Paradise Drifters


Tamar van Waning, Jonas Smulders
Paradise Drifters by Mees Peijnenburg
NLD 2020, Generation
© Jasper Wolf/2019 Pupkin

Bilal Wahib, Tamar van Waning
Paradise Drifters by Mees Peijnenburg
NLD 2020, Generation
© Jasper Wolf/2019 Pupkin

Tamar van Waning
Paradise Drifters by Mees Peijnenburg
NLD 2020, Generation
© Jasper Wolf/2019 Pupkin

Film poster
Paradise Drifters by Mees Peijnenburg
NLD 2020, Generation
With
- Jonas Smulders (Lorenzo)
- Tamar van Waning (Chloe)
- Bilal Wahib (Yousef)
- Joren Seldeslachts (Ivan)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Mees Peijnenburg |
Cinematography | Jasper Wolf |
Editing | Imre Reutelingsperger |
Music | Ella van der Woude, Juho Nurmela |
Sound Design | Tijn Hazen |
Sound | Oliver Pattinama |
Production Design | Elza Kroonenberg |
Costumes | Minke Lunter |
Make-Up | Evalotte Oosterop |
Assistant Director | Willem Quarles van Ufford |
Casting | Job Castelijn |
Line Producer | Alexander Blaauw |
Creative Producer | Nathalie van der Burg |
Producers | Iris Otten, Sander van Meurs, Pieter Kuijpers |
Co-Producer | Martien Vlietman |
Co-Production | VPRO Hilversum |
World sales
Orange Studio
Produced by

Jonas Smulders, Bilal Wahib, Mees Peijnenburg, Tamar van Waning, Iris Otten
The film team at the Photo Call.
Paradise Drifters · Generation · Feb 23, 2020

Bilal Wahib, Tamar van Waning, Jonas Smulders
The protagonists at the premiere.
Paradise Drifters · Generation · Feb 23, 2020
Mees Peijnenburg

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1989, he graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 2013. His graduation film, Cowboys janken ook, as well as Un creux dans mon coeur, screened in the Generation programme where they competed for the Crystal Bear. In 2015, his television film Geen koningen in ons bloed won the prizes for Best Television Drama and Best Actor at the Netherlands Film Festival. In 2016, Un creux dans mon coeur won a Dutch Directors Guild Award for one of the most remarkable directing achievements of the year.
Filmography (short films)
2012 Wij waren wolven (We Were Wolves) 2013 Cowboys janken ook (Even Cowboys Get to Cry) 2014 Bloedhond (Wild Dog) 2015 Un creux dans mon cœur (A Hole in My Heart) · Geen koningen in ons bloed (We Will Never Be Royals); TV movie 2020 Paradise Drifters; feature film
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020