It takes courage to be a queer teenager at an LGBTQIA+ youth summer camp. Along with 65 other queer youngsters, Faas, Fano, Jeroen, and Finley are on their first summer camp, spending five intensive days of workshops that teach them how they can love themselves more. For the first time in their lives, the youths are surrounded by peers, all struggling with the same problems and feelings. As different as they are, they all share one thing: the need for contact and understanding. Mutual recognition of each other’s childhood or coming-out stories stirs up more emotions than they may have thought. Will this help them get closer to each other and eventually themselves?
Direction
Intimate vérité that never feels exploitative, just deeply human.
Editing
Workshops unfold like emotional dominoes — perfectly paced revelations.
Production
Creates genuine safe space on camera; you feel the trust.
Director
Lucas van der Rhee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Queerkamp operates in the tradition of Paris Is Burning but for Gen Z, trading ballroom houses for Dutch summer camp cabins.
Directors Lucas van der Rhee and Chris Westendorp themselves met at queer youth camp as teenagers, filming this as full-circle closure.
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