De Bal

Credits

Director: Dany Deprez
Screenplay: Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
Producer: A Private View
Co-producer: B&T Film (DE), Sigma Films (NL)
Director of Photography: Piotr Kulka
Editor: Jeroen Planting, Neil Skeet, Ludo Troch

11 year old Sophia has no real friends and gets bullied on school. One day, she meets a gypsy who lends her a leather ball, for five days only. The ball seems to be alive and changes Sophia’s life.

Cast

  • Martje Ceulemans
  • Hilde Van Mighem
  • Rijk de Gooijer

More info

Feature film
Release year: 1999
Supported by: Het Fonds Film in Vlaanderen, Le Comité Audiovisuel de la Communeauté Française, Nationale Loterij, Het Nederlandse Filmfonds, Het Cobofonds, Avro, Ketnet, Filmboard Berlin Brandeburg, Canal +
Release & festivals:

Opening film Berlinale Kinderfilmfeste ; Opening film Cannes Junior ; Winner Audience award at the Teheran Film Festival ; Winner best European Newcomer Music at the International Biennal for Film Music ; Giffoni Film Festival ; Festival International du Film pour Enfants de Montréal ; Goldener Spatz Kinderfilmfestte ; Poznan International Festival of Films for Children ; International Children’s Film Festival Norway ; Rio de Janeiro Film Festival ; Festival International de Dunkerque ; Film by the Sea Vlissingen Festival ; Nederlands Film Festival ; Cinekid Amsterdam

Watch the trailer

De Bal (fragment) from Dany Deprez on Vimeo.

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