After 30 years Kirk is still living in the same little village with his dominant mother Ineke. His father disappeared when Kirk was just a young boy. Their sluggish life is brutally disrupted when their new eupeptic neighbor Marcus awakes Kirk and deteriorates the relationship between mother and...
Elegant, short film introduces the lonely, contact-craving museum attendant Vera. One cold winter night, after another day of silently watching visitors in the museum, she finds a sleeping drifter in her doorway. She decides to take pity on him. First, she gives him a blanket and a thermos of tea;...
Comedy inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag.
Meral Özturk is driven to despair when the Dutch Tax Authority wrongfully demands a massive repayment of childcare benefits. As her life falls apart, she discovers a social investigator infiltrating her life, forcing her to make radical decisions to protect her daughters.
After the death of his French wife, Ward tries to pick up the pieces back home in Holland. He hires Romanian worker Doru to reconstruct his house, but when Doru suddenly disappears, Ward is left with Doru's nine year old son Mihai. When Ward travels to Romania in search for Mihai's mother, he has...
A piece of news, delivered by two officers in a police car, changes the lives of a family forever. As the journey to track down the next of kin progresses, the vehicle becomes more and more crowded with family members, picked up from home, work, the hairdressers. As they sit in the backseat, alone...
Aart is madly in love with tramdriver Sonja. When her line is cancelled, he tries all sorts of ways to stay in contact with her. He follows her, waits in front of stores she has visited, and crashes a party of her employer. He discovers there’s another man in her life. But he doesn’t let his...
On a farm in the infinite countryside of North Groningen, David is eating in silence while Claudia looks sulkingly out of the kitchen window. Then three impetuous members of a fanfare ring the doorbell. They are out of petrol and looking for shelter from the rain. The initially silent struggle...
Mira works as a falconer on a rubbish dump. With her birds of prey she is responsible to take care of the inconvenience caused by gulls. When the body of a little baby was found in the dirt, the rubbish dump workers soon have reason to suspect that Mira knows more about it.
The somewhat naïve teenager Alex Meulenaers leaves his hometown, to go study economics in Amsterdam. He is the first of his family to leave Limburg. However, faith has something else in store for him. The movie shows us how Alex sees Amsterdam: sometimes threathening, sometimes absurd and always...
Belle, a young girl is growing up amid the ruins of a long forgotten event. Her playful character and young innocent love for her boyfriend Max become stained by a nonverbal tension that envelops her life step by step. The death of her aunt, whom she lives with, unleashes memories which entangle...
Ton and Ineke Korrel enjoy their warm afternoon soup when a man crashes down from the sky, in their garden. Ton sees a dangerous species lying in his garden, Ineke wants to help. The situation escalates. The couple will soon find out who their other half really is. Hopefully, before it's too late.
Whitefish is a thriller set in a closed Dutch fisherman's village community. Hans, a religious fisherman and his rebellious brother Stijn try to save their necessitous fishing boat. Their difficult relationship seems to put success in the way, until one day they catch a huge amount of drugs in...
