Jan van der Zanden

Películas

Little Man, Time and the Troubadour
Producer
Born in Abkhazia and raised in Soviet Georgia, Sipa Labakhua had to flee with his family to Moscow when the USSR collapsed and war broke out early 90’s. Years after his untimely return to his warridden birthplace, Sipa takes to the road with his autobiographical one-man marionette show. While provoking audiences with his own history of displacement and war, he collects the personal memories and dreams of people from different backgrounds: Abkhazian nationalists, Orthodox priests, Syrian refugees, Georgian farmers and Russian hippies.
Fight Girl
Producer
Twelve-year-old Bo is a talented but hot-tempered kick boxer. However, Bo is distracted by her fighting parents who are in the middle of a divorce. Bo needs to learn how to control her emotions and at the same time accept the fact she can't control everything.
Disappearance
Producer
'Disappearance' takes place in the remote winter landscape of Norway. Roos visits her mother there yearly, but this time it's different: she brings bad news. However, old pain and numerous reproaches keep Roos from sharing anything with her mother. Aided by her half brother and her old flame, the two women reconcile and Roos is able to make her next and inescapable step.
Dos disparos
Co-Producer
Mariano, de 16 años, regresa una madrugada a su casa y encuentra un revólver en el garaje. Sin pensarlo, se dispara dos veces, pero sobrevive.
La tercera orilla
Co-Producer
La película trata la historia de un padre y su hijo y está contada desde el punto de vista del chico, un adolescente de 16 años, quien en ese momento de su vida decide dejar de lado lo que su padre tiene proyectado para él y tomar su propio camino.
No Vacancy
Producer
A movie about a deaf-mute night gatekeeper of a hotel where strange things happen.
Kauwboy
Producer
Jojo tiene unos diez años y vive con su padre, quien por su trabajo está frecuentemente ausente. Según Jojo, su madre –cantante country– está de gira. Su padre no parece pasar por su mejor momento y Jojo oscila entre una independencia cotidiana adelantada y la necesidad de contención. A veces están las canciones de su madre, y a veces los triunfos en wáterpolo en el colegio. Y una compañerita que hace globos de chicle. Además, Jojo encuentra un pichón de grajilla y lo adopta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Shocking Blue
Producer
William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. Chris tries his best, but William is one lump of impenetrable rock, secretly wondering if the events of the night before, when Jack went off with fifteen-year old Marianne, had anything to do with the accident...
Stella's oorlog
Producer
Dutch working mother, Stella, was supportive of international mission in Uruzgan, even if that meant missing her husband Jurre for months. After her brother is killed in action there, nothing can return life to normality, not even the return home of her military husband, Jurre. Flash-backs from a trial nine months later show the tragic developments
Het zwijgen
Producer
Tonino
Producer
A waiter is instructed by his boss to spy on the latter's woman with a camera and to catch her committing adultery.
Adrift
Producer
Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman...