Festivals: Vlissingen
Vlissingen 2025 Review: HOW TO MAKE A KILLING Is A Fun Look At Corruption
Vlissingen's Film by the Sea Festival always has a special section for French films, and one of the funniest this year was Franck Dubosc's criminal caper Un Ours Dans le Jura. This literally translates to "A Bear in the Jura",...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: THE TASTERS
In December 2012, an interview with the then 95-year-old Margot Wölk netted the interviewer a remarkable story. Margot Wölk revealed she had been a food taster for Adolf Hitler during the second world war, whenever he visited his Eastern Headquarters...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: Brendan Canty's CHRISTY
Normally with reviews, we try to put the title of the film as close to the beginning of the header as we can get. We are bound by the rules of search engines just as much as all other websites,...
Vlissingen 2025 Review: A WOMAN LIKE MONIQUE
The Dutch actress Monique van de Ven is the closest what we have in the Netherlands to Film Royalty. Entering the movie industry back in 1973 at the age of 19, her debut alongside Rutger Hauer in Paul Verhoeven's Turkish...
Vlissingen 2025: Recommendations
Next weekend sees the start of the 27th Film by the Sea Festival in the town of Vlissingen (Flushing), in the South-West of the Netherlands. A harbortown with beautiful beaches, it's in an area of scattered islands and peninsulas (and...
Vlissingen 2024 Review: THE GULLSPÅNG MIRACLE Defies Easy Categorization
A genrebending documentary about the stories we tell ourselves.
Vlissingen 2024 Review: FILM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE FILM Proves There Is Still Life In Celluloid
Peter Flynn's documentary shows the humanity in celluloid collecting.
Vlissingen 2024 Review: ONCE AGAIN (FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME) Brims With Renewal
Boaz Yakin's Once Again (For the Very First Time) signals something of a rebirth. In it's opening moments, the protagonist falls from the heavens with bloodied clothing and lands on the doorstep of his love interest. He is a street...
Vlissingen 2024 Review: THE MAGNET MAN Mesmerizes
One of my favorite films of all time is Gust Van den Berghe's Lucifer, a film that is so stylistically audacious it is hard to compare it to anything else. Based on a famous Flemish version of the Lucifer-story and...
Vlissingen 2024: The FILM BY THE SEA Festival Starts Today
Today marks the start of the 26th Film By The Sea film festival, held in the harbor city of Vlissingen (or Flushing as some English-speakers call it), which is in the Southwest of the Netherlands. It is one of the...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: SQUARING THE CIRCLE - THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS
Anton Corbijn may be well-known as a director, but he is one of the super-giants in his field when it concerns photography. He has been world famous for decades already for his portrait stills, often shot in grainy black and...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: SIRA Survives
One of the nice surprises at the Film by the Sea Festival in Vlissingen was the unexpected warm weather, a nice little hot after-Summer. A less nice surprise was that some of the venues at the festival did not have...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: THE TASTE OF THINGS
The Film By the Sea Festival in Vlissingen focused this year on French cinema, and on literary book adaptations. With Trần Anh Hùng's The Taste of Things they scored a double-whammy, as it falls in both categories. A loose adaptation...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: DARK SATELLITES
One of the themes this year at the Film by the Sea festival in Vlissingen was "films based on literature". And one of the International Premieres being shown as part of this theme is Thomas Stuber's Dark Satellites, based on...
Vlissingen 2023 Review: UNDER THE NAKED SKY Is Very Impressive
On the first full day of Vlissingen's Film by the Sea festival, audiences were treated to a world premiere, red carpet and all. And while the film in question was a small drama, it actually quickly captured the top spot...
Vlissingen 2023: Twelve Recommendations
Today sees the start of the 25th Film by the Sea Festival in the town of Vlissingen (Flushing), the Netherlands. Over the years, the festival grew from a pretty small event (5000 tickets sold) to one of the largest film...
Vlissingen 2023: The FILM BY THE SEA Festival Has Its 25th Edition
The city of Vlissingen lies in the South-West of the Netherlands, in the province of (Old) Zeeland. English-speaking regions sometimes refer to it as Flushing. It's a beautiful town, reachable by train, with old streets, a harbor, a beach... and,...
