Netherlands Production Platform - Nederlands Film Festival

Netherlands
Production
Platform
Utrecht, September 25-26, 2009
Dossier

Contents
Netherlands
Production
Platform 2009
3 Contents
4 Credits and acknowledgments
5 Welcome
International prrojects
6 Aimer à perdre la raison (Belgium)
8 Come to My Voice (Turkey)
10 Flying Lessons (Romania)
12 Frog (Croatia)
14 Die innere Zone (Germany)
16 Liza, the Fox-Fairy (Hungary)
18 Mister John (Ireland)
20 Mr Lu’s Blues (Germany)
22 My Brothers (Ireland)
24 My Brother the Devil (UK)
26 Nomades (France)
28 The State of Shock (Slovenia)
30 The Trakl Affair (Austria)
Dutch projects
32 Cornea
34 Fair Game
36 Heaven on Earth
38 Honour Killing
40 Kneeling on a Bed of Violets
42 Land
44 My Sister Came By Today
46 The President
48 Indexes
NPP 2009 • 3

HGIS-Cultuurmiddelen
4•NPP 2009
The Netherlands Production Platform 2009 is supported by
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Netherlands Film Fund, HGIS-Cultuurmiddelen
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Binger Filmlab
Holland Film
Kodak
Variety
Screen International
MEDIA Desk Nederland
Netherlands Association of Feature Film Producers (NVS)
Treaty of Utrecht
City of Utrecht
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
EAVE
Bord Scannan na hEireann/The Irish Film Board
Rotterdam Media Fund
Flanders Audiovisual Fund
Film Fund Luxembourg
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Swedish Film Institute
Magyar Filmunió
Kodak NPP Development Prize Jury
Louis Machado Key Account Manager, Kodak Cinema & Television
Marten Rabarts Artistic Director, Binger Filmlab
Rachel van Bommel Managing Director, Independent Film
Pascal Guerrin Distribution Executive, Backup Films
With thanks to
Alan Fountain
Anna Baksic Camo
Claudia Landsberger
Dominique van Ratingen
Esther Bannenberg
Ger Bouma
Ido Abram
Jovan Marjanovic
Marten Rabarts
AVP, Arjan Eekels
CineLink (Sarajevo Film Festival)
CineMeta digital BV, Ru van Meeteren
CoBO Fund, Jeanine Hage
Grand Hotel Karel V, Maaike Bottema
Holland Subtitling, Wibo de Groot
Holland Harbour Productions, Nadadja Kemper
Lemming Film, Marleen Slot
Rotterdam Media Commission, Saskia Kaghèl
Versteeg Wigman Sprey Advocaten, Roland Wigman
Warnier Studio, Christan Muiser
Head Holland Film Meeting
Ellis Driessen
Producer Holland Film Meeting
Marco Meijdam
Moderator NPP
Nick Roddick
Round Tables and Individual Meetings
Maegene Fabias
Editing & Design NPP Dossier
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Cover Design
Evelyne Brehm for Geijsen Designer
Printing
Drukkerij de Longte
Netherlands Film Festival/Holland Film Meeting
PO Box 1581
3500 BN Utrecht
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 30 230 3800
Fax: (31) 30 230 3801
hfm@filmfestival.nl
www.filmfestival.nl
The information on the projects in this NPP Dossier was supplied by the producers

Welcome to the Netherlands
Production Platform 2009
The NPP Dossier 2009 contains all the usual descriptions and
other background information on the selected projects, directors
and producers. Other practical information together with a ‘Who’s
Who’ can be found in the HFM Industry Guide.
It should be clear by now that the Netherlands Film Festival is a
lot more than just an annual local showcase of the latest Dutch
audiovisual productions: the Netherlands Production Platform in its
present form is already in its eighth year, and the Holland Film
Meeting in its 29th!
This year, the Festival will, under the title ‘Dutch Angle’, be highlighting
a series of films by talented and innovative Dutch directors
which have been selected for top international festivals but remain
relatively unknown to domestic audiences. Additionally, the perception
and position of Dutch cinema in the international marketplace
is the topic of a public discussion between international
guests and members of the Dutch film industry on Thursday afternoon,
September 24.
On Friday September 25, we are also very happy to dedicate
the workshop on sales and distribution of non-English-speaking
films to a case study of the extraordinarily successful The Girl With
The Dragon Tattoo, the first part of the Swedish Millennium trilogy.
The focus will be on financing, production and marketing.
Increasingly, the starting point for the NPP selection of feature
film projects is the director and his or her international track record.
We believe each of the selected projects deserves to find resonance,
recognition and meaning in one way or another outside
their own country. All of them are suitable for co-production; all are
aimed at an international audience; and, with one exception, all are
represented by established production companies.
Meanwhile, this year’s eight Dutch projects are almost equally
divided between upcoming young directors and new projects from
established film-makers who have been successful both at home
and abroad.
We would like thank our partners old and new as listed opposite:
without their support the NPP would not have been possible. A very
special thank you also goes to outgoing festival director Doreen
Boonekamp who, from October, will be heading the Netherlands
Film Fund. Doreen has been essential to the development and
establishment of the Holland Film Meeting; her inspiration, expertise,
loyalty and friendship will be greatly missed.
As ever, the staff of the Holland Film Meeting will do their best
to provide assistance wherever and whenever it is needed. I wish
you a fruitful and enjoyable stay in Utrecht.
Ellis Driessen
Holland Film Meeting
NPP 2009 • 5

Writer/director Joachim Lafosse
Producer Jacques-Henri Bronckart
6 • NPP 2009
Aimer à perdre
la raison
Synopsis
In 1980, Dr Pinget takes in a 14-year-old
called Mounir, the child of a Moroccan family
he had come to know through his work
for an international organisation. The doctor
takes care of the boy as if he were his
own son.
A few years later, Mounir meets Myriam,
a romantic young woman who dreams of
escaping from her family. They move in
together, and the doctor’s hospitality
extends to Myriam as well.
Over the years, Mounir and Myriam have
one, two, three, four and finally five children.
For nearly 20 years, they live under the
same roof as Pinget, who has become more
a horn of plenty than a substitute father,
asking only in return to be part of the family.
But as what?
Myriam puts up with his constant presence
- but not Mounir. A gulf grows between
them. Mounir becomes violent, frequently
absent, and loses interest in his children.
Myriam reluctantly shares their upbringing
with the good doctor. Too late, she realises
that she is locked in a gilded cage. She
hardly sees anyone other than her husband’s
family, and when she does it is in
secret. She no longer works, while Mounir
works for the doctor. Pinget pays for everything:
house, food, car…
For Myriam, it is a long, slow descent into
hell. Her depression and her cries for help
are ignored. She lives only for her little ones
- Monia, Aïcha, Mailka, Karima and Ali - until
she does something irreparable: she commits
suicide after having killed her children.
Versus Production
Belgium
Director Joachim Lafosse
Born in Brussels in 1975, Joachim Lafosse
studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion.
His graduation film, Tribu, was shown at
numerous festivals.
His first feature, Folie privée (2004),
notable for its harsh tone, won several
prizes. But 2006 was Lafosse’s breakthrough
year: his film Ça rend heureux was
in competition in Locarno, and won the
Grand Prix at the Festival Premiers Plans
d’Angers. In the same year, he was in competition
in Venice with Nue propriété.
His fourth film, Elève libre, was in the
Directors Fortnight at Cannes in 2008 and
was released theatrically in February 2009.
Filmography
2000 Égoïste nature Short.
2001 Tribu Short.
2004 Folie privée Feature.
2006 Ça rend heureux Feature.
Nue propriété Feature.
2008 Elève libre Feature.

Production company
Versus Production
Founded in 1999 by Jacques-Henri and
Olivier Bronckart, Versus Production has, in
a few short years, moved into the forefront
of the production of Belgian and international
short films and features.
Working with film-makers who have a
strong personal vision (Bouli Lanners,
Micha Wald, Olivier Masset-Depasse,
Joachim Lafosse, Nicolas Provost), Versus
continues to produce quality films and is
committed to work which is both entertaining
and intelligent.
Several Versus films have won prizes at
international festivals such as Cannes,
Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand.
Current status
Shooting is set to commence in the spring
of 2010.
Director
Joachim Lafosse
Producer
Jacques-Henri Bronckart
Writers
Joachim Lafosse
Matthieu Reynært
Format
35mm
Language
French
Shooting locations
Belgium
Genre
Drama
Contact
Versus Production
Quai de la Goffre 9
4000 Liège
Belgium
Tel: (32) 4 223 18 35
Fax: (32) 4 223 21 71
info@versusproduction.be
www.versusproduction.be
NPP 2009 • 7

Writer/director Hüseyin Karabey
Producer Emre Yeksan
8 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
This is the story of two women at opposite
ends of a lifetime - the very young, curious
Jiyan; and her world-weary but resistant
grandmother, Berfé - and how they join
forces, childish ardour combining with the
experience of age, to save the person who
links them to one another.
In a snowy Kurdish mountain village in
the east of Turkey, 70-year-old Berfé and
her eight-year-old granddaughter Jiyan are
troubled when the only man in the household,
Temo, the son of one and the father of
the other, is arrested and taken into custody
by the local gendarmerie.
The officer in charge has received information
that the villagers are hiding guns and
announces that all the men in the village will
be kept under arrest until the guns are handed
over. The real trouble is, there are no
guns - at least as far as these two blameless
women know.
Acting out of desperation and desolation,
Berfé and Jiyan embark on a long journey in
search of a gun they can exchange for their
beloved Temo. Drawing on all their innocence
and naivety, they look for a way out of
a system which gradually pulls them in to the
muddied world of an interminable conflict.
During their arduous journey through that
war-weary but still beautiful land, they meet
men and women, all wounded by the experience
of a lifelong war. They listen to what
these people say, and the stories they are
told melt into their own ongoing adventure.
Their journey through the Kurdish
mountains and plains will become an emotive,
bittersweet portrait of their people and
their homeland.
Come to
My Voice
(Sesime gel)
A-Si Film Production
Turkeyy
Director’s statement
I am not interested in making a hard-nosed
political statement about a situation,
because we know that a bad situation
entails loss and suffering on both sides.
That’s why I prefer to use a device and story
that could bring both laughter and tears and,
hopefully, leave food for thought for the
audience when they leave the theatre.
I sincerely hope that, through the journey
of these two women, we will also reveal
many things about ourselves and the world
we live in.
Director Hüseyin Karabey
Born in 1970, Hüseyin Karabey has been
making films since 1996. He graduated from
the Cinema and TV department of Marmara
University in 2001.
His involvement in the democracy movement
in the 1990s and his background as a
documentarian determined the style and
content of his subsequent film work.
His shorts, documentaries and first feature
film Gitmek have been shown at a large
number of international film festivals and
have won numerous awards.
Select Filmography
1999 Boran Short film. 30 mins.
35mm.
2001 Silent Death Docudrama. 85
mins. DV cam.
2004 Pina Bausch, Istanbul,
‘Breath’. Documentary. 45 mins. DV cam.
2006 IMissed My Rendez-vous With
Death. Documentary. 40 mins. DV cam.
2008 Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando
Feature. 90 mins. HD

If not for killing, of what use is a gun?
Producer Emre Yeksan
After studying cinema at Mimar Sinan University
and Université de Paris 1, Yeksan
began his career in Paris as an assistant
producer of music videos and TV commercials.
He later moved on to the production
and financing of feature films.
As a producer, he has worked with directors
such as Semih Kaplanoglu (Süt/ t Milk,
Bal/ l Honey), Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays)
and Hüseyin Karabey.
In addition to Come to My Voice, he is
currently producing Leaving Together,
Kamen Kalev’s second feature.
Production company A-Si Film
A-Si Film Production has been a collective
of independent film-makers in Istanbul for
over 10 years, with members from all over
the Middle East. In 2006, its co-founder
Hüseyin Karabey registered it as an official
production company in order to produce My
Marlon and Brando, which has already
received several international awards.
Resources and facilities have been built
up which are now being used by film-makers
who may be temporarily based in Istanbul,
but tell stories from all over the region.
Current status
First draft. In development.
Aims at the NPP
Finding co-producers, sales agents and
further funding possibilities.
Director
Hüseyin Karabey
Producer
Emre Yeksan
Writer
Hüseyin Karabey
Based on
an original story
Format
HD
Languages
Kurdish, Turkish
Genre
Drama
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
International, adult
Budget
€800,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Emre Yeksan
A-Si Film
Elmadag Cad. No 6/3
34373 Taksim
Istanbul
Turkey
Tel: (90) 212 225 39 44
Fax: (90) 212 225 49 41
Mobile: (90) 532 564 24 98
emre@yeksan.com
NPP 2009 • 9

Director Igor Cobileanski
Writer Corneliu Porumboiu
Producer Alexandru Teodorescu
10 • NPP 2009
Flying Lessons
Synopsis
Flying Lessons is a bittersweet drama about
Viorel, a 25-year-old fledgling drug-dealer
from a little backwater of a town in the contemporary
Republic of Moldova. He lives at
home with his mother, and his ears go red
when he’s nervous.
While trying to deal with his father’s loss
– a suicide some years before - Viorel lets
the days pass in the usual easygoing Moldavian
style. He has become involved in
small-time drug dealing through his best
friend, Goose, while helping him to fly a
hang-glider that never seems to work properly.
And he falls in love with Maria, the girl
who happens to cut his hair. This easygoing
attitude opens up several possibilities, but
our hero is trapped by his own indecisiveness.
He reckons the moment has come to
start growing up and acting like an adult.
The first thing he does is get a job peeling
potatoes in the police canteen in order to
make his mother proud. The second thing is
to be there for Goose, no matter what, even
if that means stealing a car engine to ‘tune’
the hang-glider or delivering drugs for him.
The third thing he does as an adult is develop
a serious relationship with a young
woman, Maria, the lover of a drug dealer
who is in jail and who is also, for reasons of
convenience, a cop’s mistress.
All this fails to lead Viorel to the desired
state of adulthood, and our man-boy
becomes less and less of a hero and more
of a spectator in his own life, watching his
best friend get killed and his lover leave him.
In the end, he learns a new truth about his
father, and is left alone with Goose’s broken
hang-glider, the one thing in his life that he
could ever repair.
(La limita de jos a cerului)
Director’s statement
Saga Film
Romania
Flying Lessons is a comedy/drama set in
the Republic of Moldova, a space that has
been very little exploited in cinema or, betterr
said, not exploited at all.
The film will, in realistic mode, introduce
the viewer to the outskirts of a community
that lacks clear perspectives. The characters
are outcasts; the locations are grim;
and the dialogue very natural.
The whole story is told from the perspective
of the main character: Viorel, a 25-yearold
man who is slightly romantic but powerful
enough to impose himself. Goose is his
friend, a cynical drug dealer who also has a
passion for flying. The detail that makes him
interesting as a character is his ambition to
build a hang-glider and fly. Viorel gets to
taste the simple pleasures in life with Maria,
his lover. He gets a job, quits drugs and
becomes a regular person. But destiny
gives Viorel’s life a dramatic twist.
Writer Corneliu Porumboiu
Corneliu Porumboiu is one of the ‘golden
boys’ of Romanian cinema. He wrote and
directed the 2006 Cannes Caméra d’Or winner
12:08 East of Bucharest, which has won
prizes at festivals around the world. More
recently, he won the Un Certain Regard and
FIPRESCI awards at Cannes 2009 with his
latest feature, Police, Adjective.
Director Igor Cobileanski
Igor Cobileanski is a young Moldovan filmmaker
who has written and directed awardwinning
shorts and documentaries which
have caught the eye of producers and critics:
Boredom and Inspiration (2007), Sasa,
Grisa and Ion (2006) and When the Lightss
Go Out (2005), which won prizes at the Trieste
Film Festival and the Betting on Shorts
Film Festival in London.

