Canon of Dutch Cinema
In 2007, the festival presented their Canon of Dutch Cinema (Canon van de Nederlandse Film), containing sixteen monumental films in Dutch film history. The list included the following films:
- The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Willy Mullens and Alberts Frères, 1905)
- A Carmen of the North (Maurits Binger, 1919)
- Rain (Joris Ivens, 1929)
- The Tars (Jaap Speyer, 1934)
- Houen zo! (Herman van der Horst, 1952)
- Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958)
- Like Two Drops of Water (Fons Rademakers, 1963)
- Blind Kind (Johan van der Keuken, 1964)
- Ik kom wat later naar Madra (Adriaan Ditvoorst, 1965)
- Living (Frans Zwartjes, 1971)
- Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven, 1973)
- Flodder (Dick Maas, 1986)
- The Northerners (Alex van Warmerdam, 1992)
- The Pocket-knife (Ben Sombogaart, 1992)
- Het is een schone dag geweest (Jos de Putter, 1993)
- Father and Daughter (Michaël Dudok de Wit, 2000)
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