
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DOCUMENTARIES
GAY WEDDING FAIR
GEORGICA
Sophia Luvara
Katelijne Schrama
We float above the plains of the Flevopolder, the last
land reclamation project of the Dutch government. We
see how farmers carry out their duties in that ordered
landscape. Over 2000 years ago, the Roman poet Virgil
wrote The Georgics, an ode to farming and to life in the
countryside. When the farmers hear the old texts, they
spontaneously conjure up stories on what has changed,
about the influence of the food industry and about contemporary regulations.
Andy is 23 and living the good life within Shanghai's
sparkling gay scene. But all the time he is on the hunt
for a suitable lesbian girl to propose to, searching the
internet and frequently attending underground ‘gay
wedding fairs’ where gay guys can meet up with gay girls
in order to find a compatible partner within a marriage
of convenience. In this way both parties can deliver
what their parents and society demand from them: a
traditional wedding and a child.
Original title: GAY WEDDING
FAIR
Prod: Witfilm
Sc: Sophia Luvara
D.O.P.: Ton Peters
Language: Chinese/English
Sales: Films Transit
Ph: +1 514 844 3358
janrofekamp@filmstransit.com
www.filmstransit.com
Original title: GEORGICA
Prod: SNG Film
Sc: Katelijne Schrama
D.O.P.: Ben Geraerts
Language: Dutch
SNG Film
Ph: +31 20 686 7837
info@sngfilm.nl
www.sngfilm.nl
Katelijne Schrama:
a.o. 1974 (2011, short doc),
o
360 HORIZON, LAND WITHOUT A
PAST (2007, short doc),
DAYDREAMS AND SANDMAN (2000,
short).
Sophia Luvara:
ZAATRAY (2013, short doc),
ROAD TO FUREIDIS (2011, short
doc).
Witfilm
Ph: +31 20 688 5049
info@witfilm.nl
www.witfilm.nl
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DOCUMENTARIES
GHOSTS FROM THE PAST
HOME
Walther Grotenhuis & Cinta Forger
Ramon Gieling
The Ivorian Cyriaque is one of the illegal refugees who
joined the We Are Here campaign group. These asylum
seekers (whose applications have thus far been denied)
have struggled for the past two years to gain a face, a
voice and a permanent resident permit. Filmmaker
Ramon Gieling makes early contact with Cyriaque, a
musical and spiritual figure, in the makeshift encampment in central Amsterdam and follows him until their
paths diverge, partly because ‘the film has come to an
end’.
In prison Viggo wonders why he developed from a sensitive little boy into a merciless criminal. He decides to
give up crime for good, and immerses himself into his
past to avoid making the same mistakes again. But his
quest, undertaken with his two sisters, leads to painful
confrontations with their past as, little by little, the
secrets of their incestuous family and manipulative
father are unravelled.
90’ / DCP / colour, b&w
Original title: SPOKEN VAN
VIGGO
Prod: Windmill Film
Sc: Walther Grotenhuis
D.O.P.: Wiro Felix
Language: Dutch
Windmill Film
Ph: +31 6 5314 8543
annemiek@windmillfilm.com
www.windmillfilm.com
Original title: HOME
Prod: Pieter van Huystee Film
(NL)
Co-prod: Human (NL)
Sc: Ramon Gieling
D.O.P.: Eugene van den
Bosch, Ramon Gieling
Language: French
Best Doc Cinestrat Alicante &
Buenos Aires, EN UN MOMENTO
DADO (2004, doc), THE
PRISONERS OF BUNUEL (2000,
doc).
Pieter van Huystee Film
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
info@pvhfilm.nl
www.pvhfilm.nl
Ramon Gieling:
a.o. BLIND FORTUNE (2012, doc),
ABOUT CANTO (2011, doc),
GREAT LENGHTS (2010, short),
TRAMONTANA (2009, feature),
JOAQUIN SABINA, 19 DIAS Y 500
NOCHES (2008, doc) Award:
Walther Grotenhuis & Cinta
Forger:
a.o. IT MIGHT BE DARK
TOMORROW (2011, doc), JEANNE
(2011, doc), THE COOL RAGE OF
BERNHARD WILLEM HOLTROP
(2007, doc).
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DOCUMENTARIES
I DON’T BELONG HERE
IMPERFECT HARMONY
Mercedes Stalenhoef
Carmen Cobos
IMPERFECT HARMONY is a film about musical control,
explored through a clash between two maestros: avantgarde rebel and Holland’s best-known composer, Louis
Andriessen, and chief conductor at Amsterdam’s Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons. The occasion is the orchestra’s 125th jubilee year concert. With
barely a week of rehearsals before the world premiere of
Andriessen’s latest composition Mysteriën, they must
attempt to reconcile their radically differing sensibilities. Will they overcome their musical differences? At
times the outcome is far from certain.
