Johanna ter Steege

A century of change in pictures (1915-2015). What makes Twente Twente? What changes have taken place in the last century? Twente op Film is a project by filmmaker Erik Willems, actress (and co-producer) Johanna ter Steege and producer André Oude Weernink. They used film archive images to make a film about what has changed in Twente in a century. In city planning, in industry, in every day life, in the countryside and in the city.

Este 'remake' holandés de una divertida comedia checa obtuvo un éxito rotundo en los Países Bajos y se convirtió en la película más vista en su paso por la televisión del país desde 2002, reuniendo a más de dos millones y medio de espectadores.En "Demasiado amor", un veterinario de mediana edad está convencido de que su mujer lo trata como a un niño. Tras 35 años de matrimonio, no se siente admirado y cree que su mujer toma todas las decisiones sin tener en cuenta sus deseos. Así que, tras un anecdótico incidente, decide simular tener inicios de demencia.

Diciembre de 2012. Tras cuatro meses de cautiverio en Siria, dos periodistas franceses son liberados. Gabriel, el más joven, tiene algo más de 30 años. Después de pasar chequeos médicos y contestar a muchas preguntas, puede estar con su familia y su novia. Transcurren unas semanas, e incapaz de encontrar un rumbo a su vida, decide ir a Goa, donde creció. Allí conocerá a Maya.

Maximilian (August Zirner) es un psicoterapeuta popular, pero como tal, no solo lucha con sus propias preocupaciones y problemas, sino también con los de sus muchos pacientes.

50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

Fien de la Mar (1898-1965) was a Dutch actress with exceptional allure and extraordinary talent. With this she celebrated many triumphs, but her life ultimately ended in tragedy.

Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.

Sam and Do (short for Dominique) have been together for five years. They enjoy life and are very happy. But then Do gives birth to their son Max. Their whole life is suddenly upside down. Can their love survive after the arrival of their baby?

Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in the waves.

Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world with her wits. But she has to face up to reality when she runs out of innocent dreams.

Emma, a dissolute young woman with a strong desire to become a mother, has finally found the love of her life to settle down with. When she receives a mysterious postcard her new life is turned upsidedown. Her shady past has caught up with her: she has been traced by the company that wants from her what was agreed upon. She’s forced to pay her debt by making an impossible choice.

Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders about the streets of Budapest in just her dressing gown carrying a pair of scissors. After a series of misadventures, Katalin eventually ends up in Turkey, where suddenly Katalin is awakened and decides to start a new life after meeting local man Hilal (Yavuz Bingol). Meanwhile her son Zoli (Norbert Varga) tries to hunt Katalin down.

Akkie (Hanna Obbeek, 'Bobby en de Geestenjagers') es una chica que asiste a la escuela primaria a la que le apasiona el fútbol, tanto es así, que puede llegar a ser una auténtica bestia. El amor es lo único a lo que teme. Cuando los médicos diagnostican que Akkie padece leucemia, la joven deberá luchar por su vida. Apenas quedan unos meses para que empiece en el instituto y Akkie deberá sopesar si quiere permitir que el amor entre a formar parte de su vida y, por lo tanto, tener el valor de aceptar los inevitables caprichos del corazón.

La historia de un hombre que busca a su hija. Basada en el superventas epónimo del niño rebelde de la literatura danesa, Arnon Grunberg.

Maurice (Michel Piccoli) es compositor, y un viejo miembro de la resistencia. Por azar, comparte casa con una adolescente que, también por azar, es su nieta. Claire, a sus 17 años, está impaciente por vivir toda clase de cosas y cuanto antes mejor, y se rebela ante cualquiera que quiera impedírselo. Entre las competiciones de natación y los primeros encuentros cercanos con los chicos, pasa su vida, acogida por su abuelo después de haberse quedado huérfana. Pero esta convivencia es difícil: ambos se evitan por los recovecos de una gran casa, escapándose por las ventanas si es necesario, para vivir en las estancias que les cede ese ente invisible que es su incomprensión mutua. Y, sin embargo, tienen algo en común: ambos son insurrectos a su manera, sólo que uno de vuelta de todo y la otra apenas emprendiendo el camino de ida.

A woman drives in her car, wearing a grave look on her face. In the background, we hear the sounds of the freeway. The camera often captures her face, but occasionally we look at her from behind. Hypnotising lines on the road whiz by. Just like trees and other elements surrounding the road. Some short telephone conversations alternate with long silences. Meanwhile, the spectator travels along with the woman for many miles. Next, her phone rings for the third time. It turns out to be her lover. Gradually, the nature of the conversation becomes clear. It is their final, but intense and extensive talk. One time, the tone is very impersonal, another time defiant or even particularly emotional. More and more becomes clear about the two characters and their past relationship.

