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- In German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.
- A girl is awakened to a world of cruelty, shadowy passions and sensuality.
- A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.
- A laid-off book editor sets out to find his teenage daughter when she and her boyfriend go missing on holiday in Namibia.
- During the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, a young woman and a naval officer search for her lost infant son.
- Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
- Eva is afraid of her sex-obsessed stepfather Willem. Feeling forlorn, she meets Ricardo, a streetwise hustler who cheers her up, promising a trip to Paris. But instead he drags her to a sex club where she's held prisoner. Mees, on whom she has a crush, embarks on a desperate search to rescue her but his arrival at the sex club coincides with a police raid, at which point Eva is astonished to discover that Willem is actually an undercover vice cop.
- One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
- If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we sometimes like to think.
- After giving birth to her first child, a happily-married woman sees her picture-perfect life spiral out of control.
- Mahmut, the son of a poor Turkish greengrocer in the Netherlands, dreams of escaping his retail fate by becoming a rapper. But things change radically when he and his best friend Apo find out that a dangerous Turkish gang is extorting money from their fathers. With the help of the police they go undercover within that gang - but can these two aspiring rappers succeed?
- A woman tries to escape a stalker by moving with her children to her sister's isolated beach house.
- The haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends.
- First Mission is a real life drama about the lives and work of a team of doctors on their remote outpost of International Frontline Doctors in South America. The team consists out of young Doctor Marina, the Logistics Manager Barry, Project Coordinator Thijs and local staff members Orlando and Diego; who all work under very difficult and dangerous circumstances. Marina, the lead character, finds out that on the torn continent of Latin-America, it is not about winning prizes, but about being part of the match it self, and that all that matters is to be able to make a difference, even if it is a small one.
- On the island Texel, Marie dreams about mountains; she collects postcards of mountains all over the world. She would love to do something else with her life, but as the only girls in a big poor family in wartime, Marie has no choice: she must marry Paul. The extreme religious and narrow minded population at the island expects her to behave. The arrival of a group of Georgian soldiers brings color, life en love in Marie's life at the colorless Nordsea island. With their music and film, but especially with their inventive and unusual surviving strategies and their radically different vision on life, this isolated group foreigners help Marie to find herself. For the first time in her life, Marie falls in love. Unfortunately, her love for soldier Goga from Kazbek and the friendship with the other soldiers, is not accepted by her family and the other people on the island. Exhorted by the female hero in the Soviet musical 'The Aviatrix of Kazbek', the only film the Georgians carry with them and show as much as possible, Marie takes destiny in her own hands. When the Georgians eventually come in insurrection against the Germans, Marie chooses their side. She finds a unsuspected inner strength during the atrocious aftermath of this resistance, innumerable Georgians get killed, and Goga becomes a prisoner of war.
- Teacher Jochem sticks to the plan he has drawn up for the week-long study trip: in teams, the students will complete various assignments, the highlight of which will be a survival drop at the end of the week. Jochem tries to motivate the students, but has a hard time. Their tangled web of contradictory interests is not good for harmonious cooperation. Jochem has been over-optimistic, and soon the students' own agendas are revealed.
- A collection of classic fairy tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, with a nod and a wink to contemporary times. The film offers characters such as the 'ugly sisters' Paris and Hilton, an updated relationship between Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, homosexuality and corny humor. Also musical scenes in which the characters sing the songs of current pop artists as well as many popular Dutch hits.
- A film inspired on the true story of the two abducted children of Janneke Schoonhoven. She struggled 2 years to get her abducted children back to Holland, from the father that took them to Syria.
- A story on the trials and tribulations of a mother-and-son relationship, which goes downhill after son Damiaan passes his school exams and almost immediately moves into a squat, while his widowed mother Aleid falls for the charms of a skipper and moves in with him just as soon.
- Story centers on childhood friendship in the Dutch tulip fields.
- A slightly surrealistic film about Child, who grows up in a violent butcher family. He resists the family traditions and tries to overcome it by being himself.
- 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.
- R U THERE is the story of Jitze (20), a professional gamer who travels around the world to compete in video game tournaments. During a stay in Taipei he unexpectedly witnesses an accident, which confronts him with his own mortality and makes him doubt the certainties of his existence. When he meets a Taiwanese betelnut girl he is attracted to, he only manages to get close to her in Second Life, which serves to compound his doubts.