Peter Schuster lives in an institution for the mentally
handicapped. He is able to control his anger issues only
by playing the drums and piano, but frequently something in his brain explodes, making him fly off the handle. And when this happens, even he is afraid of himself.
Original title: IK HOOR HIER
NIET THUIS
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
info@pvhfilm.nl
www.pvhfilm.nl
Original title: IMPERFECT
HARMONY
Prod: Cobos Films
Sc: Kees Rijninks
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep
Completed: May 2014
Cobos Films
Ph: +31 20 320 3368
ccobos@cobosfilms.nl
www.cobosfilms.nl
Carmen Cobos:
(NL)
Co-prod: Human (NL)
Sc: Mercedes Stalenhoef
D.O.P.: Sander Snoep, Gregor
Meerman, Erik van Empel,
Martijn van Beenen
Language: Dutch
Mercedes Stalenhoef:
a.o. KARSU (2012, doc), CARMEN
MEETS BORAT (2008, doc), IT’S
MY LIFE (2007, doc), I NEVER
WANT TO BE FAMOUS (2005,
doc), GODOFREDO IS ALIVE
(2004, short doc), I JUST TAKE
MY TOYS WITH ME (2002, doc).
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DOCUMENTARIES
KILLER SLOPE
THE MISSION
Geertjan Lassche
Robert Oey
The Netherlands contributes to the UN peacekeeping
force in the West-African country of Mali with both military and civilian personel. It’s a groundbreaking mission, particularly because for the first time in history a
UN mission will rely on its own intelligence, gathered by
Dutch Special Forces supported by Apache and Chinook
helicopters. With unrestricted access, Robert Oey will
follow the key players over the year to come.
Filmmaker and investigative journalist Geertjan
Lassche joins a Dutch expedition to climb Cho Oyu, the
sixth highest mountain in the world. What drives these
mountain climbers? How ruthless do you need to be?
And are they really as arrogant as they seem to be? The
closer the group gets to the top, the more we see the
diverse dilemmas that beset mountaineers. And then,
after six weeks, the mountain itself turns against them.
Original title:
HEMELBESTORMERS
Prod: EO
Sc: Geertjan Lassche
D.O.P.: Frank Moll, Geertjan
Lassche
Sales: NPO Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3760
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
www.npo.nl
Original title: DE MISSIE
Prod: Zeppers (NL)
Co-prod: IKON (NL)
Sc: Robert Oey
D.O.P.: Rogier den Boer
French
Zeppers
Ph: +31 20 675 8594
info@zeppers.nl
www.zeppers.nl
Robert Oey:
a.o. FALLEN (2012, doc), THE LIE
(2010, doc), SAFETY FIRST
(2008, doc), THE SWIMMERS
(2007, doc), WONDERLAND
(2004, doc).
Geertjan Lassche:
a.o. BLACK ICE (2013, doc), THE
CHOSEN ONES (2012, doc),
SOUHOKA’S TESTAMENT (2011,
doc), NOBODY KNOWS ME (2011,
doc), THE BRETHREN (2011, doc).
EO
Ph: +31 35 647 4645
herma.van.boven@eo.nl
www.eo.nl
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DOCUMENTARIES
NAZIHA’S SPRING
ONLY THE BEST
FOR OUR SON
Gülșah Doğan
Monique Nolte
The 49-year-old Kees is autistic and still lives with his
parents who take care of him. Their love has given Kees
the ability to blossom as a relatively independent
grown-up. But what will happen to Kees when his parents, now 80 and 83 years old, can no longer take care of
him? Filmmaker Monique Nolte follows the attempts of
Kees’ parents to create the perfect future for their autistic son.
Original title: HET BESTE
KEES
Prod: Selfmade Films
Sc: Monique Nolte
D.O.P.: Rogier Timmermans,
Adri Schrover
Language: Dutch/Japanese
VOOR
Nine years ago Naziha, a Moroccan-Dutch woman and
mother of 10 children, made a drastic decision. She no
longer wished to spend hours at the police station after
one of her sons had caused trouble, so she threw out
her violent husband and took up the struggle to get her
children back on the straight and narrow - with the help
of a dozen social workers.
Original title: NAZIHA’S LENTE
Prod: Volya Films
Sc: Gülșah Doğan
D.O.P.: Alle van der Wal
Language: Dutch/Arabic
Selfmade Films
Ph: +31 20 606 0789
info@selfmadefilms.nl
www.selfmadefilms.nl
Sales: NPO Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3760
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
www.nposales.com
Monique Nolte:
a.o. A BITTERSWEET TEMPTATION
(2007, short doc), TRAINMAN
(1998, short doc).
Volya Films
Ph: +31 10 415 5621
info@volyafilms.com
www.volyafilms.com
Gülșah Doğan:
a.o. LOVE’S WINTER (2010, doc),
ROMEO & JULIA (2007, short
doc) Awards: Boundless Media
Award, ALI B (2005, short).
