Hybrid edition has shifted industry showcase online.
The 40th Netherlands Film Festival (Nff) gets underway today as a hybrid event spearheaded by a bold new screening strategy.
The Utrecht-based festival, set to run September 25-October 3, will see selected films screening simultaneously not just in the Dutch city but in hundreds of cinemas across the Netherlands. There will also be drive-in screenings. However, all industry activities will take place online.
“We have managed to set up a huge collaboration with cinemas all over the Netherlands,” acting festival director Doreen Boonekamp said of the plan to show eight Nff titles “in over...
The 40th Netherlands Film Festival (Nff) gets underway today as a hybrid event spearheaded by a bold new screening strategy.
The Utrecht-based festival, set to run September 25-October 3, will see selected films screening simultaneously not just in the Dutch city but in hundreds of cinemas across the Netherlands. There will also be drive-in screenings. However, all industry activities will take place online.
“We have managed to set up a huge collaboration with cinemas all over the Netherlands,” acting festival director Doreen Boonekamp said of the plan to show eight Nff titles “in over...
- 9/25/2020
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Laurent Danielou’s Paris-based sales agent Loco Films has swooped on “Last Days of Spring” (“La Ultima Primavera”), a Spain-set first feature from Isabel Lamberti that will world premiere this September at San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors competition, the Festival confirmed Thursday.
The Spanish festival’s main sidebar, New Directors highlights first and second features from helmers in Europe and beyond that often go on to strong festival play and sometimes fulsome sales.
German-born, but raised in Spain and the Netherlands, Lamberti studied film and direction at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and then the Netherlands Film Academy. She developed a love for what she calls “in-betweenness” — movies that inhabit the borderlands between fiction and documentary.
“Last Days of Spring” does so to a tee. Written by Lamberti and Lenina Ungari, and produced by Amsterdam-based IJswater Films with Spain’s high-flying Tourmalet Films, it uses non-professional actors...
The Spanish festival’s main sidebar, New Directors highlights first and second features from helmers in Europe and beyond that often go on to strong festival play and sometimes fulsome sales.
German-born, but raised in Spain and the Netherlands, Lamberti studied film and direction at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and then the Netherlands Film Academy. She developed a love for what she calls “in-betweenness” — movies that inhabit the borderlands between fiction and documentary.
“Last Days of Spring” does so to a tee. Written by Lamberti and Lenina Ungari, and produced by Amsterdam-based IJswater Films with Spain’s high-flying Tourmalet Films, it uses non-professional actors...
- 7/31/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Film Producers Netherlands is proud to present its members and their new films and projects. Many of their producers have extensive experience with international co-productions and are always interested in broadening their horizons. New films and projects of producers will be presented at Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (see line up) and at the Berlinale (see line up) / Efm in Berlin. Go to meet and contact these producers and find out about Netherlands 35% cash rebate.
Click below on the company for a quick introduction to our producers, their films and projects and to get in contact with them directly.
Marleen Slot, Chairman Fpn
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Film Producers Netherlands | Members, Films & Projects
An Original Picture
Joost de Vries
joost@anoriginalpicture.
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Marleen Slot, Chairman Fpn
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Film Producers Netherlands | Members, Films & Projects
An Original Picture
Joost de Vries
joost@anoriginalpicture.
- 1/24/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Titles include Molly from British director Sally Potter (Ginger & Rosa) [pictured].Scroll down for full line-up
The 12 projects that will make up this year’s Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform (Sept 22-25) have been revealed and include titles from the UK, France and Germany among others.
Filmmakers this year include British filmmaker Sally Potter who will present her latest project, Molly.
Potter’s films include Oscar-nominated Orlando (1992), starring Tilda Swinton; Rage, which competed for Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2009; and her most recent feature, Ginger & Rosa (2012), which screened at Toronto and Iffr among other festivals.
Bulgaria’s Maya Vitkova is back at Hfm with upcoming project Love, following the success of her previous film Viktoria, which played in competition at Sundance and Iffr.
Serbian director Nikola Ležaić will present The Religion of Night Walks, his second feature length work after Tilva Ros, which was selected for Locarno and won the top prize at Sarajevo in 2010.
From Sweden, [link...
The 12 projects that will make up this year’s Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform (Sept 22-25) have been revealed and include titles from the UK, France and Germany among others.
Filmmakers this year include British filmmaker Sally Potter who will present her latest project, Molly.
Potter’s films include Oscar-nominated Orlando (1992), starring Tilda Swinton; Rage, which competed for Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2009; and her most recent feature, Ginger & Rosa (2012), which screened at Toronto and Iffr among other festivals.
Bulgaria’s Maya Vitkova is back at Hfm with upcoming project Love, following the success of her previous film Viktoria, which played in competition at Sundance and Iffr.
Serbian director Nikola Ležaić will present The Religion of Night Walks, his second feature length work after Tilva Ros, which was selected for Locarno and won the top prize at Sarajevo in 2010.
From Sweden, [link...
- 8/29/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A beautifully made dramatic romance that has made the festival rounds with much success and earned a Golden Globe nomination, "The Polish Bride" starts jarringly with a bloody, terrified woman dressed only in a trench coat running for her life through crowded city streets.
She runs for miles, with no pursuers in sight, until she collapses unconscious at the feet of a Dutch farmer. Imminently worthy of limited domestic distribution, Algeria-born filmmaker Karim Traidia's feature debut is compelling cinema, with several long, dialogue-free stretches and a strong, upbeat resolution.
