Movie Details
Original Language:Dutch
Bridging the Gap
Audience Score
1 hr 25 min
Plot
Twentysixyearold Daniel Knoop is as he phrases it at the beginning of the film a member of a spoiled generation of paper idealism He chooses to put his idealism into practice and travels to Cameroon as a developmentaid worker as part of a UN project involving the exploitation of natural resources But can Daniel make a difference in a world that is obviously not his not in the last place because his homosexuality is punishable there Van Egeraat followed the levelheaded man from Groningen for over a year for this intimate layered portrait a period in which Knoops idealism is thoroughly put to the test both in the professional and personal sphere The film smoothly transects these two layers so the professional struggles with corrupted local authorities and the impeding bureaucracy of international relief organisations are coloured by Daniels personal doubts and frustrations
