Tuintje in mijn Hart

“The grass is always greener on the other side”

They were once the best of friends, but since Axel (Leo Alkemade) swapped his family and Suriname for the Netherlands, he has never spoken to his brother Virgil (Edwin Jonker) again.

Until now – because their mother (Beppie Melissen) summons the whole family to her guesthouse after the loekoe woman (a fortune teller) has told her that she does not have long to live.

The already tense atmosphere does not improve when Axel and Virgil immediately start quarrelling at the welcome dinner, and Axel's daughter Wonnie (Pip Pellens), who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, turns out to be pregnant.

Axel wants to go straight back to the Netherlands but ends up stranded somewhere deep in the jungle with an Indigenous community.
His wife Victoria (Fockeline Ouwerkerk) sets off with his brother Virgil to find him, but after a frightening adventure they arrive at a resort where Victoria's sister (Sanne Vogel) wants to help Surinamese women lose weight.
Only the owner of the resort (Sergio IJssel) appreciates her, much to the frustration of his own wife (Sanne Langelaar).

The chaos is complete when the father of Wonnie's child is nowhere to be found, the family feud comes to a head once it turns out there is gold at stake, and Axel is set on the right path by an old Indigenous man (Jorgen Rayman), while his brother Virgil and Axel's wife have a rather too tropical adventure deep in the jungle.

Tuintje in mijn Hart is an adventurous, emotional and romantic rollercoaster in a country where everyone seems to be driven mad by the hot Surinamese sun…

Type

Feature film

Status

Released (2017)

Producer

Farmhouse Film

Co-producer (Belgium)

Yoshi Aesaert (Marmalade)

Director

Marc Waltman

Screenplay

Lars Boom

Distributor

Dutch FilmWorks

Theatrical release

2 March 2017

DVD release

21 July 2017