Suzanne Raes

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Suzanne Raes

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.

Known For

Director

2024
Where Dragons Live

as Director

2023
Close to Vermeer

as Director

2022
Two Men

as Director

2020
2019
MS

as Director

2017
0,03 seconds

as Director

2015
Vleesverlangen

as Director

2014
Na De Bevrijding

as Director

2013
2007

Writer

2023
2015
Vleesverlangen

as Scenario Writer

Producer

2022
Overgave

as Producer

Camera

2013
Don't Shoot the Messenger

as Director of Photography

Editor

2023
Groenkijkers

as Editorial Consultant