Philip van den Hurk

Team KIRAC hopes to extract some money from King Philip (a.k.a. Philip van den Hurk), a millionaire art collector. But Philip lures them into a strange affair with international star curator Charles Esche.

Artist Stefan Ruitenbeek and Collector Philip van den Hurk reflect upon a dark moment in their relationship.

The film begins in Cairo, in Tariks cabaret, where Tarik puts on a magnificent show for art-collector Philip, leaving him starstruck. The film ends in conflict back in Holland, where Stefan tries to blackmail Philip into buying Tariks paintings.

Buse, a teenager from Istanbul, is an art student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She wants to make a movie about her experiences at the school but she is afraid she will be kicked out for making a critical film about the world-renowned institution.

Join Team-KIRAC on a dark trip to Cairo, as they try to transform King Philip (a.k.a. art collector Philip van den Hurk) into the ultimate "maecenas".

“Male Love” explores the intrigue and drama of a million-euro art deal. I’m an artist caught in the center, filming the deal while wrestling with feelings of resentment as the Boijmans Museum spends heavily on another artist’s work. As I scheme to disrupt the deal, Philip, the art collector, grows suspicious. The tension escalates and intermediaries, a city councillor and a law professor, step in to mediate the conflict.

Sandra has fled cold Toronto. She thought she could be a loving wife, but when the lockdowns forced her to spend one hundred percent of her time with her husband, she found it so awful that the only option was to run away.