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A touching story between a lonely woman and a TGV train driver. Inspired by true events and with
actress Jane Birkin in the leading role.

2016 Locarno World Premiere.

After serving a three years sentence for public violence, top hooligan Ricardo returns home and is torn between loyalty towards his family or his old friends supporting soccer club Feyenoord.

Living with his alcoholic, clinging mother, Julian (14) engages in an impossible infatuation with the much older Lara. After Julian loses track of reality more and more, the last pillars of his home collapse.

Fantasy/family drama; ‘Sometimes something has to happen, before something happens’; when suddenly a baby falls from heaven, a family gets a second chance.

Finn (15) is an uncomplicated schoolboy until one day, coming home from school he catches his father Roelof in his moms dress. The man, Finn has looked up to his whole life, wants to become a woman. Finn, just discovering his own sexuality, is troubled by this new discovery. A struggle with feelings of shame, love and loyalty follows. Luckily Lizzy, his newfound friend, is there to help him.

When the Dutch peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan is nearly over, soldier Diederick dies in the arms of his 21-year-old platoon mate Johnny. Johnny comes home as coffin bearer. He is being welcomed home by his parents. But he still has one mission to complete, a birthday gift from Diederick to give the twin sister Fleur. The loss of Diederick has put the family relations on edge. Johnny is sucked into the unpredictable family struggling with their pain. Johnny sees it as his duty to help them, but he doesn’t know how. To be able to come home, he must first allow himself to experience his own grief.

Father/Son drama; when his alcoholic father hits the bottle again, Jacob takes a radical decision to drink with him together.

Isabel, a teenage girl, is placed in juvenile detention. After a fit of rage, she ends up in solitary confinement. She promises to change, but, before she can move forward in life, she has to confront her past.

Absurdist TV drama about Kirk, who at the age of 35 still lives with his dominant mother Ineke. Their indolent life is brutally interrupted by the arrival of their new, high-spirited neighbour Marcus. He slowly shakes Kirk awake and drives mother and son apart. Ineke does not trust the intruder and wants to win her son back. In the typical humoristic style of the Van Dijk sisters, an inconceivable part of Holland comes alive.

Edo (42) has been on a solo sailing trip lasting two months. His daughter Maria (8) spends the last 48 hours of the trip, the crossing from Denmark to Harlingen, on board. But then the weather breaks. When Edo battles against the rough sea to save his daughter’s life it turns out that he is actually involved in an altogether different fight.

INTO THIN AIR tells the untold story of the victims of the Bijlmer plane crash on 4th October 1992. Although official figures state that there were 43 fatalities, survivors and rescue-workers maintain that there were many more victims unaccounted for due to their illegal status. INTO THIN AIR gives an insight into the lives of these illegal inhabitants (particularly those within the Ghanian community) who were living in the Klein Kruitberg flat at the time of the crash.

In this initially innocent-looking road movie, mediator Bram is persuaded to take his surly old father to the German village of Urfeld to visit a friend. After arriving, Bram discovers the real purpose of the trip. His father is hunting for a war criminal and wants to make short work of it. At first, his old man

Robbie gets a chance to get rid of his debts by delivering a certain Marius in the port of Amsterdam.

Twelve year old naive Jesse is torn between his close friendship with African refugee Harvey and his ambition to belong to the Lonsdale group led by his elder brother Maikel. Maikel challenges him to prove that he is worthy to be a member of the group by betraying his best pal. This is the beginning of a tragedy that will mark the end of Jesse’s innocence.

A romantic comedy about two young lovers who were made for each other. Lost and separated from each other in a labyrinth of high-rise flats, they become entangled in comical adventures and meet colourful locals who ultimately help them find each other again. With a nod to the classical Odyssey of Homer, this heart-warming, big-city comedy of errors provides an unusual and enchanting view of a low-income estate district on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

A romantic comedy in which Tessel, Robert’s bride-to-be, is utterly confused after an encounter with a certain Mark in the very night before she is to say ‘’I do ‘’. She thinks that she cheated on Robert, and strangely enough, if that were the case, she wouldn’t regret it either. It only serves to reinforce her doubts about her plans to marry Robert. When the truth comes out in the end, Tessel chooses for Robert after all, and Mark gets the short end.

Esin and Serkan are trying to live their own lives, but they don’t dare to go against the strong traditions and rules that apply in the Turkish society, until this almost becomes fatal to their love.

For their annual trip, Lena – originally from Sweden – invites her close group of  friends to a Frisian island to celebrate the Swedish Midsummer Night tradition. For the first time Meike, an outsider is invited.

Four friends attend an open-air party. Standing in the box-office queue, they lose sight of each other. Panic breaks out among the packed crowd and a tragedy takes place. Everything is magnified: their mutual relationships, the way they react and how they come out of it. One of the friends dies; the others are considered a hero, victim or bastard. But perhaps reality is more shaded than this?

Raul (Tenoch Huerta from Sundance award winner ‘Sin Nombre’) leaves his family in rural Mexico to find work in the ‘Estados Unidos’. Joining a group of mojados led by a tough coyote, he crosses the border into brutal desert. Some cannot endure the arduous trudge, and give up along the way. Raul remains determined to finish his journey. When the group is caught by ‘La Migra’, Raul, through a stroke of luck, finds himself the only one left. It seems he might be destined to make it. But then he comes across a gringo boy in the middle of this vast nowhere and all Raul has endured to do good by his family may now be for nothing. Based on an actual event.

BOY (‘the helper’) tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an illegal Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance-company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.

A modern fairytale about ordinary feelings and extraordinary events.
Aafke and Thalia are both 30 years old when they meet each other in a shoe shop. They both return there after having accidentally left the shop with each other’s new shoes. They spontaneously decide to trade lives with each other for 24 hours.
Both are frustrated with their own lives, and looking for the greener grass on the other side of the fence – only to arrive at the conclusion that the grass is always greener until you see it from close by…

BUGCRUSH is the story of Ben, a small-town high school loner, whose fascination with Grant, a dangerously seductive new kid, leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined

Produced by Circefilms

Psychological drama; mentally-challenged Jos is still living with his mother. On his 34 year’s birthday, his life will dramatically change.

Unlike in England, for example, hardly any comedies about WW II are released in the Netherlands. The black comedy Resistance is an exception. Against the backdrop of the war, the tension systematically mounts between a timid chinaware collector and a brazen chain-smoking woman who goes into hiding at his place.

Young marine Maarten is about to sail off on a long sea voyage, as his elder brother Emiel is released from prison after a six month sentence. In the meantime Maarten has become a man and Emiel isn’t longer his kid brother’s hero. They have a day to get used to each other, a day in which a series of painful incidents lead to the disclosure of their most well kept secrets and a new solidarity.