Festival Data:

• Established: 1981
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 106500
• Media Attendance: 1500
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 200
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 350
• Total Number of Films Screened: 180
• Total Screenings: 385

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

The Netherlands Film Festival annually presents the latest Dutch feature films, documentaries, short films and telefilms. Many productions are festively premiered during the festival. In competition, a selection of these films compete for the Grand Prize of the Dutch Film, the Golden Calf. The various film genres each receive special attention on a specific day.

Retrospectives and special programs offer a chance to review films from previous years. Furthermore the festival features films made by talented young filmmakers from Dutch audio-visual institutes and short and long films from Flanders.

Talkshows, workshops, parties and exhibitions make the festival complete as a unique platform for the Dutch cinema.