
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.

Where Dragons Live
2024

Geluif in 't Goeje
2024

Close to Vermeer
2023

Two Men
2022

Jochem Myjer - Nog Eentje Dan
2020

Hart van de democratie
2020

MS
2019

Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle
2019

Le véritable inventeur de la Coccinelle
2019

0,03 seconds
2017

Boudewijn de Groot: Kom Nader
2015

Vleesverlangen
2015
Don't Shoot the Messenger
2013

Hou me vast - De Dijk
2013

The Successor of Kakiemon
2012

The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island
2010
The Houses of Hristina
2007