Julia Akkermans

Jongens tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him (imdb)

Three young friends grow up as students in Amsterdam when the death of one's father puts everything into a new perspective. (imdb)

Immediately after the birth of their first child, Iris' friend Pieter confesses that he never wanted this child, has been having an affair for a year and will soon be leaving for Africa with his new love.

When a young woman receives the absurd news from her father that he's had enough of life and wants it to come to an end, she is forced to search for a way to deal with his last wish.

An elderly man writes a letter with the best intentions and full of sage advice to a kindergarten class, in this short adaptation of a story by Tommy Wieringa. What on earth can an adult, childless man write to a kindergarten class? When a lone wolf finds a balloon with a note attached, he seizes the opportunity to pass on his hard-learned life lessons to the unknown infant that sent it. Lessons that do not necessarily line up with a pre-schooler’s experiences, but which may be valuable to him

In 1980s Amsterdam, a family starts the first-ever phone sex line but being in the business of sexual desires leads them to question their own. (imdb)