Sander Verdonk

Filmes

Kleinkinderen van de Oost
Producer
Daan van Citters and Joenoes Polnaija retrace the footsteps of their grandfathers in Indonesia. They both fought for the Netherlands against Indonesian independence: Daan’s grandfather went voluntarily from the Netherlands, Joenoes’s as a Moluccan soldier in the Dutch colonial army, KNIL. Their poignant journey forces them to ask themselves some difficult questions about guilt, shame and transgenerational transmission.
The East
Producer
Um jovem soldado holandês destacado para suprimir os esforços de independência pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial na colônia holandesa da Indonésia se vê dividido entre o dever e a consciência quando se junta a um esquadrão de elite de comandante cada vez mais implacável.
Peitruss
Co-Producer
Since she’s started a passionate new relationship with the handsome and mysterious Joakim, life is smiling back at Lara again. Her marriage to detective Toni is but a distant memory. But when he accuses Joakim of having committed a series of unsolved murders in Luxembourg City’s Peitruss Valley, Lara’s world is thrown upside down. While trying to prove his innocence, she starts to wonder how well she really knows the one she loves.
Eyes on the Road
Producer
On a drive back home in a dirty car, three young women talk about other people. Their conversation flows naturally, and takes them into uncharted territory.
Jihad Jane
Producer
The tale of two American women who went looking for love online and became the 'new face in the war on terror.'
Alpha
Co-Producer
Alpha shows the tense relationship between a son and his mother. Chiel is unable to associate with the religion of his mother and is resisting actively. Vera loses control over her adolescent teenager. Then, one evening, the pastor comes by to solve the conflict.
Sem Tréguas
Producer
Um homem desesperado. Um empréstimo mortal. Agora é hora de pagar.
Uma Aventura Perigosa
Line Producer
A inacreditável história de quatro jovens americanos, com temperamentos extremamente diferentes, que se juntam para roubar o livro mais valioso dos Estados Unidos. Durante o processo, eles começam a questionar o verdadeiro propósito do ato para as suas vidas e o que ele representa para a sociedade em que vivem.
Autodestruição
Producer
A história acontece num mundo futurista, onde o piloto esta lutando para salvar sua família após um experimento por energia ilimitada e controle de universos paralelos dar errado. A ficção científica é baseada no curta "What’s in the Box?", de Tim Smit, e tem seu roteiro escrito por Charlie Kindinger e Omid Nooshin.
Forget Me Not
Producer
‘De Verrekijker’ primary school in Katwijk provides education for some 150 children from the local reception centre for refugees. The inspired teachers’ ultimate challenge is to offer these children a safe haven and make their school days as ordinary as possible. At first glance, De Verrekijker looks like a normal Dutch primary school. However, the boys and girls are children of rejected asylum seekers. Headmaster Toon and the teachers do all they can to give them the best education. Yet each morning they worry if any pupil has been forced to leave the country. After a series of deportations it becomes increasingly difficult to provide the children with a safe haven. The situation escalates when a group of Syrian boys fleeing war arrive at the school.
The Glorious Works of G.F. Zwaen
Producer
n the late 90's Amsterdam-based writer Gerard F. Zwaen becomes entangled in a plot involving a drugs trafficker, a dodgy tax inspector and an internal affairs agent.
Préjudice
Co-Producer
A challenging psychological drama where the carefully nurtured harmony of a family is shattered one lovely summer evening. Cédric, who is generally shut away in a world of his own, doesn't react very well to the happy news of his sister’s pregnancy.
Life, Love & HIV
Producer
HIV has been a chronic disease since the 1990s; it is no longer lethal. Still, the social stigma and the taboo the affliction is under persist. This is also experienced by two women in Amsterdam and Groningen. They are now brave enough to say they are HIV positive, despite all unshakable prejudices against women with HIV. This moving documentary shows what it is like to live with the dreaded disease in present-day society.
Sem Bebês No Campo
Producer
The immature Wyne starts a football team to rebel against all her friends whose lives have become dull and boring since either giving birth or becoming pregnant. However, she threatens to lose everything through unexpected events.
O Canal
Co-Producer
Um arquivista de cinema deprimido e estressado encontra sua sanidade em ruínas depois de receber um rolo de filme de 16 mm com imagens de um assassinato horrível que ocorreu no início dos anos 1900.
The Invisible Men
Producer
An untold side of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: gay Palestinians - Louie, Abdu and Fares - are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain 'the invisible men'.
Sugar
Producer
Bert's scantily dressed neighbour downstairs, Klaasje, comes by to borrow a cup of sugar, the old clichéd situation with a quite possibly sexual outcome. When she lets the cup slip from her hands and they both try to catch it, destiny strikes.
Road
Producer
A young woman, alone in a car on a deserted road, is affected by the gloomy surroundings. A small collision with another car seems to bear out her worst fears. This is the onset of a fatal pursuit on a perilous, winding road, which will drastically change the lives of three people.