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- A promiscuous young woman struggles with her emotions when the one man she cares deeply about, her equally restless father, finally finds true love.
- Three women get caught in the world of human trafficking, prostitution and organized crime when one their husbands disappears. The women, with a completely different background, meet on a similar turning point in their life.
- The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
- Three youngsters go on a road trip to Seville that will change their lives forever.
- Out of Love encapsulates the sweltering and devastating dynamics of love in the turbulent relationship between Varya and Nikolai, where genuine love and hope contend with destruction and despair.
- A young boy and his father have a difficult relationship, but are trying to reach each other. They need a catalyst to make that happen.
- Forensic psychiatrist Fokke Augustinus makes an unexpected career change when he inherits his father's mansion in Groningen where he becomes involved with a criminal organization with a marijuana plantation on his father's land.
- "Eileen" is loosely based on the story of Tanja Nijmeijer, the student who joined the FARC to fight for the poor and oppressed population at the bottom of Colombian society. Eileen grows up in Groningen in a harmonious family. She is a happy, socially engaged young woman who studies Spanish and is active in the squatting movement. She receives the opportunity to become an intern in Bogota, Colombia. Even though she stays in an decent environment, she is also exposed to the atrocious living conditions in the slums. On her return to the Netherlands, Eileen has changed. She finds her friends from the squatting movement spoiled and egocentric. They have no interest for the really relevant, political problems, like the ones she was confronted with in Latin America. Against the wishes of her family she goes back to Colombia, because she finds she has to be there in order to do something about the injustice that prevails. In Bogota, she comes in contact with the FARC through a Colombian student she met in Groningen. She is tested and in the end conscripted into the resistance movement. Her initial enthusiasm and faith in the cause are put under pressure when she becomes involved in actions that are unacceptable in her opinion. However, slowly her values shift. She radicalizes and becomes on of the most dedicated fighters. She also turns into an international symbol of the FARC, an important weapon in the PR strategy of the guerrilla movement. But is this really what is looking for? And is her family just going to put up with it?
- When everyone in town falls under the spell of charismatic cosmetic surgeon Doctor Coppelius, feisty Swan must save her sweetheart Franz before his heart is used to spark life into Coppelia, the robot-woman the Doctor has created.
- About a young couple Adam and Eva, who live in Amsterdam.
- In 1988 Amsterdam, a Dutch police detective finds himself on a bittersweet journey of discovery as he investigates the mysterious demise of jazz icon Chet Baker, found dead on the street below his hotel room in the city center.
- Eleven-year-old Lauren, together with her big brother Wout and sister Marit, fits the house when their parents are away for a weekend. Lauren's silent admiration for her brother and her sense of being excluded are competing.
- What does it take to express yourself? The surprising and moving story of Madonna's most famous troupe of dancers.
- ZENITH tells the story of Fay (14) and Boris (10) who discover that their parents secretly replaced themselves by robots. Claudia and Joost each have demanding jobs and even though they try very hard, they are not able to combine their jobs with spending quality time with their children. When Fay and Boris find out that their parents are not their real parents and that they can control the robots to do whatever they want, the situation gets out of hand. Boris, Fay, Claudia and Joost slowly realize they need each other as a family and when the robots become uncontrollable, they can only clear up the mess by working together.
- The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death.
- The charismatic leader of an artist collective based in Copenhagen plan an art heist. He intends to steal six of the worlds most famous paintings.
- A hyperactive young boy navigates family life and primary school as both he and his surroundings attempt to make sense of his restlessness and uncontrollable imagination.
- A mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love and connection in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.
- Two deaf teenagers fall in love and run away from their disapproving parents, only to discover one of the young lovers carries a dark secret.
- In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago. This late-medieval artist lived his entire life in the city, causing uproar with his fantastical and utterly unique paintings in which hell and the devil always played a prominent role. In preparation for the exhibition, a team of Dutch art historians crisscrosses the globe to unravel the secrets of his art. They use special infrared cameras to examine the sketches beneath the paint, in the hope of discovering more about the artist's intentions. They also attempt to establish which of the paintings can be attributed with certainty to Bosch himself, and which to his pupils or followers. The experts shuttle between Den Bosch, Madrid and Venice, cutting their way through the art world's tangle of red tape, in a battle against the obstacle of countless egos and conflicting interests. Not every museum is prepared to allow access to their precious art works.
