Nederlands Filmfonds


Selected Co-productions with the Netherlands in the last five years

Minority Co-Productions


Vivan las antipodas! Germany/Netherlands/ Argentina/Chile 2011

A minimalist documentary from Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky which compares four pairs of locations on exact opposite points of the globe. Haven’t we all wondered at some point what was happening just at this moment beneath our very feet at the other side of the planet?      Read more


Abrir puertas y ventanas - Back to Stay Switzerland/Argentina/ Netherlands 2010

Buenos Aires, the end of summer. Sisters Marina, Sofia and Violeta are alone in the family home after the death of their grandmother who brought them up. Each of them tries to come to terms with her death in their own way.      Read more


Adem - Oxygen Belgium/Netherlands 2010

Tom and his brother Lucas are young men who suffer from cystic fybrosis, a genetic disease that slowly destroys their lungs. Tom is struggling to cope with his short life expectancy and hangs around with a gang of hoodlums.     Read more


The Other Side of Sleep Ireland/Netherlands 2010


The story of factory worker Arlene, who becomes a ghost in her own life. One winter morning, she wakes in the woodland near her small village to find herself lying beside the body of a young woman.    Read more


De helaasheid der dingen - The Misfortunates Belgium/Netherlands 2009


Gunther Strobbe, 13, lives with his father Celle and three uncles at his grandmother's. After a series of failed marriages, the Strobbes moved back in with their aged mother in a filthy shack located in the unsightly town of Reetveerdegem.                 Read more


Los viajes del viento - The Wind Journeys Colombia/Germany/ Argentina/Netherlands 2008

Now in his twilight years and still mourning his wife's recent death, nomadic minstrel Ignacio vows never to play the accordion again, and sets out on his donkey to return the instrument to his mentor in northern Colombia, via Majagual, Sucre Taroa and beyond the Guajira desert.       Read more


Majority Co-Productions


De President Netherlands/Hungary 2010

A political black comedy set in the Netherlands in the near future. The Dutch people have become disillusioned with their government so decide to renounce Republican politics and elect a President.        Read more


Isabelle Netherlands/Luxembourg 2010


In a mountainous region of France, the glamorous film actress Isabelle suddenly disappears without trace. Search parties find nothing and the case is soon abandoned...    Read more


Code Blue Netherlands/Denmark 2010


Marian, a middle-aged nurse, lives a solitary life but devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer with the terminally ill and helps them out of their misery. When she gets linked to a neighbour in an act of shared voyeurism, he becomes an obsession.    Read more



Tony Tien - Tony Ten Netherlands/Germany/ Belgium 2010

Tony Ten is a family film which tells the unlikely and timeless story of Tony, who is nearly 10, and of his father who rises from being a crane driver to Secretary of State. As a result his parents get divorced and Tony does everything he can to bring them back together. He even calls on the help of the Queen. Read more
 


Brownian Movement Netherlands/ Germany/Belgium 2009

At the hospital where she works, Charlotte carefully selects male patients to have sex with in an apartment she has rented in town. The secret moments she spends with a variety of men - corpulent, hairy, elderly- give Charlotte a fulfilment she cannot find in her one-child marriage with Max.   Read more