KIEM HOLIJANDA

Synopsis

The brothers Andi (13) and Florist (20) live in a poor and desolate village in Kosovo. By selling milk they earn just enough money to support the family. When Andi discovers a card of a Dutch porn star in their bedroom, he needs a telephone to watch it. He is so obsessed with it, he doesn’t notice his brother has chosen this day to say goodbye to him.

Director Biography

Sarah Veltmeyer (1988) is a writer and director from Amsterdam. Without a filmschool, but with a lot of love for film, she decided to make her first short film (Gotta) in 2015. Gotta won “Best short film” at Noordelijk Filmfestival and “Best film” and “Best script” of “The One Vision Party” at the NFF. In 2016 she got money from the Netherlands Film Fund to make her second short film. This brought her to Kosovo, where she made Kiem Holijanda.