Mieke de Jong

The story is based on the beautiful novel by Jan Terlouw, that has been read by several generations of teenagers in the Netherlands. When Michiel (13) becomes involved in the Resistance in the last winter of the Second World War, he learns that good and evil are close together. Michiel grows up and loses his innocence. (fuworks.com)

Johan is the 11th boy born in his family. Which completes his fathers dream of having enough sons to complete an official soccer team. His 10 older brother are all wonderful star "footballers" and play for their towns team. Johan has other goals though. He is a burgeoning musician, and quite talented, much to the disappointment of his family. Will Johan's voice be heard amidst the cheers for his brothers?

Driven by a telling performance by Emma Levie in the title role, Christophe Van Rompaey's Lena follows its heroine as she struggles to find a place in the world despite a cross-addicted mother who considers her nothing more than a burden and constantly berates her about her weight. Lena's only outlets are dancing and sex until she meets Daan, whom she rescues as he's running from the police. But is Daan really all he claims to be? (tiff.net)

A family film which tells the unlikely and timeless story about almost ten year old Tony, whose father rises from being a crane driver to Secretary of State. As a result his parents get divorced and Tony does everything he can to bring them back together. He even calls in the help of the queen. (imdb)

The classroom is astonished when their teacher tells them his big secret: sometimes he turns into a frog. Two kids see it as their task to protect his secret.. and to keep him out of the beak of a stork. (imdb)

When relying on social scripts to survive the social world, it's not easy to go off-script. Especially if you're obsessed with German dive bombers and just want to date a girl. (imdb)

Theo Staats arrives at his uncle's rubber plantation in the then Dutch colony of Indonesia. He meets and falls in love with Ems, a beautiful Dutch Indonesian singer, The movie follows their story from the period of colonial power to the Japanese occupation during World War II and the following war of Independence.

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 woman is shopping in a crowded shopping mall, with her husband and two kids. In the shopping mall she meets a stranger, who brings romance to a dreadfull saturday.

In front of an office building a dog is tight to a phone booth. The dog is whining. Nadine (28), a telephone operator, is trying to ignore the animal, but she can't do that any longer when one of her costumers, Gert (40), points out that the dog is scared. Gert comes over and helps Nadine with the animal. What follows is a short encounter between two lonely people. While helping the dog they are especially supporting each other.

When little Dédé says something, nobody listens to him. At school, he is the smallest, at home, his parents have no time. One day, Dédé befriends a dog and from then on, he doesn't talk any more, he barks. His father is desperate: what do you do with a barking son?

Iep! is about Viegeltje, who looks like a girl but has wings in stead of arms. Bird watcher Warre finds her under brushwood and takes her home. Warre and his wife Tine decide to keep Viegeltje and to raise her like an ordinary girl. But Viegeltje isn't an ordinary girl and she flies away. She wants to go to the South with the other birds. It becomes a long and adventurous journey. (imdb)