Melle van Essen

P&S Film

Personal documentary about the farming parents of the film-maker.

IFFR 1994

is een schone dag geweest, Het

Dutch Perspective

Het is een schone dag geweest

Sander Francken

Universal fairy-tale: a little boy looks for the cradle of all knowledge.

IFFR 2005

Kennis voor het leven, 

Short!

Kennis voor het leven

IFFR 1993

Landschappen waar niemand van weet, 

Landschappen waar niemand van weet

Hillie Molenaar

Joop van Wijk

Tanzanian hamlet bursts its boundaries when hundreds of thousands of refugees flood in.

IFFR 1997

Crossroads, 

dutch perspective

Crossroads

War stories from children from Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone and New York, combined with the animated fairy-tale 'A little elephant plucks up courage'. Moving documentary about thee consequences of war.

Echoes of War, 

Echoes of War

Frank Scheffer

Experimental documentary about Elliott Carter. It shows his musical development and puts his compositions in their temporal context. The city of New York is used as a metaphor.

Labyrinth of Time, A

A Labyrinth of Time

Documentary essay for the IFFR's fortieth anniversary. Portraits of a number of the festival’s characteristic directors. With Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, Abderrahmane Sissako, Michael Haneke and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

IFFR 2011

Tiger Eyes, 

Spectrum Shorts

Tiger Eyes

Frank van den Engel

Masja Novikova

Fascinating, layered documentary about the friendship between two circus artistes in Uzbekistan that is put under pressure because they make opposite political choices. With spectacular pictures of the circus acts and the couleur locale.

IFFR 2007

Tussen hemel en aarde, 

Cinema of the World: Time & Tide

Tussen hemel en aarde

Partly based on the 'Tea Opera' by the celebrated New York based Chinese composer Tan Dun (of e.g. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). With conversations with Tan, librettist Xu Ying and director Pierre Audi, breathtaking images of tea ceremonies, a Chinese puppet theatre and telling landscapes inspired by tea - made in a functional and decorative montage style.

Tea, 

Time & Tide

This film looks at the state of modern music in New York at the turn of the 21st century. Interviews with John Cage, Elliot Carter, Steve Reich and Brian Eno are included.

IFFR 2001

In the Ocean, 

main programme short

In the Ocean

Boudewijn Koole

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

Sana Na N'Hada

In the village Xime optimism reigns after an abundant rice harvest. Film sketches the difficult transition from being a Portuguese colony to a democracy.

IFFR 1995

Xime, 

hubert bals fund

Xime

Documentary focusing on the interpretation of compositions by Gustav Mahler by different conductors.

IFFR 1996

Conducting Mahler, 

Conducting Mahler

Frank Diamand

Documentary about Venancio Mbande, legendary leader of the timbila orchestras, using giant African xylophones that are played almost exclusively in a province in Southern Mozambique.

Keep the Timbila Playing, 

main programme features

Keep the Timbila Playing

Vincent Monnikendam

In his quest for the soul of Naples, Van Monnikendam interweaves shots of the ubiquitous contrast between the glory of the rich and the often hopeless life of the poor with Neapolitan stories, poems and music.

Zielen van Napels, 

Zielen van Napels

IFFR 2003

Something Old, Something New in Red, Green and Blue, 

Something Old, Something New in Red, Green and Blue

Tom Verheul / TV Producties

Documentary about Holland's military attempts to keep its colony, now Indonesia, after the war.

Tabee Toean, op patrouille in Nederlands Indië, 

Tabee Toean, op patrouille in Nederlands Indië

Sonia Herman Dolz

Engaging portrait of swinging Cuban band. Its members have an average age of 84.

IFFR 1998

Lagrimas negras, 

Lagrimas negras

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025