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A young woman struggles to cope with her elderly father's out-of-the-blue announcement he considers his life complete and will end it by his next birthday.

Faced with a 700 euro cost to save the life of his daughter's guinea pig, Peter is forced to choose which values to hand down to his eight-year-old.

In FEAST, perpetrators, victims and their spectators become involved in a dramatic reconstruction of the Groningen HIV case. The film tells a story about power and surrender, the reversibility of truth and the desire to come home somewhere.

In a future flooded Netherlands, a hardened woman living in a wind turbine is torn from her desolate home by a violent storm. As she fights her way back, she begins to question whether the place she once called home still holds any meaning at all.

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After the sudden death of her older sister, a successful singer-songwriter finds herself facing their family's darkest memories as she fights to win custody over her adolescent niece from the girl's lawful but long-absent father.

In Kings of War, director Ivo van Hove focuses on political leadership. The original texts were retranslated by Rob Klinkenberg and then thoroughly adapted: the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Rose Wars between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, which are emphatically present as a historical context in the original pieces, were referred to the background in the adaptation in order to accommodate a varied portrait of successive kings. As leaders in times of political instability and war, they show remarkable affinities with world leaders today.

Kings of War merges Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into one explosive performance about leadership. In successive kings, Shakespeare sketches an image of political leaders, face to face with the ultimate responsibility for life and death in times of war. Shakespeare’s kings are political leaders who come face to face with the ultimate responsibility: they must make the life-or-death decision of whether to go to war. Shakespeare draws us into the psychology of the rulers, while also revealing the machinations of their courtiers and advisors. Kings of War lays bare the mechanisms of decision-making in times of political crisis, exposing the dichotomy between national interests and self-importance.

What if your whole life is a play? Almost ten years after her grandfather's death, director Anne Vaandrager finds out that he was a gay man in a heterosexual marriage and died of AIDS. Using interviews, archive material, and fictional scenes, she attempts to reshape her family history. In this way, she unravels a family story that is about shame, the inability to talk to each other, and her own identity.

What happens when film breaks out of its frame and unfolds as space around you?

Victor wonders if he’s too late to join dating games in his 40s. His sister Annika, an opera singer, wonders how different life could have been after receiving a surprising medical diagnosis. Their grandmother wonders if she should end her life right away. These are people who embark on a heartfelt quest for the perfect fulfillment of life, which proves to be a near impossible task.

During the unveiling of Rembrandt's The Standard Bearer in the Rijksmuseum, five masked figures storm in and take the 175 million euro artwork hostage.

In 1948, Albert Gemmeker, the former commander of the Dutch concentration camp Westerbork, finds himself in an interrogation room opposite a man unknown to him. It soon turns out that Gemmeker's interrogator has a personal reason to force him to confess about his war past and the transportation of 80.000 Jews to the extermination camps.

One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.

All shy people pass away. All at the same time, in one blow, all of them. A small community organizes a funeral for all its shy residents who have passed away. Everyone is eager to say something.

When the bored out philosopher Maarten Moreau gets caught up in a robbery, he accidentally gets hold of the weapon. Seized by a renewed appetite for life, Maarten decides to keep the gun. A true romance blossoms between the boy and the gun, not without consequences.

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A shooting accident in which a dutch police officer shoots a young Moroccan rapper creates polarization about the issue of racism among citizens of a multicultural society.