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Stella's hedonistic lifestyle finds her in a basement cell where she meets a woman and reflects on the reason of their captivity.

In a primitive tribal world where strange, monstrous, animalistic machines roam the wilderness, a brave young female warrior goes on a quest to learn the truth about her mysterious origin and the state the world is in.

Butcher Wagtmans's son Bram joins prestigious Dutch frat Mercurius and becomes best mates with slick silver-spoon womanizing senior Olivier de Ruyter, who helps him survive the hazing and introduces him to join his frat house--the most-esteemed. Bram's arrogant fellow/rival Hendrik Bolhuis and his sickly kid brother, Bram's pledge-classmate Freek, try their best to keep out commoner Bram. After Freek's nightly death during hell-night, Bram, who becomes Olivier's doting sister's lover, and Bram's buddy Joep start finding out the truth is darker and more complex, with matching price-tags.

The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases.

Lucas Kellan is a spec-op Vektan sent to uncover the dark plotting of a rival race - Helghast.

Events in a small attorney office in Amsterdam

Dutch television series which revolves around the life of a group of young real estate agents with a real estate agency in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Lots of singing during the preparations for the Evening of the Presents.

Three rich families: One family has been rich for a long time and two won millions in the lottery, how do they handle their richness?

Rosa is a teenage girl who has to move to Groningen because her mother got a new boyfriend: Alexander. She feels like she doesn't fit in in the new school and she sees her life changing. The only thing what stays the same is her friends who she chats with over the Internet. The life of a teenager can be complicated. Rosa goes through a difficult time trying to explore her identity with a lot of creativity. The serie is inspired by a book serie: "hoe overleef ik..." By Francine Oomen.

While on vacation with his girlfriend, Gijs receives a phone call from his mother, that reveals her troubled mental state and their complex relationship.

The older Prince Bernhard tells the story of his exciting life to Princess Máxima. After all, when Prince Willem-Alexander takes the throne, she will be his Queen and take up much the same position as Bernhard did as husband to former Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. His story takes us from Palace Soestdijk to once-German Reckenwalde with the young Bernhard, to Nazi-Berlin, wartime in London, Argentina and Canada and much more. It paints a portrait of the world from the thirties to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Bernhard survived the deepest of crises: accusation of treason by Ian Fleming during the war, corruption in the fifties and seventies, extra-marital daughters and even being the main reason for a dutch governmental crisis.

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.

The quest of Merel (11) to find her unknown biological Turkish grandfather starts as an encounter between two different cultures and develops into an exciting and unifying journey.

Parts of a corpse have been found and a suspect, Plamen Goranov, brother of the murdered man, is detained. He denies any charges and for want of conclusive evidence, the investigation is about to be suspended. Then a new investigator is appointed, Alexandra Yakimova, who starts everything from scratch. In daytime she interrogates relatives, friends and colleagues of two brothers and at night she questions the suspect.She hasn't got much time left for her family. Solitude has been her own choice and she tries to make up it overburdening herself with more and more work. Loneliness is also eating up Plamen, the tough rogue, who starts cherishing his encounters with the investigator for the chance to talk to her. The film follows the course of the investigation trough the filter of its main subject: possible or impossible human communication.

After being diagnosed with testicular cancer, 22-year-old student Teun has to move back in with his parents to undergo chemotherapy. His dorm mates have organized a farewell dinner and the evening starts of pleasantly, but soon enough emotions are running high. One of Teun's flatmates suggests a risky undertaking, to save the evening.

A young boy pursues his dream of being a pilot and becomes instrumental to a nation's nightmare.

What does it mean when your parents cannot always take good care of you? When you sometimes have to be protected from them? To what extent do you become - consciously or unconsciously - in a conflict of loyalty, because you love them unconditionally in spite of everything? Nikki tells the story of one of those at least 577,000 Dutch children whose parents have a psychiatric or addiction problem.

A look at the life of Lawrence MacEwen who has farmed the Isle of Muck since the 1960s.

A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.

The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature's untouched beauty, an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, poisoning it's inhabitants. A young Inuit woman investigates the sources of this pollution. Her journey takes her to three different continents, where she is confronted with conflicting interests when it comes to short term gains and health care. The recent developments in the Arctic are a disturbing preview of the consequences of structural pollution of the environmental system worldwide.

A young woman (Maryam Hassouni) is preparing for the battle against IS in Iraq. Before she can go, she needs to take leave from her boyfriend (Teun Kuilboer).

May I Enter is an art documentary in which the Brazilian belief C a n d o m b l e is investigated and in fact experienced. This originally West-African belief reveals a different attitude towards reality and other borders of acceptance and communication than those current in the Western society. The main characteristics are the belief in another, parallel world of spirits and an established contact with spirits through singing, dance, music and oblation. This contact takes shape in a possession of one of the attendants by a spirit during a C a n d o m b l e ceremony. Filmmaker and visual artist Kostana Banovic interviews persons involved in C a n d o m b l e, films rituals, undergoes ceremonies in which she assumed the identity of her gods, and joins it to an inciting documentary. Banovic is herself visible in the film as me-artist-researcher, who from a position of outsider-insider and by comment in voice-overs, investigates and visualizes the relation between belief, reality and perception.

