Benelux Film Distributors, also known as Benelux Film Distributors Home Entertainment, BFD and BFDHE, was a joint venture of various independent film distributors founded in 2006.
They marketed a wide range of films in cinemas and on home video in the
Netherlands
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,
Belgium
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and
Luxembourg
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. They distributed films by Lumière (Belgium), Inspire Pictures (Netherlands) and
Dutch FilmWorks
Dutch FilmWorks B.V. is the film distributor and producer of the Netherlands founded in 1998, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, focusing on Benelux rights mainly to release films theatrically, on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD. They are also a publisher ...
(Netherlands).
The company Video/Film Express (
Houten
Houten () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.
Population centres
The municipality consists of the following towns:
* 't Goy
* Houten
* Schalkwijk
* Tull en 't Waal
Houten (town)
The main town in the municipality i ...
, Netherlands), founded in 1991, were merged with BFD on January 1, 2012. Subsequently, BFD had two offices in
Ghent
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, Belgium and Houten.
Movies distributed by BFD included ''
Oorlogswinter'', ''
Crusade in Jeans'', ''
The Letter for the King
''The Letter for the King'' (, ) is a children's historical novel by the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt, first published in 1962. Subsequently, '' The Secrets of the Wild Wood'' (), was published in 1965, and a collection of follow-up short stories, ' ...
'', ''
Stricken'', ''
Love Crime
''Love Crime'' () is a 2010 French psychological thriller film directed by Alain Corneau and starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas. It was Courneau's final film, released shortly before his death in August 2010.
Plot
Isabelle is a ...
'', ''
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn written in 1772 and published in 1779 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the Unit ...
'', ''
Colombiana
''Colombiana'' is a 2011 French English-language action thriller film co-written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton. The film stars Zoe Saldaña with supporting roles by Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis, Lennie James, C ...
'', ''
De Marathon'', ''
The Happy Housewife
''The Happy Housewife'' () is a 2010 Dutch drama film directed by Antoinette Beumer. It stars Carice van Houten as Lea, a housewife
A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mom/mum) is a woman whose role is running or m ...
'', and ''
Black Out''.
The company merged with
A-Film Distribution
A-Film Benelux B.V. (formerly known as A-Film Distribution) was an independent film distributor based in the Netherlands.
History
A-Film Distribution was founded in November 1999 by film producers San Fu Maltha and Pim Hermeling. The company di ...
in May 2013 and continued as ''A-Film Benelux B.V.'' In September 2015, A-Film Benelux B.V. was declared bankrupt.
List of films
References
Film distributors of the Netherlands
Companies disestablished in 2013
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