A bittersweet drama about a small-time
drug dealer from the forgotten country of
Moldova. He’s rejected in love, his best
friend has been killed and all he’s got left is
his father’s ghost and a broken hang-glider
Producer Alexandru Teodorescu
Alexandru Teodorescu is the founder of
Saga Film, one of the biggest production
companies in Romania. He co-produced the
2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 months, 3 weeks,
2days…, directed by Cristian Mungiu and
the documentary La nouvelle vague du
cinéma roumain (2008).
Teodorescu also produced the short film
The Yellow Smiley Face (2008) directed by
Constantin Popescu; and the art film Sleeping
Bus (2004), directed by Aernout Mik.
Since 2000, he has produced over 600
commercials, with clients such as Lowe
Paris, BBH London and Paradiso Israel. He
is now producing Outskirts, based on an
idea by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru
and directed by Bogdan George Apetri.
Current status
The project is in development; the second
draft of the script has been revised.
Aims at the NPP
We are seeking: financing for development
and production; co-producers; a
sales agent; legal and financial advice on
co-producing; markets to promote the project.
Director
Igor Cobileanski
Producer
Alexandru Teodorescu
Writer
Corneliu Porumboiu
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm
Language
Romanian
Genre
Comedy/drama
Running time
100 mins
Target audience
Between 16 and 35,
arthouse moviegoers,
mostly from urban areas,
with an active social life
who like to listen to
pop/rock music, and read
and watch adventure and
comedy/drama stories.
65% male, 35% female.
Budget
€1,202,247
Cast
Tba
Contact
Alexandru Teodorescu
Saga Film
8 Dimitrie Racovita
2nd District,
023993 Bucharest
Romania
Tel: (40) 744 331 111
alexteodorescu@sagafilm.ro
www.sagafilm.ro
NPP 2009 • 11

Writer/director Antonio Nuic
Producer Boris T Matic
12 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
It’s Christmas Eve in a small barber’s shop.
Only two men are in: Zeko (43), the owner;
and his younger brother, Toni (30). They
argue about Toni’s decision not to tell his wife
and daughter that he has been out of work for
some time. Their conversation is interrupted
by the arrival of Grga, a taxi driver who has
come to wish them a Merry Christmas.
Grga soon notices Zeko’s strange mood,
but blames it on the post-traumatic stress
disorder from which Zeko has been suffering
since the war. Toni is annoyed by his
older brother’s constant preaching about
how everyone should change and should
make something of themselves. Zeko further
confuses him by reading excerpts from
Haruki Murakami’s story about the frog that
saved Tokyo.
Thoroughly confused, Toni is extremely
rude to a college student who comes into
the shop selling books. The student leaves
almost immediately, and soon after that
Zeko violently insists that Toni promise he
will change.
Having a razor blade held against his
throat proves too much for Toni, and he
leaves the shop cursing. Grga stays reasonably
calm and talks to Zeko about his
own sins and the things he tries to change in
his own life - but simply cannot find the
strength. Changing things isn’t easy, says
Grga, and leaves Zeko alone.
Afew moments later, the student comes
back looking for a glove he lost, but instead
finds Zeko holding a bomb to his chest. The
boy manages to mutter a simple but sincere
“Please don’t”, and this is enough for Zeko
to put the bomb away. Zeko buys a book for
Toni’s daughter and offers the student a free
shave. During the shave, the student
notices a photo of Zeko playing football.
Zeko insists that it was a long time ago, but
the boy manages to get him to promise that
he will come and play next Saturday.
The student leaves after offering an
explanation of the Murakami story which
satisfies Zeko. Zeko is left alone with the
photo of himself playing football - which was
not that long ago.
Director’s statement
Frog
Propeler Film
Croatia
I was drawn to the play on which the script
is based by its clarity and the universality off
its subject. Questions raised aren’t
answered because they cannot be -
because those are the questions man asks
himself for as long as he lives.
There are not many places where the
director can hide directing this play as a film: itt
offers only few characters and one small barbershop
as a setting. There are no big events,
no chase or sex or action scenes of any kind.
The director must create powerful characters,
stick with them and keep them interesting
and alive in front of the audience. Ultimate
honesty and clarity are the directorial tasks
here; and that is why I want to film this story.
Director Antonio Nuic
Antonio Nuic was born in Sarajevo in 1977.
He graduated in Film and TV Directing from
the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb
and is a member of the Croatian Film Directors
Society.
Filmography and Awards:
1998 On the Spot (12 mins). Best Film,
Best Screenplay and Audience
Choice Award at the Croatian
Student Film Festival (FRKA).
1999- Directs for TV and makes music
2004 and promotional videos.
2000 Give Them Dinamo Back (28
mins). Audience Award at FRKA.
2002-4 Sex, Booze and Short Fuse (23
mins). Low-budget film
based on three different stories.
Nuic wrote and directed the third
story.
2005-6 All For Free (94 mins). Great
Golden Arena award for Best
Film, and Golden Arenas for
Best Director, Best Screenplay
and Best Female Supporting Role
at the Pula Film Festival; Heart of
Sarajevo award for Best Male
Leading Role; Special Jury Award
at New Author Festival in Belgrade.

Frog is a story about silence -
silence in the communication between
two brothers; silence between friends;
silence between family members…
and it happens on Silent Night
2006–8Directs TV commercials and
promotional videos.
2008-9 Donkey (90 mins). Golden Arena
for Best Cinematography, Music
and Screenplay at Pula.
Producer Boris T Matic
Born in 1966 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Boris studied psychology and journalism.
He is a member of the European
Film Academy and of HRUP, the Croatian
producers association.
From 1993–2000, he worked at Radio
101 as Director of Promotion, writing and
producing more than 400 radio commercials.
Between 1994 and 1998, he produced
a number of important exhibitions, at which
he also exhibited.
He is founder, co-owner and was the first
director of the Motovun Film Festival and,
since 2003, founder and director of the
Zagreb Film Festival,
He is owner/director of Propeler Film.
Filmography
1995 ILove You (MontaÏstroj). Producer.
Short dance movie directed by
Dalibor Martinis.
1996-7 Mondo Bobo. Producer. First
independent feature in Croatia
directed by Goran Rusinovic.
1999- Who Wants to Be a President
2000 (Novo, novo vrijeme). Producer.
Feature-length documentary directed
by Rajko Grliç and Igor Mirkoviç.
2000 Bosnavison. Writer and producer.
Croatian-Bosnian documentary.
2002-3 The One Who Will Stay
Unnoticed. Producer. Feature
directed by Zvonimir Juriç.
2002-4 Sex, Booze and Short Fuse.
Producer of whole film and
director and writer of one part.
2003-5 Gravehopping (Odgrobadogroba).
Co-producer. Directed by Jan
Cvitkovia. Best New Director, San
Sebastian 2005.
2005-6 Border Post (Karaula). Producer.
Directed by Rajko Grlic.
All for Free. Producer. Directed by
Antonio Nuic.
2007 Graffiti Street. Producer. Docu
mentary directed by Sergej Kreso.
2007-8 Buick Riviera. Producer. Directed
by Goran Rusinovic. Heart of
Sarajevo for Best Film and Best
Actor; FIPRESCI, Sarajevo 2008
2008-9 Ciao Mama. Producer. Short
directed by Goran Odvorcic.
Selected for Cannes 2009.
Zagreb Tales. Writer and producer.
Various directors (nine short
stories).
Donkey (90 mins). Producer.
Directed by Antonio Nuic.
Golden Arena for Best
Cinematography, Music and
Screenplay at Pula.
Current status
In development
Aims at the NPP
Finding partners.
Director
Antonio Nuic
Producer
Boris T Matic
Writer
Antonio Nuic
Based on
the play by
Dubravko Mihanovic
Format
35mm
Language
Croatian
Genre
Drama
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
All
Budget
€854,705
Cast
Tba
Contact
Boris T Matic
Propeler Film
SC - Savska 25
1000 Zagreb
Croatia
Tel: (385) 1 4829 477
Fax: (385) 1 4593 691
Mobile: (385) 91 464 77 00
btm@propelerfilm.com
www.propelerfilm.com
NPP 2009 • 13

Writers/directors/producers Fosco
Dubini and Donatello Dubini
14 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Marta, a psychologist, is ordered to go to a
construction site in the mountains. Due to
inexplicable events, the whole valley has
been evacuated. Marta’s task is to examine
the three remaining engineers, whose
reports are becoming more and more contradictory
and improbable.
She arrives in the abandoned village
and the container camp. From there, she
progresses further and further into the system
of tunnels, where she encounters the
confused engineers and their secrets.
Directors’ statement
According to my calendar, seven days had
passed. Only seven days! The universe was
created in seven days. Echoes began to
ring in my head - after-effects of the Aurora
mission. It got so bad I could no longer control
it. That was two years ago.
It all seemed so beautiful and peaceful at
first. There was total silence. But then the
oxygen level dropped. My head throbbed.
I accepted the mission. There was
something I had to find out for myself - and
only David Abramovitch could tell me: what
had become of Walter? I knew then it was
up to me to take up the search. But even he
didn’t recognize me.
To survive in the contaminated zones
you had to accept the new atmosphere as
normal. The effects of decompression could
not have been foreseen. Or so they say…
Despite the sensors I began to lose control
- time fissures, perhaps. Was this really my
memory? That couldn’t have happened to me.
I felt gravity begin to lose its grip and I
started to fly. I began to spin slowly outwards
and upwards in a spiral. I knew that I
would soon be with him…
Directors Fosco Dubini and
Donatello Dubini
Dubini Filmproduktion has existed in
Cologne since 1981, producing documentary
and feature films. Five Swiss co-productions
have been made with Tre Valli Film
Die innere
Zone
(The Inner Zone)
Dubini Filmproduktion
Germanyy
Production in Zurich. Dubini Filmproduktion
has also worked for German television mak-
ing, among other things, seven films forr
Arte, the most recent a portrait of the photographer
David LaChapelle.
In addition, the company has worked in the
field of screenplay, production and advice
on feature films by Ermanno Olmi, Robert
Frank and Yossi Somer.
Their first feature film was Ludwig 1881
(1993) with Helmut Berger in the role of the
Bavarian fairytale King Ludwig II. The film
tells the story of his journey to the Viewaldstätter
Lake in the footsteps of Schiller’s Wilhelm
Tell. Ludwig 1881 was shown in Competition
at Locarno and at 17 international
film festivals. It also received the Zurich Film
Prize and a quality rating from the EDI, and
was shown in cinemas in Switzerland, Germany,
Austria and the Netherlands.
Their second feature film, Die Reise
nach Kafiristan (2001), with Jeanette Hain
and Nina Petri, tells the story of a journey to
Afghanistan made by Zürich writerr
Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Geneva
photographer Ella Maillart in 1939. The film
was an international co-production between
Germany and the Netherlands and was
financed by the Filmförderung Zürich, Suissimage
and, in Germany, Filmförderung
Hamburg, Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Filmstiftung NRW, Filmbüro NW, ZDF/Arte
and Eurimages. Die Reise nach Kafiristan
was shown in the Piazza Grande programme
in Locarno and at 53 international
film festivals. It also received a quality rating
from the EDI, and was shown in cinemas in
Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands,
Italy and Taiwan.
The Dubinis have also made three documentary
films as international co-productions
for the cinema: Jean Seberg - American
Actress (1995, Switzerland/Germany);
Thomas Pynchon - A Journey into the Mindd
of (2001, Switzerland/Germany) and Hedyy
Lamarr - Secrets of a Hollywood Star (2005,
Switzerland/Germany/Canada). These films
were supported financially by the EDI, Filmförderung
Zürich, Migros and, in Germany,
by WDR, ZDF/Arte, ZDF/3sat, Filmstiftung
NRW, BKM, Eurimages and VPRO.

