Froukje van Wengerden

Filmmaker Froukje van Wengerden’s 86-year-old grandmother shares a powerful memory from 1944, when she was just 14. As her story unfolds, we see a group of contemporary 14-year-old girls. Their procession of portraits permits the spectator to see simultaneously forward and back, into the future and towards the past. A miraculous testimonial that uses eye contact to focus the viewer inward and evoke unexpected emotions.

A cinematic essay on the chaotic experience of time, in which the filmmaker expresses her transformative experience of motherhood through intimate letters, still photographs of her homeland and dutch archival footage.