The Daughters, The Interpreters and The Family Book Presentation - ENFF • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Eliane Esther Bots

The Daughters, The Interpreters and The Family Book Presentation

An immersive multimedia experience bringing together voices, memories and testimonies from across Eastern Europe.

Eliane Esther Bots (1986) is a Dutch artist whose careful research has focused on Eastern Europe for many years. Her non-fiction art book The Daughters, The Interpreters and The Family (2026) forms the basis for several presentations of the work. The book consists of transcriptions, poems, dreams, drawings and paintings, conveying conflict-related experiences and memories from three perspectives: second-generation Dutch-Bosnian women; interpreters who worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; and a family who fled the wars in Chechnya. The texts are based on conversations and interviews that Bots edited for publication in close collaboration with those involved. These conversations took place as part of various film projects, including the European Film Award-nominated In Flow of Words (2022), which previously screened at ENFF. The multimedia presentation translates the recently published art book into an interactive experience in which testimonies become sensorially tangible in time and space.

ENFF will present the work in two ways. In the cinema, a collective listening session will be created, with shared experience at its centre. It mirrors the form of the book itself, in which fragments of many voices come together to create a collective memory. Listening and interaction are both central here, as visitors are encouraged to reflect on the fragments in Bots's presence.

Alongside this, a 45-minute audio installation will allow visitors to listen to an accompanying track of the book through headphones. Guided non-linearly through its different fragments, listeners are invited to move through the work associatively – much like memory itself – and weave the individual voices together in their own way.

Eastern Neighbours Film Festival

The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (ENFF) has been bringing audiences closer to the vibrant cinema of Eastern Europe since 2006. Each year at Filmhuis Den Haag, ENFF presents recent and powerful features, documentaries, shorts, and animations, often as Dutch premieres. The festival also offers panels, debates, and conversations with filmmakers and industry professionals.

Join us for the 18th edition from November 4 to November 8, 2026, and discover exceptional films with English subtitles. For the full festival programme, click here.

Regisseur Eliane Esther Bots
Land Nederland
Taal Engels
Ondertiteling Geen
Speelduur 60 min

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