To survive in the contaminated zones you
had to accept the new atmosphere as normal.
The effects of decompression could not have
been foreseen. Or so they say…
Current status
Both a treatment and a script are available.
We are currently financing. 60% of the budget
is in place from BKM in Berlin and from
the three co-producers: Dubini Filmproduktion
Köln; Tre Valli Filmproduktion Zürich;
and Contact Film Arnhem.
Aims at the NPP
We are seeking financing from television
and funds; and looking for shooting locations,
production facilities and cast.
Director
Fosco Dubini and
Donatello Dubini
Producer
Fosco Dubini and
Donatello Dubini
Writer
Fosco Dubini and
Donatello Dubini
Based on
an original story
Format
HD/35mm
Languages
German
English
Shooting locations
Rotterdam
Zürich
Sebastopol
Genre
Science-fiction/Drama
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
Sci-fi and arthouse
Budget
€1,000,000 approx
Cast
Jeanette Hain, Hanns Zischler
Contact
Dubini Filmproduktion
Lochnerstrasse 17
50674 Cologne
Germany
Tel: (49) 221 23 90 06
Fax: (49) 221 21 23 82
dubinifilm@t-online.de
www.trevallifilm.ch
NPP 2009 • 15

Writer/director Károly Ujj Mészáros
Producer István Major
Producer Csanád Darvas
16 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Fox-fairies are female demons found in
Japanese folklore who seduce men and rob
them of their lives. Liza, a nurse in her thirties
and living in Budapest, thinks that she
must be one of them after each of her beaus
dies on their first date.
Liza was a live-in nurse for Marta Tanaka,
the old widow of a former Japanese
ambassador to Hungary. She has spent the
last 10 years tending her bedridden patient
and listening to Japanese pop songs sung
by the 1970s heartthrob Toni Tani. But
Marta dies unexpectedly and her relatives
accuse Liza of murdering the old lady in
order to inherit her apartment.
Liza’s only support is her secret love,
Henry, the nephew of Marta. Henry, a wellknown
political journalist and infamous
womaniser, is not attracted to Liza. Her disappointment
and loneliness force Liza to
seek romantic solace elsewhere. She is so
desperate she even tries her chances with
Karoly, the culinary Frankenstein, who is a
far from ideal mate. He chokes on a fishbone
at her dinner.
Her next desperate hope appears as Mr
Ludvig, a shy accountant with a heart condition.
His pills and the alcohol served by Liza on
his first visit prove to be a lethal combination.
Sergeant Zoltan, an ambitious crimescene
investigator, suspects Liza’s involvement
in these cases is not accidental. Short
of cash, Liza advertises for a lodger and
Sergeant Zoltan moves in to keep a close
eye on his suspect. He soon finds himself
falling in love with her while Liza, freshly
introduced to glossy women’s magazines,
makes some inexpensive improvements to
her appearance.
The policeman secretly fixes all manner
of faulty fittings in the flat, suffering a long list
of near-lethal DIY accidents. But Liza is convinced
that Henry has done all the repairs.
Henry, meanwhile, is not blind to Liza’s
transformation and decides to exploit her
dedication by asking her to assist him on one
of his dangerous journalistic missions. It all
goes wrong, but Henry and Liza decide to
drown their sorrows with a night on the town.
Liza, the
Fox-Fairyy
(Liza, a rókatündér)
Filmteam
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After a drink or two, Henry tries his chances
with her, but Liza is deeply in love and wants
much more than a one-night stand.
Henry sneaks out at dawn. Witnessing
his escape, Sergeant Zoltan leaves a little
note with a special sketch to reassure Liza.
He has a particular affection for pictures that
tell different stories when viewed from different
angles and this one is no different. Liza
assumes that it was left by Henry as evidence
of his love. A killer, hired by the people
Henry is trying to expose, murders Henry
at Liza’s door, leaving her would-be loverr
dead and her holding the murder weapon...
Sergeant Zoltan’s superior arrests Liza
for all the murders but he saves her from a
life behind bars with his remarkable police
work. Arriving home, Liza attempts suicide
in the certain knowledge that no one can
survive her love because she is the modern
incarnation of a fox-fairy.
Liza comes face to face with Henry in a
heavenly McDonald’s where she finallyy
sees him for what he really is as she looks
at Sergeant Zoltan’s sketch from a different
angle. Toni Tani, who is none other than
Death himself, tries to make Liza his own.
But she is more determined than ever to
live. She wakes from her near-death experience
to find Sergeant Zoltan by her side…
Toni Tani remains determined to get
Liza, which means Sergeant Zoltan still
makes regular visits to the local emergency
ward, but miraculously manages to survive.
Liza sees these miracles as repeated affirmation
of their true love.
Director’s statement
An ‘almost comedy’… This will be a funny
film, but the theme - that even the worst
course can be seen as a blessing if you see
it from the right perspective - bears a universal
truth. Liza’s curse - that all her dates
die - is her blessing. She can avoid the traps
of all those humiliating relationships that
surround us.
If I make my sentence even less specific
and say ‘anything can look different from
another perspective’, we have the way I
approach this film. Besides being funny, it

In Japanese folklore, fox-fairies are evil
demons who seduce men to steal their
souls and lives. Liza, a naive nurse
living g in Budapest, p , is convinced that
she is one of them...
has an emotionally intriguing and thoughtprovoking
dramatic core. If you see it from
the right angle, it’s about the struggle of
innocence in a world of egotism.
Liza sees things differently from how
they really are. Henry seems to be a nice
guy, but isn’t that nice. Toni Tani seems to
be an imaginary friend, but is really Death in
person. Sergeant Zoltan seems to be a bad
guy but he is the nicest. And finally, Liza
thinks that she is an evil demon while others
see her as a serial killer, but in fact she is….
Everything turns upside down in this film,
as we avoid the clichés of generic comedy
and looking at it from the right perspective: it
will be even more amusing this way.
Writer/director Károly Ujj Mészáros
Born in 1968, Károly Ujj Mészáros has written
and directed 10 short features over the past
six years. The films have won 11 prizes at 28
national and international short film festivals.
As one of the busiest commercial directors
in Hungary, he has also made over 100
commercials. He has a university degree in
economics and Liza, the Fox-Fairy will be
his debut feature.
Producer Csanád Darvas
Born in 1974, Csanád Darvas worked for
Hungarian television as a cinematographer
and director of short films from 1991-3; on
independent youth TV programme Hurricane
from 1994-5; and as creative producer
and director of various cultural and educational
programmes from 1995-9.
He set up CeMEDIA (Central European
Media Workshop) in 2001 as a network consisting
of 18 Eastern European animation
studios for service work with the later aim of
creating his own animated features.
Filmography as producer
1999 Ludmilla (Csajovics) Mona Mechler.
5 mins. Animation.
2002 Lóvá téve Anrdea Kirkovits. 2 mins.
Animation.
2007 Alterego Ferenc Sebo. 25 mins.
Werewolf (Farkasember) r Márton
Vécsei. 15 mins.
2008 Carriage (Fuvar) r Tamás Buvári.
15 mins.
Alena’s Journey Károly Ujj
Mészáros. 15 mins.
Silence (Csend) Zoltán Gergely.
3 mins.
Not For kids (Nem gyerekjatek)
Zoltán Gergely. 7 mins.
Producer István Major
István Major has been working as a producer
since 1998 and is the founder and director
of Filmteam. He has produced over 200
international and Hungarian commercials.
Filmography as producer
2000 Our Stork Directed by Livia
Gyarmathi. Documentary.
…and Then There’s Prison, Honey
Directed by Gábor Ferenczi.
Documentary.
2003 Dealer Directed by Benedek
Fliegauf. Feature.
Clean, if Possible Directed by
Gábor Ferenczi. Documentary.
2005 Black Brush Directed by Roland
Vranik. Feature.
Bird Releaser, Clouds and Wind
Directed by István Szaladják. Feature.
San Lázaro Directed by Szigeti
Csilla. Documentary.
2006 Hungarian Football… Directed by
András Muhi Pires. Documentary.
2007 Possibilities of Making Friends
Directed by Gábor Ferenczi. TV.
2009 You Are Not Normal! Directed by
Gábor Ferenczi. Documentary.
Current status
Shooting script (sixth draft) available. Main
actress attached.
Aims at the NPP
We are looking for co-production and postproduction
companies, labs and cast.
Director
Károly Ujj Mészáros
Producers
Csanád Darvas
István Major
Writer
Károly Ujj Mészáros
Based on
the play Liselotte és a május
by Zsolt Pozsgay
Format
Digital to 35 mm
Language
Hungarian
Genre
‘Almost comedy’
Running time
100 mins
Target audience
Arthouse and beyond -
all audiences
Budget
€1,082,000
Cast
Mónika Balsai as Liza
Contact
Filmteam Ltd
Révész u. 29
1136 Budapest
Hungary
Tel: (36) 1 214 9644
Fax: (36) 1 214 9645
hanga@filmteam.hu
www.filmteam.hu
NPP 2009 • 17

Writers/directors Christine Molloy
and Joe Lawlor
Producer David Collins
18 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Gerry Devine finds himself half-way round
the world in the intense heat and humidity
of Thailand trying to cope with the death of
his brother John and the infidelity of his
wife Kathleen.
It’s not a good time for Gerry: even his
luggage has gone missing. As he attempts
to process his feelings about his wife back
home, Gerry starts to investigate a growing
suspicion that John’s ‘accidental drowning’
might not be all it seems.
As the hours and days go by, the two
events begin to merge into one, pushing
Gerry towards something of an epiphany in
his life.
Directors’ statement
For our debut feature Helen, we
approached the making of the film with the
reins held very loose indeed. This is often a
risk but one which, if it works, pays off on
many levels. This strategy allowed us, as
directors, to create something very individual
and distinctive: the beginnings of a personal
signature.
Although the content for Mister John has
many connections with Helen, structurally it
will be a very different film. Mister John is a
very exciting prospect for us, offering the
possibility to push the envelope in terms of
performance and theatricality, which are the
two key areas in which we believe we have
a deep interest and a unique hallmark.
Finally, what drives us as directors is the
desire to make Mister John an outstanding
and unique work of cinema.
Mister John
Samson Films
Ireland
Screenwriters’ statement
As writers, we always aim to make deep
personal connections to the material we cre-
ate. This was very much the case in ourr
debut feature film, Helen. For Mister John,
we wanted to stick with this approach, primarily
because it forces us to ask more
searching questions about the material.
Mister John further deepens our fascination
with the idea of identity, again with
its origins in the reality of our family situa-
tion: Joe has a brother who lives in Phukett
who is married to a local and who runs a barr
where some of what is explored in the film
actually happened.
This autobiographical connection allows
us to explore big social themes - identity,
masculinity, family, loss of confidence, grief,
etc, but rooted in something very close and
personal to us.
Working with counter-intuitive logic, we
gamble on the premise that, the more personal
to us the material is, the more likely it
is that audiences can make their own strong
connections with it.

An Irishman travels to Thailand after the
death of his estranged brother and soon
finds himself immersed in the life of a man
he never truly knew
Directors Christine Molloy
and Joe Lawlor
Over the past six years, Christine Molloy
and Joe Lawlor have been working on a project
called Civic Life, which involved local
community groups in the production of nine
high-quality short films for the cinema, shot
on 35mm in CinemaScope and making
extensive use of the long take.
In 2004, their film Who Killed Brown
Owl won the award for Best British Short
Film at the Edinburgh International Film
Festival. In January 2008, their short film
Joy won the Prix UIP at the International
Film Festival Rotterdam.
Helen (2008), their critically
acclaimed, award-winning debut feature,
is the culmination of the Civic Life series.
In addition to screening at festivals all
over the world, Helen has secured releases
in several territories. Mister John is
both a departure and an ambitious development
for the film-makers.
Producer David Collins
David Collins has been producing quality
film and television in Ireland for over 25
years. Notable credits this year include
Cairo Time, co-produced with Foundry
Films; and Little Foxes, selected for the
2009 Venice Critics Week. His company,
Samson Films, also recently produced the
Oscar-winning musical film, Once (2006).
David is on the board of Screen Producers
Ireland; is a member of the European
Film Academy; and is a founding director off
The Lighthouse, Ireland’s largest arthouse
cinema complex.
Current status
Packaging and financing.
Aims at the NPP
To strengthen our relationships with European
producers and sales agents, and to
introduce this project to them.
Directors
Christine Molloy
Joe Lawlor
aka “desperate optimists”
Producer
David Collins
Writers
Christine Molloy
Joe Lawlor
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm
Language
English and Thai
Genre
Drama
Running time
100 mins approx
Target audience
16+
Budget
€1,150,000
Cast
Aidan Gillen (The Wire)
Contact
David Collins
Samson Films
The Barracks
76 Irishtown Road
Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: (353) 1 677 0533
Fax: (353) 1 677 0537
info@samsonfilms.com
www.samsonfilms.com
NPP 2009 • 19

Writer/director Maria von Heland
Producer Oliver Damian
20 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Mr Lu’s Blues
Moscow 2000. The American-Chinese journalist
Peter Lee finds 84-year-old jazz legend
Oleg Lundstrem (Mr Lu) alone in an old
dance hall, mourning his wife of many
years. Lee wants to interview Mr Lu for a
jazz journal, because of his old orchestra’s
entry in the Guinness Book of Records. But
Lee’s real mission is personal: Oleg Lundstrem
was his mother’s greatest love.
The present is debated as we travel into
the past – to a freezing day in 1930 in
Harbin, China, where Oleg first meets Lee’s
beautiful mother, Daiyu. A love story develops
between the two, who live so close to
one another but in worlds far apart. Daiyu
hopes to break free from tradition; Oleg
shares her dreams. Their hearts grow
fonder until the Japanese invasion of
Manchuria forces everything to an end.
In the darkest of times, a Duke Ellington
record lands in Oleg’s hands. Since he is
convinced he’ll never see Daiyu again,
black people’s jazz becomes the reason to
live for this Russian boy in China.
Oleg moves to Shanghai, working his way
up from dirty dives, where girls sell their bodies
for cheap dance tickets, to the grand
Majestic, where Daiyu reappears, now a selfassured
young woman in western clothing.
Though Daiyu’s father has paid her
dowry to a Chinese businessman, the chaos
of war has prevented her from getting married.
Daiyu and Oleg pick up their love story
where they left it, but this time they finally get
to kiss. Their sense of freedom is interrupted
by the Japanese attack on Shanghai, and
the constant threat of the possible return of
Daiyu’s husband-to-be from the front.
After Shanghai falls to the Japanese and
Oleg saves Daiyu’s life, her father agrees to
allow the two absolute freedom to meet until
Daiyu’s future husband returns. As if there
was no tomorrow, the two embark on a glorious
mission to live, discovering passion,
opium and sensuality.
It seems like it will last forever - but one
day the war ends. The dance halls close
and the music stops. Mao takes control of
China and foreigners like Oleg are no
27 Films Production
Germanyy
longer welcome.
The Russians threaten to kill Oleg’s family,
his parents and all their relatives unless
he returns to the Soviet Union. Oleg thinks
he must save them, so he leaves behind
Daiyu, whom he is not allowed to marry.
Daiyu marries the man to whom herr
father paid the dowry. Oleg goes to the
USSR to find his parents have been killed
by Stalin. His secret for survival: Keep yourr
mouth shut and forget the past!
But the past has returned and demands
his attention. Peter Lee has brought with
him his dying mother, the 83-year-old Daiyiu.
Mr Lu crosses the street leaning on Lee’s
arm and the lovers are united after 47 years.
They may look different, but their feelings
remain the same.
And from the way Daiyu moves in herr
chair as she listens to Oleg Lundstrem’s
Orchestra playing, you’d think she was 19
again. She pokes at her son and says: “Listen
to him; he is playing a love story. He
always plays a love story.”
Director’s statement
The human race comes in many shapes,
forms and colours. We have a multitude off
cultural, political and religious systems, and
many conflicts occur because of our limited
capacity to understand one another.
In this film, I tell the story of a Swedish-
Russian who falls in love with a Chinese
woman while playing American music in
China. It is a beautiful story which takes us
to a vibrant time in history, where change
was at the door without anyone knowing
the outcome.
Today, we have the answers. We knew
who came to power, who lived and who died.
We blame some and call others heroes. But
have we really learned from history?
It is my belief that, if we look closely
enough at an individual, what we see is just a
human being. Cultural, religious or political differences
only count when judging the surface.
In that sense, Mr Lu’s Blues is a universal
love story, which can hopefully teach us
how important it is to take care of the only
thing we’ve got: Life itself.

