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Boyd van Hoeij


596 articles available in total starting from 11/04/2005. Last article published on 06/10/2014.

War drama Süskind ready to roll

The amazing true story of Walter Süskind, a German-born, Amsterdam-based Jew who saved hundreds of children from deportation during WWII, will be filmed by Dutch director Rudolf van den Berg. The...  

24/03/2011 | Production | Netherlands

Dutch women take the gold

The mainstream comedy Gooische vrouwen shot to the top of the Dutch box office when it was released last Friday. The success was not exactly a surprise, since the film is not only based on a very...  

18/03/2011 | Box Office | Netherlands

Discovery Zone set for late April debut

Film festivals have a rocky history in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The hugely popular fantastic film festival Cinénygma, organised each year around Halloween, had to end its successful run in...  

03/03/2011 | Festivals | Luxembourg

Dutch titles doing well at local wickets

January is traditionally a strong month for local productions, mainly because so many high-profile titles are released in December and play through January. But this year, February has continued...  

24/02/2011 | Box Office | Netherlands

Off Beat: Love and Other Drugs

The Swiss Panorama title Off Beat is director Jan Gassmann’s first fiction feature and his second effort to be showcased at the Berlinale after his 2007 documentary Chrigu. The 90-minute film is...  

18/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Panorama/Switzerland

My Best Enemy: Michelangelo and Nazi uniforms

Austrian director Wolfgang Murnberger, whose previous two films, The Bone Man and Lapislazuli, screened in sidebars in Berlin, graduates to the official selection with his historical drama My Best...  

17/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Out of competition/AU-LU

Panorama’s beguiling Devil

British actor Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!, An Education, The History Boys), plays the kind of juicy double role actors rarely get in The Devil’s Double, a Belgium-funded English-language feature...  

11/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Panorama Special/Belgium

Rutger Hauer will play kidnapped Dutch beer boss

One of the most famous kidnapping cases in Dutch history is headed for the big screen. Director Maarten Treurniet (Father’s Affair) will be directing De Heineken Ontvoering (“The Heineken...  

10/02/2011 | Production | Netherlands

Catalan Finisterrae among Tiger Award winners

The 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) unveiled the winners of its Tiger Awards competition section as the festival drew to a close this weekend. One of the three Tigers went to...  

07/02/2011 | Festivals | Netherlands

CineMart projects Kid and Touch Me Not awarded

The co-production market that unspools during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), CineMart, came to a close earlier this week, with two awards handed out to CineMart projects. The...  

04/02/2011 | Festivals | Netherlands

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