Joenoes Polnaija

Nicoline, a criminal psychologist, begins work at a prison where one of her new cases, Idris — an apparently reformed sex offender — is preparing for release after five years of confinement. Despite her professional misgivings, she becomes infatuated with her charismatic, manipulative patient.

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.

A Moluccan story from the Dutch polder. Jefta and Nona get married. Shortly afterwards, Jefta's life takes a drastic turn. He loses his wife. The young widower, helped by his best friend Mesach, gradually discovers that there is more to the story. On a bizarre quest, Jefta encounters fighters, children with special gifts, and fortune tellers. Who can he trust and who can't he trust?

A well-meaning but impulsive father takes his teenage daughter to the Moluccan neighbourhood of his youth, where unprocessed family trauma's put their relationship on edge.

17-year-old Michael dreams of a future as a pianist, but his music education is not going smoothly. In his search for inspiration, he receives help from an unexpected source: his brother Danny introduces him to the emerging Rotterdam “gabber” music scene. Michael is drawn into a world of hard beats, brotherhood and drugs. When Danny's drug business reaches international proportions, the brothers must fight for their lives.

In a world where nature has taken the initiative back from man, a lonely man tries to survive. When he finds a live fish for the first time in a long time, he must choose between friendship or his hunger.

Daan van Citters and Joenoes Polnaija retrace the footsteps of their grandfathers in Indonesia. They both fought for the Netherlands against Indonesian independence: Daan’s grandfather went voluntarily from the Netherlands, Joenoes’s as a Moluccan soldier in the Dutch colonial army, KNIL. Their poignant journey forces them to ask themselves some difficult questions about guilt, shame and transgenerational transmission.