Heaven Will Wait

Between Amsterdam and Brussels, a group of young women navigate the thin line between desire and fear. On the surface they appear assertive and untouchable, testing boundaries and wielding their sexuality with confidence. Yet beneath that bravado, something stirs. A hybrid documentary about the tension between sexual autonomy and objectification: the women are aware of the gaze that sexualizes them, yet still long for the validation it offers.

Silver Tjepkema (2002) is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist whose work moves between documentary and fiction. She graduated in Audiovisual Arts from the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels in 2025, after previous studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), the European Film College (DK), and Aalto University (FI). Her cinematic practice explores themes of female sexuality, the friction between autonomy and desire, and the psychological dynamics of watching and being watched.