- Rosa is a teenage girl who has to move to Groningen because her mother got a new boyfriend: Alexander. She feels like she doesn't fit in in the new school and she sees her life changing. The only thing what stays the same is her friends who she chats with over the Internet. The life of a teenager can be complicated. Rosa goes through a difficult time trying to explore her identity with a lot of creativity. The serie is inspired by a book serie: "hoe overleef ik..." By Francine Oomen.
- De Prooi tells the story of the rise and fall of Dutch banker Rijkman Groenink and the fall of ABN AMRO Bank. It is based on the acclaimed novel by research journalist and professor Jeroen Smit. Groenink is a briljant banker. Most of his colleges see him as a financial wonderboy. In 2000 he is chosen as chairman of the Board of Directors of ABN AMRO Bank. In his inauguration speech he states that ABN AMRO will be within the top 5 of the worlds biggest operational banks and will focus only on shareholder value. To achieve this ambitious position, Rijkman starts to negotiate with other banks in order to be able to purchase them. Soon is it is very clear his professional strategy and ambition is not supported by his personal skills. Rijkman is not empathic and his sick jokes make more enemies then friends and cost the bank more money than he will admit. The young and beautiful Julia Bouwens is appointed as Rijkmans personal assistant. Although she has the right qualifications, her main goal is to make sure Rijkman is improving his social skills in order to be more successful in strategic business meetings. Although in 2005 business magazine Elsevier acclaims Groenink as 'Dutch businessman of the Year', the downfall of the bank has already set in. Big purchases cost the bank more than calculated. After a number of dramatic incidents, Rijkman has to do everything to prevent the bank from being split and sold. But he will not succeed. In 2007 a consortium of three banks, Fortis, RBS and Banco Santander, take over ABN AMRO and Rijkman Groenink has to leave. The Perfect Prey is not a series about the question of guilt or who is to blame for the fall of one of the biggest banks in the Netherlands. It is a psychological drama about the mechanisms of power at work in a era in which people believed money was everywhere and inexhaustible.
- A chronicle of legendary Dutch singer Ramses Shaffy's rise to fame, from his early days as a stage actor in late 1950s Amsterdam to his emergence as a national music icon throughout the following two decades.
- A Parked Life is an intimate portrait of Petar Bonchev, one of the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European truck drivers who work in the west.
- A price conscious older couple wins a prize when they become the 100,000 customer in a supermarket. The price is free shopping for 60 seconds. Unexpected problems arise.
- In March 2018, the last male northern white rhino remaining on earth died. His name was Sudan, and after 42 years on this planet he had lived his - and his species' - life to the very end. THE LAST MALE ON EARTH shows his last years on earth, in which he was not alone. Ever since he was the last one, armed bodyguards protected him, tourists were standing in line to take a photo with him, journalists rushed to Kenya to tell his story and, still now, scientists are determined to find ways to reproduce his species. What is so attractive about the threat of extinction? How does this reflect on us? A difficult topic served in a light and elegant, but serious form. For even though the irony of man's (self) destructive dominance on earth has become clear to most people, Sudan stands heavily and majestically in the midst of it all, like a mirror image of our own megalomania. Floor van der Meulen's debut film testifies to an extraordinary talent for balancing the many parallel narratives of the rhinoceros Sudan's last days and in the human tragicomedy that unfolds around him.
- A musical documentary about the emancipation of Nigerian woman who have been exploited and humiliated as prostitutes in Europe and now, filled with a lust for life, are embarking on a new life. A growing group of illegal prostitutes from West Africa has settled in the suburbs of major cities in Europe. For most of them the European adventure is a disappointment that ends when they are arrested and fly back to Nigeria empty handed.The film shows the development of two woman who after returning to Nigeria, try to build a new life. Music, as a source of comfort, pleasure and beauty plays an important role in the lives of the woman and in the film, with songs by Nneka one of Nigeria's best producers and vocalists.
- While his colleagues are preparing for their exciting vacation plans, Joost dreams away looking at a film on his PC; The unattainable blockbuster adventures of his favorite action hero. When he accidentally locks himself in the utility room, he is forced to find the hero within.
- Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.
- A story about five young people who neither feel male nor female, but rather position themselves somewhere in between. They all have their own struggles, but together they create a compelling story about acceptance.
