Bart Klever

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, twenty-seven-year-old Jewish Etty Hillesum begins therapy. What starts as personal exploration becomes a spiritual awakening, documented in her diaries. Guided by psycho-chirologist Julius Spier, her mentor and lover, she undergoes a radical inner transformation. She’ll discover that even when all is taken, one can remain free within.

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When people literally explode from emotional overload, grief is just the beginning. A wildly surrealist charade in which a bereaved man, his friend and mother spiral through village life.

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Along a desolate dike we find a young man together with his grandfather. As his grandfather shares stories about his eventful life, the young man struggles with his own inner journey. Between them a mysterious conversation unfolds that opens family wounds and confronts him with the waves of the past.

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The temporarily displaced teenager Olivia wants nothing more than to return to her mother Selma. In crisis center Girla, she discovers just how suffocating their symbiotic bond truly is.

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It is 1946. Recently repatriated Paula is trying to feel at home in Friesland after her experiences in a Japanese internment camp. She is taken in by family she has never met before. Her presence is tolerated, but not fully accepted. Suspicion grows among the family when, since her arrival at the potato farm, brown rot is found on one of the potatoes.

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A public prosecutor in The Hague, and a detective at the Dutch Revenue Service FIOD, follow money trails and investigate hit jobs in search of criminals.

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David (28) moves to Berlin to live with his girlfriend, but she dumps him immediately. Unwilling to give up on his hyper-romantic expectations about friendship, love and paying rent, he decides to stay. Things don't go as planned.

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Based on Ibsen, Simon Stone wrote and directed a grand family saga about the troublesome but inevitable coexistence of different generations under one roof. Maarten Heijmans received the Arlecchino (best male performance in a supporting role) for his portrayal of Sebastiaan.

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When millennial Julia is forced to move back in with her boomer father Piet, the generational conflict is reflected in whether or not to cut down the old tree in front of the house.

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Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.

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The story of Dirty Lines starts in 1987's Amsterdam, at a time when Dutch society was changing rapidly. Psychology student Marly Salomon takes on a side job working for a brand new firm: Teledutch - a company started by two brothers, Frank and Ramon Stigter, who established Europe’s first erotic telephone lines. Frank and Ramon become rich overnight and Marly finds herself immersed in this wild and rapid transformation. The final years of the Cold War sparked a sense of hope and inspired a new generation to celebrate life to its fullest. Amsterdam became the center of that cultural revolution with a radically new form of music: house and a new love drug: XTC. The erotic phone lines offer the opportunity to experience anonymous sex in a new way, changing the morality of its consumers, but also very much the people creating it.

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Several years after her win with Whitestar, Megan (Britt Dekker) runs her own equestrian center. When Whitestar's son, the young horse Silverstar, gallops into the woods in a barn fire, he is found by 16-year-old Esmee. The two have a special bond. After the fire, horse dealer Carina offers to help Megan, but can she be trusted? Esmee finds out that strange things are happening, but nobody wants to listen to her. To save Silverstar, she sees no option but to run with the horse. Together, Esmee and Silverstar must survive in nature.

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Berend Botje is a tough girl with a lively imagination. She is the youngest member of the mysterious captain family Botje, which also consists of father Berend and grandfather Berend. The Botjes' adventures are so special that no one believes they really happened. But Berend knows better. When the city falls under the spell of an unusual bird egg, she is convinced that it is a Knoetel Egg, which only opens on a hidden island. She decides to make the daring trip to the island herself. Because nothing is impossible for Berend.

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A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial 1999 Deventer murder case.

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An aspiring young musician finds himself taking on the care of his father who suffers from Parkinson's disease.

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A violent threat to his school is posted on Souraya's Instagram account. The police arrest her and Souraya tries to explain that she is not guilty. She no longer has access to her social accounts: someone else has taken them over and logged Souraya out. Someone wants to avenge events from the past. Can Souraya convince everyone of her innocence without revealing her own secret? (Locked Out. Netherlands 2020)

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Follow three friends through their many years of intensive training to become fighter pilots with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and as they graduate and carry out a dangerous mission in the Middle East.

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Megan has a special relationship with discarded jumping horse Whitestar. When it turns out that Whitestar still has special talents, the owner takes him away from Megan for competitions, but has no success. Only when Megan and Whitestar are together again does Whitestar turn out to be a real winner because they bring out the best in each other.

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Theatre adaptation of Jan Wolkers' novel of the same name from 1969 about an artist, Erik, and a young woman, Olga, who together have a turbulent relationship in Amsterdam.

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Lois Elzinga, a detective with the Alkmaar police, has her very private life come to the fore against the background of three tough cases in this thriller series based on the trilogy penned by Simone van der Vlugt.

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Experienced detective August is given the heavy responsibility of solving a series of murders of young girls. He is convinced that Frank, a mild-mannered biology teacher and key witness in the case, is the real culprit.

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Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.

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Abdi, a 12-year-old Syrian refugee living in an asylum shelter in the Netherlands, has fallen in love with the 15-year-old Leyli and wants nothing more than to have her be his partner for the summer disco. But Abdi lacks the courage to ask Leyli. After finding out that at the end of the week he and his family will be moved to another asylum shelter, our young hero embarks on an unstoppable journey to win over Leyli's heart and to seal it with an intimate kiss. Knowing that if he loses her, he will regret it for the rest of his life.

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Recently graduated law student Sabia is doing everything she can to secure a spot at one of the best law firms. As a young, ambitious lawyer, Sabia faces an unprecedented power game in this status-sensitive world.

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After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.

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A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.

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Jennifer, an Australian girl on the run from her past, turns up in Amsterdam and, in a desperate attempt to blend in, joins a coach-load of tourists on a tour of Holland's old windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where a devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common – a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.

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Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

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Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'.

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Two families go camping illegally in a forest, and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows.

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A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?

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Boy ('the helper') tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an illegal Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance-company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.

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