Festus Toll graduated from AKV St. Joost in Breda in 2017 with his film We Will Maintain, a personal documentary about his family, his origins and Dutch society. The film was selected for IDFA 2017, received a nomination for the Pathé Tuschinski Award and the Special Jury Award, and won the TENT Award 2017. With his short documentary When You Hear the Divine Call (2020), a film about what “home” means and about where your roots are, Festus won the VERS Film Award 2021.