A tense father and mother prepare a visit to their son, whose birthday it is. The father is sent out to find a gift. When he comes home, his wife points out that he has chosen something inappropriate. That would only scare their son. They will have to bring something else. Their teenage daughter decides to stay home. It is soon clear that things are not going smoothly with the son and this family.

What at first appears to be a surprise family holiday turns into a kidnapping and ends in a nightmare, when Simone discovers her father is on the run from serious problems. As she slowly realises that he is losing his mind and on the verge of doing awful harm, she decides to protect her family. Loosely based on a family drama in the Netherlands.

Kate comes alone to Paris for the week-end. In this city she doesn't know, she is going to meet a man and his dog.

Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.

A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his wealth.

1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand the mysteries of the world around her. But her devout catholic father can't explain the new world and her mother is too busy for philosophy so she converses to God. One day at school she is horrified to learn that man will soon set foot on the moon. In her eyes it's not possible that God would allow anyone to get so close to Heaven. Her clowning father agrees and, unable to cope with modern-day progress, hits the bottle. Caro is preparing for her first holy communion to become 'a bride of God' but before that she seals a pact with her father to overcome her fear of swimming in exchange, he will not touch a drop of alcohol.

31 year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this, he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself, Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots, Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl, Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty, Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking, Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class who spend most of their time smooching and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny.

A family film, based on a well-known Dutch story from the Middle Ages. Mariken tells the compelling and poetic story of spirited young girl named Mariken. The orphan Mariken lives in a secluded forest with an eccentric old hermit. One day, she decides to leave her surroundings and sets off for town to buy a new goat. On her adventurous journey into the 'real' world, she finds out about the good and bad sides of people.

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.

This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Cuando las tropas japonesas sitian Singapur, un grupo de mujeres de distintas nacionalidades son evacuadas en barco hacia los Estados Unidos. Durante la travesía, el barco es atacado por la aviación japonesa y naufraga frente a las costas de Sumatra. Las mujeres son apresadas y enviadas a un campo de concentración en medio de la selva.

A life of little Maria who lives in a foster family breaks after a sudden appearance of her mother Melanie who was absent for five years...

Tras su separación de Anne, con quien comparte dos hijos, el pintor Philippe conoce en la calle a Justine, una mujer más joven que él, con la que inicia una relación. A pesar de que Philippe asegura que Justine ha sido su salvación, ella siente que no puede competir con la nostalgia de su vida anterior, mostrándose cada vez más celosa de su ex mujer y sus hijos.

A woman falls in love with a married, Belgian man. She finds out that he's married too late... although it's the second thing he says. The rest of the film is about the struggle of the man between his two loves, and of the woman not able to finish the hopeless and dangerous relationship. The title "tot ziens" (au revoir, a farewell greeting that implicates that one will see eachother again), is the ironic description of the film, which is about going away for good and then coming back again, because something is always stronger than your ratio.

Año 1827. Una fervorosa multitud llena las calles de Viena para rendir su último homenaje a un genio: Ludwig Van Beethoven. En su testamento el músico ha decidido legar todo lo que poseía a una mujer desconocida, su amor inmortal. Nadie sabe quién es. La única pista para descubrir su identidad es una carta.

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young or successful anymore.

La súbita caída de los regímenes comunistas de la Europa del Este supuso para muchos un cambio radical y, a veces, de una injusticia sangrante. Buen ejemplo de ello son Emma y Böbe, dos maestras que impartían clases de ruso en Budapest y que, tras el fracaso del sistema socialista, se ven obligadas a reciclarse para subsistir. Mientras que una escoge la limpieza doméstica, la otra se dedicará a la prostitución.

Un director de orquesta es contratado para dirigir en París la ópera de Wagner "Tannhauser". Sin embargo, cuando llega a la capital francesa, tropieza con toda clase de obstáculos para realizar su trabajo: unas veces debido a las exigencias de los sindicatos y otras a causa de los caprichos de algunos cantantes. Así, su primer encuentro con la diva es frustrante, aunque acaban viviendo una apasionada historia de amor.

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

Rex y Saskia son una pareja de holandeses de vacaciones en Francia. En una gasolinera, Saskia desaparece sin dejar rastro. Rex dedica tres años de su vida a intentar encontrar a su novia sin éxito. Un día empieza a recibir postales de alguien que promete revelarle qué le pasó a Saskia. El supuesto secuestrador, un tipo llamado Raymond Lemorne, es un personaje escalofriante a quien Rex sigue la corriente en su obsesión de conocer la verdad sobre la desaparición de su amada. Y la verdad, quizá, sea más siniestra de lo que él nunca se atrevió a imaginar...