a film by Albert Elings and Eugenie Jansen
Foreland has been awarded:
Foreland lets you look at the real Holland, with a leading part for branches and clouds. This documentary can hold itself with the best Cinema Pure.
De Filmkrant, September 2005
Its images that seem to trap time standing still and time in motion,
and the observant eye of the restrained filmmaker, are incisive. Also,
the melancholy scenery paradoxically speaks beautiful tales of human
life.
Jury, Yamagata International Filmfestival
Foreland is pure documentary art, in the best Dutch tradition of great directors as Haanstra, Ivens, Van der Horst. Each single shot offers room for thoughts. Seven years Elings and Jansen watched intensely, now they share their vision with us. All blues, greens, pinks and greys of heaven and earth. The wrippling of the water. Unparalelled beauty.
One would think that cinema was invented for this.
NRC Handelsblad, September 2005