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DOCUMENTARIES
PEKKA, INSIDE THE MIND
OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER
PEOPLE IN BERLIN
Rosemarie Blank
Alexander Oey
A kaleidoscope of images of the city and its people. The
main characters are three immigrants and a native
Berlin woman. The Slovenian 'butterfly man' sees Berlin
as a hunting ground for insects. Two Congolese brothers mourn their father's death, a comrade of Patrice
Lumumba. The aged Eva-Maria, once a fashion model,
runs a fur shop in a poor district among jobless immigrants. However different they may be, they're all citizens of this multicultural city.
On November 7 2007, an 18-year-old Finnish student
shot dead eight people at the high school in Jokela, a
small town north of Helsinki. PEKKA reconstructs the
events that led to this terrible act, committed by a boy
who seemed such an ordinary kid…
Original title: PEKKA, INSIDE
MIND OF A SCHOOL
SHOOTER
Prod: Submarine (NL)
Co-prod: BOS (NL), Vaski Filmi
(FI)
Sc: Alexander Oey
D.O.P.: Chris van Oers
Language: Finnish/English
THE
Submarine
Ph: +31 20 330 1226
info@submarine.nl
www.submarine.nl
Sales: Journeyman
Pictures
Ph: +44 208 398 4616
info@journeyman.tv
www.journeyman.tv
Original title: MENSCHEN IN
BERLIN
Prod: Casa Film (NL)
Co-prod: Zig/Zag
Filmproduction (NL)
Sc: Rosemarie Blank
D.O.P.: Rosemarie Blank
Language: German
Casa Film
Ph: +31 20 626 5550
casafilm@telfort.nl
www.rosemarieblank.nl
Rosemarie Blank:
a.o. BERLIN DIARY (2012, doc),
JOB AND THE DUTCH FREESTATE
(2009, doc), FAREWELL PAVEL
(1999, feature), CROSSING
BORDERS (1994, feature)
Award: Golden Calf Best
Director Netherlands FF.
Alexander Oey:
a.o. OFF THE GRID (2011, doc),
ZEN AND WAR (2009, doc),
THERE IS NO AUTHORITY BUT
YOURSELF (2006, doc),
NEGOTIATING WITH AL QAEDA?
(2006, doc), MY LIFE AS A
TERRORIST: HANS-JOACHIM KLEIN
(2005, doc).
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DOCUMENTARIES
THE PERFECT HORSE
REBELLIOUS CITY
Hans Fel
Willy Lindwer
The Amsterdam-based anarchist Provo movement had a
shocking impact on Dutch society in the tumultuous
sixties with their absurdist revolution. The Dutch saw
with wonder and amazement the situation as events in
the city regularly got out of control - riots against the
royal family, a mayor and a police chief were dismissed and all this activity received widespread international
attention. To match their strange and colourful appearance, the movement offered playful but provocative
alternatives for all society’s problems.
Through dedication and reliance on the highest levels
of craftsmanship, generations of horse breeders honed
the unique horse – the Lipizzaner – towards perfection.
But now their craft is challenged by new insights into
genetics that offer breeders the new tools to bend the
evolution to their will. How far do you go to create the
perfect horse?
Original title: DIER
BOVENDIER
Ph: +31 20 421 0606
info@pvhfilm.nl
www.pvhfilm.nl
Original title: REBELSE STAD
Prod: Doc.Eye Film
Sc: Willy Lindwer
D.O.P.: Willy Lindwer
Language: Dutch
Doc.Eye Film
Ph: +31 20 686 5687
info@doceyefilm.nl
www.doceyefilm.nl
Willy Lindwer:
a.o. ANNA’S SILENT STRUGGLE
(2009, doc), MR. ISREAL, THE
SHIMON PERES STORY (2008,
doc), AFRICA GOES DIGITAL
(2006, doc), GOODBYE HOLLAND,
THE DESTRUCTION OF DUTCH
JEWRY (2004, doc).
Sc: Hans Fel
D.O.P.: Hans Fel, Deen van
der Zaken
Completed: August 2014
Language: German/French
Hans Fel:
LE MARYAJ LENGLENSOU (2007,
doc), IN EUROPE (2007, short
doc), QUATRE MAINS (1989, feature).
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DOCUMENTARIES
SERGIO HERMAN,
FUCKING PERFECT
A SHTETL IN THE
CARIBBEAN
Sherman de Jesus
Willemiek Kluijfhout
A compelling story of two childhood friends, both in
search of their family history in Eastern Europe. Mark
and Tsale, children of Eastern European Jews who fled
to Curaçao, travel back to the home countries of their
ancestors. In a road-movie across Curaçao, the United
States, Belarus, Ukraine and Israel, we witness their discoveries, courage and despair as they are reminded of
the sacrifices their parents made to provide their family
with a better future.
