€ 3.3 million Netherlands Film Production Incentive for 14 film projects
This generates over € 11.7 million in production expenditure in the Netherlands across the entire spectrum of national film professionals and film companies.
Grants awarded in this round include support for:
Funded film projects third round 2026
- Beursbengels (Giancarlo Sanchez)
- Climacteric (Liliana Torres)
- Els Homes I Els Dies (Arnau Vilaró)
- Jochem kijkt uit (Suzanne Raes)
- Magnetized (Luis Ortega)
- Oorlogsroes (Ineke Smits)
- Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions (Elina Psykou)
- Patsers for Life (Kobe van Steenberghe)
- Piel de Foca (Irene Moray)
- Shiny New World (Jan van Gorkum)
- Soma (Miklos Keleti)
- Stairway to Earth (Finn Szumlas)
- Strokes of Madness (Lander Haverals & Dominique Van Malder)
- To Put Out One Fire (Jela Hasler)
For a complete overview of titles including loglines and credits, see below.
Upcoming application round 2026
The application deadline for the next funding round of the Netherlands Film Production Incentive for both film productions and high-end TV series is 26 October 2026. The Incentive Scheme offers a financial contribution in the form of a cash rebate on qualifying production costs demonstrably spent in the Netherlands.
Overview of all funded projects in the third round of the Netherlands Film Production Incentive in 2026:
Beursbengels (feature film)
Director: Giancarlo Sanchez Screenplay: Lorans Dandachli, Steef de Bot, Kay Greidanus Producer: NRG Productions
Logline: From market boy to stock exchange king: Ronnie Rolex works his way to the top of the Amsterdam stock exchange floor within a year without connections or degrees. Until betrayal, a dead mentor and the FIOD (Fiscal Information and Investigation Service) force him to choose between his empire and himself. He knows when he should stop. But can he?
Grant awarded: € 771,338
Climacteric (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Liliana Torres (ES) Dutch co-producer: Studio Ruba Main producer: Distinto Films (ES) Co-producer: Edna Cinema (ES)
Logline: When menopause coincides with a world in decay, a woman's personal transformation merges with nature, distorting her reality.
Grant awarded: € 59,561
Els Homes I Els Dies (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Arnau Vilaró (ES) Dutch co-producer: BALDR Film Main producer: Nanouk Films (ES)
Logline: 1992. After completing a PhD in queer theory in Amsterdam, David returns to his hometown of Barcelona, heartbroken after a failed love affair. Amid the euphoria of the Olympic Games and the shadow of the AIDS epidemic, he begins keeping a diary to understand how love between men really works.
Grant awarded: € 125,079
Jochem kijkt uit (documentary)
Director/Screenplay: Suzanne Raes Dutch producer: Docmakers
Logline: Jochem Myijer's tour Net Alsof is coming to an end. Everything is subservient to the two performances a week that his body can handle. His 50th birthday and recently discovered tumours shed a different light on the future. Jochem and others look back on his life and analyse his success. What made him keep going all the time? Can you say goodbye, when you have lived for applause for so long?
Grant awarded: € 147,344
Magnetized (feature film)
Director: Luis Ortega (AR) Screenplay: Luis Ortega, Martin Caamaño, Rodolfo Palacios (AR) Dutch co-producer: Isabella Films Main producer: El Despacho (AR) Co-producers: Metanoia (UY), Infinity Hill (AR), Piano (MX)
Logline: A young, open-minded priest and a derailed actress fall passionately in love with each other. When she introduces him to a world of drugs and madness and subsequently disappears, he enters a downward spiral of despair and commits a series of crimes that magnetise him further and further.
Grant awarded: € 158,945
Oorlogsroes (documentary)
Director/Screenplay: Ineke Smits Dutch producer: Volya Films Co-producer: Clin d'Oeil (BE)
Logline: Time and again, British mine warfare specialist Chris Garrett and American paramedic Courtney Pollock risk their lives in wars that are not their own. When Chris is ultimately killed in action, Courtney, his American partner and mother of their child, does not hesitate for a moment to continue their volunteer work in the war zone. What makes war so addictive despite its intrinsic horror?
