Netherlands Film Production Incentive invests €9.9 million in 17 new productions and 10 high-end series
These contributions will generate more than €44.4 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 January 26, 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 fourth round of 2025
- 100 Thousand Turkish Liras (Nazli Elif Durlu)
- Broke (Najib Amhali)
- Clinic South, at Any Cost (Appie Boudellah)
- Confetti Rain (Michiel van Erp)
- Flesh of My Flesh (Matthys Boshoff)
- Look Like Jackie (In-Soo Radstake)
- Mission Humanity (Tomas Kaan, Rita Baroud)
- Momentum (Alex Pitstra)
- The Painted Bride (Jeremiah Zagar)
- Racing Johnny (Eva Leysen)
- Rolex Gang (Aaron van Valen)
- Savagery (Miguel Gomes)
- Tuig (Stephan Miras)
- Tummy Tum Makes it Better (Joost van den Bosch, Erik Verkerk, Digna van der Put)
- Uit Liefde (Anne de Clercq)
- Unicorn (Kelly Nyks)
- We Don't Talk About Those Things (Soraya Pol)
Selected high-end series in the fourth round of 2025
- Clash (Jan Verheyen)
- The Counselor
- Day and Night 4 (Joram Lürsen, Toon Slembrouck)
- Doomers (Willem Bosch, Frederike Migom)
- La Vida Barcelona (Charlotte Scott-Wilson, Ayla Spaans)
- The Machine - Hooked on Booking.com (Michiel van Jaarsveld)
- The French Battle (Will Koopman)
- Unsolved Flanders (Thomas Korthals Altes)
- The Quote Gang (Jaap van Heusden)
- Gypsyblood(Will Falize, Julius Ponten)
For a full list of the titles, including credits and loglines, see below.
100 Thousand Turkish Liras (feature film)
Director/script: Nazli Elif Durlu
Dutch co-producer: Studio Ruba
Lead producer: Istos Film (TR)
Logline: Esra, a 19-year-old hotel housekeeper, finds the warmth of family she lacks in a fraud gang and will do everything she can to keep the gang from falling apart.
Granted support: € 122,205
Broke (feature film)
Director: Najib Amhali
Script: Michiel Peereboom
Producer: Aattache Films
Logline: When a lovable screw-up and widowed dad hits rock bottom and faces eviction with his teenage daughter, he makes a desperate choice: commit the world’s clumsiest robbery. But when things spiral out of control and a relentless detective is hot on his trail, he stumbles through one failed heist after another — trying to save his family and not end up as the Worst Dad Ever.
Granted support: € 364,000
Clinic South, at Any Cost (feature film)
Director: Appie Boudellah
Script: Mustafa Boudellah, Appie Boudellah
Producer: AM Pictures
Logline: In the glamorous district of Amsterdam-Zuid, Dr. Caro Benedict runs an exclusive wellness clinic for the elite. When her perfect façade begins to crack under the weight of affairs, addictions, and a deadly implant scandal, she must choose between love and survival in a world where reputation is worth more than truth.
Granted support: € 422,977
Confetti Rain (feature film)
Director: Michiel van Erp
Script: Han van Wieringen
Producer: De Familie
Co-producer: A Private View (BE)
Logline: Wobie (20) looks back on his life from his student room. He is the colourful middle child in a warm and privileged family. His mother is a doctor, his father a writer. In this safe environment, he seems to have all the space he needs to be who he is. Yet it will take until he is twenty before he finds the courage to let his family into his inner world.
Granted support: € 679,520
Flesh of My Flesh (feature film)
Director/script: Matthys Boshoff (SA)
Dutch co-producer: R&R Stories
Lead producer: Stage 5 Films (SA)
Logline: Magnus and Annelie had the picture perfect family. After a car accident claims their daughter’s life and leaves free-spirited Annelie quadriplegic, Magnus brings her home from hospital. As lover becomes caretaker, their son rebels and the wound of their daughter’s death festers, will their relationship survive?
Granted support: € 110,000
Look Like Jackie (documentary)
Director/script: In-Soo Radstake
Producer: Holland Harbour Entertainment
Logline: In Look Like Jackie, filmmaker In-Soo Radstake investigates the stereotype that has followed him all his life: Jackie Chan. Using Rush Hour as a mirror and humor as a double-edged weapon, he embarks on a journey of re-enactments, and conversations with comedians and scholars, to find out what happens when he stops laughing along and finally speaks in his own voice.
