{"id":33719,"date":"2026-02-10T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/?post_type=talentscope&#038;p=33719"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:23:48","slug":"talentscope-2026","status":"publish","type":"talentscope","link":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/talentscope\/talentscope-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"TalentScope 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TalentScope is the talent development programme for directors that the Netherlands Film Fund has been organising since 2024 in collaboration with FilmForward, ACE Producers, and TorinoFilmLab.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2026, three teams were selected for TalentScope:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobody Knows<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector\/Screenplay: Jan Verdijk<br \/>\nHead of Development: Matthijs van der Veer (Lemming Film)<br \/>\nProducer: Julian Haisch (Lemming Film)<br \/>\nLogline: When ambitious civil servant Maud Wiesen (45) learns that the long-lost fragments of Rembrandt&#8217;s The Night Watch have surfaced in the Albanian underworld, she risks everything by organising a robbery to ensure that the pieces return to their rightful place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Men Made Borders<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Marit Weerheijm<br \/>\nScreenplay: Jessie Tiemeijer<br \/>\nProducer: Laurette Schillings (Topkapi Films)<br \/>\nLogline: When a Dutch abortion ship arrives in the Polish town of W\u0142adys\u0142awowo, the lives of four women become intertwined. In their personal struggle for justice and autonomy, they are confronted with the same question: where do their borders lie, and what are they willing to risk to cross them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eternal Nearness<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector\/Screenplay: Nicole Jachmann<br \/>\nProducer: Chris Stenger (Family Affair Films)<br \/>\nLogline: Kolya (17) is a curious teenager who wants nothing more than to discover the world, but his parents&#8217; hidden trauma holds him back. Until he discovers their secret: his parents lost Kolya\u2019s older sister Katya during their flight. He decides to go looking for her to recover what has been lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33718,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-33719","talentscope","type-talentscope","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/talentscope\/33719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/talentscope"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/talentscope"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmforward.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}