Maarten Lebens

Twelve-year-old Ilias’ best friend is murdered by mistake. Searching for the perpetrators, Ilias gets deeper and deeper into the drug world. In the process, he is seduced by money and status. Will he give up his goal or will he remain loyal to his dead friend?

As the whole country is preparing for the World Cup, all characters are confronted with the Dutch ‘Orange Fever’, which seems to either bring them closer together, or drift them apart.

Tyn, un tímido estudiante, se lleva el susto de su vida cuando se da cuenta de que está embarazado.

En un orfanato alrededor del año 1900, el director de un orfanato intenta ganar algo de dinero vendiendo a los huérfanos por trabajo infantil. En el momento en que entramos en la historia, uno de los huérfanos, Wim, está a punto de ser vendido a un hombre brutal. El hombre quiere que Wim vaya al mercado con un pequeño mono para robar a la gente. Cuando llegan al mercado, Wim logra escapar con el mono escondiéndose en un viejo bote con la ayuda de Jet, una niña que vive en el campo. Cuando llegan a la granja donde vive Jet, conoce a la hermana pequeña de Jets, Sien, y a su amigo Ot, dos niños pequeños que cuidarán a Wim y al mono durante las próximas semanas. Cuando el hombre brutal finalmente descubre el escondite de Wim, se produce una verdadera persecución y Wim queda encerrado en el orfanato nuevamente. Pero entonces el padre de Jet, un maestro de escuela, interfiere ...

A trailer is recorded on the set of a disaster movie that should entice a mass audience. But it turns out the staging and the voice-over, modelled on the American example, don’t go together well for the hero in the doomsday scenario.

Sanne y sus padres son los dueños de un lujoso Bed and Breakfast en la Toscana. Después de un desafortunado matrimonio, la joven no ha tenido suerte a la hora de encontrar una nueva pareja que le convenga. Un día, Jeroen, un abogado especializado en divorcios, llega a la Toscana para organizar la boda de su amigo Bob con Lisa. Durante los preparativos, Sanne y Jeroen se sienten atraídos, pero mientras ella busca una nueva pareja para rehacer su vida, Jeroen no cree en el matrimonio y finalmente la relación no va más allá. Medio año después, Sanne se ha casado con Camilo y justo cuando creía haber olvidado por completo a Jeroen, se lo encuentra por la calle y este la invita a su boda. Lo que no saben es que esa boda está a punto de cambiarles la vida a todos.

Sometimes it takes a child or two to fix the adult problems! Siems mother and father are divorced , but his father Rik has found love again , and be married to Winnie's mother Tosca . Siem loves Winnie , so when the relationship between Rik and Tosca begins to creak, devises the two children , a plan designed to get parents to get back together ; they make a movie with good advice about love . And what a movie ! The small movie clips bubbles of love and creativity , both in front of and behind the camera . We will diligently around the genres when Siem and Winnie must interpret many of love . A sweet , funny and sensitive film that is about to stick together and keep each other - and each other's differences , not least .

Following the love lives of different types of men in Amsterdam.

Animation with animals going for a picknick

Kevin is a young footballer who recently made a multimillion deal by transferring to FC Barcelona. He hardly realizes what is happening to him. Too young, too rich, too beautiful. His girlfriend Elza knows how Kevin should spend his millions. She is eagerly anticipating her birthday where Kevin will ask her the most important question of all. Kevin's grandmother Karla observes it all from the sidelines with concern. Fortunately there is the down-to-earth event planner Lizzy who shows Kevin the meaning of true love.

Finn (15) es un niño sin complicaciones hasta que un día, al llegar a casa de la escuela, ve a su padre Roelof con el vestido de su madre. El hombre al que Finn ha admirado toda su vida, quiere convertirse en mujer. Finn, que acaba de descubrir su propia sexualidad, está preocupado por este nuevo descubrimiento. Sigue una lucha con sentimientos de vergüenza, amor y lealtad. Por suerte, Lizzie, su nueva amiga, está allí para ayudarlo.

Januari 1963. Ondanks het barre weer besluit het bestuur van het Friese Elfstedencomité, onder druk van de media, met de kleinst mogelijke meerderheid van stemmen, dat de Elfstedentocht doorgaat. Tussen de duizenden die een startbewijs veroveren bevinden zich soldaat Henk Buma (Cas Janssen), boerenzoon Sjoerd Lelkama (Lourens van den Akker), arbeider Kees Ferwerda (Chris Zegers) en verpleegkundige Annemiek (Chava voor in 't Holt). Alle vier hebben zo hun reden om deze tocht der tochten te rijden. Door de dramatische en heroïsche gebeurtenissen zal deze Elfstedentocht, ook voor Henk, Sjoerd, Kees en Annemiek, als een van de meest legendarische de geschiedenis ingaan.

Elegant, short film introduces the lonely, contact-craving museum attendant Vera. One cold winter night, after another day of silently watching visitors in the museum, she finds a sleeping drifter in her doorway. She decides to take pity on him. First, she gives him a blanket and a thermos of tea; not much later the key to her house. Using chocolate as her main means of communication, she unchains an extraordinary dialogue.

Tiuri, un joven de 16 años, arriesga su futuro como caballero cuando recibe un encargo de otro caballero agonizante. Debe entregar una carta al Rey de Unauwen en el más completo de los secretos. Su aventura le llevará a atravesar montañas, bosques y valles, donde el peligro acecha en cada rincón. Bajo ninguna circunstancia esa carta ha de caer en las manos equivocadas.

Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...

The start of the career of Herman Brood, who lived his life filled with sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Guided by his manager they aim to take over the USA with his music.

Little boy Kees is based on the famous classical masterpiece by Theo Thijssen and deals with a twelve year old Amsterdam schoolboy who grows up at the end of the 19th century in the Jordaan (part of Amsterdam. Kees Bakels is a dreamer who seeks refuge from reality with wild imagination where he dares more than in real life. Through his fathers illness and his young love for Rosa Overbeek he develops himself as someone who acts and assumes responsibility.

Koen is a fatherless, eighteen year old boy who wants to free himself from the suffocating relationship with his mother. He struggels with the balance between independency and love. When he meets Colet, he tries to keep his distance, but she is both anarchistic and audacious. She does not understand the fact that Koen does not have the slightest curiosity about his unknown father. It is because of her that he begins the search for his father.