After a life-altering medical diagnosis, artist Youandi is confronted with her unresolved past. As her physical body begins to fail her, she searches for stability in music, memories of her mother, and her artistic imagination. In a visual blend of documentary and fiction, Youandi delves into her past—marked by trauma, violence, and self-destruction—and confronts the memories that haunt her. In a hallucinatory inner world, memories, song lyrics, and interviews blend into a hybrid short film.

Our Motherland is a portrait of Constant Kusters: devoted family man and figurehead of the far-right Dutch People's Union. Through an intimate look at his daily life, Our Motherland paints a broader picture of Dutch society and its historical relationship with “the other.”

Blending archival footage of Dutch history with close-up scenes from within the far-right movement, this documentary presents a politician who is visibly pleased to see his ideas increasingly reflected in mainstream discourse.

In doing so, the film holds up a mirror to the viewer. To what extent has our national history laid the groundwork for today’s fear of newcomers?