Young Herman
The downtrodden alcoholic Herman needs professional help, and he never gets it. He decides that he should go to jail so that he will be taken care of there. He kills a local criminal but when he then tries to confess to the police, nobody believes him. Herman goes in search of a second victim. How far will he have to go to end up in jail?
Burgemeester Middeleeuwen
Una maldición que tiene siglos de antigüedad. Una isla llena de gente molesta. Un primer ministro contaminado. Un chico lleno de sueños que puede cambiar esto. ¿Pero cómo? Una película llena de raps que no riman, muñecos parlantes y acciones heroicas.
Ambulance crew Frits and Mimo are on their way to a crime scene on New Year's Eve. When people in the neighborhood start taking matters in their own hands, driven by fear, misunderstanding and hatred, the tension rises and fate takes a twisted turn...
Sjaak
Holanda /// En Amsterdam se cruzan, de manera decisiva, las vidas de personajes muy heterogéneos: una pareja de ricos estadounidenses, una familia de criminales holandeses, una pareja francesa de gays, una familia de obreros alemanes y un inmigrante ilegal marroquí y su hermano menor.
Frisian-spoken costume drama about the turbulent marriage between a writer and a socialist politician.
The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.
Lucos
Alex is very close to his elderly grandmother partly because his busy parents seem to have little or no time for him. One day he surprises two boys from his school leaving her house and is shocked to find her tied up inside – they have robbed her! Alex is sworn to secrecy as his gran is worried that her daughter will think her incompetent. This secret leads Alex into trouble as the two boys accost him in the street and bully him into becoming a pickpocket ("tasjesdief") for them, mugging old ladies. Alex learns how to deal with this situation in the end.
