Lotte Salomons (The Hague, 2000) graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2021 as a documentary filmmaker. For her graduation, she made both the documentary "BELLUM" and the animated film "Verlangen", which was awarded the Topkapi Films Fiction Prize and the Prize of the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists. Her short film "Monsters onder het bed" was selected for multiple festivals, nominated for Best Short Documentary, and won the Children’s Jury Award at the Olympia Film Festival in 2024.
Lotte her films are conceptual and take different forms. The form arises from the content and from her motivation to explore a specific theme. She focuses on the complexity of human relationships, particularly parent-child dynamics, and investigates themes such as the longing for security and the inability to find fulfillment. Her films are often experimental in nature and emerge from an intuitive feeling, which she shapes through image, sound, and language. She aims to create films that move the viewer on a sensory and emotional level.
In 2025, she made the short film "Sanyi Kakas", which premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival and had its international premiere at the Warsaw International Film Festival. The film won the short competition documentary prize and is now eligible to qualify for the oscars. She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary.