Gouden Kalf Award - Best Dutch Film
The Golden Calf (Gouden Kalf) is the grand prize of the Dutch Film Festival (Nederlands Film Festival), similar to Berlin's Golden Bear and Venice's Golden Lion. Ever since 1981, this price has been anually bestowed on Dutch film-makers, scenario writers, producers, actors and actrices. A selection of candidates is made by the festival staff and a pre-jury, after which an independent jury selects the winners.
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- DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsGerard ThoolenMarja KokPeter FaberIn 1928 in the northern part of the Netherlands, a man has an affair with the wife of one of his friends (who is in jail at the time). Because she abandons her children to move in with him, the police are sent to arrest her. This leads to a dramatic confrontation.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsEdda BarendsNelly FrijdaHenriëtte TolWhen three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
- DirectorLouis van GasterenStarsMarlies van AlcmaerJan CremerRobert Jasper GrootveldAbout the harrowing life of the musician, poet and actor Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963), who ended his life at the age of 24. Simultaneously, the film offers a poignant portrait of his contemporaries in the turbulent fifties and sixties.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsFreek de JongeJim van der WoudeCatrien WolthuizenA teenage boy (the Illusionist), dreams of becoming a magician. After his mentally challenged brother is taken to a mental institution due to an attempted strangling, the Illusionist starts a journey to rescue him from being lobotomized.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJennifer Jason LeighTom BurlinsonIn medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamHenri GarcinOlga ZuiderhoekA well-to-do, shut-in thirty-something faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents.
- DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsTito HaasMirta BusnelliSergio Poves CamposAs an anonymous man, Fermin leaves his underground hideout in the subway. The dictatorship in the country is followed by democracy, but the bright light of it blinds Fermin: he is displaced. At the police station, his anonymity is complete and he doesn't remember his own name. He is fitted with a past of 13 years of illegal political opposition from the police archives. When he keeps silent about the crimes of the dictator regime, he will be a free man. The woman he promised to marry, doesn't recognize him anymore, and thinks he is dead.
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsThom HoffmanRijk de GooyerViviane de MuynckFrits van Egters' life in the last ten days of the year 1946.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJohn GielgudMichael ClarkMichel BlancThe magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.
- DirectorAryan KaganofStarsKoos VosJanica DraismaYsabel Evers
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsAntonie KamerlingOlivier TuinierLoes WoutersonPoet Valentijn comes in contact with his former teacher Mieke. After a brief relationship Valentijn leaves her. But when he later gets to know his son, a bond develops between the two.
- DirectorTheu BoermansStarsMarieke HeebinkJaap SpijkersTessa Lilly WyndhamAn unnamed industrial town in the sixties. The entire population depends on the local factory that makes steel wire for fencing.
- DirectorRobert Jan WestdijkStarsKim van KootenRomijn ConenHugo MetsersMartijn is obsessed with his younger sister Daantje and visits her to make a documentary about her. He manages to invade Daantje's life with his video camera, but soon unresolved issues from a distant past come to the surface.
- DirectorEsmé LammersStarsMaya van den BroeckeLisa de RooyCas EnklaarA fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.
- DirectorMike van DiemStarsPavlik Jansen op de HaarJan DecleirFedja van HuêtJacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.
- DirectorPeter DelpeutStarsJohan LeysenToshie OguraRina YasamiSaid to be inspired by British photographer Felice Beato, who for a time lived in 19th century feudal Japan and married a geisha named O-kiku. The plot centers on his having abandoned her (in order to move-on with his professional work) and his eventual return in the mid-1890s, expecting everything to be as before. Of course now, six years on, O-kiku has long gone and the story follows Beato on a journey throughout Japan, notably Nagasaki and Yokohama where he hopes to find clues as to her whereabouts (specifically because those were the places where they both traveled). Only then does this Westerner come to know from their former friends, family and acquaintances what exactly his actions meant to the abandoned girl.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsVictor LöwElleke VervatRoxanne StamPupil Abel is the victim of Laura's nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its' a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he's mistaken by a rich woman who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel's and Johnny's family, in time for an even weirder finale.
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsCas JansenRicky KooleThomas AcdaBased on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
- DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsMonic HendrickxJeroen WillemsPeter TuinmanFrisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.
- DirectorVincent BalStarsCarice van HoutenTheo MaassenSarah BannierA cat who turns into a young woman helps a journalist protect their town from a factory boss with an evil plan.
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsEllen VogelGudrun OkrasThekla ReutenTwin sisters Lotte and Anne grow up very differently after their parents death. Now adults, they want to reunite but World War II and their growing socioeconomic differences complicate things.
- DirectorEddy TerstallStarsCees GeelMarcel HensemaRifka LodeizenA mild-mannered gay dentist and a hedonist womanizer rekindle their unlikely friendship when the latter's terminal cancer drives them back together after a decade apart.
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsKais NashifAli SulimanLubna AzabalTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.