Rinke Dellebeke-van-Hell studied at Tilburg University for a M.A. in Culture & Arts (1995-2000) and finished her PhD in Practical Theology in 2016 at VU Amsterdam & ETF Leuven (Joint Degree, on a dissertation relating film viewing & religious identity). She started her career as a film programmer and publicity worker for several movie theatres until 2014. She also worked as a freelance film critic for several Christian publications and as a teacher & researcher for several Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences and the Belgian university ETF Leuven. She currently holds a position as Programme Manager for a Primary School Teacher's Training Programme (B.A.) at HZ University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen, The Netherlands. She is a member of INTERFILM.
Practical theologian, lecturer and film critic
Country of origin
Netherlands
Articles
In the east of Germany, somewhere between Leipzig and Dresden, the city of Chemnitz turns into a children’s walhalla every year, just before the start of the autumn holidays. That’s when the SCHLiNGEL film festival starts – and children take their classes at the cinema rather than at school.
Current issues
"Defiant" by director Visa Koiso-Kanttila wins the Prize of the Church Media Foundation in Finland at the International Chidren's and Youth Festival in Oulu 2025.
The Hof Film Festival is now in its 58th year and has become a hallmark of the city, which is why Hof likes to call itself the “Home of Films,” a phrase that is said to have originated with Wim Wenders. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the Munich film scene came to Hof (...). As a nostalgic reminder, this year there was a 35mm screening of Fassbinder's early work “Gods of the Plague”. Peter Paul Huth reports about the festival.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2