Digna Sinke
Digna SINKE (1949, The Netherlands) was born in Zonnemaire. She graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 1972 with the short film Groeten uit Zonnemaire. Since then, she has made a number of documentaries and five feature-length films. Her film The Pacific Ocean ran in the competition programme in Berlin (1984). Her feature film Belle van Zuylen (1994) was nominated three times at the Dutch Film Festival and won the Grand Prize at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Festival. Her documentary Weemoed & Wildernis, the final part of a long-running project on the island of Tiengemeten, won the prize for best documentary at the FIFE festival in Paris (2010) and in Freistadt (2011). Her documentaries Under the Surface (2015) and Preserving or How to Live (2018) were nominated for a Golden Calf. In 2001, Sinke took over the production company SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden) from her late husband René Scholten. Since then, she produced more than 30 films.
Filmography
Groeten uit Zonnemaire (1972, short), Stadrand (1972, two shorts), De gebroeders Helle (1975, short), Een Van Gogh aan de muur (1978, short), Ballet, waarvoor dient dat? (1978, short), Carry van Bruggen (1979, short), De hoop van het vaderland (1982, doc), De Stille Oceaan (1984), De nieuwe golf (1985, doc), Niets voor de eeuwigheid (1990, doc), Afscheid (1991, short), Boven de bergen (1992), Belle van Zuylen (1993), Tiengemeten, een voorlopig verslag (1998, doc), Lucht om na te denken (1999), Tiengemeten deel 1-6 (2001-2006), Hoop en verwachting (2004, short), Brossa (2005, short doc), Atlantis (2008), Nieuw Tiengemeten (2010, doc), Weemoed en wildernis (2010, doc), After the Tone (2014), Under the Surface (2016), Bewaren/Keeping & Saving (2018), Zoet & Zout/Sweet & Salty (2019, ten shorts), Grenzen/Borders (2020, short), Hemelsleutel (2024)
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Hemelsleutel
A deeply personal film where the filmmaker’s memories merge with the experiences of her protagonist.
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Belle van Zuylen – madame de Charrière
Historic episode from the life of a famous 18th-century Dutch feminist writer.
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After the Tone
Protagonist is Onno’s answering machine. Onno is not available. Lots of friends and relatives leave a message, but Onno doesn’t ring back. We see w
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Kala azar
In a pretty inhuman environment, caring for animals gives meaning to a taciturn couple. Until they have an accident.
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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.
Match
Stylised 3-D computer animation in which a gold coloured bird with one leg hops through a large, grey building. On his journey through rooms and up
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
Brossa
Personal memories and testimony by friends and family of Joan Brossa about this talented Catalan writer and poet whose screenplay was never filmed.
