Backstage Bardo

Under the burden of poverty, the lonely peasant is visited by a mysterious man, which sets up a series of frightful events that lead the farmer on the paths of desperation, insanity, and alcoholism..

A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a closure within the space that already feels too foreign.

The Netherlands, a bastion of capitalism, has struggled with unprecedented housing crises since 2018. This brings a rise of different ideologies that challenge the dominant status quo. In the city of Nijmegen, an anarchist collective JAN10 battles the ongoing housing crisis by squatting empty buildings, which poses a threat to the established capitalist interests.