Original title: A SHTETL IN
CARIBBEAN
Prod: Memphis Film &
Television (NL)
Co-prod: Jewish Broadcasting
(NL)
Sc: Sherman de Jesus
D.O.P.: Bernd Wouthuysen,
Manes Avny
Language: a.o. English/Dutch/
Papiamentu/Yiddish/Hebrew
JAN SCHOONHOVEN – OFFICIAL
NO. 18977 (2005, doc), ALL IS
LIGHT (2001, doc).
THE
Top chef Sergio Herman strives for perfection every day.
Never giving up, always in the thick of it. However, the
beauty and success of his culinary art has a downside:
the competition, the long hours, the pressure. Sergio is
on the verge of taking a radical decision. He feels he
needs to turn aside from his 3-Michelin-star restaurant
in order to fulfil his dreams. A revealing story about perfection, ambition and the nature of sacrifice.
Original title: SERGIO
HERMAN, FUCKING
PERFECT
Prod: Trueworks
Sc: Willemiek Kluijfhout
D.O.P.: Remko Schnorr
Willemiek Kluijfhout:
a.o. MUSSELS IN LOVE (2012,
doc), BLACK AS INK (2008, short
doc), BALL POSSESSION (2007,
short) Awards: Best Comedy
Award Very Short Movies
Festival Hollywood, Silver
EYE International
Remi Award World Festival
Houston, THINGS TO COME
(2005, short doc), SURVIVING
THE WATER (2003, short doc).
Memphis Film & Television
Ph: +31 30 233 2023
info@memphisfilm.net
www.memphisfilm.net
Sherman de Jesus:
a.o. EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE –
PIET ZWART (2012, doc),
GOD’S OWN PARISH (2011, doc),
Trueworks
Ph: +31 6 2487 0468
reinette@true-works.nl
www.true-works.nl
Sales: Autlook Film Sales
Ph: +43 72 034 6934
peter@autlookfilms.com
www.autlookfilms.com
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DOCUMENTARIES
SOLO - OUT OF A
DREAM
STAND BY YOUR
PRESIDENT
Jos de Putter
Ineke Smits
Feature documentary about Sandra Roelofs, a Dutch
girl who became the First Lady of the exotic, but politically unstable, Georgia. After ten turbulent years in
office her husband, the now controversial Mikhael
Saakashvili, cannot be re-elected. So the presidential
couple become citizens again. What does life in the
political limelight entail, and what is the price paid
within your private life?
SOLO – OUT OF A DREAM portrays the lives and history of
Leonardo and Anselmo who, 20 years ago, were the
main characters in the documentary SOLO – THE LAW OF
THE FAVELA. Then, they were 11 years old, living in the
Rio slums, dreaming of becoming footballers. As a
result of the documentary, Leonardo came to play for
Feyenoord and then for many other top teams, and
became a millionaire. But now, as he evaluates his life
story, a personal tragedy emerges.
Original title: SOLO – OUT OF
DREAM
Prod: Dieptescherpte (NL)
Co-prod: VPRO (NL)
Sc: Jos de Putter
D.O.P.: Brian Sewell
Language: Portuguese/Dutch
A
Best Doc Message to Man FF,
Special Mention Tribeca FF.
Original title: STAND BY YOUR
PRESIDENT
Prod: IDTV Docs (NL)
Co-prod: NCRV (NL)
Sc: Ineke Smits
D.O.P.: Paul Cohen, Tato
Kotetishvili
Russian/Georgian
IDTV Docs
Ph: +31 20 314 3100
docs@idtv.nl
www.idtv.nl
Ineke Smits:
a.o. THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK
(2009, feature), TRANSIT DUBAI
(2008, doc), BLACK GOLD UNDER
NOTECKA FOREST (2005, doc),
PUTIN’S MAMA (2003, doc),
MAGONIA (2001, feature).
Dieptescherpte
Ph: +31 20 612 4478
info@deepfocus.nl
Jos de Putter:
a.o. SEE NO EVIL (2014, doc),
BEYOND THE GAME (2008, doc),
HOW MANY ROADS (2005, doc),
ALIAS KURBAN SAÏD (2004, doc),
THE DAMNED AND THE SACRED
(2002, doc) Awards: a.o. Best
Doc Chicago Int. Doc Fest,
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DOCUMENTARIES
THOSE WHO FEEL
THE FIRE BURNING
TRANSIT HAVANA
Daniel Abma
Morgan Knibbe
Cuba knows Mariela Castro - Raul’s daughter and
Fidel's niece - as the champion of gay rights. Under her
inspiring guidance, the state recently started a treatment programme for Cuban transgenders whereby all
expenses are reimbursed, and the medical treatment is
top notch. Is the poor communist island changing into
a paradise for transgenders? And are the Cuban transgenders the symbol of growing freedom? And can all
these social changes in Cuba neatly fit within the remit
of the socialist dictatorship?
