Tinkebell - Who Killed the Blue Bird? 2024
Artist Katinka Simonse, alias Tinkebell, is a controversial, very mediagenic phenomenon. In her universe there is no distinction between life, art and activism; Tinkebell is her own work of art. Everything she encounters on her life path can become part of her story. Filmmaker Judith de Leeuw was given access to all images about Tinkebell, including her entire private archive. She thus constructed an archive film about how as a human being, living on the ruins of the past, you can be a character in your own story. What is the price you can afford if you continue to believe at any cost?

Zon in de nacht 2023
What if your whole life is a play? Almost ten years after her grandfather's death, director Anne Vaandrager finds out that he was a gay man in a heterosexual marriage and died of AIDS. Using interviews, archive material, and fictional scenes, she attempts to reshape her family history. In this way, she unravels a family story that is about shame, the inability to talk to each other, and her own identity.

Candy 2022