Dutch highlights at 48th IFFR

We’re an international film festival, but that doesn’t mean the best of Dutch cinema isn’t proudly represented. On the contrary: outspoken work by Dutch makers is to be found in all corners of the festival.

Ena Sendijarević’s stylish and tragicomic road movie Take Me Somewhere Nice has been selected for Tiger Competition and Sacha Polaks piercing film Dirty God will form the festive opening of the festival.

Viktor van der Valk’s lyrical film noir Nocturne is in competition for the Bright Future Award and three Dutch (co-)productions have been selected for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition: Paranon by Zeno van den Broek, The Sasha by María Molina Peiró and Nehemías by Daniel Jacoby.

A lot of Dutch short films have been selected for Bright Future Short, including work by Donna Verheijden, Esther Urlus, Nan Wang and Rein Jelle Terpstra. A Dutch production in Bright Future Mid-length is the world premiere of Augustijn by Omar A. Chowdhury, a film about a Belgian convert to Islam.

In our Limelight programme we show Camino, a feature-length selfie by Martin de Vries, The Beast in the Jungle by Clara van Gool and Bloody Marie by Guido van Driel and Lennart Hillige. Daniel Ernst shows his enchanting VR-project entitled Diorama No.4: Die Fernweh Oper in the Hilton Hotel. Frank Scheffer’s film Inner Landscape about Chinese opera will be preceded by a live performance for its Friday 1 February screening.

Signatures screens Mijke de Jong’s God Only Knows and Peter van Houten’s Miel-Emile. Scopitone features De koning van de Nederlandstalige rock & roll, Bastiaan Bosma’s portrait of rock ‘n’ roll artist Ricky de Sire. The theme programme Laboratory of Unseen Beauty  shows Dark Blood, a 1993 film by George Sluizer (1932-2014) which was finished only in 2012 due to lead actor River Phoenix’s sudden passing. During RTM, IFFR’s Rotterdam-focused day, many films by Rotterdam filmmakers will be shown.

All Dutch feature films are eligible for the KNF Award, a prize awarded by a jury consisting of five member of the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists.

Several Dutch co-productions have been supported by the NFF+HBF Co-production Scheme, a programme in collaboration and financed by the Netherlands Film Fund. These are Tarde para morir joven, Tehran: City of Love, A Land Imagined and Rojo. Moreover, Dirty God was part of BoostNL and Bloody Marie was part of CineMart.

All Dutch (co-)productions at IFFR 2019

Features:

• De aanbidding van de witte vrouw, Jos Looise, 2019, Netherlands
• The Beast in the Jungle, Clara van Gool, 2019, Netherlands/Luxembourg, world premiere
• Bloody Marie, Guido van Driel/Lennert Hillege, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Camino, een feature-length selfie, Martin de Vries, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Dark Blood, George Sluizer, 2012, USA/Netherlands
• Dirty God, Sacha Polak, 2019, Netherlands/United Kingdom/Belgium/Ireland, world premiere
• Donbass, Sergei Loznitsa, 2018, Germany/Ukraine/France/Netherlands/Romania
• God Only Knows, Mijke de Jong, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Inner Landscape, Frank Scheffer, 2019, Netherlands/China, world premiere
• A Land Imagined, Yeo Siew Hua, 2018, Singapore/France/Netherlands
• Miel-Emile, Peter van Houten, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Nocturne, Viktor van der Valk, 2019, Netherlands/Belgium, world premiere
• Rojo, Benjamín Naishtat, 2018, Argentina/Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany
• Take Me Somewhere Nice, Ena Sendijarević, 2019, Netherlands/Bosnia and Herzegovina, world premiere
• Tarde para morir joven, Dominga Sotomayor, 2018, Chile/Brazil/Argentina/Netherlands/Qatar
• Tehran: City of Love, Ali Jaberansari, 2018, United Kingdom/Netherlands/Iran, international premiere
• De terugkeer, André van der Hout, 2019, Netherlands
  
• Vinyljunkies, Elsbeth van Noppen, 2019, Netherlands

Mid-length:

• Augustijn, Omar A. Chowdhury, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere

Short films:

• Above Us Only Sky, Arthur Kleinjan, 2019, Netherlands/Czech Republic, world premiere
• The animal that therefore I am, Bea de Visser, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Dutch Mountain, Jan Dibbets, 1971, Netherlands
• Forest on Location, Persijn Broersen/Margit Lukács, 2018, Netherlands/Germany/Poland, world premiere (festival)
• Global Windshield/The Musical, Momu & No Es, 2018, Netherlands, European premiere
• Gulyabani, Gürcan Keltek, 2018, Turkey/Netherlands
• Kiss the Sky – Eye Trick the I, Donna Verheijden, 2019, Netherlands/Colombia, world premiere
• De koning van de Nederlandstalige rock & roll, Bastiaan Bosma, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Nehemías, Daniel Jacoby, 2019, Netherlands/Peru, world premiere
• Orbit, Tess Martin, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Paranon, Zeno van den Broek, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Pareidolia, Nan Wang, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View, Rein Jelle Terpstra, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• studie voor een veldslag, Esther Urlus, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• The Sasha, María  Molina Peiró, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere
• Vader op zoon, Thomas  Stokmans, 2018, Netherlands, international premiere
• Video Home System, Guusje America, 2018, Netherlands
• what remains, belit sağ, 2018, Netherlands, world premiere(festival)
• Within the Temple Without, Matthew C.  Wilson, 2019, Netherlands, world premiere

Virtual reality:

• Diorama No.4: Die Fernweh Oper, Daniel  Ernst, 2018, Netherlands

Art/installations:

• Between a Gaze and a Gesture, Hannah Dawn Henderson, 2017, Netherlands
• Sedimentation of Memory, Kristina Benjocki, 2017, Netherlands/Serbia
• Srinagar, Praneet Soi, 2014, India/Netherlands
• Meme Rewind 2018, Tobias Kers, 2019, Netherlands

Take a look at RTM, the programme with films by Rotterdam filmmakers

Dutch filmmakers on IFFR Unleashed

In the collection Going Dutch on IFFR Unleashed, you’ll find films by Dutch filmmakers who cross borders, both in cinematic form and by travelling all over the world to tell their unique stories. In this collection you’ll find all feature films by Peter van Houten, who’s new film Miel-Emile will have its world premiere at IFFR 2019, and the graduation film by Viktor van der Valk, Onno de Onwetende, which was the basis for his debut feature Nocturne.