Ella van der Woude

Movies

Silver Haze
Original Music Composer
23-year-old Franky is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence. They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges of the past.
Moloch
Music
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.
De Huwelijksreis
Music
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.
Paradise Drifters
Music
A fragmented portrayal of three homeless young adults who are heading to southern Europe in search of money, love and happiness.
Instinct
Original Music Composer
Nicoline, a criminal psychologist, begins work at a prison where one of her new cases, Idris β€” an apparently reformed sex offender β€” is preparing for release after five years of confinement. Despite her professional misgivings, she becomes infatuated with her charismatic, manipulative patient.
Heat
Original Music Composer
During an extreme heat wave, a shy girl seeks refuge in an ice cream shop. But when she looks into the eyes of the charming vendor, she is on thin ice.
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Original Music Composer
A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.
In Limbo
Music
Acquitted of a fatal on-duty incident but tormented by its harrowing personal repercussions, a police officer and impending father struggles to piece his uprooted life back together while sent on leave to a holiday resort in Greece.
Ruling
Sound
Ruling portrays the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague. The camera explores the space, choreographing justice procedures and reading the architectural form as if it were a case at the Court. It circulates through different chambers and domains, ending up in the courtroom. Ruling intends to look into the semiotics of power and what it means to rule today. This procedure is translated into an aesthetic gesture which enhances the timeless architecture of the Supreme Court and its design coherency.
Nymphet
Music
A twelve year old girl plays a dangerous game with unforeseeable consequences.