Benelux Film Distributors
 | |
| Industry | Film industry |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Defunct | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Ghent, Belgium and Houten, the Netherlands |
| Products | Motion pictures |
Number of employees | 10+ |
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]
In June 2011, Lumière and Dutch FilmWorks left BFD to start their own theatrical units.[4][5] The company merged with A-Film Distribution in May 2013 and continued as A-Film Benelux B.V.[6] In September 2015, A-Film Benelux B.V. was declared bankrupt.[7]
List of films
Dutch films
| Release date | Title | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | |||||
| 4 October 2007 | Duska | ||||
| 16 July 2008 | The Letter for the King | ||||
| 27 November 2008 | Winter in Wartime | with Isabella Films, Fu Works, Inspire Pictures and Omroep MAX | |||
| 29 January 2009 | Can Go Through Skin | ||||
| 26 November 2009 | Stricken | with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and RTL Entertainment | |||
| 2010s | |||||
| 12 April 2010 | The Happy Housewife | with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and RTL Entertainment | |||
| 24 November 2010 | Dik Trom | with Eyeworks and Inspire Pictures | |||
| 25 November 2010 | The Dinner Club | with Infinity Film & TV Productions | |||
| 9 December 2010 | New Kids Turbo | with Eyeworks, Comedy Central and Inspire Pictures | |||
| 9 June 2011 | Rabat | with Habbekrats | |||
| 20 October 2011 | Alfie, the Little Werewolf | with Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions, Inspire Pictures and AVRO | |||
| 8 December 2011 | New Kids Nitro | with Eyeworks, Comedy Central and Inspire Pictures | |||
| 24 November 2011 | Nova Zembla | ||||
| 3 October 2012 | The Zigzag Kid | with Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions, N279 Entertainment and AVRO | |||
| 22 March 2012 | Quiz | with Tom de Mol Productions, Parachute Pictures and AVRO | |||
| 7 April 2012 | Kauwboy | with The Film Kitchen and NTR | |||
| 10 May 2012 | Jackie | ||||
| 18 October 2012 | De Marathon | with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and RTL Entertainment | |||
| 11 April 2013 | Daylight | with Eyeworks, Inspire Pictures and NCRV | |||
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]
- Georgia Rule (13/09/07)[9]
- The Good Shepherd (15/02/07)[9]
- Hannibal Rising (08/03/07)[9]
- Infamous (16/08/07)[9]
- Knollhart (24/05/07)[9]
- The Last Legion (02/08/07)[9]
- Man of the Year (25/01/07)[9]
- The Messengers (31/05/07)[9]
- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (06/12/07)[9]
- Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (30/08/07)[9]
- Rescue Dawn (23/08/07)[9]
- Salvador (29/03/07)[9]
- White Noise 2: The Light (19/07/07)[9]
- The Witnesses (12/07/07)[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]
- Fear(s) of the Dark (24/04/08)[10]
- The Grocer's Son (17/07/08)[10]
- The Hunting Party (03/04/08)[10]
- In the Name of the King (07/08/08)[10]
- I've Loved You So Long (05/06/08)[10]
- Mark of an Angel (18/12/08)[10]
- The Mist (07/02/08)[10]
- Mongol (14/08/08)[10]
- The Night of the Sunflowers (10/07/08)[10]
- Sagan (02/10/08)[10]
- Saw IV (03/01/08)[10]
- Silk (01/05/08)[10]
- Superhero Movie (28/08/08)[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]
- In the Electric Mist (16/07/09)[11]
- Leaving (22/10/09)[11]
- Man on Wire (12/03/09)[11]
- The Reader (02/04/09)[11]
- Saw V (08/01/09)[11]
- Saw VI (31/12/09)[11]
- The September Issue (17/09/09)[11]
- Sorority Row (22/10/09)[11]
- Stella (05/03/09)[11]
- Towelhead (14/05/09)[11]
- Versailles (01/01/09)[11]
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno (22/01/09)[11]
2010
- The American (18/09/10)[12]
- Agora (03/06/10)[12]
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (11/03/10)[12]
- The Blonde with Bare Breasts (24/06/10)[12]
- The Box (04/02/10)[12]
- Brooklyn's Finest (29/07/10)[12]
- Daybreakers (25/02/10)[12]
- Easy Money (07/10/10)[12]
- Exam (22/07/10)[12]
- The Expendables (19/08/10)[12]
- Father of My Children (01/04/10)[12]
- Five Minutes of Heaven (29/07/10)[12]
- The Ghost Writer (20/05/10)[12]
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (25/03/10)[12]
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (21/01/10)[12]
- Greenberg (08/07/10)[12]
- The Joneses (12/08/10)[12]
- Love Crime (19/08/10)[12]
- Oceans (22/04/10)[12]
- Of Gods and Men (18/11/10)[12]
- The Road (18/03/10)[12]
- Sarah's Key (28/10/10)[12]
- Splice (16/09/10)[12]
- Tomorrow at Dawn (20/05/10)[12]
2011
- Beloved (15/12/11)[13]
- Colombiana (22/09/11)[13]
- Conan the Barbarian (08/09/11)[13]
- 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]
- Kaboom (28/04/11)[13]
- Last Night (24/03/11)[13]
- Lights Out (10/03/11)[13]
- Margin Call (10/11/11)[13]
- The Mechanic (17/03/11)[13]
- The Monk (01/09/11)[13]
- No et moi (24/02/11)[13]
- Norwegian Wood (06/01/11)[13]
- One Day (06/10/11)[13]
- Rabbit Hole (07/04/11)[13]
- Saw 3D (06/01/11)[13]
- The Son of No One (14/07/11)[13]
- Three (24/03/11)[13]
- Toast (01/09/11)[13]
- Tous les soleils (02/06/11)[13]
- Trust (16/06/11)[13]
- Twelve (20/01/11)[13]
- Unforgivable (27/10/11)[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]
- Moonrise Kingdom (31/05/12)[14]
2013
- Hyde Park on Hudson (10/01/13)[15]
References
- 1 2 Macnab, Geoffrey (3 November 2005). "New Benelux distributor BFD hoovers up Hannibal, Bobby Z". Screen International. Archived from the original on 9 August 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ "Video/Film Express wordt BFD Home Entertainment". Entertainment Business. 5 December 2011. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ "Benelux film Distributors Netherlands (BFD)". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ↑ "Aandeelhouders BFD gaan als zelfstandigen verders". Entertainment Business (in Dutch). 6 June 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
- ↑ Wolfs, Karin (7 June 2011). "Martin Ruttenberg naar Dutch Film Works". Filmkrant (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 15 July 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2025.
- ↑ "A-Film Distribution en Benelux Film Distributors bundelen krachte" (in Dutch). A-Film. 21 May 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- ↑ Berg, Nico (14 September 2015). "Failliete filmdistributeur A-Film trekt films terug uit bioscoop". HP/De Tijd. Archived from the original on 3 February 2026. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Jaarboek 2007" (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Jaarboek 2008" (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Jaarboek 2009" (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Jaarboek 2010" (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 "Jaarboek 2011" (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 "Jaarboek 2012" (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jaarverslag 2012" (PDF) (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
- ↑ "Jaarverslag 2013" (PDF) (in Dutch). Netherlands Association of Film Distributors. 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2026.