A fairytale-like film in which five Dutch girls take the viewer on an imaginative journey through the memories and images they have of their parents’ experiences of the war in the former Yugoslavia. While the girls listen back to their own stories, a mechanism similar to listening to a narrative shared by a parent, the viewer is invited to listen along and become part of the intimate spheres of their family.
Eliane Esther Bots
Eliane Esther Bots (1986) graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht in 2008. She participated in the post-graduate program ‘Document and contemporary art’ at École Européenne Supérieure de l’image in 2012. In 2016 she graduated cum laude from the Master of Film at the Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her films have been screened and exhibited at (inter)national festivals. In 2017 her film The Brick House was shortlisted for a Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival. She has been programming for the Go Short Film festival, Nijmegen and works currently as a lecturer ‘Moving image’ at the University of the Arts in Utrecht.