As a group of refugees tries to enter Europe illegally by
boat, a storm suddenly appears and an old man falls
overboard. His perception shifts into another dimension: a dark, hallucinatory place. Driven by a mysterious
power, and desperately in search of his loved ones, his
soul passes by the everyday reality experienced by many
castaway refugees at the border of Europe, the alleged
paradise.
Original title: THOSE WHO
FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
Prod: BALDR Film
D.O.P.: Morgan Knibbe
Language: Arabic/Bengali/
Farsi/Greek/Italian/Tigrigna/
Wolof
BALDR Film
Ph: +31 20 303 2670
info@baldrfilm.nl
www.baldrfilm.nl
Original title: TRANSIT
HAVANA
Prod: Witfilm (NL)
Co-prod: Kloos & Co (DE),
HFF (DE)
Sc: Alex Bakker
D.O.P.: Johannes Praus
Language: Spanish/Dutch/
English
Daniel Abma:
a.o. BEYOND WRIEZEN (2012,
doc) Awards: Audience Award
Docudays Kiev, Best
Documentary and Best Editing
Sehsüchte Filmfestival
Potsdam, HOLANDA DEL SOL
(2013, short doc), GABRIELLA AND
THE GOLDEN BOYS (2011, short
doc), HANNES – ABOUT PAPAS
AND POWER RANGER (2011, short
doc), OFFICIALLY UNOFFICIALLY
(2011, short doc), LOTHAR
ERDMANN (2010, short doc).
Witfilm
Ph: +31 20 688 5049
info@witfilm.nl
www.witfilm.nl
Sales: Rise and Shine
World Sales
Ph: +49 30 4737 2980
info@riseandshine-berlin.de
www.riseandshine-berlin.de
Morgan Knibbe:
SHIPWRECK (2014, short doc)
Awards: Silver Leopard and
Nomination European Film
Award Locarno IFF.
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DOCUMENTARIES
WHAT WENT
WRONG WHERE?
Digna Sinke
What do we do if a country does not stick to the agreement it signed? In 2005, after lengthy negotiations, an
agreement was concluded between Belgium and the
Netherlands concerning the Western Scheldt. The river
would be deepened so that the largest sea-faring vessels
could also get to Antwerp, at the same time ensuring
ecological restoration within the area. Nine years later
the agreement has still not been honoured by the
Dutch. What went wrong, and how?
Original title: WAT ONS BINDT
EN WAT ONS SCHEIDT
Prod: De Familie (NL)
Co-prod: Associate Directors
(BE)
Sc: Digna Sinke
D.O.P.: Jan Wich
Completed: summer/autumn
2015
Language: Dutch/Flemish
Digna Sinke:
a.o. AFTER THE TONE (2014, feature), WISTFUL WILDERNESS
(2010, doc) Awards: Best Doc
Paris Int. Environmental FF,
Best Doc Freistadt FF,
ATLANTIS (2008, feature),
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TIENGEMETEN 2001-2006 (2006,
doc), BROSSA (2005, doc), HOPE
& EXPECTATIONS (2004, short),
TIENGEMETEN PART 1 (2001,
doc), BELLE VAN ZUYLEN/MADAME
DE CHARRIÈRE (1993, feature)
Awards: Main Prize MannheimHeidelberg IFF, ABOVE THE
MOUNTAINS (1992, feature),
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (1990,
doc), FAREWELL (1990, short).
De Familie
Ph: +31 20 663 3303
info@defamilie.net
www.defamilie.net
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DOCUMENTARIES
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
THE ALCHEMIST
Jona Honer
Original title: DE ALCHEMIST
Prod: Een van de jongens
Language: Dutch
Jona Honer:
First short documentary.
Een van de jongens
Ph: +31 20 894 3628
jongens@eenvandejongens.nl
www.eenvandejongens.nl
Hedge-fund boss Sebastiaan inhabits a harsh world where major conglomerates
hold all the cards. To succeed, therefore, he must be prepared to go all the way…
CHELLINA / DA BEAST
Zoeteke Lugthart
Original title: CHELLINA / DA BEAST
Prod: Hazazah Pictures
Language: Dutch
Zoeteke Lugthart:
P5 (2006, short).
Hazazah Pictures
Ph: +31 20 422 6422
info@hazazahpictures.com
www.hazazahpictures.com
Nobody wants to fight kickboxer Chellina anymore because she is too good. Will
she continue kickboxing or give up?
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Sales: NPO Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3760
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
www.npo.nl
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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
THE CHINESE ARE COMING
Willem Timmers
Original title: DE CHINEZEN KOMEN
Prod: Copper Views
Language: Mandarin/Dutch/English
Willem Timmers:
FRAMING THE OTHER (2011, short doc).
Copper Views
Ph: +31 6 2702 1045
look@copperviews.com
www.copperviews.com
Two Chinese tourists swap their megacity for the Dutch village of Giethoorn
where the hosts work hard to provide for them the authentic Dutch experience.
