Martijn Maria Smits
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Martijn Maria Smits
Ron Cornet, Katelijne Damen
Martin loses his job as a result of the financial crisis. Together with his wife, Jasmijn, and their one year-old child, they are forced to move in with Jasmijn’s parents in their flat in Antwerp on a temporary basis’. The love between Martin and Jasmijn rapidly deteriorates. Martin seems to be living in a world of his own and refuses to lower himself into signing on at the employment office. He wanders through town and hangs round near the flat where they used to live. He finds a happy family there. Martin can’t accept that they have the happiness that he couldn’t have and decides to destroy their happiness just like his happiness was destroyed – in his view. When Jasmijn finds out they aren’t eligible for a new house because Martin never signed on at the employment office, it means the bombshell’s been dropped.
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C'est déjà l'été
Martijn Maria Smits
Julie Anson, Alain Bellot
C'est déjà l'été is a portrait of a family, but above all the story of a teenager who's life seems to be pushed of track by the lack of a normal family and desperately, purely by instinctive battle, tries to lift himself out of his wretched, semi-feral existence.
C'est déjà l'été
Voor Emilia
Martijn Maria Smits
Loes Schnepper, Susan Radder
When a German teacher meets a new student, she is confronted with a traumatic event from her past. Struggling with her grief on her own, she falls prey to impulses she could've never imagined. Not her grief, but the battle for self-control turns out te be her greatest enemy.
Voor Emilia
Waldstille
Martijn Maria Smits
Thomas Ryckewaert, Jelka van Houten
In this drama, Ben is faced with the anger and grief of his entire village when, inebriated, he causes a road accident in which his girlfriend Tinka dies. Ben is sent to prison and his resentful in-laws get custody of his little daughter Cindy. When Ben after two years returns to the southern village of Waldstille, he intends to restore contact with Cindy as soon as possible - despite opposition from his parents-in-law.
Waldstille
Tussen man en vrouw
Martijn Maria Smits
Maria Kraakman, Thomas Ryckewaert
Awkward and touching moments at a wedding party where two ex-lovers are forced to spend the evening together. While the booze flows liberally and people around them are deliriously sweating and dancing to corny music, he makes advances. The initial chill between the former couple is extra painful because of the ebullient merrymakers and the budding happiness around them. Still, their love appears to have survived, although the old wounds haven’t completely healed either.
Tussen man en vrouw
