Lodewijk Crijns

Lap Rouge

Lodewijk Crijns

The camera pursues the life of two Dutch brothers, Herman and Egbert over the course of several months. Their mother wanted to disassociate herself from the petty bourgeois atmosphere in Holland during the fifties. In 1959 she took her two boys and left for Marnhac, a deserted village in southern France. After living in France for the the next 35 years both brothers have become almost fully alienated from society. They don't have the courage to leave their very aged and dominant mother. Written by Kurzfilmtage - international short film festival Oberhausen

Zwemparadijs

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Marieke Lindhout, Sem de Vlieger

Two ten-year-old girls go to a subtropical swimming paradise. They look forward to the wave pool and the chute, but are distracted by other, older swimmers. Like teenage girls with real breasts in the bubble bath, and big boys blocking the chute or taking their goggles. The little girls gradually seem to realise the days of their carefree childhood are numbered.

Met grote blijdschap

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Renée Soutendijk, Jack Wouterse

By accident, Luc discovers the whereabouts of his brother Ad, who mysteriously disappeared fifteen years before. As it turns out, he is living with Els, secluded from the rest of the world, on a farm. Luc decides to stay a few days, even though he and his wife Mieke are not welcome at first. After a while, Mieke heads home. Also, Luc hears strange sounds coming from a barn at the farm. He decides to investigate the matter. He discovers a secret that Ad and Els have been hiding for years.

Hitte/Harara

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Bracha van Doesburgh, Nabila Marhaben

Two friends, the Dutch-Moroccan Raja and the Dutch Nancy are both about twenty years old and travel by car to Morocco to buy furniture for their new henna- and nail studio. They see life as a challenge and because of their close friendship, they feel they can take on anything. But during their trip something happens, which has a big impact on the lives of the two girls..

Jezus is een Palestijn

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Kim van Kooten, Hans Teeuwen

Natasha goes to Limburg to collect her brother Ramses, who has joined a sect, so he can consent to cutting their father's life support.

Kankerlijers

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Marcel Hensema, Nicolette van Dam

Three teenagers appear to have a lot of fun on the children's oncology department on the fourth floor of a large hospital. Nick and Iwan both lost a leg as a result of bone cancer. For their friend Olivier, an amputation may be the next phase. The fourth of the bunch, Pepijn, is so ill and weak that he often stays in his room. Friendship and a deep desire to live keeps the guys mentally balanced. Their friendship changes when Gina arrives. Sickos is a humorous drama that deals with adolescence and chemotherapy.

Dokter Vogel

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Cas Enklaar, Monique Kuipers

Dokter Vogel is a short surrealist film with computer animations and special effects in which a boy comes round too soon after a tonsillectomy and mistakes the throat specialist for a cacodemon from his narcosis dream.

Loverboy

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Monique van der Werff, Dragan Bakema

Scholiere Denise is ontevreden met haar leven en als ze de 19-jarige charmante Michael tegenkomt lijkt haar verlangen naar luxe en romantiek vervuld te worden. Maar Michael investeert in haar uit eigen belang.

Only Decent People

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Géza Weisz, Imanuelle Grives

David Samuels is from an intellectual Jewish family from the posh Amsterdam Old South. He is also a man on a mission: to find a fabulous ghetto-queen with great tits and thick buttocks. His parents and friends declare him mad, but David continues unabated.

Tailgate

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Jeroen Spitzenberger, Anniek Pheifer

A cocksure, road-raging family man finds himself pursued and terrorized by the vengeful van driver he chooses to tailgate.

Turkse chick

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Julian Wolf, Yolanthe Cabau

A young skater boy get seduced by a Turkish Chick after he bumped his head.