Bart Klever

The Sea That Thinks is a 2000 Dutch experimental film. The film makes heavily use of optical illusions to tell a "story within a story" revolving around a screenwriter writing a script called The Sea That Thinks. The script details what is happening around him and eventually begins to affect what happens around him. (Wikipedia)

The film probes the underbelly of relationships and is suffused with an atmosphere reminiscent of French cinema of the 70's but also contains bone-chilling moments that recall Carrie and Repulsion. ARTE TV broadcasts in 2005 a documentary about Brienen, where they compared his work and intensity with Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. (imdb)

A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.

A father takes his wife, two sons, a friend and his daughter on a hiking trip in the woods. After a long search for a spot to set up camp, the father finds a perfect place overlooking a pool. Everybody seems to get settled quickly and when the night falls the two sons listen to a ghost story told by their father's friend at the campfire. The youngest son begins to have strange dreams and bizarre occurrences begin to develop at the camp side. (imdb)

Mother is dying and invites her family to spend a few days in a chalet in Austria. In the isolation of the snow-covered mountains, old wounds are reopened and the family ties crumble ... (imdb)

When 18 year old Ethiopian refugee Lady meets the old homeless Wander they find in each other something they have missed for a very long time. (imdb)

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.

A young boy and his young sister are playing on a rubbish dump, acting out their parents' divorce. For this they use their father's things which their mother brought to the dumping ground out of anger. The girl only wants to use their fathers things, but the boy finds something that he finds much more interesting.

A boy loses himself in hardcore music to escape problems at home - a situation that his father, an organ player, finds difficult.

Short psychological thriller in which a child psychiatrist treats a 10-year old boy who alleges that everything he imagines has really happened.

It tells the story of how 16-year old Esmee finds a young horse after it gallops into the woods in a barn fire and the special bond that they have.

Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.

The night shift petrol station attendant (well played by comedian Josh Meyers) is a naive, honest and, of course, tragic figure. He wants to do the right thing, but what is the wisest course to take? The Dutch are perfectly characterised in this absurdist fiction from artist/composer Dan Geesin. Screened before Curling.