Roos Drenth

A truck carrying a Dutch military convoy on a peacekeeping mission breaks down somewhere in the desert. As a group of soldiers waits for a repair team to arrive, they encounter a local boy who refuses to leave.

Robbie, a divorced Amsterdam commoner, is meanly denied access to his son Tommi, except for monthly visitation. He grudgingly accepts when a loan shark offers to scrap his debt and throw in some cash for a simple service. Robbie must simply trick Marius, a man he never knew, to the port for a fictitious job. As he gets to know Marius, he starts feeling for the generous sociable type. His conscience wants him to warn the mark he's likely to be beaten up.

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.

Une famille très unie est bouleversée lorsque le père ne parvient pas à refaire surface lors d'une plongée sous-marine professionnelle et n'en revient pas. Pas de funérailles, pas d'au revoir, juste une maison pleine de souvenirs. Accablée par cette perte insaisissable, Merel échappe à la mort de son mari et à tout ce qui y est lié. Ses jeunes enfants se retrouvent empêtrés dans leur recherche de réponses, ce qui finit par mettre la famille dans une position difficile. Merel n'a d'autre choix que d'affronter la perte à sa manière, pour commencer une nouvelle vie ensemble.

When a 6th-grade class is divided at an understaffed school, an intern tries to make a difference within a system he doesn’t fully understand, while a charismatic student attempts to ignite a revolution in a school that has never supported him.

Astrid Holleeder works towards the moment when she definitively betrays her brother to Justice. Flashbacks make it clear what childhood she and her brother have wrestled themselves with and how painful, but necessary, her betrayal is.