
Nico van den Brink
Directing
Biography
Nico van den Brink (born February 2, 1986) is a Dutch filmmaker. He is best known for directing the horror film Moloch (2022).
Known For

Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
Moloch

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.
Occupied City

Best friends Amin and Mitchell work as street coaches in the lively neighbourhood of Schijndrecht. Not exactly a flashy job, but that changes when residents suddenly turn into creepy, slimy creatures. Together with a motley crew of local residents, the duo gets the ultimate chance to prove themselves.
Straight Outta Space
Based on the short film of the same name. While visiting her boyfriend's family home, a young woman learns about a sinister history with his unsettling neighbor and soon all kinds of skeletons come out of the closet.
The Burden

On the very eve of shooting his debut film, a harried young director struggles to balance fiction and reality as he spends one fever dream of a night searching for the inspiration that eludes him.
Nocturne
Based on the short film with the same name.
Sweet Tooth
Twelve-year-old Koen's day, and with it his childhood, comes undone when he waits in vain one Saturday morning for his parents to take him to ice hockey practice. He wanders through the strangely empty house in his full hockey gear, bored. In order to kill time he jumps on his parents' bed and tries to scare his distraught older sister. Something seems to be amiss, but the precocious boy can't fathom what.
Fontanel

A visit to their new partner's family home reveals some very awkward things.
The Burden
The tropical plant Divina Gloria comes to fruition once every hundred years. For the duration of only one night she shows her exuberant beauty. Then she dies. In this bittersweet comedy we follow a number of people in the Hortus Botanicus, who witness this short-lived bloom. During the night, they become more and more entranced by this sultry miracle, with an ecstatic outcome.
Divina Gloria
In a bleak dystopian world, a brother and sister have to fend for themselves, finding fleeting moments of joy on a dilapidated carousel.
Gesustere

Thirty-something Nora has had a tough year. When she keeps running into the same man, she realizes it won't get any better soon.
De Huwelijksreis
if Anton's parents get in financial trouble, Anton wants nothing more than to protect them. When he tries this, all certainties fall apart.
Anton

Elin's upstairs neighbours are getting on her nerves.
Sweet Tooth

A farmer's son and his friends clash with the Moroccan newcomers in their rural Dutch community.
Avondland

With her father's memory deteriorating, Kathleen is haunted by visions of a grotesque, shrunken figure that seems to feed on his fading mind.
Homunculus
Unaware of the drama unfolding outside, a young girls tries to find a moment of peace in the serenity of a high school bathroom.
Spiegeltje
Ling is forced to confront her fear of going outdoors when a crazy Indian woman keeps calling her thinking she is her daughter. A story of an unlikely friendship.