GIOVANNI AND THE WATER BALLET
Astrid Bussink
Original title: GIOVANNI EN HET
WATERBALLET
Language: Dutch
Astrid Bussink:
a.o. WOOL FEVER (2013, short doc),
THE HIDEOUT (2013, short doc), THE
LOST COLONY (2008, doc).
Een van de jongens
Giovanni (10) wants to compete in the Dutch Synchronized Swimming
Championships, but this is considered a typical girls’ sport. Can Giovanni
realise his dream?
EYE International
Sales: NPO Sales
Ph: +31 35 677 3760
kaisa.kriek@npo.nl
www.npo.nl
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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
LOCKED UP LIONS
Eline Helena Schellekens
Original title: LOCKED UP LIONS
Prod: Dutch Mountain Film
Language: Dutch
Eline Helena Schellekens:
a.o. A HOME FOR LYDIA (2013, short
doc), TO PROTECT YOUR SAFETY (2012,
doc), TWENTY SEVEN (2011, short doc).
Director Eline Helena Schellekens
Dutch Mountain Film
Ph: +31 20 688 1843
info@dutchmountainfilm.nl
www.dutchmountainfilm.nl
What do you do when, after years of struggling, the residence permit finally
arrives? A fascinating documentary about human resilience.
LOSERS - A FILM ABOUT LOSS
Arianne Hinz
Original title: LOSERS – EEN FILM
OVER VERLIES
Language: Dutch
Arianne Hinz:
I AM NOT BRAVE (2012, short), THE GIRL
WHO COULDN’T DECIDE (2011, short).
Hazazah Pictures
Ph: +31 20 422 6422
Three children have each lost something - but was the experience the same?
Can the study of one kind of loss teach us about other kinds?
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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
MY DEAREST F#CKING PHONE
Eef Hilgers
Original title: LIEVE K#TTELEFOON
Language: Dutch
Eef Hilgers:
a.o. JUST A GIRL YOU KNOW (2012,
short doc).
Een van de jongens
Ph: +31 20 894 3628
A holiday without Wi-Fi turns out to be a revelation for Claudia (14). At last, no
more Instagram pictures of her beautiful, successful and fun-loving friends.
NOTHING LEFT UNSAID
Anne-Marieke Graafmans
Original title: ALLES IS GEZEGD
Language: Dutch
Anne-Marieke Graafmans:
Een van de jongens
Ph: +31 20 894 3628
When the three sons of locked-in-syndrome sufferer Wim take over his care,
each experiences, for the first time, a total dependence on the others.
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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
SO HELP ME GOD
Thomas Vroege
Original title: SO HELP ME GOD
Prod: Zuidenwind Filmprodukties
Language: English
Thomas Vroege:
Ph: +31 76 514 0871
info@zuidenwind.nl
www.zuidenwind.nl
Cinematic essay fusing observations of London’s financial centre, the story of a
psychotherapist and footage of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein at the US
Senate Hearing.
THIS SUMMER IS MINE
Marinka de Jongh
Original title: DEZE ZOMER IS VAN MIJ
Prod: Bananaz
Language: Dutch
Marinka de Jongh:
MY DEAR CANCER DOG (2012, short
doc).
Bananaz
Ph: +31 6 4404 2556
info@bnnz.nl
www.bnnz.nl
A coming of age story about two young adults with mild intellectual disability
and their holiday on the thrilling island of Ibiza.
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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
YOU’VE GOT A PROBLEM
Esra Piké
Original title: U HEBT EEN PROBLEEM
Prod: IJswater Films
Language: Dutch
Esra Piké:
IJswater Films
Ph: +31 20 442 1760
films@ijswater.nl
www.ijswater.nl
A documentary that follows outreach social workers who must intervene in the
lives of their patients, and asks the question, ‘how far should social work go?’
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SHORT FILMS
SHORT FILMS
ALL THOSE SUNFLOWERS
Bram Schouw
Genre: drama
Original title: ALL THOSE SUNFLOWERS
Language: English
Completed: May 2014
Bram Schouw:
a.o. SEVILLA (2012, short), BABY
SHOWER (2012, TV film), NINA SATANA
(2011, TV film), MARRIAGE (2007,
short).
Living in the present only seems possible when the past has been erased.
Hazazah Pictures
Ph: +31 20 422 6422
EMPTY
Flynn von Kleist
Genre: drama
Original title: LEEG
Prod: Waterland Film
Language: Dutch
Flynn von Kleist:
DAYS OF STEEL (2013, short), LOVE
STOREY (2010, short).
Waterland Film
Ph: +31 20 763 0663
When Job comes to work on board, repressed feelings are awoken in Rein who,
imprisoned on the boat, is unable to ignore his growing desires…
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SHORT FILMS
EXPOSE
Moniek van der Kallen
Genre: dance
Original title: EXPOSE
Prod: Dyzlo Film
Language: no dialogue
Moniek van der Kallen:
EXPLORE (2010, short).
