🎬 Movie

Martin returns to his native Dutch village after a decade in Amsterdam. His father is dying, leaving him the farm and its debts, while the local community views him as an outsider. Director Joris van den Berg's 2025 drama explores the silent conflict between progress and tradition, between personal choice and duty to the land. Every frame is a portrait of the northern landscape, where water and sky merge into a single grey canvas. Martin must decide: sell his inheritance and return to his life, or immerse himself in the backbreaking labor on the peat soils that broke his father. The film is as slow as the flow of the local canals, yet filled with inner tension.