Addo, a young lion, is living a peaceful life. When the drought arrives, he finds out life is tougher than he thought.

Anna, a nature photographer, moves into a studio at the edge of Gallow Creek, one of the most beautiful spots in the Netherlands. When it turns out that the creek must make way for a housing project she decides to resist these plans, but the real-estate developer sets the villagers and even nature conservationists against her. However, as the dispute comes to a dramatic climax she finds an unexpected ally by her side.

Almost a hundred million Americans don't vote. Even when they're electing their president and, with that, the most powerful political leader in the world. A year before the presidential elections of 2008 a crew of young European filmmakers goes on a journey all across the country in a little old motor home to search for America's missing voters. Who are they? Why don't they vote? Can a young and fresh presidential candidate as Barack Obama make them vote? How would American politics change if more young people, single women, poor white people, African-Americans and Latino's would start voting? Who better than Oprah could get America's non-voters to vote in 2008.

A vogue dancer performs at a Voodoo Carnival Ball, an important dance contest where he will have to prove himself to be accepted by the local ballroom community. Based upon the biographical story of Elvin Elejandro Martinez.

Robert enjoy a little hunt. When his obsessive mind chooses Lisa, the spirits of his former victims awake. They come to her aid to make his blood run cold.

Koen is a fatherless boy who struggles with the balance between independence and love. His girlfriend find it incomprehensible that Koen does not feel the least curiosity about his unknown father and she starts a search for him.

In Bird Strike, we see how man and animal must share the air space and the resulting consequences. In this visual story different characters struggle with their curious relationship with unpredictable flying troublemakers. Will man manage to get his own way, or will nature have the final say in this battle for the skies?

Ferry Bertholet has a fascination for the Far East. Over the past 30 years he was specialized in collecting Chinese erotic art, which is no longer to be found in China itself, where it has been banned and destroyed. As a result, Bertholet now owns a big part of this cultural heritage. His collection is one of the largest in the world. It has also dominated his life: day and night, all he thinks about is his collection. At odds with this is the realization that his collection is basically just things. This is why he is now contemplating the idea of selling everything. If all goes well, this cultural heritage will return to its country of origin. Will it be a regret or a relief?

A middle aged man visits the house of the Icelandic Nobel prize winner Halldor Laxness and his wife Audur and finds room for self expression in their absence. What, if anything, did he leave behind?

A Woman wants to find out if her husband is cheating her.

Alone in his lookout lighthouse keeper Chien Baak oversees the vast sea. High above shore, space and time slowly become liquid.

SOME THINGS ARE REALLY SIMPLE is a claustrophobic 10-minute film about a young father who takes his identity from his hobby: free-diving which is swimming underwater as long as possible without an air supply. The film deals with the simple proceedings one has to go through in terminating a modern marriage. Is it all so simple? On homecoming he is confronted by a strange man, Mike, cooking for his wife and child. He finds his place in his house and his family taken. Clearly, Wout was on the verge of breaking with his family but this brings things into a frightening proximity. Considering there is a child at stake, the proper thing to do is to act low key. The situation seems discouraging and frustrating but when Mike asks whether Wout would be staying for dinner he replies: 'What's for dinner?'. A story about the bankruptcy of the modern relationship unfolds. A story about our relativistic times wherein emotions tend to be suppressed.

At his sunnet, his circumcision party, 7 year old Turkish boy Cihan, finds out that becoming a real man takes more of him, then just being circumcised.

The life story of a passionate Beijing football coach fighting to give football a chance in modern Chinese society.

Ten-year-old Keet is a girl whose skateboard skills have attracted attention in a skate world dominated by boys. Keet rolls through a world of pre-conceived opinions on how girls should be, while carving out her own path.

Short and poetic film about the fascinating life of the collector Erik Fens. By cutting and pasting he composes his own 'Encyclopaedia of the World'.

The ferry that has been sailing daily between Stockholm and Helsinki since 1959 is known for the wild drinking that goes on, encouraged by the tax-free shops, bars and discotheques on board. Here the usually introverted Scandinavians cut loose in a way that is incomprehensible to outsiders. Together with a group of passengers we cross the border into a different world.

A fable in which New York based Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer tries to portray his learning disabled son's struggle in one of his works.

Follows a man on his solitary and superstitious city stroll. A dark song about an urban cowboy. Moonlight, so nice. Sunrise, so nice. Bad luck city, I cried cried cried. Bad luck city, cried all night.

The last hour in the sun is a portrait about Emile- a young pilot who can't find a job in aviation because of the economic crisis. Now, his pilot's license has officially expired and his high student debt torments him and his parents, he has to let go of his expectations for the future.

About a young, talented countertenor and his coach.