The Bastard (16+)
The Netherlands, 2018, colour, 85 min.
Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
One day a Dutch bicycle repairman receives the unlikely news that he has an Ethiopian half-brother. His name is Daniel and he is imprisoned on death row in Addis Ababa. This news is the beginning of a disturbing family chronicle. About a spurned child who grows up in destitution and an aged father who can no longer avoid his now adult bastard son. Daniel nurtures a deep sense of resentment and yearns for recognition. But his father wants nothing to do with him, even if it’s only because his son is black. A DNA test condemns the two to each other. Subsequently father and son turn out to have more in common than either of them would ever want to admit.
Russian premier
Floris-Jan van Luyn
Floris-Jan van Luyn
is a filmmaker and writer. At university, he majored in History and Chinese. Many of his films and books have Asia as a backdrop. He worked for Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad as a China correspondent, editor, and columnist.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Unforbidden City, 2009; Rainmakers, 2010; The Last Frontier, 2012; Diary of a Homing Pigeon, 2014; The Bastard, 2018.
The Netherlands, 2018, colour, 85 min.
Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
Director: Floris-Jan van Luyn
One day a Dutch bicycle repairman receives the unlikely news that he has an Ethiopian half-brother. His name is Daniel and he is imprisoned on death row in Addis Ababa. This news is the beginning of a disturbing family chronicle. About a spurned child who grows up in destitution and an aged father who can no longer avoid his now adult bastard son. Daniel nurtures a deep sense of resentment and yearns for recognition. But his father wants nothing to do with him, even if it’s only because his son is black. A DNA test condemns the two to each other. Subsequently father and son turn out to have more in common than either of them would ever want to admit.
Russian premier