Old Heart (2025) Screening + Q&A

Acclaimed feature Old Heart premieres in Amsterdam at Droog November 22 with costar Eva Doueiri joined by producer/screenwriter Roger Rapoport for a talkback.

This mixed race love story is a timely look elder independence immigration, American Army segregation during World War 2 and humanitarian relief during the Honger Winter of 1944-45. It is also the memorable screen debut of Amsterdam’s Doueiri who has won multiple festival awards for her performance as the romantic lead.

This timely film has won three festival best feature honors along with multiple cast awards as well as honors for cinematography, editing and the original score.

Old Heart, English spoken subtitled in Dutch tells the timely story of black American GI Tom Johnson’s arrival in the Netherlands via the legendary Red Ball Express. He joins Dutch translator Sarah van Praag on a dangerous resistance smuggling mission from liberated Southern Netherlands to northern cities trapped behind Nazi lines during the Honger Winter of 1944-45.  They also fall in love.

Sixty years later Tom sabotages his Michigan family’s plan to move him to assisted living and disappears on a flight to the Netherlands, determined to reconnect with the love of his life. With his family in hot pursuit, Tom struggles to find the mysterious Sarah.