Netherlands Film Production Incentive invests €11.25 million in 17 new productions and 5 high-end tv-series
he Netherlands Film Fund has supported 22 out of the 33 applications for the Film Production Incentive in this round. These contributions will generate more than €45 million in production expenses in the Netherlands across the entire spectrum of Dutch film professionals and film companies.
Upcoming application round 2025
The next application round for Netherlands Film Production Incentive is 25 august 2025 (only Films). 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 2025
- Caribbean Love (Johan Nijenhuis)
- Dark Blue River (Sergej Kreso)
- Downtown (Michiel van Erp)
- Hanneke & Fiet (Mischa Kamp)
- Honolulu King (Barbara Bredero)
- Koude Kant (Johan Nijenhuis)
- Millie and the Secret of the Crocodile (Esben Toft Jacobsen)
- Pa! (Sander Burger)
- Pink & Green (Rory Pilgrim)
- Police (Erwin van den Eshof)
- Pretend I’m Not Here (Simon Bird)
- Quo Vadis, Aida - The Missing Part (Jasmila Žbanić)
- Striguni (Aldo Tardozzi)
- Tabita Juris Kursietis)
- De Uitnodiging (Simone van Dusseldorp)
- Vampire in the School (Jonathan Elbers)
- Waste Junkies (Tomas Kaan)
Selected high-end tv-series in the second round of 2025
- Charlatan (Tom Goris)
- Doomers (Willem Bosch, Frederike Migom)
- Hushpuppi (Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo)
- Mabel & Margarita – Oranjebitter (Saskia Diesing, Joosje Duk, Hiba Vink)
- Red Light Empire (Tim Oliehoek)
For a full list of the titles, including credits and loglines, see below.
Caribbean Love (feature film)
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Script: Annelou van Naerssen
Dutch producer: Johan Nijenhuis & Co
Logline: Lars is about to get married, but he is worried that his mother Merel will end up alone for the rest of her life. He brings her to Curaçao, but without her knowing on a singles trip to find love. Against his expectations, he falls in love with undercover journalist Malti himself, so he has no eye for the affair between his mother and Curaçaoan Ozzie.
Granted support: €413,050
Dark Blue River (documentary)
Director/script: Sergej Kreso
Dutch producer: DOXY
Co-producer: Propeler Film (HR)
Logline: In Dark Blue River, I travel against the current of the Neretva, the river of my youth flowing through the Balkans, in a personal search for hope in the destructive chaos that humans constantly create.
Granted support: €198,500
Downtown (feature film)
Director: Michiel van Erp
Script: Frank Houtappels
Dutch producer: Kaap Holland Film
Co-producers: De Familie, Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (BE)
Logline: 1989 - three young gay men throw themselves wholeheartedly into the hedonistic nightlife scene of Amsterdam; a life of friendship, sex and drugs. Until the mysterious AIDS virus makes its entrance and puts a veil over their lives. 32 years later - in the lockdown of 2021 - they try to revive their friendship.
Granted support: €741,963
Hanneke & Fiet (feature film)
Director: Mischa Kamp
Script: Tamara Bos
Dutch producer: NL Film & TV
Co-producer: Leitwolf Filmproduktion (DE)
Logline: When six-year-old Hanneke is sent away "on a sleepover" in 1942, she has no idea that she will not see her parents for nearly three years. She goes from address to address until she finds a home with Fiet's family. Here she never wants to leave...
Granted support: €1,184,519
Honolulu King (feature film)
Director: Barbara Bredero
Script: Bodil de la Parra
Dutch producer: NL Film & TV
Logline: The 24-year-old Synne Blom puts her studies on hold to take over her grandfather Hardy's shop when her grandmother has to move to a nursing home. Not long after, she argues with her boyfriend, moves in with her grandfather, and becomes entangled in his past. Along the way, Synne discovers how much the gruesome events in former Dutch East Indies have left their mark, even on her.
