Boudewijn KOOLE (1965, Netherlands) has made several documentaries and films for Dutch television. His work is often about children and adolescents. His feature debut Kauwboy (2012) has won awards at several festivals, including the awards for Best Young Audience Film and Best Debut in Berlin. Beyond Sleep (2016) is his second feature film.

Boudewijn Koole

Tatjana Božic

Filmmaker Tatjana Božic grew up in Croatia before the Balkan War. She roamed in different relationships through different countries before settling in Holland. For the film and to save her present relationship, the girl with the red hair follows her tragicomic way back to her past love affairs.

IFFR 2014

Happily Ever After, 

Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

Happily Ever After

A robust yet sensitive adaptation of W. F. Hermans’s famous novel Beyond Sleep (Nooit meer slapen), about a vain, struggling geology student during a gruelling expedition in Lapland. His struggles with nature, himself and others' expectations are visualized wonderfully by director Boudewijn Koole (Kauwboy), with a star role for Reinout Scholten van Asschat. Opening film IFFR 2016.

IFFR 2016

Beyond Sleep, 

Limelight

Beyond Sleep

Yuen Yan Ting

Her father fled Mao's Cultural Revolution, going to Hong Kong. Not long after, he joined the great Chinese exodus to the West and started a restaurant in Maastricht. But was his personal story really so closely interwoven with the history of China, Yan Ting Yuen wonders in this family portrait.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Boudewijn Koole

Filmography

Boudewijn Koole at IFFR

Happily Ever After

Beyond Sleep

My Father's Choice