Draft:Rob Rombout

Rob Rombout
Rob Rombout
Born
Robert Rombout

(1953-07-08) 8 July 1953 (age 72)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupations
  • Film director
  • documentarian
  • photographer
  • professor
Years active1983–present
Notable work
Websiterobrombout.com

Rob Rombout (born 8 July 1953) is a Dutch documentary filmmaker, director, photographer and professor based in Brussels and Portugal.[1][2] Across a career of more than four decades, he has directed over fifteen feature documentaries — among them Le Piège de Kerguelen (2000), Amsterdam via Amsterdam (2004), the six-hour road movie Amsterdam Stories USA (2012) and On the Track of Robert Van Gulik (2016) — that have been broadcast across Europe on ARTE, the RTBF, TV5 Monde, France 2 and the Flemish BRTN, and that have circulated in international festivals from IDFA Amsterdam and the Paris Cinéma du Réel to the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and the WorldFest-Houston.[3][4][5]

Amsterdam Stories USA was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 4th Magritte Awards of Belgian cinema in 2014.[6] In 2022 his films became the subject of a 256-page academic monograph by film historian Marc-Emmanuel Mélon of the University of Liège, Rob Rombout. La mise en scène du réel, published by Yellow Now in the Côté cinéma series.[5][7] A second book, the photo monograph Portraits on the Road with a foreword by Dutch novelist Joost de Vries, followed in 2024.[8][9] His work has been the subject of multiple international retrospectives, including a six-film career retrospective at the Maison de l'Image in Strasbourg in November 2022, a dedicated Focus Rob Rombout programme at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris in November 2024 in the framework of France's national Mois du film documentaire, and a programmed screening at the Opéra national du Rhin in 2025–2026.[10][11][12][13]

Rob Rombout is a co-founder of DocNomads, the first joint film master programme in Europe to be awarded the Erasmus Mundus label by the European Commission, and has taught documentary direction at the LUCA School of Arts (formerly Sint-Lukas) in Brussels since 1988. From 2012 to 2018 he served as DocNomads's course director at LUCA, where successive cohorts of students from across the world train in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels.[14][15]

Early life

Rob Rombout was born in Amsterdam on 8 July 1953, into a Dutch family. He moved to Brussels in the mid-1970s and has lived and worked there ever since, latterly dividing his time between Brussels and Portugal while continuing to film extensively in the Netherlands and abroad.[1][2][16]

Career

Canal Emploi and early work (1977–1987)

Rob Rombout's formation as a filmmaker took place at Canal Emploi, a community television channel founded in 1977 in Liège by the University of Liège together with the Belgian trade unions FGTB and CSC. Canal Emploi was one of the first Belgian community broadcasters authorised to operate alongside the public-service RTBF monopoly, and pursued a project of popular education aimed at the unemployed of the Liège region. Rombout joined the channel as a director and was associated with it throughout the 1980s, producing reportage and educational programming until the channel's funding was cut and it ceased operations in 1989.[17] The channel's summer programme drew international guest filmmakers — among them Jean Rouch, Johan van der Keuken and Jean-Louis Comolli — whose visits Rombout has cited as a formative influence.[17] In December 2016 Rombout took part in a public retrospective on Canal Emploi's legacy at the Pianofabriek in Brussels, co-organised by the GSARA and ZIN TV in the framework of the Coupe Circuit festival, alongside fellow Canal Emploi alumni Agnès Lejeune and Jean-Claude Riga.[17]

His earliest video work, Le pouvoir d'achat des chômeurs ("The Purchasing Power of the Unemployed"), produced in this milieu, won the Best Script prize at the Festival Jeunes Cinéastes in Brussels in 1983.[18] His first documentary as an independent filmmaker, L'Homme qui en disait trop (1985), produced by Canal Emploi, followed a shop steward dismissed by Monsanto for defending a colleague accused of theft. Pas de cadeau pour Noël (1986), also a Canal Emploi production, portrayed the displacement and disillusionment of a Rwandan immigrant in Liège, and won the First Prize at the Festival Vidéo PSY in Lorquin (France) in 1987.[19][14]