Jazz was his voice. She was his love.
China was at war
Writer/Director Maria von Heland
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965. Languages:
Swedish, English, German, French.
Filmmaking experience in Sweden, Germany,
USA, Denmark, Belgium and Mongolia.
Filmography as director
1997 Chainsmoker 10 mins. Short film.
Writer/Director. Friedrich-Wilhelm-
Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 1997. FIPA
d’argent, Biarritz.
1998 Real Men Eat Meat 25 mins. Short
film. Writer /Director. Grand Prix du
Court Métrage, Valenciennes 1999.
1999 Recycled 90 mins. Feature film.
Co-writer/Director.
2002 Big Girls Don’t Cry (Grosse
Mädchen weinen nicht). Feature film.
Writer/Director.
2004 Orka!Orka! 3x45 mins Drama series.
Co-writer/Director, episodes 10-12.
2006 Those Who Whisper (Den som
viskar) r 2x90 min TV feature.
Writer/Director.
Search (Sök) feature film. Writer/
Director. Grand Prix des Amériques,
Montreal World Film Festival
2007 Suddenly Gina (Frühstück mit einer
Unbekannten) 90 mins. TV feature.
Production company 27 Films
Established by internationally experienced
producer Oliver Damian in 2005, 27 Films
Production is an independent production
house focusing on financing and producing
commercially as well as culturally attractive
feature films for the global market.
27 Films Production recently completed the
tragicomedy The Rainbowmaker by Georgian
director Nana Djordjadze (Academy
Award nomination for AChef in Love). The
film premiered at the Hof International Film
Festival and is currently travelling the international
festival circuit.
27 Films Production is also a minority coproducer
in international productions such
as the French-German dramas Dawn of the
World by Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel (with
ADR Productions); and The Father of Myy
Children by Mia Hansen-Løve (with Les
Films Pelléas).
Dawn of the World had its international
premiere in October 2008 in Pusan. It won
the Competition at the Gulf Film Festival.
The Father of My Children premiered in Un
Certain Regard at Cannes and won the section’s
Special Prize.
Projects in preparation are: Whirrrrrrr, r a
Balkan ‘buddy-rail movie’ by Phedon
Papamichael, cinematographer on Walkk
The Line; and Francuski, atragicomedy set
in the USSR in the 1950s and directed by
Goran Rebic (Jugofilm).
Current status
Looking for financing.
Aims at the NPP
We are looking for co-producers, sales
agents and TV stations who are interested in
the project and see a potential to co-finance
it. We would also welcome an exchange on
a creative level with other film-makers.
Director
Maria von Heland
Producer
Oliver Damian
Writer
Maria von Heland
Based on
the life story of jazz legend
Oleg Lundstrem
Format
35mm
Language
English
Genre
Period love story
Running time
100 mins approx.
Target audience
18-34
Budget
€5,000,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Oliver Damian
27 Films Production
Erich-Weinert-Strasse 30
10439 Berlin
Germany
Tel: (49) 30 84 71 16 60
Fax: (49) 30 84 71 16 90
oliver@27films.biz
www.27films.biz
NPP 2009 • 21

Director Paul Fraser
Producer Robert Walpole
Producer Rebecca O’Flanagan
22 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
My Brothers
Set over the Halloween weekend of 1987,
My Brothers is the story of three young
brothers’ epic quest to replace their dying
father’s watch. Noel, 16, serious, weighed
down by responsibility; Paudie: 11, cocky,
not so bright with dreams of playing in goal
for Liverpool; and Scwally, seven, naïve and
obsessed with Star Wars (despite never
having actually seen the films).
They use a battered bread van to
embark on a journey across the wild Irish
landscape, grinding gears and screaming at
each other to get to an arcade machine in
Ballybunion. Along the way, they are diverted
by escalating brotherly battles, a thieving
shopkeeper and a beached whale in an offbeat
and moving journey that can only lead
them home.
Treasure Entertainment
Ireland
Director Paul Fraser
Paul has been working in the UK and international
film industry for over 12 years.
Widely credited as an accomplished
screenwriter, he is now gaining recognition
as a talented director. In 2006, he directed a
music promo for the Arctic Monkeys’ ‘When
the Sun Goes Down’, which incorporated a
longer film, Scummy Man. The film won
Best Music DVD at the NME Awards in 2007
and screened at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival.
Paul’s other short films include Streetlife
(2004) and Barney Has the Blues (2005).
His screenwriting collaboration with
director Shane Meadows has led to five feature
films. Their first was a low-budget feature
called Small Time (1996). Following
this came a trilogy of films about their life in
the East Midlands: Twenty Four Seven
(1998), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
(2001). They subsequently worked togetherr
on Dead Man’s Shoes (2003).
Paul’s first solo writing project was
Heartlands (2002), directed by Damien
O’Donnell. His most recent feature film is
Somers Town, directed by Shane Meadows,
which had its world premiere at the
Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008.

The story of three young brothers’ epic
quest to replace their dying father’s watch
in an off-beat and moving journey that
can only lead them home
Production company Treasure
Entertainment
Established in 1997, Treasure Entertainment
is one of Ireland’s leading independent
production companies. Credits include The
Eclipse, written and directed by leading Irish
playwright Conor McPherson, which was
picked up at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
by Magnolia Films, who will release it in theatres
across the US this autumn.
Other credits also include the horror film
Shrooms, which was financed by UK tax
finance house Ingenious and sold worldwide
by Capitol Films; and Man About Dog,
one of the highest-ever grossing independent
Irish films.
For BBC Films the company produced I
Went Down, Saltwater and The Mighty Celt.
Current status
In development. Part-financing in place.
Aims at the NPP
To get in contact with producers regarding
this project.
Director
Paul Fraser
Producers
Robert Walpole
Rebecca O’Flanagan
Writer
William Collins
Based on
an original story
Language
English
Shooting locations
Cork and Kerry, Ireland
Genre
Coming-of-age road movie
Running time
70-100 mins
Budget
Tba
Cast
Tba
Contact
Treasure Entertainment
Cooper House
St Kevin’s Cottages
Synge Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
Tel: (353) 1 475 8829
Fax: (353) 1 475 8819
claire@treasure.ie
NPP 2009 • 23

Writer/director Sally El Hosaini
24 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
My Brother the Devil is the story of two
brothers, Mo (14) and Rashid (19), growing
up in Hackney, one of London’s most
volatile neighborhoods. Through conflicts
brought about by drugs, gang violence and
the need to conform, they struggle to survive
the harsh realities of life on the streets
in an increasingly hostile, post 9/11 world.
Mo is a sensitive, lonely boy driven by
his need to belong. Rashid is a virile, charismatic
drug-dealer and, to Mo, the coolest
big brother you could ever have. When
Rashid’s best friend is shot dead, he begins
to question his life. Can he escape the
cycle of violence and revenge in which he’s
trapped and save his little brother from making
the same mistakes?
Rashid tries to forge a way out of the
ghetto. But for Mo the transformation of his
‘hero’ into a ‘human’ throws his world into
confusion. When Mo discovers that Rashid
is gay, his world is totally shattered. He feels
betrayed. How can he look up to him now?
He’s not even a man!
Mo doesn’t want to believe it. He can’t
accept it. So, instead, he prefers to imagine
that Rashid is a macho bomber who will
bring death and destruction to the infidel.
This leads to devastating consequences.
This is a film about brotherhood that
explores themes of prejudice and identity,
challenging the stereotypes of what it
means to be young, Arab, British and
Muslim today.
My Brotherr
the Devil
United Kingdom
Director’s statement
Being half Arab and half British, I know how
it feels to live in two worlds that aren’t in harmony.
My Brother the Devil is the story off
what happens to two brothers when these
worlds collide, forcing them to make painful
choices. The film is a synthesis of many personal
experiences and events.
Living in Hackney for seven years. I’m
fascinated by the multi-cultural youth in my
area, their search for identity and struggle to
survive gangland politics. For Arabs,
homosexuality is the last taboo and I want to
explore this subject honestly.
The stereotypical ‘jihadi’ portrayed in the
Western media is outdated and we’re ready
for a more truthful and three-dimensional
image of British Muslim youth. The emerging
disenfranchised generation is more
intelligent and feeling than we acknowledge.
I intend to capture the darkness and
light of these half-adults through theirr
growing pains.

Hate is easy. Love takes courage.
Director Sally El Hosaini
Sally El Hosaini is an Egyptian-Welsh
writer/director based in London. She loves
to write and had her first short story published
when she was seven. She grew up in
Cairo, and her eureka moment came when
she picked up her father’s VHS camera and
first connected images, words and people.
In 2002, she began working on documentaries
that took her to Belgium, Yemen
and post-Saddam Iraq. Her award-winning
documentaries were screened internationally
on Al Jazeera, the BBC, Canal+, ITV, Al
Arabiya and Discovery.
She spent two years as a production coordinator
on independent feature films,
learning the A-Z of the process. Her delight
in storytelling led to a further two-and-a-half
years as a script editor and in development
at BBC Drama.
She left the BBC in 2008 to focus on her
own films. She won a regional BAFTA in
2008 for her short, The Fifth Bowl, which
she wrote and directed. Her latest short,
Henna Night, is on the festival circuit 2009-
10 and was part of the short film corner at
Cannes this year.
My Brother The Devil is her debut feature
film and was selected for Scene Insiders
(The Script Factory, January 2008);
RAWI Sundance Middle East Screenwriters
Lab (October 2008); Sundance International
Screenwriters Lab (January 2009);
BABYLON European Development Initiative
(January 2009); and Sundance Director’s
Lab (June 2009).
Current status
Advanced stage of development
Aims at the NPP
Finding a co-producer; raising finance.
Director
Sally El Hosaini
Writer
Sally El Hosaini
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm
Languages
English
Arabic
Genre
Urban drama
Running time
Tba
Budget
Tba
Cast
Tba
Contact
Sally El Hosaini
33 Anna Close
Brownlow Road
London E8 4NW
United Kingdom
Tel: (44) 7968 761 248
sallyelhosaini@mac.com
www.sallyelhosaini.com
NPP 2009 • 25

Writer/director Olivier Coussemacq
Producer Valérie Boas
26 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Mohamed doesn’t write home very often.
Whenever he does Naima, his mother, and
Abdemassad and Hocine, his brothers, rush
to read his letters together.
This time, he tells them the usual: everything
is OK. Yes, life is tough in Paris and
bosses exploit the illegal workers outrageously
but, God willing, he will soon be
able to send home a little money.
Deep down, Naima does not care about
the money. She has raised her three sons
by herself ever since their father died in a
gas explosion when Hocine was a baby. All
that really matters to her is that Mohamed is
in good health.
Abdemassad is a lot more concerned. He
does not understand why, after two years,
Mohamed has not managed to send them
any money. When the time comes he, too,
will go to Paris. He will show his mother what
he is capable of. Naima does not want him to
go. She doesn’t know he has been saving for
months to pay the immigrant smugglers to
get him to the Spanish coast. He will leave
without saying goodbye. His mother would
not understand: so many young people have
died trying to reach Europe.
A few days after Abdemassad disappears,
the sea washes his body back up on
the shores of Morocco. After the funeral,
Naima realises she has to send her eldest
son a letter about his brother’s death.
Because she is illiterate, she asks a neighbour
to write it for her. As the neighbour
writes the address on the envelope, she
realizes it has a cell and inmate number on
it. Mohamed is in jail in France.
Naima is in denial at first, then she is
shattered. She hides the truth from Hocine
and swears her youngest son will never
leave the country, even if she has to lie to
him, even if she has to die…
Nomades
(The Boy Who Did Not Cry)
Director’s statement
local films
France
My first movie was a documentary aboutt
long-term inmates and the pain of being
locked up in a place where they did not want
to be. Later, in my fictional work, I wrote
about underpaid, illegal immigrant workers
with no rights. I met many of them. They had
come from the south and east to feed ourr
economy with their blood and hard work.
These experiences made me want to
find out the reason why people throw themselves
onto the roads of exile. Why do people
decide to leave their loving families and
the warmth of their Southern homes? I
wanted to get to the heart of the desire to
emigrate; I wanted to feel the pain people
feel during exile.
I would also like my film to do justice to
the vibrant people and beautiful landscapes
of Morocco, a country I love and where I
lived for a long time.
Director Olivier Coussemacq
Olivier Coussemacq was born in France.
After working as a first assistant in
France and abroad, he began to write
scripts for television.
In 1999, he directed his first short film,
Pas perdus (Lost Steps), which won awards
at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Films Festival.
He then directed a documentary about
jails in France and a second short film, La
concierge est dans l’ascenseur (The
Concierge is in the Elevator), r a comedy in
black and white.
In 2008, he directed his first feature,
L’enfance du mal (Sweet Evil), which is
about to be released in France. Nomadess
will be his second feature.