Dyzlo Film
Ph: +31 30 752 5421
info@dyzlofilm.nl
www.dyzlofilm.nl
A girl appears through transparent curtains and glass ornaments.
Lightheartedly she dances across the floor, until she realizes she is not alone…
A HOLE IN MY HEART
Mees Peijnenburg
9’ / DCP / b&w
Genre: drama
Original title: UN CREUX DANS MON
COEUR
Prod: 100% Halal
Language: French
Mees Peijnenburg:
a.o. WILD DOG (2014, short), EVEN
COWBOYS GET TO CRY (2013, short)
Awards: a.o. Youth Award Go Short
FF, Best Int. Student Film Brussels
Short FF, WE WERE WOLVES (2012,
short).
Nineteen-year-old Frenchman Henri is confronted with issues about the mortality and fragility of life following the loss of his brother in a road accident.
EYE International
100% Halal
Ph: +31 20 639 1402
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SHORT FILMS
HOME SUITE HOME
Jeroen Houben
Genre: drama
Original title: HOME SUITE HOME
Prod: Habbekrats
Language: Dutch
Completed: mid 2015
Jeroen Houben:
a.o. SORRY (2012, short) Awards: a.o.
Best Screenplay Shortcutz, PAGE 23
(2011, short), MIX TAPE (2011, short).
Habbekrats
Ph: +31 20 330 0324
info@habbekrats.nl
www.habbekrats.nl
Hotel inspector Ludwig leads a dreadful life, but one night in Paris he gets the
wake-up call he needs.
IN THE PIT
Nima Mohaghegh
Genre: drama
Original title: IN THE PIT
Prod: Habbekrats
Language: Dutch/Arabic
Nima Mohaghegh:
First short fiction film.
Habbekrats
Ph: +31 20 330 0324
info@habbekrats.nl
www.habbekrats.nl
A young Iranian man tries to elevate himself from the aggressive environment of
pit-bull fighting to respectable fatherhood.
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SHORT FILMS
DER KAISER
Eché Janga
Genre: drama
Original title: DER KAISER
Prod: Lemming Film
Language: Dutch
Eché Janga:
a.o. HELIUM (2014, feature), STOCKHOLM
(2012, short), IN OBSERVATION (2011,
short), MO (2010, short).
Lemming Film
Ph: +31 20 661 0424
www.lemmingfilm.com
Darth Vader is a boy who - when not wearing his mask – goes by the name Kai.
MALAGUTI PHANTOM
Sam de Jong
9’ / DCP / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: MALAGUTI PHANTOM
Prod: 100 % Halal
Language: Dutch
Sam de Jong:
a.o. MARC JACOBS (2013, short),
MAGNESIUM (2012, short) Awards: a.o.
Best Student Film Hollyshorts FF,
Audience Award Beijing Int. Student
FF.
With his mutilated face, minimal social skills and a crappy scooter, Jeroen must
transform in order to be accepted by the bad kids of the neighborhood.
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100% Halal
Ph: +31 20 639 1402
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SHORT FILMS
P
Aaron Rookus
Genre: tragicomedy
Original title: P
Prod: Venfilm
Aaron Rookus:
a.o. BALANCE (2012, short),
WEDNESDAYS (2011, short).
Venfilm
Ph: +31 6 4187 8497
venfilm@gmail.com
www.venfilm.nl
A family reaches boiling point during a pit stop on their way home from vacation.
SPOTTERS
Wim van der Aar
Genre: drama
Original title: SPOTTERS
Prod: IJswater Films
Language: Dutch
Wim van der Aar:
GABBERS (2013, doc), THE VAN
WAVEREN TAPES (2012, doc).
IJswater Films
Ph: +31 20 442 1760
films@ijswater.nl
www.ijswater.nl
When a man loses control of his life, he finds meaning in machines that ascend
and descend. A winterly story about loss, desire and airplanes.
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SHORT FILMS
SYMMETRY
Ruben van Leer
Genre: dance, opera
Original title: SYMMETRY
Prod: CTM Pictures
Language: English
Ruben van Leer:
INSTRUMENT (2011, short).
CTM Pictures
Ph: +31 35 647 4040
pictures@ctm.nl
www.ctmpictures.nl
A CERN researcher performs a ritual dance with a female shaman and learns
that life’s riches are hidden in the smallest human body parts.
DAS WAD
Rob Lücker
Genre: comedy, action
Original title: DAS WAD
Rob Lucker:
a.o. RESISTANCE (2013, TV film), THE
VISIT (2011, short), WALZER (2010,
short), SKODA (2007, short).
