
Suzanne Raes
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2024Where Dragons Live
Director
2024Geluif in 't Goeje
Director
2023Close to Vermeer
Director & Writer
2022Two Men
Director
2020Hart van de democratie
Director
2020Jochem Myjer - Nog Eentje Dan
Director & Writer
2019Le véritable inventeur de la Coccinelle
Director
2019Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle
Director
2019MS
Director
20170,03 seconds
Director
2015Vleesverlangen
Director
2015Boudewijn de Groot: Kom Nader
Director
2013Hou me vast - De Dijk
Director
2012The Successor of Kakiemon
Director & Writer
2010The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island
Director