Documentary: Borrel

We are the makers of the short documentary ‘Borrel’ – Emily Hölz and Riikka Toropainen, Bachelor students at Radboud University from Germany and Finland. In 2021, we both came to the Netherlands for our studies and experienced many cultural differences when trying to settle in. Thus, when we had the chance to make our own documentary, in the second-year course ‘Moving Documentaries,’ we wanted to approach a topic that was familiar both to us and many like us. Thereby, our aim was to feel more at home, and integrated into the Dutch culture and lifestyle, whereby we hope to evoke this also in other internationals, who might feel lost in a city far away from home. Lastly, we hope that this documentary is interesting to Dutch people too, who might be curious about how internationals interact with and reinterpret their personal Culture and Pride.