Hein van der Heijden

Calf (2024)

Suni (2022)

On the day before a big audition, young actrice Danaé is trying to learn her lines. Everyone else in the city seems to have better plans during the raging heatwave, like house parties or watching the national football team. While Danaé struggles and the ...

Anne+: The Film (2021)

Just before Anne is moving from Amsterdam to live with her great love Sara in Montreal, her publisher criticizes the manuscript for her first novel. What exactly is the story she's trying to tell? Does she even have something to say at all? Anne is forced ...

Terwijl het liefde was (2021)

Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his own mother Winnie, who passed away in 2020. This piece, titled The Century of My Mother, is a family story about the migration from the Dutch East Indies to ...

AYOR (2021)

In 1970, during the annual Dutch national commemoration of those fallen in World War II, two men try to make a statement against gay discrimination. In the moments before and after the incident, their doubt, fear and firm belief becomes clear. ...

The Day Is Ours (2016)

Unable to deal with his best friends terminal illness, Julius visits a slaughterhouse looking for answers. ...

Green (2015)

Absurdistic comedy about a boy who stumbles upon a group of people who are waiting for an ever-lasting red traffic light and refuse to let him pass. ...

Sweet Rabbit (2012)

Jeanet, an insecure middle-aged woman, discovers one day that rabbit ears are growing out of her head. Shocked and confused, she rushes to the doctor to get rid of her ailment. But the doctor turns out to be a poor listener. Jeanets relatives seem to have ...

Bellicher: Cel (2012)

Michael Bellicher wakes up one morning to find out that his identity has been stolen. Soon he learns that the perpetrator is using his stolen ID for all kinds of illegal action. Michael tries to find out who is behind all this, when, to his horror, his cre ...

Wil (2012)

Want (81) lies die on. The old woman is entirely ready for the passage, thus she has let know already several times in the presence of thuishulp Frank (31). ...

Anatole (2011)

Vast (2011)

Isabel, a teenage girl, is being admitted in a closed institution for juveniles. After an incident where she ends up in solitary confinement, she promises to change herself. But before she can handle the future, she has to confront her past. ...

Bullhead (2011)

A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader. ...

Saint (2010)

A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5. ...

Quicksand (2004)

For all Frits, a farmer's son, knows, his mother died when giving birth to him. He and his father make up a strong team. In the literal and figurative sense, because his father not only teaches him to milk the cows and hunt, he is also the coach of his soc ...

De nietsnut (1994)

For all his life Frank Goudvis has tried not to follow in the footsteps of his father. When his father is mysteriously murdered, Frank loses his alibi for his cherished passivity and decides to travel to the crime scene. ...

Heading for England (1992)

A man from the province looks back on his graduation year, some teachers, the parental home and especially his father. ...

Hector (1987)

Hector's parents sent him to an orphanage in treatment for smallpox but... they never picked him up. 35 years later, he still lives in the orphanage, surrounded by children, his playmates. Till a forgotten aunt remembers that he exists. She'll get him to p ...