Fifteen-year-old Hocine dreams of leaving
Tangiers for Europe. But his mother Naima
simply won’t let him: she has lost two sons
to the European eldorado. A desperate,
uneven struggle begins…
Production company local films
local films was founded in Paris in 1997.
The company has produced around 50
films, which have been screened at a large
number of international festivals as well as
released in France and abroad. Recent
examples include Substitute by Vikash
Dhorasoo and Fred Poulet (which was in
the Berlin Forum), and Give Me Your Hand
by Pascal-Alex Vincent (New Directors/
New Films, USA).
Our mission has remained unchanged
from the start: to foster, reveal and promote
emerging arthouse talents. To achieve this
goal, local films works with a small number of
directors, typically over long periods of time.
Originally, our focus was on short films
and documentaries. However, as the directors
we work with gradually reach maturity,
local films has shifted to the production of
feature films in order to accompany that creative
process.
International co-productions also represent
an increasing part of our line-up, with
projects such as Give Me Your Hand and An
Autumn in Germany, the latter by Jean-
Gabriel Périot, which were Franco-German
co-productions; and The Papaya Factory, a
US-European co-production.
Current status
Financing.
Features
1997 Regarde la mer (See the Sea) 52
mins. Writer/director François
Ozon. International sales: Celluloid
Dreams.
2002 Plus haut (Higher Still) 85 mins.
Writer/director Nicolas Brevière.
International sales: Wide Management.
2007 Substitute 80 mins. Writers/
directors Fred Poulet and Vikah
Dhorasoo. International sales:
Wide Management.
2008 Donne-moi la main (Give Me Your
Hand) 90 mins. Writer/director
Pascal-Alex Vincent. Co-production
with Busse & Halberschmidt
(Germany). International sales:
Wide Management.
2009 L’enfance du mal (Sweet Evil) 90
mins. Writer/director Olivier
Coussemacq. Cast: Pascal
Greggory, Ludmila Mikael, Anaïs
Demoustier. International sales:
U-Media.
Beau Rivage 100 mins. Writer/
director Julien Donada. Cast:
Daniel Duval, Chiara Caselli,
Françoise Arnoul, Catherine
Rouvel. In pre-production.
Aims at the NPP
To meet sales agents, co-producers, distributors
and financiers.
Director
Olivier Coussemacq
Producers
Nicolas Brevière
Valérie Boas
Writer
Olivier Coussemacq
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm; 2:35. Dolby
Language
French, Arabic
Shooting locations
Morocco (Tangiers and
Tinherir)
Genre
Drama
Running time
100 mins
Target audience
All
Budget
€1,700,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Nicolas Brevière
Valérie Boas
local films
50-52, rue du Faubourg Saint-
Denis
75010 Paris
France
Tel: (33) 1 44 93 73 59
Fax: (33) 1 44 93 70 33
localfilms@free.fr
www.local-films.com
NPP 2009 • 27

Writer/director Andrej Kosak
Producer Danijel Hocevar
28 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
The State off
Labour Day 1986 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
At the Soc-Worker metal factory, Peter
Zmazek receives the Worker of the Year
Award and finally gets a flat.
Getting a flat is such a big shock for Peter
that he falls into a state of amnesia and
starts dreaming of a socialist heaven. Shortly
afterwards, his mental state unchanged,
Peter is locked up in a mental institution.
When he wakes up from his amnesia 12
years later, times have really changed. His
wife has married his best friend; his children
have grown up; and his country has disappeared.
Instead of a socialist Yugoslavia,
there is now a modern Slovenia. No more
Communist Party, but lots of mobile phones
and commercials. Everybody is trying to
become European; everybody wants to
become a capitalist overnight.
As there is no job for the former Worker
of the Year at the metal factory, now renamed
EuroCrom, Peter takes matters into
his own hands. He is fighting to get his family
back, to find a job and to survive in a cruel
world of turbo-charged capitalism. But
nobody believes him, because he has been
locked up for 12 years.
In the end Peter, who is considered mentally
ill, seems to be the only normal person
in a crazy world.
Director’s statement
Like other East European countries over the
past 20 years, Slovenia has gone through a
hard transition from one political system and
society to another, from socialism to capitalism.
A lot of factories have been destroyed,
and a lot of people have become jobless
while the new-rich bourgeoisie make a fortune
by cheating.
In the script, we follow the black (but not
bleak) comic story of a former metal worker
who fell into a coma in which he has spent
12 years. When he wakes up, he finds that
there is a whole new world around him.
Instead of socialism and social security, he
is trapped in the ruthless world of a turbocapitalistic
economy, complete with com-
Shock
(Stanke soka)
Vertigo/Emotionfilm
Slovenia
mercials and mobile phones.
Our hero has lost everything: his country,
his family, his job, his best friend and all
of his money. But he hasn’t lost his soul.
Using his coma as a metaphor forr
change, as a tool which allows me to bring
together two important but very different
time frames - before and after the political
changes in East European countries - I
wanted to tell a heart-warming story off
everyday people lost in the ‘brave new
world’, but from a different perspective.
Director Andrej Kosak
Born on June 16,1965, in Ljubljana, Slovenia
(then part of Yugoslavia), Andrej Kosak
studied film and TV directing at the AGRFT
academy in Ljubljana. He directed several
hundred episodes of various TV shows,
along with commercials and video clips.
In 1997, his debut feature film Outsiderr
broke box-office records, with 95,000
admissions in a country of 2 million, and
won several international awards. Outsiderr
was a key part of the ‘Slovenian film renaissance’
and was distributed all over the former
Yugoslavia.
In 2002, Kosak directed his second feature,
Headnoise, an adaptation of a novel
by the most prominent Slovenian writer,
Drago Janãar.
The State of Shock was selected for the
Equinox Screenwriters Workshop, the
Berlin Co-Production Market and the
Cannes Screenplay Market. Advisors on the
script are Lorenzo Sample Jr ( Three Days off
the Condor, Papillon, The Parallax View),
James V Hart (Bram Stoker’s Dracula,
Hook, Contact) and Anthea Sylbert ( Rose-
mary’s Baby, Chinatown, Julia).
Producer Danijel Hocevar
Born in 1965 in Ljubljana, Danijel Hocevarr
established Emotionfilm (together with film
director Damjan Kozole) in 1986. It was the
first independent film production company
in Slovenia and among the first in the formerr
Yugoslavia. In 1994, he set up Vertigo,
another production company, together with

A black comedy about capitalism and the
transition of social values over the past
20 years that has completely changed the
countries of Eastern Europe
Kozole and Metod Pevec.
Between them, they have produced or
co-produced 30 feature films including:
1999 Idle Running Directed by Janez
Burger (in Competition in Karlovy Vary).
2001 Bread and Milk Directed by Jan
Cvitkovic (Lion of the Future Award,
Venice).
2003 Spare Parts Directed by Damjan
Kozole (in Competition in Berlin).
Beneath Her Window Directed by
Metod Pevec (in Competition in
Karlovy Vary).
2004 Suburbs Directed by Vinko
Möderndorfer (Venice Days)
2006 Border Post Directed by Rajko Grlic
(in Competition in San Sebastian).
2007 I Am from Titov Veles Directed by
Teona Mitevska (Special Jury Award,
Sarajevo; Berlin Panorama;
Toronto; Pusan).
2008 The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks
Around the Corner Directed by
Stephan Komandarev (Gala
Screening in Moscow).
2009 Slovenian Girl (in Competition in
Sarajevo; Toronto; Pusan).
Vertigo/Emotionfilm’s films have screened
widely on the festival circuit, receiving several
awards, and have sold well internationally.
Danijel Hocevar was selected in 2001 as one
of Variety’s y 10 ‘Producers to Watch’.
He is also a voting member of the European
Film Academy, a member of the selection
jury of Nipkow Programm since 2005;
and a group leader for EAVE – European
AudioVisual Entrepreneurs - since 2009.
Current status
The project is in its final development stage.
Shooting is planned for May 2010. A final
draft of the script in English will be available
at the NPP.
The approximate budget is €1.9 million.
Slovenian financing is in place. The Slovenian
Film Fund is supporting the production
with €780,000, and two co-producers are
attached: TV Slovenia with approx
€150,000; and FS Viba Film with €320,000.
ABulgarian co-producer, RFF International,
is also attached.
Aims at the NPP
To find possible co-producers, funders and
sales agents.
Director
Andrej Kosak
Producer
Danijel Hocevar
Writer
Andrej Kosak
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm
Language
Slovenian
Serbo-Croat
Shooting locations
Slovenia
Genre
Black (bittersweet) comedy
Running time
100 mins
Target audience
Arthouse, 30-55
Budget
€1,900,000
Cast
Primoz Petkovsek
Anica Dobra
Nikola Kojo
Vlado Novak
Aleksandra
Balmazovic
Boris Cavazza.
Others tba.
Contact
Vertigo
Zavod za kulturne dejavnosti
Kersnikova 4
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: (386) 1 439 7080
Fax: (386) 1 430 3530
info@vertigo.si
www.emotionfilm.si
NPP 2009 • 29

Writer/director Michael Ginthör
Producer Oliver Neumann
30 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
A few words to begin with: The Trakl Affair is
a historical movie set during WWI with a
completely new visual approach to a period
film. It will be shot as live action with animated
backgrounds.
We have developed a visual style, working
with real actors and animated elements,
inspired by expressionist paintings and by
early movies like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
Eastern Front, World War One: After a suicide
attempt during the gruesome battle of
Grodek, the Austrian poet Georg Trakl
awaits his court martial in an army insane
asylum. He will be tried for cowardice in the
face of the enemy.
In Vienna, his oldest friend Erhard
Bussek summons up the philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein – the youngest son of a
powerful dynasty – to save the troubled poet
from conviction.
During their train ride to the Eastern
Front, Bussek reveals bit by bit that it was
not necessarily the horrors of the first industrialised
war alone that caused Trakl’s desperate
state of mind. In fact, Bussek himself
seems to have set off the tragic chain of
events that ultimately pushed the delirious
poet over the edge of reason.
Trakl had been fighting his deeply incestuous
feelings for his attractive sister Grete
throughout his entire life until Bussek
became romantically involved with her.
A series of self-fulfilling prophecies,
delirious visions and paranoid allegations
eventually made Bussek drive Grete right
into Trakl’s arms – with disastrous consequences
for all involved. Now Trakl, guiltridden
and isolated, solemnly awaits his execution,
which seems like a fair price to pay.
What started out as a race for Trakl’s life
slowly becomes Bussek’s confession as
well as the portrait of a lost generation and
a world long gone. Whereof one cannot
speak, thereof one must remain silent…
The Trakl
Affairr
Director’s statement
(Der Fall Trakl)
FreibeuterFilm
Austria
This is intriguing historical material, based
on - or rather hallucinating from - true events.
It involves poetry, philosophy, human
tragedy, fascinating characters and a worldwide
downfall that in fact lasted more than 30
years, from the first shots in Sarajevo in
1914 to the bombs that fell on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki in 1945.
The corresponding expressionist era
produced some of film history’s most fascinating
works. The aesthetic traces of Cali-
gari, Nosferatu and Faust can be found in
many classic movies of the last 60 years,
from Double Indemnity and Bram Stoker’ss
Dracula to Sin City.
The Trakl Affair seems like the perfect
project to re-import these stylistic elements.
It will be a dark comic rather than a broad
historic painting.
Writer/director Michael Ginthör
After graduating from High School, Ginthör
studied History and Philosophy at the University
of Vienna, majoring in Philosophy
with a thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein. He
then went on to become a writer, and worked
for several years on various magazines.
In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles,
where he made two documentaries: Zen
and Zero - which won prizes at four US festivals
- and Life and Times.
He is currently working on a feature documentary
called Deus ex Machina.

You have the power to make all your
dreams come true, but the first shadow of
doubt and fear will unleash a nightmare
of infernal proportions…
Producer Oliver Neumann
Oliver Neumann studied at the Film Academy
in Vienna and, since 2002, has had several
teaching positions, including at SAE
Vienna, the University of Performing Arts in
Vienna and Ars Electronica in Linz.
He has edited over 15 theatrical features
and has won several awards as an editor
(Best Austrian Feature Film Editing for Forever
Never Anywhere, and the Max Ophüls
Prize for My Russia).
He also has a strong background in
graphic design and animation, and has won
several awards as a motion designer.
He founded FreibeuterFilm in 2007
together with documentary director Sudabeh
Mortezai and feature-film director Sebastian
Meise.
Current status
The project has been developed with support
from the Austrian Film Institute and the
Vienna Film Fund. We will complete development
in January 2010 and start financing
The Trakl Affair.
Aims at the NPP
We are looking for financial partners and coproducers.
Director
Michael Ginthör
Producer
Oliver Neumann
Writer
Michael Ginthör
Based on
a true story
Format
2K
Language
German
Genre
Drama
Running time
100 mins approx
Target audience
Male, 18-45
Budget
€1,700,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
FreibeuterFilm
Kellermanngasse 1-3/1/6
1070 Vienna
Austria
Tel: (43) 720 34 65 10
Fax: (43) 720 34 65 10-99
welcome@freibeuterfilm.at
www.freibeuterfilm.at
NPP 2009 • 31

Writer/director Jochem de Vries
Producer Trent
32 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
It is a year since Els (37) left Thomas (43);
she continues to live in their home and sleep
in the bed they shared for 14 years. It seems
like Thomas quickly gets used to his new situation;
in fact he cannot cope at all. But then
he finds a way to deal with it.
Every morning before going to work, he
parks his car in front of their old home. Once
Els is on her way to work, he opens the door
with a spare key and calmly takes a shower,
smokes a cigarette or waters the plants.
Then he cleans everything and leaves for
his job taking medical photographs of eyes
at the local hospital.
Everything changes when Thomas
meets Els’s new lover, a gym teacher 10
years younger. Circumstances result in him
giving him a lift home. But there is an accident,
and Thomas rescues the gym teacher
just in time - or does he? Everybody thinks
Thomas saved him from drowning, but we
know he could have come to his aid much
sooner. Els’s lover is in a coma and Thomas
knows just how to deal with his ex-wife.
Time passes and the gym teacher dies.
Meanwhile, Els is growing closer to
Thomas, who offers a shoulder to cry on, and
life goes back to the way it was a year before.
But Thomas’s new life is built on appearances,
and appearances are deceptive…
Cornea
NFI Productions
Netherlands
Director’s statement
Cornea is a narrative about responsibili-
ties; about immoral human behaviour thatt
goes unnoticed and unpunished. At a certain
point, Thomas knows he is in the wrong,
but since nobody else finds out, he goes on
with his life as if nothing had happened. His
weak personality leaves him unable to take
life-changing decisions, which he hides by
showing an unusual interest in others.
I would like to explore cinematic conventions
and expectations by refraining from
always clarifying the motivation of the characters,
using suggestive story-telling which
allows the audience to draw their own conclusions.
Our main character finds happiness
but can’t deal with the situation he is in,
because he will never be happy.
In the end, he hasn’t changed much - but
hopefully the viewer has. We feel sorry forr
Thomas, as we observe a tragic person who
is unable to change himself.
Writer/director Jochem de Vries
Born in 1979, Jochem de Vries studied at the
Utrecht School of the Arts. After graduating,
he took scriptwriting courses and made short
films. In 2007-8, he attended a Master Class
at the Andrzej Wajda School of Film Directing
in Poland where he developed the script
of Cornea. At Cannes 2009, his documentary
short Trans-Siberian Voices screened in
the Semaine de la Critique, while his latest
short film Missen was in competition for the
Palme d’Or.

