
Frank van den Bogaart
Directing
Biography
Frank van den Bogaart (1992) is a Dutch filmmaker based in Ghent, Belgium and Someren, the Netherlands. He graduated with a master's degree in Audiovisual Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 2021. His main focus is genre cinema. He is active as director, writer, 1st assistant director and editor.
Known For

During youth fire brigade training, Mila and Amélie’s friendship grows.
Forged in Fire

Rhena's father tells a story about Atlas, a forest entity that whispers stories of the dead to its trees. That same night he disappears into this forest. Rhena does everything she can to get her father back.
Darker
14 year old Yuri has a strong bond with her father, border patrol guard Lorenzo, dubbed 'The Hunter': not only because he is good at his job, but also because he is a passionate huntsman. In winter, when the snow blurs the contours in the landscape Yuri turns 15. Lorenzo decides that she is now old enough to carry their family's generational rifle. Lorenzo, Yuri and her uncle Ivan drive deep inland to go on a hunting trip for a few days. But Yuri's 'rite de passage', this celebration and almost ritual initiation, takes a disastrous and irrevocable turn. Lorenzo struggles to place the impact the tragedy has on their lives.
Hunters

Rachid, a 21-year-old keen young man of Moroccan descent, has one goal: to find a job. He confidently applies for a job as dishwasher in a restaurant, which to him seems like a job anyone can do. But it soon turns out that all is not as simple as he imagined.
Rachid

Max is six years old and is discovering the world, together with his older brother Billy. However, Billy doesn't understand the world very well, but he does know a lot about space. The two brothers set out to send a message into space, but things do not go as planned.
Spaceboy

When Sarah follows a mysterious sound deep into the forest, she enters the world of The Wild Woman.
Moonlight Woman

Amidst an icy dreamscape, a woman takes refuge in a black metal karaoke bar. Outside, she finds a lone penguin stranded in a tree, cut off from its colony.
Pithead

A passing meteorite connects a roaming young woman, a burned-out factory worker and an unemployed young man during a long winter night. A portrait of the night and the people in it.
Burning Clouds

When Lily wakes up in a surreal cosmetic clinic with someone else's lips on her face, she is determined to find out what happened to her. A colorful, stylized trip with killer lipstick.
Lippen

When nightclub singer Poppy is confronted by a black-eyed man she is filled with fear. The event triggers a buried trauma that she must overcome in a caleidoscopic world of glitter, music and blood.