Productions
Koolhoven presenteert (2024)
A manless world, a nuclear missile on Amsterdam, a collective brainwash, and suffering as a recipe for success. Six filmmakers drag the viewer into their most terrifying fantasies.
Directors: David-Jan Bronsgeest, Loïs Dols de Jong, Gonzalo Fernandez Carmona, Didier Konings, Michael Middelkoop, Mila van der Linden
Producer: Suzan de Swaan, Max de Wolf, Danielle Guirguis, Ellen Havenith, Layla Meijman, Floor Onrust, Chris Stenger, Maarten van der Ven, Monique van Kessel
Creative producer: Els Vandevorst & Martin Koolhoven - N279 Entertainment (NL)
Cast: Sinem Kavus, Sigrid ten Napel, Jonas Smulders
Broadcaster NL:
Kaymak (2022)
Two couples go down the rabbit hole of unconventional erotic relationships, respectable at the beginning, happy at the end.
Director: Milcho Manchevski (NMK)
Screenplay: Milcho Manchevski (NMK)
Producer: Milcho Manchevski (NMK), Jane Kortoshev (NMK)
Co-producer: Isabella Depeweg & Els Vandevorst - N279 Entertainment (NL), Mette Børch & Meta Sørensen - Meta Film (DK), Sinisa Juricic - Nukleus Film (HR)
Cast: Kamka Tocinovski, Filip Trajkovic
Sales Agent: LevelK
Cool Abdoul (2021)
Ismail Abdoul, a young and promising boxer, gradually gets caught up in a web of wrong choices. He will have to fight the ultimate match. Against himself.
Director: Jonas Baeckeland (BE)
Screenplay: Jonas Baeckeland (BE)
Producer: Peter de Maegd en Lize Lefaible - Potemkino (BE)
Co-producer: Els Vandevorst - N279 Entertainment (NL), Diane Elbaum - Beluga Tree (BE)
Cast: Nabil Mallat, Johan Heldenbergh, Steef Cuypers
Distributor NL: Kinepolis
Las consecuencias (2021)
To process a trauma from her past, Fabiola, together with her father and daughter, travels to the village she grew up in. There, she suspiciously watches how the relationship between her father and her daughter develops. She strugles with her urge to find answers, while also respecting one’s privacy and, above all, protecting her loved ones.
Director: Claudia Pinto (SP)
Screenplay: Claudia Pinto (SP)
Producer: Claudia Pinto (SP), Els Vandevorst - N279 Entertainment (NL)
Co-producer: Peter de Maegd - Potemkinio (BE)
Cast: Bárbara Lennie, Alfredo Castro
Distributor NL: Paradiso Filmed Entertainment
Sales Agent: Film Factory Entertainment
QUO VADIS, AIDA? (2020)
When the Serbian army occupies the Bosnian city Srebrenica, Aida, a former English teacher, works as translator for the Dutch UN soldiers. Together with her husband and two grown up sons she seeks shelter at the UN military base. Protection by the soldiers falters and Aida has to decide how far she will go to protect her family.
Director: Jasmila Žbanić (BA)
Screenplay: Jasmila Žbanić (BA)
Producer: Damir Ibrahimovic - Deblokada (BA), Els Vandevorst - N279 Entertainment (NL), Bruno Wagner - Coop99 (AT), Maragux Juvenal & Simon Gabriele - Indie Production (FR)
Cast: Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Dino Bajrović, Johan Heldenbergh, Raymond Thiry, Teun Luijkx
Distributor NL: Cinéart
Sales Agent: Indie Sales
Eden (2020)
Éva is allergic to all kinds of chemical substances, radio waves and electronic fields. She needs to live in total isolation; her only contact is with her brother and the doctors that keep experimenting on her. One day a psychiatrist comes to investigate if her illness is real or just imagined. Is love able to save her?
Director: Ágnes Kocsis (HU)
Screenplay: Ágnes Kocsis (HU)
Producer: József Berger - Mythberg Films (HU), Els Vandevorst - N279 Entertainment (NL) Cast: Lana Baric, Daan Stuyven
DOMINO (2019)
In this contemporary high-voltage thriller Carice van Houten and Nicolaj Coster-Waldau star as police officers, who go rogue while tracking down the killer of their police partner murdered whilst on duty. As they cross a Europe shaken by ongoing multiple terror attacks, the pair will discover troubling links between the man they are chasing and a CIA operative on the trail of the ISIS cell behind these attacks.