Grant awarded: € 192,825
Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Elina Psykou (GR) Dutch co-producer: Studio Ruba Main producer: Jungle Films (GR) Co-producers: Homemade Films (GR), Studio Bauhaus (GR), Bark Like a Cat Films (CY)
Logline: Elderly Mrs Lily murders her husband, Mr Dinos; one-eyed Afroula puts her Gorilla Girl costume back on and reconsiders her relationship with Lakis; and pregnant Helena leaves her husband, Konstantinos. While David Copperfield prepares to make the Acropolis disappear, the three women confront their fears and their dark family past.
Grant awarded: € 138,126
Patsers for Life (feature film)
Director: Kobe van Steenberghe (BE) Screenplay: Sven Huybrechts (BE), Ruben Vermeersch (BE) Dutch co-producer: Fiction Valley Main producer: A Team Productions (BE)
Logline: Following their "drug haul of the century", Adamo and his friends in Patsers for Life try to escape the police by fleeing abroad. Only Badia has a different plan: she leaves on her own accord for the Netherlands to take revenge on drug kingpin Dzjengis Khan, who is responsible for her mother's death. Will our gangsters arrive in time to stop her?
Grant awarded: € 150,000
Piel de Foca (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Irene Moray (ES) Dutch co-producer: Phanta Film Main producer: Lastor Media (ES) Co-producer: Goldman Film
Logline: A young cleaner watches her childhood friend literally vanish under the influence of a destructive relationship. In her attempt to help, she becomes entangled in an intimate struggle between letting go and holding on. Only when she opens up to her own vulnerability does she discover a community of women who can provide healing.
Grant awarded: € 122,752
Shiny New World (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Jan van Gorkum Dutch producer: Bloodrave Co-producers: Make Way Film, Polar Bear (BE)
Logline: Barry (50), a carpenter with a lot of bad luck in life, ends up in a hidden world of demons in human disguise and a quirky cleaning company run by these creatures to protect their community.
Grant awarded: € 600,142
Soma (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Miklos Keleti (BE) Dutch co-producer: Volya Films Main producer: Velvet Films (BE) Co-producers: Three Brothers (EE), Goodbye Productions (CA)
Logline: A scientist and his wife, who is a primatologist, look for new ways to help their son with his rare language disorder.
Grant awarded: € 103,793
Stairway to Earth (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Finn Szumlas Dutch producer: Phanta Film Co-producers: Extreme Emotions (PL), Goldman Film
Logline: A young Polish woman and her Dutch one-night stand spend 24 hours together waiting for an appointment to terminate her pregnancy. Against the backdrop of the festivities of the Relief of Leiden, their feelings for each other blossom – but along with them, their uncertainty about the future.
Grant awarded: € 561,913
Strokes of Madness (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Lander Haverals (BE), Dominique Van Malder (BE) Dutch co-producer: Volya Films Main producer: Menuetto (BE) Co-producers: Tarantula (BE), MitruSMedia (LV)
Logline: A brilliant, yet psychologically vulnerable violinist falls prey to his worst fears and demons during his obsessive search for recognition and musical perfection in the ruthless metropolis.
Grant awarded: € 103,265
To Put Out One Fire (feature film)
Director/Screenplay: Jela Hasler (CH) Dutch co-producer: Family Affair Films Main producer: Langfilm (CH)
Logline: Recently graduated environmental engineer Anna (27) starts her first job full of idealism: she is responsible for the research and planning of young trees at the Green Department of the City of Zurich. There she is confronted with the reality of pragmatic solutions and making compromises, putting her ideals to a severe test.
Grant awarded: € 96,857
Image: To Put Out One Fire