Nineteen exciting and highly promising new projects are selected for the New Dutch, Stories & Beyond and BoostNL programmes of the 2023 Holland Film Meeting. Fifteen of the projects are majority Dutch (including Curaçao), 1 Flemish project in coproduction with the Netherlands, and three projects are invited from far afield as Peru, India and Colombia. With Dutch filmmaking luminaries such as David Verbeek (Full Contact), Mischa Kamp (Boys,Romy's Salon), Erik de Bruyn (Wild Mussels, J. Kessels) and Shamira Raphaëla (Shabu) and director Edson da Conceiçao (Golden Calf Best Drama Series – Rampvlucht).
Of the nineteen projects presented within the New Dutch, Stories & Beyond and BoostNL categories, the majority are fiction features with the subprogramme Stories & Beyond placing special emphasis on Dutch genre films this year. Additionally, one project this year is a creative documentary, and one is a feature-length animation.