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.
Neighbour
Hiernamaals cuenta la historia de Sam, una niña super inteligente y trabajadora de 14 años que lleva una vida feliz con su padre y sus dos hermanos en el sur de los Países Bajos. Es una buena estudiante, muy estricta consigo misma y siempre llega a tiempo. Ella también cuida a sus dos hermanos menores; Desde que su madre Vera murió, se ha sentido responsable de la familia y ahora cuida la casa con su padre. Una mañana, corriendo a la escuela para ayudar a su maestra de matemáticas a imprimir exámenes, es golpeada por un camión grande y muere. En el más allá, encuentra a su madre esperándola. Es un sentimiento extraño de felicidad y tristeza. Ella descubre que hay un camino de regreso a la vida, pero ¿tendrá éxito en llevar a su madre con ella?
Marianna
Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux , a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together. But, at the moment Paula and Michel decide to escape the underworld, Paula realizes that her hands are tied to a paid deal she has made with a powerful English narcotics baron, Rudi Dancer (55). The enticing offer Paula could not refuse, turns into the demon that stands in the way of her future with Michel. Eventually, Michel and Paula find their way to freedom but not without paying a high price
