Fiction, 68 minutes
Written and Directed by Ramón Gieling
Producer: Thinking Out Loud Productions.

Cast: Marieke Heebink, Aus Greidanus, Hanna Hachula, Wouter Smits, Gustav Peek
Director of Photography : Salvador Gieling
Editor: Ramón Gieling, Salvador Gieling
Sound : Wouter Veldhuis
Art department : Guus van Geffen, Erly Brugmans
Costum design: Sergio Cruz Ramirez

Synopsis:
Together with Elisabeth, his former colleague, Victor travels to visit a dying friend with whom he once worked on a film about the Song of Songs. Along the way, they revisit the locations where they filmed scenes and reflect on memories of their shared past.
But the ideas of desire and beauty in the Song of Songs drew Victor into a web of irresolvable contradictions that lie at the heart of love: unfulfilled longing, violence, and power brought together in the fragile illusion we call love. Unable to reconcile these tensions, he abandoned the project unfinished.
A young filmmaker has taken up the work, continuing where Victor was forced to stop. At the end of his life, Victor Gulien looks back on the film he wanted to make about the most beautiful and at the same time the darkest thing he knows: love. Yet he never managed to complete it.

THE SONGS presents Ramón Gieling’s final, unfinished film, as a poetic meditation on love, longing, and the fleeting beauty of life. Through the eyes of a young filmmaker who retraces the memories and locations of the master, the film becomes a dialogue between generations.

The film will be shown at a grand retrospective of Ramon Gieling’s work in the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City in the end of 2026.