- In the days of Franco's dictatorship, a scandalous love affair between the elderly Pepet Tremolls and the eighteen-year-old Rosa Campos de Amor is bafflingly concluded by a suicide on New Year's Eve.
- The impact of pregnancy on a happy young couple.
- A true story that never happened.
- Every day, Johan Puig drives 50 laps in an old 2CV around Camp Nou, FC Barcelona's stadium, to bring good luck to his team. Just like the old days, when his father would take him for this lap. And it works, because Barca's been doing great.
- When Emiel returns home from prison he finds out the relationship with his brother has changed. Did they both become "men" ?
- C'EST DÉJÀ L'ÉTÉ is a portrait of a family, but above all the story of a teenager who's life seems to be pushed of track by the lack of a normal family and desperately, purely by instinctive battle, tries to lift himself out of his wretched, semi-feral existence.
- When st. Nicholas arives at the spanish harbor the boat with the presents for the children has already left. A race against time starts to get on board of the boat before it reaches the Netherlands.
- SEKJOERITIE is a cultural romantic comedy, for the most part told in a fake documentary (a 'romcomentary') Tjitske who makes news items for television gets permission from her boss to make her first long documentary about a hot topic; the increasing popularity of right wing ideas, a film about the 'underbelly' of society. Security guard Bob, seems to be the perfect main character for her film. In his work he meets VIP's, activists, street scum and other assertive people. Smooth talking and with dignity, charm and humor Bob manages to control difficult situations. With both feet in the soil of the multicultural society he appears to be unexpectedly subtle. Tjitske challenges him but is being confronted with her own prejudices. And the more she gets to know Bob, the more she is starting to really like him....
- Heading west tells the story of the chaotic life of Claire (38), woman, lover, daughter, single mother. A filmic essay about life in the big city.
- Tells the love tragedy of the young and insecure detective Joz, who, on the verge of getting married to Maryam, is assigned the high profile case of a murdered prostitute. His relationship is threatened when, as part of the investigation, he meets the alluring Carmen, a beautiful, free-spirited and ambitious young woman. Unable to resist her, he puts his entire future at stake. Setting all principles aside Joz becomes the one person he doesn't want to be...
- After unexpectedly meeting a princess on the way to a concert, a double bass player (Smytsjkov) completely loses the plot and fails to make it to his destination. The film is inspired by a short story by Chekhov. The accompanying music is performed live on stage by an ensemble of eight musicians that includes renowned bassist Quirijn van Regteren Altena.
- As the village of Doel dies a slow death under pressure from the advancing Antwerp docks, the elderly Emilienne tries to continue with her everyday life. But the village pastor Verstraete dies and her friends leave. Ultimately she is also forced to let go as well.
- The father of a severely mentally handicapped boy goes to find his son's run away mother in her native New York.
- Business is going very badly for Erdal Koksal, chef and owner of The Sultan, a traditional Turkish eatery. While trying to keep his oriental restaurant afloat, he must learn that the people around him are not just cooking ingredients, but human beings who should have their own chance to live their dreams.
- Joachim West is so unsuccessful as a writer that in order to escape his financial trouble, he stages his own disappearance. But only after sending his magnum opus--on which he had worked for the past 10 years--to his publisher. Assuming him dead, she sees the masterpiece as the perfect answer to a predicament: her star author, Fabian Remarque, is struck by writer's block. So she decides to publish Joachim's manuscript under Fabian's name.
- Since Kosovo declared its independence in 2008, European judges are working hard to introduce a new Rule of Law in the country and transform it into a modern democracy. Dutch judge Angela Kaptein is assigned to re-establish justice in Mitrovica, a divided city in this new country, but local confrontations between Serbians and Albanians have led to the closure of the courthouse. Will Angela manage to get this court operational again?
- 9 year old Pershang, from Hawler, is trying to find peace after being out casted by her family, school mates and society. When that doesn't work, she finds another way out, she thinks.
- Filmmaker Jesse de Jong is not happy. After a deeply satisfying journey into the jungle, he decides to abandon his life of sophistication and comfort within the city and move to a commune in the countryside. He wants to see if happiness is possible in such new surroundings and with like-minded fellow inhabitants. But can this momentous decision effect the type of life-change that he desires?
- A Woman wants to find out if her husband is cheating her.