Entre deux tours (1987) is widely regarded as the turning point in Rombout's early work and the moment at which he broke from social reportage and direct cinema to develop an authored, plastic and essayistic form. The film stages a diptych on two contrasting towers — one built by the visionary stonemason Robert Garcet near Eben-Emael in Belgium and inspired by the Tower of Babel, the other a NATO communications facility at Brunssum in the Netherlands — and incorporates the aesthetics of video art developed in collaboration with editor Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, cinematographer Stéphane Collignon and composer François Weyergans. The film won the First Prize at the Festival international de Vidéo et Télévision de Montbéliard and at the Festival Vidéo & S-8 in 1988.[5][19]

Travel and the sea (1990–1995)

A long cycle of films followed throughout the 1990s, organised around journeys, vehicles and confined working communities. Nord-Express (1990), produced by Paradise Films and Wallonie Image Production (WIP) in coproduction with the RTBF, reconstructed the 47-hour rail journey between Paris and Moscow on the line opened by Georges Nagelmackers in 1896. The film intercuts archival material with footage shot at a moment of historical transition — the fall of the Berlin Wall, the laying of the first French TGV tracks, and the change of bogies at Brest on the Soviet Union's broader gauge. It was selected at the Worldwide Video Festival in The Hague, Vidéos du réel in Saint-Gervais, the Manifestation internationale de vidéo et de télévision de Montbéliard and the Berlin Videofest.[20][21]

Queen Elizabeth 2, Transatlantique (1992) portrayed the last regular transatlantic ocean liner, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2. The film was a Nota Bene production, coproduced with WIP and the RTBF.[22]

Île Noire (The Black Island, 1994), shot aboard the North Sea oil platform F.G. McClintock, observed the closed working community of an offshore rig over an extended residency, with an original score by Belgian composer Jean-Louis Daulne in two registers — one mechanical and rhythmic, drawing on Prokofiev for the industrial sequences, and one melodic and country-inflected for the workers' personal moments. Coproduced by Nota Bene with the RTBF, the Flemish BRTN, Galatée Films, Pandora Productions and WIP with support from the French Community of Belgium and the MEDIA programme of the European Union, the film was selected at the Festival International du Film de Bruxelles, the Paris Cinéma du Réel festival at the Centre Pompidou — the festival co-founded in 1979 by anthropologist-filmmaker Jean Rouch — Filmer à tout prix in Brussels and the Flahertiana International Film Festival in Russia, and was broadcast on France 2 (1995), TSI (1996) and the Planète channels in France, Italy and Poland (1998).[4][3]

Les Açores de Madredeus (1995) was a road movie shot in the Azores with the Portuguese musical group Madredeus; it premiered at the Festival international du cinéma et des nouveaux médias in Montréal in 1997.[19]

Russia and the Amsterdam cycle (1997–2012)

Perm-mission (1999) documented the Flahertiana International Film Festival of documentary cinema in Perm, in the Russian Ural Mountains, where Rob Rombout — the only foreign filmmaker invited to the festival's early editions — observed Russian colleagues at work and the festival's debates conducted at –25 °C. The film won the Special Award at Flahertiana in 2000.[23][14]

From the late 1990s, Rob Rombout developed an extended, multi-film collaboration with the Dutch filmmaker Rogier van Eck organised around the name and idea of Amsterdam. Amsterdam via Amsterdam (1997, with an extended expedition version released in 2004 and broadcast on TV5 Monde and the RTBF) followed the routes of 16th-century Dutch navigators Willem Barentsz and Cornelis de Houtman from Amsterdam to two namesake locations at opposite ends of the world: Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean and Amsterdamøya in the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.[24][25] The film won Best Foreign Film at the Route 66 Film Festival in 2005, a Silver Remi Award at the 39th WorldFest-Houston in 2006, and Best of Fest Nominee in the Feature Documentary and Best Film From Europa categories at the Syracuse International Film & Video Festival in 2006.[26]

Le Piège de Kerguelen (2000), inspired by Jean-Paul Kauffmann's book L'Arche des Kerguelen, accompanied a team of evolutionary biologists from the "Popchat" mission studying feral cats descended from animals abandoned on the Kerguelen Islands during the 18th-century expedition of Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec. The film draws an explicit parallel between the original expedition — sent by Louis XV to find a hypothetical austral continent — and the contemporary scientific mission, both staged in extreme isolation, and uses the comparison to interrogate the futility and necessity of human enterprise. It received a Special Award at the "Man and the Sea" Festival in Vladivostok the same year.[27][14]

