Olga Zuiderhoek

Passagiers

Ben van Lieshout

Olga Zuiderhoek, Hans Hausdörfer

A bus driver on a regular route in the 'polder' moves into a new house with his wife. They are the first inhabitants of a new estate. At the same time, a homeless man and an woman movie into the driver's bus.

House of Salt

Willem Gerritsen

Eva Bartels, Benja Bruijning

We follow a man who seems to be forever dripping with water, who meets a group of people that pretend he's simply not there. The film follows the man's struggle to become part of the others and learns what he must give up to do so.

Toestanden

Thijs Chanowski

Joop Admiraal, Yolande Bertsch

"Conditions" - The improvisation-based performance was inspired by psychiatrists such as RD Laing (Family and Madness) and J. Foudraine (Who is of wood). The Werkteater played this performance 'in the den of the lion': in psychiatric institutions for patients and carers. This led to very intensive and adventurous performances in which 'a lot' always happened. Afterwards the discussions sometimes ran high, but even during the performance the audience sometimes mixed themselves in the scenes.

Opname

Marja Kok, Erik van Zuylen

Frank Groothof, Marja Kok

An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.

Abel

Alex van Warmerdam

Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin

A well-to-do, thirty-something shut-in faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents.

De Dick Maas Methode

Jeffrey de Vore

Pierre Bokma, Stefan de Walle

Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.

Bosrandgeluk

Philip Huff

Jeroen Krabbé, Olga Zuiderhoek

The Northerners

Alex van Warmerdam

Jack Wouterse, Annet Malherbe

A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.

Camping

Thijs Chanowski

Yolande Bertsch, Marja Kok

Happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow at the campsite. Secret letters, hysteria, bullying, hippie romanticism, betrayal and fading love.

After the Tone

Digna Sinke

Dragan Bakema, Olga Zuiderhoek

How do you deal with the fact that someone close to heart has suddenly disappeared without a trace? Can you go on living whilst waiting for his return?

Turkish Delight

Paul Verhoeven

Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer

Eric, a gifted sculptor, has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

Een zwoele zomeravond

Frans Weisz, Shireen Strooker

Marja Kok, Helmert Woudenberg

A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)

Ongedaan gedaan

Frans van de Staak

Thom Hoffman, Martien van den Ouwelant

Frans van de Staak, Holland's most prominent avant-garde director, made this film "...about people who want to get something done. I leave out the why as well as the results. What's left is the moment of endeavour. There are two couples. The four characters are played by eight actors. There is little dialogue. Sometimes a couple does not seem to live together, just to be alive together in the same room. Each one of them at one time walks through an anymous part of Amsterdam. They put their feet down with a will, clicking their way through town. We do not know where or why they are going. To a meeting, to get some exercise, nowhere? They have difficulty in communicating. They leave notes to each other on the table rather than talk. The film sometimes mocks their intensity. It is surprising that such a strange film can keep the viewer's attention for an hour and a quarter. But it certainly does. (Dutch Fim 1988-89)

The Dress

Alex van Warmerdam

Henri Garcin, Ingeborg Elzevier

The story of a summer dress and those who have to do with it, especially the train conductor (played by van Warmerdam, the director). The dress functions as catalyst for the whimsical events, which turns out to be either tragic or hilarious.

Süskind

Rudolf van den Berg

Jeroen Spitzenberger, Karl Markovics

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.

De smaak van water

Orlow Seunke

Gerard Thoolen, Dorijn Curvers

Hes, an uptight and disaffected social worker reaching retirement, discovers a young woman, Anna, in the closet of an acquaintance who has committed suicide. Realizing that she has been kept in the apartment all her life, he moves in and helps her comes to terms with the complexities of the real world.