Meis is fifteen, lives in the back of beyond and aspires to a grand and stirring life, but all that happens is the passing of the time, waiting for the next car to run into the front of the house.
Cinematography
Flat Dutch landscapes that swallow hope whole.
Acting
Gaite Jansen's silent scream of a performance.
Direction
Van den Dop turns nothing-happening into everything-matters.
Director
Tamar van den Dop
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Tamar van den Dop also plays Meis's mother, blurring autobiography with fiction in unsettling ways.
The film captures a specific post-industrial Dutch countryside rarely seen on screen—flat, soggy, and spiritually evacuated.
NL
