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.
“Een odyssee in Zuid-Limburg” — Omar Larabi, Filmkrant (September 2026)
Dutch film festival 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 Filmed entertainment on 1 October, with an official Limburg premiere at Lumière in Maastricht.
Noël Loozen trained as a photographer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and went on to complete an MA in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy. Photography and film have remained closely intertwined in his work ever since. Based in Amsterdam, he works across fiction, television, installations and commercials.
His short films SPOETNIK (2015) and BOTANICA (2018) marked the start of his career, with SPOETNIK selected for Generation 14plus at the Berlinale. For television, he created MOONRIDERS, a children’s series about art that received two Cinekid Award nominations. His installations OBSTACLE COURSE 2.0 (2018) and DE DIJK (2025) have been presented in public spaces, including Schiphol Airport.
In 2026, his feature debut TOUTES DIRECTIONS, produced by 100% Scripted, closes the Netherlands Film Festival and is released in Dutch cinemas on 1 October by Paradiso Filmed Entertainment. In 2027, he will direct the youth series METROPIA for VPRO, produced by NL Film. He is also developing his second feature, THE ISLAND OF NOSE (Dutch title: TOM TIPPELAAR), with Studio Ruba and screenwriter Saar Ponsioen.
For fiction, I’m represented by Connie Pingen at Solidbase Management (NL).
Commercially, I work in the Netherlands and abroad, represented by:
Sanctuary (US).
100% (NL),
Simon und Paul (DE),
Kaiserschnitt Film (AT)
