Blanda Goreng

Nils Hanssen received a grant for the development of a new film. Blanda Goreng is a tragicomic short film about a family that reunites in the chaotic home of an eccentric uncle after his self-chosen death. Amidst simmering tensions, absurd situations, and physical obstacles, the film painfully reveals how unresolved trauma and intergenerational pain undermine genuine connection between family members. With dark humour and visual excess, the film explores the inability to truly connect within families where grief, shame, and silence are deeply rooted. Inspired by filmmakers such as Roy Andersson and Thomas Vinterberg, Blanda Goreng offers a poignant yet bitingly comic perspective on generational trauma within the Dutch-Indonesian community.

Nils is a filmmaker, director, writer, art director, and rapper from South Limburg. After leaving the Maastricht Institute for Performative Arts (Toneelacademie Maastricht), he staged the physical horror theatre piece Delirium, followed by the improvised short film Grenzeloos and the psychological horror short In Pieces. As an art director, he worked on feature films such as Bijt by Guido Coppis and De Dans van Natasja by Jos Stelling, and won awards for his production design on the short film Coquille. He is currently developing his musical project APENZAKEN, in which philosophical hip-hop and storytelling converge.