KIND
DPPLR, Jan Verdijk /
Sound design and re recording mix /
Film (84 min.) /
2025 /
When they learn their unborn baby has a mysterious birth defect, two young parents turn to alternative medicine. A holistic midwife promises a solution. But innocent organic treatments soon turn to life-threatening rituals, leading the parents to risk it all to save their child.
Kind (Child), Dutch filmmaker Jan Verdijk’s debut feature, is best classified as a psychological thriller in which the parents slowly start to question their midwife’s good intentions, and each other. As the situations they find themselves in become increasingly inexplicable and dangerous, all control is lost. Through subtle and expertly controlled tension, Verdijk makes us wonder how far we’re willing to go for the health of a child.
Desperate to save their unborn daughter from fatal complications, an expectant couple turns to a mysterious midwife. What begins as harmless alternative therapies slowly descends into life-threatening rituals. Facing horrors that push the limits of their sanity, they fight to save their child.