Marieke Widlak

Marieke Widlak

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Centen van Knegsel 2020

The grandparents of the director, Marieke Widlak, confront her with a complicated question. Along with several inhabitants of Knegsel, they have been supporting the Indian priest Christopher Bara and his poor community for the last forty years. Does Marieke want to continue this project? She hesitates and raises confrontational questions. Is something like this effective, or just self-interest? To get real answers, she looks up Bara himself. The bond with him grows, but so do her doubts. Until an unexpected message from India clarifies things.
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Now or Never Again 2018

After her sister's suicide, filmmaker Marieke Widlak was left feeling powerless. Had she expressed enough appreciation to her sister? In the film Marieke searches for answers with her father, mother and other sister. After her sister's suicide, filmmaker Marieke Widlak was left feeling powerless. Had she expressed enough appreciation to her sister? In the film Marieke searches for answers with her father, mother and other sister. 'Now or Never Again' is an ode to expressing loving appreciation.
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Corrie 2022

How do you reinvent yourself when your partner goes through a change? This task awaits Corrie. Her partner Ashley is in transition from male to female. Increasingly, Corrie wonders to what extent she can follow her partner's transition. She will have to search for who she herself is deep inside to come to an answer. Corrie wants a relationship in which her partner is mainly there for her, and not just for herself. She feels short-changed and she is done with that. With her best friend Jet, she can pour her heart out and is encouraged to keep thinking of herself as well. Yet it is not all doom and gloom. The changes offer surprising new insights into the relationship and about themselves. Hidden flaws and dormant desires for self-fulfillment surface. The new situation offers opportunities for a clean slate and reinvention of herself. It also brings Corrie and Ashley closer together at unexpected times, in ways that might not have been possible before the change.