Karin van Holst Pellekaan

The painful birth of Harry Jr. shoots Lea, a radiant young woman into a terrifying psychosis. The battle that follows, in the asylum between her "fellow fools", and once back home with her mother, her husband and the past, De gelukkige huisvrouw makes a touching, poignant but also funny film about the universal themes as birth, death and motherhood.

Two very different twin sisters from the Netherlands (real-life siblings Carice and Jelka van Houten) travel to America to help out the mother they have never met (Academy Award winner Holly Hunter) in Dutch director Antoinette Beumer's heartwarming, cross-cultural take on the classic American road movie. (tiff.net)

Tough prime school girl Akkie loves soccer and can be a real bully. Love is the only thing she's scared of. When Akkie is diagnosed with Leukemia, she has to fight for her life. On the verge of going to high school, Akkie has to allow love to enter her life, and thus gain courage to accept the inevitable (imdb)

Five psychiatric patients from Zonnedaal have to return into society after the clinic has been lifted. When they hear that their loved nurse Ten Hoeven has been kidnapped, they take action. (biosagenda.nl)

While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness. (imdb)

Limburg, 1943. Twelve year olds Tuur and Lambert are childhood friends living in an idyllic village during wartime. A war that separates what has lived together for so long. Tuur's parents are secretly taking sides with the resistance while those of Lambert join the NSB. Then Maartje, a new girl who reportedly comes from the west, enters the lives of the boys... (tarantula.lu)

Loonies is a touching comedy about five psychiatric patients who are forced to exchange their familiar surroundings for an old-fashioned, impersonal institution.

The headstrong Isabel after the car accident the grandfather starts searching the legendary sword of the famous D'Artagnan, which for centuries has disappeared. The only clue he has is a secret code which must be unwrapped to find the sword. Together with his cousin and her boyfriend try to start the discovery, but soon discover they are not the only ones who want the sword (imdb)

Storm Voeten, son of printer Klaas Voeten, becomes the target of a hunt by the Inquisition. Aided by Marieke, a mysterious girl living in the underground sewers of Antwerp, Storm is caught in a race against time to save his father from death. (imdb)

Karo runs away from home because her quarreling parents want to divorce. She travels with her circus friends Victor and Tonie of Circus Noël, who can participate unexpectedly in Cultura Nova, an important circus festival.

The shy eleven year old boy Anton falls madly in love for the first time in his life, with his precocious classmate Rita Koeling. His tough friends ruin his first encounter with grownup love.