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. Dressed in couture from various Dutch fashion brands, the characters wander through a polder, angle for fish in a small brook, and 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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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. -
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2026
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
Shows of "Dutch Dreams"
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This screening consists of the following films:
- Dutch Dreams
- The Garden
- This Is Your Captain Speaking
- Oxygen
Video on demandEnglish subtitledSoon available -
AvailableVideo on demandEnglish subtitledPress & Industry
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LantarenVenster 1
This screening consists of the following films:
- Gedoetjes
- Dutch Dreams
- Pretpark Hennie
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LantarenVenster 3
This screening consists of the following films:
- Gedoetjes
- Dutch Dreams
- Pretpark Hennie
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Cinerama 1
This screening consists of the following films:
- Gedoetjes
- Dutch Dreams
- Pretpark Hennie
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Podium Islemunda – Filmzaal
This screening consists of the following films:
- Gedoetjes
- Dutch Dreams
- Pretpark Hennie
In-personwith Q&AEnglish subtitledSold out