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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Dirk Rijneke

Dirk/Dick RIJNEKE worked in the 1970s for a year with filmmaker Frans Zwartjes at the Vrije Academie. Together with director and producer Mildred van Leeuwaarden he founded Rotterdam Films in 1980. They have twice provided the opening film for the festival: Voro-Nova (1985), the favourite of festival founder Hubert Bals, and the international episode film City Life (1990). That’s it screened in Rotterdam in 2005. Rotterdam Films has produced and co-produced documentaries and fiction films mainly for cinematic release and worked with directors from all over the world, like Béla Tarr (The Last Boat, 1990) and Ricky Rijneke (Silent Ones, 2013).

Filmography

Escalating Egg (1970, short), Batwing Burner (1970, short), Meeting (1970 short), Tok Tok (1970, short), Unid (1971, short), Druggebruik (1971), Ik weet nog steeds niet of ik beter ben (1972), Ik hou het wel voor gezien/I Take It For Granted (1973, co-dir), Stadsvernieuwing Rotterdam (1976, co-dir), ‘t Is gewoon leven/Living One’s Life (1979), Groeten uit Rotterdam (1980, trilogy), Kunst, koek & koffie (1980), A Black and White Statement (1980), Huize Schoonderloo (1980), Pinkel (1982, co-dir), Voro-Nova (1985, co-dir), Hetze (1986, short), City Life, the International Episode Film (1990, co-dir), Urban Jungles (1990, short, co-dir), Krzysztof Kieslowski Seven Actors in Search of a Director (1994), De brugwachter/Bridge Keeper (1996), Bruggen/Bridges (1997, short), Manhattan aan de Maas (2001 short), Waar is mijn jas (2004, short), Nou, dat was het dan!/That’s It! (2005, co-dir), Reflections (2008), Boatmen (2012)

Dirk Rijneke at IFFR

  • Rock Against Religion

    1970s punk to make your ears bleed by Rotterdam bands Rode Wig and REVO: four 14-year-olds including singer Aram Slappendel.

  • Pinkel

    Pinkel, a working-class boy from Rotterdam, transforms from an anarchist punk into a dad. Proto-punk by Rotterdam punk band Tändstickorshock.

  • Druggebruik

    The early 1970s, Kralingen Pop Festival: marihuana, LSD, speed, opium – anything available was taken. Four young users’ stories

  • Ik hou het wel voor gezien

    Prize-winning authentic record of an era, in a meticulously shot portrait of the young drug-addicted poet and musician Gaby from Rotterdam.

  • Groeten uit Rotterdam

    This controversial work in three parts provides a glimpse of the Rotterdam art and music scene in the 1980s. A unique documentary of an eventful era.

  • City Life I & II

  • That’s It!!!

    That’s it!!! (1980-2005) is a retrospective view on the careers of two driven film directors: Wim Verstappen and Hollywood director Paul Verhoeven. It

  • Silent Ones

    A girl wakes up after a car crash. Her younger brother has disappeared. As she promised him, she boards a freighter to find a new life. Then the shady

  • Groeten uit Rotterdam

    This controversial work in three parts provides a glimpse of the Rotterdam art and music scene in the 1980s. A unique documentary of an eventful era.

  • Druggebruik

    The early 1970s, Kralingen Pop Festival: marihuana, LSD, speed, opium – anything available was taken. Four young users’ stories.