How many times can two people say 'I do'? For Fleur and Julian, the answer becomes a plan: marry in every country that will let them. Julian, a 2025 Belgian-Dutch romantic drama from director Cato Kusters, is drawn from a true story and runs a brisk 91 minutes.
What is Julian about?
Fleur meets Julian by chance, and the two women fall for each other fast and completely. A proposal follows, and with it an idea that starts as a whim and hardens into a mission. Fleur realises that the right to marry the person she loves is not universal, that it stops at borders, and she decides to turn that fact into a journey: a wedding in each place where their marriage will be recognised, one ceremony at a time. Love drives the project, but so does a growing sense that time is not on their side, and the urgency gives every stop on the route a different weight. After four weddings, the plan runs into something it cannot route around, and the story turns from celebration to the harder question of what remains when the travelling has to stop.
About the cast
Nina Meurisse and Laurence Roothooft lead the film, supported by Rosalia Cuevas, Peter Seynaeve, Zach Hatch, Jennifer Heylen, Yannick De Coster and Joep van der Geest. The central relationship carries the picture, and the two leads are asked to hold both the giddiness of a new romance and the strain of a race against the clock.
Context & significance
Julian sits at the meeting point of three genres the catalogue lists for it: drama, romance and biography. The biographical label matters, because the premise, a couple choosing to marry repeatedly as a statement about where same-sex marriage is and is not legal, is rooted in a real journey rather than invented for the screen. Cato Kusters keeps the scale intimate, treating each wedding less as spectacle than as a marker of time passing. The film is a co-production between Belgium and the Netherlands. At 91 minutes it moves quickly, blending tenderness with urgency.
Watching Julian on Ktime
Julian is on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles. A free K-Time account login is all you need; the platform is built for Persian speakers abroad, with a Farsi interface.