Guido Pollemans

After a near-fatal accident, filmmaker Guido van der Werve muses about the highs and lows of his own life as he endures a long process of recovery. Instead of a linear narrative, Nummer achttien is structured as a series of movements: it departs from the classical documentary to present us with a series of vignettes that combine past and present, existentialist despair and deadpan humour, reflection and creativity, the joys and pains of remembering and forgetting.

On a warm summer night, four parents struggle to find the answer to their enamoured children’s uneasy question: Can they start having sex?

In the saliva-saturated Sputum world, an ugly class struggle is unfolding. The ruling Antique FAMLY depend on the saliva of the Bakelites to survive an invisible, buzzing, fungus cloud. With invasive, saliva milking machines and an addictive rot powder, their FAMLY enforces a status quo. But when the Bakelite rebellion led by Jimin Blyth gets help from aristocratic Antique deserter Kalta Crux, their future takes a new turn.

Two adult brothers set out to find a stand-in for their deceased father in order to keep living off his retirement income.

Romy’s mother has to work a lot. That’s why Romy goes to her grandmother every day after school. Grandma Stine is very busy working in her hairdressing salon, and is very strict. But everything changes when Romy discovers a totally different side to her grandmother.

A racist truckdriver gets a new muslim colleague after his previous co-driver was beat up by two Moroccan men.

As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family vacation at the beach, he meets the unconventional Tess, who carries her own secrets around with her and shows him how the present moment can win out over memories and anxiety about what’s yet to come.

Determined to live the high life and make their mark, a trio of audacious teenagers sets out on a riotous quest across Amsterdam to get into the city's most exclusive nightclub.

A small film about big sorrow

On the eve of her forty-fifth birthday Doris Doorenbos (Tjitske Reidinga) ends up like a divorced woman with two children at a dead end.

Maud and Frank are on holiday in Chile. Their relationship is fragile and so is Maud. After many years of trying, it is now 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 to get her life back on track.

A garden centre employee just cannot get his girlfriend pregnant. With his partner's biological clock ticking, he must swallow his pride and embrace a solution.

Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

The immature Wyne starts a football team to rebel against all her friends whose lives have become dull and boring since either giving birth or becoming pregnant. However, she threatens to lose everything through unexpected events.

A blasé cash girl, a petrol station, a demanding customer. When the gift wrapping of a few CDs does not give the desired result, a series of equally imaginable and insane confrontations between customers and employees ensue. When a second cashier and a raider appear, fact and fiction get mixed up and the tables are turned. A madcap elaboration of what could have been a newspaper report.

Sixteen-year-old Anne grows up in the isolated Biesbosch area, where spacious fields and power pylons define the landscape. With a group of friends, she spends a sultry summer holiday there trying to make the leap to maturity. But this shared experience turns into a conflict situation when Anna develops feelings for the tough girl Lena. Coming-of-age drama about growing pains, the inevitable end of childhood and choosing your own life - no matter how confusing your environment may find it.

Determined to win the Princess's hand, a valiant Hero recounts his adventurous exploits to the Keymaster who guards the fair maiden's stronghold.

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.

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.

Five friends from 'Maaskantje' are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore.

When the work of a great writer meets an imaginative child's mind, something special happens. Tom is twelve years old and devours tomes. When he and his parents stay in a chic hotel and he turns the last page of his book, the adventure does not end for him. The next morning, the staff greets him cordially and politely. Goodbye, Mr. Bukowski! For them, too, it was a memorable night.

Den Helder, just another town somewhere in the North of Holland. But today is not a day like all the others for Maarten and Emiel, the two sons of an ordinary family. Maarten has joined the Marines and is about to leave for Lebanon for a six-month mission. On the other hand, this is the very day when his brother Emiel is released from prison.

Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies. When the net finally closes around them they decide to make one last big hit.