Annette Apon
Annette APON (1949, Netherlands) attended the Dutch Film Academy. In 1968 she founded the film magazine Skrien with fellow students and in 1974 she was among the founders of the film collective Amsterdams Stadsjournaal. Her debut feature film, The Waves, was released in 1982 and was the first adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel for the screen by a Dutch director. One year later, she won the Jury Prize at the Nederlands Film Festival for the film Giovanni. She has made more than 20 films, and has also used her talent to direct plays for the theatre.
Filmography
Eigen haard is goud waard (1973), Overloop is sloop (1974, short), Van brood alleen kan een mens niet leven (1975), Een schijntje vrijheid (1976), Het bosplan (1978), Politiewerk (1979), Kakafonische notities (1980), Golven/The Waves (1982), Giovanni (1983), Projekties (1984, short), Ornithopter (1985), Reis zonder einde (1988), Krokodillen in Amsterdam (1990), Naarden Vesting (1993), Wakers en dromers (1994, short), Een winter in Zuiderwoude (1994, short doc), Het is de schraapzucht, gentlemen (1996, TV), De man met de hond (1999), Droom en daad/Dream and Deed (2012, doc), Het uur van de wolf (2013, segment: Henriette Roland Holst: Droom en daad), Ik wil gelukkig zijn/One Life Is Not Enough (2016, doc), Leonie, actrice en spionne/Leonie, Actress and Spy (2019, doc).
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Annette Apon at IFFR
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Leonie, actrice en spionne
In search of a woman with a myriad of faces. But who was Leonie Brandt really? And is there a ‘really’ here? A documentary thriller.
Ik wil gelukkig zijn
A portrait of the Netherlands’ greatest pre-war actress: Fien de la Mar. Using extensive archive material, this documentary sketches the life
De man met de hond
Light-footed drama about a lonely and gawkish man whose life takes a turn for the better when he shows his colleagues a photo of the girl he always
Wakers and Dreamers
Film looks at the dikes in Holland and what they say about the Dutch.
A Winter in Zuiderwoude
Variations in white, black and grey – view of a Dutch polder.