Rob Hof has made over a hundred documentaries
in the past twenty years. He won the most important film prizes
of Europe, the Prix d´Italia and the Prix d´Europe.
In the Netherlands he won the Dick Scherpenzeelprijs, the Broekszprijs
and the prestigious NIPKOW TV prize. Hoffilm produces most of
its documentaries in cooperation with German public television.
Film selection
2007 Is This the Will of Allah
Two films about the communication between doctors and patients
regarding disease and death in Turkey and Morocco
NMO (NL), 2x50'
2006 Trails From the East
13-part
road movie by train from Vietnam to Europe chronicling the way
how individuals worldwide deal with globalisation
NCRV/Bayerische
Rundfunk/ARD/ORF/NMO/OHM/BOS/Joodse Omroep,
13x50'
Silver NIPKOW 2007
2006 Never Enjoy Too Little
Film
about Surinam singer and sociologist Sahiensha Ramdas and her
research about the widespread practice of mistresses in Surinam
OHM (NL), 30'
2005 Place Where the River Knows
You
Film about remigration from the Netherlands into Surinam
OHM (NL), 30
2005 Happiness Is There Where I
Am Not
Last part of a 3-part series about the Siberian village
called "No Happiness" and its inhabitants
EO /ZDF, 60`
2005 Not Giving Up
Film about a
idealist psychiatrist and his way of treating chronic patients
NCRV (NL), 2x40´
2004 Stalin's Forgotten Zion
Film
about Jews in Russia and Israel
ARD/ORF/CANVAS/JoodseOmroep, 2x50´
2004 Reconciliation in the Land
of Machetes
Ruanda 10 years after the genocide
EO/Bayerische Rundfunk/ORF, 50'
2003 White Fear
Two-part documentary
about ethnic clashes in Zimbabwe
NCRV (NL), 2x50'
2003 Dying with Dignity
Triptych
about end of life questions in a Dutch hospital
ZDF/NCRV, 3x40'
Most appreciated program of 2003 by Dutch television viewer
Lebensuhrprijs in Germany
2002 A Song of Nostalgia
A film
about Wolga-Germans in Russia
ZDF, 45'
2002 The Border in My Heart
Two-part
road mivie by train in Eastern Europe about expectations and
disappointments after the fall of the wall
Bayerische Rundfunk/ORF/KRO/BRT/MDR/ORB, 2x70`
2001 Annie
Film about a street
kid in New York
ZDF, 50'
2001 Crusade or Dialogue
Film which was part of a seven-part series about 2000 years
of Christianity
ZDF/EO, 50'
2001 The Return
Film about two
Bosnian refugees who return from Germany to Bosnia
ZDF/EO, 50'
Nomination Prix d `Iris, winner Prix d`Italia
2000 The Silent Diplomat
Film about
Max van der Stoel Conflict Prevention efforts as High Commissioner
of National Minorities
HUMAN (NL), 50´
2000 America is Like Albania
Two-part
series about an Albanian clan, living in America and Albania
ARTE/Bayerische Rundfunk/ORF/IKON/BRT/SVT 1, 2x50`
2000 Children of a New Age 3
Film
about the first 10 years of life of 6 children from the US,
Russia, former Eastern Germany, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Portugal,
all born in 1990
IKON/SVT(Sweden)/MDR(Germany), 2x50`
2000 Tengenenge Blues
Film about
Tom Bloomfield, founder of Tengenenge, a Zimbabwean village
of sculptors
EO (NL), 50'
1998 Dangerous Silence
Three-part
documentary about conflict prevention in Croatia, South Africa
and Burundi
HUMAN/BRT, 40`
Dick Scherpenzeelprijs `99, ECHO-Award of Emma Bonino (`98 Vienna),
Nomination Prix d`Iris `99
1997 Happiness in Paradise
Second
part of a Saga about the Russian village called "No Happiness"
IKON/ZDF, 50`
1st prize and public prize 1998 international festival of Toulouse
Robert Geisendorfer Prize (Geman TV award) 1999
1997 Lifeline
Film about 75 years
international radio broadcasting
RVU, 50'
1996 Chile Revisited
Film about
Hof's return to Chile, where he had been arrested 15 years earlier
by Pinochet's secret service
RVU/DR, 50´
1996 The Colonel
Film about the
last Stasi chief of Berlin
IKON-ORB, 50'
1996 If Squares Could Talk
Series
about the relationship between man and history on and around
different squares worldwide
IKON/RNTV/WDR, 6x40´and 2x50´
Nomination The Golden Statue of Foundation Dutch Academy Awards
`97
1995 Children of a New Age 2
Film
about the first 5 years of 6 children from the US, Russia, former
Eastern Germany, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Portugal, all born
just after the fall of the wall
IKON/SVT(Sweden)/MDR(Germany), 2x50`
Bridging the World Award KLM
1995 Between the Dike and the Jungle
Documentary about the painful return home from the Netherlands
to Rwanda of a Rwandese refugee family
NCRV, 40'
1994 No Future Without a Past
Film
about a Croatian theatre group that performs for children in
refugee camps to help them overcome war traumas
HOS (NL), 50`
Broeksz prize television 1995
1994 Glory of Orange
A film about
the history of football in the Netherlands
NOS, 50'
1994 The Great Change
Film about
the life of white immigrants in South Africa after Apartheid
NOS, 50'
1994 Forgotten Refugees
Two films
about the life as a refugee situated on the Dutch main airport
and an asylum home
NOS, 2x50'
1994 Welcome in the Netherlands
Two films about the life as a refugee situated on the Dutch
main airport and an asylum home
NOS, 2x50'
90-94 World Boat
Children's series
about life in the developing world
Ministry of Foreign Affairs/WDR, 5x30'
1993 Why? Why?
Film about the historical
backgrounds of the war in Croatia
KRO/RKK, 50'
1992 The Village Called No Happiness
Film about a Russian Village called No Happiness, where families
have been split in those are pro and anti emigration to Germany
IKON/ZDF, 50`
1st prize jury and public prize international festival of BBC/WACC
`95
1992 In Between
Film about the
reunion of a refugee Somali father and son, meeting grandfather
in the desert of Somalia
HUMAN/BRT, 50`
Prix Europe, One World Media Award ´98
1991 Children of a New Age 1
Film
about the first year of 6 children from the US, Russia, former
Eastern Germany, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Portugal, all born
just after the fall of the Berlin wall
IKON/SVT(Sweden)/MDR(Germany), 2x50`
1990 Search for a New Identity
Six-part series about life in Eastern Europe after the fall
of the Berlin Wall
NOS, 6x30'
1990 How to Play a President
Portrait
of President Havel
NOS/WDR, 40`
1990 Dutch of Eternity
4 films
about Dutch immigrants in South Africa, Argentina, Sri Lanka
and Brazil
NOS (NL), 4x50'
1988 Waiting for Asylum and Silent
Hope
2 films about refugees in the Netherlands
NOS (NL), 50'
1988 Model Revolutionaries and
Worms
Film about the different life style of Cubans in Cuba
and Miami
IKON/WDR, 40`
1987 Islam is the Answer
Film about
the roots of Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt
IKON/DRS, Discovery Channel, RAI 2, MICO (Japan), 40`
1985 Don't Eat Today or Tomorrow
Film about the relationship between the debt crisis and human
rights violations in Argentina
VARA/Channel Four, 50`
Erwin-Kisch Award at the Leipzig Film Festival 1985
1982 Chile Welcomes You
Film about
daily life under Pinochet's dictatorship
IKON, 50´
Golden Squirrel, Amsterdam 1982
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