Joost de Vries

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

Sam recupera la conciencia en medio del metro lleno de gente, sin saber cómo y cuando llegó hasta allí, tampoco sabe quién es ni su nombre. Ahora busca frenéticamente su identidad utilizando el contenido de su mochila. Pronto se dará cuenta de que su vida corre peligro.

Narra una historia de amor no convencional, ambientada en un mundo distópico, en el que según las reglas establecidas, los solteros son arrestados y enviados a un lugar donde tienen que encontrar pareja en un plazo de 45 días. El tema central es la soledad, el temor a morir solo, a vivir solo, y también al temor a vivir con alguien.

A teenager wakes up in a subway car with no memory of how he got there or who he is.

Blood, Sweat and Tears is a story about the life of Andre Hazes, a Dutch popular singer. It shows three crucial phases in the life of Hazes: his youth (in the 1960s), his breakthrough (1980s) and the last year of his life (early 2000s).

In this smart and incisive thriller, a Dutch cop of Moroccan heritage goes undercover in a Moroccan drug ring and finds there a feeling of belonging he never experienced in "normal" society.

Narra la historia de una mujer llamada Ingrid, que tras quedarse ciega decide volver a su hogar en busca de tranquilidad.

Based on the best-selling novel, A CHRISTMOOSE STORY brings to life the tale of an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a large, talking moose. Young Max has low expectations for his first Christmas after his parents’ divorce, when suddenly a large moose crashes through the roof of his garage. And if that isn’t strange enough, the moose claims to have fallen from Santa’s sleigh! But being friends with a moose isn’t all that simple. Especially since Max’s grumpy neighbor has no interest in hanging stockings for Christmas but would love to hang up a pair of moose antlers, and Santa is out there somewhere looking to get his sleigh back!

An Italian car salesman wants to impress the woman of his dreams, but he gets entangled in his own web of lies.

Polish Ewa works as an Au-pair in a small town in Holland. A sensitive girl, she finds it difficult to live up to her host-parents' clichéd expectations. When a rape takes place in town, Ewa believes to suspect the rapist. Having no one to share this knowledge with, it furthers her alienation from the people around her, resulting in her being send back home.

What would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down.

A political comedy about an illegal Moroccan who makes it to President of the Netherlands. As we follow his unlikely rise and self-sought fall, Joes learns that it's easy to win the support of the people, but to rule them is a whole other story.

Eleven-year-old Eva is upset by the many rows between her parents and decides to run away. She wants to hide at her best friends Jackie and Thomas’ house, but circumstances bring her to her mysterious neighbour’s garden. She finds a secret letter there, which tells her the man is a king pin in a criminal organisation. And he is not exactly happy with Eva’s unannounced visit. To convince her of the importance of secrecy, he reveals that Eva’s dad is also involved in his illegal affairs. Eva hesitates: is her father who he claims to be? From that moment on, the enterprising girl does her utmost to exonerate her father from being involved. A period dawns in which Eva discovers that grownups also lead their own lives. She wants to ask questions, but at the same time she is afraid of the answers.

After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing.

Grace es una fotógrafa de guerra que decide dejar su trabajo tras un violento accidente en Irak. Max es su marido, un cirujano belga especializado en cataratas que trabaja en una clínica oftalmológica en los Andes peruanos. No muy lejos de allí, los aldeanos de Turubamba enferman gravemente por los vertidos de mercurio de la mina local. La joven Saturnina pierde a su prometido, infectado por las aguas contaminadas. Sin saber las verdaderas causas de la epidemia, los aldeanos centran toda su furia en los médicos extranjeros, y en medio de una riña, Max es asesinado. Entonces, Grace comienza un peregrinaje hasta el lugar de los hechos. Por su parte, Saturnina toma medidas drásticas para protestar contra la interminable violencia que brota de su tierra y sus vecinos. Los destinos de Grace y Saturnina se cruzarán.

Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.

Farouzi (12) is a dutch-arabian girl that works at a small fishers company. She is a dreamer who doesn't care about boys, especially those boys she works with. The only one she cares for is her loyal donkey: Sofiane. One day a misterios girl arives. The arrival of this girl triggers that Farouzi jumps on her donkey to find her luck...

Schnitzel Paradise is a Dutch film about a young Moroccan man working in the kitchen of popular Dutch restaurant.

Teenager Kristopher feels relieved about his coming-out, which as yet seems to bring him more advantages than disadvantages.