Isabelle
Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne Bitor, an artist with a disfigured…
Wednesdays
Every Wednesday, 8 year old Kris accompanies 28 year old Willem to the swimming pool. They swim, go down the slide and have a lot of fun. But one Wednesday…
Ronald Goedemondt: Dedication
Ronald Goededmondt’s third stand-up comedy show is about the confusion in the world and taking revenge on it. From big issues to small dilemmas can be read on his face….
Alfie, the Little Werewolf
On the night of his seventh birthday, sweet Alfie suddenly changes into a white fluffy werewolf. He doesn’t understand why. Alfie struggles with himself, because the wolf at night is…
All Stars 2: Old Stars
In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend…
Bennie Brat
Fisherman’s son Benjamin – Bennie – Stout is a boy with a heart of gold who always gets himself into trouble. His St. Nicholas wish list includes a pedal car,…
Furious
Sven (15) will be director and has been busy filming. He films his friends, especially those to do free running and put the videos on YouTube. He asks Roosmarijn to…
Viper’s Nest
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The…
Claustrofobia
When Eva opens her eyes a young girl finds herself chained terrified for being abused. Her fears become reality in a way no one could ever imagine.
Penny’s Shadow
During a riding vacation on the island Ameland, a young girl discovers a dangerous horse who distrust people. To prove that the horse isn’t dangerous at all, the girl secretly…
Rabat
Three friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected.
Amsterdam Heavy
CIA Agent Martin Keele (Michael Madsen – Reservoir Dogs Kill Bill) sets the wheels spinning in this gritty urban action thriller, as mysterious gangster J.D. goes on the rampage in…
Sonny Boy
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different….
Body Language
An hour before the five best Dutch dance crews fly to a contest in New York, the subsidized trip is cancelled. Five dancers from totally different crews don’t want to…
The Gang of Oss
Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town of Oss in the 1930s. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.
The Heineken Kidnapping
On a cold November day in 1983, beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer are abducted. What follows is the most infamous kidnapping case the Netherlands have ever…
New Kids Nitro
Gerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barry from Maaskantje are in a big fight with the village of Schijndel. When a zombie kills someone from Brabant, things get out of hand.
Nova Zembla
Gerrit de Veer, a novice writer on a 16th-century Dutch merchant vessel, chronicles the daring mission to discover a trade route across the North Pole to Asia. But the heroic…
Caged
After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Breaking out of her cage and starting a secret double-life, Stella transforms into a…
Zaliger
A widower is facing the difficulties of being alone. Without his wife everything seems out of place. The table is set, but there is no breakfast. He found his trousers…
Lukomir Six Months Off
Ismet, Dervo and Nura are totally isolated from the world in a snow covered world of sheep and nothingness…
Liquidator
A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in straightforward shots and camera movements. Due to…
Shame
This year, seventy year old grumpy Johan is married with his wife Dora for fifty years. But unfortunately, Johan finds there is nothing to celebrate. Something seems missing… Something that’s…
Wilders, the Movie
A look at the Geert Wilders effect.
Views on Vermeer – 12 Short Stories
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) left us a small oeuvre of only 36 paintings. Internationally, the power of his work is now more profound than ever. Blockbuster exhibitions, the novel and movie…
Off Road
While driving, a paranoid man gets into an argument with his navigation device about his chosen destination. It seems to try to stop the man from doing something stupid.
The Healers
The Healers is a deconstructed reconstruction of a memory set in Rotterdam’s mid-1990s nightlife. The party scene is presented in a triptych: the thrills of the night, the location, the…
De buik vol
A group of friends, called the Twain Girls, are celebrating a birthday in a deserted castle where they face a brutal killer and a banned ex-member of their group.
Escape
Two prisoners have the perfect escape plan but something unexpected happens that changes everything.
California Dreaming
California is a strong brand, the state of new beginnings, dreams and movie stars, of surfers and a wonderful climate. But the Golden State is bankrupt and the city of…
Geen Zin
An awkward situation arises, when the guests arrive of an arguing couple.
