Dutch film projects selected in CineMart 2013

42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam
23 January – 3 February 2013

PRESS RELEASE 4 December 2012

Dutch film projects selected in CineMart 2013

CineMart, co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, has selected five film projects from the Netherlands. Film makers Martijn Maria Smits, David Verbeek, Joost van Ginkel, Alex van Warmerdam and Boudewijn Koole will present their latest projects to potential co-financiers during the upcoming edition of CineMart.
The full line up of the CineMart Selection 2013 will be announced by mid-December. CineMart takes place during IFFR 2013 from 27 to 30 January.

Films and film projects from The Netherlands will get extra attention during the upcoming IFFR and CineMart. In collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund, a CineMart partner, the festival and the market aim to offer the Dutch film industry better opportunities to screen their new films during the festival and to launch their latest projects internationally at CineMart.

In 2009, the short film ANVERS by Martijn Maria Smits (1977) was awarded at the Netherlands Film Festival. His first feature film C'EST DÉJÀ L'ÉTÉ premiered 2010 in IFFR’s Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
Smits’ new project EVERYTHING WE ALWAYS HAD WAS NOW, produced by Circe Films, sees a contemporary couple trying to move on by selling its apartment, wavering between jealousy, acceptance, and rekindled love.

David Verbeek’s (1980) first feature film BEAT (2004) screened in IFFR. His second film SHANGHAI TRANCE competed in IFFR 2008. R U THERE was selected in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard 2010. His fourth feature CLUB ZEUS saw its world premiere in IFFR 2012.
In Verbeek’s new project DEAD & BEAUTIFUL, produced by Lemming Film with co-producers Les Petites Lumières (France) and China Blue Films (China), a group of young Beijing elites starts turning into vampires after a wild night out. Initially their exclusiveness covers up their dark new nature, but as time passes, jealousy, vanity and lust threaten to expose them to the outside world.

Joost van Ginkel (1971) made, among others, the short films ZAND (SAND, 2008), KORT! – KUS (SHORT! – KISS, 2009) and his feature film début 170 HZ.
Van Ginkel’s second feature film project LA HOLANDESA is scripted by Daan Gielis and produced by Smarthouse Films. The film tells about a women’s unfulfilled desire to become a mother.

Writer, actor, theatre and film director Alex van Warmerdam (1952) realised, among others, ABEL (1986), DE NOORDERLINGEN (1992), DE JURK (THE DRESS, 1996) en KLEINE TEUN (LITTLE TONY, 1998). His subsequent films GRIMM (2003), OBER (WAITER, 2006) en DE LAATSTE DAGEN VAN EMMA BLANK (THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK, 2009) were all presented as project at CineMart. In Van Warmerdam’s new project titled DINSDAG IS EEN GELUKSDAG (TUESDAY IS A LUCKY DAY), produced by Graniet Film, a man gets an important assignment to be executed on his birthday.

Boudewijn Koole (1965) made several documentary and television works. His feature film début KAUWBOY (2012) was awarded at several festivals, among others in Berlin for Best Youth Film and Best First Feature Film. KAUWBOY is the official Oscar entry from The Netherlands in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
In Koole’s second film project VERDWIJNEN (DISAPPEARANCE), produced by Waterland Film, a young woman travels to Sweden to bring her mother important news.


The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) offers a high quality line-up of carefully selected fiction and documentary feature films, shorts films and media art. The festival’s Competitions, Bright Future and Spectrum sections contain recent work only, among which many world premieres. In its Signals section, IFFR presents retrospectives and themed programs. The IFFR actively supports new and adventurous filmmaking talent through its co-production market CineMart, its Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam Lab and Industry Office activities.

IFFR is one of the largest audience and industry driven film festivals in the world. During twelve festival days, hundreds of filmmakers and other artists present their work to a large audience (2012: 274,000 admissions) and 2,700 film professionals. The festival’s Official Selection includes some 220 feature films and 320 short films out of 60 countries. The 42nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam takes place from Wednesday January 23 up to and including Sunday February 3, 2013.


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