Films, series, exhibitions and publications are shown across multiple venues on Texel — all tied to the festival's themes. Historic squares in Den Burg, industrial spaces in Oudeschild, a dune screen near De Koog, a gallery in Den Hoorn. Each venue has its own character and lets audiences look at the work in a different way.

These programme items are not simply end products — they're starting points for Q&As, conversations, and reflection. After the credits, after the portfolio walk-through, after the opening: a conversation with the makers about how it came together, what choices were made, and what could have been different. Every screen, every wall, every table becomes a workplace.

Texel is an ideal location for this concept — a place where it's possible to be intensely together, without the fragmentation of the city. The journey is a buffer: a train, a ferry, a bike. And once you've arrived, you stay. No last-minute diversion to another event, no distractions, no subway ride home.

That includes the social side of the festival: good food, time on the beach, forest walks, sport, music and informal moments where conversations keep going beyond the official programme. Around a fire, on the sand, at a set table — that's where the collaborations happen that no programme can force on its own.

Omweer therefore wants to be not just a professional but also a social meeting point for the creative sector. In its first years the focus is on the Netherlands and Belgium. In the longer term, possibly an international platform.

Omweer is a new makers' festival on Texel, aimed at the people who actually make creative productions. Filmmakers, photographers, designers, illustrators, writers, composers, content creators — anyone whose work eventually appears somewhere. Where many festivals function primarily as marketplaces for distribution, sales and deals, Omweer wants to make room for meeting, exchange and renewal among makers themselves.

Not only directors and producers, but also camera operators, editors, production designers, art directors, set dressers, sound designers, VFX artists, photographers, graphic designers, typographers, copywriters, screenwriters, and all the other craftspeople who make a production technically and creatively possible. Their craftsmanship is what ends up on the screen, in the magazine, on the wall — and so it deserves a place to meet, to challenge, and to look ahead together.

A festival that doesn't begin at a red carpet, but at the conversation that follows. No sales booth, but a workspace. Across disciplines.