
Person
Suzanne Raes
Directing
Biography
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.
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Two Men
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Overgave
Producer

Ammodo Docs
Director
Na De Bevrijding
Director

Hart van de democratie
Director

Groenkijkers
Editorial Consultant

De Gouden Eeuw
2012

0,03 seconds
Director

Hou me vast - De Dijk
Director

MS
Director
Filmography
- 2024Where Dragons LiveDirector
- 2024Geluif in 't GoejeDirector
- 2023GroenkijkersEditorial Consultant
- 2023Close to VermeerDirector
- 2023Ammodo DocsDirector
- 2022Two MenDirector
- 2022OvergaveProducer
- 2020Jochem Myjer: Nog eentje danDirector
- 2020Hart van de democratieDirector
- 2019MSDirector
- 2019Ganz: How I Lost My BeetleDirector
- 2019Le véritable inventeur de la CoccinelleDirector
- 20170,03 secondsDirector
- 2015Boudewijn de Groot: Kom NaderDirector
- 2015VleesverlangenDirector
- 2014Na De BevrijdingDirector
- 2013Don't Shoot the MessengerDirector
- 2013Hou me vast - De DijkDirector
- 2012De Gouden Eeuw
- 2012The Successor of KakiemonDirector
- 2010The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke IslandDirector
- 2007The Houses of HristinaDirector
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