Thomas keeps tags on his ex-wife Els
and is secretly responsible for the death
of her new boyfriend. Will he ever be
open and tell the truth?
Production company
NFI Productions
NFI Productions is the production arm of
The Netherlands Film Institute (NFI), founded
in 1947 as a governmental organisation
to promote educational objectives in the film
industry. Current director Trent has been a
board member of NFI Productions since
September 2005, and has put together an
impressive collection of projects.
2007 saw the release of Sextet,directed
by Eddy Terstall, which was shot over a
period of four years on a small budget. The
next feature, Does It Hurt? by Aneta
Lesnikovska, was shot in Macedonia in
2006, again on a small budget, and was
nominated for a Tiger Award at Rotterdam
in 2007. The same year saw the shooting of
the feature Kan door huid heen/Can Go
Through Skin by Esther Rots, which was
selected for the Berlin Forum in 2009. Currently
in post-production is the feature
Hunting & Sons by Sander Burger.
Current status
A final-draft script is available. Cornea was
presented at the Paris Project and we are in
contact with possible French co-producers.
Aims at the NPP
We are seeking French and Belgian coproducers,
pre-sales, a sales agent and
funding and a (Dutch) television station.
Director
Jochem de Vries
Producer
Trent
Writer
Jochem de Vries
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm
Language
Dutch
Shooting locations
Rotterdam, Almere,
France or Belgium
Genre
Drama
Running time
120 mins
Target audience
Arthouse
Budget
€1,450,000
Cast
Hein van der Heijden.
Others to be confirmed.
Contact
NFI Productions
Lloydstraat 7A
3024 EA Rotterdam
Netherlands
Tel/Fax: (31) 10 221 1345
contact@nfi.nu
www.nfi.nu
www.corneadefiilm.nl
NPP 2009 • 33

Director Pieter Verhoeff
Producer Wilant Boekelman
Producer Jan van der Zanden
Producer Koji Nelissen
Writer Bert Stroo
34 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
After having won four gold medals at the
London Olympics in 1948, 30-year-old athlete
Fanny Blankers-Koen, mother of two
and affectionately called ‘Flying Dutchmam’
by the British press, receives a hero’s welcome
in Amsterdam. More or less simultaneously,
naive young Foekje Dillema, a girl
from the backward province of Friesland,
bursts onto the scene with results which are
almost as good.
Because of her success, Foekje’s problem,
which has been troubling her for nearly
half her life (her body looks somewhat
masculine), is temporarily forgotten. Foekje
is discovered by opportunist Jurriaan
Schoenmakers, an official who finds himself
more and more frustrated by the
increasing unofficial power of Jan
Blankers, Fanny’s husband, journalist and
coach of the women’s team. Schoenmakers
recognizes that Foekje is the ideal
instrument to break the growing influence
of the Blankers clan.
At first, Fanny is not bothered by the new
girl. But her lack of interest soon turns into
tension and fear as she realises that Foekje
is in fact the only one who can threaten her
ambition to be the only Dutch athlete at the
upcoming European Championships. Jan, a
great strategist, advises his wife not to run
against Foekje. But, as Foekje wins all her
races during a London tournament and subsequently
breaks one of Fanny’s records,
Jan understands that something has to be
done. Fanny, who on various occasions in
her career has had to deal with male impostors
dressed up as women, is now convinced
that Foekje is a man.
During an official meeting of the Athletics
Federation, one of Blankers’ cronies calls
for a medical examination. Foekje has no
choice - if she refuses, she will be suspended
- so she reluctantly agrees. As Foekje
arrives two days later at Utrecht station to
join the women’s team en route to a tournament
in France, she is bluntly told that she is
not completely female and that she is, therefore,
suspended for life.
A posthumous DNA test on Foekje’s
Fair Game
(Foekje & Fanny)
Waterland Film
Netherlands
cells showed that she was indeed a woman.
Fanny, who died in 2004, was proclaimed
‘Athlete of the Century’ by the International
Athletics Federation in 1999.
Director’s statement
Fair Game tells the story of a simple girl
from the countryside who transforms from
an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan
admired by everyone. But alas, she will be
broken by jealous and powerful people from
the city who consider her a threat. It’s the
kind of story I love to tell.
I am very interested in the games people
play with each other, and the power politics
which are used to break a talented but vulnerable
young girl and render her harmless.
It’s a good ingredient to help a film touch
one’s heart.
The cinematic and dramatic approach
will show, not just the sensational side off
sports, but the background, the human
details, the difference between the (family)
life of the small village of Burum and the city
life of Amsterdam, in which power and fame
are the main factors dividing the haves from
the have-nots.
Mike Leigh is a big inspiration: he is the
master at showing ordinary people in whom
integrity and truth are the main values in a
way which is precise and not emphatic.
Writer/director Pieter Verhoeff
Born in 1938, Pieter Verhoeff teaches at the
Netherlands Film and Television Academy;
is Chairman of the Dutch Directors Guild;
and is a former deputy chairman of the
Netherlands Film Festival.
Features
1980 Het teken van het beest Golden
Calf for Best Feature
1985 De dream Golden Calf for Best
Actor
1988 Van geluk gesproken Golden
Calf for Best Director, Best Actorr
and Best Actress
2008 De brief voor de Koning

The position of Fanny Blankers-Koen, queen of Dutch
athletics and winner of four gold medals at the London
Olympics in 1948, is threatened by the unsophisticated
Foekje Dillema, who is 10 years her junior. Fanny and
her royal household, run by husband Jan Blankers, try
to find the Achilles heel of the young athlete, whom
they accuse of unfair play. Will Foekje succeed in
proving that her participation is legitimate after all?
TV Films
1997 De langste reis Golden Calf for
Best Actor
1999 Maten
TV Series
1989-91 Jiskefet
1994 De vuurtoren
2007 Radio Bergeijk TV
Docudramas
1972 Rudy Schokker huilt niet meer
1976 De strijd om de stad
1977 De bewakers
1978 Een rode draad
Production company Waterland
Film
Waterland Film specialises in producing and
co-producing feature films and feature documentaries
which combine interesting content
and innovative cinematographic quality.
Producers Jan van der Zanden and
Wilant Boekelman work closely with the
writer and the director and aim to make
feature films that both capture and challenge
the viewer by telling touching stories
and playing with genres. Since 2007,
Koji Nelissen has also been a producer att
Waterland Film.
Features produced by Waterland include
the following:
Adrift (Drift)
Sleeping Rough (Tussenland) Tiger Award
2002
Making Waves (Deining) Golden Calf 2004
Nightrun (Nachtrit) Golden Calf 2006 for
Best Male Actor and Best Male Supporting
Actor
Happy Family (‘n beetje verliefd)
Stella’s War (Stella’s oorlog)
Atlantis
Current status
Script development. Pre-production in
2010 for a winter 2011 shoot and spring
2012 release.
Aims at the NPP
Seeking co-producers in Germany, Belgium,
the UK and Ireland.
Director
Pieter Verhoeff
Producers
Wilant Boekelman
Jan van der Zanden
Koji Nelissen
Writers
Bert Stroo
Pieter Verhoeff
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm
Language
Dutch
Genre
Drama
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
Men and women, 25 and over
Budget
€2,900,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Waterland Film
De Kempenaerstraat 11a
1051 CJ Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 20 68 22 164
Fax: (31) 20 68 23 061
mail@waterlandfilm.nl
www.waterlandfilm.nl
NPP 2009 • 35

Producer/director Pieter Kuijpers
Producer/writer Edward Stelder
36 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
1979. Bart, a 12-year-old altar boy, believes
he has a special bond with God. Together,
they will turn the village where he lives into
heaven on earth. Then Moniek moves to the
village. She’s 16 and seriously ill. Bart
comes in contact with love and sex for the
first time. Suddenly, he’s faced with an
impossible choice: God or the girl.
When his father is fired, Bart believes
that God is punishing him for his sins. And
when it turns out that Moniek is terminally ill,
he can’t believe God will let her die. At the
German pilgrimage site of Kevelaer, Bart
tries to persuade God to heal Moniek. Is his
faith strong enough to save her from death?
Director’s statement
Heaven on Earth is a moving, funny and
controversial coming-of-age comedy/drama
about a very religious 12-year-old boy who
has to deal with both God and hormones.
Inspired by Fellini’s Amarcord (Roman
dialect for ‘as I remember’), it is based on
vivid memories from the youth of the writer
and the director, which unfortunately may
be neither very accurate nor factual…
The film is set in 1979; will look like it
comes straight from that period; and will be
shot over four seasons to give it an epic feel.
To emphasise authenticity, the film will be spoken
in a Dutch dialect from the south of the
Netherlands which is very similar to German.
The film is aimed at the same audience
as Life Is Beautiful, Billy Elliot or the German
film Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot: a broad
audience which loves small, moving comedy/dramas
with big, serious themes. The film
will, however, be more controversial, since
the central story is about the forbidden love
affair between a 12-year-old choirboy and a
16-year-old girl, and raises the very serious
question of the (non-) existence of God.
Director Pieter Kuijpers
Born in 1968, director Pieter Kuijpers made
his debut in 2003 with the widely acclaimed
feature Godforsaken, which won Golden
Heaven on
Earth
(Hemel op aarde)
Pupkin Film BV
Netherlands
Calfs for Best Director, Best Screenplay
and Best Actor; the Pauze Award for Best
Film chosen by young adults; and Best
Screenplay and Best Actress at the Lecce
Festival of European Cinema.
Pieter has since directed six features
and won Best of the Fest Award at the
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival;
Best Film at the Leeds International
Children’s and Young People’s Film Festival;
the Grand Prix des Amériques at the
Montreal International World Film Festival;
and Best Film (twice!) at the Philadelphia
International Film Festival.
Pieter is co-founder of Pupkin Film.
Writer/producer Edward Stelder
Edward Stelder developed and wrote the
drama series Westenwind, which was nominated
for the Gouden Televisierring in 1999
and won the prize in 2000; the successful
hospital show IC; the adventure series Kick-
en!; and the comedy series Bitches, which
was nominated for a Gouden Beeld in 2005.
Together with Ruud Schuurman, Edward
adapted Ronald Giphart’s bestselling novel,
Ik omhels je met duizen armen, a feature film
directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
and starring Carice van Houten. The movie
won two Golden Calfs.
Edward is currently working on the thriller
miniseries The Power of Mr Miller for VPRO
and the action comedy Made in NL for IdtV.
Heaven on Earth will be Edward’s first
feature film as writer/producer.
Production company Pupkin Film
Films produced
2003 Ondernemen tegen Armoede
(series), 6x25 mins, RTL5
2004 Staatsgevaarlijk (TV film), director
Marcel Visbeen, 90 mins, NPS
2005 Opruiming (short), director Mannin
de Wildt, 10 mins
Monumentenoorlog, (documentary)
director Ko van Reenen, 80 mins,
Joodse Omroep
Concert Ana Popovic (recording),
director Henk van Engen, 90 mins

A coming-of-age drama of Biblical
proportions about faith, love and
death at the end of the 1970s
Battle in Noord (young people’s
series), director Ko van Reenen,
2x25 mins, Zappelin
2006 Totdat ik beroemd ben (documentary),
director Nicole van Damme,
2x50 mins, NCRV
Zomerdag, director Mark de Cloe,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Divina Gloria, director Michiel van
Erp, 40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Kinkerstraat, director Pascale
Simons, 40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Kroeskop (children’s film), director
Dorothée van den Berghe, 10
mins, NPS
2007 Landje, director Danyael Sugawara,
50 mins, VPRO
Ik zie (children’s series), director
Josje Hazenberg, 2x60mins, KRO
Dennis P (feature), director Pieter
Kuijpers, 90 mins, BNN
Kip (children’s film), director Remy
van Heugten, 15 mins, NPS
2008 TBS (feature), director Pieter
Kuijpers, 88 mins, BNN
Minibar, r director Remco Packbiers,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Liefde, dank je wel, director Danyael
Sugawara, 40 mins, VARA, VPRO,
NPS
Taxi 656, director Saskia Diesing,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Flow (drama series), director Ruud
Schuurman, 9x25 mins, NPS
2009 Ik zie II (children’s series), director
Josje Hazenberg, 2x60 mins, KRO
Nat (children’s film), director Remy
van Heugten, 15 mins, VPRO
Bente wil een vader (children’s
film), director Ties Schenk, 15
mins, NPS
In production
Het Sinterklaasjournaal de Film (feature),
writer Ajé van Boschhuizen, director Rita
Horst, NPS
Lellebelle (TV film), writers Chris Westendorp
and Tamara Monzon, director Mischa
Kamp, BNN
Johan1 (feature), writer/director Johan
Kramer, BOS
In development
Feuten (drama series), writer Philip
Delmaar, BNN
Honour Killing (feature), see page 38
Dr Cheezy (young people’s series), writer
Tijs van Marle, director Margien Rogaar,
VPRO/ZAPP
Thuis (TV film), writer Tijs van Marle,
director Margien Rogaar, VPRO
Vlugge Vingers (TV film), writer Rosan
Dieho, director Sytske Kok, AVRO
Current status
A shooting script will be complete by September
2009. We have received €30,000
script development money from the
Netherlands Film Fund. Broadcasterr
AVRO will contribute €900,000 and the
CoBo Fund €325,000. Independent Film is
attached as distributor.
Aims at the NPP
We are looking for co-producers and funding,
especially from Germany and/or Belgium.
Director
Peter Kuijpers
Producers
Peter Kuijpers
Edward Stelder
Writer
Edward Stelder
Based on
an original story
Format
Tba
Language
Dutch
German
Shooting locations
Netherlands (Limburg) and
Germany (Kevelaer)
Genre
Drama
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
Men and women, 25-45
Budget
€3,500,000
Cast
Well-known Dutch actors who
are originally from Limburg.
German cast members are
open for discussion.
Contact
Pupkin Film
Willemsparkweg 66-1
1071 HK Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 20 489 5088
Fax: (31) 20 489 5087
info@pupkin.com
www.pupkin.com
NPP 2009 • 37

