Goert Giltay

Twenty homeless people, one opera. An Amsterdam based homeless choir is rehearsing an opera written for them. Who is setting the rules?

Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.

The musical adventure of the 16-year-old Jasmine who goes to Suriname to attend a song contest, but secretly is looking for her mother.

Película sobre la vida del pintor holandés Han van Meegeren, desde sus inicios como un joven artista rebelde en el Ámsterdam de 1920, hasta su ascenso a la infamia como uno de los falsificadores de arte más ingeniosos de todos los tiempos.

The decisive years of Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović, told through rare archive footage in which a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. The film closely follows him, from his debut with the Malmö FF team in 1999 through his conflict-ridden years with Ajax Amsterdam, and up to his final breakthrough with Juventus in 2005.

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.

Narra la vida de un doctor ruso llamado Nicolai, quien después de un tiempo vuelve a un viejo burdel, donde conoció a una cortesana llamada Elise. Nicolai revive su historia de amor y el pasado y el presente encajan.

Bob consigue que sus sueños se hagan realidad cuando consigue llevarse a casa a la hermosa taquillera del cine de enfrente. Entonces, en el peor momento posible, Duska, un enigmático hombre ruso, aparece en su puerta con la aparente intención de no marcharse nunca.

Como consecuencia de un cataclismo que ningún sismógrafo ha podido registrar, se abre una brecha entre la frontera de España y Francia y la Península Ibérica va flotando a la deriva en el Océano Atlántico. Ahora es una verdadera balsa de piedra. El impacto en la escena geopolítica es inmenso cuando los poderes Norteamericanos ven la posibilidad de adquirir la nueva extensión de tierra con sus pobladores que se ha desprendido de Europa. Solo el Peñón de Gibraltar permanece en su lugar. Los españoles y portugueses sacados abruptamente de su rutina diaria, abandonan sus casas para escapar de los amenazadores peligros de la costa y van incesantemente vagabundeando por los caminos del interior. Y todavía se desorientan mas cuando la balsa empieza a girar sobre su eje de tal modo que el sol amanece por lo que era el Oeste. (FILMAFFINITY)

A Flemish family comes together in their maternal home. Oscar, the grotesque patriarch, his bedridden wife Magda, his feeble son Johnny and his daughter Julia, who's married to a Moroccan soccer player. There's something wrong with Magda, who's not only plagued by her physical decay, but also by visions of her dead sister Marleen.

Ramón Gieling visita la comarca de Las Hurdes, donde Luis Buñuel hiciera su único documental en 1932. Esa región ha cambiado mucho desde que Buñuel rodó allá, cuando era una de las regiones más pobres y marginadas de España. Los habitantes de Las Hurdes tienen sentimientos encontrados en relación a la película de Buñuel. ¿En qué medida Buñuel alteró lo que vio entonces, y hasta dónde fue un registro fiel de la realidad que atestiguó? Algunas de las personas que, siendo niños o jóvenes, fueron testigos del rodaje, dan su versión.

Young Dutch widow Emilie travels to a seaside resort in Italy, where she falls in love with Italian officer Aldo. Meanwhile, her deceased husband's assistant Hugo plans to propose to her as soon as the period of mourning is over.

Una gran estación de tren, podría estar en cualquier lugar de una gran ciudad. Esperando pasajeros, algunos se observan con curiosidad, otros están demasiado involucrados con sus pequeños problemas para prestar atención a cualquier otra cosa. Nuestro hombre, seguro de sí mismo, prácticamente desnuda a algunas de las mujeres presentes con los ojos, al menos mientras su esposa esté ausente, tratando de conseguirles un poco de café. Una belleza en azul devuelve su aspecto desafiante, apenas puede creer que sea verdad. Obviamente, es su día de suerte hoy. Cuando su esposa regresa, nuestro hombre ha experimentado algunas cosas asombrosas bajo la atenta mirada de sus compañeros de viaje. Y lo más probable es que sea mucho más reservado la próxima vez que vea a una hermosa rubia.

De Kersenpluk tells the story about Jan visiting his grandfather for the last time during the summer in a little village in Drenthe. Thanks to Jan, his grandfather decides to do what he never dared during his entire life. Jan, as an outsider, is some sort of spectator of the life in the village, although he is also involved in that life.

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.

A biography of Isabelle de Charrière and her friendship with Benjamin Constant.

Six people are about to undertake a journey by foot from the very north of the Netherlands to the very south, in search of the mountains. Only two of them reach the destination.

A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.

The three very different men in this film have become friends out of their common dissatisfaction with their lives. Beard is now more or less a street person since his wife left him. Before that, he was a social worker. "Foureyes" is a nebbish science teacher, who can't get anyone to take him seriously -- certainly not his students. He seeks solace in the quiet of the stars, which he views in his telescope at night. Finally, Gerdo is a fellow who is a master of many trades, successful at almost everything he does, except in his own eyes. Each new challenge proves unsatisfying when met. The only thing he wants is the one thing he can't bring about: the return of his old girlfriend, who left him for some boring civil servant. He sees her everywhere, and images of her haunt him constantly. (allmovie.com)

Stranger at home (1985) is a documentary about the return to Jerusalem of a friend of Van den Berg, the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata, who had not seen his home country for a very long time. The friends, making the trip together, find themselves more and more involved in a painful confrontation: Jew versus Palestinian.