Maartje Nevejan

Amsterdam based director is an award winning independent filmmaker with a background in theatre and multimedia.

Her work researches and expresses the raw poetic quality of reality. Nevejan is a change maker, manifesting innovative and creative approaches to fulfilling her visions. Since 2015 Nevejan is developing a new visual film language for subjective inner experiences, in multi-media and in a 10 year film trilogy. She cooperates with scientists and artists in order to journey deep into these inner worlds. Her first film in the trilogy, called Are You There? (2019), dealt with young adults, hallucinations and epilepsy. The second one Descending the Mountain (2021) is a narration about mystical experiences through meditation and psychedelics. At AFO 61 she is premiering her third film of the “inner-world” trilogy Just Our Heart (2025), a documentary about grief.