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Last Friday saw the awarding of the "Golden Calves", the Dutch version of the Oscars. The big winners were Joost van Ginkel's The Paradise Suite (which took the Best Film award), Boudewijn Koole's Beyond Sleep, and David Verbeek's Full Contact. You can check the website of the Dutch Film Festival for the full list of awards and who got them. Looking through that list made me wonder what the last Dutch film was which made a major splash internationally. And that brings me to our question of the week: what's the best Dutch film you've ever seen? And by Dutch I mean that it's either in the Dutch language, or with a sufficiently Dutch crew and/or influence that it's generally seen as being Dutch. Chime...

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The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicks off its 45th edition this evening with the world premiere of Dutch survival drama Beyond Sleep. Directed by Boudewijn Koole, it follows an ambitious geologist on a search for meteorites in Norwegian swampland. It will be followed by twelve days of eclectic cinema from all around the world ranging from myriad festival favourites from 2015 to lesser appreciated European fare. The festival runs through to a screening of Brady Corbet's stunning directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader on the evening of Saturday 6 February.

Writing for Screen, Geoffrey Macnab notes that the The 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, running from January 27 through February 7, "opened last night with an unlikely infusion of glamor in the shape of 44-year-old Queen Maxima," attending the festival for the first time. We've collected an interview with the new festival director, Bero Beyer and, so far, reviews of the Iffr 2016 opener, Boudewijn Koole's Beyond Sleep, plus Felipe Guerrero’s Oscuro Animal and Fiona Tan's History's Future. Plus, De Filmkrant's Slow Criticism 2016, with contributions from Thomas Elsaesser, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin, Mark Cousins, Gabe Klinger and many more. » - David Hudson...

Writing for Screen, Geoffrey Macnab notes that the The 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, running from January 27 through February 7, "opened last night with an unlikely infusion of glamor in the shape of 44-year-old Queen Maxima," attending the festival for the first time. We've collected an interview with the new festival director, Bero Beyer and, so far, reviews of the Iffr 2016 opener, Boudewijn Koole's Beyond Sleep, plus Felipe Guerrero’s Oscuro Animal and Fiona Tan's History's Future. Plus, De Filmkrant's Slow Criticism 2016, with contributions from Thomas Elsaesser, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin, Mark Cousins, Gabe Klinger and many more. » - David Hudson...

Dutch royalty attend opening, which kicked off with Boudewijn Koole’s new feature; Bero Beyer hails Rotterdam diversity.

The 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 27 - Feb 7) opened last night with an unlikely infusion of glamour in the shape of 44-year-old Queen Maxima.

The Queen, attending Iffr for the first time, was in the festival’s main venue, the Doelen, for the screening of opening film, Beyond Sleep. The film is directed Boudewijn Koole (Kauwboy) and based on Dutch novel Nooit meer slapen by W.F. Hermans.

“International Film Festival Rotterdam is about as old as I am,” new festival director Bero Beyer commented in his opening speech. “It has been here year after year, growing in size and impact…but we should not take either the festival nor the open environment for granted.

“All over the world, filmmakers we cherish and have welcomed here in the past are prohibited to show their work, restricted in their...

English-language adaptation of Dutch bestseller to open Iffr 2016.

Beyond Sleep, the latest feature from Dutch director Boudewijn Koole (Kauwboy), is to open the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) on Jan 27.

The English-language film is based on Willem Frederik Hermans’ bestselling novel, Nooit meer slapen, and will world premiere on the opening night of Iffr.

Reinout Scholten van Aschat takes the lead role of ambitious geologist Alfred Issendorf, who goes in search of meteorites in the swampy north of Norway, hoping that the journey will cement his academic reputation by uncovering a significant scientific proof.

The young geologist is also trying to continue the work of his father, who died during a similar research trip, and he only finds redemption when he has reached the brink of insanity. The cast also includes Pål Sverre Hagen (Kon-Tiki).

Beyond Sleep is produced by Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf (Soof, Nena, Ventoux, Twin Sisters...

The young acting talent will be revealed during the opening weekend of next year’s Berlinale.

The European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the ten young actors that it has selected for the 2016 European Shooting Stars.

The list includes María Valverde, who had a role in Ridley Scott’s epic Exodus: Gods And Kings and has been cast in Asif Kapadia’s forthcoming romantic drama Ali And Nino.

Jella Hasse, who starred in Germany box office smash Fack Ju Göhte 2 and Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, who played a part in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s San Sebastian-winning Sparrows are also both on the list.

As is Kacey Mottet Klein, who plays the lead in Guillame Senez’s Keeper, which came away with the joint jury prize and best actress award at the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday.

The selected group will be now be presented during the opening weekend of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (February...