KEYFILM
The netherlands
COMPANY PROFILE:
KeyFilm aims to inspire and entertain with its films and series. Tell stories that broaden or change your perspective on the world.
Founder Hanneke Niens is an Oscar-nominated producer, and with her team has an extensive international network of co-producers and financiers and co-operates with partners like ITVS, Eurimages, the British Film Institute, Chios Investments, Al Jazeera, Netflix and many European broadcasters, funds, distributors and sales agents. KeyFilm is experienced in co-producing with Europe, the Middle East and Australasia and the team (co-)produced over 20 drama series and 40 feature films.
KeyFilm projects are a.o. the two season drama series Swanenburg for NPO1, winning the NPO Award for most streamed series 2021 with 7 million streams for season 1. Box office successes are the feel good trilogy Soof, Soof 2, Soof 3 (20 million box office), tragic comedy Ventoux, comedy So What Is Love and war drama Line of Fire. International festival selections are Nena by Saskia Diesing, winning the Berlinale Special Mention Jury Award 2015, IFFR opening film 2016 Beyond Sleep by Boudewijn Koole, the for Toronto selected film and Palestine Oscar submission The Idol by double Oscar-nominated director Hany Abu-Assad, The Reports on Sarah and Saleem by Rami and Muayad Alayan, awarded with the Tiger Award Best Scenario and the HBF Jury Award IFFR 2018 and the Venice 2022 selection Queens by French-Moroccan filmmaker Yasmine Benkiran.
Company Highlights
LINE OF FIRE 2023
Genre: Drama
Director: Roel Reiné
Screenplay: Alex van Galen
Cast: Waldemar Torenstra, Sallie Harmsen, Jeroen Spitzenberger, Angela Schijf, Pierre Bokma, Huub Stapel, Tibor Lukács, Zouhair Mtazi
On his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marco Kroon heroically leads his men through firefights and is awarded the highest decoration in the Netherlands: the Military Order of William. However, in the years that follow, Kroon is discredited. He struggles with traumas he cannot share even with Mirjam, the love of his life and everyone has an opinion about him, in the media and in the street. Kroon finds himself swept up in an emotional rollercoaster. As he tries to exonerate himself, he may face his toughest mission yet.
Box office hit - ‘Golden Film' in the Netherlands, now exclusively on Netflix
LOST TRANSPORT 2023
Genre: Post-war drama (co-production the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany)
Director: Saskia Diesing
Screenplay: Saskia Diesing
Cast: Hanna van Vliet, Anna Bachmann, Eugénie Anselin
In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a small German village occupied by the Red Army. Condemned to each other and in a context of deep mistrust, desperation and revenge, an unexpected friendship emerges between Russian sniper Vera, village girl Winnie, and Jewish-Dutch woman Simone.
QUEENS 2022
Genre: Drama/Adventure (co-production the Netherlands, France, Morocco and Belgium)
Director: Yasmine Benkiran
Screenplay: Yasmine Benkiran
Cast: Nisrin Erradi, Nisrine Benchara, Rayhan Guaran
A trio of women with the police on their tail embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.
Filmfestival Venice (closing film Settimana Internazionale della Critica)
THE REPORTS ON SARAH AND SALEEM 2018
Genre: Drama (coproduction the Netherlands, Palestine, Germany and Mexico)
Director: Muayad Alayan
Screenplay: Rami Alayan
Cast: Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan, Maisa Abd Elhadi
HBF Audience Award and Tiger Special Jury Award Scenario IFFR