Richard Valk

Swimming with Wings (2025)

A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with clothes on in the Netherlands. ...

Please Make My Wish Come True (2024)

Vivarium (2024)

A short animated film that tells the story about two gnomes who flee from a world-drowning flood. ...

The Grand Book (2023)

A young woman lives in the streets of a city where people are watched by cameras 24 hours a day. Even in her sleep she is followed. Is it possible to find a place where you can be yourself in a disquieting world of constant surveillance? ...

Flow VR (2023)

Flow invites you to surrender to the whims of the wind on a seemingly ordinary day, concealing within its turbulence a captivating night in the life of a woman, portrayed through the dance of air currents. The interplay of scents, warmth, respiration, and ...

Box Cutters (2023)

A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but daily life must resume its course. ...

It’s Nice in Here (2023)

A fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same fateful moment in a corner store that ...

Neighbour Abdi (2022)

How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbor and filmmaker Douwe. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effec ...

Cliffhanger (2020)

A sheriff's shootout turns into an adventure through the wondrous world of film. ...

Flow (2019)

A turbulent day in a life, painted by air. ...

Intermission Expedition (2019)

During a sunny holiday, a flock of tourists struggle to let go of their busy city lives, and the absence of daily tasks leaves them lost in an uncomfortable and frightening place. Once they learn to slow down, they may find some beauty in the here and now ...

Red Curtains (2012)

Rode Gordijnen (Red Curtains) is a film about a man who tries to breathe new life into his out of touch relationship with his wife. Both characters seem to have reconciled themselves to their extinguished marriage: they have simply stopped communicating. B ...

Aalterate (2012)

A body experiences extreme inner tension. Its slowly mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space to a point of complete saturation. ...

Anouk Is Alive (2006)

Anouk Is Alive is a live 2-CD/DVD release by the Dutch pop rock singer Anouk, covering a concert held on December 3 and 4, 2005, in Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands. The DVD went gold in the first week of release. ...

Big White - Big Black (2006)

Diddybob enters the great white open, but fails to leave. ...