The festival

The fourtheent edition of Film by the takes place from Friday 14 – Sunday 23 September in CineCity in the Dutch seaside town of Vlissingen. This year, the festival will once again make a name for itself with special films, guests, workshops, premieres and entertainment.

The most important programme within the festival is the Dioraphte Film and Literature Competition. With this official competition programme, Film by the Sea distinguishes itself from other film festivals in the Netherlands and Europe. Every edition of the festival, a jury consisting of writers, actors and directors hands out the Film by the Sea Award to the best new literary adaptation.

Film by the Sea is more than a film and literature festival, however: aside from many premieres, much attention is given to vulnerable cinema. The festival shows approximately 100 films from all parts of the world which are imported especially for a unique showing during the festival; there is a large educational programme, there are courses and the public and guests meet each other in the daily talk shows.

Numerous prominent film makers, writers and actors have visited Film by the Sea in the past few years. Among them we find: Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives) Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), Ben Elton (Blackadder, Blast from the Past), Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dirty Pretty Things), Morgan Freeman (Seven, Million Dollar Baby), James Ivory (The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End) and in 2007 Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s List) and Volker Schlöndorff (Die Blechtrommel).

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The festival

Grand Direction Award for Paul Verhoeven

Dioraphte Film and Literature Award for Oranges and Sunshine

CPNB Film- and Literature Audience Award for The Help by Tate Taylor

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