Diederik Van Rooijen

The Birds

Diederik Van Rooijen

A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town.

Een trui voor Kip Saar

Diederik Van Rooijen

When her father goes to fight in the war he gives Karen a baby chicken. By the time the chick has grown into a chicken, father will have returned home from the war. The chick grows up and Karen names her new best friend Saar. But father still hasn’t come back. The war continues and Karen and her mother spend their days feeling hungry and cold...

Mass

Diederik Van Rooijen

A heart attack lands an old man in the hospital. He is physically and mentally confronted with his past, in which a secret lies buried that he has managed to keep hidden for a long tim

Chalk

Diederik Van Rooijen

Daniël Boissevain, Thekla Reuten

A short directed by Diederik Van Rooijen.

Babyphoned

Diederik Van Rooijen

Tamar van den Dop, Gijs Scholten van Aschat

A mother is struggling with her baby monitor.

Daylight

Diederik Van Rooijen

Angela Schijf, Fedja van Huêt

Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.

Dummy

Diederik Van Rooijen

Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Fedja van Huêt

A dark evening. A father drives home with his daughter on the back seat. A head-on collision. A man awakes in a large empty room, where the father appears to want something from him. That night, victim and inflictor reconstruct the biggest mistake of their lives.

Stella's oorlog

Diederik Van Rooijen

Maartje Remmers, Javier Guzman

Dutch working mother, Stella, was supportive of international mission in Uruzgan, even if that meant missing her husband Jurre for months. After her brother is killed in action there, nothing can return life to normality, not even the return home of her military husband, Jurre. Flash-backs from a trial nine months later show the tragic developments

Taped

Diederik Van Rooijen

Barry Atsma, Susan Visser

Johan and Saar make a final attempt to save their marriage by going on vacation to Buenos Aires. In keeping a promise to their daughter they will make a video of their activities there. When they accidentally witness (and videotape) a brutal murder they will have to run to stay alive.

Penoza: The Final Chapter

Diederik Van Rooijen

Monic Hendrickx, Sigrid ten Napel

The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have to settle something with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster. Carmen will now have deal with her past to save her family.

Bollywood Hero

Diederik Van Rooijen

Egbert Jan Weeber, Ishwari Bose-Bhattacharya

A young actor (Nick) goes to Mumbai for a role as a colonial in a Bollywood costume film. While he records video messages for his senile father in Holland, he also tries to right several social wrongs in Mumbai that cross his path

The Possession of Hannah Grace

Diederik Van Rooijen

Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon

When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.