Trial of Hein

Film Skool

| When Hein returns after 14 years to his tiny village on a remote North Sea island, he is met with suspicion and outright hostility, even by his own family, prompting a community trial to determine if he is an impostor. Told with the power and simplicity of a timeless parable, Trial of Hein is suffused with the longing to belong and the pain of ostracism, a worthy winner of Frameline’s Out in the Silence Award.

| Frameline50 - 17-27 June 2026

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