Hazazah Pictures
When Salomon discovers a giant submarine on a beach, he accidently releases
its fanatical German crew who have long since passed the age of retirement…
EYE International
Sales: SND Films
Ph: +31 20 404 0707
info@sndfilms.com
www.sndfilms.com
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SHORT FILMS
WILD DOG
Mees Peijnenburg
8’ / DCP / colour
Genre: drama
Original title: BLOEDHOND
Prod: Pupkin Film
Language: Dutch
Mees Peijnenburg:
a.o. A HOLE IN MY HEART (2014, short),
EVEN COWBOYS GET TO CRY (2013,
short) Awards: a.o. Youth Award Go
Short FF, Best Int. Student Film
Brussels Short FF, WE WERE WOLVES
(2012, short).
A destructive aggression is festering inside 19-year-old Gijs, something he must
learn to contain as his life begins to spiral out of control.
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Pupkin Film
Ph: +31 20 489 5088
info@pupkin.com
www.pupkin.com
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ANIMATED SHORTS
BLUE MOON
Marsha Onderstijn & Jordie Roomer
2’ / DCP / colour
Original title: BLAUWE MAAN
Prod: Armadillo Film
Marsha Onderstijn & Jordie
Roomer:
First animated film.
Armadillo Film
Ph: +31 6 5050 5888
info@armadillofilm.nl
www.armadillofilm.nl
Moon is sad because everyone goes to sleep at night, leaving him alone. But Sun
and the animals devise a plan to brighten Moon's life.
DEADLY DRIVE-IN DISASTER
Arjan Wilschut
2’ / DCP / colour
Original title: DEADLY DRIVE-IN
DISASTER
Prod: Comic House Amsterdam
Arjan Wilschut:
a.o. FARMER JACK (2011, animation),
HARD BOILED CHICKEN (2006, animation), PENGUIN’S CHRISTMAS (2004, animation), SHADOWS (2001, animation).
A UFO descends upon a drive-in theater and starts abducting viewers, but once
again Sola Powers saves the world, this time with a film reel.
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Ph: +31 26 321 0032
mail@comichouse.nl
www.comichouse.nl
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ANIMATED SHORTS
DOG-E
Patrick Raats
3’ / DCP / colour
Original title: DOG-E
Prod: Valkproducties
Language: Dutch
Patrick Raats:
a.o. GYM (2008, animation), SEE,
I LOVE YOU (2005, animation),
SHIT (2003, animation).
Valkproducties
www.valkproducties.nl
In our techy, gadget-laden society it’s sometimes hard to tell what is true and
what is fiction…
Sales: SND Films
Ph: +31 20 404 0707
info@sndfilms.com
www.sndfilms.com
FULL FEATHER JACKET
Liz el Saadany
2’ / DCP / colour
Original title: FULL FEATHER JACKET
Prod: The Drawing Room
Liz el Saadany:
The Drawing Room
Ph: +31 6 2428 4466
info@drawingroom.nl
www.drawingroom.nl
Fascinated by the war that rages on in the city, clumsy seagull Manfred decides
to join the air force.
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ANIMATED SHORTS
LOSS
Yi Zhao
Original title: LÖSS
Prod: Armadillo Film
Yi Zhao:
Armadillo Film
Ph: +31 6 5050 5888
info@armadillofilm.nl
wwwarmadillofilm.nl
An abused Chinese farm-woman, poor and childless, fantasises about a better
life. In one such fantasy she kills her husband, burying him outside the house…
A SINGLE LIFE
Job, Joris & Marieke
2’ / DCP / colour
Original title: A SINGLE LIFE
Prod: Job, Joris & Marieke
Job, Joris & Marieke:
a.o. MUTE (2013, animation), IT’S NOT
FUNNY, IT’S ART (2008, animation).
Job, Joris & Marieke
www.jobjorisenmarieke.nl
Festivals: KLIK! Distribution
ursula@klikamsterdam.nl
Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life, when playing a mysterious vinyl
single.
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info@sndfilms.com
www.sndfilms.com
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ANIMATED SHORTS
SPLINTERTIME
Rosto
Original title: SPLINTERTIME
Prod: Studio Rosto A.D.
Rosto:
a.o. LONELY BONES (2013, animation),
THE MONSTER OF NIX (2011, animation),
NO PLACE LIKE HOME (2008, animation).
Studio Rosto A.D
www.rostoad.com
“Zip up and let's dance to the sound of breaking glass." A band of sleepy spirits
in an ambulance run out of road.
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UNDER THE APPLE TREE
Erik van Schaaik
Original title: UNDER THE APPLE
TREE
Prod: PEDRI Animation
Language: English
Erik van Schaaik:
a.o. PECKER (2010, animation), THE
PHANTOM OF THE CINEMA (2008, animation) Award: Grand Prix Anim’est IFF,
Vent (2004, animation) Awards: a.o.
FIPRESCI Award Annecy Int.
Animated FF.
A deceased farmer is buried by his hated brother, the vicar. Worms inhabit the
corpse and take full control of it. The dead farmer reawakens...
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www.pedri-animation.com
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