It has been 25 years since the premiere of Erik de Bruyn's Dutch film Wilde Mossels, a now modern classic full of pace and great acting.

In Wilde Mossels, director Erik de Bruyn takes you to the rugged landscape of Zeeland, where traditions weigh heavily and dreams are often stranded on the dikes of reality. This penetrating coming-of-age film follows Leen, a young mussel fisherman who feels caught between his family's expectations and his desire for freedom and self-fulfilment.

Leen wants to get away from the village, away from his father's mussel farm, and chooses his own path - one that clashes with his origins, friends and lovers. With a mix of poetry and realism, the film sketches a world where silence speaks as much as words, and where the Zeeland skies are as tempestuous as the main characters' emotions. With powerful acting performances by the likes of Fedja van Huêt and a rock-solid soundtrack by the legendary band Ze, Wilde Mossels is not only a portrait of a young man adrift, but also an ode to the Zeeland landscape and the people who live there.