IFFR 2001

Roel van Dalen

Documentary about the disastrous anniversary year of the Amsterdam soccer club. It shows how professionalisation, business interests and a lost season put an extreme pressure on trainers, players and hopefuls.

dutch perspective

Ajax - Daar hoorden zij engelen zingen

Theo van Gogh

Thriller with a very clever plot. A young couple gets new English neighbours next-door to their modern home. Of course, everyone is not who they seem.

Baby Blue

Britta Hosman

Rob Smits

A glimpse behind the scenes at a slaughter house.

Best in Beef

Eline Flipse

Five Albanians describe, with a humour that puts everything in perspective, what it is like to live in a country that was in the iron grip of Communism until ten years ago. The stories show how a people find the power to carry on.

Biografi

Paul Driessen

Short animation film that tells in split-screen of a kid with a very large imagination.

The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg

Maria Augusta Ramos

Audience award winner at the IDFA is about Desi, an ordinary Amsterdam girl who is different in one way: when school ends for the day she has to arrange by mobile phone where she is going to sleep that night.

Desi

Dominique Deruddere

Tragi-comic feature about Jean, a man who allows his daughter to take part in lots of talent contests, in the hope of turning her into a star.

Everybody Famous

marijke Jongbloed

Last part of Jongbloed's series of four episodes. About highly-educated career women and their problems finding a suitable partner, this time about women in Moscow.

Fatal Reaction: Moscow

Michael Dudok de Wit

About a young girl who misses her absent father, starts a family and yet still feels the lack.

Father & Daughter

Jos Stelling

Humorous film without dialogue from the series Erotic Tales.

The Gas Station

Vuk Janić

Documentary about the Yugoslav youth soccer team in 1987. When war broke out in Yugoslavia, the team that has just become world champion fell apart.

The Last Yugoslavian Footbal Team

Jean van de Velde

Popular Dutch police thriller in which a young and ambitious cop becomes embroiled in a complex drugs affair.

Marie José van der Linden

Animation film filled with imaginary and associative images about a girl who makes a journey to the last radio station in her dream.

Radio Umanak

Erik Lieshout

Rutger Hauer

An old man describes how, as a child, he was obsessed by a mysterious room.

The Room

Oerd van Cuijlenborg

Short animation film about scratching and cutting sounds.

Scratch

Jeroen Berkvens

Subdued documentary about the well-known English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Interviews are used to help paint a picture of an honest artist.

A Skin too Few - The Days of Nick Drake

Erik de Bruyn

Drama about the adventures of three kids in a fishing village. The film provides a powerful picture of the countryside of Zeeland, beautifully shot, with great acting.

Wilde Mossels

Gert de Graaff

Illusionary drama in which nothing is what it seems, about a scriptwriter desperately looking for himself and a way to become happy. Won the Joris Ivens Award at the IDFA.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025