BIOGRAPHY
Nina Karim van Oort (1991) studied Fine Arts at ArtEZ in Arnhem and graduated in 2015 from the Dutch Film Academy with her short documentary JOYLAND (2015), which premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival (2015). In the same year, she directed the short IN NAME OF PUCK (NPO, 2015). In January 2019, she completed her debut short A CLUB CALLED WILLPOWER (Door Wilskracht Sterk, Tangerine Tree + NTR), which had its world premiere at DocuDays Ukraine (2020) and was screened at several festivals. Currently, she is working on her first mid-length documentary, titled THE SUM OF LOVE (Docs by Pupkin + NTR).
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
My films focus on human relationships and capture processes of change. By giving a voice to the difficult emotions and complex decisions that accompany these processes, I hope to bring people closer, creating understanding and a sense of kindness: toward others, even when we don’t agree with their choices, and kindness toward ourselves.
I am particularly moved by how people find faith after experiencing profound doubt. In this way, my films are almost always about hope or the search for it. Beneath these personal and moslty character-driven stories, my documentaries have a strong social character, questioning how our society functions and how we define value.
As a filmmaker I do not believe in a fixed reality. For me, the creative process is a constant interaction. New realities arise in the contact between me, the creative choices that I make and the characters.