Granted support: € 236,673
Mission Humanity (documentary)
Director/script: Tomas Kaan, Rita Baroud
Producer: Scenery
Co-producers: Elk Film (DK), Think-Film (UK)
Logline: The fate of the United Nations has been closely intertwined with that of Gaza for over 75 years. Under the current circumstances, the struggle to deliver aid and save lives has become more difficult than ever. Will the UN be able to prove its relevance for the future? Or must we uphold the very foundations of humanity in an entirely new way?
Granted support: € 118,414
Momentum (documentary)
Director/script: Alex Pitstra
Producer: Bind & Willink
Co-producer: Clin d'oeil Films (BE)
Logline: Amidst gigantic machines on an offshore installation vessel, an ambitious young female officer tries to find her place as a newcomer. As she learns to navigate both technical and social challenges, she—like her male colleagues—seeks a balance between her personal identity and her role within the demanding system.
Granted support: € 212,442
The Painted Bride (animated feature film)
Director/script: Jeremiah Zagar (US)
Dutch co-producer: Viking Film
Lead producer: Public Record (US)
Co-producers: Present Company (US), Madants (PL)
Logline: Elisha is balding. During the day, he swims, cooks and cares for his family. At night, he obsesses over a new project dedicated to his son and dying father. When a crisis draws him back home to Baltimore, Elisha’s world begins to collapse, expand, regress and explode all around him.
Granted support: € 532,715
Racing Johnny (feature film)
Director: Eva Leysen
Script: Michiel Peereboom
Dutch producer: Jabadoo Holding
Co-producers: Interstellar Pictures, Tom de Mol Productions
Logline: When impulsive teenager Mila and level-headed veterinarian Hailey discover a neglected but exceptionally fast horse, they get one chance to win its freedom in a race against its ruthless owner, who will stop at nothing to make them lose.
Granted support: € 373,774
Rolex Gang (feature film)
Director: Aaron van Valen
Script: Daan Windhorst
Producer: Jabadoo Holding
Co-producers: Horizon Film, Interstellar Pictures, Dingie (BE)
Logline: Izzy, a young, ambitious hustler, is recruited by a ruthless gang that targets wealthy Rolex owners using social media and clever tricks. But when their operation escalates to brutal violence that shocks the public, he must choose between loyalty and his conscience.
Granted support: € 598,837
Savagery (feature film)
Director: Miguel Gomes (PT)
Script: Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo (PT)
Dutch co-producer: Lemming Film
Lead producer: Uma Pedra no Sapato (PT)
Co-producers: Bubbles Project (BR), Matizar Filmes (BR), Shellac Sud (FR)
Logline: In Brazil’s arid Sertão of the late 19th century, the prophet-led community of Canudos resists the young republic’s army, which seeks to crush them. Underestimating both the people and the land, soldiers suffer and even adopt enemy ways. SAVAGERY adapts Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões, recounting the 1897 war in Bahia.
Granted support: € 108,255
Tuig (feature film)
Director: Stephan Miras
Script: Rune van der Aar
Producer: Topkapi Films
Co-producer: Menuetto Film (BE)
Logline: Three best friends get the chance of a lifetime to escape their hopeless lives: scoring a stash of two million by breaking into the abandoned house of the Netherlands’ most famous singer. But when their mission spirals into an over-the-top hostage situation complete with full-blown media circus, the boys are forced to ask themselves the ultimate question: am I a loser or a winner?
Granted support: € 427,778
Tummy Tum Makes it Better (animated feature film)
Directors: Joost van den Bosch, Erik Verkerk, Digna van der Put
Script: Linda Snoep, Burny Bos
Producer: Phanta Film
Co-producers: Eyeworks Film & TV Drama (BE), BosBros
Logline: The Squirrels are allowed to move in with Tummy Tom when their tree is blown over. But living together and sharing your favorite things isn’t easy! After a fight, Tummy Tom wants to make up. But how do you do that? Luckily, Spider knows just how to fix more than just webs.
Granted support: € 317,367
Uit Liefde (feature film)
Director: Anne de Clercq
Script: Frank Houtappels
Producer: NL Film & TV
Co-producer: Interstellar Pictures
Logline: When Lucy and her husband Klaas set out to fulfil their dream of a life by the sea, a routine medical check-up reveals she urgently needs a kidney transplant. When Pieter — the husband of her best friend Stella — impulsively offers to donate his kidney, it triggers a chain reaction of jealousy, guilt, and old wounds. Over one long weekend, every relationship is pushed to its breaking point.
Granted support: € 585,269
Unicorn (documentary)
Director/script: Kelly Nyks
Dutch co-producer: Doxy
Lead producer: EIKON Media (DE)
Co-producer: Polar Star Films (ES)
Logline: Unicorn investigates the hidden machinery behind Big Tech Unicorns, large companies whose influence extends to the phone in your pocket. Can we escape the influence and scale of Big Tech, or is it too late and do they pose a threat to our society?
