Rifka Lodeizen

A sexy, witty, emotional and life-affirming story of friendship and family, which shows that even through difficult times the love, strength, and humor of the ones closest to you can make life, no matter how brief, worth living. (Strand Releasing)

Nadine (Halina Reijn) is a career woman: successful, independent and ambitious. But, she's single, just over forty years old and still childless. Inside her body, the biological clock is ticking like mad, till the point where it begins to jump and finally derails into a bizarre and extreme act (IMDB)

A brutal assault changes Mariekes life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a dilapidated house in an empty countryside. Her irrational fears on the frozen farm are a constant struggle. As springs' orchestra begins, her curiosity for new things that cover the cold rot of winter pull her out of the suffocating interior of her mind. Slowly she accepts the help of John, her neighbor, but as the seasons change so does she.

This movie is about a group of young people struggling with what 'true love' means. Main character is a boy who doesn't want to commit himself to one woman. (imdb)

Anne is a successful theatre actress in Amsterdam, but her flamboyant lifestyle has left her almost bankrupt. Accountant Jacob is appointed to balance her books, and concludes that the only option is to sell her houseboat. Anne is distraught, and plans a farewell party to stall for time while she tries to find a job big enough to keep her home.

A young girl witnesses the moral dilemmas of free love when her parents join a squatter community in 1970s Amsterdam. (imdb)

Driven by a telling performance by Emma Levie in the title role, Christophe Van Rompaey's Lena follows its heroine as she struggles to find a place in the world despite a cross-addicted mother who considers her nothing more than a burden and constantly berates her about her weight. Lena's only outlets are dancing and sex until she meets Daan, whom she rescues as he's running from the police. But is Daan really all he claims to be? (tiff.net)

During her nightly escapades Hemel searches for the difference between sex and love. Sometimes she leads, sometimes the men with whom she sleeps. The most important person in Hemel's life is Gijs, her father, who works in an auction house. After the early passing of her mother Hemel grew up with him alone. Just like Hemel, Gijs is restless and isn't committed to anyone except for his daughter. This changes when Gijs falls in love with the young auctioneer Sophie. (imdb)

A family film which tells the unlikely and timeless story about almost ten year old Tony, whose father rises from being a crane driver to Secretary of State. As a result his parents get divorced and Tony does everything he can to bring them back together. He even calls in the help of the queen. (imdb)

We hear the voicemail recordings of Onno. Onno has disappeared without a trace. Lots of friends and relatives leave a message, but Onno doesn't ring back. We see what the callers see. But we don't see Onno. The messages illustrate how his friends and relatives cope with his disappearance.

After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child. (imdb)

In 1888 Amsterdam, a stubborn violin maker opposes the powerful businessmen who plan to force him from his house and erect a luxurious new hotel in its place. Together with his pharmacist cousin they plan to sell the house for big money and help finance 100 people's emigration to the US.

Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is time to face the fact that they will never have children. However, Maud is in denial. After a huge fight with Frank, she runs off and sets out on a road trip through Chile where she meets a boy that goes by the name of Messi. (imdb)

An Amsterdam student joins a secret society that has been around since the Dutch Golden Age, but must decide how far she is willing to go to rise up the ranks. (imdb)

An ill Dutch woman visits her family in Norway in hopes of reconnecting with her estranged mother. (imdb)

A family is on summer vacation. Their adolescent son is a mixture of bored and horny. A yellow jacket wasp joins them in their car and then at their vacation campsite. A sultry young woman is doing laundry outdoors just as a brief, torrential downpour occurs and the wasp allows her to reveal, much to the young man's delight, her special knowledge of how to deal with insect bites. (imdb)

On a Christmas evening, Bernard Van de Wiele is arrested and locked up in jail, accused of murdering his wife. When given a typewriter, an Olivetti 82, he writes down his story and the events unfold themselves.

Joachim West is so unsuccessful as a writer that in order to escape his financial troubles he stages his own disappearance. But only after sending his magnus opus - on which he had worked for the past ten 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. —Holland Film

Dutch crime series

Short film based on a short story by Jaap Scholten, in which a pregnancy does not last for nine months, but nine hours. A man and a woman meet each other at a party and decide to proceed to conceive a child. In the nine hours that follow, they pass through all stages of pregnancy, up to and including the childbirth.

The impact of a divorce on the day Mom moves out.

A family reaches boiling point during a pit stop on their way home from what might be their last holiday together. But the volatile cocktail of sweltering heat, restless hormones and suppressed frustration fails to explode, leading instead to reconciliation.

The story of Amsterdam lawyer Astrid Holleeder's life-or-death struggle to get her brother, ruthless Dutch crime kingpin Willem Holleeder, behind bars.

Wet & Waan" was a Dutch television series broadcasted by AVRO between December 2000 and January 2004. The series revolves around a public prosecutor and a psychiatrist who are in a relationship and regularly encounter each other professionally as well

In Under the Naked Sky we follow ten-year-old Elvie, who lives with her mother on a camping site run by her grandfather. Elvie's mother is mentally impaired, having the mind and manners of a four-year-old.

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)

"Russen" is a Dutch police series produced by KRO that was first aired in 2000. In 2004, after the fifth season, a total of 42 episodes of the series were produced. The episodes of "Russen" were written by a team of writers, including Dick van den Heuvel, Simon de Waal, Stan Lapinski, and Addy Weijers. Various directors were involved in the production, but the majority of the episodes were created by Pollo de Pimentel and Anne van der Linden. Other directors such as Danniel Danniel, Casper Ve

A corrupt police officer who gets stuck between his family and a criminal organization that asks him to betray his colleagues and sell out a crown witness

Cheated on by his successful girlfriend for lacking ambition and business-mindedness, an artist sets out to get rich quick by starting a one-man company as a friend for hire. (themoviedb.org)

After a photographer and a lawyer start a steamy affair, their lives and those around them get entangled in dirty business and family secrets. (imdb)