Dragan Bakema

The eccentric Miss Ank tries to pick up the pieces at her primary after the loss of their principal. Faced with a shortage of teachers, and increasingly demanding parents, the board hires an interim head to get things in order. Pretty soon e-teaching takes over, with an actual robot replacing the teachers, and CCTV enabling over-involved parents to keep a constant eye on what’s happening. Finding themselves up against this heartless new regime, pupils and teachers decide to join forces and rebel.

세상에 대한 궁금증은 많지만 소극적인 ‘루크’는 대학에 진학하면서 암스테르담에 있는 자신감이 넘치고 활동적인 형 ‘알렉산더’를 찾아간다. 항상 사람들에 둘러 쌓여 있는 형의 모습만 바라보던 동생 ‘루크’는 어느 날 ‘알렉산더’의 즉흥적인 히치하이킹 여행에 함께하게 된다. 자유를 찾아 떠난 두 형제는 서로가 있어 두려움 없이 자유를 만끽한다. 암스테르담을 떠나 프랑스 어느 마을에 도착한 두 형제는 ‘조세핀’이라는 아름다운 소녀를 만나게 되고, ‘알렉산더’는 소녀를 따라 프랑스에, ‘루크’는 다시 네덜란드로 돌아가면서 형제는 헤어지게 된다. 그 후, ‘루크’는 ‘알렉산더’의 뜻밖의 사고 소식을 듣게 되는데… 과연 두 형제는 다시 만날 수 있을까?

When Ralf traverses the city at night, he gets involved with the escort girls he drives around as little as possible. But when the blonde Kelly gets in his cab, he is caught unawares by her provocative and unpredictable attitude, also because she has a disarming quality. He has to do his very best to keep his distance. Their whole conversation takes place inside the cab, with many close-ups of their faces, while the street lights flash across the windscreen and the city glides by almost invisibly.

Two kids are forced to play together by their mothers. They discover a shared interest in planes though and soon they start a battle about who knows more about them. Their fantasy about planes turns into reality for the audience.

The wife of a successful construction manager has disappeared after an ordinary morning in Belgrade. He is assured she will come back and continues with life, as usual. But, maybe she is just the first of the collapsed dominoes.

The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.

An Albanian emigrant is caught in Amsterdam among the promise and allure of the sin-filled city.

How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?

Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage.

Want (81) lies die on. The old woman is entirely ready for the passage, thus she has let know already several times in the presence of thuishulp Frank (31). For empathische the attendant this those moments are where living twists for and

아름다운 배우지망생 에바는 새 아파트로 이사 한 기념으로 친구와 클럽에 갔다가 평소 호감을 갖고 있던 아래층 남자 알렉스와 우연히 만나 합석한다. 정신을 차린 에바는 낯선 곳에 수갑이 채워진 자신을 발견하고 납치된 사실을 깨닫는다. 마스크를 쓴 남자가 나타나 에바를 감시하기 시작하고 에바는 점점 공포에 빠져든다. 에바는 탈출을 시도하지만 에바의 탈출 시도는 낯선 이들의 희생만을 불러 온다. 그러면서 에바는 납치범의 실체와 자신을 납치한 이유를 알게 되고 충격에 빠진다. 그것은 한 여자를 향한 한 남자의 치밀한 복수극의 일부였던 것. 과연 에바는 탈출할 수 있을까?

Claire is a single mother. She has a busy chaotic life in Rotterdam.

Three women in the big city pass each other daily but never really get to know each other. How much difference could a little bit more contact make?

William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. Chris tries his best, but William is one lump of impenetrable rock, secretly wondering if the events of the night before, when Jack went off with fifteen-year old Marianne, had anything to do with the accident...

Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught.

디자인 전문가답게 완벽한 구도와 정물화 같은 화면을 긴 호흡으로 지루하지 않게 만들어낸 작품이다. 누구도 흉내내지 못할 인간 내면의 외로움과 누구도 포착하기 힘든 감정을 관객이 보기 쉽게 펼쳐 놓는다. 유럽 영화에서 보기 드문 큼지막한 얼굴을 화면 가득채운 특별한 영화다. 헐리우드 영화 처럼 유명 배우 얼굴을 의미 없이 화면 가득 담아 시간 때우기나 호객행위를 하는 그런 영화는 아니다. 최고의 배우인 휠러의, 내면을 간파할 수 없는 얼굴을 정물화를 감상하듯 지켜보는 재미가 있다. 할리우드 팝콘 영화에 익숙한 관객에겐 고통일 수 있다.

Vox Populi is a black comedy about an experienced politician suffering from a midlife crisis. When he comes into contact with the common-man's logic of his new in-laws, this has a far-reaching effect on both his political and his personal life.

Olivier calls himself a 'statistical miracle'. He is almost 27 years old but the doctors had predicted that, because of the heart disease he was born with, he would not get much older than 25 years. He doesn't seem to be suffering from the threat of death closing in on him. With unbridled energy, he parties, smokes, drinks and dances until deep into the night, and in the morning wakes up in bed next to girls he doesn't even know. His family and friends alienate from him because of this life style, and the fact that he doesn't have long lasting relationships, doesn't bother him. Olivier lives, day by day. Until new medical technologies make it possible to cure him, and a new future opens up to him. Everybody is happy, but Olivier doesn't know how to deal with the expectations and responsibilities of his new life.

Olivier calls himself a 'statistical miracle'. He is almost 27 years old but the doctors had predicted that, because of the heart disease he was born with, he would not get much older than 25 years. He doesn't seem to be suffering from the threat of death closing in on him. With unbridled energy, he parties, smokes, drinks and dances until deep into the night, and in the morning wakes up in bed next to girls he doesn't even know. His family and friends alienate from him because of this life style, and the fact that he doesn't have long lasting relationships, doesn't bother him. Olivier lives, day by day. Until new medical technologies make it possible to cure him, and a new future opens up to him. Everybody is happy, but Olivier doesn't know how to deal with the expectations and responsibilities of his new life.

In the trilogy ‘Rain, Sugar, Eye’ thoughts are captured and made visible. Each film is made in one single shot; in which a total shot slowly changes into a close-up. The leading characters in ‘Rain’, ‘Sugar’ and ‘Eye’ are focusing on a detail. Literally seeing another world in this detail causes a fundamental change of their ideas about this reality. In ‘Eye' a man and a woman look each other so profoundly in the eyes that they experience the impossibility of a symbiosis.

Two passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings and literally drown in them..

What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.

Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.

Scholiere Denise is ontevreden met haar leven en als ze de 19-jarige charmante Michael tegenkomt lijkt haar verlangen naar luxe en romantiek vervuld te worden. Maar Michael investeert in haar uit eigen belang.

Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman...