Sanne den Hartogh
This elaborate and curated fairy tale adventure tells the story of Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, who has to climb a grand staircase every evening to light the lantern and shrink ships before the rocks. One night, in the midst of an approaching storm, she finds that her matches have run out - disaster strikes and an adventure begins.
The true story of a translator attempting to save the lives of her husband and sons during the Bosnian genocide.
A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dating coach in order to spend more time together.
Two young lovers are making a journey through the desert, not specifically going anywhere, in search of freedom.She is very alive and energetic, continuously asking for his affection. He is quiet, mysterious and non-communicative.What starts as a time of paradise, slowly dissolves into a story of despair and the impossibility of love, as they drift apart from each other.
When their mother has passed, 21-year-old Vincent and his brother Sjoerd who is five years older go and stay in a caravan at the edge of her native Flemish village. They seek comfort with each other. It is soon clear that their grief does not concern her demise, but her failing motherhood. With a nihilist lifestyle, they fight the pain and pass their days with drugs and destructive behaviour. Although Vincent wants to return to the Netherlands and let go off the past, the fraternal bond is too strong to be broken.
Michael Bellicher wakes up one morning to find out that his identity has been stolen. Soon he learns that the perpetrator is using his stolen ID for all kinds of illegal action. Michael tries to find out who is behind all this, when, to his horror, his credentials show up at the scene of a big terrorist attack. Suddenly he is public enemy number one…
In Amsterdam Paradise we're witnessing the development of the relationship between Adam and Eva and see how it’s continually influenced and affected by dozens of other stories set in the city. Amsterdam Paradise is a shimmering mosaic narrative of the city, life and love.
A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son.
