Wilde Mossels | Film programme Slieker

Leen grows up in a fishing village in Zeeland, where the horizon is narrow and expectations are clearly defined. He wants to get away, wants more, but escaping the place where your roots lie is harder than expected. Wilde Mossels is a raw, energetic portrait of youthful restlessness and a desire for freedom. The film shows how the familiar can become oppressive, how dreams clash with tradition, and how adventurous courage is needed to let go. In the context of grûn, this film reflects on the question of what it means to break away from your soil and what you always take with you. This raw gem from Dutch film history, starring the young Fedja van Huêt and Frank Lammers, has been polished up and is being re-released after 25 years so that you can enjoy it on the big screen again. 

Director: Erik de Bruyn
Country: Netherlands
Language: Spoken in Dutch
Duration: 115 min
Target audience: 16+

This film is part of a series of nine inspiring films, selected in collaboration with film house Slieker. All these films touch on the theme of Arcadia, Grûn. Grûn is where everything begins. It nourishes us, protects us and connects us. But how do we deal with this?

In a world that is constantly changing, the need for solid ground under our feet grows. Whether it is coming home, as in Sigur Ros: Heima, or starting over as in The Old Oak. When the solid ground under your feet disappears, as figuratively in En Fanfare and literally in No Other Land, uncertainty arises, while Wilde Mossels is about the courage to escape from your roots. Where documentary Onder het Maaiveld shows how essential the smallest life under our feet is, in the special sci-fi Vesper, Tim Burton's Big Fish and animated film Wolfwalkers you can escape from reality with fantastic stories about people and nature and the natural nature of man. Come and watch all the films in Bouwurk and be touched, surprised and perhaps even made to think!

This event takes place in the White Box in Bouwurk on the Oldehoofsterkerkhof in Leeuwarden, Friesland.