Frans van Gestel

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.

Two promising dancers navigate the demanding world of ballet in 1970s Amsterdam.

서로가 세상의 전부였던 레오와 레미는 친구들에게 관계를 의심받기 시작한다. 이후 낯선 시선이 두려워진 레오는 레미와 거리를 두고, 홀로 남겨진 레미는 걷잡을 수 없는 감정에 빠져들고 만다. 점차 균열이 깊어져 가던 어느 날, 레오는 믿을 수 없는 현실을 마주하게 되는데...

When Eva’s mother unexpectedly dies, the life of Eva turns out to be built on secrets and lies. The fear of losing her mind, just like her father who has been living in a mental facility for many years, becomes more and more of a threat, propelling Eva on a quest into her past to face her demons.

성흔과 그리스도와의 심장 교환, 신과의 결혼 등 종교적이고 에로틱한 무아경으로 신비주의로 추앙 받으며 수녀원장에 오른 베네데타. 수녀원에 들어온 바톨로매아라는 처녀와의 사랑이 교회에 적발되면서 한순간에 부정한 여인으로 몰락하는데…

아테네에서 유학 중인 아들 바박을 만나러 그리스에 온 파리와 파룩 부부는 공항에 아들이 마중 나오지않자 그가 머물던 아파트로 찾아가지만, 아들이 사라졌다는 사실을 알게 된다. 오랫동안 순종적인 아내로 살아왔던 파리는 낯선 도시에서 아들을 찾기 위해 필사적으로 위험한 뒷골목을 누비며 오랫동안 억눌러 왔던 낯선 자신의 모습을 발견한다.

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

약속 시간에 도착하기 위해 거침없이 질주하는 한스네 가족 앞에 흰색 밴이 나타나 길을 가로막고, 둘 사이에 미묘한 신경전이 벌어지게 된다. 한스가 그를 따돌렸다고 생각한 사이, 어느새 흰색 밴은 엄청난 속도로 그들을 뒤쫓으며 정체불명의 생화학 가스로 공격하기 시작하는데…

When they are confronted with the disease of the pater familias, all the members of the Liefhebber family have to face their fears, faults and their troubled interrelationships.

Nicoline, a criminal psychologist, begins work at a prison where one of her new cases, Idris — an apparently reformed sex offender — is preparing for release after five years of confinement. Despite her professional misgivings, she becomes infatuated with her charismatic, manipulative patient.

패트릭은 아르덴 지방 산간 마을 아버지 루디가 운영하는 누드 캠핑촌의 운영을 맡고 있는 조용한 총각이다. 작업실 선반에 보관되어있던 망치 세트 중 하나가 사라지면서 패트릭의 일상은 깨어지기 시작하고, 루디가 갑자기 쓰러지면서 평화롭던 캠핑촌도 술렁이기 시작한다. 단골 손님 중 한명인 헤르만이 루디가 없는 사이에 캠핑촌을 인수할 계획을 세우면서, 패트릭은 이제 잃어버린 망치도 찾고 캠핑촌도 수호해야 하는 상항에 처한다.

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.

​소년과 소녀의 경계에서 발레리나를 꿈꾸는 16살 라라. 호르몬 치료와 학업을 병행하며 진정한 자신을 찾기 위한 용기를 내기 시작한다.

As the whole country is preparing for the World Cup, all characters are confronted with the Dutch ‘Orange Fever’, which seems to either bring them closer together, or drift them apart.

Hannah (32) a very popular vlogger on YouTube, lives the perfect life on camera. When her boyfriend decides to walk his own path, it is getting harder and harder to keep up appearances.

The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.

A short – apparently innocent – announcement turns the lives of a couple of employees at a wellness centre down. An absurd tragicomedy.

This stylish, sexually charged thriller revolves around two men who kidnap a woman and chain her to a bed as they await the ransom money. As the clock ticks, the woman discovers that she may have a relationship with one of the kidnappers that she never expected...and that the two men may have a relationship with each other that no one could have expected.

Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.

후안과 그의 가족은 대도시를 떠나 지방에 정착한다. 그들은 그곳에서 쾌락과 고통이라는 동떨어진 두 개의 세계를 경험한다. 이 두 세계가 상호보완적인지 아니면 서로 제거하려고 싸우는 것인지는 아무도 모른다. 카를로스 레이가다스의 신작은 그의 전작들과 마찬가지로 원시적 자연의 장엄함과 존재론적 침묵, 그리고 관능이 지배하는 세계다. 프롤로그로 기능하는 초반 꿈 시퀀스에서 빛나는 감독의 탁월한 연출력은 영화가 끝날 때까지 한순간도 힘을 잃지 않는다. 강한 인상을 남기는 목욕탕 장면은, 내러티브를 끌고 가는 핵심축 중 하나인 부부간의 쾌락과 관능이라는 미묘한 인간사에 대한 카메라의 솔직하고 대담한 시선을 보여준다. 감독은 선과 악, 죄의식이라는 인간적 문제를 하늘과 땅, 산, 바다, 동물이라는 자연과 결합시켜 장엄한 서사시와도 같은 영화를 탄생시켰다. 무엇보다도, 초월적 분위기와 독창성으로 빛나는 시작과 끝장면은 차세대 거장으로서 레이가다스의 입지를 확고히 하는 서명과도 같다. (2012년 제17회 부산국제영화제)

