What is Left Behind
What is Left Behind
2026 | 4K | 16:9 | 5.1 sound | 26:07 min. | DCP | English, Polish, Dutch and Montenegrin - English subtitles

When ROV is sent on a toxic treasure hunt into the deep depths of our waters, it discovers how what was once an easy solution is now poisoning our seas and reverberating into the future.
Screenings
| 2026 | IFFR (NL) World Premiere |
CREDITS
Produced by Anna Beerstra
Netherlands
Martens en Van Oord
Rob Janssen
Martin Koppelaar
Willem van Maren
Jeroen Vermeer
Qceas
Pim Driessen
Han van Hapert
Kevill van Wingerden
D.o.P.
Lukas de Kort
Sound
Nick Thomas
Poland
Prof. dr. Jacek Bełdowski and the entire crew at IOPAN
Michal Czub
Piotr Dabrowski
Milosz Grabowski
Agnieszka Jędruch
Ewa Korejwo
Patrycja Nowakowska
ROV
Maciej Zaraziński
Jochen Mohrmann at GEOMAR
Atmospherical sounds Oceania
Jarosław Sadowski
Translation
Agata Sznurkowska
Montenegro
Veselin Mijajlović and the entire crew at RCUD
Andrea
Mladen Bilafer
Dragan Kovačević
Radisav Kršikapa
Danilo Mijajlović
Marko Mijajlović
Milan Radović
Vladimir Roganović
Bogdan Spaić
Underwater Camera
Danilo Mijajlović
Sound
Bojan Radojević
Translation
Nicole Horgan
Music Composition and Sounddesign
Cesi Nolten @Cesium Sounds
Visual Effects artist
Milo Poelman
Grading and finishing
Barend Onneweer
Editing coach
Diana Toucedo
Additional editing
Artyom Kocharyan
Special Thanks:
Claus Böttcher
Tobias Bünning
FilmForward - The New Wilderness (2020)
Torsten Frey at GEOMAR
Dieter Guldin at SeaTerra
Nick van Leeuwen and the entire crew at REASEURO
Prof. dr. Edmund Maser
Julian Ross
Prof.dr. Hans Slabbekoorn
With the support of De Korte Verbeelding, a collaboration between the Mondriaan Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund. Amarte Fonds.
Developed during Filmforward - de Nieuwe Wildernis.
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