Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem (Writing)
Little is known about Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Mr. K
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
Release Date:2025-01-16
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:3
Retrotherapy
Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a woman.
Release Date:2024-05-15
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:1
Sea Sparkle
When her father dies at sea, Lena starts desperately looking for the cause, convinced a sea monster is to blame. Her relentless push against the tide reveals a tale of anger and grief, yet also of the strength and comfort the ocean provides.
Release Date:2023-03-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Inside
An art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
Release Date:2023-03-09
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:394
My Dad Is a Sausage
A father leaves his unhappy job at a bank to pursue an acting career.
Release Date:2021-03-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:12
Glassboy
Pino Gambassi is a child suffering from haemophilia and is animated by an unbridled desire for freedom and boundless courage: he decides to start his adventure in the world and to show everyone that he can live his life like a normal kid.
Release Date:2020-11-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
A Good Year
Release Date:2020-07-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:6
The Best of Dorien B.
Dorien (37) has everything to make her happy: a successful husband, two adorable children and a veterinary practice full of small pets. But when she discovers a year-long affair among her parents and her husband turns out to be very close with a colleague, she begins to doubt. A phone call bearing bad news is the last straw. She feels lost, alone. Dorien evaluates her life: is this it? The Best of Dorien B. is a dramatic comedy about a woman who among all the craziness rediscovers herself
Release Date:2019-06-26
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
Nocturne
On the very eve of shooting his debut film, a harried young director struggles to balance fiction and reality as he spends one fever dream of a night searching for the inspiration that eludes him.
Release Date:2019-05-09
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:5
Fight Girl
Twelve-year-old Bo is a talented but hot-tempered kick boxer. However, Bo is distracted by her fighting parents who are in the middle of a divorce. Bo needs to learn how to control her emotions and at the same time accept the fact she can't control everything.
Release Date:2018-10-18
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:21
Zagros
Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip about Havin: there are rumours of her having an affair. Zagros brushes his father’s concerns away as he trusts his wife and refuses to give credit to the rumours. Later, while Zagros tends to his sheep, he learns that his family have accused Havin of adultery and locked her up. Zagros returns to his village but finds his wife and daughter gone. Havin has fled to the west with their daughter and unborn child. Zagros, believing his wife’s innocence and opposing his father, travels to Istanbul and meets a smuggler who can take him to the west…
Release Date:2017-11-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:13
Der Tod und das Mädchen - Van Leeuwens dritter Fall
Thanks to the latest DNA technology, Bruno van Leeuwen finally has a proof in his hands, with which the rapist of the then nine-year-old Vicky can be convicted. Piet Martens, the neighbor of the girl's family, was the culprit. But despite the new evidence, he can not be brought to justice because the crime is now time barred. Martens leaves the police headquarters as a free man. Then Vicky falls on Martens and hits him with a bottle. The police separate the two and Martens' lawyer reports to Vicky about dangerous assault.
Release Date:2017-10-27
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:9
My Giraffe
Dikkertje Dap was born on the same day as Raf the giraffe. Dikkertje can often be found at the zoo, because Raf is his best friend. They are inseparable, until Dikkertje goes to school for the first time and finds out giraffes can’t go to school. Dikkertje dearly misses Raf, but also experiences exciting new things. He even makes a new friend: Yous. Raf misses Dikkertje too. So Dikkertje devises a plan to bring the giraffe to school and introduce his two friends to each other.
Release Date:2017-10-04
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:16
Amigo's
Five guys spent their time in prison. Some of them even for murder. Now they want to run a restaurant called Amigo's. But not everything goes how it was supposed to go.
Release Date:2017-01-16
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:5
Vincent
Vincent is a 17-year old ecologist who drives his family crazy with his attempts to reduce their carbon footprint. Vincent‘s giddy French aunt Nikki takes him on a trip to France, convinced that the boy‘s obsession is related to his suffocating mother. But on their road-trip, Vincent proves to be much more than Nikki can handle.
Release Date:2016-08-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:15
Boy 7
When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger.
Release Date:2016-02-19
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:63
Marry Me
She is a quick-tempered and feisty Turkish woman; he, a shy and reticent, young Flemish man. Their respective families hold strong – perhaps too strong – opinions on the imminent marriage, and, on the big day, chaos ensues, making the young couple question their own readiness to commit to a union for life. Are their backgrounds really so different to tear them apart?
Release Date:2015-01-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
In the Heart
Masha is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Release Date:2015-01-15
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:9
Bad Hunter
Bahoz is 19 years old and lives surrounded by nature and beautiful landscapes. Every day, he goes to the mountains to hunt although he catches very little. But today will be the day that will change his life forever.
Release Date:2013-11-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Almost Italian
An Italian car salesman wants to impress the woman of his dreams, but he gets entangled in his own web of lies.
Release Date:2013-03-20
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:9
Brasserie Romance
Manager Pascaline and chef Angelo have been, for several years, striving toward earning the coveted "chef's hat" in the Gault Millau restaurant guide. Tonight is Valentine's Day: one of the busiest nights of the year. Angelo provides an appropriate menu and Pascaline lovingly sets the tables. As always, Pascaline has everything under control. Her customers expect a lot tonight. For every couple that has won a table they expect to get love on their plate. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.
Release Date:2012-12-18
Department:Writing
Job:Scenario Writer
Vote Count:11
King of Katoren
The seventeen year old Stach is faced with five impossible assignments he has to complete in order to become king. Things do not go as easily as the boisterous Stach had expected, especially when he is confronted with matters of life and death.
Release Date:2012-12-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:12
Milo
Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with 'sensitive skin', lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip - but never arrives. He falls into the hands of an ageing criminal couple, with whom he enjoys pure freedom from constraint - until he learns the shocking truth about his skin condition. Filled with doubt about his father's love for him, Milo must try to come to terms with who he really is.
Release Date:2012-11-08
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:9
The Over the Hill Band
Upon the death of her husband, Claire (70) decides to reconnect with her estranged son, down and out R&B musician Sid. She asks him to help her restart the old girl group she used to sing in with two of her friends from the old days. The rebel son is hesitant at first but eventually agrees under one condition: the band has to play HIS music.
Release Date:2009-08-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Formidable
Social comedy about 2 forty-somethings who're looking for a new purpose in life.
Release Date:2008-04-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Dunya & Desie
Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.
Release Date:2008-04-17
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:21
Moscow, Belgium
‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.
Release Date:2008-01-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:57
Crusade in Jeans
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.
Release Date:2006-11-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:60
Long Weekend
Businessman Christian Vandenheuvel planned to spend the long weekend with his young mistress, Lisa. Instead, they're take hostage by Jos Diels and Nick, two of the 46 laborers who lost their job recently when Christian had his family film bankrupted. Each victim fails to escape, even the fire alarm doesn't get them freed. After Jos realizes the mistress is his only daughter, and Nick falls in love with Lisa, the masked men's mood evolves as they progress to truth time, when the police arrives.
Release Date:2005-10-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:14
Too Fat Too Furious
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yugoslavian who keeps blowing things up unintended. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver.
Release Date:2005-02-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:42
Science Fiction
Nine-year old Andreas Decker is the new kid in town. He tells his class that he has lived all over the world on account of his parents being top scientific researchers. Yet classmate Vero finds Andreas's workaholic parents really weird. She suggests to spy on them. When Andreas overhears their conversation about conquering the world and becoming leaders, their can only be one conclusion for the baffled children: Andreas's parents are aliens.
Release Date:2002-09-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4