Netherlands Film Production Incentive invests €10.6 million in 16 new productions and 3 high-end series

In the second round of the Netherlands Film Production Incentive of 2026 contributions were made to 19 productions for a total amount of €10.6 million. These include 15 feature films, 1 documentary and 3 drama series including 6 international co-productions.

These contributions will generate more than €42.7 million in production expenses in the Netherlands across the entire spectrum of Dutch film professionals and film companies.

Upcoming application round 2026

The next application round for Netherlands Film Production Incentive is 24 August 2026. The Netherlands Film Production Incentive offers a financial contribution in the form of a cash rebate on the qualifying production costs that are demonstrably spent in the Netherlands.

Selected film productions in the second round of 2026

De Bevers: All for Our Fans! (Erwin van den Eshof)
Bon Bini: Jetzt Geht's Los (Pieter van Rijn)
The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa)
Deadly Weekend (Nienke Römer)
Fading (Jiska Rickels)
Four Hikers and a Sicilian (Hiba Vink)
Loneliness of the Light Skin One (Baloji)
Möbius (Richard Raaphorst)
NomadLaND (Adri Schrover)
Paradiso (Martijn Maria Smits)
The Possessed (Ena Sendijarević)
Postcard (Anthony Nti, Chingiz Karibekov)
Sisters in Wartime (Paula van der Oest)
Storms Named After Women (Isabel Muruzábal Lamberti)
De Viking van Woensel (Teemong)
Zegel van het Zuiden (Lucio Messercola)

Selected high-end series in the second round of 2026

Day & Night 5 (Joram Lürsen, Toon Slembrouck)
MH17 (Diederik van Rooijen)
Sex and the Vinex (Annemarie van de Mond)

For a full list of the titles, including credits and loglines, see below.

A woman seen from a body of water. — The Possessed

Film productions

De Bevers: All for Our Fans! (feature film) 

Director: Erwin van den Eshof
Script: Dick Bouquet
Producer: Gates Pictures
Co-producer: Brandconnection

Logline: When De Bevers take their fans to Malta for the ultimate musical getaway, Kees tries to give the fans the trip of a lifetime while making sure John gets the rest he needs, until a mother and her children on the run hide among the fans, forcing him to protect them.

Granted support: € 359,999

Bon Bini: Jetzt Geht's Los (feature film) 

Director: Pieter van Rijn
Script: Maarten Swart, Michel Bonset & Jandino Asporaat
Producer: Kaap Holland Film

Logline: When the FC Kip team takes over a hotel in Tyrol, they find themselves at odds with a capitalist Austrian property magnate. Will FC Kip manage to win this class struggle and win over the hearts of the village?

Granted support: € 774,730

The Daughters of Fire (feature film) 

Director/script: Pedro Costa (PT)
Dutch co-producer: BALDR Film
Lead producer: Optec Filmes (PT)

Logline: Three young Cape Verdean sisters are separated by the eruption of the volcano of Fogo. Three tiny lives adrift in the catastrophe of the twentieth century. But they keep on singing: "we must live! One day we will know why we live and why we suffer..."

Granted support: € 86,191

Deadly Weekend (feature film) 

Director/script: Nienke Römer
Producer: Tom de Mol Productions
Co-producers: Dingie (BE), Interstellar Pictures

Logline: During a murder mystery game on a family weekend at a Belgian country house, Li de Wit's domineering father-in-law is actually killed by poisoning. As the atmosphere in the family turns to mistrust, Li suspects that the poison was intended for someone else. Together with her teenage daughter, she must find the killer before the actual target gets eliminated.

Granted support: € 207,402

Fading (feature film)

Director: Jiska Rickels
Script: Jiska Rickels & Martijn de Jong
Producer: Lemming Film
Co-producer: Lemming Film België (BE)

Logline: As Benedictine monk Andreas struggles with a crisis of faith, he is unexpectedly put in charge of his ageing monastic community. In his efforts to continue their age-old way of life, he increasingly loses touch with God and with his best friend bother Lukas.

Granted support: € 493,437

A woman's face in the shade. — The Daughters of Fire

Four Hikers and a Sicilian (feature film) 

Director: Hiba Vink
Script: Eva Aben
Producers: Millstreet Films & KeyFilm
Co-producers: Marte Studios (IT), Interstellar Pictures

Logline: Four women decide to go on a hiking trip in Italy. Led by their Italian guide, they explore the rough landscapes of Sicily. Each woman has her reasons for joining the adventure, hoping to escape their everyday lives. Can they let go of their past baggage and change their outlook for the future?

Granted support: € 453,842

Loneliness of the Light Skin One (feature film) 

Director: Baloji
Script: Thomas van Zuylen
Dutch co-producer: New Ams Film Company
Lead producer: Wrong Men (BE)
Co-producers: SRAB Films (FR), Les Films Fauves (LU) Tosala Films (CD)

Logline: Billie (a mixed-race 16-year-old) is considered one of the future great South African sprinters. As the sole financial support for her family, her career is abruptly interrupted after being diagnosed with hyperandrogenism (abnormally high testosterone levels). Prohibited from racing, she undergoes hormonal treatment that profoundly disrupts her personal, family, and professional life.

Granted support: € 125,000

Möbius (feature film) 

Director: Richard Raaphorst
Script: Eron Sheean & Nadadja Kemper
Producer: Holland Harbour Entertainment
Co-producer: Firebook Entertainment (US)

Logline: In her attempt to master the laws of nature, a scientist loses her grip on her own reality. The return of her lover, a man who should no longer exist, forces her to choose between love and reason, control and chaos, life and death.

Granted support: € 1,311,987

NOmadLAND (documentary) 

Director/script: Adri Schrover
Producer: Conijn Film
Co-producer: Quetzalcoatl (BE)

Logline: Photographer Daan Zuijderwijk and his family lead an extraordinary nomadic life, traveling off-grid across Europe, close to nature and dedicated to the art Daan creates. Can they sustain this lifestyle now that the need to reduce their carbon footprint even further is becoming increasingly urgent? A film about a passionate and idealistic family of artists.

Granted support: € 169,437

Paradiso (feature film) 

Director/script: Martijn Maria Smits
Dutch producer: Scenery
Co-producer: IF Productions

Logline: Jayden’s parents have lost both their home and their love for each other due to debt. When Jayden receives the same gift from both of them for his birthday, and it cannot be exchanged, tensions rise.

Granted support: € 385,673

A woman's face on a background of blue and orange with the title and credits for Möbius. — Möbius

The Possessed (feature film) 

Director/script: Ena Sendijarević
Producer: Studio Ruba
Co-producers: Distinto Films (ES), Eklips

Logline: In 17th-century Europe, two women fleeing the witch hunts create a refuge at the edge of the world, until a man becomes their unwilling captive and sparks a dangerous love triangle. Centuries later, a modern film crew resurrects their story. But as desire, suspicion and control take over the shoot, the past begins to haunt the present.

Granted support: € 332,517

Postcard (feature film) 

Director/script: Anthony Nti (BE), Chingiz Karibekov (BE)
Dutch co-producer: IJswater Films
Lead producer: Caviar Antwerp (BE)
Co-producers: Versus (BE), Salaud Morisset (DE)

Logline: When hardened Joyce saves naïve Raybekah in Libya, their lives become entwined. In Belgium, they enter a closed system of exploitation where freedom is an illusion. As Joyce rises within it, Raybekah must choose between survival and becoming what she once condemned.

Granted support: € 99,481

Sisters in Wartime (feature film)

Director: Paula van der Oest
Script: Esther Gerritsen
Producer: Topkapi Films
Co-producers: The Reunion (BE), Man Up, AGITPROP (BG)

Logline: Two Jewish sisters in the resistance find an unexpected hiding place in ’t Hooge Nest, a villa in the forests of Nazi-occupied Netherlands. There, Lien and Janny shelter more and more people in need of a safe haven. When they are betrayed and arrested, the sisters support each other with courage, strength, and love to survive the camps.

Granted support: € 1,664,806

Storms Named After Women (feature film) 

Director/script: Isabel Muruzábal Lamberti
Producer: Circe Films
Co-producers: Kaap Holland Film, Malvalanda (ES), Horsefly Films MON IKE (GR)

Logline: Three Latin-American women sharing a flat in Madrid find their lives disrupted when a young woman and her toddler move in, stirring up both chaos and dormant desires.

Granted support: € 303,271

De Viking van Woensel (feature film)

Director/script: Teemong
Producer: Keplerfilm
Co-producer: Dingie (BE)

Logline: When his mother dies, Henrik (32) loses his anchor. LARPing as a Viking and cultivating zucchini sex toys on used coffee grounds can't fill the void. When he's mugged by a junkie and loses both his house keys and the urn, neighbourhood mediator Gino (33) becomes his unlikely guide in a quest for his mother’s ashes that is as absurd as it is perilous.

Granted support: € 319,000

Zegel van het Zuiden (feature film) 

Director: Lucio Messercola
Script: Michiel Peereboom
Producer: Messercola Drama & Soap

Logline: When three children from a blended family discover a stolen signet ring during a nostalgic family week at the Efteling, they become entangled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with criminals who will go to extreme lengths to get the ring back..

Granted support: € 341,674

High-end series

Day & Night 5 (drama series)

Director: Joram Lürsen & Toon Slembrouck (BE)
Script: Esther Gerritsen, Jaap Peter Enderlé, Saar Ponsioen, Randy Oost, Benja Bruijning & Judith Goudsmit
Producer: Lemming Film
Co-producers: Lemming Film Belgium (BE), Magical Society (VK)

Logline: Day & Night Season 5 returns to the same Emergency Room (ER) as season four. We follow a team of doctors and nurses working on the front lines. As the workload reaches a breaking point, the team must navigate a landscape of radical changes within the healthcare industry.

Granted support: € 942,259

MH17 (drama series)

Director: Diederik van Rooijen
Script: Anne Barnhoorn
Producer: Horizon Film
Co-producer: Wilder Content (BE)

Logline: Based on the true story, a relentless international investigation fights against overwhelming odds, political espionage, and a global misinformation campaign to uncover the truth behind the tragic death of 298 innocent people with the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine.

Granted support: € 1,857,253

Sex and the Vinex (drama series)

Director: Annemarie van de Mond
Script: Barry Atsma & Willem Bosch
Producer: Pupkin Film
Co-producer: Sallie Gardner and Domm (BE)

Logline: In the Vinex, where appearances are deceiving and desires awaken, four women dare to break free from their safe existence. An ode to honesty, connection, and the courage to be different.

Granted support: € 452,760

Header: Storms Named After Women (Isabel Muruzábal Lamberti)