Wim Louwrier

The movie stars you see on the screen have once been selected amongst others. The glamor of the premiere is preceded by mug shots, selections, interviews, wining, dining, backstabbing and sex. In the end, everyone gets what they deserve.

5 Stories about love in Amsterdam (the Jordaan)

For his animation cartoon Red Light Diaries, Juan de Graaf interviewed inhabitants and visitors of the Amsterdam Red Light District about their live in the area. The conversations, in which sex rarely plays a role, provided the inspiration for a very individual interpretation of the characters.

2차 세계대전이 끝난 네덜란드의 어느 마을. 안토니아(Antonia: 빌레케 반 아메루이 분)는 어머니 일레곤다(Allegonde: 도라 반 더 그로엔 분)의 임종을 지키기 위해 열여섯살 된 딸 다니엘(Danielle: 엘스 도터만 분)과 고향으로 돌아온다. 마을에 들어서면 올가(Olga: 프랜 월러 제퍼 분)의 카페 담벼락에 "환영, 우리의 해방군"이라고 갈겨 쓴 낙서가 보인다. 나치를 몰아낸 미군을 환영했던 이 낙서가 이제 안토니아를 맞이하고 있는 듯 하다. 권위에 찬 성당신부가 주재하는 일레곤다의 장례식이 열리고, 마을 사람들은 찬송가를 부른다. 하지만 전쟁의 상흔이 깃든 장례식은 그저 하나의 행사일 뿐이고 다니엘은 할머니 일레곤다가 자신의 죽음을 기뻐하듯 노래하는 환영을 본다. 새로운 세상을 만들어가는 안토니아. 어머니의 농장을 물려받은 안토니아는 마을 정착하여 새로운 삶을 시작한다.

In the sixties, the founders of the magazine De Nieuwe Stijl were radiant stars in the Dutch literary heavens: Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, Armando, Hans Sleutelaar and Hans Verhagen. Throughout his life, Vaandrager remained true to his ideals: you have to try everything. He became a poet, actor, father, writer, vagabond and junky, eventually ending up literally in the gutter.

According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.

After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Only after months does he return to a more or less normal life and even then he only works in his wife's bookstore. A year later Eileen walks in the store, a girl from Northern Ireland with her baby in her arms. When Philip sees her, he's dumbfounded, for she's the spitting image of his dead wife. Obsessed with her, he goes and tries to find her again, but he soon finds out that he's not the only one who's looking for Eileen.