Canton, la Chinoise (2001), co-directed with French video art pioneer Robert Cahen, is a 52-minute experimental city portrait of Guangzhou (Canton). A coproduction of Les Films de l'Observatoire, Boulevard des Productions, CICV Pierre Schaeffer Montbéliard-Belfort and Lamy Films with the RTBF and ARTE, it won Best Documentary at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie in 2001 and the Prix TV5 at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal in 2002, and was selected at Filmer à tout prix in Brussels and Images en bibliothèques in Paris.[28][29]

Queen Mary 2, la Reine des Mers (2004) chronicled the construction and maiden voyage of the Cunard flagship RMS Queen Mary 2, with on-screen contributions from architect Stephen Payne, Cunard ship-owner Micky Arison and Commodore Ronald W. Warwick. The film, a Belgian–French coproduction by Dune Productions and ARTE, was broadcast on the channel's prestigious Thema strand on 18 July 2004.[30] Two further films released in the same period — Overloon Penitentiary Centre (2003), on a Dutch prison, and The Jagiellonian University (2004), on the historic Jagiellonian University in Kraków — were produced for Wajnbrosse Productions's 33-episode ARTE/RTBF series Kaleidoscope.[19]

Amsterdam Stories USA (2012), the central work of the Amsterdam cycle, is a six-hour, four-part road movie subtitled East, South, Midwest and West, tracing fifteen small American towns sharing the name Amsterdam from New York City (the former New Amsterdam) to California. American novelist Russell Banks appears throughout as a recurring on-screen interlocutor reflecting on the American Dream and on small-town America.[25] A coproduction of Saga Film, Wallonie Image Production, the RTBF and Pieter van Huystee Film (Amsterdam), the film premiered in the feature-length programme at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2012,[31] and was subsequently screened at Bozar in Brussels in January 2013.[32] It was selected at IndieLisboa, the Festival Étonnants Voyageurs in Saint-Malo and the Tiburon International Film Festival, took the Audience Award at the Lisboa Cinema Festival in 2013, the Grand Prix "Dragoslav Antonijević" at the 22nd International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade in 2013, and was nominated for the Grand Prix at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival.[32][25] In January 2014, Amsterdam Stories USA was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 4th Magritte Awards, the highest national film prize of Belgian cinema.[6]

The film was the subject of a public conversation between the directors and American journalist Tracy Metz at the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam.[33] Reviewing the film for the Belgian film publication Cinergie, critic Jean-Michel Vlaeminckx described its method as a deliberate confusion of reality and fiction in a register reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard's writing on America, "where one no longer knows what is true and what is false, or both at once".[34]

Rob Rombout and Rogier van Eck reunited a decade later for a further co-direction, Amsterdam Side-by-Side (2024).

On the Track of Robert Van Gulik (2016)

On the Track of Robert Van Gulik (2016) is a feature-length portrait of the Dutch sinologist, diplomat and detective novelist Robert van Gulik (1910–1967), creator of the Judge Dee mystery novels. A Belgian–Dutch coproduction by Off World, Zeppers Film & TV and Mollywood with support from the Centre du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel of the French Community of Belgium, the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds and the Netherlands Film Fund, the film was shot in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Japan, the United States and China, tracing van Gulik's life and afterlife through diaries, locations and the people who knew or were inspired by him. It includes contributions from Dutch novelist Arthur Japin and the sinologist Wilt Idema of Harvard University.[35]

The film was officially selected at numerous international festivals, including the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montréal (2018), DocFeed in Eindhoven (2018), the Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival in Kalamata (2018), ARFF Barcelona (2017), the Brisbane International Film Festival in Australia (2017), the Phnom Penh International Film Festival in Cambodia (2017), the Five Continents International Film Festival (2017) and the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht (2017).[35] It was screened internationally at venues including SOAS in London and the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, where a 2022 retrospective screening was paired with the launch of Marc-Emmanuel Mélon's monograph on Rombout's work.[36] A decade after its release, the film returned to active programming in February 2026 at the Lieu d'Europe in Strasbourg, where it was screened in the presence of the filmmaker as part of the cycle L'Europe des Lettres, accompanied by a Robert van Gulik focus at the Médiathèque André Malraux.[37]

