Maryam Hassouni

Leyla, una treintañera con el corazón roto y en el paro, decide reinventarse a sí misma y buscar la felicidad mientras su familia se empeña en buscarle novio.

Se presenta una oportunidad para Robert Atkinson, un banquero de Londres que arriesga el dinero de sus bancos para dejar atrás lo mundano y comenzar una nueva vida. Para aprovecharlo, involuntariamente se inscribe en el cartel chino para transportar un maletín a Amsterdam. Pero no todo es lo que parece en una ciudad velada por oscuros secretos. Impulsado por jugadores poderosos, drogas, seducción y violencia, Robert espera su turno en un juego mortal de elección y consecuencia.

Four friends who are nearly turning 30 need to work together in order to fulfill their dreams.

Dutch-Kurdish Ceylan is living the perfect life; and has a nice boyfriend, Bastiaan. However, the war in her homeland is fighting for her attention. She no longer can handle watching the misery on TV without taking action. Therefore she decides to become 'Peshmerga' and say goodbye to her secure life with Bastiaan, maybe forever.

After her marriage comes undone, Soof has to re-invent herself and get her tumultuous life back on track.

Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?

Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching the distressed woman in labour. Spurred on by the emergency and the incendiary words of a TV pundit, he reaches a boiling point and forcefully hits one of the men obstructing his ambulance. Max's strike has far-reaching, unintended consequences.

When their school bus crashes, a group of friends are sent to another dimension in a medieval time zone.

When they were eleven, the Dutch-Moroccon Naïma and the Japanese Yuichi fell in love. They communicated with their hearts. When they meet again as adults, they face a problem: they don't understand eachother's language...

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.

A shooting accident in which a dutch police officer shoots a young Moroccan rapper creates polarization about the issue of racism among citizens of a multicultural society.

Anna starts and ends in euphoria: brother and sister Stijn and Brecht have both put the ghosts of the past behind them and she has finally said 'yes' to the tall waiter who has been courting her for so long. In their tragic past, the mysterious Anna plays a key role. When some time later Anna suddenly reappears, she again turns the siblings' life topsy-turvy.

A young, unhappily married moslim woman works at a call centre, conducting telephone surveys. In this impersonal way, she gets in touch with a single man with a sagging couch and a lack of energy. Due to a barking dog, the telephone contact between this unlikely twosome is intensified and eventually even results in a meeting.

Haron is asked to infiltrate in a group of terrorists who are suspected to be working on a strike.

Several love stories set in one of the most interesting new cities in the world, Rotterdam.