Documentary film maker Joris Souren follows the river from its source in Belgium to its confluence with the great River Meuse. The drone shots show how the river meanders its way slowly downstream, contrasting with images of the floods in 2021.
Souren interviews an ecologically minded trout angler, a bird-spotter from Friesland who has ended up in Limburg, and a walker who has walked the length of the river and who is now focused on ticking off all the border stones that mark the frontier between the Netherlands and Belgium. Flora and fauna (badgers, beavers, birds and foxes) are spotlighted and we also visit the source of the Geul, located in a field in Lichtenbusch near Aachen. Sadly, the infant river loses some of its innocence when sewage is discharged into that part of the Geul running through Belgian Wallonia. However, that doesn’t detract from the fact that the river remains an artery in what is, after all, the Netherlands’ most mountainous landscape.