Recent and ongoing work

In November 2019, Rob Rombout led a five-day intensive workshop in Villeurbanne with the ERIS association and the Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, in collaboration with the Lumière University Lyon 2, during which a working group of five refugees and nine students produced two collective short films under the title EnVisage on themes of migration, encounter and territory.[19][38]

He has since announced a new feature documentary in development, Video Veterans, a portrait tracking four pioneers of video art from the late 1980s to the present.[16]

Style and themes

In his 2022 monograph, Marc-Emmanuel Mélon situates Rombout's work in the wide interval between fiction and documentary rather than within either category, arguing that for Rombout filmmaking consists in gathering "scattered fragments of reality" and arranging them into deliberately constructed forms in which the filmmaker's gaze takes priority over the subject matter.[5][39] Mélon proposes a working typology of Rombout's films according to their organising figure: clothesline films stretching a single line between two poles and hanging stories along it (Nord-Express); lace films interweaving unrelated characters; star films built around a central point to which the narrative repeatedly returns; and constellation films drawing imaginary figures across vast territories from arbitrarily linked locations — most fully realised in Amsterdam Stories USA.[40]

Recurrent themes across the work include travel, the sea, exile, the relationship between place and memory, and the question of predestination as it bears on individual lives — a concern Rombout has discussed in interviews around Amsterdam Stories USA, where the road movie form becomes a way of asking whether the lives encountered along the way could have unfolded differently.[16] A formal feature noted across his career is the consistent treatment of well-known interlocutors (Russell Banks; the members of Madredeus; Robert van Gulik's witnesses) and anonymous subjects in the same documentary register, refusing the hierarchy by which the famous typically frame the unknown.[34]

Reviewing the 2022 monograph, the Dutch–Flemish cultural review Les Plats Pays described Rombout as "an archivist of the image" and a documentarian whose films are designed to remain watchable decades after their release; the same review records his stated artistic ambition: "I dreamt of making films that could still be watched decades later."[16] Mélon, for his part, compares Rombout's approach to that of the photographer Walker Evans, whose self-description of his work as being of a "documentary style" Rombout adopts as his own.[40]

Photography and exhibitions

Alongside his films, Rob Rombout has developed a substantial body of photographic work drawn from four decades of travel and location filming. Selected images were collected in the 2024 photo book Portraits on the Road, published by Yellow Now with a foreword by Dutch novelist Joost de Vries, deputy editor of the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. The book gathers brief encounters made on shoots, location scouts and journeys "in anonymous places with no history, where there seems to be nothing to see or do".[8][9]

Rob Rombout leading a documentary workshop

On the Road touring exhibition (2024–2026)

Since 2024, Rob Rombout has been engaged in a continuous international touring exhibition titled On the Road, combining photography, film screenings, lectures, workshops and book presentations. The exhibition is structured around his decades of documentary travel and is conceived as a long-form companion both to the Portraits on the Road book and to Amsterdam Stories USA.[41][16]

The tour to date has included presentations at:

  • the Atelier Néerlandais in Paris (November–December 2024), in partnership with the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles and the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière;[41][12]
  • the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, where Rombout was the subject of a dedicated Focus Rob Rombout programme in November 2024 in the framework of France's national Mois du film documentaire, with the filmmaker in attendance, screening multiple parts of Amsterdam Stories USA alongside On the Track of Robert Van Gulik;[12] the accompanying Amsterdam Stories USA gallery installation subsequently travelled to Lisbon and the Netherlands in autumn 2025;[16]
  • a dedicated cycle at the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon (September 2024), where Rombout was the institution's monthly invited guest, programming a list of essential road movies alongside screenings of his own work;[42]
  • the Koppelkerk in Bredevoort, Netherlands, where Rombout held a one-week artist residency in November 2025 followed by the exhibition Portraits on the Road (7 November 2025 – 18 January 2026), a two-day masterclass during the Achterhoek Museum Weekend, the launch of a derived photo book On the Road – in Bredevoort on 22 April 2026, and a second exhibition of sixteen portraits of Bredevoort residents made during the residency (24 April – 3 May 2026);[2][43][44][45]
  • the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg (2025–2026 season), where two of his "island films" — Le Piège de Kerguelen and Les Açores de Madredeus — were programmed in the presence of the filmmaker as part of the Festival Arsmondo Îles;[13] and
  • the Lieu d'Europe in Strasbourg, where On the Track of Robert Van Gulik was screened in February 2026 in the presence of the filmmaker, in partnership with the Médiathèque André Malraux and Le Lieu Documentaire, in the framework of the cycle L'Europe des Lettres.[37]