Granted support: €164,772
Koude Kant (feature film)
Director: Johan Nijenhuis
Script: Brigitte Baake, Birgit van der Jagt
Dutch co-producer: Johan Nijenhuis & Co
Lead producer: Dingie (BE)
Logline: Both grandmothers want to be the best grandmother to their 6-year-old grandchild Anne. Anne's mother, Karlijn, tries to keep everyone in the family happy but still something eats away at her: who is the distant family?
Granted support: €477,067
Millie and the Secret of the Crocodile (animated feature film)
Director/script: Esben Toft Jacobsen (DK)
Dutch co-producer: Viking Film
Lead producer: Snowcloud (SE)
Co-producers: Vi Glæder Os Preben (DK), Nørlum Entertainment (DK)
Logline: The mouse Millie is scared of everything, but when her friend Morten falls in the river she has to overcome her fears to save him. Archimedes the frog helps her. The adventure leads to crocodile island where she is captured but refuses to give up. With new courage she frees all animals on the island. The crocodile’s secret is fear of being alone and Millie helps her so they can all live together.
Granted support: €91,942
Pa! (feature film)
Director: Sander Burger
Script: Paul Teunissen
Dutch producer: DOXY Fictie
Co-producer: Menuetto Film (BE)
Logline: Daan, journalist and 38, slides all the difficult decisions in his life around like coins from a fairground bulldozer. When his old father shows up one day to come live with him, the chaos is complete. But when the newspaper editor asks him to write columns about his father's care, his Dad unexpectedly becomes a gain instead of a burden. With unexpected consequences.
Granted support: €470,186
Pink & Green (documentary)
Director/script: Rory Pilgrim
Dutch producer: Smarthouse Films Productie
Co-producer: Tyke Films (UK)
Logline: When an explosion takes place in a stone quarry, 2 sonic bubbles are released deep within in the English Channel. Hovering over the Isle of Portland, they provide a portal of listening for four people to restore from harm who are dealing with the devastating effects of the criminal justice system and life in prison.
Granted support: €183,648
Police (feature film)
Director: Erwin van den Eshof
Script: Zeynep Dulger
Dutch producer: Tom de Mol Productions
Co-producer: Interstellar Pictures
Logline: Two failed cops are given the simple task of bringing an outspoken hacker to court in Germany, but their ride quickly turns into a deranged road trip filled with döner sandwiches, bullets, and the perfect “tooter” — when it turns out the criminals would rather see him in a coffin than on the witness stand.
Granted support: €284,912
Pretend I’m Not Here (feature film)
Director: Simon Bird (UK)
Script: Lisa Owens (UK)
Dutch co-producer: Lemming Film
Lead producer: Parkville Pictures (UK)
Logline: An ordinary couple offer sanctuary to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — but cohabiting in such close quarters with a perfect stranger doesn’t prove to be as straightforward as they’d hoped.
Granted support: €559,312
Quo Vadis, Aida - The Missing Part (feature film)
Director/script: Jasmila Žbanić (BA)
Dutch co-producer: Topkapi Films
Lead producer: TACK Films (FI)
Co-producers: Bionaut (CZ), Münchhausen Films (EE)
Logline: Shortly after her sons are taken, Aida receives information that they are still alive and being held captive on a farm in Serbia. A spark of hope awakens in her. She begins a fight for the truth that everyone wants to hide.
Granted support: €124,973
Striguni (feature film)
Director/script: Aldo Tardozzi (HR)
Dutch co-producer: De Productie
Lead producer: ZIVA Production (HR)
Co-producer: Deblokada (BA)
Logline: A young biologist, in research of eternal life, discovers the connection between a case of a missing child and the existence of Striguni – supernatural creatures from the local legends that prolong their lives by taking away the life force from the children.
Granted support: €80,000
Tabita (feature film)
Director/script: Juris Kursietis (LV)
Dutch co-producer: The Film Kitchen
Lead producer: White Picture (LV)
Co-producer: INSCRIPT (LT)
Logline: When his daughter Tabita, who has Down syndrome, finishes school without a clear plan for the future, Andris takes it upon himself to create a path for her. As his plans begin to strain his marriage and push him to his limits, he is forced to let go of unrealistic ambitions and face who Tabita really is.
Granted support: €111,595
De Uitnodiging (feature film)
Director/script: Simone van Dusseldorp
Dutch co-producer: Eleven
Lead producer: Frequency In Motion (BE)
Logline: The Invitation is a comedic and touching film about a couple, Hidde and Anna, whose relationship has become stagnant after years of being together. The passion has faded, and old frustrations surface. When they invite their younger, outgoing neighbours, Lucas and Amira, for a drink, the evening takes an unexpected turn.
Granted support: €337,432
Vampire in the School (feature film)
Director: Jonathan Elbers
Script: Maikel Nijnuis
Dutch producer: Umami Media
Co-producer: Leitwolf Film (DE)
Logline: Vampire in the School is a spooky film about Jacko who, together with his best friend Noémie, has to save his other best friend Edje from the vampire virus, which has changed him and turned him over to the mean but popular sunglasses gang. In order to save Edje from the vampire virus, they have to defeat the vampire Varlok and that is only possible if they join forces as true friends.
Granted support: €698,362
Waste Junkies (documentary)
Director: Tomas Kaan
Script: Chris Westendorp
Dutch producer: Scenery
Logline: Waste Junkies is a cinematic documentary that reveals the environmental destruction, devastating societal disruption and ruthless organized crime that takes place behind the landfills of our world. This journalistic story investigates the connection between the waste surrounding us and humanities addiction to ‘economic growth’. Is there a way out of this mess?
Granted support: €227,767
High-end series
Charlatan (drama series)
Director: Tom Goris (BE)
Script: Carl Joos (BE)
Dutch co-producer: Horizon Film
Lead producer: Sputnik Media (BE)
Logline: When a popular but dubious stock market guru clashes with an idealistic journalist in the late 1980’s, a feud ensues that will change the rest of their lives.
Granted support: €900,000
Doomers (drama series)
Director: Willem Bosch, Frederike Migom (BE)
Script: Willem Bosch
Dutch producer: Pupkin Film
Co-producer: Sallie Gardner & Domm (by De Mensen) (BE)
Logline: When a young student joins a radical group of climate terrorists, he finds love and friends for life, but becomes increasingly entangled in a world of betrayal and violence.
Granted support: €475,714
Hushpuppi (documentary series)
Director: Sam Soko (KE), Lauren DeFilippo (US)
Script: Sam Soko (KE), Lauren DeFilippo (US), Besma Lachhab
Dutch producer: Scenery
Logline: Opulent, deceptive, staggering, HUSHPUPPI is a limited documentary series that traces the improbable rise and dramatic fall of a notorious internet fraudster whose riches led him to become one of Instagram’s most flamboyant influencers and one of the FBI’s most-wanted cybercriminals.
Granted support: €233,341
Mabel & Margarita - Orange Bitters (drama series)
Director: Saskia Diesing, Joosje Duk, Hiba Vink
Script: Randa Peters, Judith Goudsmit, Alix van der Goes, Jikkie Schelling
Dutch producer: Millstreet Films
Co-producer: FBO (BE)
Logline: In 1999, Mabel and Margarita each meet their great love, Friso and Edwin.
What they don’t know is that, over the coming years, the couples will become increasingly entangled in the web of the Dutch monarchy, and the power games that unfold behind closed doors.
Granted support: €1,400,000
Red Light Empire (drama series)
Director: Tim Oliehoek
Script: Michael Leendertse, Sarah Offringa
Dutch producer: Lemming Film
Co-producers: Lemming Film Belgium (BE), Nukleus Film (HR)
Logline: Amsterdam, '45 - '86, De Wallen. In a neighborhood beyond the control of the authorities, a Jewish war orphan seizes his chance to build an empire of sex and gambling that will not only shape the city’s global reputation but also define modern-day Netherlands.
Granted support: €1,890,945
Header image: Dark Blue River
