Winky's Horse (2005)

Original title

Het Paard van Sinterklaas

Directed by

Mischa Kamp

Genre

Christmas film

Country

Netherlands, Belgium

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

AL

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Chinese girl named Winky Wong moves to the Netherlands with her family. She loves horses and decides to ask Sinterklaas for one.

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What happens

Winky's Horse (Dutch: Het Paard van Sinterklaas) is a 2005 Dutch-Belgian Sinterklaas drama film directed by Mischa Kamp, produced by Burny Bos and written by Tamara Bos, based on her 2002 book Winky en het paard van Sinterklaas. The film follows Winky Wong, who develops a fascination with horses amidst her struggles with her family immigrating from China to the Netherlands, When she hears about the arrival of Sinterklaas, she decides to get one from him this season. The film was released in the Netherlands by Warner Bros. Pictures on 12 October 2005 and received a re-release the following year. The film received positive reviews from critics and won multiple award nominations and wins, it won a Golden Calf award for Best Script of a Feature Film and the film received a Golden Film for 100,000 visitors. The film was re-edited into a four-episode miniseries for television by AVRO in 2007. A sequel, Where Is Winky's Horse?, was released in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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