All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. Written by Topkapi Films

한 마리 나비처럼 아름답고 순수한 타투이스트 아가씨 ‘엘리제’ 블루그래스 음악을 사랑하는 자유로운 영혼의 뮤지션 ‘디디에’ 두 사람은 첫 눈에 서로에게 끌려 뜨겁게 사랑하고 용감하게 결혼을 감행한다. 뜻밖의 임신이었지만 귀여운 딸 메이벨의 탄생으로 부모가 되는 기쁨을 나눈 두 사람. 행복은 이 아름다운 커플을 감싸며 완벽한 원을 이루는 것 같았는데… 갑자기 사랑스러운 딸 메이벨이 암으로 죽자, 거칠 것 없어 보이던 두 사람의 사랑과 행복이 흔들리기 시작한다.

Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him. Faced with the fragility of these newfound emotions, Marian surrenders to her human needs

Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne Bitor, an artist with a disfigured face. Jeanne is very bitter about her 'ugly' appearance, and she is obsessed with the process of dying and deterioration of animals and humans. Therefore, she abducts Isabelle and starves her to death, while painting her in different phases of the process.

Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.

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.

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?

In his new film a young director puts his girlfriend through a love test. By doing so he risks his real life relationship with her.

A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation Santa Claws, while a prince takes a menial job at a department store to woo his sweetheart.

Slightly bored, two young Chinese people circle around each other in modern Shanghai. She works in a trance club, he is a DJ. In the daytime they are at home together, but their relationship seems to have reached a stalemate. They hardly communicate and have arguments about nothing. A meeting with her ex in the street sets the young woman thinking. She started dressing differently and took a new hairstyle, but has she really changed?

탈출을 시도하던 레이첼의 가족은 적군에게 발각되어 모두 죽고, 그녀만 홀로 살아 남는다. 더 이상 잃은 것이 없다고 여기며 하루 하루를 보내던 그녀에게 적군의 본지로 침투할 스파이의 임무가 주어진다. 이 후, 자신의 매력과 기지를 십 분 발휘해 적군 장교 문츠의 연인이 되는 데 성공한 레이첼은 그의 사무실에서 일을 하게 된다. 그곳에서 그녀는 도청 장치를 설치하는 등 중요한 임무를 수행하며 본격적인 스파이 임무를 수행한다. 레이첼은 중요한 스파이 임무 수행으로 혁혁한 공을 세우지만 점점 문츠 장교를 진심으로 사랑하게 된다. 문츠 장교 또한 레이첼이 스파이라는 사실을 눈치채고도 그녀를 매몰차게 뿌리치지 못하는데. 그러나 이런 그들의 애틋한 사랑을 전쟁이라는 잔인한 현실은 용서하지 않는다. 레이첼이 동지들을 구출할 최후의 임무를 전달받게 되고, 그 작전이 시작되던 날, 그들을 감싸고 있던 엄청난 음모가 그 실체를 드러내면서 뜻하지 않은 새로운 반전을 맞이하는데…

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.

Young Karel buys his first mobile phone, with digital camera, and discovers unexpected possibilities to make his sexual fantasies come true. A slightly absurdistic comedy.

An old farmer's wife lives alone on a secluded farm. In documentary-like observations, her idyllic life files past. Then, it is discovered that her house, as the last one in Belgium, has not been connected to the electricity grid yet. On their TVs and radios, the Belgians, living in houses that are filled with electric appliances, hear her story. `How has she managed to live like that?'

Gorgeous Dutch youngster Max has two passions, acting and girls. The first becomes his brilliant career, which takes off so well he gets invited to a prestigious New York theatre course for a year. But since he met fickle bitch Phileine in an Utrecht park, his flirting life is cut short while she cruelly plays with his feelings rather then his horny body. After refusing to follow him, she turns up uninvited later and still acts jealous and possessive. Grief follows for everyone, working up to a convoluted finale.

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...

A young traveler picks up and elderly woman on his way from Holland to Monte Carlo.

Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.

Different couples go to a hotel which has an special offer for staying over at the 31st of december 1999 in to the new millenium. The movie follows the different couples and their reasons to be in the hotel.

In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His new space becomes a haven for the terminally dysfunctional. Trouble ensues when two strangers, the world-weary Col. Hardy and the handsome son of an aspiring presidential candidate, come to collect on a commissioned work of art.

In the wake of the disaster, a 15-year-old girl is treated by a community in mourning as a saviour with a special talent to heal.