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ÃŽles Flottantes
''ÃŽles flottantes'' (English: ''Floating Island'') is a 2001 Dutch tragicomedy film written for the screen and directed by Nanouk Leopold, in her directorial debut, produced by Stienette Bosklopper. It stars Maria Kraakman, Manja Topper, Halina Reijn, Leo Hogenboom and Gillis Biesheuvel, and it follows the dysfunctional lives of three best friends who all just turned thirty and struggle with giving meaning to their lives. The film is a stand-alone sequel to Leopold's graduation film, Weekend (1998). ÃŽles flottantes was made as part of the No More Heroes, an initiative created by Motel Films and the VPRO for upcoming filmmakers to create low-budget feature films in collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund. The film was first shown at 2001's International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it competed for the Tiger Award. Plot Cast * Maria Kraakman as Kaat * Manja Topper as Sacha * Halina Reijn as Isa * Leo Hogenboom as ARBO-man * Gillis Biesheuvel as Boris * Jacob Derwig as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanouk Leopold
Nanouk Leopold (born 25 July 1968) is a Dutch film maker. Career She graduated from Dutch film school in 1997, starting off by making films for Dutch television. In 2001, she released her first feature film ''Îles flottantes'' (''"Floating Islands''), as part of the ''No More Heroes'' project which also included the feature film debut of directors Martin Koolhoven and Michiel van Jaarsveld. ''Îles flottantes'' was selected for the Tiger Awards of the Rotterdam Film Festival. Her long-awaited follow-up came in 2005 when she made ''Guernsey'', which earned her two awards at the Dutch Film Festival and got her selected for Une Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival. After that she directed '' Wolfsbergen'' (2007), which premiered at the Berlinale, as did her next movie: '' Brownian Movement'', her first English spoken film. Her first movie based on a novel, Boven is het stil by Gerbrand Bakker, was shown 2013 on the 63rd Berlin International Film Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films. The inaugural festival took place in June 1972, led by founder Huub Bals. IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. History The first festival, then called Film International, was organized in June 1972 under the leadership of Huub Bals. The festival profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative, and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. Around 1983, the festival founded CineMart to serve as a "regular film market", and later modified the business model to serve instead as a "co-production market", which helps a selected number of film producers connect with possible co-producers and funders for their film projects. After the festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Films
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first installments of the ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Spy Kids'', ''Monsters, Inc. (franchise), Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Shrek (franchise), Shrek'' franchises, and ''The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Lord of the Rings'' and ''Ocean's'' trilogies. Significant non-English language films released included ''Monsoon Wedding'', ''Amélie'' and ''Spirited Away''. There was one film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', that passed over $1 billion in a re-release of 2020. The inaugural entries of the ''Harry Potter'' and ''Lord of the Rings'' film franchises prompted a shift in both the film and literary communities by propelling fantasy into mainstream culture, popularising Young adult fiction, young adult novels, and reforming the Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbuster to promote film franchises and cater to fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Dutch-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western Languages of Europe, European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic abjad, Northwest Semitic Shin (letter), šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma (letter), Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the ''Ξ, xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NRC Handelsblad
''NRC'', previously called ' (), is a daily morning newspaper published in the Netherlands by Mediahuis NRC. It is widely regarded as a newspaper of record in the country. History was first published on 1 October 1970 after a merger of the Amsterdam newspaper ' (founded 1828 by J.W. van den Biesen) and the Rotterdam ' (founded 1844 by Henricus Nijgh). The paper's motto is ' – Light (referring to the Age of Enlightenment) and Freedom. Editor was succeeded on 12 December 2006, by . After a dispute with the new owners, Donker had to step down on 26 April 2010 and was replaced by Belgian . In 2019, he was succeeded by René Moerland. On 7 March 2011, the paper changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid. The Newspaper circulation, circulation of in 2014 was 188,500 copies, putting it in 4th place among the national dailies. In 2015 the NRC Media group was acquired by the Belgian company Mediahuis. In 2022, when it stopped producing evening editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Beerekamp
Hans Beerekamp (born November 5, 1952) is a Dutch journalist with '' NRC'', including for many years with a daily column on television. Biography In 1976, Beerekamp entered the film quiz ''Voor een briefkaart op de eerste rang''. He proved almost unbeatable and won three rounds (the maximum) of the TV show. Because of his detailed film knowledge, he was asked to write about film for the newspaper ''De Waarheid''. At the time, Beerekamp was assistant to educational innovator Co van Calcar at the Research Institute for Applied Psychology (RITP). After the departure of film journalist Ab van Ieperen from NRC Handelsblad in 1977, Beerekamp succeeded him, before which he broke off his doctoral studies in psychology and began writing about film full-time. Also, since 1981, Beerekamp has been editor-in-chief of the (Dutch) ''Film Yearbook'', a reference work on all films released in cinemas in the Netherlands in the previous year. For the ''Filmkrant'' and later the film magazine S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volkskrant