Strasbourg retrospective and earlier exhibitions

In November 2022, the Maison de l'Image in Strasbourg hosted a five-day retrospective titled Rob Rombout, parcours d'un cinéaste, programming six of his feature documentaries — Les Açores de Madredeus, Île Noire, Canton, la Chinoise, Le Piège de Kerguelen, Les Passagers de l'Alsace and the fourth part of Amsterdam Stories USA — and culminating in a public masterclass with the filmmaker. The retrospective was co-organised by Le Lieu Documentaire, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris and the SAFIRE association, and was scheduled to coincide with the publication of Mélon's monograph by Yellow Now.[10][11]

Earlier solo presentations include the Lukas Gallerij in Brussels (2015, Amsterdam Stories USA); a retrospective with masterclasses at GuimarãesCinema&Som in Guimarães, Portugal (2016); the Palacete dos Viscondes in Porto (2016, The Amsterdam Project); a retrospective at DocFeed in Eindhoven (2018); the Webb Gallery at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia (2018, The Amsterdam Project); and two exhibitions in Liège (2018) at the Société Libre d'Émulation and at La Space Collection (Being (Not) There: Entre Ici et la Chine and Trains, Ships & Cars).[46]

Teaching

Rob Rombout has taught documentary direction at the LUCA School of Arts (formerly Sint-Lukas) in Brussels since 1988. He has also held teaching positions at INSAS, RITS, Lusófona University in Lisbon, Paris 8 University, and at the Marc Bloch faculty of the University of Strasbourg, and was for ten years course director at the SKDA Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema in Vietnam, where he led recurring documentary workshops in the framework of the cultural cooperation programme of the Wallonia–Brussels Federation.[47][14][11] A 2014 INSAS–SKDA workshop he led in Hanoi alongside Thomas Gastinel and Rogier van Eck, supported by Wallonie-Bruxelles International, produced thirteen short documentary portraits of Hanoi residents.[48]

He is a co-founder of DocNomads, a two-year Erasmus Mundus joint master's degree in documentary film directing delivered jointly by Lusófona University in Lisbon, the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) in Budapest and LUCA in Brussels, and recognised by the European Commission as the first joint master's programme in the field of film to receive the Erasmus Mundus brand. He served as the programme's course director at LUCA from 2012 to 2018 and remains involved as a founding member.[15][14]

Beyond his regular teaching, Rob Rombout has been a guest professor, lecturer and jury member at the Beijing Film Academy in China; the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil; the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow; Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; Syracuse University in New York; the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon; the American University of Technology (AUT) in Beirut, where he has led an intensive documentary workshop on four occasions, most recently in 2023; Vidéographe in Montréal; and the Human Rights Film Festival in Sucre, Bolivia.[14][47][49] He has led further documentary workshops in Brazil, Vietnam, China, Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Greece, including a 2022 masterclass with the Greek Society of Cinematographers and the Video Art Laboratory of the Athens School of Fine Arts in connection with the Kalamata Short Docs Film Festival.[47]

Industry roles and recognition

Rob Rombout served as vice-president of the Belgian committee of the SCAM (Société civile des Auteurs Multimedia) for ten years, between 1998 and 2005 and again from 2009 to 2013, and as a member of the Belgian SCAM committee throughout that period.[47] He has sat on funding and selection panels including the SCAM Paris Brouillon d'un rêve commission, the Centre du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel of the French Community of Belgium, and the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF). He sits on the advisory board of the American University of Technology in Beirut.[47]

