The Netherlands Film Festival () is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht. During the ten-day festival, Dutch film productions and co-productions are exhibited. Besides feature films, the program also consists of short subjects, documentary films, and television productions. On the closing evening of the festival, the Golden Calves are awarded to the best films, directors, and actors. Together with the Netherlands Film Fund, the festival also recognises box office results of Dutch film productions during the year with the Crystal Film (10,000 visitors of documentary films), Golden Film (100,000 visitors), Platinum Film (400,000 visitors), and Diamond Film (1,000,000 visitors). History The Netherlands Film Festival was founded in 1981 by the Dutch film maker Jos Stelling, who called it the "Netherlands Film Days" (). Initially, the festival was oriented towards film makers only, but it gradually reached a broader audience. The 36th edition of the festival, in 2016, attracted more than 150,000 visitors. Canon of Dutch cinema In 2007, the festival presented their Canon of Dutch Cinema (), containing sixteen monumental films in Dutch film history. The list included the following films: The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach (Willy Mullens and Alberts Frères, 1905) A Carmen of the North (Maurits Binger, 1919) Rain (Joris Ivens, 1929) The Tars (Jaap Speyer, 1934) (Herman van der Horst, 1952) Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958) Like Two Drops of Water (Fons Rademakers, 1963) Blind Kind (Johan van der Keuken, 1964) (Adriaan Ditvoorst, 1965) Living (Frans Zwartjes, 1971) Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven, 1973) Flodder (Dick Maas, 1986) The Northerners (Alex van Warmerdam, 1992) The Pocket-knife (Ben Sombogaart, 1992) (Jos de Putter, 1993) Father and Daughter (Michaël Dudok de Wit, 2000) Special guests Since 1992, the festival organisation invites a special guest, usually a respected director or actor in the Dutch film business. 1992: Paul Schrader 1993: Krzysztof Zanussi 1994: Rutger Hauer 1995: Nouchka van Brakel 1996: Jan de Hartog 1997: Monique van de Ven 1998: First Floor Features 1999: ? 2000: Heddy Honigmann 2001: Renée Soutendijk 2002: Pieter Verhoeff 2003: Jan Decleir 2004: Jean van de Velde 2005: Jos Stelling 2006: Johanna ter Steege 2007: Burny Bos 2008: Monic Hendrickx 2009: Jack Wouterse 2010: Anneke Blok 2011: Frans van Gestel 2012: Jeroen Willems 2013: Paula van der Oest 2014: Fons Merkies 2016: Willem de Beukelaer Awards Besides the Golden Calves