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- A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.
- Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house.
- A sturdy flight attendant has to deliver a child in mid-air and gets involved in a confusing mother/lover relationship with a boy who's living under the streets of Bucharest.
- Follows Filippo, a skeptical Catholic priest who becomes attracted and unsettled by a mute young woman, and gets entangled in a series of apparently miraculous events that undermine his vocation.
- When 15 year old Ruby realizes she is having her period, she doesn't want to ask her mother to buy her period products, because she knows their financial situation doesn't really allow it. She sets out to solve this problem herself.
- A family that has fled from Ghana is overjoyed when they are offered a home in a nice neighborhood in the Netherlands. However, when the father starts seeing terrifying events occurring in their home, a new nightmare begins.
- A bomb explodes in a shopping mall. Sam the security agent tries to save the victims, but at the end he runs off. Later he encounters all the people he saved. They all think that somehow he is responsible for what happened.
- Rayco, an eight-year-old boy, and his 14-year-old sister, Paula, kill time in any way they can, as they wait excitedly for Michael Jackson's visit to Tenerife. When their mother becomes pregnant by a foreign man, Rayco and Paula worry their lives might change before the singer reaches the island.
- Polish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer.
- A chance meeting between a Dutch cleaner and an African asylum seeker leads to an unexpected relationship and two extraordinary weeks.
- Raised in a home broken by wartime trauma, the frustrated teenage son of a Dutch Holocaust survivor starts down a path of further tragedy when he finds belonging in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads.
- Abigail (Abi) is the most curious girl from the South East part of Amsterdam. She runs around from apartment to apartment seeking for new adventure. Because of her curiosity sometimes she gets into trouble but Abi always find a way out of awkward situations. In the series Abi is a role model for a multicultural environment.
- With the very first day of high school right around the corner, a final summer night turns out to be a deciding moment between childhood and adulthood for a close-knit group of friends, when one of them mysteriously disappears.
- A contemporary black caper crime comedy.
- For their annual trip, Lena -originally from Sweden- invites her close group of friends to a Frisian island to celebrate the Swedish Midsummer Night tradition. For the first time Meike, an outsider is invited. As with all friendships, in this thirty-something group of friends some secrets are shared, and others remain untold.
- Overwhelmed by her father's sudden disability, Esra becomes entangled in a web of lies. Only once the emotions smoldering inside the nine-year-old finally rush to the surface can she begin coming to terms with her new reality.
- The quirky Dutch-Jamaican Hadiah Tromp (21) is the daughter of Navy officer Tromp, who believes his daughter is a perfect fit for the Navy. But Hadiah doesn't like her Navy training. She prefers to stay at home and listen to her collection of old Ska records. When her boyfriend cheats on her, she decides to finish her Navy training. But Hadiah has difficulties feeling at home in the disciplined and closed environment of the naval frigate and she has constant collusions with the handsome but stern Sergeant Major Paul Borremans. Can the impulsive Hadiah stand tall in the Navy world full of rules? Or is she forced to leave the ship early?
- In a shanty town near Madrid, a group of squatters are forced to leave their self-built homes when the land they live on is sold. While this process slowly unfolds, the different members of the Spanish Gabarre Mendoza family struggle, each in their own way, with their newly uprooted lives.
- A mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love and connection in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
- Holiday bus driver Mario has spent his entire life shuttling old age pensioners to the sunny south with his own travel company 'Paradise Trips'. Today, on the verge of his own retirement, Mario has to bring a motley crew of alternative partygoers to a psychedelic festival in Croatia. The journey soon turns into a fascinating trip that confronts Mario with his own prejudices and his long-lost son.
- The story is about Ester, a nine-year-old girl, who has to conquer her fear of unfamiliar surroundings. Together with her father she moves into a new neighborhood where she is being ignored by the other children living there. One day when her father has to work, he tells her to go and play at Ms. Richmond's. Outside the children from the neighborhood warn Ester for Ms. Richmond. The story goes that Ms. Richmond used to have lots of children, but that they were all eaten by her toilet. A bit disturbed, Ester visits Ms. Richmond. During her visit she learns that Ms. Richmond and her toilet are quite different from what she imagined them to be. With this visit she conquers her fear, gains her confidence, and earns respect from the children in the neighborhood.
- Short stories about children's fears and the way they use their rich fantasy to combat them.
- When Nova (15) brings her sister Ivy to soccer practice with her mother Maria, Ivy's trainer Nadia tells them that Ivy can't participate in her practice since the contribution hasn't been paid. The situation turns into a conflict and Maria takes her daughters home. Nadia puts a comforting hand on Nova's shoulder, and her heart skips a beat. At home, Nova can't stop thinking about Nadia, and gets overwhelmed with a feeling she has never had before.