Amy
I Am a Girl
Joppe dreams of love, marriage and children. Being born a boy only complicates things slightly.
The Vegan Vampire
The very thing that should give the vampire life is repelled by her own body.
Behind the Wall
Jeff encounters a abandoned wall in the wilderness. When Jeff notices noises coming from the other side, he is determined to find out what is happening behind the wall. However,…
Flying Anne
Eleven-year-old Anne is a beautiful girl. The kind of girl you can’t take your eyes off. And the longer you look, the more you see her ‘tics’. Anne suffers from…
Mushrooms of Concrete
Over 750,000 bunkers were build in Albania for a war that never came. Building them drained vital resources and crippled Albanian industry. Presently, Albanians struggle to put the abandoned hollows…
Rainmakers
Rainmakers is an investigative documentary about the decline of China’s environment. The story is told from the perspective of four civil activists who refuse to accept the ongoing ecological destruction…
Laxmi calling Ling
Ling is forced to confront her fear of going outdoors when a crazy Indian woman keeps calling her thinking she is her daughter. A story of an unlikely friendship.
Emilio Guzman: Live in Toomler
Thijs Van Domburg: Live in Toomler
Stefan Pop: Live in Toomler
Tuan Papa
During the colonial war of 1946-1949, Dutch soldiers fathered thousands of children with Indonesian girls. Tuan Papa (“Sir Daddy”) tells the story of war-time love and the forgotten children.
Shout
Born on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, best friends Ezat and Bayan are given the chance to study in their parents’ homeland: Syria. SHOUT is a film about their search for…
Villa Josephine
Past and present are intricately entwined in this poetical reverie, in which a man (Derek de Lint) looks for his childhood memories in his grandparents’ deserted country house. He meets…
Mam
It’s a Boy
Max is in a hospital waiting for his sister because she is in labour.
Najib Amhali: The Best of
All his shows have been sold out, night after night. The best of his shows has been compiled in one live show, “The Best of Najib Amhali”.
Gangsterboys
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…
The Blue Bus
Detective Wikkobus suffers from ‘the blues’. After fifty-five years of letting other people dictate his life, without having taken any initiative, only hanging around the blues café, drinking whiskey and…
Ernst, Bobbie en het Geheim van de Monta Rossa
When Ernst & Bobbie visit a circusschool, a fire brakes out And a treasure is hidden but we don’t know where…. But they find a film print that contains instructions…
Majesty
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….
Dusk
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and…
Snuf de Hond en het Spookslot
Tom goes along with Miriam and Snuf one week stay with their uncle and their cousin Hans Jaap. Near the house of Uncle Hans was a haunted castle.
Happily Ever After
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…
Win/Win
Ivan is a true number cruncher and ‘surfs the waves of the stock market’ like a natural trader. He rakes in big profits for the bank. But all is not…
The Secret Letter
Eleven-year-old Eva is upset by the many rows between her parents and decides to run away. She wants to hide at her best friends Jackie and Thomas’ house, but circumstances…
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Don’t Touch My Children
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…
The Magicians
Little Ben, a great admirer of an illusionist, dreams of making magic, and convinces her father to have his own show. The downside is that the parent is quite clumsy…
The Dinner Club
Karen (32) and Michel (36) move with their daughter to an exclusive residential area. She soon finds a new close circle of friends: the women of the Dinner Club, and…
Tirza
Jörgen’s world is crumbling. Forced into early retirement and harassed by his ex-wife, the only part of his life which makes sense – his beloved daughter Tirza – is shattered…
Joy
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of…
The Happy Housewife
Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn’t in her vocabulary and as long as…
Meat
A young woman is awakened to a world of cruelty, shadowy passions and sensuality.
