Benelux Film Distributors

Benelux Film Distributors, also known as Benelux Film Distributors Home Entertainment, BFD and BFDHE, was a joint venture of various independent film distributors founded in 2006.[1] They marketed a wide range of films in cinemas and on home video in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. They distributed films by Lumière (Belgium), Inspire Pictures (Netherlands) and Dutch FilmWorks (Netherlands).[1] The company Video/Film Express (Houten, Netherlands), founded in 1991, were merged with BFD on January 1, 2012.[2] Subsequently, BFD had two offices in Ghent, Belgium and Houten.

Movies distributed by BFD included Oorlogswinter, Crusade in Jeans, The Letter for the King, Stricken, Love Crime, Amazing Grace, Colombiana, De Marathon, The Happy Housewife, and Black Out.[3]

List of films

Dutch films

Non-Dutch films

2006

16 Blocks (15/06/06)[8]
Ask the Dust (22/06/06)[8]
The Celestine Prophecy (20/07/06)[8]
Chaos (23/02/06)[8]
Cirkeline og Verdens Mindste Superhelt (29/06/06)[8]
Dark Horse (13/04/06)[8]
The Merchant of Venice (05/01/06)[8]
Mongolian Ping Pong (03/08/06)[8]
The Nativity Story (07/12/06)[8]
Running Scared (30/03/06)[8]
Slither (29/06/06)[8]
The Page Turner (30/11/06)[8]
Tristan & Isolde (20/04/06)[8]
The White Masai (23/03/06)[8]
The Wicker Man (31/08/06)[8]

2007

1408 (30/08/07)[9]
30 Days of Night (08/11/07)[9]
Bobby (18/01/07)[9]
Congorama (02/08/07)[9]
Copying Beethoven (28/06/07)[9]
Employee of the Month (19/04/07)[9]

2008

Amazing Grace (16/10/08)[10]
The Bank Job (25/09/08)[10]
Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (03/04/08)[10]
City of Men (30/10/08)[10]
Elite Squad (22/05/08)[10]
Empties (27/03/08)[10]

2009

Cheri (25/06/09)[11]
The Cove (03/12/09)[11]
Eden Lake (14/05/09)[11]
Encounters at the End of the World (11/06/09)[11]
Gamer (08/10/09)[11]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (06/08/09)[11]

2010

The American (18/09/10)
Agora (03/06/10)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (11/03/10)
The Blonde with Bare Breasts (24/06/10)
The Box (04/02/10)[12]
Brooklyn's Finest (29/07/10)[12]
Daybreakers (25/02/10)[12]
Easy Money (07/10/10)[12]

2011

Beloved (15/12/11)
Colombiana (22/09/11)
Conan the Barbarian (08/09/11)
The Conspirator (04/08/11)[13]
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (20/01/11)[13]
Drive Angry (25/02/11)[13]
The Experiment (31/03/11)[13]
Free Men (17/11/11)[13]

2012

Being Flynn (27/09/12)[14]
Black Gold (26/01/12)[14]
Cloud Atlas (29/11/12)[14]
360 (16/08/12)[14]
Ill Manors (30/08/12)[14]
Our Children (13/09/12)[14]

2013

Hyde Park on Hudson (10/01/13)[15]