In FEAST, perpetrators, victims and their spectators become involved in a dramatic reconstruction of the Groningen HIV case. The film tells a story about power and surrender, the reversibility of truth and the desire to come home somewhere.
Direction
Leyendekker blurs victim, perpetrator, actor, audience—deliberately destabilizing.
Writing
Script interrogates itself: who owns this story?
Acting
Cast performs discomfort so well you forget it's staged.
Director
Tim Leyendekker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Groningen case (2007) involved men intentionally infecting others with HIV; Dutch media treated it as sensationalist horror, which Leyendekker deliberately mirrors and critiques.
Leyendekker cast actual police workers and social workers from the real case, their real institutional knowledge bleeding into fictionalized scenes.
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