FILMS
2011 Greetings from Lelystad
documentary about Lelystad, city build on the bottom of the sea
67 min. ElifliFilm/Omroep Flevoland premiere at Netherlands Film Festival Utrecht 22-9-2011
2011 Nasha Gazeta/Our Newspaper
documentary about a Russian newspaper, published by only one journalist. 60 min. IKON/Elifli Film
Prize for Best Mid-length Documentary Hot Doc’s Toronto, Canada
2009 Anybody There..?
IKON/Elifli Film 60 min. About an unorthodox way of educating problem-kids
No. 8 in the Top 20 at IDFA 2009
2009 Rails
film based on music of composer Maurice Horsthuis. Elifli Film/Dutch Filmfund, 12 min.
2006/7 Homefront
IKON/AFS 60 min. about how to keep calm when you son/lover/father is serving the war in Afganistan
2007 Polder Pioneers
50 min. Elifli Film/Omroep Flevoland, about a choir of 100 farmers in the polder (land taken from the sea)
2006 Moros
music film to a text by Erasmus and music by Maurice Horsthuis 30 min. Elifli Film
2005 Galina, A Russian Diva
Scarabeefilms/AVRO 50’ about legendary opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya
2004 Made In China
2005 EMF Films/RVU 50’ about the millennium goals One $ a day
2002 Eat Your Enemy
2004 Documentary about aggression and spirituality
SCARABEE FILMS/BOS 80’
2002 The Man Who Did Not Exist
Scarabeefilms/NCRV 50’ about refugee without papers
2001 Striving for The Sun
3 masterclasses with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich Avro 3 x 45’
2000 Biografii, Albanian Stories
SCARABEE FILMS/VPRO 80’
Prix Europa 2001 Berlin – Willy Brandt Prize
Maremma Doc Festival - Special jury award
1998 Typhoonschik
about famous Russian cellist Natalia Gutman SCARABEE FILMS/NPS 70’
1997 Russian Travellers in Africa
NPS 60’ ‘Voyageurs Russes en Afrique’ a true Russian fairytale
1996 An Ear On The Guard
VPRO 60 min. about composer Robert Heppener
1996 The Plastic Dream
VPRO 55’ documentary about the world of Tupperware
1995 (Broken Silence) De Oogst Van De Stilte
Scarabee Films/AVRO 80’ 35 mm color about five young Chinese composers
Winner Grand Prix Nyon 1996 (Switzerland)
Winner Great Prize Ethnos Bacao 1996 (Romania)
Winner Best Discovery Documentary Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal 1996 (Canada)
Nomination Golden Calf Utrecht 1995 (Holland)
1991 In Search of a Displaced Orpheus
VPRO 70 min. About the Russian composer Arthur Lourie (with the participation of Gidon Kremer)
1991 The Sound Of Silence
NPS 50’ About composer Ton de Leeuw
1989 Yuri Egorov 1954-1988
VPRO 70’ about Russian pianist
Winner Special Jury Prize Banff ‘90
Selected for the Prix Italia ‘90
1988 Future
50’ Five portraits of young girls
1988 Kaalangst
50’ About the ‘tragic’ baldness of men.
1987 A Beautiful Derailment
50’ About composer Guus Jansen
1984 Tout Devient Musique
60’ VPRO About pianist Pierre Volondat
1982 The Phenomenon B
50’ About the phenomenon bibliophily