''De Volkskrant'' (; ), stylized as de Volkskrant, is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized centrist compact. Pieter Klok is the current editor-in-chief. History and profile ''De Volkskrant'' was founded in 1919 and has been a daily morning newspaper since 1921. Originally ''de Volkskrant'' was a Roman Catholic newspaper closely linked to the Catholic People's Party and the Catholic pillar. The paper temporarily ceased publication in 1941. On its re-founding in 1945, its office moved from Den Bosch to Amsterdam. It became a left-wing newspaper in the 1960s, but began softening its stance in 1980. On 23 August 2006 the ''Volkskrant'' published its 25,000th edition. In 1968, the ownership of ''De Volkskrant'' and ''Het Parool'' merged into a new parent, De Perscombinatie. ''Het Parool'' gained control due to the larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmkrant
''Filmkrant'' is a Dutch free independent film magazine covering the film industry in the Netherlands. The magazine was founded in 1981 by Jan Heijs and Henk Rabbers. It is distributed for free and is available online and at movie theaters across the Netherlands. Since 2012, conciding with the Netherlands Film Festival the Filmkrant releases a yearly top 20 list highlighting the most influential people and organizations in the Dutch film industry, they took it over from the Volkskrant who discontinued the list in 2010 after starting it in 1999. History The magazine was originally founded by Jan Heijs and designer Henk Rabbers in 1980 under the original name of Kriterion-Filmkrant, which was an offshoot of Filmtheater Kriterion, under the direction of Huub Bals. In its original incarnation it provided cinema listings for the Kriterion theatre in Amsterdam. In March 1981, they expanded to nationwide while the magazine remained free. In the summer of 1982, they began running into fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Derwig
Jacob Derwig (The Hague, 15 July 1969) is a Dutch actor. Film and television He recently played roles in box-office hit Family Way (2012) (for which he won a Golden Calf), The Dinner (2013), Public Works (2015), and in the highly popular Dutch crime-series Penoza (2015), directed by Diederik van Rooijen, and as Marius Milner in ''Klem'' (2016). Currently Jacob stars in the brand new television-serie ''The Terrible Eighties'' (2022). Private life Derwig is married to actress and screenwriter Kim van Kooten, with whom he has two children, Roman and Kee Molly (born 17 December 2007). They met on the set of the TV-series De acteurs (The actors), where various actors played different roles written by Van Kooten. Filmography Television series *'' All stars - De serie'' episode "Paard van Troje" (1999) *'' Bij ons in de Jordaan'' (2000) *'' De acteurs'' (2001) *'' The Enclave'' (2002) *'' Offers'' (2005) *'' In Therapie'' (2010 - 2011) *'' The Spectacular'' (2021) * ''Máxima'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands Film Fund
The Netherlands Film Fund () is a subsidy funding, fund for Netherlands, Dutch film productions and was founded in 1993. The Netherlands Film Fund is itself mainly subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. In 2007, the total budget of the fund was euro, €33,000,000. The fund gave €651,174 subsidy to the film ''Character (1997 film), Character'' (1997) and €578,570 to the film ''Black Book (film), Black Book'' (2006). Since 2001, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Netherlands Film Festival recognize box office results of Dutch films with awards. Currently, there are four different box office awards: the Crystal Film (10,000 visitors for documentary films), the Golden Film (100,000 visitors), the Platinum Film (400,000 visitors), and the Diamond Film (1,000,000 visitors). References External linksOfficial website 1993 establishments in the Netherlands Film organisations in the Netherlands Government agencies of the Netherlands {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Kraakman
Maria Kraakman (born 5 August 1975) is a Dutch actress. She has been awarded the Golden Calf for Best Actress at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2005 and 2018, and the Theo d'Or theatre award for best leading actress in 2010 as well as for the most impressive acting performance in a leading role in 2024. Career Kraakman has played roles in various Dutch films, including ''06/05'' (2004), ''My Queen Karo'' (2009) and '' Schneider vs. Bax'' (2015). She won the Dutch Golden Calf for Best Actress award twice: for her role in the 2005 film ''Guernsey'' by Nanouk Leopold and for the 2017 film ''In Blue'' by Jaap van Heusden. Kraakman has performed on stage with Toneelgroep Oostpool in Arnhem and has been a cast member at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) since 2017. During the ITA's 2023/24 season, Kraakman gave 30 performances of Suzie Miller's one-woman play ''Prima Facie'', which also included a small tour across the Netherlands. The role garnered Kraakman the 2024 Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillis Biesheuvel
Gillis may refer to: People *Gillis (name), list of people named Gillis *Gillis (surname), list of people with this surname Places ;Belgium *Sint-Gillis (Saint-Gilles, Belgium), municipality *Sint-Gillis-Waas, municipality *Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, town in the municipality of Dendermonde ;United States *Gillis, Louisiana *Gillis Bluff Township, Butler County, Missouri *Gillis Range, a mountain range in Nevada Things *Gillis Centre complex of historical buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland *Gillis College a former seminary in Edinburgh, Scotland *''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'', a 1951 collection of short stories and a 1959-1963 American TV series * USS ''Gillis'' (DD-260) (1919-1945), a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy *Willie Gillis, a fictional character by Norman Rockwell See also * Gilli (other) *Gillies Gillies is both a Scottish surname and a given name shared by several notable people: Surname uses Politicians * Duncan Gillies (1834–190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
