Filmography
As a documentary director and writer I'm always looking for characters that could carry the essence of a story. Seeing the world through another human's eyes opens us up for new ways of thinking about our own. Through my films I hope to show new perspectives.
Nusa Ina
2023
As a writer, director, editor, cinematopgraher
More than 60 years after their refuge to the Netherlands, Loey Tamaëla and his family are still hoping to one day return to a free Moluccas. Being descendants of political freedom fighters, their memories of Nusa Ina, The Mother Island, strengthen a dream of protecting their Moluccan identity. Perhaps knowing that everything will eventually become history.
Original Soundtrack from the film
by Timo Sijbrandij
De Stilte van een Bloem
The Silence of a Flower
2019
As a writer & director
Rob (70) speaks to his mother Willy (94) for the first time in his life about her past in the Dutch-Indies. But it is not revealed as easily as he hopes. A short documentary about ‘Colonial Silence’.
