Jonas Smulders

Jongens tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him (imdb)

A psychological thriller inspired by the life of Michael S., a small-town boy from Holland, who becomes the world's most wanted cybercriminal. (imdb)

A timid young man joins his charismatic older brother on an impromptu hitchhike from Amsterdam to France, only to discover the time may have come to finally go his own way in life. (imdb)

A bunch of friends celebrates a dinner party because one of them is going to undergo a chemotherapy therapy and then at the peak of the dinner one of them has a brilliant idea.

Three young friends grow up as students in Amsterdam when the death of one's father puts everything into a new perspective. (imdb)

Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe's contemporary social ills. (tiff.net)

A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad. (imdb)

A fragmented portrayal of Lorenzo, Yousef and Chloe, three homeless young adults heading to Southern Europe in search of money, love and happiness. They each have their own different backgrounds and motives but they share a common insecurity about being independent, without a base to fall back on. (Pupkin Production)

When Richie's watch is stolen in a violent robbery and humiliating images of the encounter go viral, the rapper has to fix his reputation to save his career.

Luka, a young soldier craving battle, embeds himself in an isolated fort where men have been waiting in vain for ages for a mythical enemy to strike. A contemporary adaptation of Dino Buzzati's classic novel 'The Tartar Steppe'.

After all men worldwide commit suicide, Joyce becomes hopelessly addicted to the past and longs for her lost love. Looking for a way to get her boyfriend back, she comes into contact with a pseudoscientific group of women who try to manifest ‘the male’. But should we want men back? Or might a world without men be better?

Chronicles Luther's first steps in the world of organized crime with his brother in the 90s, while also showing his present day quest to retaliate against an old enemy, together with his niece Puk. (imdb)