Abke Haring Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Abke Haring
Acting
Biography
Abke Haring won a Golden Calf Award for Best Actor at the Dutch Film Festival Utrecht 2024. She won this Award for her lead performance in the drama series Een van Ons, directed by Michiel van Erp. She is a much acclaimed actor in The Netherlands and Belgium, who won the prestigious Theo d’Or award for her portrayal of Hamlet in Hamlet vs Hamlet in 2014. She starred in many plays for diverse theatercompanies like International Theater Amsterdam, Toneelhuis, NTGent and Frascati. She worked with Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, Luk Perceval, Floor Houwink ten Cate and many more inspiring directors on stage. Abke also writes for theater and is known for her physical performances. She starred in series and films such as Fenix (2017), Primus (2022) Piece of my Heart (2022) and Splendid Isolation (2022) which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2022. Currently Abke can be seen next to Jacob Derwig in Panic Room, directed by Floor Houwink ten Cate for Theater Utrecht, with whom she also made Sea of Silence. She will reprise her role in Brideshead Revisited (2023) for theater group De Warme Winkel on the Dutch Theater Festival and in Belgium.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Good Bad Girl
Young and ambitious detective Alize has just returned from maternity leave. During a murder investigation, she discovers the complex and tragic truth behind the murder of a female rapper. However, Alize's investigation soon puts her at odds with her superiors.
Heartbeats
Young illustrator Lorah dreamed of becoming a successful artist one day, but is now struggling to recover from burnout. As Lorah tries to find a balance between her recovery and her desire to return to work in her chosen profession, she meets successful colleague Emily, whom she greatly admires. However, her frustrations and impatience grow by the minute as she is confronted with evidence that this is not yet her time to shine.
Primus
Short black-and-white film about longing for true love. In an immense launderette, Joep (29) and Gonda (45) are waiting for their dreamed other half, who will make their lives truly meaningful.
Splendid Isolation
Little is known about the catastrophe Anna and Hannah have escaped. On a desolate island they find an abandoned house where Anna takes care of Hannah. Hannah’s fragile condition reminds the two lovers that their time together is coming to an end.
Blind
Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and, along with Ruben, shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?
Downtown
In 1988, three young gay men, Ronnie, Lennart and Bas, throw themselves into Amsterdam's nightlife scene. It’s a life full of friendship, sex and drugs. Until the mysterious AIDS virus casts a shadow over their lives and one of them disappears after becoming infected. Thirty-two years later, in the middle of the 2021 lockdown, Ronnie recognises the missing Bas in the subway. An evening unfolds that none of them had expected to see, but which had been in the air for years. The AIDS epidemic has had a major impact on all three of their lives. Where they lost each other 32 years ago, they hope to find each other again.
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