Every morning, 71-year-old regional taxi driver Sjef follows the same route through South Limburg, the Netherlands. He picks up elderly passengers who rely on his rattling minibus for their link to the outside world. They are his social life, his anchor. Fired and ordered to hand in his keys, Sjef refuses. He collects them anyway and, at the T-junction where he would normally turn right, drives straight ahead into the unknown. A tragicomic, offbeat coming-of-age film at the very end of life.
Toutes Directions is Noël Loozen’s feature debut, starring Fred Goessens, Michiel Kerbosch, Erik de Jong (Spinvis), Dries Smits, Frieda Pittoors and Irma van Hoof. The film is produced by 100% Scripted and distributed in the Netherlands by Paradiso Films.
NFF news
Toutes Directions closes the 46th edition of the Nederlands Film Festival as the official closing film. The public premiere takes place on Wednesday 30 September at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, with a red carpet and the director and cast in attendance. Erik de Jong, better known as Spinvis and making his acting debut in the film, will perform a short live set of music written especially for the occasion.
The film is released in Dutch cinemas by Paradiso Films on 1 October, with an official Limburg premiere at Lumière in Maastricht.
I was trained as a photographer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie before completing an MA in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy, and the two disciplines have stayed intertwined ever since. I move between fiction, television, installations and commercials, based in Amsterdam.
Short films SPOETNIK (2015) and BOTANICA (2018) opened things up early on, with SPOETNIK selected for Generation 14plus at the Berlinale. For television I created MOONRIDERS, a children’s series about art nominated twice for a Cinekid Award, and my installations OBSTACLE COURSE 2.0 (2018) and DE DIJK (2025) have shown in public space, including at Schiphol Airport.
This year my feature debut TOUTES DIRECTIONS, produced by 100% Scripted, closes the Nederlands Film Festival and opens in Dutch cinemas on 1 October through Paradiso Filmed Entertainment. I’m also shooting the youth series METROPIA forthe VPRO with NL Film in 2027, and developing my second feature, THE ISLAND OF NOSE (Tom Tippelaar in the Netherlands), with Studio Ruba and screenwriter Saar Ponsioen.
Commercially, I work in the Netherlands and abroad, represented by 100% (NL), Simon und Paul (DE), Kaiserschnitt Film (AT) and Sanctuary (US). For fiction, I’m represented by Connie at Solidbase Management (NL).