- It's the hot summer of 1972. On the 9th floor of a tower block on the outskirts of a Dutch provincial town the sixties finally kicked in. Change is in the air and actually materializes the moment a new resident, an artist named Loes, moves in. Soon everything will change for the family of the 12-year old Duch. To his dad, Bob, the new neighbor symbolizes all his doubts about his plotless existence. She is both adventurous and eccentric and almost without a second thought he decides to move in with Loes and her daughter, two apartments away from his old family. The children don't fully realize the drama unfolding. While their parents try to rediscover themselves, or try to preserve what was once theirs, the children focus on the future outside. Maybe truly perceiving things as they are. Duch, the son of the family, has two big passions in life. The manned mission to the moon and the dreamy, beautiful, Valium addicted neighbor 'aunt' Mary. She is a sailors wife, often alone, and for Duch a way to discover his nascent longings, which she encourages in her own ambiguous ways. An omnipresent feeling of finiteness descends on all when the NASA announces to stop the manned missions to the moon. A sense of urgency too: an era will come to its end. Will Duch manage to conquer the love of his neighbor? Will his mother Piet be able to reunite her family? And will his father Bob learn to handle his newfound freedom? After that long and hot summer, on the evening of the live broadcast of the Apollo 17 launch, December 14 1972, the story reaches its inevitable climax.
- An essay-film by artist Juul Hondius about the remarkable and comprehensive relationship between himself and a world-famous ideological work of art.
- Can the working class such as those on plantations in the Congo benefit from Art, instead of being victimized by it through gentrification?
- On his way to a foreign military mission, Max (30) is getting caught up in a war-game with his neighbor boys. As Max gradually loses his self control, the boys get involved with his internal warfare and loose their innocence.
- A retiring gun for hire gets assigned the job of guarding a young, feisty Hungarian beauty in a remote cottage somewhere in the French Ardennes. Heat, stench and boredom push their relationship to the edge until only an irrevocable deed can establish some sort of new order.
- Visiting Harlem filmmaker Sherman De Jesus uncovers decades of breath-taking tales in a quest to discover his own history. Inspired by the work of James Van Der Zee the film will change the way you think about New York forever.
- A sweet and dreamlike story about Pelle, a 12 year old shoegazer who breaks his arm just before he goes on holiday with his parents. When he comes across a potential summer romance, Pelle realizes he can't stay a wallflower forever.
- Paris, France. In the harsh fashion world the life of young model Dominique (Sylvia Hoeks) is dictated by her never ending search for assignments. Unfriendly roommates, demanding agents and indifferent casting directors force her to keep up appearances with a self defense mechanism fueled by cynicism. In this superficial reality she's determined not to lower her mask and take her own path.
- Who is still afraid of red, yellow and blue? It is one of the most important abstract paintings of the twentieth century and has evoked more than just this provoking question. Fifty years after the event around the painting "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" by Barnett Newman the question is asked: what is art?
- A short documentary about the youngest female funeral director in the Netherlands. What's it like as a young woman working in an industry driven by older men and what's it like to be confronted with death on a daily basis?
- A woman who can't have children steals the imaginary friend of a little girl and keeps this a secret from her husband. While the woman enjoys life with her imaginary child the gap between her and her husband grows bigger. When the little girl comes to claim back her imaginary friend, it's the power of imagination that brings everyone together.
- When father decides Richard is old enough to leave his parental home, he sends him out into the world. Only Richard keeps returning home: everytime in a more bizarre way. Somehow he seems attached to the house. When an unfortunate alteration in life takes place, Richard is forced to stand on his own feet.
- A man finds a phone in the park, while he's walking his dog. When a message comes in from Mohammed, he can't control his curiosity. What follows is a view on a special happening, from the corner of a café.
- Eppo and Nyke are school friends, B-Movie fans who have their own review show online. Suddenly things change, Nyke gets into the punk/goth scene, while Eppo got obsess with a certain film they supposed to review, and the friends grow apart.
- On November 26, 2008 a series of terror attacks occurred in Mumbai. The famous five-star Taj Mahal Hotel was one of the targets. In the film, some of the surviving hotel guests return to India and talk about what it means to live through an attack like that. The film observes them for 24 hours in and around the hotel. At first, together with these protagonists we get to know the luxurious hotel and then we return with them to the dark hours of the attack. Gradually we discover how this drastic event has impacted the lives and thinking of the victims. The years that went by since the attack offer space in their minds for reflection on fear, both at an intimate, personal level and at the level of society.
- The asylum seeker, who has exhausted all legal remedies, is waiting for his flight back to Sudan in the Schiphol-Oost removal center. But when a fellow refugee, Arash, commits a desperate act, Matthew suddenly gets the chance to escape.
- To prevent anxiety and optimize their well being, an increasing number of people use data technology. But what is actually measured when collecting data about our mental state? What gets lost in this quest for our optimal selves?
- 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.