Netherlands Film Production Incentive invests €6.9 million in 13 new productions and 4 high-end tv-series
These contributions will generate more than € 23.8 million in production expenses in the Netherlands across the entire spectrum of Dutch film professionals and film companies.
All projects backed by the Netherlands Film Production Incentive in the fourth round of 2024 are:
20 Years - De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (documentary)
Director: Bastiaan Bosma
Script: Tomas Kaan
Dutch producer: Scenery
Logline: Fact and fiction intertwine in this reconstruction of 20 years of De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig. In a mashup that is both funny and dramatic, combining archival footage, behind-the-scenes documentary scenes from the present, and a crazy, dramatic stylistic device where well-known actors portray De Jeugd, we get to know the four band members better.
Granted support: €103,808
Borges and Me (feature film)
Director: Mark Turtletaub (US)
Script: Oren Moverman (IL)
Dutch producer: Lemming Film
Lead producer: Viva Momentum UK (UK)
Co-producers: Viva Momentum US (US), A Private View (BE)
Logline: Jay Parini, in flight from the Vietnam War, flees the United States for university life in Scotland, desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.
Granted support: €227,758
Can’t Leave It Like This (documentary)
Director: Helena Maksyom (UA)
Script: Helena Maksyom (UA)
Dutch co-producer: EVDJ
Lead producer: Adrian A. Pirvu PFA
Co-producers: Perennial Lens (DE), Jeanne Dohvych (UA)
Logline: When Ukranian filmmaker Helena Maksyom experiences the brutality of the Russian full-scale invasion firsthand, she feels she has no choice but to take up arms and join the military. While she watches her friends fight to keep their sanity, she keeps filming. It is her attempt to not lose humanity.
Granted support: €45,000
Champagne (feature film)
Director: Tim Kamps
Script: Rik van den Bos, Leo Alkemade
Dutch producer: Aattache Films
Logline: When 40-year-old Dutchman Maarten takes his ailing father on a final trip to the Champagne region of France, he forgets one crucial detail: they might be the least compatible duo in the world for a father-son bonding trip. What begins as an awkward adventure soon turns into a series of escalating, uncomfortable moments that, in the end, give them the perfect farewell.
Granted support: €284,726
Gringo's 3 (feature film)
Director: Jamel Aattache
Script: Tijs van Marle
Dutch producer: Talent United
Co-producer: Aattache Films
Logline: Just when the Tattas want to go on holiday, Erik tries to play the hero, but unintentionally causes such chaos that he is given community service in another neighbourhood. Here begins a comic adventure, in which the family must try to integrate into that new neighbourhood and survive in the craziest situations.
Granted support: €491,564
The Lions on the River Tigris (documentary)
Director: Zaradasht Ahmed (NO)
Script: Zaradasht Ahmed (NO)
Dutch co-producer: DOXY
Lead producer: Indie Film Bergen (NO)
Logline: The beautiful ancient Iraqi city of Mosul, was conquered by ISIS, and became one of the most hated places in the world. In the war for liberation, the Old City was left in ruins. Can the people of Mosul rise again, and heal their broken souls?
Granted support: €35,087
Lost Son (feature film)
Director: Edson da Conceicao
Script: Philip Delmaar
Dutch producer: IJswater Films
Co-producer: Caviar Antwerp (BE)
Logline: An alcoholic father seeks to avenge his son's murder, but instead, finds a new son in the perpetrator.
Granted support: €470,000
Mohammed Mrabet - The Last Storyteller (documentary)
Director: Nordin Lasfar
Script: Nordin Lasfar
Dutch producer: Dieptescherpte
Logline: Mohammed Mrabet, the Last Narrator is an unorthodox portrait of Mohammed Mrabet, the only author in history who cannot read or write. Through Mrabet and his contemporaries, the documentary is also the account of an unequal friendship, a critical portrait of the legendary American artists' colony in Tangier and a cinematic journey to the origins of storytelling.
Granted support: €135,414
Our Boys 3 (feature film)
Director: Johan Nijenhuis, Aram van der Rest
Script: Michiel Peereboom
Dutch producer: Johan Nijenhuis & Co
Co-producer: DINGIE (BE)
Logline: The construction workers of Our Boys pick up the tools again to moonlight as strippers. They play a game of seduction. But time did not stand still: strippers also face consent in their show. They will have to change their act to meet the new rules of the game.
