SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

The Flemish director Stijn Coninx never doubted that “Soeur sourire,” his biopic of Belgium’s chart-topping singing nun Jeanine Deckers, could be anything other than a French-speaking film. “It had to ...

Each episode Schaap challenges herself to learn a new Dutch dialect. She meets up with other famous Dutch and Flemish people, who originate from or live in the region where the dialect is spoken.