Marleen Meijer is a devoted director and screenwriter, who pours her soul wholeheartedly in her work. She makes intimate character-driven stories, about small events and complex feelings. She shows us the stupidity and fragility of humans with tenderness and love. Her dialog is inherently Dutch: often short, direct and absurd, which compliments her harsh sense of humor. The main goal is to create a sense of ambivalence, since she feels like this represents the human experience at its best.
Marleen recently finished her studies at the university of arts Utrecht, majoring screenwriting and directing fiction. Her graduation film is an absurd tragicomedy called HET KOMT WEL GOED. It’s a film about grief and growing up. In the film a mourning teenager’s path of destruction is put to an end by a stream of thousands of toads blocking the road. Unable to pass the toads, the teenager forms an unexpected friendship with the 40-year-old volunteer who guards the toads, in which they teach each other about loss.