Directing
Suzanne Raes
NL, EN, LI, FR cinema · 20 credits
Suzanne Raes has been working as an independent filmmaker for more than 20 years. Her early films a.o. The Houses of Hristina (2007), The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island (2009), and The Successor of Kakiemon (2012) premiered at IDFA and won several awards at international film festivals. Her film Come Closer about Boudewijn de Groot received the IDFA Music Audience Award in 2015. For her film about the Rotterdam social service, Quid pro quo (2015) Raes won a Golden Calf, the most important film award in the Netherlands. More recent the co-production Ganz, How I Lost My Beetle (2019) had a successful theatrical release and has been broadcasted in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Her film Close to Vermeer (2023) is screening in cinemas in the Netherlands and will have a worldwide distribution.
Known for
Filmography
We Had a Plan
Director
Where Dragons Live
Director
Geluif in 't Goeje
Director
Close to Vermeer
Director, Writer
Groenkijkers
Editorial Consultant
Two Men
Director
Overgave
Producer
Hart van de democratie
Director, Scenario Writer
Jochem Myjer: Nog eentje dan
Writer, Director
MS
Director
0,03 seconds
Director
Vleesverlangen
Scenario Writer, Director
Don't Shoot the Messenger
2013
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
The Successor of Kakiemon
Director, Writer
The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island
Scenario Writer, Director