Days Like These

Days Like These

Set in a quiet coastal town, Days Like These is a tender portrait of youth and nostalgia. In a world in flux, two friends retreat from the noise for just a little longer — to roam, remember, and face the quiet truth of moving on.

Written, produced, directed, shot and finished by Remco Merbis.

A Pixillion Film

With Violet Morris and Tyler Pringle

Shot on a Sony A1 II and the Sony 28-70 GM f/2 lens.

Days Like These is a film about that quiet, liminal moment when one chapter ends and another hasn't quite begun.

Jack and Emily are recent graduates spending a few final days in their old student house — drifting through memory, nature, and each other’s company while the future looms, undefined. Their story touches on something I see every day in the lives of my own daughters and their generation: the weight of uncertainty.

Gen Z has grown up in a world shaped by climate fear, mental health crises, and an overwhelming digital landscape. I wanted to make a film that doesn’t shout, but sits still with that — in softness, in light, in fragments.

Days Like These is both personal and observational. It’s about growing up gently, even when the world won’t wait.