Filmmaker Flo Meijer stretches the conventions of traditional fashion cinema in her visually stimulating new short Dutch Dreams. She deploys the omnipresent visual language of fashion advertising and trendy music videos to present ordinary, characteristically Dutch scenes. A group of Surinam men organizes a songbird competition; the filmmaker’s Indonesian grandfather eats a slice of spekkoek; dressed in couture from various Dutch fashion brands, the characters wander through a polder, angle for fish in a small brook, or contemplate the typical Dutch light – accompanied by Jaap Velenturf’s hypnotic soundtrack. The result is a refreshing, playful, musical, and highly stylish film about visual culture.
– Cas Hoekstra
Featured in these combined programmes
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Rotterdam Dreams
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RTM
This video-on-demand programme presents an array of essential Rotterdam stories in which the city comes to life in a dream-like state. -
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Inner Landscaping
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RTM
The fast-paced reconstruction of Rotterdam post-WW2 still towers above us, in the shape of shimmery concrete and flickering glass. -
Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2026
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