Writer/director Paula van der Oest
Co-writer Sander Vos
Producer Pieter Kuijpers
38 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Honour Killing
A small town in Eastern Turkey. An uncle of
19-year-old Havin – a Kurdish girl from the
Netherlands - opens up a shop and throws a
party attended by the whole family. Her 13year-old
cousin Reber is there, too, and he is
madly in love with Havin. The party is disrupted
with the arrival of Dutch student Tijn,
who was hoping to surprise Havin.
Havin is well aware that the unexpected
arrival of Tijn could cause a serious crisis:
the honour of the family is at stake. She can
only be saved through marriage, providing
she can produce a medical certificate stating
that she is still a virgin. Instead, she learns
that she is pregnant and decides to flee.
The men of the family confer. Havin has
to be killed in order to restore the honour of
the family. Reber is chosen to do the job
because he’s still a minor and will, therefore,
not be punished too severely. Shattered,
Reber leaves for Germany with his uncle,
Kenal, who lives there.
They track Havin down but, when Reber
confronts her, he cannot find it in his heart to
pull the trigger. Now they will have to go on the
run together. Havin’s only concern is with her
unborn child. She is determined to get through
her pregnancy and give birth. But she manages
to conceal her condition from Reber.
They are discovered over and over
again: there is nowhere to go, nowhere that
will be safe. Reber is heartbroken when he
finds out that Havin is pregnant. In a blind
rage, he beats and kills her - at long last
restoring the honour of his family. But the
days of his youth are definitively over and
his life will never be the same again.
Director’s statement
Honour Killing is an important and newsworthy
subject because of the immigration patterns of
the past 40 years, not just into Holland but into
other European countries as well. During our
research, Sander Vos and I learned of many
sad and dramatic stories. In a world that is
changing rapidly, there are people who are
getting lost. Traditional values no longer protect
them and they start to drift.
(Namus)
Pupkin Film
Netherlands
The film I have in mind is an exciting
drama, a cross between a road movie and
a coming-of-age film. I would like to work
with both professional actors and amateurs,
and the landscape of the different countries
will play an important role in this film, making
it visually interesting.
Films which inspired me while I was writing
the script included Babel and In This World.
Director Paula van der Oest
1996 De nieuwe moeder 98 mins. Nieuwe
Gronden/KRO, Best Young
European Film, Osaka; Jury Award
Sao Paolo Film Festival; Holland
Film Award.
Doolhof (screenplay) 16 mm. 45
mins. De Luwte/KRO
Meedingers (screenplay) 16 mm.
50 mins. Hungry Eye.
1997 De trip van Teetje 90 mins. Motel
Films/VPRO Public Award.
2001 Zus & Zo 105 mins. De Luwte/NPS/
Oscar nominee, Best Foreign
Language Film. Golden Calf Best
Actor (Jacob Derwig).
2004 Verborgen gebreken 90 mins.
De Luwte/NPS
Mme Jeanette 90 mins.
Lowland/NPS
2007 Wijster TV film. 90 mins. Motel
Films/Vara.
Tiramisu 90 mins. Motel Films/Vara.
Golden Calfs for Best Actress
(Anneke Blok) and Best Music.
2008 Smoke and Ochre IDTV/Arry
Voorsmit Riba. In development
Famiri Rene Seegers/Lowland
Pictures. In development.
Production company Pupkin Film
Films produced
2003 Ondernemen tegen Armoede
(series), 6x25 mins, RTL5
2004 Staatsgevaarlijk (TV film), director
Marcel Visbeen, 90 mins, NPS
2005 Opruiming (short), director Mannin
de Wildt, 10 mins
Monumentenoorlog, (documentary)

13-year-old Kurdish boy Reber sets out
to kill his 19-year-old cousin Havin to
restore the lost honour of his family.
But Reber secretly loves his cousin…
director Ko van Reenen, 80 mins,
Joodse Omroep
Concert Ana Popovic (recording),
director Henk van Engen, 90 mins
Battle in Noord (young people’s
series), director Ko van Reenen,
2x25 mins, Zappelin
2006 Totdat ik beroemd ben (documentary),
director Nicole van Damme, 2x50
mins, NCRV
Zomerdag, director Mark de Cloe,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Divina Gloria, director Michiel van Erp,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Kinkerstraat, director Pascale Simons,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Kroeskop (children’s film),
director Dorothée van den Berghe,
10 mins, NPS
2007 Landje, director Danyael Sugawara,
50 mins, VPRO
Ik zie (children’s series), director
Josje Hazenberg, 2x60mins, KRO
Dennis P (feature), director Pieter
Kuijpers, 90 mins, BNN
Kip (children’s film), director Remy
van Heugten, 15 mins, NPS
2008 TBS (feature), director Pieter
Kuijpers, 88 mins, BNN
Minibar, r director Remco Packbiers,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Liefde, dank je wel, director
Danyael Sugawara, 40 mins, VARA,
VPRO, NPS
Taxi 656, director Saskia Diesing,
40 mins, VARA, VPRO, NPS
Flow (drama series), director Ruud
Schuurman, 9x25 mins, NPS
2009 Ik zie II (children’s series), director
Josje Hazenberg, 2x60 mins, KRO
Nat (children’s film), director Remy
van Heugten, 15 mins, VPRO
Bente wil een vader (children’s film),
director Ties Schenk, 15 mins, NPS
In production
Het Sinterklaasjournaal de Film (feature),
writer Ajé van Boschhuizen, director Rita
Horst, NPS
Lellebelle (TV film), writers Chris Westendorp
and Tamara Monzon, director Mischa
Kamp, BNN
Johan1 (feature), writer/director Johan
Kramer, BOS
In development
Feuten (drama series), writer Philip Delmaar,
BNN
Hemel op arde See page 36
Dr Cheezy (young people’s series), writer
Tijs van Marle, director Margien Rogaar,
VPRO/ZAPP
Thuis (TV film), writer Tijs van Marle, director
Margien Rogaar, VPRO
Vlugge Vingers (TV film), writer Rosan
Dieho, director Sytske Kok, AVRO
Current status
We have received €30,000 in script development
from the Netherlands Film Fund. NPS
broadcasting agency will contribute €900,000
and the CoBO Fund will contribute €325,000.
Aims at the NPP
Seeking co-producers from Germany,
Belgium or Turkey.
Director
Paula van der Oest
Producers
Sander van Meurs
Pieter Kuijpers
Writer
Paula van der Oest
Sander Vos
Based on
an original story
Format
Tba
Languages
Dutch
German
Turkish
Shooting locations
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Turkey
Genre
Drama/thriller
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
Men and women, 25-60
Budget
€3,500,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Pupkin Film
Willemsparkweg 66-1
1071 HK Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 20 489 5088
Fax: (31) 20 489 5087
info@pupkin.com
www.pupkin.com
NPP 2009 • 39

Director Ben Sombogaart
Producer Alain de Levita
40 • NPP 2009
Kneeling on
a Bed of Violets
Synopsis
Hans is married to his childhood sweetheart
Margje. They have one son, Ruben, and are
looking forward to the birth of their second.
But Hans’ social standing is slipping and his
small nursery business hardly keeps them
out of poverty. One day an old friend turns
up, holding out the prospect of a better life if
Hans will only return to the extremely strict
faith of his youth. Hans accepts, joining the
fanatical sect led by former butcher’s assistant
Huib Steffen.
But when Margje has a miscarriage, he
renounces the sect and continues to scrape
a living. One day, however, he has a vision
that he has been ‘chosen’! Soon, things
start going much better; business is booming
and, incredibly, Margje turns out to be
pregnant again. Hans decides to leave the
church and worship God at home.
Years later a son, Tom, has been born.
But Hans’ life is dictated by the sect, and he
neglects his family and business, obsessed
by the fear of being condemned to burn in
Hell. After Huib insults Margje, she gives
Hans an ultimatum: she will leave him,
immediately, taking the children, unless he
breaks with the sect. Hans chooses the sect.
Years pass, and things go from bad to
worse. Ruben returns home with a lovely
fiancée, with whom Hans falls hopelessly in
love, while Tom turns against him, rejecting
the strict faith of his upbringing. Even his
business collapses: to ensure that Hans,
now dying of lung cancer, cannot work ‘on
the side’ while receiving benefits, municipal
machines destroy his nursery buildings.
Surrounded by the members of the
sect, who hold the family at a distance,
Hans dies. Only then do the members
allow Margje close to him. But, to quote the
Song of Songs, her love proves to be
stronger than death.
Director’s statement
Hans Sievez, a loving husband and father,
and the protagonist of Kneeling on a Bed of
Violets, slowly but surely falls into the
(Knielen op een bed violen)
Nijenhuis & De Levita Film en TV
Netherlands
clutches of an extreme orthodox Protestant
sect. The ministers of this ‘black church’ are
able to alienate him from his ‘heathen’ family,
his youngest son Tom and even his loyal
wife Margje, who is finally not even permitted
to sit at his deathbed.
Hans is petrified of the Wrath of God, the
hereafter, hell and damnation, and thus sacrifices
everything and everyone to this belief,
including his business and the respect of his
sons. The members of the sect abuse his
fear, manipulate Hans and are able to draw
him into their pernicious, hellfire-anddamnation-preaching
theology. One thing
survives throughout this sorry story: the
unconditional love of Hans’ wife Margje.
Kneeling on a Bed of Violets is a film
about how a dedicated father unintentionally
causes his family untold suffering
because of his overly strict Calvinist beliefs.
Director Ben Sombogaart
The Storm, released in September 2009, is
the ninth feature film from Ben Sombogaart.
Previous films are Bride Flight, My Fatherr
Lives in Rio, The Penknife, The Boy Who
Stopped Talking, Abeltje, Pluk van de Pet-
teflet, Crusade in Jeans and Twin Sisters,
which was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film in
2003 and was sold to over 40 territories.
Sombogaart‘s films have been well
received by both the public and critics. He
has won various national and international
awards for his films, including the Senator’s
Award at the Berlin Children’s Film Festival
for My Father Lives in Rio; the Grand Prix
Cannes Junior and the Award for Best Story
for The Boy Who Stopped Talking; and Golden
Calves for The Penknife, My Father Livess
in Rio and Crusade in Jeans.
In addition to features, Sombogaart has
directed numerous television productions,
including Waterland Children, Ibbeltje and
My French Aunt Fizzy, which were hits in
the Netherlands. The Penknife, also a television
series, won the Emmy Award for Children’s
Programmes in 1993.

A loving father falls into the hands of an
extremely orthodox Protestant sect. Scared
of death, he sacrifices everyone and everything
to this belief: his business, the respect of his
sons. But he never loses the love of his wife…
Writer Gerard Soeteman
Gerard Soeteman has 14 filmed screenplays
to his credit, with directors Paul Verhoeven
- Wat zien ik (Diary of a
Hooker); r Turks fruit (Turkish Delight); Keetje
Tippel (Katie Tippel); Soldaat van Oranje
(Soldier of Orange); Spetters; De vierde
man (The Fourth Man); Flesh + Blood; and
Zwartboek (Black Book) - Fons Rademakers
- Max Havelaar; Mijn vriend (My
Friend); De aanslag (The Assault) -Martin
Lagestee - Claim - and Jean van de Velde
- Floris, the Movie. He also wrote and
directed De bunker.
Upcoming projects include international
production Azazel (The Winter Queen), a
Russian historical thriller directed by Paul
Verhoeven; and Sailing to Murder, r about the
shipwreck of the ‘Batavia’ on the Australian
coast in 1629, also directed by Verhoeven.
In the pipeline are documentaries about
Jugendstil in Europe; W.F. Hermans and
the cinema; and Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
(Soldier of Orange).
Soeteman’s TV awards include Best
Dutch–Flemish co-production, while his
film awards include an Oscar nomination
for Turkish Delight;aGolden Globe for Soldier
of Orange; and numerous Golden
Calfs in Utrecht.
Zwartboek (Black Book) was the
biggest success in the Netherlands in the
last 25 years for films rated 16 years and
older, with over a million admissions. In
2000, Turkish Delight and Soldier of
Orange were voted Best Dutch Films of the
20th century.
Production company Nijenhuis &
De Levita Film en TV
NL (Nijenhuis & De Levita) Film & TV makes
entertaining, market-driven quality drama
productions for both cinema and television.
In a relatively short period of time, NL Film &
TV have left their mark on the Dutch film and
television history. Joining forces in 2001,
Alain de Levita and Johan Nijenhuis have
produced several successful feature films,
television dramas and comedies.
Current status
Pre-production. A script is available and
NCRV is attached as a co-production partner.
Aims at the NPP
To find a co-producer.
Director
Ben Sombogaart
Producer
Alain de Levita
Writer
Gerard Soeteman
Based on
the novel by Jan Siebelink
Format
35mm
Language
Dutch
Shooting locations
Netherlands
Genre
Drama
Running time
110 mins
Target audience
Adults aged 24-49
Budget
€5,276,936
Cast
Tba
Contact
Nijenhuis & De Levita Film
en TV BV
Emmalaan 21
1075 AT Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 20 574 7626
Fax: (31) 20 574 7627
aleid@nlfilm.tv
www.nlfilm.tv
NPP 2009 • 41

Writer/director Jan-Willem
van Ewijk
Producer Bero Beyer
42 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
Taha has lived all his life in Moulay. The tiny
Moroccan fishing village on the Atlantic
coast lies secluded from the rest of the
world at the end of a dusty road. When he
was in his teens, a group of European windsurfers
discovered the village and returned
every summer to enjoy the high wind and
waves. Taha befriended them and has
become an amazing windsurfer himself,
learning his skills on the old equipment they
leave behind. He has also eagerly adopted
their free way of speaking, their liberal views
of life and their tastes in fashion, literature
and music. And he has silently fallen in love
with Alexandra, the girlfriend of his Dutch
windsurfing buddy, Finn.
Our story begins at the end of another
summer. Taha rides the waves with Finn,
throws a big farewell party for the Europeans
and tries to be with Alexandra as
much as possible. They are closer than ever
this year. He feels she is the only one who
really understands him. She sees the growing
emptiness he feels inside - how he is
losing himself between two cultures. And
she is the only one who dares to talk to him
about his deepest scar: the absence of his
mother, who drowned herself long ago and
who had tried to take him with her. In
Alexandra, he has found her again.
Yet this time, as he watches her drive off
in Finn’s car at the end of summer, something
feels broken beyond repair. An old
wound has been opened. For weeks, he
aimlessly wanders the empty village
streets. The generosity of his father, Hakim;
the patient love of his cousin, Rahma; even
the hours he spends alone in the surf practicing
the most incredible jumps - they no
longer fill him with joy. Hakim, who once
saved Taha from drowning in the arms of
his mother, now watches helplessly as his
son seems to slide off into his own dark,
inner ocean.
The human spirit, however, shines most
brilliantly when it is challenged the most.
And so, when the Southern winds of winter
arrive, Taha makes a wild and desperate
move. He packs his backpack, steps onto
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his board and sets sail for Europe.
His epic journey takes him up along the
Moroccan coastline, where a blind old fisherman,
a flamboyant young businessman
and his speedboat, a singing twin sister and
a bunch of cheeky kids all try to divert him
from his near-suicidal path. But Taha heads
on, out onto the wide Atlantic ocean, the
mother of all life but also the mirror behind
which his own mother disappeared - the
mirror in which he now sees himself more
and more clearly.
Far from land, alone, disoriented and
exhausted, Taha finds himself in a familiarr
place, facing death once again. And this time,
his father is not there to save him. This time,
he will have to choose for himself. Will he surrender
to the ocean and find peace in the
arms of his mother? Or is he strong enough to
let her go, to fight to stay alive, to reach land?
Director’s statement
In the spring of 2002, on a windsurfing trip
down the Moroccan coast, I fell in love
with the small coastal village of Moulay
Bouzarqtoune. Like other windsurfers, I
returned many times and ended up living
with one of the families in the village. Itt
quickly became clear how corrupting theirr
circumstances were.
They lived on the brink of poverty in the
face of all the wealth and freedom every
summer. The young men were incredible
windsurfers but could not afford good equip-
ment. Many of them had lost one of theirr
parents, were too poor to marry and had
become increasingly sexually frustrated.
They were obsessed with the visiting Euro-
pean women, but knew they could neverr
have them. And, in turn, their obsession
frustrated the local women.
Land is the story my co-writer, Abdelhadi
Samih, and I are writing with the people
from the village about one of these Moroccan
windsurfers. We imagined what would
happen if a combination of longing, loss,
obsession and anger were to lead him to
windsurf to Europe, taking him to the brink
of death out on the open ocean and reminding
him of the beauty of life.