Director: Brian de Palma
Screenplay: Petter Skavlan
Producer: Michel Schønnemann – Schønne Film (DK), Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL)
Co-Producer: Jacqueline de Goeij - Zilvermeer (BE), Antonio Perez Perez - Suroeste Film (SP), Leonardo Recalcati - Recalcati Multimedia (IT) and Roberto Capua - Actionbrand (IT)
Executive producer: Joel Thibout, Jean Baptiste Babin and David Atlan Jackson - Backup Media (FR), and Peter Garde (DK)
Cast: Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, Mohammed Azaay, Eriq Ebouaney
Sales Agent: IM Global
BRIMSTONE (2017)
Brimstone is an epic thriller set in the old west. A triumphant tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against a violent past that refuses to fade.
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Screenplay: Martin Koolhoven
Producer: Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL), Uwe Schott – X-Filme (GER)
Co-Producer: Paul Trijbits – FilmWave (UK)- Antonino Lombardo – Prime Time (BE), Manuel Chiche – The Jokers Films (FR), Peter Hiltunen – Dragon Films (SE)
Sales Agent: Embankment Films
Distributor NL: Paradiso Filmed Entertainment
THE SURPRISE (2015)
An eccentric multimillionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple falls in love and wishes to get out of the contract.
Director: Mike van Diem
Screenplay: Mike van Diem
Producer: Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL), Mike van Diem – Spinkaker Productions (NL) & Hans de Weers – FATT Productions (NL)
Co-Producer: Antonino Lombardo – Prime Time (BE), Macdara Kelleher & Morgan Bushe – Fastnet Films (IE), Michael Eckelt – Riva Film (GE)
Sales Agent: Content Film
Distributor NL: A-Film
FRANCOFONIA (2015)
Francoфonia is the story of a moment in history, the story of two remarkable men, enemies then collaborators, whose collaboration would be the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures and a few of the many artworks despoiled from the Jews.
Director: Alexander Sokurov
Screenplay: Alexander Sokurov
Producer: Pierre-Olivier Bardet – Idéale Audience (FR), Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL)
Co-Producer: Thomas Kufus – Zero one film (GE)
Sales Agent: Films Boutique
Distributor NL: Contact Film
A FOLD IN MY BLANKET (2013)
Dmitrij’s monotonous days drag on, between working in the courthouse and his solitary rock-climbing excursions. Dmitrij gradually begins to integrate his newly met friend Andrej in his fantasy world. Then Andrej vanishes.
Director: Zaza Rusadze
Screenplay: Zaza Rusadze
Producer: Zaza Rusade – Zazarfilm (GE)
Executive Producer: Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL)
Sales Agent: Media Luna New Films
IT'S aLL SO QUIET (2013)
40-year-old farmer Helmer lives with his aged, bedridden father in the Dutch countryside. His working days are marked by the visits of milk collector Johan, a man of his own age for whom Helmer holds a secret fascination.
Director: Nanouk Leopold
Screenplay: Nanouk Leopold
Producer: Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL), Stienette Bosklopper – Circe Films (NL)
Co-Producer: Herbert Schwering – Coin Films (DE)
Sales Agent: Films Distribution
Distributor NL: Cinéart
NONO, THE ZIGZAG KID (2012)
Nono wants to be like his father – the best police inspector of the world – but he gets into trouble all the time. Two days before his Bar Mitswah he’s send away to his uncle Sjmoel, in order to keep to the straight and narrow. However, during the train ride Nono gets a last chance to prove himself…
Director: Vincent Bal
Screenplay: Vincent Bal & Jon Gilbert
Producer: Burny Bos – BosBros (NL), Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL)
Co-Producer: Antonino Lombardo – Prime Time (BE)
Sales Agent: Attraction Distribution
Distributor NL: Benelux Film Distributors
KID (2012)
Seven-year-old Kid is happy and feels safe and protected with his Mom, even though it is not easy for her being a single mother. When Mom dies, Kid has to face his fears and insecurities. Little by little he gets freed from his surroundings and cherishes the hope to find Mom back.
Director: Fien Troch
Screenplay: Fien Troch
Producer: Antonin Lombardo – Prime Time (BE)
Co-Producer: Els Vandevorst – N279 Entertainment (NL), Jacques-Henri Bronckart – Versus Productions (BE)
Sales Agent: Media Luna New Films
Distributor NL: Cinéart