Inside My Heart (Het Zit In Mijn Hart) | Bangalow Film Festival 2025

Inside My Heart (Het Zit In Mijn Hart) 
Saskia Boddeke 
The Netherlands | 2022 | 88 min | Unclassified M
In Dutch with English Subs 
Australian Premiere

Moved by the performance Furia by Kamak, a professional theatre group for actors with intellectual disabilities, director Saskia Boddeke decided to create a cinematic portrait of the piece they perform, a lavishly designed fairytale about lust and anger, and the unique rehearsal process behind it.

Shifting back and forth between events onstage and behind the scenes, Inside My Heart blends the magic of an opera and the depth of a documentary. Fact and fiction merge­—sometimes also for the actors themselves, who deeply feel the emotions they portray. They are a close group, offering intimate observations about life and love.

Directed by Saskia Boddeke (The Greenaway Alphabet), this multiple award-winning documentary is a moving ode to the liberating power of limitless imagination.

“A film of great artistic mastery whose originality, sumptuous images, quality and accuracy of treatment take us into a unique poetic fresco, managing to break down the boundaries between normality and exception, between art and life, fiction and reality.” - Montreal Art Film Festival