Lost between the contrasting worlds of visiting
European tourists in the summer and the emptiness
of his fishing village in the winter, Taha, a Moroccan
windsurfer, sets out on an ocean voyage towards
Europe in an effort to make sense of his life
Writer/director Jan-Willem van Ewijk
Dutch filmmaker Jan-Willem van Ewijk has
a Master’s Degree in Aircraft Design and
worked as an investment banker before
writing, directing, producing, editing and
starring in his debut feature film, Nu., which
he shot entirely with friends and family.
Nu. screened at festivals worldwide,
including Montreal, Seattle and Paris,
where it received the Grand Jury Prize at
the European Independent Film Festival. In
June 2009, Jan-Willem participated in the
Sundance Screenwriters Lab with his second
feature project, Land.
Co-writer Abdelhadi Samih
Abdelhadi Samih, a Moroccan poet and playwright,
has written and directed several plays
for his Safi-based theatre group, Whashm.
His award-winning work includes The Symphony
of Masks and Verses of Madness.
Abdelhadi is president of the Safi Theatre
Alliance. Land, the script which he is
co-writing, was selected for the June 2009
Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Production company Augustusfilm
Augustusfilm is an independent film production
company which develops and produces
feature films for an international market.
Since its creation in 2000 by Hany Abu-
Assad and Bero Beyer, features produced
by the company have included Rana’s Wedding,
which premiered in the Semaine de la
Critique at Cannes in 2002; and the first
Palestinian Oscar-nominated feature, Par-
adise Now. The latter was an international
co-production with Germany, France and
Israel, and was sold internationally by Parisbased
sales company Celluloid Dreams.
Augustusfilm acted as co-producer on
Salt of This Sea, the feature-film debut off
director Annemarie Jacir in a co-production
between Palestine, France, Belgium, Spain,
Switzerland and the US. The film premiered
in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2008,
and was the Palestinian Oscar entry.
Currently, Augustusfilm is developing
and (co-)producing films set in India, Morocco
and even the Netherlands.
Filmography
2002 Rana’s Wedding (Jerusalem, Another
Day) y Hany Abu-Assad. 90 mins. Drama.
2003 Ford Transit Hany Abu-Assad. 80
mins. Semi-documentary.
2005 Paradise Now Hany Abu-Assad. 90
mins. Drama.
2008 Salt of This Sea Annemarie
Jacir. 105 mins. Drama.
Current status
Land was an official participant in the June
2009 Sundance Scriptwriters Lab and the
2008-9 Maurits Binger Filmlab. The Dutch
Film Fund has awarded development funds.
The film is currently in development; a
fourth draft will be available in October 2009.
Aims at the NPP
We are looking for co-production partners,
distributors and broadcasters.
Director
Jan-Willem van Ewijk
Producer
Bero Beyer
Writer
Jan-Willem van Ewijk
Abdelhadi Samih
Based on
an original story
Format
35mm/digital
Languages
Arabic
Dutch
French
Genre
Drama
Running time
100 mins
Target audience
International audience,
male/female, 15-45.
Arthouse/Crossover
Budget
€1,800,000-2,000,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Augustusfilm
Cruquiusstraat 7
2012 GC Haarlem
Netherlands
Tel/Fax: (31) 23 785 1141
Mobile: (31) 6 5537 4342
info@augustusfilm.com
www.augustusfilm.com
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Writer/director Yan Ting Yuen
Producer Koert Davidse
44 • NPP 2009
My Sisterr Came By Todayy
Synopsis
After the tragic death of her husband and
child, Jade decides she doesn’t want to live
anymore. Everybody is shocked except for
her 12-year-old half-sister Pearl. But Pearl
asks her to delay the decision. Jade
answers: ‘Alright: for one winter, one spring,
one summer and one autumn.’
Director’s statement
This is a story about a family adrift and how
they deal with loss in the vibrant, cosmopolitan
city of Hong Kong - a city that is
never silent, never sleeps, let alone allows
time for mourning. In the aftermath of her
loss, protagonist Jade desperately looks for
silence. But she constantly finds herself disturbed
by the city, colleagues, family and
strangers who think they’re helping her.
I will use sound as a way of expressing
Jade’s feelings of loss on the level of the
senses. When her husband and daughter
died, their sounds died with them. She will
never hear their voices again: silence in
Jade as opposed to the noisy outside world
-moments of total silence in the film.
I envision the overall style as being
embedded in reality but, drawing on what I
have done in previous documentary work, it
will be a reality touched by strangeness.
While the photography will have a documentary-style
quality, it will be carefully
framed and staged, permitting poetic and
magical moments to surface.
How does the story end? Personally, I
believe there’s always hope. Yet anyone who
is more sombre by nature (such as co-writer
Aliefka Bijlsma) will be allowed to disagree.
Director Yan Ting Yuen
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Netherlands
Yan Ting was born in Hong Kong and raised
and educated in the Netherlands. Her directorial
debut Chin.Ind: Life Behind the Serving
Hatch, was nominated for the Dutch
National Film Awards. Her second film, a
feature-length documentary, Yang Ban Xi -
The 8 Model Works, was nominated for the
Grand Jury Prize for Best Foreign Documentary
at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
and was released theatrically in the US. The
director launched seriousFilm in 2003,
together with Koert Davidse.
Production company seriousFilm
seriousFilm is an independent production
company that is serious about the art of filmmaking.
Our projects not only have interesting
storylines: they also have a unique style
and form.
Coming from a strong storytelling documentary
background, we believe that a good
story can be told in many different ways. We
use various media and styles to arrive at the
best possible form in producing feature films,
documentaries, websites and installations.
seriousFilm started as a documentaryy
production company, but recently ourr
focus expanded to music video and feature
film production.
seriousFilm is based in Rotterdam and
our productions to date have been produced
and shot in the Netherlands, Russia, the
Cape Verde Islands, Switzerland and Japan.
seriousFilm consists of Marc Thelosen,
Koert Davidse and Yan Ting Yuen.

After the tragic death of her husband and
toddler, Jade decides she doesn’t want to live
anymore. Everybody is shocked except for
her 12-year-old half-sister Pearl.
Current status
Script development. A treatment is available.
We have received €400,000 from the
Dutch Film Fund.
Aims at the NPP
We are seeking co-producers, a sales agent
and distributors.
Director
Yan Ting Yuen
Producer
Koert Davidse
Writer
Yan Ting Yuen
Aliefka Bijlsma
Based on
an original story
Format
HD
Language
English
Cantonese
Shooting locations
Netherlands, Hong Kong
Genre
Drama
Running time
90 mins
Target audience
People who are interested
in human interaction and
in quality movies and literature.
Budget
€785,000
Cast
Tbc
Contact
seriousFilm
Andrej Sacharovstraat 27
3065 EC Rotterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 620 737 277
Email: marc@seriousfilm.nl
www.seriousfilm.nl
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Director/producer Marcel Visbeen
Producer Frederieke Sanders
Writer Paul Jan Nelissen
46 • NPP 2009
Synopsis
The President
The President is an adaptation of the novel
De voorzitter by Ronald Giphart, one of the
most popular writers in the Netherlands. It is
asatire about Epi Brons, who is a businessman
and president of a football club in the
tradition of Silvio Berlusconi, but on a completely
different level.
Epi Brons is a shrewd fixer who has built
his company up from scratch. He is a sponsor
of local football club Randstad FC - currently
at the bottom of the second division -
when his father-in-law Bronko introduces
him to the Gentlemen’s Club. This group of
shady businessmen wishes to invest in
Randstad FC as a nice diversion from their
regular culinary extravagances and brothel
visits. They ask Epi to become president
and look after their interests.
Lead by Epi and supported by the Gentlemen’s
Club, Randstad FC win the second
division title and advance to the Major
League. At the end of the final match, the
players carry Epi in triumph round the overcrowded
stadium, while the supporters sing
their lungs out. It is perhaps the most beautiful
moment of his entire life. Never before has
Epi felt so wanted, so loved and so powerful.
But it is far from easy to keep Randstad in
the Major League. Before long, the club is
close to relegation. The supporters fear that
the Epi magic has gone. To make matters
worse, the Gentlemen’s Club threatens to
withdraw their investment. Epi convinces them
to give him one more chance. He solemnly
vows that Randstad will not be relegated.
From that moment on, Epi throws everything
into the battle. Anything is allowed, as
long as it will save the club from the downward
spiral towards defeat. Epi manipulates
press and politicians, plays off managers and
players against each other, buys new players
through illegal transactions and blackmails
referees over their extramarital affairs. But
however hard he tries, Randstad’s performance
on the pitch does not improve.
Epi finds it hard to get a grip on the situation,
let alone stay in control. The future of
his company is threatened when the Dutch
Fiscal Investigation Service (FIOD) starts a
(De voorzitter)
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Netherlands
thorough investigation. What is more, the
Gentlemen’s Club is trying to sell the club to
Epi’s biggest competitor. Players get injured
at the most inconvenient times or decide to
leave for other clubs. And, last but not least,
Epi’s wife gets involved with one of his starr
players just when their teenage daughter is
forcibly admitted to a mental hospital.
Things seem finally to take a turn for the
better when, amidst all this misfortune, Epi
succeeds in contracting a star trainer,
known as ‘the Saviour’. But right then the
inevitable happens: Epi is taken into custody
by the FIOD. For one moment - one
fleeting moment - he considers giving up.
Then, as he finds out that Bronko has
been cheating him all along and set him up,
he decides to strike back with everything
he’s got. He will prove that he can save his
club single-handedly. He will make sure
that, once more, the supporters carry him
round the pitch in triumph. And the entire
stadium will sing to him, because they love
him. Because he - president Epi Brons - is
the one who managed to save their club.

There is big a difference between football
and politics: football is taken seriously
Director Marcel Visbeen
Filmography
1997 Elvis Lives! Short film
1998 Havenblues (Harbour Blues)
Short film
1999 The Tech Files Corporate film
2000 Blackout TV movie
2001 Goede daden bij daglicht Series of
six TV movies
2002 Afrekenen (Settling Accounts)
Short film
2004 Verdwaald (Lost) TV movie
2005 Staatsgevaarlijk (Public Enemy)
TV movie
2008 Linoleum Feature
Writer Paul Jan Nelissen
Filmography
2003 Van God los
2004 Zinloos (TV)
2007 Dennis P.
2008 Oorlogswinter
TBS
Production company Selwyn Film
Selwyn Film is the production company of
director/producer Marcel Visbeen, the base
where he develops some of his own projects,
like the feature film Linoleum, but also
projects by other writers and directors, like
the short American Dreams.
Selwyn Film concentrates on shorts and
feature films and often collaborates with
other production companies.
Current status
The last draft of the script is being written.
Some pre-production has already started:
locations, getting the co-operation of football
clubs, technical research and the casting
of the lead role. We are also in talks with
several Dutch co-production partners.
By September, the script will be ready,
together with a detailed directional plan,
including pictures and a test with the lead
actor, and a definitive budget.
€54,000 for script and project developmentt
from the Dutch Film Fund and Rotterdam
Media Fund are currently in place. Bridge
Entertainment is attached as a partner.
A small part of the film will be shot in
France, so we are looking for a co-producer
there. One of the important secondary roles
is English and some small ones French, so
we are looking for collaboration there as
well. There is also the possibiliy of changing
the nationalities of those locations and roles.
Aims at the NPP
We are seeking co-production partners and
opportunities and a sales agent.
Director/Producer
Marcel Visbeen
Producer
Frederieke Sanders
Writer
Paul Jan Nelissen
Based on
the novel by Ronald Giphart
Format
35mm
Language
Dutch
Shooting locations
Netherlands
France
Genre
Drama
Running time
100 mins
Target audience
Adults 20-25
Budget
€1,600,000
Cast
Tba
Contact
Selwyn Film
Louis Pregerkade 176
3071 AZ Rotterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (31) 10 477 0505
Mobile: (31) 653 770 075
Email: info@selwynfilm.nl
NPP 2009 • 47

English titles
The Boy Wo Did Not Cry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Come to My Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Cornea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Fair Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Flying Lessons . ...................................10
Frog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Heaven on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Honour Killing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
The Inner Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Kneeling on a Bed of Violets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Liza, the Fox-Fairy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Mister John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Mr Lu’s Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
My Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
My Brother the Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
My Sister Came By Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
The President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
The State of Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
The Trakl Affair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Original titles (where different)
Aimer à perdre la raison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Der Fall Trakl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Foekje & Fanny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Hemel op arde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Die innere Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Knielen op een bed violen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
La limita de jos a cerului . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Liza, a rókatündér . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Namus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Nomades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Sesime gel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Stanke soka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
De voorzitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Directors
Igor Cobileanski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Olivier Coussemacq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Donatello Dubini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Fosco Dubini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Michael Ginthör . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Sally El Hosaini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Jan-Willem van Ewijk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Paul Fraser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Hüseyin Karabey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Maria von Heland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Andrej Kosak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Pieter Kuijpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Joachim Lafosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Joe Lawlor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Károly Ujj Mészáros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Christine Molloy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Antonio Nuic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Paula van der Oest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Ben Sombogaart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Jochem de Vries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Pieter Verhoeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Marcel Visbeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Yan Ting Yuen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
48 • NPP 2009
Producers
Bero Beyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Nicolas Brevière . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Valérie Boas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Wilant Boekelman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Jacques-Henri Bronckart .............................6
David Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Oliver Damian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Csanád Darvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Koert Davides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Donatello Dubini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Fosco Dubini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Danijel Hocevar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Pieter Kuijpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 38
Alain de Levita ....................................40
István Major . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Boris T Matic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Sander van Meurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Koji Nelissen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Oliver Neumann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Rebecca O’Flanagan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Frederieke Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Edward Stelder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Alexandru Teodorescu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Trent............................................32
Marcel Visbeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Robert Walpole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Emre Yeksan ......................................8
Jan van der Zanden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Production companies
Index
English titles, original titles, directors,
producers and production companies
27 Films Production (Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
A-Si Film (Turkey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Augustusfilm (Netherlands) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Dubini Filmprodultion (Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Emotionfilm (Slovenia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Filmteam (Hungary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
FreibeuterFilm (Austria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
local films (France) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
NFI Productions (Netherlands) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Nijenhuis & De Levita Film (Netherlands) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Propeler Film (Croatia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Pupkin Film (Netherlands) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36, 38
Saga Film (Romania) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Samson Films (Ireland) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Selwyn Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
seriousFilm (Netherlands) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Treasure Entertainment (Ireland) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Versus Production (Belgium) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Vertigo (Slovenia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Waterland Film (Netherlands) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34