Filmographies

2009	Cruel Happiness: Love, Claus & Flanders	HDV – 62 min.
	A film portrait of the Flemish poet Hugo Claus, in cooperation with Poetry International and RTV Rijnmond.

2009	From Dutch East India to Indonesia - the life of Sitor Situmorang	HDV – 59 min.
	A portrait of the Indonesian poet Sitor Situmorang.

2009	The women of the consequences	HDV – min.
	An oral history of Moluccan women

2008	Opera Batak - Death of the Last Batak King	HDV – 29 min.
	When, at the 100st anniversary of the death of the last Batak king, preparations are made for the performance of an ‘Opera Batak’, the writer and poet Sitor Situmorang is invited as a guest of honour.

2007	Bottle it up	HDV – min.
	A film about a long lasting friendship of three soldiers who fought in the Dutch colonial war in Indonesia.

2006	Wait for me, Gallows	HDV – 78 min.
	The story of a terrible fire in Sivas, Turkey in 1993, and the struggle of the Alevis, whose ethnic and religious identity has been suppressed for centuries.

2005	The Ashes of Memory	BetaSP – 50 min.
	Film about the Surinam GP and poet Jit Narain.

2003	Annie M.G. Schmidt	BetaSP – 47 min.
	Television portrait of Annie M.G. Schmidt, the famous Dutch author of children's books and satire.

2003	Ruud Lubbers	BetaSP – 48 min.
	Television portrait of the former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers.

2003	Wie Eegie Sanie - Our own Things	BetaSP – 58 min.
	Film about Surinamese people who after WW II started to investigate their own ancestrial culture.

2001	Divine Madness	BetaSP – 53 min.
	Film about the extraordinary Dutch poet Hans Vlek.

2000	Live is Everywhere	16 mm – 55 min.
	A film about the life and works of the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal.

1999	The Schacht Saga	BetaSP – 55 min.
	Film about the search of the German poet and writer Ulrich Schacht.

1998	The Discovery	BetaSP – 40 min.
	Short televisionfilm about the German anthropologist Maria Reich.

1998	VPRO Diogenes	BetaSP – 20 min.
	Television report on the gold that was stolen from the jews during WW II.

1997	Birri's Dream	BetaSP – 30 min.
	Film about the Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri and his International Filmschool in Cuba.

1997	German Worries	BetaSP – 180 min.
	Co-production and co-direction of a 3 hours television special about the German identity.

1996	A Kind of Grace	16 mm – 48 min.
	Encounter with the British author John Berger who now lives in the French Alps.

1996	And Now that the Dream is Over...	BetaSP – 50 min.
	Film about the Surinam poet Michael Slory and his relation with the Netherlands, his creole ancestry and women.

1994	Brokopondo	16 mm – 50 min.
	Stories of a Drowned Land. Film about how the construction of the Brokopondodam in Surinam effects the lives of the inland population.

1993	Lead tears the Heart	BetaSP – 30 min.
	Portrait of the English poet and war-correspondent James Fenton.