Acting

Sijtze van der Meer

Acting credits

Breaking Walls poster
NR

Journalist and activist Hoi Yi fights against the global rise of surveillance and censorship, while suppressing his queer identity from his family. The personal repression he faces is reflected in his commitment to the freedom of others.

Breaking Walls

2026

The Resistance Banker poster
6.7

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

The Resistance Banker

2018

Lost Years poster
8.0

Bart, a young film student slowly loses his mind while studying at the film academy. Based on a true story.

Lost Years

2010

Days of May poster
NR

A Dutch soldier experiences the first days of World War II on the Zeeland Flanders coast. Helpless in face of the looming German invasion, his faith in God will be put to a test.

Days of May

2019

Out of Luck poster
6.3

Professional scoundrel Annabel manages to lose almost everything she has in one night: her inheritance, her house and her relationship. She becomes entangled in one clumsy lie after another, two identities and the choice between two men.

Out of Luck

2025

The Flying Dutchman poster
6.3

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.

The Flying Dutchman

1995

In My Father's Garden poster
6.0

The story of a loving man and father who falls under the influence of an extremely orthodox Protestant sect. He sacrifices everything and everyone to this faith, including his business and the respect of his younger son. However, he never loses the love of his wife.

In My Father's Garden

2016

Porcelain poster
4.0

The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works with porcelain and Thomas is an angelic child. However, when Thomas bites one of his friends at school, the cracks of a context that is anything but perfect begin to surface.

Porcelain

2019

No artwork available
9.5

The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.

Storm in mijn hoofd

2001