38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Pek
Netherlands
2002 Fiction 25 min
Pek is a naïve unbalanced boy who sets out to make other people happy. However, the unorthodox methods he uses to achieve this goal are not appreciated by everybody.
With : Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Genio de Groot, Kees Boot, Marja Koppejan
Screenplay : Marco Knijnenburg
Image : Tjitte Jan Nieuwkoop, Jacco van Ree
Sound : Marc Lizier
Decors : Annelies Verbrugge
Editing : Helen Delachaux
Production : NFTA
Marco Knijnenburg was born in 1970 in The Hague. He graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy en 2002. Apart from Pek, while there he made Ring and Meat in 1999, and First aid in 2000. His final-project film was Cavities.