Douwe Dijkstra Movies

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and...

At first, singer Ferry Heijne dances among a group of women, but soon he literally loses his grip on the situation. Via an open-plan office - full of...

In Démontable, our domestic space turns into a world reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels, invaded by miniature projections of the outside...

From the perspectives of a dozen diverse viewers, this short explores the peculiar ritual of watching film. How is the medium experienced by people...

A short animated film with a lamp and spiders.

Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting - and yet turbulent - Brazil. Where the streets are a stage for politics, art and...

While staying in Switzerland, a Dutch director is overcome with a numismatic passion at the sight of the one-franc coin. This coin, which has hardly...

A short film in which filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra shows the public what a working day for him in Barcelona looks like.

In a multi screen collage of visual experiments a longing for tribal habits is explored. Rituals We Wish We Had is a film about being homesick for a...