Netherlands

Taking a selection of my father’s vast archive of landscape photographs as a starting point, I embarked on an investigation of the possibilities for creating ‘landscapes’ directly on motion picture film material. Using yeast, salt, leaves and seaweed as reactive elements I managed to find a new way for creating images on analogue film. The yeast grew; feeding on the gelatin, the caustic power of the salt left marks in the emulsion, the acidity of the leaves attacked the film even stronger, and chlorophyl in the seaweed was absorbed; creating unexpected colours.Read More »

A complicated love affair between a publisher and a writer. Despite their strong physical attraction, the lovers can only continue to fascinate each other with emotionally exhausting power games. An encounter between the publisher and the younger sister of the writer threatens to derail the impetuous relationship.Read More »

Part fiction, part documentary, part essay on the contemporary world, HISTORY’S FUTURE is one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil – and through his own mind.Read More »

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Things get complicated when she falls for the enemy.Read More »

“A tense, involving piece about a traumatic loss and the perverse role of revenge…”

Synopsis:
37 years after her daughter Mitra was executed in Iran and she fled her home country, Haleh leads a successful life as a renowned academic in the Netherlands. Her peaceful existence is shaken by the arrival of a woman she believes may be the traitor responsible for Mitra’s death.Read More »

The American Jimmy Sanders is son-in-law and assistant of doctor Delfman. Delfman sees Jimmy as his natural successor, but Jimmy doesn’t like this idea. The death of Delfman, however, forces him to do so, which leads to new conflicts.Read More »

Mark’s life has lost all color. But then, at his grandfather’s death bed, he meets Lisa, who is almost as destructive as he is.Read More »

A group of travellers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station which, according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years.Read More »

Plot:In response to the repeated bigotry she faces, a Muslim teen in Amsterdam tries to find a sense of belonging in the world of fundamentalist Islam.Read More »