By Her Side

Synopsis

Three young men are fathers-to-be. They anticipate the birth of their first child and try to prepare for what is coming. What is their role as a man during the pregnancy and how do they hold out during the delivery? This film leaves the future mothers out and only looks at the fathers in a period when life almost literally overtakes them.

Director Biography

Niels van Koevorden (1984) was born as a farmers’ son in Tiel, the Netherlands. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Belgium. He finished the secondary school in Antwerp and after fourteen years of Flemish culture he returned to the Netherlands to continue his studies. At the Bernhard Lievegoed College of Liberal Arts he first noticed his interest in documenting the life surrounding him.