Piek van der Kaaden

CIRCA is an attempt to fictionally reconstruct the house of my grandparents. The only tangible place where my memories still reside and the djinn (ghost) of my grandfather remains. The film explores the empty spaces with only traces of the past life left behind.

Valentijn Rixtus Bentinck is a very wealthy, charismatic man whose life is dominated by the mystery of his unknown past. Two days after his birth, he was abandoned at a Catholic boarding school in the south of the country.