Dik Trom
Fat adolescent Dik Trom enjoys growing up in a hedonistic town devoted to food and fun. When a restaurant chain offers his father the life-long-dreamed opportunity to run his own,…
Fuchsia the Mini-Witch
Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to…
LelleBelle
19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion…
Loft
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an…
Sintel
A wandering warrior finds an unlikely friend in the form of a young dragon. The two develop a close bond, until one day the dragon is snatched away. She then…
Saint
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
New Kids Turbo
Five friends from ‘Maaskantje’ are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won’t pay for anything anymore.
Brownian Movement
A psychiatrist’s adulterous past continues to haunt her and her husband after they move to India.
Kermis – Ode aan de ongedwongenheid van het bestaan
Poetic film about the funfair, which concentrates on human conditions: The enchantment of children. The ease of the youth, full of expectations. Fleeting smiles. Devotion to the moment. Felicity… but…
Plank
Nassim Guammaz wants to become the best skateboarder in the world. His father says he has to choose a secure future, and the boys from his neighbourhood think skateboarding is…
The Year 2602
Varese, the One All Alone
Described by writer Henry Miller as “the stratospheric colossus of sound”, French sonic alchemist Edgard Varèse (1883 – 1965) continues to influence music even 40 years after his death. Artists…
Time Within Time
A documentary in which the filmmakers search for forgotten moments. Moments in which we come to a halt in the hectic of everyday life and in which we have to…
Nighttown
Rotterdam’s dance club and pop temple Nighttown closed in 2006. This music documentary contains exclusive images of legendary performances. Former directors, founders, bookers, stage managers and artists talk about the…
Opening Night
And a voice said: “Hope comes in many forms, but for tonight, you’re on your own.” (16mm blown up to 35mm)
Javier Guzman: Guzman Stoomt
A theatre program about sinterklaas
Impasse
Without words, we’re left to consider whether love and attraction can break through the impasse of human intolerance.
Jacco’s Film
Jacco (10) allows the viewer a glimpse into his colorful world of experiences. Filled with enthusiasm, he talks about his friends, girlfriends, interests, everyday activities and the wonders of nature….
Drona and I
Drona (9) is austistic. He is very smart, but is bad at ordering information. To save himself, he ask an extreme amount of questions. In ‘Drona and I’, we see…
Missing
A 7-year old girl is taken to school by her mother. Today is the day that the young girl will go on a school trip with her class. In everything…
Longstay
Documentary of a psychiatric hospital prison in the South-West of the Netherlands.
Later We Care
Mother of Claire Pijman moves to Amsterdam after her husband’s death to be closer to her daughters and grandchildren. Claire and her sister try to combine the care of their…
The Bankruptcy Jazz
After World War I jazz music unites the divided countries of Europe. The new formed Jazz Republic introduces an unlimited amount of Eurobonds for all Europeans to live upon the…
Vincent van Gogh: A Life Devoted to Art
This documentary investigates the complete story of Van Gogh’s life and work: from his childhood in Brabant, through his laborious years of apprenticeship in Nuenen and artistic coming-of-age in Paris…
Magic Show
An illusionist and his assistant present a series of amazing acts, afterword’s revealing to the audience how these tricks are performed. The fact that the explanations are even more incredible…
Wet
Marvin goes to a school camp. It looks dreadful because he still wets his bed… Will he keep it dry?
Spion van Oranje
The Netherlands are being threatened by a weird terrorist. The only one who can save The Netherlands from this terrorist seems to be Francois. He is a gay couturier who…
Marc-Marie Huijbregts: Marc-Marie Punt.
Television registration of the third program by the Dutch comedian Marc-Marie Huijbregts. Marc-Marie Huijbregts sketches a very intimate self-portrait based on personal anecdotes and reflections.
Scum
The parallel paths followed by two adolescent protagonists over a period of 18 hours intersect violently outside a local shopping centre with fatal consequences for one and fateful consequences for…
Life is Beautiful
Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by…
Bollywood Hero
A young actor (Nick) goes to Mumbai for a role as a colonial in a Bollywood costume film. While he records video messages for his senile father in Holland, he…