- As a young couple find themselves lost in Amsterdam en route to their own engagement dinner, tensions arise at the restaurant where their friends and family are waiting for them.
- Yuki misses her older, deceased sister Iwa terribly. In a dream they have an exciting adventure that teaches Yuki to let go of her sister and trust in her Ki.
- Marc-Antoine has stayed behind in tourist-abandoned Corsica. He promised his summer love Marie he would visit her in Paris in November. His friend Mickael is full of plans to leave, but Marc-Antoine is unable to escape his solidified routine.
- A playful 'nobody' at a famous investment bank becomes a successful trader overnight. As he's gradually becoming estranged from himself, he still seems unable to lose.
- The dance film Zugvögel (migrating birds) is part of a multi disciplinary project by the internationally renowned choreographer Jirí Kylián. Zugvögel was recorded on location in The Netherlands and in Germany. In May 2009 the dance and the film were shown at the 'Opernhaus' in Munich. The film was directed by Boris Paval Conen together with Jirí Kylián. The music is by Han Otten.
- Daan Durft is a short film about nine-year-old Daan, who really gets excited about taking up swimming once he discovers his mother's old swimming medals in the attic. When his school teacher encourages him to join the nearest local swimming club, Daan finds out that his mother is definitely not amused. She is afraid that Daan inherited her cardiac problems. She is not at all confident that he can take up physical sports. She suggests that he should take a medical test before he starts training for the Youth Olympic Games of 2018. Despite his mothers fears Daan doesn't wait and starts training behind her back. Will Daan's dream come true? Will his parents support him and is his mother able to deal with a dream that in the past turned out to be a nightmare for her?
- Following the death of her stepmother, a young woman leaves her life in the USA behind, and rekindles the bonds with her Indonesian-Dutch grandmother.
- Suspense film from the "Cine 100" series about a deserted motel, a woman with a broken-down car, a shower curtain and a knife.
- When stuttering Stef (17) decides to tell his grandmother about his studies at her birthday party, his family stop him from speaking, as they always do. But this time Stef refuses to remain silent.
- Robbie, a divorced Amsterdam commoner, is meanly denied access to his son Tommi, except for monthly visitation. He grudgingly accepts when a loan shark offers to scrap his debt and throw in some cash for a simple service. Robbie must simply trick Marius, a man he never knew, to the port for a fictitious job. As he gets to know Marius, he starts feeling for the generous sociable type. His conscience wants him to warn the mark he's likely to be beaten up.
- A successful young artist faces his demons as he finds himself committed to a criminal hospital for a drug-induced crime he can't remember committing.
- Small events in the lives of three people eventually lead to the moment at which a boy throws a rock from a bridge to hit a car. Small, unimportant causes can have big consequences.
- A young boy and his young sister are playing on a rubbish dump, acting out their parents' divorce. For this they use their father's things which their mother brought to the dumping ground out of anger. The girl only wants to use their fathers things, but the boy finds something that he finds much more interesting.
- Seven-year-old Sammy from Almere goes on vacation to her aunt Sjaan in Paramaribo, where she discovers the different cultures of Suriname and makes new friends.
- What happens if someone loses control over his own life and at the same time searches for grip in ascending and descending devices? A winterly story about loss, desire and airplanes.
- A film about friendship, two separate souls who are captured by the ways of life. Times are changing. The friendship becomes brittle and the days of chilling and senseless driving are coming to an end.
- Abigail is the most curious girl from the South East part of Amsterdam. She runs around from apartment to apartment seeking for new adventure. Because of her curiosity sometimes she gets into trouble but Abi always find a way out of awkward situations. In the series Abi is a role model for a multicultural environment.
- When there is a break-in in her home, interior buyer Helen (38) is in shock. Many of her possessions with which she had dear relationships are taken from her. With this theft, she discovers that she has lost a part of herself that is not easy to replace.
- A group of close friends and family members from South-America gather together in a small apartment in Amsterdam for a farewell party. The party is thrown for Diego, who will return to Chile together with his son after visiting his brother Pablo for a month. Pablo has lived in the Netherlands with his Dutch wife and daughter since he fled his country in the late 70's.
- A stranger arrives in a new country wanting to build a new life.
- At his sunnet, his circumcision party, 7 year old Turkish boy Cihan, finds out that becoming a real man takes more of him, then just being circumcised.