In The Curse of Lughus an ancient poltergeist escapes. He enters the statue of the jam advertising character Flipje in Tiel and from then on, all the wishes expressed on the market square come true. When Romy and her brother argue, Ryan suddenly disappears. Is the statue involved somehow?Director Sjoerd de Bont will be present for a q&a.
Every spring, there comes a day when women appear on the streets wearing skirts. Love is in the air on skirt day and the film follows sixteen colourful characters who attend a ‘Cooking Class for Singles.’ They hope to find their match during cooking speed-dates. Will ambitious lawyer Marijke win from her sexy best-friend Danielle? And is the shy Edwin able to put to practice what he learned through lessons on ‘how to seduce a woman’? And what about the founders of the Cooking Class: Alexandra and Bor. Is their marriage as good as Alexandra so desperately needs it to be? We follow them and other characters in this modern day romantic comedy on their collective journey in finding true love.
Hartenstraat is set in the Nine Streets district of Amsterdam. It is a village in a big town and everyone seems to be looking for love. As the womanizer Bas, seniors Bep and Aart and the couple Rein and Jacob. The only one who is not looking for love is Daan. He lives here with his daughter Saar in Hartenstraat, where he has his own business as a caterer. Then Katje appears in his life. The pretty fashion designer opens a fashion boutique next door to Daan. When her catering unexpectedly cancels just before opening her shop Katje must appeal to Daan. That is asking for trouble since the two opposite each other in everything. Yet Katje also secretly has an eye on her neighbor, especially now that her current relationship with Thomas is not going strong.
Coaxed by a much more mature, not very sympathetic friend, Machteld discovers on her first night out to discotheque The Palace that this is no place for a fourteen-year-old girl. She wanders around a little lost, and the high-priced piña coladas do not go down well. Fortunately, she is picked up by her dad, with whom she can just be who she is: a young girl with sore feet from the borrowed shoes.
Every morning six people who live in the same street are taking the bus into town. Thanks to their own routine they survive each day, until one of them meets death.