Granted support: € 51,411
We Don't Talk About Those Things (documentary)
Director/script: Soraya Pol
Producer: Docmakers
Logline: Soraya takes her 97-year-old Antillean grandmother Rosa on a final visit to her native island Curaçao to unravel their family history. The journey of discovery confronts them with the uncomfortable realization that the colonial past and the culture of silence that resulted from it are reasons for the violence that is still so common within Afro-Curaçao families. Also within their family.
Granted support: € 115,145
High-end series
Clash (drama series)
Director: Jan Verheyen (BE)
Script: Bart Vaessen (BE), Steve De Wilde (BE)
Dutch co-producer: Fiction Valley
Lead producer: A Team Productions (BE)
Logline: From clash to bromance: when pitbull Phil is paired with kidibul Wesley, an eccentric and witty cop duo emerges, turning the Flemish-Dutch drug mafia upside down. In search of answers in a murder case, this newly assembled couple gets entangled in a web of drugs, dollars and dildos.
Granted support: € 425,000
The Counselor (documentary series)
Producer: Scenery B.V.
Granted support: € 187,808
Day and Night 4 (drama series)
Director: Joram Lürsen, Toon Slembrouck (BE)
Script: Esther Gerritsen, Jaap-Peter Enderlé
Producer: Lemming Film
Co-producers: Lemming Film België (BE), Magical Society (UK)
Logline: Day and Night 4 is set in the Emergency Room (ER) of the same modern hospital as the previous three seasons. Once again, the series follows a team of doctors, nurses, and their colleagues as they go about their work.
Granted support: € 732,745
Doomers (drama series)
Director: Willem Bosch, Frederike Migom (BE)
Script: Willem Bosch
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: € 523,286
La Vida Barcelona (drama series)
Director: Charlotte Scott-Wilson, Ayla Spaans
Script: Emily Reekers, Alix van der Goes, Jikkie Schelling
Dutch producer: Millstreet Films
Logline: When design legend Donna Storm risks losing her biggest client, she sends her daughter Juul undercover to a rival design agency in Barcelona. But instead of sabotage, Juul finds inspiration, independence, and her own creative voice. As mother and daughter are pushed to opposite sides, Juul must choose between loyalty and her own future.
Granted support: € 635,000
The Machine - Hooked on Booking.com (drama series)
Director: Michiel van Jaarsveld
Script: Michiel van Jaarsveld, Nasja Covers
Producer: Hollands Licht
Co-producer: Nukleus Film (HR)
Logline: The Machine is a six-part drama series that zooms in on Booking.com, based on the book of the same name. It tells the story of a company that managed to work under the radar for a long time, until it grew too big to stay out of the public eye. Everyone uses its services, but few truly know the story behind this Dutch tech titan. How does a small start-up evolve into a global money-making machine without equal—and what does that transformation cost?
Granted support: € 325,598
The French Battle (drama series)
Director: Will Koopman
Script: Roos Ouwehand, Lex Passchier
Dutch producer: ITV Studios Netherlands Drama
Co-producer: A Private View (BE)
Logline: A politically and historically incorrect comedy series about four cunning noblewomen, sexually frustrated and mischievous.
Granted support: € 485,348
Unsolved Flanders (drama series)
Director: Thomas Korthals Altes
Script: Thomas Korthals Altes, Philip Delmaar
Producer: Eleven
Co-producer: Eyeworks Film en TV (BE)
Logline: A flamboyant professor and his team of PhD students reopen the 12-year old murder of a young girl when a new victim emerges. What begins as an academic cold case soon turns into a dangerous hunt for an elusive serial killer who is closer to the investigation than anyone dares to suspect.
Granted support: € 625,292
The Quote Gang (documentary series)
Director: Jaap van Heusden
Script: Gregory Martina
Dutch producer: Witfilm
Logline: The Quote Gang follows filmmaker Jaap van Heusden as he collaborates with (ex-)criminals and a former member of the notorious ‘Quote gang’ to recreate their high-profile burglaries of the Dutch elite. As the line between reenactment and reality blurs, the project evolves into a profound exploration of justice, redemption, and the societal divide between wealth and poverty.
Granted support: € 354,541
Gypsyblood (documentary series)
Director/script: Will Falize, Julius Ponten
Dutch producer: Tangerine Tree
Logline: Will Falize feels trapped between different cultures. His family history has led to an identity crisis, which puts great pressure on his single fatherhood. Through his turbulent and intriguing family history, he explores the influence of his Sinti and Traveler origins on his current life. How do you reconcile what you've been given with a life that resists it, without denying yourself?
Granted support:€ 277,480
Header image: Doomers
