Ton Peters

An all-too-ambitious playlist curator at a major music streaming company finds himself on a soul-searching summer day’s odyssey across his adopted Amsterdam.

“When I told my mother a boy was hitting me on the playground, she said: ‘That’s because he likes you.’” So begins this exposé about femicide, with the sentence appearing in black letters on a bright red background. The film shows three women who survived abusive relationships—by becoming murderers themselves. Laura from Finland, Rachel from the Netherlands and Rosalba from Italy explain how and, more importantly, why they killed their partners. One speaks eloquently, another haltingly, but all three are candid.

여기 전쟁으로 황폐해진 고국을 떠나 안전과 더 나은 삶을 찾아 매일같이 유럽 국경을 넘으려는 10대 소년 소녀들이 있다. 지뢰밭, 야생 곰, 빠르게 흐르는 강물, 밀수업자들과 국경 수비대의 위험이 도사리는 ‘그림자 세계’를 건너는 것을 그들은 ‘게임’이라 부르며, 이 승부에서 필사적으로 이기려 애쓴다. 유럽 전역에 세워진 방벽으로 인해 이제 망명은 사실상 불가능하며 최종 목적지를 향한 그들의 여정은 그 어느 때보다 위험할 수밖에 없다. 그럼에도 10대들은 몇 달 또는 심지어 몇 년에 걸쳐 이 위험한 여행에 목숨을 건다. 그 과정에서 그들은 빠르게 성장한다. 그리스에서 북마케도니아, 세르비아에서 보스니아 헤르체고비나, 이탈리아에서 프랑스, 그리고 네덜란드에 이르기까지 유럽 전역에 그들의 발길이 닿지 않는 곳은 없다. 길 위의 어린 난민들 각각의 삶이 혼재되어 하나의 보편적인 이야기를 이루는 〈그림자 놀이〉는 일종의 현대적 오디세이이다. 그들은 눈앞의 수많은 장애물을 극복하고 과연 새로운 안식처를 찾을 수 있을까?

How the last King of the Belgians becomes the first Emperor of Europe.

On a brother with a burn-out and his two sisters. What does it mean: to care for each other? A shameless and present-day generation film.

An documentary on the freedom of art in the Netherlands by Gerard Reves. Reve sets out to defend the freedom of art against angry constituents.

Tarik helps his father Elias transport illegal immigrants into the Netherlands. When an accident occurs, Tarik gains the acknowledgment from his father he has yearned for, but at a high price - the loss of his own innocence.

The King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.

Symptoms of influenza mean the last days in the life of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) seem to be played out beyond the confines of a set time and space. His stylised portraits come to live and edge him further towards death. Choreographer Stuart has transformed his images into a transparent movement language that by turns follows and ignores the music by Alexander von Zemlinsky. The rawly expressive and confrontational imagery reflects the powerful effect of Schiele’s drawings and paintings.

This snackbar, owned by Ali, in a suburb of Rotterdam is a refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent and criminal. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle, understanding, funny but also strict. But what if Ali, with his addiction to gambling jeopardizes their habitat?

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.

This film is about how people in a big city live close to each other but don't notice each other.

For all Frits, a farmer's son, knows, his mother died when giving birth to him. He and his father make up a strong team. In the literal and figurative sense, because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt, he is also the coach of his soccer team. The happy tide turns when the boy turns eighteen and is scouted as a promising soccer talent. Suddenly, Frits's future is no longer with his father on the farm, but on the green grass of the Nijmegen soccer club NEC. His son's splendid soccer career may be the crowning glory of the farmer's hard work, but he is afraid he will also lose his only child. Desperate, he reveals the lie with which he raised his son. Frits is bewildered and makes a dramatic decision.

A man explains how he was obsessed when he was younger by a mysterious room and an extraordinary rarefied piano music that drifted through its open window during the night. Forty years later, returning to his home town after having spent most of his life abroad, in "a bunch of different places", he asks one of his friends to rent a room for him. As chance would have it, it turns out to be the same room which attracted him when he was a young man. What drew him again to this room?