Granted support: €497,146
Sorry (feature film)
Director: Frederike Migom (BE)
Script: Frederike Migom (BE)
Dutch coproducer: Pupkin Film
Lead producer: Sallie Gardner and Domm (BE)
Co-producers: De Mensen (BE), Cala Film (DE)
Logline: An afternoon in the mind of a headstrong teenager struggling to find her place in her broken family. 'Sorry' is a film about searching, dreaming, and standing up for yourself.
Granted support: €188,204
Super Miss in the Jungle (feature film)
Director: Martijn Smits
Script: Tijs van Marle
Dutch producer: Tom de Mol Productions
Co-producer: Interstellar Pictures
Logline: Josje seems like an ordinary teacher, but when animals are in need, she turns into Super Miss. A parrot appears at her window that has come all the way from South America. A hotel has been built in the jungle and the animals are in danger. Super Miss has to help them. Josje has doubts. She sometimes saves a guinea pig or chicken, but saving an entire jungle full of animals? That seems impossible.
Granted support: €425,000
Tahmina (feature film)
Director: Aboozar Amini
Script: Aboozar Amini
Dutch producer: Silk Road Film Salon
Co-producer: Greenground Inc (CA)
Logline: A corpse must be whole for the soil to accept it, believes Tahmina, a goddess of the Hindu Kush Mountains, who scours the explosion sites for human organs. She reassembles the blown up bodies to allow their souls pass onto the afterworld. But things find a way to go wrong…
Granted support: €150,578
To Die For (feature film)
Director: Lucio Messercola
Script: Michiel Peereboom
Dutch producer: Messercola Drama & Soap
Logline: When the Meiland family discovers a corpse in the basement of their new villa, they are swept up in a hysterical murder mystery where nearly everyone in their upscale neighborhood could be the killer.
Granted support: €361,125
High-end tv-series
Droneland (drama series)
Director: Max Zähle (DE), Felix Koch (LU)
Script: Nicolas Steil (LU), Jan Cronauer (DE), Christophe Wagner (LU), Pierre Majerus (LU)
Dutch co-producer: Topkapi Films
Lead producer: Iris Productions (LU)
Co-producers: Syrreal Entertainment (DE), Enter Film (PL), Iris Productions Deutschland (DE)
Logline: In a European future where citizens are under constant surveillance by thousands of drones, two Europol agents investigate the mysterious murder of a politician and uncover a devious conspiracy threatening to shake the Union to its core…
Granted support: €768,051
Grand Hotel aan Zee (drama series)
Director: Aniëlle Webster
Script: Astrid van Keulen, Eva Aben, Anjali Taneja
Dutch producer: Big Blue Productions
Co-producer: Jonnydepony (BE)
Logline: Grand Hotel aan Zee is a romantic costume drama set between 1912-1919 in Noordwijk, a quaint fishing village on the Dutch coast. As the ambitious development of hotel Grand Hotel progresses, Noordwijk changes from a simple fisherman village into a seaside resort for the elite. This change not only alters the future of hotel owner Sandra but also that of five other women around.
Granted support: €2,140,540
Hemelrijk (drama series)
Director: Victor D. Ponten, Jim Taihuttu
Script: Jim Taihuttu, Amira Duijnhouwer
Dutch producer: New Ams Film Company
Logline: When recently divorced Dewi (34) unexpectedly inherits the Hemelrijk plantation in Java, she decides to restore it with her daughter Alex (14). But the plantation turns out to be a mystical place filled with dark histories and secrets. As Dewi starts experiencing visions of her ancestors, she slowly begins to lose her grip on reality.
Granted support: €319,184
Vero Forever (drama series)
Director: Jeroen Dumoulein (BE), Emilie De Roo (BE)
Script: Dries Heyneman (BE), Emilie De Roo (BE)
Dutch co-producer: Flinck Film
Lead producer: Lunanime (BE)
Co-producer: Made For Films (DE)
Logline: To finally get rid of his wife, Benoit decides to stay by her side.
Granted support: €277,000
Upcoming application round 2025
The next application round for Netherlands Film Production Incentive is 27 January 2025. 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.
Header image: Lost Son
