The North

Bart Schrijver's 2025 film follows Chris and Lluis, close friends a decade ago, setting out on a six-hundred-kilometre hike in Scotland. The aim is to reconnect with each other and with themselves, but as the walk goes on the reason they drifted apart surfaces again. The film does not present the hike as purification. Exhaustion, weather and distance do not make talking easier; they make what goes unsaid more visible. The narrative does not tie this to a crisis scene and leaves it as attrition. The cinematography uses the landscape without prettifying it; Scotland here is not beautiful but hard. The crew is small and the dialogue carries a naturalness close to improvisation. Who it's for: those who like quiet dramas about walking and friendship. Who it's not for: viewers waiting for event; the film consists almost entirely of walking and talking.