Richelle Plantinga

Linde has a job on the side as a chambermaid in a luxury hotel. Her seventeenth birthday seems a day like any other at the hotel, until she hears some alarming noises coming from one of the rooms: screaming and crying. Later, she sees how a man pushes a Nigerian girl into a car. When she realises her peer is probably the victim of human trafficking, she becomes aware of the shady sides of society and of her privileged position.

After the murder of her childhood friend, Dilara returns home. Reuniting with old friends, she comes to believe the group is being hunted through a haunted true-crime podcast: once you listen, you meet the killer.

This is the story of Richie and his journey to become the greatest rap-artist in the Netherlands. One evening he is violently mugged by a group of teenagers and loses his most prized possession: an expensive watch. When images of the humiliating robbery go viral, Richie's hard-earned reputation is damaged.

Three best friends, attempting to reconnect after many years, summon Mister Lonely with frightening consequences. They find themselves fighting for survival against a supernatural menace. Welcome to the Lonely Place.

Pelle is a shy 12-year-old dreamer. During a family holiday he comes to realize he can’t stay a wallflower forever and is determined to change his ways, although the circumstances are far from ideal.

Two girls are being locked up on a balcony on a hot day, while a group of boys is waiting for them at a fair. When their messages become more and more searing, the balcony changes into a save space that the girls

Amor shows, in a number of fragmentary scenes, painful but recognizable moments in an arbitrary day in the lives of a group of vulnerable teenage girls in the outskirts of a big city in the Netherlands.

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.

Determined to live the high life and make their mark, a trio of audacious teenagers sets out on a riotous quest across Amsterdam to get into the city's most exclusive nightclub.

The indomitable urge of the human spirit comes face to face with the societal pressures that keep young women's wants, bodies and desires under wraps in these short stories set amongst nature.

Whether it's a once in a lifetime television audition or a gruelling boxing competition, for these young women the chance to shine is sometimes worth the risk.