Sem Donkers

Based on a comic by legendary Dutch artist Typex, Milkman is the story of a lonely, old-fashioned milkman fighting a quixotic battle against modern times, whilst feeling stuck in the same old routine of delivering the milk every day. One day, he discovers a mysterious bottle in his cart. A bottle that turns out not only to have life-changing consequences for the milkman himself, but for the entire village.

A middle-aged man named Leon looks back on his troubled childhood through the prism of his old bicycle. What starts out as a nostalgic trip down memory lane turns out to be a fantastical tale full of wacky inventors, reminiscences and a writer whose best friend is a red cat.

In the 1970s, in Emmen, Drenthe, the visionary neighbourhood Emmerhout was built. It was designed to be a revolutionary experiment, the neighbourhood of the future. Casper, 52, has been living in Emmerhout for more or less his entire life. In this short documentary, he reflects on past, present and future of the neighbourhood, but also of himself.