Focus NL

Dutch films have been an integral part of the Münster Film Festival since 1999. This year, the selection of current films from our neighbouring country runs through (almost) all festival sections: Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s mountain drama Alpha. at the start, Daphne Lucker’s directorial debut Flame in the feature film competition and Koen Mortier’s fourth feature film Skunk in the late programme. Also in the programme: the poetic and touching documentary Where Dragons Live by Suzanne Raes.

  • Alpha.
    German premiere at the opening of the 21st Münster Film Festival: a father-son drama as an existential survival thriller set against the spectacular backdrop of the Swiss Alps. (Dutch, German, English with English subtitles)
  • Flame
    Daphne Lucker’s energetic directorial debut about friendships, complex family relationships and the courage to let go. After “Narcosis” two years ago, the next film with Thekla Reuten premiered in Germany at the Münster Film Festival. (Dutch with English subtitles)
  • Skunk
    The new film by Koen Mortier, director of “Ex Drummer”: A dive into the human abyss and the unresolved trauma of a destroyed childhood, merciless, disturbing and played with incredible intensity by Thibaud Dooms. (Flemish with English subtitles)
  • Where Dragons Live
    An extraordinary documentary that takes us through a looking glass into a lost world where upper-class gentlemen once travelled the world to collect antiques and their children read storybooks in Latin. (English with English subtitles)