Hugo Heinen

After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.

The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife.

The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife.

O Senhor dos Mares narra a história real do famoso navegador holandês Willem Barentsz e sua tripulação, que em 1596, tentou encontrar um caminho mais curto para a Índia através do extremo Norte do planeta, circulando a Rússia e cortando pelo ártico, navegando por águas nunca antes exploradas.

I don't know who I am - that's what it is', the seventeen-year-old curly redhead Jordi grumbles to his tough girlfriend. Under mother's wing, Jordi spends all his time on the Internet. His only adventure is a ride on the back of his girlfriend's motorbike. One day, a coincidental but shocking discovery on the Net forces him to start searching for his identity, away from his familiar environment. It takes him to a confrontation with his biological father who was supposed dead, but appears to live in Ireland and does not immediately press his lost son in his arms. Kilkenny Cross is a coming-of-age drama, in which the Dutch urban water landscape contrasts with the green hills of Ireland and the impassiveness of modern means of communication with the longing for human intimacy. A chat session between mother and son leads to an emotional climax. In a cameo role, female novelist Manon Uphoff explains what true love means.

Uma trama que a principio é esquisita, mas bem inventiva, é a chave de partida desse filme que mistura suspense e aventura policial. Um novo tipo de psicopata está solto nas ruas da Holanda. Um homem toma os empregados de uma torre como refém. Sua motivação é um tanto estranha: ele protesta contra os aparelhos de televisores widescreen porque acredita que as faixas negras superiores e inferiores que aparecem na imagem contém mensagens e códigos escondidos. Buscando compreender a loucura do homem, descobre-se que durante anos ele tentou lutar contra esse tipo de aparelho e outras várias tecnologias modernas. O clima está tenso e o dia avança para um final trágico nessa produção que reflete sobre as trágicas consequências da modernidade e da tecnologia.

Frank de Roover returns to the village of his birth, Portland. There he reconnects with his childhood friends Peter and Koos, as well as the girl all three of them fell in love with, Lili.

Koekebakker is a successful journalist. His old mates, however, turned out failures: Bekker has lost all hope of changing the world, Hoyer works for the socialist party, Bavink suffers from mental problems and Kees is a simple laborer.