Love-22-Love

Love makes the world go round. But it won’t save you from yourself. An incredibly bright autoportrait of an artist who has touched true darkness.

Love-22-Love is an unflinchingly honest love letter to a partner, to oneself, and to life with all its shadows. Through deeply personal video archives, the filmmaker invites us into a world where love and depression coexist, revealing that being loved does not always protect us from our inner demons. As if reaching across different versions of himself, he writes letters to the person he will later need to remember, endure, and ultimately accept.

„With remarkable tenderness, Jeroen Kooijmans speaks about the shame of struggling despite being surrounded by love, gently suggesting that healing lies not in hiding our darkness, but in finding the courage to live together with it. Love-22-Love is a film about a love that is not there to heal you, but to remain by your side when hardships arise. An autoportrait so sincere, that it inevitably becomes your own reflection.“ – Eva Sinicaitė, curator of the Emerging Filmmakers Competition programme.

Tickets for the screening on 14 October at the Pranas Domšaitis Gallery in Klaipėda will be available for purchase at the gallery’s box office on the day of the screening only. Tickets are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis.

IDFA 2025
Docudays UA 2026
Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2026