When is the moment you think: I'm going to hoist my regional flag? Who are these flaghoisters? And what does it mean to identify with your region? These are questions that filmmaker Okki Poortvliet, theatermaker Hans van der Werf and designer Vera Vos asked. So, they went through the whole of Drenthe, a region in the North of The Netherlands where all three of them grew up, to collect as many stories as possible from hoisters of the flag of Drenthe. The Flaghoisters is a film about the confrontation between the countryside and, as people from Drenthe call it, “the city dwellers”. A story about a disappearing language, the safety of your village, greeting each other, being proud, and just acting "normal".
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Okki Poortvliet Director · Hans van der Werf Director Vera Vos Director
First release June 21, 2023 · Produced in Netherlands · Original title De Vlaggenhijsers
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Netherlands
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Original title
De Vlaggenhijsers
Original language
Dutch
Spoken on screen
Dutch
Release dates
Netherlands · June 21, 2023
Limited theatrical
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