3Doc - Season 14 / Year 2021

A film about connection and fraternization, which shows what carnival, also known in Limburg as 'vastlaovend', really means.

We step into the obsessive world of twenty-five-year-old Rianne. Rianne has an OCD and hears voices all day long that tell her what to feel and what to do. 

Dionne Slagter decided eight years ago to have her breasts enlarged because, after years of bullying and a period of anorexia, she desperately wanted feminine shapes. But what does she actually have in her body? She goes in search of the dangers of her silicone breast implants.

Are we massively addicted to meat? Like many others, Marijn Frank is torn between her lust for meat and the desire to be a better and wiser person. In the documentary she goes in search of shocking and funny arguments to get rid of her addiction. 

Instagram is full of well-trained men. Fitboys with six packs seem to be the new norm. This documentary explores the pursuit of the ideal male body. Where some guys achieve their goal, it doesn't work out well for everyone. We follow 23-year-old Jorjen Neumann. In his adolescence he hoped to develop a six pack by exercising a lot and eating healthy. But that endeavor backfired. He has now been in recovery for seven years after being diagnosed with anorexia.

Mike and Luna are students. At least that's what the people around them think. The truth is that they have long since dropped out of their studies. Nobody knows that, especially their parents. Afraid to disappoint them and not live up to their expectations and those of society, these pretend students have buried themselves in a web of lies. Bas, Stijn and Léon know this situation all too well. They too have lived for years as pretend students.