Sebald van der Waal

Documentary filmmaker Johan returns to his hometown of Amsterdam, now transformed by gentrification, to hold up a mirror to the city. There, he is distracted from his goal: Johan must first confront himself.

A sensory portrait of a father and his family, displaced into the anonymity of a hotel. In his quiet attempts to rebuild a sense of home, routine becomes a fragile act of resistance.

When a public transport bus comes to a halt minus a desolate landscape, the passengers are condemned to each other. The unfortunate timing sets up a sparkling interplay of time, space and gazes.

A budding relationship between two young pallbearers results in a confrontation with their fear of vulnerability.

A pianist drives around a forest landscape, wandering in search of her way. A way to let go of memories. Letting go of the woman of her memories. Like a wind, they blow through her mind, mingling and enriching the music that propels her along her path. Her longing on the tip of her tongue and the end point of the journey.