Filmography

Documentary features as director
Year Title Notes
1983 Le pouvoir d'achat des chômeurs Early video work; Best Script Prize, Festival Jeunes Cinéastes, Brussels (1983)
1985 L'Homme qui en disait trop Portrait of a Monsanto shop steward in conflict with his former employer; Canal Emploi production
1986 Pas de cadeau pour Noël Portrait of a Rwandan immigrant in Liège; First Prize, Festival Vidéo PSY Lorquin (1987)
1987 Entre deux tours Allegorical diptych on two towers in Belgium and the Netherlands
1990 Nord-Express The Paris–Moscow rail line; coproduction Paradise Films / WIP / RTBF / CAC-CICV Montbéliard
1992 Queen Elizabeth 2, Transatlantique Aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2; Nota Bene / WIP / RTBF
1994 Île Noire (The Black Island) Life on the North Sea oil platform F.G. McClintock; selected at Cinéma du Réel (Paris); broadcast on France 2, TSI and Planète
1995 Les Açores de Madredeus Road movie in the Azores with Madredeus
1997 Amsterdam via Amsterdam Co-directed with Rogier van Eck
1999 Perm-mission With Russian filmmakers in Perm; Special Award, Flahertiana 2000
2000 Le Piège de Kerguelen Scientific expedition to the Kerguelen Islands
2001 Canton, la Chinoise 52 min; co-directed with Robert Cahen; coproduction RTBF / ARTE
2002 Les Passagers de l'Alsace Eight portraits in Alsace
2003 Overloon Penitentiary Centre From the Kaleidoscope series (ARTE / RTBF)
2004 Amsterdam via Amsterdam (expedition version) Co-directed with Rogier van Eck; broadcast on TV5 Monde and the RTBF
2004 Queen Mary 2, la Reine des Mers Construction and maiden voyage of the RMS Queen Mary 2; Dune Productions / ARTE Thema
2004 The Jagiellonian University From the Kaleidoscope series; portrait of Jagiellonian University in Kraków
2010 Panamerica, roadmovie
2012 Amsterdam Stories USA Six-hour, four-part road movie (East / South / Midwest / West) across fifteen American towns named Amsterdam; co-directed with Rogier van Eck; premiered at IDFA 2012; nominated, Best Documentary Feature, 4th Magritte Awards (2014)
2016 On the Track of Robert Van Gulik Portrait of writer-diplomat Robert van Gulik; coproduction Off World / Zeppers / Mollywood; with Arthur Japin and Wilt Idema
2019 EnVisage Two collective short films directed in workshop with refugees and students at MLIS Villeurbanne
2024 Amsterdam Side-by-Side Co-directed with Rogier van Eck
TBA Video Veterans In development; portrait of four pioneers of video art[16]

Awards and honours

Year Festival or institution Award Film
1983 Festival Jeunes Cinéastes, Brussels Best Script Prize Le pouvoir d'achat des chômeurs
1987 Festival Vidéo PSY, Lorquin First Prize Pas de cadeau pour Noël
1988 Festival Vidéo & S-8 Best Video Entre deux tours
1988 Festival international de Vidéo et Télévision de Montbéliard First Prize (Grand Prix) Entre deux tours
2000 Flahertiana International Film Festival, Perm, Russia Special Award Perm-mission
2000 "Man and the Sea" Film Festival, Vladivostok Special Award Le Piège de Kerguelen
2001 Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie Best Documentary Canton, la Chinoise
2002 Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal Prix TV5 Canton, la Chinoise
2005 Route 66 Film Festival, Springfield, USA Best Foreign Film Amsterdam via Amsterdam
2006 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival (39th) Silver Remi Award Amsterdam via Amsterdam
2006 Syracuse International Film & Video Festival Best of Fest Nominee — Feature Documentary, Best Film From Europa Amsterdam via Amsterdam
2013 Lisboa Cinema Festival Audience Award Amsterdam Stories USA
2013 22nd International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade Grand Prix "Dragoslav Antonijević" Amsterdam Stories USA
2013 Taiwan International Documentary Festival Grand Prix nomination Amsterdam Stories USA
2014 4th Magritte Awards of Belgian cinema Nomination, Best Documentary Feature Amsterdam Stories USA
2015 MIFEC, Porto Prémio Aurélio Paz dos Reis (career achievement) —

Bibliography

Books by Rob Rombout

  • Rombout, Rob. Portraits on the Road. Foreword by Joost de Vries. Crisnée: Yellow Now, 2024. ISBN 978-2-87340-502-1.[9][8]
  • Rombout, Rob. On the Road – in Bredevoort. Bredevoort: Koppelkerk, 2026 (book launch, 22 April 2026).[44]

Books about Rob Rombout

  • Mélon, Marc-Emmanuel. Rob Rombout. La mise en scène du réel. Crisnée: Yellow Now, coll. Côté cinéma, 2022, 256 p. ISBN 978-2-87340-480-2.[5]

See also

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