PREVIEW: Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

(as themselves) Klaartje Quirijns

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Klaartje Quirijns (The Dictator Hunter), director, writer, cinematographer; Boris Gerrets (People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am), writer, editor; producers TBA

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns examines the devastating trauma within her own family, showing how she may have been colonised by the behaviour of her parents…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

In this tough-to-stomach documentary, filmmaker Klaartje Quirijns highlights the collective trauma we all go through under the impossible expectations of the people that raise us.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

TUESDAY 26TH APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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