Mieke Verdin

SONNET (2024)

Ghost Tropic (2020)

After a long day at work, fiftyeight-year-old Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot. On her nocturnal journey she finds herself compelled to ask for and g ...

Vele hemels boven de zevende (2017)

Five people fight themselves more than each other, in this existence that's so beautiful and incredibly hard at the same time. ...

Sonnet 81 (2013)

Ten years since the passing away of Ellen, it's the annual reunion of Ellen's friends. We see how everybody has coped in his own way with the loss. Where is the grief now? Where is someone, who died ten years ago? Sonnet 81 is a subtle and poetical portrai ...

Firmin (2007)

After almost thirty years, Germaine, Firmin's great love, suddenly returns to her hometown. Firmin is overjoyed and determined to win Germaine's heart back, but Germaine rejects his advances. Then Mohammed Boutrous, a young and talented boxer, seeks out Fi ...

Pillar (2006)

A father faces his darkest hours after the dead of his son. ...

Sailors Don't Cry (1989)

In a small port town, Hilde runs a sailor's bar to support her young son, Stijn. Years after abandoning them for a wandering lifestyle, the boy's father, Paul , suddenly returns. His reappearance disrupts the stable, comforting life Hilde has built with he ...