Telefilm
Telefilms are Dutch films made specifically for Public Broadcasting. The films deal with current social issues.
The aim of the project is to stimulate cooperation between the film industry and broadcasters and to promote homegrown drama productions among the Dutch public. There are six films produced annually (none in 2000 and nine in 2001). Several films won national and international film awards .
The Telefilms are established with financial support from the Ministry of Education and the Co-production Fund Domestic Broadcasting.
The aim of the project is to stimulate cooperation between the film industry and broadcasters and to promote homegrown drama productions among the Dutch public. There are six films produced annually (none in 2000 and nine in 2001). Several films won national and international film awards .
The Telefilms are established with financial support from the Ministry of Education and the Co-production Fund Domestic Broadcasting.
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- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsCarice van HoutenRoeland FernhoutLinda van DyckA weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
- DirectorFrank KetelaarStarsPeter Paul MullerRoeland FernhoutRifka LodeizenOnno Staling kidnapped Alex Bickers to ensure he won't get the prestiguous job at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Onno desperately wants. Now, three years later, they meet again.
- DirectorEric OosthoekStarsElla van DrumptGees LinnebankGuido KismanThe seemingly happy family of Freek and Rianne falls apart when their three adopted children look for their roots.
- DirectorIlse SomersStarsEdda BarendsMarnie BlokAlexander ElmeckyThe Iranian refugee Amir finds two golden retrievers while jogging on the beach. They have slipped their leash in the hands of Marijke, a middle-aged woman who takes out her daughter Emma's dogs every day and does her housekeeping.
- DirectorNicole van KilsdonkStarsAnneke BlokKees BrusseNico de VriesLouise and Max break with their sleepy life and travel to southern France, where they scam tourists with their act of pathetic elderly couple: a second youth that goes beyond what they could think of in their wildest dreams.
- DirectorPieter VerhoeffStarsKees BootHans BreetveldElsie de BrauwThe film tells the story of an investigator trying to find out what actually happened in Screbrenica, looking for a missing photo-roll.shot by a Dutchbat-soldier. Amazing piece of drumming by the leading actor Victor Reinier at the end.
- DirectorNicole van KilsdonkStarsRicky KooleDaniël BoissevainFelix BurlesonEach morning a group of people meet in the swimming pool to swim. The police suspects it is a criminal organization and interrogate Loes.
- DirectorStephan BrenninkmeijerStarsElvira OutRonald TopDaan HugaertA woman becomes fascinated by a murderer and visits him in prison. At first the man is distant but later on their band is becoming ever closer. The woman wonders if she can trust the man when he is released from prison.
- DirectorJoost RanzijnStarsYoka VerbeekRik LaunspachLoes WoutersonA year after their 11-year-old son was killed in an accident, the grief of a family is still visible. Father, mother and their daughter each process the loss in his or her way and become completely alienated from each other.
- DirectorGerrard VerhageStarsCarla HardyBart KleverHas DrijverA wealthy former art dealer and professional classical singer Edward Schneider gets his one chance to perform the part of Jesus Christ in the St. Matthew Passion by Johan Sebastiaan Bach. This is a great opportunity for him and together with his musical companion Jan Wynands he prepares himself of this onerous assignment. Soon it becomes clear that he is unable to perform the task. In his struggle to overcome his limitations he tries to experience the pain and suffering of Jesus and pushes himself beyond reality. He is found in his apartment, literally pinned down, bleeding to death and saved by "his" Maria Magdalena...
- DirectorEric OosthoekStarsAntonie KamerlingKees CoolenAnna RottierA young priest struggles with the question of whether he should continue his priesthood or choose marriage. Within the monastic community he experiences little support in making the choice.
- DirectorMeral UsluStarsSarah JonkerOzlem SolmazVefa OcalRoos and Rana, two teenagers, are the biggest bosom friends. Both have a bad relationship with their parents and when things get out of hand, they decide to run away to Istanbul
- DirectorMijke de JongStarsEgbert Jan WeeberMichiel HuismanNadja HüpscherDespite the fact that he's a Jehovah's witness, ska-loving high school student Jonathan has a relationship with Marjan, a non-believing artist.
- DirectorFrans WeiszStarsCoen FlinkPierre BokmaWill van KralingenA theater actor looks back on his life. Present and past tumbling over each other, real life will have the dimensions of a play and the other men of flesh and blood are reduced to characters.
- DirectorEmile FallauxStarsRenée FokkerRamsey NasrErik van der HorstEsther is heard by a psychologist about the murder of her father that she has committed with her boyfriend. A reconstruction follows, but her memory is unreliable.
- DirectorHans PosStarsThekla ReutenKim van KootenDaniël BoissevainThe gripping true story of a Dutch girl who made an amazing career in the international narcotics world.
- DirectorNicole van KilsdonkStarsPrzemyslaw SadowskiNadja HüpscherFrederik BromA traffic jam like a polonaise of cars: nobody can escape. A cynical record plugger, two sisters, a quarreling couple and an illegal man from Poland are confronted with each other and with themselves.
- DirectorJelle van DoornikStarsEgbert Jan WeeberSarah JonkerDevika StrookerKoen is a fatherless boy who struggles with the balance between independence and love. His girlfriend find it incomprehensible that Koen does not feel the least curiosity about his unknown father and she starts a search for him.
- DirectorWillem van de Sande BakhuyzenStarsPetra LaseurBram van der VlugtMarisa Van EyleOpenheartedness turns into a question of life and death when what was planned to be a pleasant family holiday becomes a harsh confrontation with the happy family myth.
- DirectorEugenie JansenStarsJohn Kon KeleiJan MunterWillem SmitStory about a friendship between two lonely, opposite souls. One is a 81-year-old grumpy widower and the other an insecure eighteen-year-old refugee from Sudan.
- DirectorGer PoppelaarsStarsMark RietmanDaniëlla MercelinaKenneth HerdigeinOn behalf of the Dutch government a secret agent is looking for a journalist who suddenly disappeared in Suriname. He must make their way in a country paralyzed by demonstrations and protests against the military government.
- DirectorMarcel HensemaTim OliehoekStarsMarijn KlaverCharlie Chan DageletYoussef BchiriDuring a fight in a subway station a girl gets pushed on the track, in front of a train. She dies not long after. A boy who is in the same class as the victim is asked to make a tv report for the local TV station.
- DirectorPaul RuvenStarsSilvia MuntLibertad PozoFrank LammersTwo people in trouble experience tragedies during the wedding of prince Willem-Alexander and princess Máxima.
- DirectorEric OosthoekStarsAnnemarie PrinsNiek PancrasEva van BarneveldFloods threaten the Gelderland river area, but old Jacoba does not want to leave her home. Granddaughter Fleur tries to change her grandmother's thoughts.
- DirectorGer PoppelaarsStarsFrits LambrechtsMarjolein MeijersCees GeelDementia sufferer Dirk van den Berg's life is stirred up when demolishers come to destroy his house. Is this really his actual life?