Katrien van Beurden
2021Summer With Rana
Sanne Vogel
Anneke Blok, Yuna Braun
Suzan (10) spends the summer vacation with her grandmother, because her mother – Connie – is a war correspondent in Syria. Suzan visits the recently built refugee camp near grandmothers house. One girl (Rana, also 10) stands out. She is wearing brightly colored clothes. Suzan is fascinated by her, to the displeasure of her friends. Suzan does not care about them and she befriends Rana. The Syrian girl loves to talk about her life in Syria, but when Suzan asks Rana to tell her something about her parents, Rana quickly changes the subject. One night, Grandma gets a phone call. Connie has disappeared. Suzan is distraught, but keeps strong in front of others. When Suzan is on the beach with Rana, she eventually breaks down in tears.
Summer with Rana
Blondje
Danyael Sugawara
Mohammed Azaay, Karim El Guennouni
A young, unhappily married moslim woman works at a call centre, conducting telephone surveys. In this impersonal way, she gets in touch with a single man with a sagging couch and a lack of energy. Due to a barking dog, the telephone contact between this unlikely twosome is intensified and eventually even results in a meeting.
Blondje
Kidnap - Bo's Most Exciting Holiday Ever
Diederik Ebbinge
Martin van Waardenberg, Teun Stokkel
Bo is the only child of rich parents and goes to a private school in Switzerland. When the holiday starts, he is kidnapped and his rich, safe and secluded world is turned upside down. During their long cross-country trip back to the Netherlands to meet the ransom deadline, Bo and his abductor Fred, a gruff lovable loser, forge a strange friendship. Bo discovers in Fred the father that he misses and learns to stand up for himself. Fred is confronted with where he has always been running from and learns to become a father.
Kidnap - Bo's Most Exciting Holiday Ever
Apollo
Aaron Rookus
Martijn Lakemeier, Claire Bender
A day in the life of bisexual Paul who has everything going for him. He has a dream job, a wonderful house and a girlfriend. But when, to his horror, he sees his dream foreign promotion at the world's biggest music streamer in jeopardy, his carefree summer day turns into a day he has to consider his choices. An unexpected encounter with his ex-boyfriend upsets Paul’s reality further. Has he given up his old life and ideals too soon?
Goodbye Stranger
De Wederopstanding van een Klootzak
Guido van Driel
Yorick van Wageningen, Goua Robert Grovogui
A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.
The Resurrection of a Bastard
Arezo
Wiam Al-Zabari
Roshanak Morrowatian, Saman Amini
No other language has so many words for the notion of pain than Farsi does. When the originally Iranian choreographer and dancer Arezo gets a surprise visit from her brother Koshan, this observation becomes the leitmotiv of a serene, emotional tug-of-war between two refugees. Where does pain lead to tension, where to conciliation? In sober colours, the director visualises the struggle of two creative people trying to give vent to an unspeakable trauma from the past that they have in common, but are unable to share.
Arezo
Blauwe Maandag
Gregory Samson
Egbert Jan Weeber, Katrien van Beurden
After a terrible car crash, Ben saves himself first, then tries to rescue his son Luca in vain. He can't hold his breath long enough to save him. Ben and Nina lose a child. Trapped in guilt and grief Ben starts to avoid contact with Nina.
Blauwe Maandag
Viva Matanzas
Dick Verdult
Alfonso Desentre, Alfonso Pablo
A town in Aragon commemorates a battle in the Bay of Matanzas. No one wants to play Spanish admiral Benavides, who abandoned his ships and treasures without a fight. An absurd historical choreography of a battle with no casualties, with the eccentric style of the multifaceted Dick el Demasiado.
Viva Matanzas