Although the details are never completely spelled out, the tattered woman is Anna (Monic Hendrickx), a Pole lured from her homeland and abused by an elderly pimp (Rudi Falkenhagen) and his thuggish son (Roef Ragas). It's her good fortune to escape and find her way to the farm of Henk (Jaap Spijkers), a decent, hard-working loner facing difficulties obtaining a bank loan.
There is momentary tension as we're not sure what Henk plans to do with this stranger who speaks a foreign language. But he calls no authorities and brushes off the pimp and his son when they come looking for her. She has awakened his protective instincts, and his busy schedule includes carefully nursing her back to health and not discouraging her attempts to return his kindness.
Little is said because of their language problem, but once it's clear he won't send her away, she makes an effort to help him around the house and begins to learn Dutch. The film's delightful middle segment depicts their blossoming relationship, with his perpetually cranky, preoccupied demeanor cracking and her confidence and sense of humor returning.
Be warned: This is not a movie to see with an empty stomach. Much of the leads' interaction takes place during meals and at snake-time in the barn and fields. One of their mutual breakthroughs occurs when she serves him Polish food and he responds positively.
Alas, the villains return and attempt to take Anna, but recalling a great line from "Doctor Zhivago" -- "Beware the anger of a patient man" -- Henk is in no mood to give her up without a fight. Immediately after a violent encounter that comes on unexpectedly, Henk and Anna surrender to their carnal desires for each other in the film's most risky scene.
In the aftermath, she returns to Poland and her young daughter, setting up the poignant conclusion. Set in the northeastern highlands province of Groningen in the Netherlands, "Polish Bride" is wonderfully atmospheric and visually superb, including exquisitely lighted interiors.
The performances couldn't be more on the money. Netherlands-born Hendrickx's character has an initial fragility that is replaced gradually by strength and determination as she effortlessly downplays her good looks and earthy attractiveness. Spijkers ("Character") is big and handsome, but he's so wrapped up in his portrayal that the viewer, like Anna, finds nothing boring about his endless work and simple lifestyle.
THE POLISH BRIDE
Motel Films, IJswater Films
Credits: Director: Karim Traidia; Screenwriter: Kees van der Hults; Producers: Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel, Marc Bary, Ilana Netiv; Director of photography: Jacques Laureys; Art director: Anne Winterink; Editor: Chris Teerink; Music: Fons Merkies. Cast: Henk: Jaap Spijkers; Anna: Monic Hendrickx; Pimp: Rudi Falkenhagen; Pimp's Son: Roef Ragas; Mailman: Hakim Traidia. No MPAA Rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 90 minutes.
She runs for miles, with no pursuers in sight, until she collapses unconscious at the feet of a Dutch farmer. Imminently worthy of limited domestic distribution, Algeria-born filmmaker Karim Traidia's feature debut is compelling cinema, with several long, dialogue-free stretches and a strong, upbeat resolution.
Although the details are never completely spelled out, the tattered woman is Anna (Monic Hendrickx), a Pole lured from her homeland and abused by an elderly pimp (Rudi Falkenhagen) and his thuggish son (Roef Ragas). It's her good fortune to escape and find her way to the farm of Henk (Jaap Spijkers), a decent, hard-working loner facing difficulties obtaining a bank loan.
There is momentary tension as we're not sure what Henk plans to do with this stranger who speaks a foreign language. But he calls no authorities and brushes off the pimp and his son when they come looking for her. She has awakened his protective instincts, and his busy schedule includes carefully nursing her back to health and not discouraging her attempts to return his kindness.
Little is said because of their language problem, but once it's clear he won't send her away, she makes an effort to help him around the house and begins to learn Dutch. The film's delightful middle segment depicts their blossoming relationship, with his perpetually cranky, preoccupied demeanor cracking and her confidence and sense of humor returning.
Be warned: This is not a movie to see with an empty stomach. Much of the leads' interaction takes place during meals and at snake-time in the barn and fields. One of their mutual breakthroughs occurs when she serves him Polish food and he responds positively.
Alas, the villains return and attempt to take Anna, but recalling a great line from "Doctor Zhivago" -- "Beware the anger of a patient man" -- Henk is in no mood to give her up without a fight. Immediately after a violent encounter that comes on unexpectedly, Henk and Anna surrender to their carnal desires for each other in the film's most risky scene.
In the aftermath, she returns to Poland and her young daughter, setting up the poignant conclusion. Set in the northeastern highlands province of Groningen in the Netherlands, "Polish Bride" is wonderfully atmospheric and visually superb, including exquisitely lighted interiors.
The performances couldn't be more on the money. Netherlands-born Hendrickx's character has an initial fragility that is replaced gradually by strength and determination as she effortlessly downplays her good looks and earthy attractiveness. Spijkers ("Character") is big and handsome, but he's so wrapped up in his portrayal that the viewer, like Anna, finds nothing boring about his endless work and simple lifestyle.
THE POLISH BRIDE
Motel Films, IJswater Films
Credits: Director: Karim Traidia; Screenwriter: Kees van der Hults; Producers: Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel, Marc Bary, Ilana Netiv; Director of photography: Jacques Laureys; Art director: Anne Winterink; Editor: Chris Teerink; Music: Fons Merkies. Cast: Henk: Jaap Spijkers; Anna: Monic Hendrickx; Pimp: Rudi Falkenhagen; Pimp's Son: Roef Ragas; Mailman: Hakim Traidia. No MPAA Rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 90 minutes.
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