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In this edition, a beautiful exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam about artists’ views on mental illness and a film about the problems of a deaf boy.

This new episode focuses on unfulfilled childhood wishes and miscarriages (in the film Kind and the novel Hello Baby), the French comedy On Ira, in which a terminally ill old lady wants to end her life but encounters quite a few communication barriers, and the film Hot Milk about a woman who is burdened by unexplained physical complaints and thus restricts her daughter’s life. But first, the razor-sharp, short Japanese novel Hunchback, in which a woman with congenital myopathy talks candidly and pessimistically about her severe physical disability.

This time two films that are being screened again: the Japanese classic Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa about a terminally ill civil servant, and the rich but compelling Danish medical drama Open Hearts.

This edition features reviews of two feature films that both dramatize trauma and trauma processing in an original way: Drowning Dry and Hoard. We also look at the reissue (in Dutch) of Richard Flanagan’s award-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about the fate of a doctor who was involved in the construction of the infamous Burma Railway under inhumane conditions during World War II.

The Salt Path was a – justified – bestseller, the film adaptation of the book is now proving to be a “hit” as well. In the book, Raynor Winn tells how she and her husband Moth – their college-age children are out of the house – lost all their possessions in 2013 due to a disastrous investment; they became destitute and homeless.

n Quiet Life, young Katja meets a curious fate. After her family is told that they will be deported from Sweden, Katja falls into a state most reminiscent of catatonia. In Sweden this is now known as Uppgivenhetssyndrom, internationally referred to as Resignation Syndrome.