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The Hold Down (2025)

Name: The Hold Down
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-06-11T22:10:18+02:00
Rating: 2

Documentary | 60 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 60 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Jan Paul van der Velden

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The Hold Down plot

Sacha grows up with severe rheumatism and because of his parents' divorce, he lacks stability at home. When he goes surfing for a day with school, it awakens something indescribable in him. He buys his own board and every day he spends at the beach makes Sacha's rheumatism more bearable. But the mental scars are more persistent. Through candid conversations with his parents and his rheumatologist, Sacha confronts the past. In the meantime, he dreams of his own surfing school for children with rheumatism. But is all this enough to fill the void he has felt for so long?

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mrklm

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9897 votes

11 June 2025 at 22:10

Beautiful surf footage of Sacha Bongaertz, who as a teenager of compulsory school age chose surfing over school and quickly decided to build his life around surfing. He is always looking for the biggest possible wave and accepts the potentially life-threatening risks of conquering those waves with his surfboard. This documentary investigates to what extent Sacha's obsession with surfing has emerged from his life story. It is not all that remarkable and Sacha does not feel comfortable enough in front of the camera to provide insight into his real motivations, which means that his story fails to strike an emotional chord.